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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>\n\nif he doesn't own the property, theres basically no repercussions to <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>, 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 <PERSON> 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, <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> I'm interested in, so <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>, and <PERSON>. 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, <PERSON>, 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>\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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> is a digger and is trying to protect himself against it.","312"],["sounds like <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>!","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 <PERSON> did.","838"],["ABSOLUTELY!\n\nas an alberta resident, this is exactly what blows me away. I have multiple <PERSON>/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 <PERSON>'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 <PERSON> is putting up.\n\nmore drone strikes in <PERSON> first 2yrs of office than obamas full 8yrs\n\nmore civilians killed by them in the first year of <PERSON> admin than in obamas 8yrs\n\npast the first 2yrs, <PERSON> 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<PERSON> wasn't a saint or anything, but drone strikes isn't really something <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> was going to be a loud mouthed idiot. But I figured at some point he would do something so blatent that the guys like <PERSON> and <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>\" \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 <PERSON> (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 <PERSON> 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<PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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. <PERSON> 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, <PERSON> could see where he was going, <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> was in a static lane, and <PERSON> was in an active lane, and <PERSON> could see where he was going and <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> is going to die at the beginning of the last season, possibly at the same time as <PERSON> but I doubt it. \n\nI originally didn't think <PERSON> would survive the series, but lately I've been favoring the idea that <PERSON> is going to, in some way, sacrifice herself for <PERSON>. Possibly leaving him with a child if the series carries on long enough for it to happen. I have a strong feeling that after <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> in a similar widower circumstance to <PERSON>. 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> presidency.\",\n \"313\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm still not convinced <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>\\n\\nif he doesn't own the property, theres basically no repercussions to <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>, 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 <PERSON> 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, <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> I'm interested in, so <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>, and <PERSON>. 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, <PERSON>, 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>\\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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> is a digger and is trying to protect himself against it.\",\n \"312\"\n ],\n [\n \"sounds like <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>!\",\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 <PERSON> did.\",\n \"838\"\n ],\n [\n \"ABSOLUTELY!\\n\\nas an alberta resident, this is exactly what blows me away. I have multiple <PERSON>/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 <PERSON>'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 <PERSON> is putting up.\\n\\nmore drone strikes in <PERSON> first 2yrs of office than obamas full 8yrs\\n\\nmore civilians killed by them in the first year of <PERSON> admin than in obamas 8yrs\\n\\npast the first 2yrs, <PERSON> 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<PERSON> wasn't a saint or anything, but drone strikes isn't really something <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> was going to be a loud mouthed idiot. But I figured at some point he would do something so blatent that the guys like <PERSON> and <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>\\\" \\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 <PERSON> (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 <PERSON> 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<PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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. <PERSON> 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, <PERSON> could see where he was going, <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> was in a static lane, and <PERSON> was in an active lane, and <PERSON> could see where he was going and <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> is going to die at the beginning of the last season, possibly at the same time as <PERSON> but I doubt it. \\n\\nI originally didn't think <PERSON> would survive the series, but lately I've been favoring the idea that <PERSON> is going to, in some way, sacrifice herself for <PERSON>. Possibly leaving him with a child if the series carries on long enough for it to happen. I have a strong feeling that after <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> in a similar widower circumstance to <PERSON>. 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 <PERSON> 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]","isConversational":false},"cluster":{"kind":"number","value":500,"string":"500"},"retrieval_idx":{"kind":"list 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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.","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 <PERSON> 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, <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> from the POTUS chair, our struggle is not done. <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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: <PERSON> 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"],["> <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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, <PERSON>.","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 <PERSON>, 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 <PERSON> the Electoral votes, like they did to hand <PERSON> the election in 2000, when Florida demanded a manual recount. \n\n<PERSON> has already said she would back that Supreme Court's decision again in this election, if necessary.","861"],["> If <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> (one that isn't close enough to cry fraud or cheating), remember that <PERSON> is still Commander in Chief until <PERSON> is sworn in, in late January. \n\n<PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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<PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>. But, it's crossed my mind.\n\nThis is one of the biggest concerns why <PERSON> is considered a National Security risk by the FBI and CIA. \n\nA country like Russia or Turkey would welcome <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>. \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 <PERSON> 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, <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> from the POTUS chair, our struggle is not done. <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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: <PERSON> 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 \"> <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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, <PERSON>.\",\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 <PERSON>, 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 <PERSON> the Electoral votes, like they did to hand <PERSON> the election in 2000, when Florida demanded a manual recount. \\n\\n<PERSON> has already said she would back that Supreme Court's decision again in this election, if necessary.\",\n \"861\"\n ],\n [\n \"> If <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> (one that isn't close enough to cry fraud or cheating), remember that <PERSON> is still Commander in Chief until <PERSON> is sworn in, in late January. \\n\\n<PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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<PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>. But, it's crossed my mind.\\n\\nThis is one of the biggest concerns why <PERSON> is considered a National Security risk by the FBI and CIA. \\n\\nA country like Russia or Turkey would welcome <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>. \\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]","isConversational":false},"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 <PERSON>, 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 <PERSON>'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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>.\"](_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 <PERSON>'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 <PERSON>'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 <PERSON> or <PERSON>?","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. <PERSON> and Dr. <PERSON>, 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. <PERSON>, <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> and <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> said, “that but for these rules we would be exploring those types of arrangements.”\n\n > <PERSON>’s admission might have gone unnoticed had she not repeated it at least five times during oral arguments.\n\n > In response to Judge <PERSON>’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, <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>’s announcement, a group of more than 800 names in tech sent <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>’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 <PERSON> 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? <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>’s announcement, a group of more than 800 names in tech sent <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> said, “that but for these rules we would be exploring those types of arrangements.”\n\n > <PERSON>’s admission might have gone unnoticed had she not repeated it at least five times during oral arguments.\n\n > In response to Judge <PERSON>’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, <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> said, “that but for these rules we would be exploring those types of arrangements.”\n\n > <PERSON>’s admission might have gone unnoticed had she not repeated it at least five times during oral arguments.\n\n > In response to Judge <PERSON>’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, <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>, 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 <PERSON>'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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>.\\\"](_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 <PERSON>'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 <PERSON>'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 <PERSON> or <PERSON>?\",\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. <PERSON> and Dr. <PERSON>, 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. <PERSON>, <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> and <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> said, “that but for these rules we would be exploring those types of arrangements.”\\n\\n > <PERSON>’s admission might have gone unnoticed had she not repeated it at least five times during oral arguments.\\n\\n > In response to Judge <PERSON>’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, <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>’s announcement, a group of more than 800 names in tech sent <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>’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 <PERSON> 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? <PERSON> 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 <PERSON>’s announcement, a group of more than 800 names in tech sent <PERSON> 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. 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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. 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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. 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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/<PHONE_NUMBER> 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 <PERSON> 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/<PHONE_NUMBER> 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 <PERSON> 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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1.\n\nedit: this is such an odd show. 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 <PERSON>.\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 <PERSON>'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 <PERSON> 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 <PERSON> cult members that aren't even racist that will donate to him, because, <PERSON>.\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<PERSON> was fresh out of law school, he saw an opportunity in the used women's panties business. He set up a racket in Austin, TX., out of an abandoned washing machine factory on the outskirts of town.\n\nThe markup was considerable, and the market was ripe --- so he took the chance. The only problem was that he needed the financing, so he contacted an old acquaintance, a woman he knew during his foot fetish days by the name of <PERSON>.\n\nNow back then this <PERSON> was a looker, nice tits, perfect ass, and oh yeah, a sleeper for the Saudi National Intelligence Agency, funded by the <PERSON>-bin Laden group which no one wants to talk about anymore. She set him up with a guy, this <PERSON> fella, who owned or controlled a lot of the oil concerns in east and south Texas.\n\nSo these three met up that day in March and things just kinda went from there. You can check wikipedia for their background information, but none of what I just wrote will be on there. No one seems to care anymore.\n\nNo one wants to bring up the silent partner either... a man by the name of...\n\n<PERSON>","898"],["Are the Never-Trump Republicans the only actual Republicans?\n\nBecause <PERSON> isn't an R or a D or anything. He is just himself, just a self-serving billionaire that ran on the R side so he could get elected. He has even said this --- like, clearly said this, that he had to run as a Republican because their base is a lot dumber than the Democratic base.\n\nHe probably thought he couldn't get far if he ran on the side with the long time favorite <PERSON>, as well.\n\nShit, now I wonder if the people that voted for <PERSON> realize that they aren't Republicans.\n\nWho is a Republican anyway? That party has morphed into some other beast entirely. Hell, just a few years ago being Republican just meant that you were a Democrat that hated gays and poor people. Now it means that you hate a lot of other things too.\n\nedit: nope, false. He never said that, cleared by snopes. here is the link to the CNN article explaining it, thanks to /u/khouli - _URL_0_","800"],["Just wanted to comment, I am sorry /r/reactiongifs, I hate <PERSON> on a cellular level, but this shouldn't be here. I have only been on reddit for a few months and I know this.\n\nI wonder what reddit was like before this buffoon ran for president. Not having every popular sub inundated with anti-Trump shit for stupid upvotes or whatever.\n\nI mean, I understand --- I get it. The man makes me embarrassed, as an American, on a daily/hourly basis, but still... I would have liked to have seen reddit before the election.","247"],["heh, never thought of it like that, but yeah, they are the political <PERSON>.\n\nHer and her ugly siblings will be on TV and other media bullshit for the rest of their lives. Nothing they have done proves them to be any less shameless than their father.\n\nI just hope people leave the smallest one out of it for as long as possible. I know most people don't give a shit, \"He's growing up the son of a billionaire so fuck him!\" but he is just a little kid, embarrassed as fuck because of his father. Growing up with a shitload of money doesn't make his life any better than a kid growing up in a normal middle class family.\n\nI wouldn't trade my normal middle class upbringing for his ultra wealthy one, never ever ever. Ugh, I feel sorry for that little guy","614"],["I had a free cell phone with unlimited everything for over a year because the company I had it thru was bought out by a major telecom company.\n\nI had a direct withdrawal type thing set up and neither company would take money out of my account for the bill. I called both companies trying to get someone to take the money but they kept blaming the other company for not doing their job right.\n\nI talked to both companies like 3 or 4 times each and neither would set up the bill to be taken out, but the phone stayed on so I just got a free phone out of the deal. No bill for over a year - it was awesome. This was probably 7 or 8 years ago.\n\nEdit: I guess this isn't really a traditional story of \"luck\", but somehow my account fell through the cracks during the buyout of the company, so I think it was a pretty lucky deal","882"],["Well... I don't know where you were going with this, but I think I kinda know...\n\nHarvard is a pretty good mix of diversity, yeah, all cultures. I think you are seeing more diversity in the past 50 years there because the place has become more open to letting people of other races in not because of affirmative action bullshit but because the culture has just changed.\n\nWith that said, there are a TON of students there because their parents know people.\n\nThere are a TON of students there because they are the best of the best in their field.\n\nOverall it can kind of be a disheartening experience, they don't let anyone fail, seriously, it is hard to fuck up once your in.","205"],["He was growing into middle age...\n\n \nand was living then in a bungalow\non Woodland Avenue.\n\n \nHe installed himself in a rocking chair...\n\n \nand smoked a cigar down\nin the evenings...\n\n \nas his wife wiped her pink hands\non an apron...\n\n \nand reported happily\non their two children.\n\n \nHis children knew his legs...\n\n \nthe sting of his mustache\nagainst their cheeks.\n\n \nThey didn't know how their father made his living \nor why they so often moved.\n\n \nThey didn't even know their father's name.\n\n \nHe was listed in the city directory\nas <PERSON>.\n\n \nAnd he went everywhere unrecognized...\n\n \nand lunched with Kansas City\nshopkeepers and merchants...\n\n \ncalling himself a cattleman\nor a commodities investor...\n\n \nsomeone rich and leisured\nwho had the common touch.\n\n \nHe had two incompletely healed\nbullet holes in his chest...\n\n \nand another in his thigh.\n\n \nHe was missing the nub\nof his left middle finger...\n\n \nand was cautious,\nlest that mutilation be seen.\n\n \nHe also had a condition that was referred to \nas \"granulated eyelids\"...\n\n \nand it caused him to blink \nmore than usual...\n\n \nas if he found creation\nslightly more than he could accept.\n\n \nRooms seemed hotter\nwhen he was in them.\n\n \nRains fell straighter.\n\n \nClocks slowed.\n\n \nSounds were amplified.\n\n \nHe considered himself\na Southern loyalist and guerrilla...\n\n \nin a Civil War that never ended.\n\n \nHe regretted neither his robberies,\nnor the 17 murders that he laid claim to.\n\n \nHe had seen another summer under\nin Kansas City, Missouri... and on September 5th in the year 1881...\n\n \nhe was 34 years old.","898"],["That whole movie is a work of art.\n\nI am not a film critic, hell I am not even that smart of a person, but that movie is a modern masterpiece of cinema.\n\nI don't know what was in the water at the time, but it came out in 2007 along with There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men, two of the other most important movies made in the past 20 years.\n\nWell, that's what I think anyway","472"],["This couldn't have came out better for the man, honestly. I think it showed he made a shitload of money and paid a shitload of taxes. And it is from *years* ago, which can also be used as an advantage.\n\nYeah buddy, that word \"genius\" gets thrown around waaaay too much, but if this was on purpose, I have to give serious respect to this administration. This is some House of Cards shit.\n\nOh, and now they get to hang the \"hey bro... you releasing that was illegal as fuck!\" over that woman's head (and the network too)\n\nquick ninja edit: I think tomorrow would be the first day I would be looking forward to a press conference if I was <PERSON> or <PERSON> himself.","747"],["As it should be.\n\nI can separate the person from the work - one of my favorite TV shows that is currently on is Girls, <PERSON> show that she writes/produces/directs. I love her show but I doubt I could stand being alone with her in real life for more than 30 seconds. She seems like an abysmal person.\n\nI was looking forward to <PERSON>'s Netflix special because I don't pre-hate anyone, not even on the joke-theft shit. I just want to be entertained. I don't care that her jokes are \"muh vaginer\" jokes either, as long as they are funny.\n\nThat stand up special was fucking horrible, and I watched the whole thing. I actually *waited* for it to get better while it was on.\n\nPeople can have an off night or an off stand-up routine/special (looking at <PERSON> latest one, it just didn't \"hit\"), but The Leather Special from <PERSON> is one of the worst headliner stand up acts I know of.\n\nEdit: I really liked Trainwreck, as an \"it's on HBO and nothing else is on\" kind of a movie. If you don't already hate her, then check it out if it is on TV or streaming for free","323"],["<PERSON> talks about joke theft quite a bit. His bit on <PERSON> and joke theft in general is totally worth a listen - it is pretty cool to hear a major comedian talk openly about how this kind of stuff just happens all the time, and the different ways it goes down.\n\nI am pretty sure this is the one: _URL_0_","371"],["Yeah this doesn't surprise me at all. At least I watched it and actually hated it. And I wanted to love it. But I only chuckled a few times.\n\nThis reminds me of the ghostbusters movie. It was just a dumb paint by numbers cash-in movie with stale overused jokes. It was a 4/10 movie, not a .000001/10 movie like everyone says. Just a cookie cutter waste of material.\n\nedit: my god, I just read that article. I really, really hope the people that dedicate their days to that type of thing are just bored children. If you are a grown man and writing a negative review for someone's book or ranking <PERSON>'s special with your little group or whatever, you are the most pathetic type of person and I actually feel sorry for you. I wish your life had turned out different.","43"],["I said this a few days ago on another thread, different story but same deal.\n\nThese \"pay of your debts\" stories have been clickbaity bs on sites like yahoo and the like for years and years. The stories are usually about as out of touch with reality as you can get, sometimes it makes me wonder if they are completely made up as a joke by the writer, or if the writer is also completely lost on the reality of the middle/working class in the US, or anywhere, for that matter.\n\nNext time you see one of these stories, click on it for fun if the website doesn't give your phone cancer. They are actually fun to read if you are expecting the ridiculousness","434"],["Wow, okay, I thought it might have been me - I watched it by myself, which is weird for me, especially with a comedy special.\n\nThat audience was confusing - almost hostile at some points. I felt like <PERSON> was having to re-explain the joke to the audience at some parts. The crowd at that taping seemed like a crowd that was expecting a different comedian or something --- or maybe the microphones were off... either way I can't believe they decided to use that crowd/those recordings as the special.\n\nI'm reading more about it and it looks like that is the consensus","186"],["Whenever you shoot a video like this, you never get a permit and do it above board, but you do have lookouts to make sure that no one that shouldn't see you can see you. They are just out of the camera/mic's reach.\n\nI'm not talking about armed security or some shit, lol, just a couple guys that are working on the crew will keep a look out. You don't wanna get caught doing this shit if you are a business, it is a huge pain in the ass.","123"],["Your comment is in bad taste and is quite inflammatory. And I couldn't agree more.\n\nThis is a fucking shame, a travesty that the guy has to dedicate his income to paying for a child that isn't his. And why? Because he didn't contest it for over two years? What a bullshit loophole to use. Jesus.\n\nWell I am sorry that he raised a child as his own and didn't know until it was too late. If there is ever a ruling that needs to be turned over it is this one, my God.. this is what drives people to insanity and murder suicide... fuck!","405"],["Whenever I think that the men's rights activist guys are fucking nutjobs, a story like this comes out and totally redeems them.\n\nI don't blame you guys at all. The divorce stories I read on here sound like fucking nightmares that you would have when you are at your lowest point in life, and like the second or third comment said, this is what leads to fucking murder/suicide shit. Damn.","486"],["Absolutely. There is no higher art form he is ascribing to, and he has no one to impress. He is just having fun with his friends while a camera happens to be on.\n\nHell, he has pretty much admitted that he chooses the location of the movie for the next place his fam wants to vacation. Unless someone made that up, it totally makes sense.\n\n<PERSON> is, ironically for reddit, the most authentic and least pretentious filmmaker I know of. You would think reddit would love him for it lol.\n\nWell reddit probably would if he could get some help - his movies are really, really bad sometimes.","192"],["It is the same guy that wrote for the Little Mermaid and Aladdin. Like, all of the Aladdin songs.\n\nedit: Look him up, if you are anywhere near my age, this guy had a pretty big impact on your life.\n\n_URL_0_\n\nedit 2: I should be more clear since this is getting a lot of attention. <PERSON> worked in collaboration with <PERSON>, who wrote the music. <PERSON> was a lyricist. Kinda like <PERSON>, he writes music and <PERSON> writes the lyrics. Well, for most of <PERSON>'s songs.","213"],["A song writing partnership that was cut short.\n\nThe other one that blows my mind is the <PERSON>. They were together for what, like 8 years is all?\n\nEdit: The amount of time the <PERSON> were together blows my mind because almost any other band, you look at what they have done in double that time and it pales in comparison.\n\nI guess that's what happens when you pair up two of the best songwriters in the history of rock n roll though.","419"],["The <PERSON> shooting was so fucking horrible.\n\nEverything about it.\n\nIt really opened my eyes to the problem of police training or police culture in our country. Watch that video again, the woman sitting next to <PERSON> has more composure under pressure, while having a gun on her, than the cop does in that situation.\n\nShe is actually easing the tension of the situation - or at least doing her best to, given what had just happened. Thank God that woman thought of turning on the phone so we could see the situation.\n\nThe <PERSON> shooting is the one that really opened my eyes to the problems our modern police force in America has. I mean, when the girlfriend of the man that was just shot is the grownup in that situation, the person deescalating the situation, we have some fucking problems in this country.\n\nThat cop should have never been issued a firearm.","399"],["Man, they got a Nor'easter there didn't they?\n\nCompletely unrelated, the television program American Horror Story is a silly show that has gotten quite awful throughout the years, but season two takes place at a mental hospital, and one of the episodes takes place during a Nor'easter - in fact I think that is the name of the episode.\n\nThat season is soooo good. Good luck with the other seasons tho, ugh","420"],["Everyone that has read it seems to have the same opinion.\n\nI haven't read it but I have read the summary or synopsis - I am totally fine with HBO doing this and whatever the hell else they can make money from GoT wise - as long as they keep up the HBO production value that they are famous for, especially in regards to GoT.\n\nFucking casting is soooooo good\n\n<PERSON> edit: I am pretty sure that this is the series or whatever that <PERSON> wants to adapt. He favors it more than anything else because that is where the story is. <PERSON>'s rebellion would be a great season or two worth of storytelling but <PERSON> seems to think that Dunk and Egg would be the truly great next installment in the universe - at least the proper one to adapt on HBO","88"],["I am 30.\n\nI deeply regret not joining the military, as long as I could have done my four to eight years without a direct combat role. 6 out of 10 guys I know that came back from Iraq are fucked in the head and they were absolutely not that way when they went off to basic.\n\nThose 6/10 all received absurd amounts of pay that they wish they could get back if you could delete their memories and replace them with mine, comfortable and in college, banging slutty girls and not remembering what you did last week.\n\nI hope this doesn't offend anyone that served - but if it does - you probably didn't see much action. That shit fucks up most anyone, and thank fucking Christ I didn't sign up. I don't need that in my life.","920"],["We have devil worshipers on Mars, confirmed.\n\nSeriously though, how amazing!\n\nThis picture and everything about it, my goodness. I cannot wait til we get to explore this planet!\n\nedit: I just realized the extent of our technology, another redditor commented that this doesn't even faze people at all. The fact that this photo exists and like 400 people on the planet care shows how far along we are with technology. amazing.","366"],["I'm sorry, I meant as a person.\n\n<PERSON> raped and physically abused his first wife, cheated on her with the second, bragged about being able to walk in on naked girls in a beauty pageant, bragged about the power dynamic that a powerful, wealthy man has over a powerless female, and he has bragged about the body of his daughter, even saying it was \"okay to call her a piece of ass\" on the <PERSON> radio program.\n\nI don't remember <PERSON> doing any of this, so I guess I consider him a bit better than <PERSON>.","504"],["Look, this is just my own piece on it, but Ghostbusters meant a lot to a lot of people that are around my age, apparently. I had no idea is was so important to so many people, but I totally get it.\n\nThe movie from my childhood that I was obsessed with was the Road Warrior. So you can imagine how bad I started freaking out when Fury Road finally got out of production hell and started actually filming.\n\nIf they would have said \"oh yeah there is no <PERSON>, fuck you, he is a woman now\", I would have been like \"oh, well, okay. don't know why that matters but ok.\" and still went and saw it.\n\nNow, if <PERSON> came out and pulled that shit that <PERSON> did, and called me (as a viewer of movies?) a sexist pig if I didn't love whoever was cast in it, I would have never have saw it.\n\nOh yeah, speaking of Fury Road, I think they are going to have <PERSON> be the lead in the next movie, if he makes one. I couldn't be more psyched, that character earned my respect and it didn't have a goddamn thing to do with her gender.","869"],["Watching the format of this show is fucking hard because I have been spoiled on the GoT style storytelling, where they basically shoot 3 different shows at the same time (across the globe) and then intertwine it together so you get a taste of everything that is important in the story.\n\nI have watched this show from the start and I don't know where certain characters are, or if they are still alive, even. I actually forgot that <PERSON> and <PERSON> were on a supply run or whatever, when they popped up I almost forgot they even existed.\n\nCome to think of it, I don't know what happened to <PERSON>.\n\nThat is bad storytelling, seriously. Fucking unacceptable for one of the top shows in existence, what a waste.\n\nEdit: I might be losing track of characters because I have lost so much interest in the show. It is getting harder to watch and *very* hard to care about any of these people. Fear the Walking Dead, however, is much, much, much worse. They could kill everyone on that show and just start over and I don't think I would notice.","522"],["In Dubai, if you represent money or have money, you can do anything\n\nedit: i know this applies anywhere, but really, when you are in one of these odd countries where there is a literal wall between the insanely wealthy and the insanely poor, you can do ANYTHING. you can fucking kill people if you want to. seriously.\n\nyou can do *anything* in one of these countries. I am not really talking about \"showing up\" with money. I am talking about *being* money, representing it. Being a part of an important family.","680"],["I'm in the same boat.\n\nI have the means and would love to visit Dubai and NK. Of course, I won't. I don't want one more dollar than I can help going toward either place.\n\nKind of like how, when it comes up... I would love to go to the 2022 World Cup. Hell, I am sure that I know people that are still going to go, they operate on the \"you can't fix the world, bro\" viewpoint. I know I am not above anyone or anything, but I can't in my conscience support that. No fucking way.","1004"],["That makes me sad to see that. Seriously, clean, dead, or in prison.\n\nI feel like the only person that has survived over a decade in opiate use (heavy benzo as well) and has a normal career/family/friends/life/whatever \"normal\" would look like in middle America.\n\nI am so sorry life turns out the way it does for some.\n\nShit, I almost feel guilty about being \"successful\" or whatever while still maintaining a habit(s).\n\nI hope this doesn't come off as condescending, I promise I don't think I am better than anyone else, ever. I think I just got lucky.","615"],["Friend, you need to talk to your doctor, he will probably have some inside info that doctors share about what is going on with each other.\n\nThat would make sense to me. I am sure he/she would refer you right back to a different doctor incase they are closed.\n\nThese raid things happen all the time. I don't know why, but they do.\n\nAnd good job not telling the cop to go fuck himself. That must have been hard. I am raging just reading the story. Fucking asshole.","483"],["This is one of the cutest weird things that dogs do.\n\nEvery doggo ive had has done this with me.\n\nThey will make a point to get their special toy or blanket or whatever and show it to me. Sometimes place it at my feet.\n\nNow, they don't want me messing with it, they will just take it away if it looks like I want to touch it. They just want to present it to you and say \"hey, this is mine and I treasure it. look at this thing that I like\"","996"],["Here's a long, boring personal story about that job I had, if you or anyone else cares to read it.\n\nAfter I was promoted and all that I had to set-up a tech/science conference, similar to a TED talk/retreat before those were a thing. Or at least before anyone knew what the hell a TED talk was.\n\nI was way in over my head, putting in 18 hour days getting things ready. I was basically the director of the event, which my boss was credited for, but I was the guy \"on the ground\", making sure the actual tech was working flawlessly to haggling on the catering bill.\n\nRemember I am like 19 years old. This is something that a \"grown up\" should be doing.\n\nSo like months of planning then weeks of these 18 hour crazy days, and the actual event itself, I was wore out. Like, sick from exhaustion because of this work and school on top of it.\n\nIt went flawlessly til the last day, something that didn't really matter went wrong, and yeah, I was really pissed about it. I literally complained to my boss about my own mistake, if that even makes sense.\n\nHe took me aside and told me something like \"Brother, this whole thing has been amazing. And everyone that matters knows it has all been you. The money for this event - I earmarked a bonus for you, you deserve it.\" Then an hour later when everything was winding down the president of the university wanted to meet me, him and the other bigwig millionaire/billionaire types that were there(guys juiced into the system, politics, business, you name it) took my boss and me out to dinner the next day.\n\nWith some rest and a clear head, that dinner made me contacts for life. It was like a real-time version of linkedin. Actually, I have never needed a linkedin because of that dinner. I was in the club.\n\nI guess the point of my rambling boring story is that success in life really is a mix of luck and hard work. Those months and then the grueling weeks of busting my ass set me up for life, as far as professional relationships go. I got that job almost as an accident, worked my way up by being on time, being personable and friendly, taking responsibility and NEVER leaving till the job is done.\n\nI hope I don't come off as bragging or trying to pat myself on the back, I really didn't do anything special or anything that anyone else with a good work ethic wouldn't have done.\n\nI can't believe I just typed all that. I'm not exactly sure what the point even was lol","104"],["Yeah, looking back on it, that is exactly what happened.\n\nMan those guys/gals hated me though. I mean, they didn't literally hate me, just a lot of passive aggressive/resentment. To make it worse, I am a pretty simple guy, I don't do passive aggressive or \"games\" that people play.\n\nThey would leave notes in the office directed at me, complaining about something, right after I had just met with them. So I would always track them down and talk face to face. Whenever we were face to face or on the phone their mood changed completely, like a 180 degree turn from how you'd think they would be if you read their note/complaint or whatever.\n\nThey just figured the person with the highest degree or GPA or some shit should be the person at the top. I remember wanting to say \"there are other factors at play here, people!\".\n\nThis is probably a crummy comparison, but putting one of the people I worked with in the position I was in - it would be like putting the guy who designed a race car into the driver's seat.","428"],["Once again, thanks brothers and sisters of /r/the_donald for posting a story I wouldn't have ever seen otherwise. Just like the 500(almost) arrested for the sex trafficking bust in CA. These stories that have to do with the right that do not get picked up - this shit is reeeeaallly starting to piss me off. I shouldn't have to come to the Don's sub to read the link. Fucking disgraceful, this one.\n\nThis poor guy can't even exist according to the far-left's law of where a black man is supposed to be. God forbid he is a fiscal conservative, or is conservative in any way, shape, or form. This guy can't win, no matter what he does, he is fucked just for being black.\n\nThis might be wrong to say, but fuck it.\n\nThe far-left, the DNC, they want to keep hold of these minorities like they own them. That is how they treat their vote. It is the \"fuck you, you always voted for me you always will, or else you hate your own people\" demographic.\n\nWe may not agree on everything, but the stranglehold the DNC has on the black voter is shameful. Hell I am sure this guy has gotten fucking death threats.\n\nOkay I'm done ranting. Have a good morning pedes.","303"],["I wish you guys put the name of the game in the titles :(\n\nI am so out of touch with gaming nowadays, but I can tell from the sheer number of posts that hit the front page that the best videogames are:\n\n- Battlefield\n- Overwatch\n- GTAV\n\nedit: this looks like <PERSON> playing GTAV\n\nedit 2: so is this GTAV modded with a female character and is the boulder moving like that also a mod? this is on a computer right? so many questions from my dumb ass....","368"],["I'm in my early thirties.\n\nA lot of people in their thirties are pursuing their career goals, raising a family, contributing to society through volunteer work, church, or civic means.\n\nThis leaves little time for things like recording a video clip of sliding down a hill on a rock in GTAV.\n\nBut you do have time to watch a 10 second clip. And time to upvote whoever made it because you appreciate that they went thru the hassle of uploading it to Reddit, so that your 30-something year old ass can watch it.\n\nThe same thing applies to you, my friend. Visit a subreddit dedicated to something that you yourself are unfamiliar with, like /r/pussy.","123"],["If she didn't put that Christian stank on her ideas so hard, I wouldn't mind at least hearing why she wants to destroy public education.\n\nThe second I hear a politician invoke the Lord on an issue that should have absolutely nothing to do with religion, something in my brain just shuts off paying attention or giving respect to that person.\n\nKeep your fucking church bullshit away from these kids lady.\n\nEdit: Like when our vice president, <PERSON>, set force policies that led to widespread disease in his state, he was asked what the hell he was going to do about it, he said \"I'm going to pray on it\". No, fuckhead, you can pray about your kid winning state or something, this is a public health crisis and you are the governor.","165"],["Go to your bank and talk to someone that matters.\n\nThey will file a dispute immediately.\n\nThis has to accidentally happen every so often. I mean, tell them your going to lose your darn house over it.\n\nI cannot imagine a bank saying \"doesn't matter, no big deal, fuck you\". I can imagine them saying that about accidently paying for netflix 4 months in advance, not on 40k.\n\ngo to the bank, now. right now.","319"],["We truly live in an amazing country. Regardless of whether or not you hate or love these people, him being confirmed is surreal.\n\nHe was too racist to be a judge back in 1985/86, which really is impressive in itself lol. Things were different 30 years ago, he must have publicly said the n word everywhere he went.\n\n30 years later he skates into the top lawyer spot of the country.\n\nThat's like the American Dream in action. Amazing.","614"],["Look, this isn't a partisan thing, this is just the truth.\n\nIf she got a DUI and killed someone, there would absolutely be a dog and pony show to appease the masses that justice was being done. She would probably get a hefty sentence too.\n\nThen that Friday at 4:30PM her sentence would be commuted and her fines reduced.\n\nWealthy people/people in power generally do not have to pay for the same crimes that normal people do.","314"],["He lived a full life, saw more and by God did more than most people on this planet can imagine.\n\nPeople get sad when people kill themselves, but when your life comes to an end like that, I don't blame them at all.\n\nDo you want to be in a fucking hospital breathing out of tubes, not knowing who or where the hell you are for another 10 years or something?\n\nI don't blame old men for ending their life on their own terms.","168"],["That is because the War on Drugs was never meant to solve the drug problem in itself.\n\nThe War on Drugs, the more and more I read about it, has very little to do with people actually using drugs and more to do with an excuse for the government to intervene in other countries when it is in the \"interest\" of the US to do so.\n\nPeople like to say they started it so they could lock up blacks or something, but I think it it is much more sinister. It is for invading other countries without an official invasion.","1014"],["Absolutely right.\n\nAnyone that thinks the our War on Drugs has to do with the actual drugs being stopped or locking up blacks or whatever is delusional. Those are just added benefits.\n\nIt is about control. It is an excuse to get involved in other countries affairs, that is all the DEA really amounts to.\n\nDoes anyone really think that a prosperous Mexico would be good for the US?\n\nWe have the best borders that money can by - there is a quote about the US that sums up our homeland defense pretty nicely, something like this:\n\nThe US is surrounded by weak neighbors to the North and the South and fish to the West and the East.","356"],["I am probably going to fuck this up, so bare with me here.\n\nA few weeks ago a prominent white-separatist/white-nationalist/national-socialist/i have no fucking clue because i dont want to read about him - ist named <PERSON> (sp?) was sucker punched in the face at some event. I think it was the <PERSON> inaug, so a few months ago.\n\nSome liberals loved it, some hated it. It was a good chance for the right or the alphas at t_d to point out whatever they saw as hypocrisy on the left(because everyone on the left is a pussy or a hippie I guess?).\n\nBecause of all of this stupid fucking debate everyone lost sight of little old Nazi <PERSON> himself. Everyone has forgotten that the whole Nazi thing is something that should always, always be met with violence, no matter what kind of bow and tie packaging they choose to put on it nowadays = altright.","294"],["Wow, so this stupidity isn't limited to the US.\n\nI thought my quaint little school in the midwest had strict bathroom laws - yikes.\n\nI gotta say, growing up past required school age - this is one of those things that you don't fuck around with in the \"real world\". If someone has to use the restroom, there is no rule that is going to stop them. No meeting or appointment has ever been that important.","670"],["Okay, so here goes nothing.\n\nI fucking love pineapple on pizza if it is on a pizza that has a ton of toppings on it already. I got used to this because I worked at a pizza place for a few years and after a rush we would have all of these leftover ingredients, and pineapple would be one of them.\n\nSo basically we would make a supreme pizza and there would be a few slices of pineapples on it. After a while I warmed up to it and quit picking them off. I now love it. It creates an off-taste to compliment the rest of the diabetes that is on the pizza.\n\nSo there, that's my piece.","162"],["Oh, you mean to tell me the guy that has got to do whatever the fuck he wants for 70 years didn't change once he got into the whitehouse?\n\nWe are lucky he isn't running the exec. branch from a fucking yacht or something. Seriously. Nothing would surprise me with this piece of shit and his cult.\n\nWe should be thankful he is at least in the whitehouse, holding up a modicum of principle and tradition, during the regular work week.","906"],["I see that shit all over reddit.\n\nI don't know if it is potheads or people that have never been around long term opiate users or what, but fuck yes, opiate withdrawals can definitely kill you. People forget that your ave. opiate user that is withdrawing probably doesn't have an athletes body to begin with. Shit, basic w/d can causs irregular breathing and heart beat.","615"],["I hope something petty like this leads to his downfall.\n\nIt would be rather fitting of the man, to be able to steal billions of dollars in his tenure, only to get caught lying under oath for a measly (to him) $400-500k.\n\nIt wouldn't surprise me at all if something insignificant is the fuel that starts the fire, at least with this fucking guy. He is so goddamn greedy I can see him stealing the fucking rugs from the floor of the whitehouse to set up at mar a lago or some shit. lol goddamnit","747"],["Yeah it was. It is pretty blatant now, looking back on it.\n\nWhen I was a few years old in 1990ish this was my favorite movie and I never made the connection till the man ran for president last year. I think BttF part 2 was on within an hour or so of one of his absurd rallies and I yelled at my gf \"holy fucking shit <PERSON> if <PERSON>!\" and she was like \"Yeah babe that is who the character is based on\"\n\n\"oh\"","469"],["oh no.\n\nLooks like someone who gets off on hurting people has sent that to you. Someone that likes to make people feel uncomfortable. He probably stole your mail after following you home then found you on social media. These things aren't hard to do, it can happen to anyone. I have read a few things that have been very similar on the internet.\n\nCould just be a stalker but usually they seem to want some kind of approval from you, or want you to acknowledge them.","572"],["Here's a protip.\n\nKeep talking, finish whatever it was you were going to say in the same tone and volume that you were while you were talking. The person that interrupted you will stop talking and realize how much of a douche they are. It is fantastic.\n\nedit: the highest rated comment is about how this doesn't work, the girl keeps on talking over the person. lol i guess this doesn't work as well with everyone, my bad","877"],["When I was out of work, I started to sell off things that I owned before even coming close to asking for help from anyone - family, friends, the gobmint, anyone.\n\nOne of my close friends and I were having a few drinks and I don't remember how it was brought up, but an acquaintance of ours was talking shit about me because I was out of work and was at the gun range. I guess he thought I was out having fun, buying bullets (which can be *very* expensive) while I was out of work.\n\nI was shooting the gun for the last time, before I had to fuckin' hock it at a pawn shop, and I had had those bullets for like 2 years.\n\nSome people are just shitty, no matter what, and this fox news caption is the perfect example.","527"],["all that and he even looks like <PERSON>\n\n<PERSON>.\n\nWell, what he is doing isn't sexual harassment, it is sexual assault.\n\nWhoever you feel comfortable telling at your school, an ADULT that is in a position of authority (literally should be almost any adult), tell that person about it. And make sure you are as detailed as you feel you can talk about. He will be switched to a different bus, at least.\n\nedit: i want to add that I understand that you don't want to make a scene and be embarrassed, and yes it is really easy for the adults here to tell you to \"make a scene\", but if you don't stand up to this kid then it will just continue. Something has to be done. I know you hear about this all the time if you get on reddit, but things that happen in highschool, if you feel any temporary embarrassment for getting him in trouble, none of it will matter in a few years.","716"],["I never liked this family, or the people on the other gun show, Sons of Guns, I think.\n\nSons of Guns, those people looked like they would fuck you over for $100 and the family from American Guns seemed about as inauthentic as a 3 dollar bill.\n\nIt takes a certain type of person to be on a reality type show like this, and all of these people are just huge turn offs.\n\nReal gun culture is abundant on the internet though","367"],["Everyone in this thread seems to have taken one of two sides.\n\n- Fuck this guy, lol what a fucking loser. Even if he did spend the past 300 years working on this, lol fuck this guy, right?\n- He has worked for 300 years to win this and never has. It wasn't his fault that he lost and he exited the stage with grace, he is above reproach and should be heralded as a king of kings. I want to suck his cock.\n\nI think the truth is somewhere in the middle.\n\nYou can work for this shit but still have grace. Come on people.","252"],["I apologize if this comes off as a simpleton's question, I am not a PhD or a MD, just a student of psychology.\n\nHow often is it that a person has regressed to their original gender (or assigned-at-birth sex)?\n\nIt seems that today, we as a society are more open to the idea of not having our gender assigned at birth and are encouraging people to live their life how they feel they should at very early ages. I am wondering, if I may be blunt, how many people found out that living as another gender wasn't for them.\n\nI apologize if this question comes off as rude or inconsiderate to anyone that has transitioned in any way.","390"],["I hope I didn't come off in any such way --- it's just... man. Life changes in the blink of an eye. It is ridiculous to act like you should spend every day with your parents, but still, take in all of those moments you share with them and just appreciate them. Like anyone, they can both be gone tomorrow and you will wonder where all of the time has gone.\n\nlol sorry if that sounded all doom and gloomy, lol, I lost my father a couple years ago and I would give anything to have another day, another 5 minutes with the man. It isn't that we left anything unresolved, quite the opposite, it's just that you realize when their gone that they were your best friends the whole time.","981"],["I kinda figured this was going to happen as soon as they started calling Mar a Lago the \"winter Whitehouse\" or whatever.\n\nI know all presidents cost waaaaay more money than anyone notices, but this guys lifestyle and family are going to cost the taxpayer a ton more than any other president.\n\nBut none of his supporters will care.\n\nHe has broke up years of formalities and moral decisions that have been in place for years and years, like not releasing his taxes to show that he isn't taking bribes or whatever. Honestly if the <PERSON>'s passed a law tomorrow that allocated $1 million a week for his children to go shopping it wouldn't surprise me. Hell, I would be expecting something blatantly horrible like that any day now.","915"],["This is to be expected - the writing was on the wall.\n\nI don't have any idea how normal administrations \"run\" but I am sure that he has adapted it to how he ran his family business. He is probably kicking tasks to whoever he thinks can handle them while he works 20-30 hours a week making decisions. The rest of the time is him lounging around watching Fox News, yelling at the TV set like your racist, drunk uncle. This shouldn't surprise anyone that can read between the lines.","906"],["If you were ever looking for a sincere <PERSON> moment, this is one of them.\n\nHe has owned a plane and golf courses for decades - doing this is just \"oh, it's Saturday\", nothing special at all. It is the equivalent of you meeting up with some buddies at your local course.\n\nI would expect these kind of out of touch with anyone's reality moments every week.\n\nI have no idea how he became the symbol for the working man, but there ya go.","747"],["You need to start doing what I have been doing for a few months now --- whatever <PERSON> says or any of his reps say - it is the *literal* exact opposite of whatever the truth is.\n\nHe is actually really easy to follow if you just flip whatever he is saying, or whatever <PERSON> says. Just change it to whatever the opposite is and you will have your answer to almost any question that is asked of him.","622"],["I was supposed to go out with a girl last night.\n\nNo shit, I gave her a key to my place because I told her I would probably be asleep by the time she got there, passed out on the couch. I was, and woke up to a note \"you looked so tired I didn't wanna wake you\" lol\n\nim 30 and in great shape, but your body just starts slowing shit down, and I think that part of it is that you have been to every type of party situation by that age multiple times - it just doesn't hype you up anymore.","1012"],["Well, yeah, you know what you are probably right. They have been trying to get to the front page so they have probably tried the same post like 50 times.\n\nIf there is one thing I respect about t_d, it is that they at least haven't branched out into 20 different subs like the left did.\n\nYou go on /r/all and 3 out of 10 posts will be from some anti-trump sub.\n\nedit: lol I just realized it probably has to do with that fact that *he won*, so whats the point","728"],["For some reason, people that defend the season 6 finale fail to notice this.\n\nThere are people that watch this show and honestly saw no problem with how it was handled. I don't know if it is blind loyalty to the product or they aren't too bright or what.. but the way the cliffhanger was handled caused major fucking problems with this show. Problems that go beyond me and you not liking it, -- it really messed up how season 7 happened.\n\nThen there was that awful Gimple explaining to us why we were dumb for not \"getting it\" or something. gtfo with that shit\n\nedit: Oh I forgot, one of these people that defends the finale told me that I was wanting \"instant gratification\" or something, because I didn't get to see who was killed. Another said that I just wanted to see gore or something.\n\nI don't think these people understand storytelling, in the most basic sense. Whoever is responsible for that cliffhanger decision shouldn't be allowed to make any more television shows.","522"],["Wait, are you saying the episodes should be rated better or worse?\n\nSeems rather accurate, the average score. I guess.\n\nThere are lots of people voting 1 and 10, neither of which any episode that aired this season deserves. That kinda evens out each of those extreme undeserved scores.\n\nThe average of these ratings is really quite favorable. I would rate most episodes this season around a 5 or 6. The show just isn't that great anymore, sorry bro","522"],["I am from /r/all, I don't follow formula 1.\n\nBut it doesn't surprise me that this is on the frontpage. It is a popular thing that people like. I can understand your rage -- it has happened to me many times (I have been at work and turned my phone off till I got home lol) for different events on TV.\n\n*But...*\n\nYou are on the frontpage of the most popular news and pop culture aggregate on the internet, unless you count news or whatever on facebook.\n\nYou have to expect this kind of stuff and not be upset when it happens.","633"],["People on reddit are obsessed with rescue pups and kittens because of the feel goods.\n\nI'm sure some of the people that talk shit about people that buy dogs probably don't even have one.\n\nEdit: I remember a post a while back where someone bought there dog, didn't rescue it. One of the top comments was something like \"why didn't you get a rescue dog?\"\n\nI know it isn't the same, but fuck man, go up to a couple that just had a kid and ask them why they didn't just adopt one. It's the same principal.","958"],["I hooked a dog up to a running line, where the pupper could get some more area to walk around and stuff, rather than just being on a long leash in the backyard.\n\nPoor pupper ran so hard after a rabbit or something that she reached the end of the line and it jerked her whole body like 3 feet up in the air. My heart sank, I thought the dog ran so hard and hit the end of the line and it broke her neck.\n\nThank God it didn't, I took it off of her and redesigned it.","996"],["<PERSON>\n\nHey, at least be glad that his name is synonymous with rape for the rest of his life.\n\nTrying to look at the bright side here. The internet has created a virtual scarlet letter for these kind of people that get off easily. At least you can search his name and that is all that will come up. Nothing that he has done in his life, before or after, will ever matter to anyone. He is the guy that raped/tried to rape that girl. forever.","454"],["Absolutely. Reddit has some of the highest moral ground I have ever seen in my life.\n\nA lot of people here walk the path that <PERSON> did or something.\n\nedit: I was just called a piece of shit or something for rigging up a running line for my dog. RedditUser said I shouldn't be a lazy piece of shit and just go walk her.\n\nShe was on it while I was at work. Thought she would rather be outside than inside, which she did (inside is fucking boring for dogs, newsflash), and I also didn't want her to be murdered by a car. But I'm a lazy fuck.","945"],["There was a post yesterday about <PERSON> playing golf while president.\n\nI think it is running around $18,000,000.00 a month right now, all things considered. Some people were defending the man, saying that simply is how the wealthy live, and that we have to pay for it because we need someone like this in the whitehouse. It went something like that.\n\nSo yeah, even people that aren't wealthy think that they deserve shit like that","915"],["Well, that sounds spot-on for how he sounds like he would be with someone behind closed doors, in that situation.\n\nA lot of people that voted for him don't realize that he isn't this master negotiator that heads some major multinational.\n\nHe runs a real estate business he inherited from his father, that's it. There hasn't been much in <PERSON>'s last 40 years that he has done that he didn't want to do. No meetings were held in Trump tower that *he* didn't want to have.\n\nHe has ran a relatively small business that has been built on screwing people out of money. There is always a con with this fucking family, just read about them. He has no tact and probably terrible social skills, he grew up in one of the most privileged bubbles you can grow up in.\n\nWhy anyone thought he would magically change or thought that this wasn't him, and has been for decades, is beyond me.\n\nI hope that a lot of <PERSON> voters wanted the Republican party to implode or something, because this is how you get it. The man is the leader of a party that he doesn't care for or respect, and the feeling is mutual.\n\nThe GOP is ticking time bomb with this guy at the helm. In a way he could have been the best thing to happen to America in decades. Think about it.","800"],["Yes.\n\nThis.\n\nPeople keep on waiting for the impeachment process to start, for some reason. He isn't getting impeached, and he isn't going to prison or whatever other fantasy you have.\n\nI don't know what the \"reason\" will be, but he will quit. I don't know if it will be in 2 years or what --- I know he started his reelection money raising shit, but that is probably just a scam to get *more money*. It is all that this family cares about.\n\nI can totally see him not getting anything done, blaming democrats AND republicans (this is key here), then starting some Fox News internet based ripoff that is steeped in conspiracy nonsense and sensationalism news.","554"],["It is a mafia state that is ran like a big business, <PERSON> is basically a thug that runs a gas station. I think there are somewhere between 100k and 200k people that are in that group.\n\nA fun movie to watch is *Lord of War* starring the one true God, <PERSON>. It doesn't focus on this as it's central theme - but the main character is a good example of a guy that is a member of the kleptocracy there.\n\nA lot of people that had good connections and a work ethic made a *ton* of money when the union collapsed. The book that fella is recommending on here, Putin's Kleptocracy, is a good read too","846"],["I think that once someone gets away with something they think they are invincible.\n\nI read a story about a guy that married a rich woman, she died in a freak car accident.\n\nHe then married another rich woman, about ten years later. She fell off a cliff.\n\nThe police investigating it thought that something was off from the very beginning of the investigation, then found out how wife #1 died, and yeah, he fucking killed them both.\n\nThat fucking <PERSON> guy is the same way. They will probably find someone dead next to his jail cell in 10 months.","741"],["The thing that a lot of people don't understand is that dialogue does not mean character development.\n\nAnd to the people on the opposite end of the \"defending tWD scale\", a bottle episode isn't just a shitty episode. Half of the episodes *cannot* be bottle episodes -- please, quit calling them that. It is just a poorly written/produced/acted show. That's it.\n\nBut anyway, yeah, the episode where <PERSON> and <PERSON> (whose relationship is one of the most forced and awkward I have seen on a TV show) go to the place where the CGI deer was -- that added nothing.\n\nThere was no character development. Oh, <PERSON> thought that <PERSON> died for a minute and was upset about it? **She should be.** That isn't \"character development\".","522"],["Lol, no one seems to agree when the quality of the show dropped off. Everyone has their favorite/least fav. season and they rarely match up.\n\nMost people that I know irl think that the best season was the first, and I can't argue against that. I know it was only 6 episodes (wasn't it?), but fuck man, that pilot was probably one of the most intriguing starts to a TV ever made.\n\nI don't think a show's first episode had reeled me in like that before, and the only one that has came close (and maybe topped it) is the first episode of True Detective. That show is a fucking masterpiece.\n\nEdit: the thing with season one being so good is that there wasn't any time to be bad. It was six fucking episodes. There was no fluff, none. Every word was anchored in a pause of speech and even the pause of speech had meaning in it. Take that and stretch it out over, what 16 episodes is insane. I can't imagine the bullshit on GoT if they had to make the show + 6 more. On the same or less budget. It would be fucking terrible.","60"],["I have seen every episode of the show, some episodes many times, and I *think* I know who you are talking about.\n\nThat is a problem with this show. A lot of the characters aren't well written or likeable, so no one cares about their death. Their death is a pointless shock value, and who that shocks anymore I have no idea because who cares?\n\nThe sister show to this one is waaaaaaaaay worse, Fear TWD, I think most people that watch that show wouldn't notice if the entire cast was killed off and replaced in between seasons.\n\nOh yeah, and it isn't just the writing or whatever, it's the acting and the \"fit\" of the character.\n\nI'm not into <PERSON>. I'm not a comic fanboy and I don't have all of this hype built up into him. To me he is just a skinny prick that I have literally no idea why his guys are scared of him. Maybe he is a huge hulking presence in the comic, but it is laughable on the show, to me anyway.\n\nI know a lot of people think that <PERSON> is killing it, so I apologize for that opinion. Personally, I think he fucking killed it as the comedian, and he totally made that movie.","513"],["In regards to your edit, someone on this sub told me that the last two seasons of tWD was superior to the last two seasons of GoT, so take that as you will.\n\nSome people get delusional with stuff that they like, and will defend it as if they are personally attached to it, like a cult. I think that person is a good example.\n\nWith the first season of TD (and lets be honest, the only planned season), every comment about it is the same. Masterpiece.","60"],["I was so lucky to not read or pay attention to anything about this show on reddit for like 2 months.\n\nI watched the entire show in the week leading up to the finale. What a ride.\n\nI cannot believe it wasn't spoiled for me from /r/television or the westworld sub. I mustn't have been paying attention because it seemed like half of the posts on /r/all were about westworld stuff.\n\nOh, I am glad that season two won't be a jazz inspired improv performance art piece. There's going to be a story, cool. That is what made the first season good too.","735"],["I think <PERSON> will complete a few short term gains for <PERSON>'s Russia while he is office, and completely fumble most everything else.\n\nA lot of good programs that don't cost much will be gutted because of \"fiscal responsibility\". Funding that could be provided if he spend a whole week in the fucking whitehouse.\n\nBut for the most part, the damage he will do won't be lasting. It will be a stain on our country, but not like the holocaust or something.\n\nI honestly don't see him going four years, I think he will be the first president to just quit, for whatever reason.\n\nHim and his people are so goddamn incompetent, it is baffling how the whitehouse hasn't burned down yet.\n\nedit: he is also 70 or 71 years old and is severely unhealthy looking, fuck. fattest and oldest president we have had in a while. He might have to step down for health reasons. Then again, I can't imagine anything keeping him up at night, and I can't imagine him putting much work into the job.","826"],["I tried to think of a way to explain it better than this, but I can't.\n\nfrom wikipedia:\n\nRolling coal is the practice of modifying a diesel engine to increase the amount of fuel entering the engine in order to emit an under-aspirated sooty exhaust that visibly pollutes the air. It also may include the intentional removal of the particulate filter. Practitioners often additionally modify their vehicles by installing smoke switches and smoke stacks. Modifications to a vehicle to enable rolling coal may cost from $200 to $5,000.","726"],["Oh, wow, it's one of these comments.\n\nI don't see these too often on reddit, but they intrigue me like no other (when it comes to the election, this past year in the US). I am 30 and everyone that is twice my age and triple my age grew up hating Russia.\n\nThey have collectively stored up hate for decades upon decades. Growing up in the 90s, it makes no sense to me. Then maybe 5 years ago it becomes pretty apparent that Russia became on oligarchy.\n\nI start to not like Russia.\n\nThe people that grew up hating Russia start liking them.\n\nWhat in the hell happened? *Especially* in the last year, fuck man, some of these people that spent their career during the cold war want the US to be more like Russia. Is it because of the weird macho prop that <PERSON> does? They want our president riding naked on a horse or something? The fuck?","853"],["I'm not a leftie and something is obviously wrong here.\n\nThere is only one thing that truly stands out to me, above any evidence or commentary I have read.\n\n<PERSON> doesn't have a fixed ideology. He doesn't even have an interest in politics, really. He has flipped on *every* single issue he has ever had ---- except one. Russia. He has been pro-Russia from day one. It wouldn't surprise me if he said in an interview this week that he admires <PERSON> more than anyone else.\n\nI think it just about money and power. <PERSON> is probably the wealthiest man in the world, and <PERSON> knows this. <PERSON> is mega rich but not super mega ultra rich, and he wants in that club that <PERSON> is in. That is why he has so much respect for the guy. It is about the status he has and his assets.\n\nwhew thats it for now\n\nedit: and the best part is that as US president, he has more status than putin. The office has been made lesser because of his presence, and he is a laughingstock on the international stage, but he is still president.\n\nGoddamn I can't believe I am talking about a president <PERSON>. What an embarrassing time for America. What a stain on our history.","853"],["don't forget the moral high ground that a ton of reddit has\n\nI have never seen a more altruistic, moral, and ethical gathering of people in my life.\n\nThere was a post on /r/aww yesterday where a guy said the he bought a dog. People were giving him shit because he didn't just adopt some random mutt at the pound.\n\nHe paid two grand for a specific dog bought at one of the best breeders in the country, his dog lives like a king, and he still got shit for it. this website fucking sucks sometimes, people are delusional","958"],["There was a post earlier where someone brought up that a donkey was being fed and watered, but wasn't being played with.\n\nand the donkey is in a small pen, enough room to walk around in circles is all.\n\npeople were asking for doxx info on the person that had it, were wanting to call the police and multiple animal abuse groups. Like, get the guy who owned it arrested and sent to prison.\n\nGotta love the weird moral high ground people choose to take here.\n\nedit: oh yeah the OP said that he/she did infact call the police, but they called <PERSON> a fucking moron and said it wasn't animal abuse, ffs","996"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"I really enjoyed the episode, but I like these characters.\\n\\nWhen this show does an episode dedicated to certain characters and not others, there will always be people that say it is \\\"filler\\\".\\n\\nI am sure the people that like the <PERSON> character loved her episode, while I thought it was a horrid filler.\\n\\nI wouldn't expect much more this season though, the way they have mapped out the show it looks like the rest of season will be stalling until the All Out War stuff starts next season, hopefully in episode 1.\\n\\nedit: this is such an odd show. Brilliant moments pepper sprayed onto a bland soap opera-ish format.\",\n \"513\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think the point of that scene, or his reaction, was to show us that the Saviors aren't mindless killer robots that worship <PERSON>.\\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 <PERSON>'s tribute so he and his loved ones can survive another day.\\n\\nI could be wrong, but that's my take anyway.\",\n \"942\"\n ],\n [\n \"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.\",\n \"735\"\n ],\n [\n \"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 <PERSON> 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\",\n \"690\"\n ],\n [\n \"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\",\n \"981\"\n ],\n [\n \"*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.\",\n \"853\"\n ],\n [\n \"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 <PERSON> cult members that aren't even racist that will donate to him, because, <PERSON>.\\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.\",\n \"936\"\n ],\n [\n \"Only once.\\n\\nDallas TX, March 8th 1997.\\n\\n<PERSON> was fresh out of law school, he saw an opportunity in the used women's panties business. He set up a racket in Austin, TX., out of an abandoned washing machine factory on the outskirts of town.\\n\\nThe markup was considerable, and the market was ripe --- so he took the chance. The only problem was that he needed the financing, so he contacted an old acquaintance, a woman he knew during his foot fetish days by the name of <PERSON>.\\n\\nNow back then this <PERSON> was a looker, nice tits, perfect ass, and oh yeah, a sleeper for the Saudi National Intelligence Agency, funded by the <PERSON>-bin Laden group which no one wants to talk about anymore. She set him up with a guy, this <PERSON> fella, who owned or controlled a lot of the oil concerns in east and south Texas.\\n\\nSo these three met up that day in March and things just kinda went from there. You can check wikipedia for their background information, but none of what I just wrote will be on there. No one seems to care anymore.\\n\\nNo one wants to bring up the silent partner either... a man by the name of...\\n\\n<PERSON>\",\n \"898\"\n ],\n [\n \"Are the Never-Trump Republicans the only actual Republicans?\\n\\nBecause <PERSON> isn't an R or a D or anything. He is just himself, just a self-serving billionaire that ran on the R side so he could get elected. He has even said this --- like, clearly said this, that he had to run as a Republican because their base is a lot dumber than the Democratic base.\\n\\nHe probably thought he couldn't get far if he ran on the side with the long time favorite <PERSON>, as well.\\n\\nShit, now I wonder if the people that voted for <PERSON> realize that they aren't Republicans.\\n\\nWho is a Republican anyway? That party has morphed into some other beast entirely. Hell, just a few years ago being Republican just meant that you were a Democrat that hated gays and poor people. Now it means that you hate a lot of other things too.\\n\\nedit: nope, false. He never said that, cleared by snopes. here is the link to the CNN article explaining it, thanks to /u/khouli - _URL_0_\",\n \"800\"\n ],\n [\n \"Just wanted to comment, I am sorry /r/reactiongifs, I hate <PERSON> on a cellular level, but this shouldn't be here. I have only been on reddit for a few months and I know this.\\n\\nI wonder what reddit was like before this buffoon ran for president. Not having every popular sub inundated with anti-Trump shit for stupid upvotes or whatever.\\n\\nI mean, I understand --- I get it. The man makes me embarrassed, as an American, on a daily/hourly basis, but still... I would have liked to have seen reddit before the election.\",\n \"247\"\n ],\n [\n \"heh, never thought of it like that, but yeah, they are the political <PERSON>.\\n\\nHer and her ugly siblings will be on TV and other media bullshit for the rest of their lives. Nothing they have done proves them to be any less shameless than their father.\\n\\nI just hope people leave the smallest one out of it for as long as possible. I know most people don't give a shit, \\\"He's growing up the son of a billionaire so fuck him!\\\" but he is just a little kid, embarrassed as fuck because of his father. Growing up with a shitload of money doesn't make his life any better than a kid growing up in a normal middle class family.\\n\\nI wouldn't trade my normal middle class upbringing for his ultra wealthy one, never ever ever. Ugh, I feel sorry for that little guy\",\n \"614\"\n ],\n [\n \"I had a free cell phone with unlimited everything for over a year because the company I had it thru was bought out by a major telecom company.\\n\\nI had a direct withdrawal type thing set up and neither company would take money out of my account for the bill. I called both companies trying to get someone to take the money but they kept blaming the other company for not doing their job right.\\n\\nI talked to both companies like 3 or 4 times each and neither would set up the bill to be taken out, but the phone stayed on so I just got a free phone out of the deal. No bill for over a year - it was awesome. This was probably 7 or 8 years ago.\\n\\nEdit: I guess this isn't really a traditional story of \\\"luck\\\", but somehow my account fell through the cracks during the buyout of the company, so I think it was a pretty lucky deal\",\n \"882\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well... I don't know where you were going with this, but I think I kinda know...\\n\\nHarvard is a pretty good mix of diversity, yeah, all cultures. I think you are seeing more diversity in the past 50 years there because the place has become more open to letting people of other races in not because of affirmative action bullshit but because the culture has just changed.\\n\\nWith that said, there are a TON of students there because their parents know people.\\n\\nThere are a TON of students there because they are the best of the best in their field.\\n\\nOverall it can kind of be a disheartening experience, they don't let anyone fail, seriously, it is hard to fuck up once your in.\",\n \"205\"\n ],\n [\n \"He was growing into middle age...\\n\\n \\nand was living then in a bungalow\\non Woodland Avenue.\\n\\n \\nHe installed himself in a rocking chair...\\n\\n \\nand smoked a cigar down\\nin the evenings...\\n\\n \\nas his wife wiped her pink hands\\non an apron...\\n\\n \\nand reported happily\\non their two children.\\n\\n \\nHis children knew his legs...\\n\\n \\nthe sting of his mustache\\nagainst their cheeks.\\n\\n \\nThey didn't know how their father made his living \\nor why they so often moved.\\n\\n \\nThey didn't even know their father's name.\\n\\n \\nHe was listed in the city directory\\nas <PERSON>.\\n\\n \\nAnd he went everywhere unrecognized...\\n\\n \\nand lunched with Kansas City\\nshopkeepers and merchants...\\n\\n \\ncalling himself a cattleman\\nor a commodities investor...\\n\\n \\nsomeone rich and leisured\\nwho had the common touch.\\n\\n \\nHe had two incompletely healed\\nbullet holes in his chest...\\n\\n \\nand another in his thigh.\\n\\n \\nHe was missing the nub\\nof his left middle finger...\\n\\n \\nand was cautious,\\nlest that mutilation be seen.\\n\\n \\nHe also had a condition that was referred to \\nas \\\"granulated eyelids\\\"...\\n\\n \\nand it caused him to blink \\nmore than usual...\\n\\n \\nas if he found creation\\nslightly more than he could accept.\\n\\n \\nRooms seemed hotter\\nwhen he was in them.\\n\\n \\nRains fell straighter.\\n\\n \\nClocks slowed.\\n\\n \\nSounds were amplified.\\n\\n \\nHe considered himself\\na Southern loyalist and guerrilla...\\n\\n \\nin a Civil War that never ended.\\n\\n \\nHe regretted neither his robberies,\\nnor the 17 murders that he laid claim to.\\n\\n \\nHe had seen another summer under\\nin Kansas City, Missouri... and on September 5th in the year 1881...\\n\\n \\nhe was 34 years old.\",\n \"898\"\n ],\n [\n \"That whole movie is a work of art.\\n\\nI am not a film critic, hell I am not even that smart of a person, but that movie is a modern masterpiece of cinema.\\n\\nI don't know what was in the water at the time, but it came out in 2007 along with There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men, two of the other most important movies made in the past 20 years.\\n\\nWell, that's what I think anyway\",\n \"472\"\n ],\n [\n \"This couldn't have came out better for the man, honestly. I think it showed he made a shitload of money and paid a shitload of taxes. And it is from *years* ago, which can also be used as an advantage.\\n\\nYeah buddy, that word \\\"genius\\\" gets thrown around waaaay too much, but if this was on purpose, I have to give serious respect to this administration. This is some House of Cards shit.\\n\\nOh, and now they get to hang the \\\"hey bro... you releasing that was illegal as fuck!\\\" over that woman's head (and the network too)\\n\\nquick ninja edit: I think tomorrow would be the first day I would be looking forward to a press conference if I was <PERSON> or <PERSON> himself.\",\n \"747\"\n ],\n [\n \"As it should be.\\n\\nI can separate the person from the work - one of my favorite TV shows that is currently on is Girls, <PERSON> show that she writes/produces/directs. I love her show but I doubt I could stand being alone with her in real life for more than 30 seconds. She seems like an abysmal person.\\n\\nI was looking forward to <PERSON>'s Netflix special because I don't pre-hate anyone, not even on the joke-theft shit. I just want to be entertained. I don't care that her jokes are \\\"muh vaginer\\\" jokes either, as long as they are funny.\\n\\nThat stand up special was fucking horrible, and I watched the whole thing. I actually *waited* for it to get better while it was on.\\n\\nPeople can have an off night or an off stand-up routine/special (looking at <PERSON> latest one, it just didn't \\\"hit\\\"), but The Leather Special from <PERSON> is one of the worst headliner stand up acts I know of.\\n\\nEdit: I really liked Trainwreck, as an \\\"it's on HBO and nothing else is on\\\" kind of a movie. If you don't already hate her, then check it out if it is on TV or streaming for free\",\n \"323\"\n ],\n [\n \"<PERSON> talks about joke theft quite a bit. His bit on <PERSON> and joke theft in general is totally worth a listen - it is pretty cool to hear a major comedian talk openly about how this kind of stuff just happens all the time, and the different ways it goes down.\\n\\nI am pretty sure this is the one: _URL_0_\",\n \"371\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah this doesn't surprise me at all. At least I watched it and actually hated it. And I wanted to love it. But I only chuckled a few times.\\n\\nThis reminds me of the ghostbusters movie. It was just a dumb paint by numbers cash-in movie with stale overused jokes. It was a 4/10 movie, not a .000001/10 movie like everyone says. Just a cookie cutter waste of material.\\n\\nedit: my god, I just read that article. I really, really hope the people that dedicate their days to that type of thing are just bored children. If you are a grown man and writing a negative review for someone's book or ranking <PERSON>'s special with your little group or whatever, you are the most pathetic type of person and I actually feel sorry for you. I wish your life had turned out different.\",\n \"43\"\n ],\n [\n \"I said this a few days ago on another thread, different story but same deal.\\n\\nThese \\\"pay of your debts\\\" stories have been clickbaity bs on sites like yahoo and the like for years and years. The stories are usually about as out of touch with reality as you can get, sometimes it makes me wonder if they are completely made up as a joke by the writer, or if the writer is also completely lost on the reality of the middle/working class in the US, or anywhere, for that matter.\\n\\nNext time you see one of these stories, click on it for fun if the website doesn't give your phone cancer. They are actually fun to read if you are expecting the ridiculousness\",\n \"434\"\n ],\n [\n \"Wow, okay, I thought it might have been me - I watched it by myself, which is weird for me, especially with a comedy special.\\n\\nThat audience was confusing - almost hostile at some points. I felt like <PERSON> was having to re-explain the joke to the audience at some parts. The crowd at that taping seemed like a crowd that was expecting a different comedian or something --- or maybe the microphones were off... either way I can't believe they decided to use that crowd/those recordings as the special.\\n\\nI'm reading more about it and it looks like that is the consensus\",\n \"186\"\n ],\n [\n \"Whenever you shoot a video like this, you never get a permit and do it above board, but you do have lookouts to make sure that no one that shouldn't see you can see you. They are just out of the camera/mic's reach.\\n\\nI'm not talking about armed security or some shit, lol, just a couple guys that are working on the crew will keep a look out. You don't wanna get caught doing this shit if you are a business, it is a huge pain in the ass.\",\n \"123\"\n ],\n [\n \"Your comment is in bad taste and is quite inflammatory. And I couldn't agree more.\\n\\nThis is a fucking shame, a travesty that the guy has to dedicate his income to paying for a child that isn't his. And why? Because he didn't contest it for over two years? What a bullshit loophole to use. Jesus.\\n\\nWell I am sorry that he raised a child as his own and didn't know until it was too late. If there is ever a ruling that needs to be turned over it is this one, my God.. this is what drives people to insanity and murder suicide... fuck!\",\n \"405\"\n ],\n [\n \"Whenever I think that the men's rights activist guys are fucking nutjobs, a story like this comes out and totally redeems them.\\n\\nI don't blame you guys at all. The divorce stories I read on here sound like fucking nightmares that you would have when you are at your lowest point in life, and like the second or third comment said, this is what leads to fucking murder/suicide shit. Damn.\",\n \"486\"\n ],\n [\n \"Absolutely. There is no higher art form he is ascribing to, and he has no one to impress. He is just having fun with his friends while a camera happens to be on.\\n\\nHell, he has pretty much admitted that he chooses the location of the movie for the next place his fam wants to vacation. Unless someone made that up, it totally makes sense.\\n\\n<PERSON> is, ironically for reddit, the most authentic and least pretentious filmmaker I know of. You would think reddit would love him for it lol.\\n\\nWell reddit probably would if he could get some help - his movies are really, really bad sometimes.\",\n \"192\"\n ],\n [\n \"It is the same guy that wrote for the Little Mermaid and Aladdin. Like, all of the Aladdin songs.\\n\\nedit: Look him up, if you are anywhere near my age, this guy had a pretty big impact on your life.\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\nedit 2: I should be more clear since this is getting a lot of attention. <PERSON> worked in collaboration with <PERSON>, who wrote the music. <PERSON> was a lyricist. Kinda like <PERSON>, he writes music and <PERSON> writes the lyrics. Well, for most of <PERSON>'s songs.\",\n \"213\"\n ],\n [\n \"A song writing partnership that was cut short.\\n\\nThe other one that blows my mind is the <PERSON>. They were together for what, like 8 years is all?\\n\\nEdit: The amount of time the <PERSON> were together blows my mind because almost any other band, you look at what they have done in double that time and it pales in comparison.\\n\\nI guess that's what happens when you pair up two of the best songwriters in the history of rock n roll though.\",\n \"419\"\n ],\n [\n \"The <PERSON> shooting was so fucking horrible.\\n\\nEverything about it.\\n\\nIt really opened my eyes to the problem of police training or police culture in our country. Watch that video again, the woman sitting next to <PERSON> has more composure under pressure, while having a gun on her, than the cop does in that situation.\\n\\nShe is actually easing the tension of the situation - or at least doing her best to, given what had just happened. Thank God that woman thought of turning on the phone so we could see the situation.\\n\\nThe <PERSON> shooting is the one that really opened my eyes to the problems our modern police force in America has. I mean, when the girlfriend of the man that was just shot is the grownup in that situation, the person deescalating the situation, we have some fucking problems in this country.\\n\\nThat cop should have never been issued a firearm.\",\n \"399\"\n ],\n [\n \"Man, they got a Nor'easter there didn't they?\\n\\nCompletely unrelated, the television program American Horror Story is a silly show that has gotten quite awful throughout the years, but season two takes place at a mental hospital, and one of the episodes takes place during a Nor'easter - in fact I think that is the name of the episode.\\n\\nThat season is soooo good. Good luck with the other seasons tho, ugh\",\n \"420\"\n ],\n [\n \"Everyone that has read it seems to have the same opinion.\\n\\nI haven't read it but I have read the summary or synopsis - I am totally fine with HBO doing this and whatever the hell else they can make money from GoT wise - as long as they keep up the HBO production value that they are famous for, especially in regards to GoT.\\n\\nFucking casting is soooooo good\\n\\n<PERSON> edit: I am pretty sure that this is the series or whatever that <PERSON> wants to adapt. He favors it more than anything else because that is where the story is. <PERSON>'s rebellion would be a great season or two worth of storytelling but <PERSON> seems to think that Dunk and Egg would be the truly great next installment in the universe - at least the proper one to adapt on HBO\",\n \"88\"\n ],\n [\n \"I am 30.\\n\\nI deeply regret not joining the military, as long as I could have done my four to eight years without a direct combat role. 6 out of 10 guys I know that came back from Iraq are fucked in the head and they were absolutely not that way when they went off to basic.\\n\\nThose 6/10 all received absurd amounts of pay that they wish they could get back if you could delete their memories and replace them with mine, comfortable and in college, banging slutty girls and not remembering what you did last week.\\n\\nI hope this doesn't offend anyone that served - but if it does - you probably didn't see much action. That shit fucks up most anyone, and thank fucking Christ I didn't sign up. I don't need that in my life.\",\n \"920\"\n ],\n [\n \"We have devil worshipers on Mars, confirmed.\\n\\nSeriously though, how amazing!\\n\\nThis picture and everything about it, my goodness. I cannot wait til we get to explore this planet!\\n\\nedit: I just realized the extent of our technology, another redditor commented that this doesn't even faze people at all. The fact that this photo exists and like 400 people on the planet care shows how far along we are with technology. amazing.\",\n \"366\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm sorry, I meant as a person.\\n\\n<PERSON> raped and physically abused his first wife, cheated on her with the second, bragged about being able to walk in on naked girls in a beauty pageant, bragged about the power dynamic that a powerful, wealthy man has over a powerless female, and he has bragged about the body of his daughter, even saying it was \\\"okay to call her a piece of ass\\\" on the <PERSON> radio program.\\n\\nI don't remember <PERSON> doing any of this, so I guess I consider him a bit better than <PERSON>.\",\n \"504\"\n ],\n [\n \"Look, this is just my own piece on it, but Ghostbusters meant a lot to a lot of people that are around my age, apparently. I had no idea is was so important to so many people, but I totally get it.\\n\\nThe movie from my childhood that I was obsessed with was the Road Warrior. So you can imagine how bad I started freaking out when Fury Road finally got out of production hell and started actually filming.\\n\\nIf they would have said \\\"oh yeah there is no <PERSON>, fuck you, he is a woman now\\\", I would have been like \\\"oh, well, okay. don't know why that matters but ok.\\\" and still went and saw it.\\n\\nNow, if <PERSON> came out and pulled that shit that <PERSON> did, and called me (as a viewer of movies?) a sexist pig if I didn't love whoever was cast in it, I would have never have saw it.\\n\\nOh yeah, speaking of Fury Road, I think they are going to have <PERSON> be the lead in the next movie, if he makes one. I couldn't be more psyched, that character earned my respect and it didn't have a goddamn thing to do with her gender.\",\n \"869\"\n ],\n [\n \"Watching the format of this show is fucking hard because I have been spoiled on the GoT style storytelling, where they basically shoot 3 different shows at the same time (across the globe) and then intertwine it together so you get a taste of everything that is important in the story.\\n\\nI have watched this show from the start and I don't know where certain characters are, or if they are still alive, even. I actually forgot that <PERSON> and <PERSON> were on a supply run or whatever, when they popped up I almost forgot they even existed.\\n\\nCome to think of it, I don't know what happened to <PERSON>.\\n\\nThat is bad storytelling, seriously. Fucking unacceptable for one of the top shows in existence, what a waste.\\n\\nEdit: I might be losing track of characters because I have lost so much interest in the show. It is getting harder to watch and *very* hard to care about any of these people. Fear the Walking Dead, however, is much, much, much worse. They could kill everyone on that show and just start over and I don't think I would notice.\",\n \"522\"\n ],\n [\n \"In Dubai, if you represent money or have money, you can do anything\\n\\nedit: i know this applies anywhere, but really, when you are in one of these odd countries where there is a literal wall between the insanely wealthy and the insanely poor, you can do ANYTHING. you can fucking kill people if you want to. seriously.\\n\\nyou can do *anything* in one of these countries. I am not really talking about \\\"showing up\\\" with money. I am talking about *being* money, representing it. Being a part of an important family.\",\n \"680\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm in the same boat.\\n\\nI have the means and would love to visit Dubai and NK. Of course, I won't. I don't want one more dollar than I can help going toward either place.\\n\\nKind of like how, when it comes up... I would love to go to the 2022 World Cup. Hell, I am sure that I know people that are still going to go, they operate on the \\\"you can't fix the world, bro\\\" viewpoint. I know I am not above anyone or anything, but I can't in my conscience support that. No fucking way.\",\n \"1004\"\n ],\n [\n \"That makes me sad to see that. Seriously, clean, dead, or in prison.\\n\\nI feel like the only person that has survived over a decade in opiate use (heavy benzo as well) and has a normal career/family/friends/life/whatever \\\"normal\\\" would look like in middle America.\\n\\nI am so sorry life turns out the way it does for some.\\n\\nShit, I almost feel guilty about being \\\"successful\\\" or whatever while still maintaining a habit(s).\\n\\nI hope this doesn't come off as condescending, I promise I don't think I am better than anyone else, ever. I think I just got lucky.\",\n \"615\"\n ],\n [\n \"Friend, you need to talk to your doctor, he will probably have some inside info that doctors share about what is going on with each other.\\n\\nThat would make sense to me. I am sure he/she would refer you right back to a different doctor incase they are closed.\\n\\nThese raid things happen all the time. I don't know why, but they do.\\n\\nAnd good job not telling the cop to go fuck himself. That must have been hard. I am raging just reading the story. Fucking asshole.\",\n \"483\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is one of the cutest weird things that dogs do.\\n\\nEvery doggo ive had has done this with me.\\n\\nThey will make a point to get their special toy or blanket or whatever and show it to me. Sometimes place it at my feet.\\n\\nNow, they don't want me messing with it, they will just take it away if it looks like I want to touch it. They just want to present it to you and say \\\"hey, this is mine and I treasure it. look at this thing that I like\\\"\",\n \"996\"\n ],\n [\n \"Here's a long, boring personal story about that job I had, if you or anyone else cares to read it.\\n\\nAfter I was promoted and all that I had to set-up a tech/science conference, similar to a TED talk/retreat before those were a thing. Or at least before anyone knew what the hell a TED talk was.\\n\\nI was way in over my head, putting in 18 hour days getting things ready. I was basically the director of the event, which my boss was credited for, but I was the guy \\\"on the ground\\\", making sure the actual tech was working flawlessly to haggling on the catering bill.\\n\\nRemember I am like 19 years old. This is something that a \\\"grown up\\\" should be doing.\\n\\nSo like months of planning then weeks of these 18 hour crazy days, and the actual event itself, I was wore out. Like, sick from exhaustion because of this work and school on top of it.\\n\\nIt went flawlessly til the last day, something that didn't really matter went wrong, and yeah, I was really pissed about it. I literally complained to my boss about my own mistake, if that even makes sense.\\n\\nHe took me aside and told me something like \\\"Brother, this whole thing has been amazing. And everyone that matters knows it has all been you. The money for this event - I earmarked a bonus for you, you deserve it.\\\" Then an hour later when everything was winding down the president of the university wanted to meet me, him and the other bigwig millionaire/billionaire types that were there(guys juiced into the system, politics, business, you name it) took my boss and me out to dinner the next day.\\n\\nWith some rest and a clear head, that dinner made me contacts for life. It was like a real-time version of linkedin. Actually, I have never needed a linkedin because of that dinner. I was in the club.\\n\\nI guess the point of my rambling boring story is that success in life really is a mix of luck and hard work. Those months and then the grueling weeks of busting my ass set me up for life, as far as professional relationships go. I got that job almost as an accident, worked my way up by being on time, being personable and friendly, taking responsibility and NEVER leaving till the job is done.\\n\\nI hope I don't come off as bragging or trying to pat myself on the back, I really didn't do anything special or anything that anyone else with a good work ethic wouldn't have done.\\n\\nI can't believe I just typed all that. I'm not exactly sure what the point even was lol\",\n \"104\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, looking back on it, that is exactly what happened.\\n\\nMan those guys/gals hated me though. I mean, they didn't literally hate me, just a lot of passive aggressive/resentment. To make it worse, I am a pretty simple guy, I don't do passive aggressive or \\\"games\\\" that people play.\\n\\nThey would leave notes in the office directed at me, complaining about something, right after I had just met with them. So I would always track them down and talk face to face. Whenever we were face to face or on the phone their mood changed completely, like a 180 degree turn from how you'd think they would be if you read their note/complaint or whatever.\\n\\nThey just figured the person with the highest degree or GPA or some shit should be the person at the top. I remember wanting to say \\\"there are other factors at play here, people!\\\".\\n\\nThis is probably a crummy comparison, but putting one of the people I worked with in the position I was in - it would be like putting the guy who designed a race car into the driver's seat.\",\n \"428\"\n ],\n [\n \"Once again, thanks brothers and sisters of /r/the_donald for posting a story I wouldn't have ever seen otherwise. Just like the 500(almost) arrested for the sex trafficking bust in CA. These stories that have to do with the right that do not get picked up - this shit is reeeeaallly starting to piss me off. I shouldn't have to come to the Don's sub to read the link. Fucking disgraceful, this one.\\n\\nThis poor guy can't even exist according to the far-left's law of where a black man is supposed to be. God forbid he is a fiscal conservative, or is conservative in any way, shape, or form. This guy can't win, no matter what he does, he is fucked just for being black.\\n\\nThis might be wrong to say, but fuck it.\\n\\nThe far-left, the DNC, they want to keep hold of these minorities like they own them. That is how they treat their vote. It is the \\\"fuck you, you always voted for me you always will, or else you hate your own people\\\" demographic.\\n\\nWe may not agree on everything, but the stranglehold the DNC has on the black voter is shameful. Hell I am sure this guy has gotten fucking death threats.\\n\\nOkay I'm done ranting. Have a good morning pedes.\",\n \"303\"\n ],\n [\n \"I wish you guys put the name of the game in the titles :(\\n\\nI am so out of touch with gaming nowadays, but I can tell from the sheer number of posts that hit the front page that the best videogames are:\\n\\n- Battlefield\\n- Overwatch\\n- GTAV\\n\\nedit: this looks like <PERSON> playing GTAV\\n\\nedit 2: so is this GTAV modded with a female character and is the boulder moving like that also a mod? this is on a computer right? so many questions from my dumb ass....\",\n \"368\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm in my early thirties.\\n\\nA lot of people in their thirties are pursuing their career goals, raising a family, contributing to society through volunteer work, church, or civic means.\\n\\nThis leaves little time for things like recording a video clip of sliding down a hill on a rock in GTAV.\\n\\nBut you do have time to watch a 10 second clip. And time to upvote whoever made it because you appreciate that they went thru the hassle of uploading it to Reddit, so that your 30-something year old ass can watch it.\\n\\nThe same thing applies to you, my friend. Visit a subreddit dedicated to something that you yourself are unfamiliar with, like /r/pussy.\",\n \"123\"\n ],\n [\n \"If she didn't put that Christian stank on her ideas so hard, I wouldn't mind at least hearing why she wants to destroy public education.\\n\\nThe second I hear a politician invoke the Lord on an issue that should have absolutely nothing to do with religion, something in my brain just shuts off paying attention or giving respect to that person.\\n\\nKeep your fucking church bullshit away from these kids lady.\\n\\nEdit: Like when our vice president, <PERSON>, set force policies that led to widespread disease in his state, he was asked what the hell he was going to do about it, he said \\\"I'm going to pray on it\\\". No, fuckhead, you can pray about your kid winning state or something, this is a public health crisis and you are the governor.\",\n \"165\"\n ],\n [\n \"Go to your bank and talk to someone that matters.\\n\\nThey will file a dispute immediately.\\n\\nThis has to accidentally happen every so often. I mean, tell them your going to lose your darn house over it.\\n\\nI cannot imagine a bank saying \\\"doesn't matter, no big deal, fuck you\\\". I can imagine them saying that about accidently paying for netflix 4 months in advance, not on 40k.\\n\\ngo to the bank, now. right now.\",\n \"319\"\n ],\n [\n \"We truly live in an amazing country. Regardless of whether or not you hate or love these people, him being confirmed is surreal.\\n\\nHe was too racist to be a judge back in 1985/86, which really is impressive in itself lol. Things were different 30 years ago, he must have publicly said the n word everywhere he went.\\n\\n30 years later he skates into the top lawyer spot of the country.\\n\\nThat's like the American Dream in action. Amazing.\",\n \"614\"\n ],\n [\n \"Look, this isn't a partisan thing, this is just the truth.\\n\\nIf she got a DUI and killed someone, there would absolutely be a dog and pony show to appease the masses that justice was being done. She would probably get a hefty sentence too.\\n\\nThen that Friday at 4:30PM her sentence would be commuted and her fines reduced.\\n\\nWealthy people/people in power generally do not have to pay for the same crimes that normal people do.\",\n \"314\"\n ],\n [\n \"He lived a full life, saw more and by God did more than most people on this planet can imagine.\\n\\nPeople get sad when people kill themselves, but when your life comes to an end like that, I don't blame them at all.\\n\\nDo you want to be in a fucking hospital breathing out of tubes, not knowing who or where the hell you are for another 10 years or something?\\n\\nI don't blame old men for ending their life on their own terms.\",\n \"168\"\n ],\n [\n \"That is because the War on Drugs was never meant to solve the drug problem in itself.\\n\\nThe War on Drugs, the more and more I read about it, has very little to do with people actually using drugs and more to do with an excuse for the government to intervene in other countries when it is in the \\\"interest\\\" of the US to do so.\\n\\nPeople like to say they started it so they could lock up blacks or something, but I think it it is much more sinister. It is for invading other countries without an official invasion.\",\n \"1014\"\n ],\n [\n \"Absolutely right.\\n\\nAnyone that thinks the our War on Drugs has to do with the actual drugs being stopped or locking up blacks or whatever is delusional. Those are just added benefits.\\n\\nIt is about control. It is an excuse to get involved in other countries affairs, that is all the DEA really amounts to.\\n\\nDoes anyone really think that a prosperous Mexico would be good for the US?\\n\\nWe have the best borders that money can by - there is a quote about the US that sums up our homeland defense pretty nicely, something like this:\\n\\nThe US is surrounded by weak neighbors to the North and the South and fish to the West and the East.\",\n \"356\"\n ],\n [\n \"I am probably going to fuck this up, so bare with me here.\\n\\nA few weeks ago a prominent white-separatist/white-nationalist/national-socialist/i have no fucking clue because i dont want to read about him - ist named <PERSON> (sp?) was sucker punched in the face at some event. I think it was the <PERSON> inaug, so a few months ago.\\n\\nSome liberals loved it, some hated it. It was a good chance for the right or the alphas at t_d to point out whatever they saw as hypocrisy on the left(because everyone on the left is a pussy or a hippie I guess?).\\n\\nBecause of all of this stupid fucking debate everyone lost sight of little old Nazi <PERSON> himself. Everyone has forgotten that the whole Nazi thing is something that should always, always be met with violence, no matter what kind of bow and tie packaging they choose to put on it nowadays = altright.\",\n \"294\"\n ],\n [\n \"Wow, so this stupidity isn't limited to the US.\\n\\nI thought my quaint little school in the midwest had strict bathroom laws - yikes.\\n\\nI gotta say, growing up past required school age - this is one of those things that you don't fuck around with in the \\\"real world\\\". If someone has to use the restroom, there is no rule that is going to stop them. No meeting or appointment has ever been that important.\",\n \"670\"\n ],\n [\n \"Okay, so here goes nothing.\\n\\nI fucking love pineapple on pizza if it is on a pizza that has a ton of toppings on it already. I got used to this because I worked at a pizza place for a few years and after a rush we would have all of these leftover ingredients, and pineapple would be one of them.\\n\\nSo basically we would make a supreme pizza and there would be a few slices of pineapples on it. After a while I warmed up to it and quit picking them off. I now love it. It creates an off-taste to compliment the rest of the diabetes that is on the pizza.\\n\\nSo there, that's my piece.\",\n \"162\"\n ],\n [\n \"Oh, you mean to tell me the guy that has got to do whatever the fuck he wants for 70 years didn't change once he got into the whitehouse?\\n\\nWe are lucky he isn't running the exec. branch from a fucking yacht or something. Seriously. Nothing would surprise me with this piece of shit and his cult.\\n\\nWe should be thankful he is at least in the whitehouse, holding up a modicum of principle and tradition, during the regular work week.\",\n \"906\"\n ],\n [\n \"I see that shit all over reddit.\\n\\nI don't know if it is potheads or people that have never been around long term opiate users or what, but fuck yes, opiate withdrawals can definitely kill you. People forget that your ave. opiate user that is withdrawing probably doesn't have an athletes body to begin with. Shit, basic w/d can causs irregular breathing and heart beat.\",\n \"615\"\n ],\n [\n \"I hope something petty like this leads to his downfall.\\n\\nIt would be rather fitting of the man, to be able to steal billions of dollars in his tenure, only to get caught lying under oath for a measly (to him) $400-500k.\\n\\nIt wouldn't surprise me at all if something insignificant is the fuel that starts the fire, at least with this fucking guy. He is so goddamn greedy I can see him stealing the fucking rugs from the floor of the whitehouse to set up at mar a lago or some shit. lol goddamnit\",\n \"747\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah it was. It is pretty blatant now, looking back on it.\\n\\nWhen I was a few years old in 1990ish this was my favorite movie and I never made the connection till the man ran for president last year. I think BttF part 2 was on within an hour or so of one of his absurd rallies and I yelled at my gf \\\"holy fucking shit <PERSON> if <PERSON>!\\\" and she was like \\\"Yeah babe that is who the character is based on\\\"\\n\\n\\\"oh\\\"\",\n \"469\"\n ],\n [\n \"oh no.\\n\\nLooks like someone who gets off on hurting people has sent that to you. Someone that likes to make people feel uncomfortable. He probably stole your mail after following you home then found you on social media. These things aren't hard to do, it can happen to anyone. I have read a few things that have been very similar on the internet.\\n\\nCould just be a stalker but usually they seem to want some kind of approval from you, or want you to acknowledge them.\",\n \"572\"\n ],\n [\n \"Here's a protip.\\n\\nKeep talking, finish whatever it was you were going to say in the same tone and volume that you were while you were talking. The person that interrupted you will stop talking and realize how much of a douche they are. It is fantastic.\\n\\nedit: the highest rated comment is about how this doesn't work, the girl keeps on talking over the person. lol i guess this doesn't work as well with everyone, my bad\",\n \"877\"\n ],\n [\n \"When I was out of work, I started to sell off things that I owned before even coming close to asking for help from anyone - family, friends, the gobmint, anyone.\\n\\nOne of my close friends and I were having a few drinks and I don't remember how it was brought up, but an acquaintance of ours was talking shit about me because I was out of work and was at the gun range. I guess he thought I was out having fun, buying bullets (which can be *very* expensive) while I was out of work.\\n\\nI was shooting the gun for the last time, before I had to fuckin' hock it at a pawn shop, and I had had those bullets for like 2 years.\\n\\nSome people are just shitty, no matter what, and this fox news caption is the perfect example.\",\n \"527\"\n ],\n [\n \"all that and he even looks like <PERSON>\\n\\n<PERSON>.\\n\\nWell, what he is doing isn't sexual harassment, it is sexual assault.\\n\\nWhoever you feel comfortable telling at your school, an ADULT that is in a position of authority (literally should be almost any adult), tell that person about it. And make sure you are as detailed as you feel you can talk about. He will be switched to a different bus, at least.\\n\\nedit: i want to add that I understand that you don't want to make a scene and be embarrassed, and yes it is really easy for the adults here to tell you to \\\"make a scene\\\", but if you don't stand up to this kid then it will just continue. Something has to be done. I know you hear about this all the time if you get on reddit, but things that happen in highschool, if you feel any temporary embarrassment for getting him in trouble, none of it will matter in a few years.\",\n \"716\"\n ],\n [\n \"I never liked this family, or the people on the other gun show, Sons of Guns, I think.\\n\\nSons of Guns, those people looked like they would fuck you over for $100 and the family from American Guns seemed about as inauthentic as a 3 dollar bill.\\n\\nIt takes a certain type of person to be on a reality type show like this, and all of these people are just huge turn offs.\\n\\nReal gun culture is abundant on the internet though\",\n \"367\"\n ],\n [\n \"Everyone in this thread seems to have taken one of two sides.\\n\\n- Fuck this guy, lol what a fucking loser. Even if he did spend the past 300 years working on this, lol fuck this guy, right?\\n- He has worked for 300 years to win this and never has. It wasn't his fault that he lost and he exited the stage with grace, he is above reproach and should be heralded as a king of kings. I want to suck his cock.\\n\\nI think the truth is somewhere in the middle.\\n\\nYou can work for this shit but still have grace. Come on people.\",\n \"252\"\n ],\n [\n \"I apologize if this comes off as a simpleton's question, I am not a PhD or a MD, just a student of psychology.\\n\\nHow often is it that a person has regressed to their original gender (or assigned-at-birth sex)?\\n\\nIt seems that today, we as a society are more open to the idea of not having our gender assigned at birth and are encouraging people to live their life how they feel they should at very early ages. I am wondering, if I may be blunt, how many people found out that living as another gender wasn't for them.\\n\\nI apologize if this question comes off as rude or inconsiderate to anyone that has transitioned in any way.\",\n \"390\"\n ],\n [\n \"I hope I didn't come off in any such way --- it's just... man. Life changes in the blink of an eye. It is ridiculous to act like you should spend every day with your parents, but still, take in all of those moments you share with them and just appreciate them. Like anyone, they can both be gone tomorrow and you will wonder where all of the time has gone.\\n\\nlol sorry if that sounded all doom and gloomy, lol, I lost my father a couple years ago and I would give anything to have another day, another 5 minutes with the man. It isn't that we left anything unresolved, quite the opposite, it's just that you realize when their gone that they were your best friends the whole time.\",\n \"981\"\n ],\n [\n \"I kinda figured this was going to happen as soon as they started calling Mar a Lago the \\\"winter Whitehouse\\\" or whatever.\\n\\nI know all presidents cost waaaaay more money than anyone notices, but this guys lifestyle and family are going to cost the taxpayer a ton more than any other president.\\n\\nBut none of his supporters will care.\\n\\nHe has broke up years of formalities and moral decisions that have been in place for years and years, like not releasing his taxes to show that he isn't taking bribes or whatever. Honestly if the <PERSON>'s passed a law tomorrow that allocated $1 million a week for his children to go shopping it wouldn't surprise me. Hell, I would be expecting something blatantly horrible like that any day now.\",\n \"915\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is to be expected - the writing was on the wall.\\n\\nI don't have any idea how normal administrations \\\"run\\\" but I am sure that he has adapted it to how he ran his family business. He is probably kicking tasks to whoever he thinks can handle them while he works 20-30 hours a week making decisions. The rest of the time is him lounging around watching Fox News, yelling at the TV set like your racist, drunk uncle. This shouldn't surprise anyone that can read between the lines.\",\n \"906\"\n ],\n [\n \"If you were ever looking for a sincere <PERSON> moment, this is one of them.\\n\\nHe has owned a plane and golf courses for decades - doing this is just \\\"oh, it's Saturday\\\", nothing special at all. It is the equivalent of you meeting up with some buddies at your local course.\\n\\nI would expect these kind of out of touch with anyone's reality moments every week.\\n\\nI have no idea how he became the symbol for the working man, but there ya go.\",\n \"747\"\n ],\n [\n \"You need to start doing what I have been doing for a few months now --- whatever <PERSON> says or any of his reps say - it is the *literal* exact opposite of whatever the truth is.\\n\\nHe is actually really easy to follow if you just flip whatever he is saying, or whatever <PERSON> says. Just change it to whatever the opposite is and you will have your answer to almost any question that is asked of him.\",\n \"622\"\n ],\n [\n \"I was supposed to go out with a girl last night.\\n\\nNo shit, I gave her a key to my place because I told her I would probably be asleep by the time she got there, passed out on the couch. I was, and woke up to a note \\\"you looked so tired I didn't wanna wake you\\\" lol\\n\\nim 30 and in great shape, but your body just starts slowing shit down, and I think that part of it is that you have been to every type of party situation by that age multiple times - it just doesn't hype you up anymore.\",\n \"1012\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well, yeah, you know what you are probably right. They have been trying to get to the front page so they have probably tried the same post like 50 times.\\n\\nIf there is one thing I respect about t_d, it is that they at least haven't branched out into 20 different subs like the left did.\\n\\nYou go on /r/all and 3 out of 10 posts will be from some anti-trump sub.\\n\\nedit: lol I just realized it probably has to do with that fact that *he won*, so whats the point\",\n \"728\"\n ],\n [\n \"For some reason, people that defend the season 6 finale fail to notice this.\\n\\nThere are people that watch this show and honestly saw no problem with how it was handled. I don't know if it is blind loyalty to the product or they aren't too bright or what.. but the way the cliffhanger was handled caused major fucking problems with this show. Problems that go beyond me and you not liking it, -- it really messed up how season 7 happened.\\n\\nThen there was that awful Gimple explaining to us why we were dumb for not \\\"getting it\\\" or something. gtfo with that shit\\n\\nedit: Oh I forgot, one of these people that defends the finale told me that I was wanting \\\"instant gratification\\\" or something, because I didn't get to see who was killed. Another said that I just wanted to see gore or something.\\n\\nI don't think these people understand storytelling, in the most basic sense. Whoever is responsible for that cliffhanger decision shouldn't be allowed to make any more television shows.\",\n \"522\"\n ],\n [\n \"Wait, are you saying the episodes should be rated better or worse?\\n\\nSeems rather accurate, the average score. I guess.\\n\\nThere are lots of people voting 1 and 10, neither of which any episode that aired this season deserves. That kinda evens out each of those extreme undeserved scores.\\n\\nThe average of these ratings is really quite favorable. I would rate most episodes this season around a 5 or 6. The show just isn't that great anymore, sorry bro\",\n \"522\"\n ],\n [\n \"I am from /r/all, I don't follow formula 1.\\n\\nBut it doesn't surprise me that this is on the frontpage. It is a popular thing that people like. I can understand your rage -- it has happened to me many times (I have been at work and turned my phone off till I got home lol) for different events on TV.\\n\\n*But...*\\n\\nYou are on the frontpage of the most popular news and pop culture aggregate on the internet, unless you count news or whatever on facebook.\\n\\nYou have to expect this kind of stuff and not be upset when it happens.\",\n \"633\"\n ],\n [\n \"People on reddit are obsessed with rescue pups and kittens because of the feel goods.\\n\\nI'm sure some of the people that talk shit about people that buy dogs probably don't even have one.\\n\\nEdit: I remember a post a while back where someone bought there dog, didn't rescue it. One of the top comments was something like \\\"why didn't you get a rescue dog?\\\"\\n\\nI know it isn't the same, but fuck man, go up to a couple that just had a kid and ask them why they didn't just adopt one. It's the same principal.\",\n \"958\"\n ],\n [\n \"I hooked a dog up to a running line, where the pupper could get some more area to walk around and stuff, rather than just being on a long leash in the backyard.\\n\\nPoor pupper ran so hard after a rabbit or something that she reached the end of the line and it jerked her whole body like 3 feet up in the air. My heart sank, I thought the dog ran so hard and hit the end of the line and it broke her neck.\\n\\nThank God it didn't, I took it off of her and redesigned it.\",\n \"996\"\n ],\n [\n \"<PERSON>\\n\\nHey, at least be glad that his name is synonymous with rape for the rest of his life.\\n\\nTrying to look at the bright side here. The internet has created a virtual scarlet letter for these kind of people that get off easily. At least you can search his name and that is all that will come up. Nothing that he has done in his life, before or after, will ever matter to anyone. He is the guy that raped/tried to rape that girl. forever.\",\n \"454\"\n ],\n [\n \"Absolutely. Reddit has some of the highest moral ground I have ever seen in my life.\\n\\nA lot of people here walk the path that <PERSON> did or something.\\n\\nedit: I was just called a piece of shit or something for rigging up a running line for my dog. RedditUser said I shouldn't be a lazy piece of shit and just go walk her.\\n\\nShe was on it while I was at work. Thought she would rather be outside than inside, which she did (inside is fucking boring for dogs, newsflash), and I also didn't want her to be murdered by a car. But I'm a lazy fuck.\",\n \"945\"\n ],\n [\n \"There was a post yesterday about <PERSON> playing golf while president.\\n\\nI think it is running around $18,000,000.00 a month right now, all things considered. Some people were defending the man, saying that simply is how the wealthy live, and that we have to pay for it because we need someone like this in the whitehouse. It went something like that.\\n\\nSo yeah, even people that aren't wealthy think that they deserve shit like that\",\n \"915\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well, that sounds spot-on for how he sounds like he would be with someone behind closed doors, in that situation.\\n\\nA lot of people that voted for him don't realize that he isn't this master negotiator that heads some major multinational.\\n\\nHe runs a real estate business he inherited from his father, that's it. There hasn't been much in <PERSON>'s last 40 years that he has done that he didn't want to do. No meetings were held in Trump tower that *he* didn't want to have.\\n\\nHe has ran a relatively small business that has been built on screwing people out of money. There is always a con with this fucking family, just read about them. He has no tact and probably terrible social skills, he grew up in one of the most privileged bubbles you can grow up in.\\n\\nWhy anyone thought he would magically change or thought that this wasn't him, and has been for decades, is beyond me.\\n\\nI hope that a lot of <PERSON> voters wanted the Republican party to implode or something, because this is how you get it. The man is the leader of a party that he doesn't care for or respect, and the feeling is mutual.\\n\\nThe GOP is ticking time bomb with this guy at the helm. In a way he could have been the best thing to happen to America in decades. Think about it.\",\n \"800\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yes.\\n\\nThis.\\n\\nPeople keep on waiting for the impeachment process to start, for some reason. He isn't getting impeached, and he isn't going to prison or whatever other fantasy you have.\\n\\nI don't know what the \\\"reason\\\" will be, but he will quit. I don't know if it will be in 2 years or what --- I know he started his reelection money raising shit, but that is probably just a scam to get *more money*. It is all that this family cares about.\\n\\nI can totally see him not getting anything done, blaming democrats AND republicans (this is key here), then starting some Fox News internet based ripoff that is steeped in conspiracy nonsense and sensationalism news.\",\n \"554\"\n ],\n [\n \"It is a mafia state that is ran like a big business, <PERSON> is basically a thug that runs a gas station. I think there are somewhere between 100k and 200k people that are in that group.\\n\\nA fun movie to watch is *Lord of War* starring the one true God, <PERSON>. It doesn't focus on this as it's central theme - but the main character is a good example of a guy that is a member of the kleptocracy there.\\n\\nA lot of people that had good connections and a work ethic made a *ton* of money when the union collapsed. The book that fella is recommending on here, Putin's Kleptocracy, is a good read too\",\n \"846\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think that once someone gets away with something they think they are invincible.\\n\\nI read a story about a guy that married a rich woman, she died in a freak car accident.\\n\\nHe then married another rich woman, about ten years later. She fell off a cliff.\\n\\nThe police investigating it thought that something was off from the very beginning of the investigation, then found out how wife #1 died, and yeah, he fucking killed them both.\\n\\nThat fucking <PERSON> guy is the same way. They will probably find someone dead next to his jail cell in 10 months.\",\n \"741\"\n ],\n [\n \"The thing that a lot of people don't understand is that dialogue does not mean character development.\\n\\nAnd to the people on the opposite end of the \\\"defending tWD scale\\\", a bottle episode isn't just a shitty episode. Half of the episodes *cannot* be bottle episodes -- please, quit calling them that. It is just a poorly written/produced/acted show. That's it.\\n\\nBut anyway, yeah, the episode where <PERSON> and <PERSON> (whose relationship is one of the most forced and awkward I have seen on a TV show) go to the place where the CGI deer was -- that added nothing.\\n\\nThere was no character development. Oh, <PERSON> thought that <PERSON> died for a minute and was upset about it? **She should be.** That isn't \\\"character development\\\".\",\n \"522\"\n ],\n [\n \"Lol, no one seems to agree when the quality of the show dropped off. Everyone has their favorite/least fav. season and they rarely match up.\\n\\nMost people that I know irl think that the best season was the first, and I can't argue against that. I know it was only 6 episodes (wasn't it?), but fuck man, that pilot was probably one of the most intriguing starts to a TV ever made.\\n\\nI don't think a show's first episode had reeled me in like that before, and the only one that has came close (and maybe topped it) is the first episode of True Detective. That show is a fucking masterpiece.\\n\\nEdit: the thing with season one being so good is that there wasn't any time to be bad. It was six fucking episodes. There was no fluff, none. Every word was anchored in a pause of speech and even the pause of speech had meaning in it. Take that and stretch it out over, what 16 episodes is insane. I can't imagine the bullshit on GoT if they had to make the show + 6 more. On the same or less budget. It would be fucking terrible.\",\n \"60\"\n ],\n [\n \"I have seen every episode of the show, some episodes many times, and I *think* I know who you are talking about.\\n\\nThat is a problem with this show. A lot of the characters aren't well written or likeable, so no one cares about their death. Their death is a pointless shock value, and who that shocks anymore I have no idea because who cares?\\n\\nThe sister show to this one is waaaaaaaaay worse, Fear TWD, I think most people that watch that show wouldn't notice if the entire cast was killed off and replaced in between seasons.\\n\\nOh yeah, and it isn't just the writing or whatever, it's the acting and the \\\"fit\\\" of the character.\\n\\nI'm not into <PERSON>. I'm not a comic fanboy and I don't have all of this hype built up into him. To me he is just a skinny prick that I have literally no idea why his guys are scared of him. Maybe he is a huge hulking presence in the comic, but it is laughable on the show, to me anyway.\\n\\nI know a lot of people think that <PERSON> is killing it, so I apologize for that opinion. Personally, I think he fucking killed it as the comedian, and he totally made that movie.\",\n \"513\"\n ],\n [\n \"In regards to your edit, someone on this sub told me that the last two seasons of tWD was superior to the last two seasons of GoT, so take that as you will.\\n\\nSome people get delusional with stuff that they like, and will defend it as if they are personally attached to it, like a cult. I think that person is a good example.\\n\\nWith the first season of TD (and lets be honest, the only planned season), every comment about it is the same. Masterpiece.\",\n \"60\"\n ],\n [\n \"I was so lucky to not read or pay attention to anything about this show on reddit for like 2 months.\\n\\nI watched the entire show in the week leading up to the finale. What a ride.\\n\\nI cannot believe it wasn't spoiled for me from /r/television or the westworld sub. I mustn't have been paying attention because it seemed like half of the posts on /r/all were about westworld stuff.\\n\\nOh, I am glad that season two won't be a jazz inspired improv performance art piece. There's going to be a story, cool. That is what made the first season good too.\",\n \"735\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think <PERSON> will complete a few short term gains for <PERSON>'s Russia while he is office, and completely fumble most everything else.\\n\\nA lot of good programs that don't cost much will be gutted because of \\\"fiscal responsibility\\\". Funding that could be provided if he spend a whole week in the fucking whitehouse.\\n\\nBut for the most part, the damage he will do won't be lasting. It will be a stain on our country, but not like the holocaust or something.\\n\\nI honestly don't see him going four years, I think he will be the first president to just quit, for whatever reason.\\n\\nHim and his people are so goddamn incompetent, it is baffling how the whitehouse hasn't burned down yet.\\n\\nedit: he is also 70 or 71 years old and is severely unhealthy looking, fuck. fattest and oldest president we have had in a while. He might have to step down for health reasons. Then again, I can't imagine anything keeping him up at night, and I can't imagine him putting much work into the job.\",\n \"826\"\n ],\n [\n \"I tried to think of a way to explain it better than this, but I can't.\\n\\nfrom wikipedia:\\n\\nRolling coal is the practice of modifying a diesel engine to increase the amount of fuel entering the engine in order to emit an under-aspirated sooty exhaust that visibly pollutes the air. It also may include the intentional removal of the particulate filter. Practitioners often additionally modify their vehicles by installing smoke switches and smoke stacks. Modifications to a vehicle to enable rolling coal may cost from $200 to $5,000.\",\n \"726\"\n ],\n [\n \"Oh, wow, it's one of these comments.\\n\\nI don't see these too often on reddit, but they intrigue me like no other (when it comes to the election, this past year in the US). I am 30 and everyone that is twice my age and triple my age grew up hating Russia.\\n\\nThey have collectively stored up hate for decades upon decades. Growing up in the 90s, it makes no sense to me. Then maybe 5 years ago it becomes pretty apparent that Russia became on oligarchy.\\n\\nI start to not like Russia.\\n\\nThe people that grew up hating Russia start liking them.\\n\\nWhat in the hell happened? *Especially* in the last year, fuck man, some of these people that spent their career during the cold war want the US to be more like Russia. Is it because of the weird macho prop that <PERSON> does? They want our president riding naked on a horse or something? The fuck?\",\n \"853\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm not a leftie and something is obviously wrong here.\\n\\nThere is only one thing that truly stands out to me, above any evidence or commentary I have read.\\n\\n<PERSON> doesn't have a fixed ideology. He doesn't even have an interest in politics, really. He has flipped on *every* single issue he has ever had ---- except one. Russia. He has been pro-Russia from day one. It wouldn't surprise me if he said in an interview this week that he admires <PERSON> more than anyone else.\\n\\nI think it just about money and power. <PERSON> is probably the wealthiest man in the world, and <PERSON> knows this. <PERSON> is mega rich but not super mega ultra rich, and he wants in that club that <PERSON> is in. That is why he has so much respect for the guy. It is about the status he has and his assets.\\n\\nwhew thats it for now\\n\\nedit: and the best part is that as US president, he has more status than putin. The office has been made lesser because of his presence, and he is a laughingstock on the international stage, but he is still president.\\n\\nGoddamn I can't believe I am talking about a president <PERSON>. What an embarrassing time for America. What a stain on our history.\",\n \"853\"\n ],\n [\n \"don't forget the moral high ground that a ton of reddit has\\n\\nI have never seen a more altruistic, moral, and ethical gathering of people in my life.\\n\\nThere was a post on /r/aww yesterday where a guy said the he bought a dog. People were giving him shit because he didn't just adopt some random mutt at the pound.\\n\\nHe paid two grand for a specific dog bought at one of the best breeders in the country, his dog lives like a king, and he still got shit for it. this website fucking sucks sometimes, people are delusional\",\n \"958\"\n ],\n [\n \"There was a post earlier where someone brought up that a donkey was being fed and watered, but wasn't being played with.\\n\\nand the donkey is in a small pen, enough room to walk around in circles is all.\\n\\npeople were asking for doxx info on the person that had it, were wanting to call the police and multiple animal abuse groups. 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It’s really hard to come back from that let alone a week or more. The last girl I was dating basically told me never to talk to her again after I “ghosted” her for literally 22 hours, wasn’t even a full day. 😢","1012"],["Here’s the cool thing about school. Your art project doesn’t have to be good, it just has to get done. As an artist who went art school, the most liberating thing I realized early on is that your projects don’t have to represent you or your art, they should show your teacher that you learned something and did some work, that’s about it.\n\nJust make some shit, turn it in, then put the rest of your creativity into something you care about.","889"],["Honestly, just appreciate someone likes your photo and wants to use it. Make them an offer and see what they say. You definitely don’t need a contract. I think it’s safe to assume that the artist themself is inquiring? Which would also lead me to believe they are an indie artist... who probably doesn’t make too much money (yet).\n\nThe best play here would be to make friends with the artist and potentially get more work from them in the future if you’re into that. If not, just take whatever $ they are willing to give you.","560"],["How many contracts have you written up in your photographic career?\n\nThe value of this transaction doesn’t warrant a legal contract. Sure, wouldn’t hurt but it’s a waste of everyone’s time, lmao.\n\nIf someone asked me to sign a contract over one photo for an indie artist I would seriously just start to laugh.","560"],["The video is getting compressed automatically. Most likely the moment you sent those files, one of you had a poor connection so iMessages compresses the file in anticipation that the transfer may take a while at full res.\n\nDon’t send master files over iMessages. You want to maintain the integrity of your work so use Dropbox or something.","947"],["1) how is it a scam? It’s no different than trading forex or stocks (yes the assets are different but we trade them practically the same). \n\n2) it’s made for criminals? has he spoken to <PERSON> about this? lmao\n\n3) if the government could ban and stop crypto I promise you they would have already done it. unfortunately crypto can’t be just turned off.\n\nAnyways, sounds like you’re talking to a literal moron, I wouldn’t even waste my time arguing. he’s not arguing facts so the discussion is useless.","831"],["As someone who has wasted a good $5k collectively on bullshit photography gear throughout my career I can confidently say this product is one of those things you use one time and realize it’s next to useless. I don’t want anybody to waste any money on garbage. This product looks like absolute shit. And as I mentioned before, you can get this effect in post and it will probably look better than achieving it through shitty glass.","560"],["<PERSON> I took some viagra to go ham on my wife for Valentine’s Day once. When she got home from work I looted and pillaged her body with my steel rod... then she was like oh I have a surprise for you! She took me to get a couples massage immediately after... she’s kind of a funny and had scheduled a male masseuse for me. Most awkward massage of my life.","875"],["Whew she came back to work that quick? If my wife and kid died tragically I would honestly off myself. Good on her for holding it together to come back. As far as your joke goes, it’s a little bit dark humor to begin with, I don’t fault you for it. Probably something I’ve said a hundred times.","797"],["I dunno, everyone has different expectations. There is no proper amount of communication. Personally I can go days without talking to my SO and it’s really no big deal. Past relationships if I didn’t text “good morning baby I love you so much” every single fucking day I’d be in the dog house. Just talk to her, make sure you’re not overwhelming her. Maybe she really likes you taking the lead, it could be exactly what she wants. Or maybe you’re getting annoying and she doesn’t have the heart to say that, heh. Talk to her about it.","432"],["There is plenty of info showing <PERSON> working with AitherC02 since 2018, I have no reason to believe they are lying about his role as a co-founder and lead engineer... honestly that’s too high profile to be a scam, nobody would be that stupid and <PERSON> wouldn’t jeopardize his role at Apple to make a few millions dollars in a crypto scam, that wouldn’t make any sense.","831"],["Same with the “Inject Bleach” thing. What’s hilarious about that whole entire fake news is that <PERSON> was citing a study done by a legitimate company working on a device to “disinfect and sterilize internal organs with a specialized UV light” lmao nothing he said was inaccurate, of course a scientist could have articulated it better but again, he never said to inject bleach. 😂😂😂","642"],["Staking is placing your coins in a specific place to secure the network (Proof-of-stake). Usually earning transaction fees.\n\nLiquidity providing is exactly that, lending your money to a liquidity pool in return for a cut of the transaction fee profits.\n\nYield farming is taking advantage of liquidity provider bonuses usually provided in a specific token for contributing to a specific pool during a specific time. Imagine earning Uni 6 months ago...\n\nAll these lucrative possibilities are all thanks to DeFi, cutting out the middle men and banks leaves a lot of money on the table to be passed around.","509"],["There are two types of people, those that see a good thing and then take it upon themselves to learn more and those that just ignore stuff unless it’s spoon fed to them. If you spoon feed someone you’re just gonna spin your wheels for no reason. I get that she is your girlfriend but if she can’t or doesn’t want to figure out how it works, she’s never gonna get it.","813"],["When ETH was under $300 just recently. Nobody cared. Nobody praised the cheap transactions. Nobody bought.\n\nNow ETH is at ATH, gas fees are though the roof... and people are lining up around the corner to buy and trade on Uniswap.\n\nBlows my mind the way people think. Meanwhile I’m selling off my $300 ETH for $1800 and I’ll buy back at the next -50% dip.","928"],["Holding time isn’t really relevant because that’s just your exchange (most likely) giving you that data and it’s probably limited to that exchanges balance, hardly representative of the entire market.\n\nYou can view every coins stats, websites, socials, etc. on Coin Gecko or Coin market cap.","937"],["I’ve been using Ethereum for 4 years. I use it everyday. Currently working on a new dapp right now.\n\nI’m guessing this statement comes from ignorance or you simply just don’t know what a lot of these leading crypto currencies actually do and how they function?\n\nEdit: oh you’re hyping doge, that explains everything 😂","831"],["The entire life of crypto, since the inception of Bitcoin... there has been a single mantra among enthusiasts and early adopters “just wait until institutional investors arrive”. Well, they have begun to arrive. Remember last week when <PERSON> tweeted about Tesla buying $1.5b in Bitcoin? This is very different from 2017 when the biggest news was just a guy selling everything including his house for Bitcoin.","1008"],["I hate social media. I’m a freelance creative and have had a successful career for the past 15 years. I have 2000 followers as of today, half of them are bots I’m sure and the rest of random people I’ve met irl and became IG friend with. My point is that social media isn’t necessary for success and I’d argued that 99% of the “successful” instagrammers aren’t as successful as they present themselves.","611"],["I dunno but whenever I see this question I just think of my fat ugly pasty-white gross best friend who banged some of the hottest girls in high school and is now married with a beautiful (except for him) family. He is a fun guy, very nice, respectful, full of confidence in himself and that’s exactly what girls liked about him. I still think he’s dog ugly but my point is that doesn’t matter if you’re genuinely a cool person on the inside. If you have a shit personality and your ugly then I’m sorry but you’re fucked. Luckily personality can improve if you want to.","378"],["I don’t think anyone said that. I’ve been to a strip club 3 times in 30 years. You’ve got to be a certain type of person to enjoy them. Not saying there is anything wrong with it but I’m just not a fan of window shopping for something I’m not going to get. Every time I’ve been I was pretty bored and don’t see the appeal. One time at a Vegas bachelor party something happened and all the lights turned on for a few minutes. Without the low light and black lights, when I saw these women in real light I almost vomited.","145"],["I would ask specifically “are you currently neglecting mental health care and medication recommended by your doctor who has been treating you the previous decade and did you really lose a court case where you stabbed your ex in the chest and ordered to pay restitution and do you still have sex in the bathroom at work with that weird guy <PERSON> you work with”.\n\nHonestly would have been a lot easier if I had just asked that up front instead of finding out the hard way.","483"],["Lmao so crypto basically bypasses banks, crazy right? By eliminating this middle man “the banks” you eliminate a fuck ton overhead that those banks DESERVE and aren’t earning anymore (fees, interest, etc). With all this extra money being stolen from the banks pipeline it gets evenly distributed to the criminals using crypto. It’s preposterous!","831"],["Dropping random nft’s is kind of worthless and doesn’t have much value. You need to create a collection of say 100 pieces (or more) and drop intermittently. Each piece needs to be different but fit within a theme and vary in “rarity”. Create a legend to differentiate the differences and boom you have a game which incentives collectors. Unless you have a huge social following stand alone NFTs are worthless.\n\nCheck out HashMasks or PixaLyfe.","532"],["Well, luckily we’ve kind of passed this stage, but up until a few years ago there were ALOT of straight up shitcoin exchanges, _URL_0_ for example. It was obvious the coins were sketch but they still pump and dumped periodically so there was hope.\n\nWhat wasn’t obvious (to the noobs) was that the spread was wider than your moms ass. If you market bought anything you were immediately 10-100x underwater with no hope of recovery.","1008"],["Exactly. They’ve been around forever. No dedicated customer base. Their branding is horrible, marketing sucks. I’ve eaten at one once or twice, nothing memorable and when I do pass by one (very rare) I don’t take a second thought about eating there. I’ve never heard someone say “wow I could go for some cici’s right now”. All their business is location based as in people just eat there because it just happens to be there.\n\nAlong with fundamentals you want to invest in an exceptional product, I’m sorry but cici’s isn’t a valuable brand name.","18"],["Nope I know exactly what cici’s is and it’s not what I think of when I think about pizza. Look, there’s always a market for mediocrity and I’m not shocked someone would drive 2 hours for something they lack a better understanding of... but hey I’m just a random guy on the internet, go balls deep in Cici’s if you want. Ironically I’d put my money on Little Caesar’s over cici’s any day if the week.","162"],["> do you realize Bitcoin is up...\n\nFirst of all, I don’t think this is the end of crypto by any means. For you to assume that is very cute... in fact I’m so bullish on crypto, I payed enough attention to secure my profits in order to double down at the right time. All my profits are in stable coins, so that should give you a good idea of just how much I believe in crypto.\n\n > do you know why you’ll stay poor?\n\nMy dude I literally *just* spent 8 eth on a Hashmask NFT and to be quite honest I don’t care enough to respond to the rest of your diary... 😂","1008"],["I’ve been doing this for 5 years. I don’t know what to tell you, I’ve made more in crypto than I have my entire adult life working. I don’t claim to be a god here but there are definitely trends you can follow, you can read the sentiment of the market here on r/cryptocurrency, and there are plenty of other famous people on Twitter who share information inline with what I posted here 22 days ago.\n\nThe information is there it’s up to you to acknowledge it. I’ll tell you this though, Doge has always been a red herring (you can look back in history and see what I mean).","1008"],["Good question and thanks for not getting bent out of shape over this post flaired “comedy”.\n\nI 100% believe anybody who bought Bitcoin on or before today will see incredible returns in the coming years. This post is literally ment to be funny because all of us who didn’t just buy the top for the first time know how it goes (up and down but ultimately up).","1008"],["I’m not going to promote anyone specific but all you need to focus is on the major sentiment which you can read pretty clearly across Reddit, Twitter and the media. The past month has been pure greed, doge historically has always been my #1 indicator that the top is near. You can even look at micro cycles the past 2 years. When doge is being hyped, 100% chance the local top is near.","928"],["This post is comedy, when you open the actual post I made 22 days ago it’s flaired “metrics” and that was dead serious. A lot of you will just look at this meme chart and say “arghhhhhh” but if you look at the greed phase and cross reference that with the overall sentiment the past month it’s clear as day how to interpret this data.","434"],["I believe had <PERSON> not bought and tweeted $1.5b in BTC this retraction would have commenced within days of my first post.\n\nAnd yes I think this entire market and the people here are fucking funny and irrational.\n\nLook you post “doge to the moon” when it’s pumping and you get 1,000 upvotes and ultimate praise. But when you try to speak against the grain you get torn apart. Everything about this market is just funny and non sensible, I enjoy it, but it’s fucking funny.","96"],["No prob man. I’ll tell you this, in anything highly speculative, when you go against the grain and people actually get angry at you for it, you know you’re moving in the right direction.\n\nHere’s how this will play out, we’ll probably bleed out some more, panic selling might not even peak till Monday... hopefully we get some awesome CNBC headlines like “the bubble popped! Omg!” And then out of nowhere BTC is just going to start pumping the fuck up again. 100k BTC is definitely on the table within the next year.\n\nAgain, not financial advice as I’m just a stranger on the internet sharing his opinions. I’ve been wrong before and I’ll be wrong again.","928"],["Actually I just did some quick dd and I likey. I hate telegram can I just ask you, why isn’t their any liquidity on the dex’s? How was the token distributed? Who holds the locked supply?\n\nEdit: nevermind, cmc is whack. thanks bro gonna drop a few eth on this. literally looks like it’s about to 10x","928"],["I disagree, regulation needs to take place but I don’t not mean in a way to limit or hold back crypto from being adopted or used. Institutions need regulation or else they can’t do anything but hold it (legally speaking). You simply cannot transact large amounts of cryptocurrency in business domestically or internationally without creating unnecessary risk which any legitimate business would avoid for that simple fact. Listen to <PERSON> on the Pomp podcast (_URL_0_) he articulates this point 10x better than I could, but that’s a different conversation...\n\nRegarding censorship, I think creating a community driven black list is a must if we want this space to grow (healthily).","831"],["Yessss! This is a great idea! Even a simple Thumbs up or Thumbs down, tied to your ETH address to eliminate voting manipulation just to gauge the sentiment of the community on a specific pair would be a nice touch and great approach.\n\nToo many people assume that I’m suggesting complete censorship here (which I am not). Absolutely love this idea, thanks.","831"],["It’s crazy! And I bet if someone deploys a fake MOON pair, this sub would quickly be up in arms about it. Obviously nobody takes doge serious here so my example falls flat but exchange it with something more relatable then people would care. That’s the downside to human nature, if it doesn’t affect someone directly they usually just ignore it until it does. One of the major caveats we’ve got to overcome with crypto and decentralization.","831"],["Glad you asked. Uniswap is a decentralized exchange built on Ethereum so you can only swap Ethereum tokens on it. DOGE for example isn’t built on ethereum, it’s actually a completely different blockchain. Like bitcoin for example or many many others. Currently different blockchains cannot talk to or interact with eachother...\n\nAnybody can create a token on ethereum, you can create 1,000,000,000 CISTRO tokens if you wanted to. Now, just because you make your own coin doesn’t mean it will have value, especially if it doesn’t do or represent anything. That said, you could create a coin and call it whatever you want, in my example with Doge, somebody just created a token on ETH and named it DOGE then they gave themselves millions and then listed them on Uniswap.\n\nAbout $2,000,000 worth of ETH has been pooled alongside this fake doge token and put up for sale. The scammer is now selling the fake doge back to the pool he created essentially stealing peoples money.\n\nI’m not the best at articulating these things but once you understand the mechanics of Uniswap you’ll quickly realize how easy it is to run a scam like this and because of the decentralized nature of crypto, nobody can stop a scammer from doing it.","831"],["Oh ok, price is you’re only concern? Let’s talk about speculation then. I’m up 438% from my original purchase. As always I’m quick to remove my initial capital from any speculative investment as soon as I can. Cool! I’ve got my money back and had about 150k AGI left. If I needed the money I’d sell it but I’m a long term investor and bullish on AI.\n\nI also know how ICO’s work (their sole purpose is to raise capital to get an idea off the ground, developing anything isn’t cheap and requires time and money). Why would anyone be surprised that they raised money through a token sale and you know, used that money?\n\nAlso, your claims that they are “running out of AGI so they need to mint more” is pretty hilarious. You know ETH is a public ledger and there is full transparency on who owns how many tokens and where they live?\n\nObviously you have some problems you’ve been choosing to take out on this project (your comment history is pretty telling), it sounds like you’re projecting some personal problems here. But anyways, hope you’re ok! Good luck.","831"],["The cool thing about crypto is that someone (usually the developers) create these things called “websites”. It’s pretty dope, hear me out... so you go to one of these “websites” and it contains all this information, like even technical things only a rocket scientist would understand. Even better, these “websites” usually also have a very friendly front end so the average person can get a grasp of what the project is just by reading the front page! It’s so crazy you should definitely check one of them out.\n\nAlso, you should definitely learn about what you’re buying before you buy it. 😅","831"],["You’re so wrong in so many ways, I’m shocked to see upvotes. That’s proof to how little the average crypto enthusiast knows about what they are speculating on or even talking about...\n\n > “Most cryptos have a company working behind them that gives them value”\n\nDo you know what decentralization means?\n\n > “or a network behind them...”\n\nDOGE has one of the longest running chains, it is its own “network”. It’s proven itself as secure and stable aka trustworthy.\n\nYou know what I’m not even going to continue with this one... 😅\n\nEdit: and downvotes to confirm my first point. 👏👏👏","831"],["One of two ways: \n\n1) Cryptocurrency gains mass adoption. 1 Bitcoin will always be 1 Bitcoin and the value of services and good sreflect that (fiat currencies are now the unstable ones). \n\n2) Fiat currencies still exist and are used when applicable and the world adapts to a store of value that fluctuates on a wider scale. Look at real estate for example, a 10 year chart specifically. It’s wildly unstable yet we have grown accustomed to it and it’s just generally accepted that the market moves.\n\nMy point is that crypto currency isn’t necessarily unstable, it’s all relative to the asset you’re comparing it against. When you look at BTC rising, it’s rising against the US Dollar which means the dollar is losing value.","1008"],["How do we know time travel isn’t already a thing? lol\n\nSeriously though, if you were to put yourself in 1900, and told people there would be smart phones that can transmit live pictures and audio in real time anywhere around the world, any logical person would tell you that’s simply not possible let alone reasonable.\n\nAre you suggesting we’ve reached the peak of scientific knowledge? That would be a ridiculous statement to make. And if you’re from the future and know this to be fact, tell me the lotto numbers for next week. Thx.","72"],["1) No I don’t think fiat will be replaced, ever. There are cultural and political needs for local currencies (I’m by no means an anarchistic, I want governments to succeed in a healthy way) currently 100’s of currencies exist, this works.\n\n2) governments can make crypto illegal but they cannot stop it from existing, they will have to adapt and adopt regulations.\n\n3) I agree they won’t ever want to give up control but if enough people choose to use crypto, they simply won’t have a choice.","1008"],["Ah yes let me spoon feed you, my bad.\n\nETH will always be ETH, nothing gets converted to anything. ETH2 are simply shares of staked ETH in the ETH2 contract... like I said you should read and understand what you’re buying. Not trying to be rude but the way you articulated the question makes me think you’re not entirely sure what you’re doing...","831"],["Pretty weak APY. For example I just pulled 3 months of liquidity on Uniswap (API3-ETH) and made about $1400, the rate was jumping around 300-3000% within that time. \n\nThese returns are very real, it’s what happens when you eliminate a profit taking bank from the middle.\n\nEdit: the downside is the potential for impermanent losses, the fluctuations in value of the underlying asset your staking. For example you may get your 8% return on Bitcoin but if Bitcoin tanks, than those returns are negated.","928"],["Look, I’m here everyday legitimately answering questions. Sometimes they are ridiculous sometimes they are justified. I’ve asked plenty of dumb questions myself.\n\n99% percent of the time a simple visit to _URL_0_ or _URL_1_, whatever project it is... HAS ALL THE ANSWERS YOU NEED IN A VERY EASY TO DIGEST WEBSITE. 😅\n\nAnd as I mentioned in the post, there are so many great videos with visuals that will help people learn better than a half baked comment.\n\nPeople in general not just in crypto forget that google exists or the websites exist, I want to remind people that they are capable of uncovering knowledge on their own. That should be empowering.","566"],["I agree with everything you said and I’m not trying to push anybody away. All I’m saying is this:\n\nGo to the god damn website of the website you’re about to throw money at, preferably BEFORE you throw money at it. 😅😅😅\n\nI’ll bet you $500 that 90% of the people here right now haven’t even been to the crypto currency’s website that they own.\n\nLet’s get an honest show of hands here...","831"],["I go all in with whatever money I have to invest and hold. If my position drops by a significant amount, say -50% I double down on my position. Lowering your average cost will make it much easier to recover those original losses. This has worked for me insanely well of the past 5 years and although it’s similar to DCA’ing I find it to be a much better approach than arbitrarily buying at regular intervals.","507"],["I mean, all depends on your style... most suits from “suit” shops are pretty cheesy tbh. Even when fitted properly.\n\nI’d highly recommend going to Topman and trying on their suits. depending on your body type there is a good chance you will find one that fits perfectly right off the rack otherwise you’ll have to get it fitted. That said they make really cool suits that look more like <PERSON> vs. the men’s warehouse guy.","433"],["That’s what happens when you use money you can’t really afford to lose. I would suggest taking profits slowly to recoup your initial “investment” or the minute you double your money sell half and put that back in your pocket.\n\nA lot of people here are new with fresh skin in the game but there’s even more lurking around playing purely with house money... it’s an entirely different game when you’re truly and emotionally detached from your crypto funds.\n\nAs a beginner you should be focusing more long term and watching the market and learning about the ecosystem. I go months without trading or even checking my portfolio, I just browse forums like this to gauge the sentiment and check coin gecko to see how the overall market is behaving. If there’s a lot of action there is money to be made trading. If it’s slow thats time to chill and accumulate.","507"],["Probably nothing left on the top 100 that will do a 10x from here.... to be honest it’s not that hard to turn 10k into 100k, the problem is you need to spend a lot of time watching the market (years) and find the right project at the right time. When Link was around .45 cents I put about $5k in. During that time was right after the 2017/18 “crash” and it honestly took a lot of ball to throw money in at that time as the sentiment was low. Right now we’re in a bull market and everybody is making money, this doesn’t last forever. I’d suggest holding on to your cash and watching the market, when you see an opportunity (when everyone is panic selling) that’s when you want to start to make some moves.\n\nOr get really lucky.","928"],["I get your point and I’m not hating on Cardano by any means, I like it. It’s just unrealistic to think billions of dollars and 100’s of projects are just going to simply migrate over to ADA all the sudden. One project in particular I’m pretty heavy in has announce their migrating to ADA and it really an inconvenience tbh.","662"],["There are millions of users and a small fraction of them are experiencing trouble in a complicating financial space. I would argue that a lot of issues here are user error or people who just don’t understand how any of this works. The rest are legitimate problems that any financial company would experience but I think fit well under the threshold of unacceptable.\n\nAlso this is the internet, people come to complain before they even get a chance to let the company investigate.","370"],["That’s trading in general, there is a winner and a loser on every trade. That’s how it works. The key to investing is to get in EARLY. You don’t not want to be entering when the hype is going full retard. You better believe anybody holding doge before this excitement started has already sold. Those that haven’t are naive or don’t care and holding out for larger gains that may never come.\n\nGo ahead a and screenshot this with a time stamp. Within the month, Doge will fall back to its median price. The hype will fizzle out and people will forget about doge until the next cycle begins. If you really want to make money on doge specifically, wait till this happens, buy and hold.","937"],["Nah I get their point and when I first discovered crypto I let sensationalism like that get to my head. Then you level out and realize how young crypto is and for it to successfully overtake the global financial system, every single person who uses money needs to be on board. We’re just simply too far away from that. Maybe in 25 years. But now, lol, not gonna happen.","1008"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"I fucked up two really great chances the past 2 years I had with two really great women because my stupid brain.\\n\\nThe problem is when I dont respond for a day, that already puts the nail in the coffin. It’s really hard to come back from that let alone a week or more. The last girl I was dating basically told me never to talk to her again after I “ghosted” her for literally 22 hours, wasn’t even a full day. 😢\",\n \"1012\"\n ],\n [\n \"Here’s the cool thing about school. Your art project doesn’t have to be good, it just has to get done. As an artist who went art school, the most liberating thing I realized early on is that your projects don’t have to represent you or your art, they should show your teacher that you learned something and did some work, that’s about it.\\n\\nJust make some shit, turn it in, then put the rest of your creativity into something you care about.\",\n \"889\"\n ],\n [\n \"Honestly, just appreciate someone likes your photo and wants to use it. Make them an offer and see what they say. You definitely don’t need a contract. I think it’s safe to assume that the artist themself is inquiring? Which would also lead me to believe they are an indie artist... who probably doesn’t make too much money (yet).\\n\\nThe best play here would be to make friends with the artist and potentially get more work from them in the future if you’re into that. If not, just take whatever $ they are willing to give you.\",\n \"560\"\n ],\n [\n \"How many contracts have you written up in your photographic career?\\n\\nThe value of this transaction doesn’t warrant a legal contract. Sure, wouldn’t hurt but it’s a waste of everyone’s time, lmao.\\n\\nIf someone asked me to sign a contract over one photo for an indie artist I would seriously just start to laugh.\",\n \"560\"\n ],\n [\n \"The video is getting compressed automatically. Most likely the moment you sent those files, one of you had a poor connection so iMessages compresses the file in anticipation that the transfer may take a while at full res.\\n\\nDon’t send master files over iMessages. You want to maintain the integrity of your work so use Dropbox or something.\",\n \"947\"\n ],\n [\n \"1) how is it a scam? It’s no different than trading forex or stocks (yes the assets are different but we trade them practically the same). \\n\\n2) it’s made for criminals? has he spoken to <PERSON> about this? lmao\\n\\n3) if the government could ban and stop crypto I promise you they would have already done it. unfortunately crypto can’t be just turned off.\\n\\nAnyways, sounds like you’re talking to a literal moron, I wouldn’t even waste my time arguing. he’s not arguing facts so the discussion is useless.\",\n \"831\"\n ],\n [\n \"As someone who has wasted a good $5k collectively on bullshit photography gear throughout my career I can confidently say this product is one of those things you use one time and realize it’s next to useless. I don’t want anybody to waste any money on garbage. This product looks like absolute shit. And as I mentioned before, you can get this effect in post and it will probably look better than achieving it through shitty glass.\",\n \"560\"\n ],\n [\n \"<PERSON> I took some viagra to go ham on my wife for Valentine’s Day once. When she got home from work I looted and pillaged her body with my steel rod... then she was like oh I have a surprise for you! She took me to get a couples massage immediately after... she’s kind of a funny and had scheduled a male masseuse for me. Most awkward massage of my life.\",\n \"875\"\n ],\n [\n \"Whew she came back to work that quick? If my wife and kid died tragically I would honestly off myself. Good on her for holding it together to come back. As far as your joke goes, it’s a little bit dark humor to begin with, I don’t fault you for it. Probably something I’ve said a hundred times.\",\n \"797\"\n ],\n [\n \"I dunno, everyone has different expectations. There is no proper amount of communication. Personally I can go days without talking to my SO and it’s really no big deal. Past relationships if I didn’t text “good morning baby I love you so much” every single fucking day I’d be in the dog house. Just talk to her, make sure you’re not overwhelming her. Maybe she really likes you taking the lead, it could be exactly what she wants. Or maybe you’re getting annoying and she doesn’t have the heart to say that, heh. Talk to her about it.\",\n \"432\"\n ],\n [\n \"There is plenty of info showing <PERSON> working with AitherC02 since 2018, I have no reason to believe they are lying about his role as a co-founder and lead engineer... honestly that’s too high profile to be a scam, nobody would be that stupid and <PERSON> wouldn’t jeopardize his role at Apple to make a few millions dollars in a crypto scam, that wouldn’t make any sense.\",\n \"831\"\n ],\n [\n \"Same with the “Inject Bleach” thing. What’s hilarious about that whole entire fake news is that <PERSON> was citing a study done by a legitimate company working on a device to “disinfect and sterilize internal organs with a specialized UV light” lmao nothing he said was inaccurate, of course a scientist could have articulated it better but again, he never said to inject bleach. 😂😂😂\",\n \"642\"\n ],\n [\n \"Staking is placing your coins in a specific place to secure the network (Proof-of-stake). Usually earning transaction fees.\\n\\nLiquidity providing is exactly that, lending your money to a liquidity pool in return for a cut of the transaction fee profits.\\n\\nYield farming is taking advantage of liquidity provider bonuses usually provided in a specific token for contributing to a specific pool during a specific time. Imagine earning Uni 6 months ago...\\n\\nAll these lucrative possibilities are all thanks to DeFi, cutting out the middle men and banks leaves a lot of money on the table to be passed around.\",\n \"509\"\n ],\n [\n \"There are two types of people, those that see a good thing and then take it upon themselves to learn more and those that just ignore stuff unless it’s spoon fed to them. If you spoon feed someone you’re just gonna spin your wheels for no reason. I get that she is your girlfriend but if she can’t or doesn’t want to figure out how it works, she’s never gonna get it.\",\n \"813\"\n ],\n [\n \"When ETH was under $300 just recently. Nobody cared. Nobody praised the cheap transactions. Nobody bought.\\n\\nNow ETH is at ATH, gas fees are though the roof... and people are lining up around the corner to buy and trade on Uniswap.\\n\\nBlows my mind the way people think. Meanwhile I’m selling off my $300 ETH for $1800 and I’ll buy back at the next -50% dip.\",\n \"928\"\n ],\n [\n \"Holding time isn’t really relevant because that’s just your exchange (most likely) giving you that data and it’s probably limited to that exchanges balance, hardly representative of the entire market.\\n\\nYou can view every coins stats, websites, socials, etc. on Coin Gecko or Coin market cap.\",\n \"937\"\n ],\n [\n \"I’ve been using Ethereum for 4 years. I use it everyday. Currently working on a new dapp right now.\\n\\nI’m guessing this statement comes from ignorance or you simply just don’t know what a lot of these leading crypto currencies actually do and how they function?\\n\\nEdit: oh you’re hyping doge, that explains everything 😂\",\n \"831\"\n ],\n [\n \"The entire life of crypto, since the inception of Bitcoin... there has been a single mantra among enthusiasts and early adopters “just wait until institutional investors arrive”. Well, they have begun to arrive. Remember last week when <PERSON> tweeted about Tesla buying $1.5b in Bitcoin? This is very different from 2017 when the biggest news was just a guy selling everything including his house for Bitcoin.\",\n \"1008\"\n ],\n [\n \"I hate social media. I’m a freelance creative and have had a successful career for the past 15 years. I have 2000 followers as of today, half of them are bots I’m sure and the rest of random people I’ve met irl and became IG friend with. My point is that social media isn’t necessary for success and I’d argued that 99% of the “successful” instagrammers aren’t as successful as they present themselves.\",\n \"611\"\n ],\n [\n \"I dunno but whenever I see this question I just think of my fat ugly pasty-white gross best friend who banged some of the hottest girls in high school and is now married with a beautiful (except for him) family. He is a fun guy, very nice, respectful, full of confidence in himself and that’s exactly what girls liked about him. I still think he’s dog ugly but my point is that doesn’t matter if you’re genuinely a cool person on the inside. If you have a shit personality and your ugly then I’m sorry but you’re fucked. Luckily personality can improve if you want to.\",\n \"378\"\n ],\n [\n \"I don’t think anyone said that. I’ve been to a strip club 3 times in 30 years. You’ve got to be a certain type of person to enjoy them. Not saying there is anything wrong with it but I’m just not a fan of window shopping for something I’m not going to get. Every time I’ve been I was pretty bored and don’t see the appeal. One time at a Vegas bachelor party something happened and all the lights turned on for a few minutes. Without the low light and black lights, when I saw these women in real light I almost vomited.\",\n \"145\"\n ],\n [\n \"I would ask specifically “are you currently neglecting mental health care and medication recommended by your doctor who has been treating you the previous decade and did you really lose a court case where you stabbed your ex in the chest and ordered to pay restitution and do you still have sex in the bathroom at work with that weird guy <PERSON> you work with”.\\n\\nHonestly would have been a lot easier if I had just asked that up front instead of finding out the hard way.\",\n \"483\"\n ],\n [\n \"Lmao so crypto basically bypasses banks, crazy right? By eliminating this middle man “the banks” you eliminate a fuck ton overhead that those banks DESERVE and aren’t earning anymore (fees, interest, etc). With all this extra money being stolen from the banks pipeline it gets evenly distributed to the criminals using crypto. It’s preposterous!\",\n \"831\"\n ],\n [\n \"Dropping random nft’s is kind of worthless and doesn’t have much value. You need to create a collection of say 100 pieces (or more) and drop intermittently. Each piece needs to be different but fit within a theme and vary in “rarity”. Create a legend to differentiate the differences and boom you have a game which incentives collectors. Unless you have a huge social following stand alone NFTs are worthless.\\n\\nCheck out HashMasks or PixaLyfe.\",\n \"532\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well, luckily we’ve kind of passed this stage, but up until a few years ago there were ALOT of straight up shitcoin exchanges, _URL_0_ for example. It was obvious the coins were sketch but they still pump and dumped periodically so there was hope.\\n\\nWhat wasn’t obvious (to the noobs) was that the spread was wider than your moms ass. If you market bought anything you were immediately 10-100x underwater with no hope of recovery.\",\n \"1008\"\n ],\n [\n \"Exactly. They’ve been around forever. No dedicated customer base. Their branding is horrible, marketing sucks. I’ve eaten at one once or twice, nothing memorable and when I do pass by one (very rare) I don’t take a second thought about eating there. I’ve never heard someone say “wow I could go for some cici’s right now”. All their business is location based as in people just eat there because it just happens to be there.\\n\\nAlong with fundamentals you want to invest in an exceptional product, I’m sorry but cici’s isn’t a valuable brand name.\",\n \"18\"\n ],\n [\n \"Nope I know exactly what cici’s is and it’s not what I think of when I think about pizza. Look, there’s always a market for mediocrity and I’m not shocked someone would drive 2 hours for something they lack a better understanding of... but hey I’m just a random guy on the internet, go balls deep in Cici’s if you want. Ironically I’d put my money on Little Caesar’s over cici’s any day if the week.\",\n \"162\"\n ],\n [\n \"> do you realize Bitcoin is up...\\n\\nFirst of all, I don’t think this is the end of crypto by any means. For you to assume that is very cute... in fact I’m so bullish on crypto, I payed enough attention to secure my profits in order to double down at the right time. All my profits are in stable coins, so that should give you a good idea of just how much I believe in crypto.\\n\\n > do you know why you’ll stay poor?\\n\\nMy dude I literally *just* spent 8 eth on a Hashmask NFT and to be quite honest I don’t care enough to respond to the rest of your diary... 😂\",\n \"1008\"\n ],\n [\n \"I’ve been doing this for 5 years. I don’t know what to tell you, I’ve made more in crypto than I have my entire adult life working. I don’t claim to be a god here but there are definitely trends you can follow, you can read the sentiment of the market here on r/cryptocurrency, and there are plenty of other famous people on Twitter who share information inline with what I posted here 22 days ago.\\n\\nThe information is there it’s up to you to acknowledge it. I’ll tell you this though, Doge has always been a red herring (you can look back in history and see what I mean).\",\n \"1008\"\n ],\n [\n \"Good question and thanks for not getting bent out of shape over this post flaired “comedy”.\\n\\nI 100% believe anybody who bought Bitcoin on or before today will see incredible returns in the coming years. This post is literally ment to be funny because all of us who didn’t just buy the top for the first time know how it goes (up and down but ultimately up).\",\n \"1008\"\n ],\n [\n \"I’m not going to promote anyone specific but all you need to focus is on the major sentiment which you can read pretty clearly across Reddit, Twitter and the media. The past month has been pure greed, doge historically has always been my #1 indicator that the top is near. You can even look at micro cycles the past 2 years. When doge is being hyped, 100% chance the local top is near.\",\n \"928\"\n ],\n [\n \"This post is comedy, when you open the actual post I made 22 days ago it’s flaired “metrics” and that was dead serious. A lot of you will just look at this meme chart and say “arghhhhhh” but if you look at the greed phase and cross reference that with the overall sentiment the past month it’s clear as day how to interpret this data.\",\n \"434\"\n ],\n [\n \"I believe had <PERSON> not bought and tweeted $1.5b in BTC this retraction would have commenced within days of my first post.\\n\\nAnd yes I think this entire market and the people here are fucking funny and irrational.\\n\\nLook you post “doge to the moon” when it’s pumping and you get 1,000 upvotes and ultimate praise. But when you try to speak against the grain you get torn apart. Everything about this market is just funny and non sensible, I enjoy it, but it’s fucking funny.\",\n \"96\"\n ],\n [\n \"No prob man. I’ll tell you this, in anything highly speculative, when you go against the grain and people actually get angry at you for it, you know you’re moving in the right direction.\\n\\nHere’s how this will play out, we’ll probably bleed out some more, panic selling might not even peak till Monday... hopefully we get some awesome CNBC headlines like “the bubble popped! Omg!” And then out of nowhere BTC is just going to start pumping the fuck up again. 100k BTC is definitely on the table within the next year.\\n\\nAgain, not financial advice as I’m just a stranger on the internet sharing his opinions. I’ve been wrong before and I’ll be wrong again.\",\n \"928\"\n ],\n [\n \"Actually I just did some quick dd and I likey. I hate telegram can I just ask you, why isn’t their any liquidity on the dex’s? How was the token distributed? Who holds the locked supply?\\n\\nEdit: nevermind, cmc is whack. thanks bro gonna drop a few eth on this. literally looks like it’s about to 10x\",\n \"928\"\n ],\n [\n \"I disagree, regulation needs to take place but I don’t not mean in a way to limit or hold back crypto from being adopted or used. Institutions need regulation or else they can’t do anything but hold it (legally speaking). You simply cannot transact large amounts of cryptocurrency in business domestically or internationally without creating unnecessary risk which any legitimate business would avoid for that simple fact. Listen to <PERSON> on the Pomp podcast (_URL_0_) he articulates this point 10x better than I could, but that’s a different conversation...\\n\\nRegarding censorship, I think creating a community driven black list is a must if we want this space to grow (healthily).\",\n \"831\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yessss! This is a great idea! Even a simple Thumbs up or Thumbs down, tied to your ETH address to eliminate voting manipulation just to gauge the sentiment of the community on a specific pair would be a nice touch and great approach.\\n\\nToo many people assume that I’m suggesting complete censorship here (which I am not). Absolutely love this idea, thanks.\",\n \"831\"\n ],\n [\n \"It’s crazy! And I bet if someone deploys a fake MOON pair, this sub would quickly be up in arms about it. Obviously nobody takes doge serious here so my example falls flat but exchange it with something more relatable then people would care. That’s the downside to human nature, if it doesn’t affect someone directly they usually just ignore it until it does. One of the major caveats we’ve got to overcome with crypto and decentralization.\",\n \"831\"\n ],\n [\n \"Glad you asked. Uniswap is a decentralized exchange built on Ethereum so you can only swap Ethereum tokens on it. DOGE for example isn’t built on ethereum, it’s actually a completely different blockchain. Like bitcoin for example or many many others. Currently different blockchains cannot talk to or interact with eachother...\\n\\nAnybody can create a token on ethereum, you can create 1,000,000,000 CISTRO tokens if you wanted to. Now, just because you make your own coin doesn’t mean it will have value, especially if it doesn’t do or represent anything. That said, you could create a coin and call it whatever you want, in my example with Doge, somebody just created a token on ETH and named it DOGE then they gave themselves millions and then listed them on Uniswap.\\n\\nAbout $2,000,000 worth of ETH has been pooled alongside this fake doge token and put up for sale. The scammer is now selling the fake doge back to the pool he created essentially stealing peoples money.\\n\\nI’m not the best at articulating these things but once you understand the mechanics of Uniswap you’ll quickly realize how easy it is to run a scam like this and because of the decentralized nature of crypto, nobody can stop a scammer from doing it.\",\n \"831\"\n ],\n [\n \"Oh ok, price is you’re only concern? Let’s talk about speculation then. I’m up 438% from my original purchase. As always I’m quick to remove my initial capital from any speculative investment as soon as I can. Cool! I’ve got my money back and had about 150k AGI left. If I needed the money I’d sell it but I’m a long term investor and bullish on AI.\\n\\nI also know how ICO’s work (their sole purpose is to raise capital to get an idea off the ground, developing anything isn’t cheap and requires time and money). Why would anyone be surprised that they raised money through a token sale and you know, used that money?\\n\\nAlso, your claims that they are “running out of AGI so they need to mint more” is pretty hilarious. You know ETH is a public ledger and there is full transparency on who owns how many tokens and where they live?\\n\\nObviously you have some problems you’ve been choosing to take out on this project (your comment history is pretty telling), it sounds like you’re projecting some personal problems here. But anyways, hope you’re ok! Good luck.\",\n \"831\"\n ],\n [\n \"The cool thing about crypto is that someone (usually the developers) create these things called “websites”. It’s pretty dope, hear me out... so you go to one of these “websites” and it contains all this information, like even technical things only a rocket scientist would understand. Even better, these “websites” usually also have a very friendly front end so the average person can get a grasp of what the project is just by reading the front page! It’s so crazy you should definitely check one of them out.\\n\\nAlso, you should definitely learn about what you’re buying before you buy it. 😅\",\n \"831\"\n ],\n [\n \"You’re so wrong in so many ways, I’m shocked to see upvotes. That’s proof to how little the average crypto enthusiast knows about what they are speculating on or even talking about...\\n\\n > “Most cryptos have a company working behind them that gives them value”\\n\\nDo you know what decentralization means?\\n\\n > “or a network behind them...”\\n\\nDOGE has one of the longest running chains, it is its own “network”. It’s proven itself as secure and stable aka trustworthy.\\n\\nYou know what I’m not even going to continue with this one... 😅\\n\\nEdit: and downvotes to confirm my first point. 👏👏👏\",\n \"831\"\n ],\n [\n \"One of two ways: \\n\\n1) Cryptocurrency gains mass adoption. 1 Bitcoin will always be 1 Bitcoin and the value of services and good sreflect that (fiat currencies are now the unstable ones). \\n\\n2) Fiat currencies still exist and are used when applicable and the world adapts to a store of value that fluctuates on a wider scale. Look at real estate for example, a 10 year chart specifically. It’s wildly unstable yet we have grown accustomed to it and it’s just generally accepted that the market moves.\\n\\nMy point is that crypto currency isn’t necessarily unstable, it’s all relative to the asset you’re comparing it against. 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There are cultural and political needs for local currencies (I’m by no means an anarchistic, I want governments to succeed in a healthy way) currently 100’s of currencies exist, this works.\\n\\n2) governments can make crypto illegal but they cannot stop it from existing, they will have to adapt and adopt regulations.\\n\\n3) I agree they won’t ever want to give up control but if enough people choose to use crypto, they simply won’t have a choice.\",\n \"1008\"\n ],\n [\n \"Ah yes let me spoon feed you, my bad.\\n\\nETH will always be ETH, nothing gets converted to anything. ETH2 are simply shares of staked ETH in the ETH2 contract... like I said you should read and understand what you’re buying. Not trying to be rude but the way you articulated the question makes me think you’re not entirely sure what you’re doing...\",\n \"831\"\n ],\n [\n \"Pretty weak APY. For example I just pulled 3 months of liquidity on Uniswap (API3-ETH) and made about $1400, the rate was jumping around 300-3000% within that time. \\n\\nThese returns are very real, it’s what happens when you eliminate a profit taking bank from the middle.\\n\\nEdit: the downside is the potential for impermanent losses, the fluctuations in value of the underlying asset your staking. For example you may get your 8% return on Bitcoin but if Bitcoin tanks, than those returns are negated.\",\n \"928\"\n ],\n [\n \"Look, I’m here everyday legitimately answering questions. Sometimes they are ridiculous sometimes they are justified. I’ve asked plenty of dumb questions myself.\\n\\n99% percent of the time a simple visit to _URL_0_ or _URL_1_, whatever project it is... HAS ALL THE ANSWERS YOU NEED IN A VERY EASY TO DIGEST WEBSITE. 😅\\n\\nAnd as I mentioned in the post, there are so many great videos with visuals that will help people learn better than a half baked comment.\\n\\nPeople in general not just in crypto forget that google exists or the websites exist, I want to remind people that they are capable of uncovering knowledge on their own. That should be empowering.\",\n \"566\"\n ],\n [\n \"I agree with everything you said and I’m not trying to push anybody away. All I’m saying is this:\\n\\nGo to the god damn website of the website you’re about to throw money at, preferably BEFORE you throw money at it. 😅😅😅\\n\\nI’ll bet you $500 that 90% of the people here right now haven’t even been to the crypto currency’s website that they own.\\n\\nLet’s get an honest show of hands here...\",\n \"831\"\n ],\n [\n \"I go all in with whatever money I have to invest and hold. If my position drops by a significant amount, say -50% I double down on my position. Lowering your average cost will make it much easier to recover those original losses. This has worked for me insanely well of the past 5 years and although it’s similar to DCA’ing I find it to be a much better approach than arbitrarily buying at regular intervals.\",\n \"507\"\n ],\n [\n \"I mean, all depends on your style... most suits from “suit” shops are pretty cheesy tbh. Even when fitted properly.\\n\\nI’d highly recommend going to Topman and trying on their suits. depending on your body type there is a good chance you will find one that fits perfectly right off the rack otherwise you’ll have to get it fitted. That said they make really cool suits that look more like <PERSON> vs. the men’s warehouse guy.\",\n \"433\"\n ],\n [\n \"That’s what happens when you use money you can’t really afford to lose. I would suggest taking profits slowly to recoup your initial “investment” or the minute you double your money sell half and put that back in your pocket.\\n\\nA lot of people here are new with fresh skin in the game but there’s even more lurking around playing purely with house money... it’s an entirely different game when you’re truly and emotionally detached from your crypto funds.\\n\\nAs a beginner you should be focusing more long term and watching the market and learning about the ecosystem. I go months without trading or even checking my portfolio, I just browse forums like this to gauge the sentiment and check coin gecko to see how the overall market is behaving. If there’s a lot of action there is money to be made trading. If it’s slow thats time to chill and accumulate.\",\n \"507\"\n ],\n [\n \"Probably nothing left on the top 100 that will do a 10x from here.... to be honest it’s not that hard to turn 10k into 100k, the problem is you need to spend a lot of time watching the market (years) and find the right project at the right time. When Link was around .45 cents I put about $5k in. During that time was right after the 2017/18 “crash” and it honestly took a lot of ball to throw money in at that time as the sentiment was low. Right now we’re in a bull market and everybody is making money, this doesn’t last forever. I’d suggest holding on to your cash and watching the market, when you see an opportunity (when everyone is panic selling) that’s when you want to start to make some moves.\\n\\nOr get really lucky.\",\n \"928\"\n ],\n [\n \"I get your point and I’m not hating on Cardano by any means, I like it. 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You better believe anybody holding doge before this excitement started has already sold. Those that haven’t are naive or don’t care and holding out for larger gains that may never come.\\n\\nGo ahead a and screenshot this with a time stamp. Within the month, Doge will fall back to its median price. The hype will fizzle out and people will forget about doge until the next cycle begins. If you really want to make money on doge specifically, wait till this happens, buy and hold.\",\n \"937\"\n ],\n [\n \"Nah I get their point and when I first discovered crypto I let sensationalism like that get to my head. Then you level out and realize how young crypto is and for it to successfully overtake the global financial system, every single person who uses money needs to be on board. We’re just simply too far away from that. Maybe in 25 years. 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If a guy murders his family, that's a mass shooting. Just like any other murder, most mass shooting aren't random. Most of the time the murderer is targeting a group of people and going on a rampage to kill that specific group (a wife, her boyfriend, the inlaws) for example. \n\nReally, I'm not saying that I even really think anyone should be taking guns away or that getting a particular type of gun off the streets might work. In general, we have to stop fetishizing these guns because the guys who think they are going to storm in and kill a bunch of people to start some revolution are choosing ARs as part of their delusion. \n\nThe real solution is to be more strict on who can buy any gun. This shouldn't impact 90% of the people who are buying weapons, but there's a strong argument that our policy is failing 40,000 times a year based on the numbers. We're never going to get 100% stop to gun crime unless guns magically disappear (they won't), so we should be looking at commonality for who should not get a gun. For example, if we knew that 95% of the time, a person bought a gun and committed a murder the same day, then we might say that you can't buy a gun on the same day you pay for it. \n\nWe need to really start looking at what makes a gun crime happen and then collect actual data about how we can reduce it.","701"],["That's a perfect example of a correlation is causation fallacy.\n\nYou're assuming that the *reason* gun crime is lower is that there are looser gun laws, when in fact, the reason there are looser gun laws is because those states aren't having to implement guidelines to try to control the gun crime problem. \n\nChicago, California, New York, and other areas already had gun violence problems, so they passed legislation to try to control the problem. (We can agree all day about how crazy that is to think that passing legislation in one area would fix it.) \n\nThe NRA (and other pro-gun groups) then look at those areas and say \"See! They have gun laws and have a gun problem, so gun control doesn't work.\" You would really need to assess the people who are using guns and understand where they bought it, when, how they got around the law or if the law had an impact, but correlation is not causation.\n\nBTW: I'm not out here thinking that banning all guns is a solution. What I am saying is that with 40,000 gun deaths a year, we've clearly not got it right.","701"],["You are not understanding here. Correlation is not causation.\n\nIf you have a road with a speed limit of 70 and there are a bunch of accidents, so you decrease the speed limit to 50, then a bunch of accidents still happen, would you point to that stretch of road and say \"See! The 50 MPH caused more accidents, so we should just abandon speed limit rules altogether.\" ?\n\nCRiminaLS WilL STiLl BrEAk thE LaW is an incredibly poor argument. In that case, why make a law in the first place? Let's make no laws because people won't follow them anyway.","38"],["Great. Just what the internet was missing was another porn site. How did you think of this unique niche of vast open market that no one considered? \n\nAll joking aside: \n\nYou need to add how your rankings go, and then have a user rating vs a pro rating or whatever like Rotten Tomatoes. \n\nAlso, IMDB of porn stars would be good. How are you sourcing your content? You could probably get porn studios to give you content in order to drive their traffic.","518"],["That space isn't empty. If it were empty and could be filled, it would be filled with cargo. There is an inner hull and an outer hull. It's probably within consideration for how they can do it, but all of us can just speculate about it unless we had highly-detailed information about what's on the boat, where, what the options are to unload it, strengthen it, move it, etc. It's probably going to be quicker to dredge around it and nudge it back into the channel.","485"],["Open source and Linux contributors. Not big names like <PERSON> and everyone like that, but little guys who develop small applications and open source tools.\n\nMost of the backend of huge companies uses these tools and libraries hobbyists and engineers built for free to accomplish some goal then published because it might be useful to others. \n\nFor example, while lots of companies run RedHat Linux or some similar distro for their servers, lots of the applications installed on them were developed for free. I work at a Fortune 500 company and the number of tools we use that are just some quick thing built for a one-off and then published to GitHub or thrown out there on the web is probably 1/2 of all the stuff we use.\n\nI have a friend who dug into a bug he found in one of these tools and then tracked down the developer. The guy made it in a weekend because he needed a tool that would tell him which processes were touching /tmp/. My coworker then sent him a bug report and the guy patched it and released an update over the weekend! \n\nThat type of work is largely unseen by the non-tech community who thinks Google, Apple, Tesla, and even NASA just build their own technology without relying on the open source community.","684"],["They always show some shady meetup where there are pounds of drugs in backrooms with body guards and shit. Bonus points if they are black or Mexican or also the stereotypical prison gang out of prison trope. They don't show you four college students who meet the cook of a local diner between his shifts so they can pick up a pound of Northern Lights and a QP of coke to sell to the other kids on campus. \n\nThey then show a bunch of naked women in some trap house breaking this down and bagging it up, not some guy named <PERSON> and his girlfriend <PERSON> smoking out of a bong in their off-campus rental house while he makes kief butter so she can sell brownies to her friends for $30 bucks a pop.\n\nThey also show a bunch of coked-up people going to shootouts and shit, but they fail to show <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON> picking up some Adderal from <PERSON>'s boyfriend and snorting it before they take their exams and then not fucking their lives up.","367"],["About 2 years before my divorce, this girl I had been pretty much in love with before came out of the woodwork and started talking to me. I felt like it was dangerous and would lead to me having an affair, so I told her I wasn't ever going to be interested as I was happily married.\n\nFast forward a few years and my then wife (now ex-wife) was having an affair that started around the same time. When I found out, I called the other girl and said I was wrong about it...she told me that I missed my chance. \n\nI'm not naive enough to think there is \"the one,\" but I really wonder what would have happened had I dated her. How different things might have been.","585"],["I get the random arm squeezes from men and women alike. The belly pat, but the most egregious was when a group of women at a business trip asked me to turn around because they wanted to \"see how my pants fit.\" One of the other managers actually said he felt like he needed to intervene. \n\nI'm not going to sit here and lie and say I hate it. 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That's my point. The biggest coke dealers aren't some shady ass guy selling $15 crack rocks on the corner. It's <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON> who are 21 and driving the $90,000 SUV their dad bought them and have a few hundred spare dollars a week to spend on coke. \n\nThe biggest coke head I knew had a $3500 monthly allowance from her dad at University of Alabama. She had a fucking C-Class AMG and we figured at one point that at least 30 of us had fucked her in the same semester. Some people really hate that life of luxury.\n\nThe college guys I'm talking about had their house raided by the DEA at one point. They had everything in safes per their lawyer's advice, and since literally everything was locked in safes and the warrant specified the house but not the safe, the cops had to get a second warrant for the safes. In the mean time, the guys had time to call their lawyers and stuff. It was a big deal at the time, but none of them even got more than a night in jail and they never got charged with anything (to my knowledge).","527"],["Thank you! I'm going to add that by European standards, AOC is moderate. <PERSON> is a moderate left. Even Europe's crazy right-wing conservatives aren't screaming to dismantle their healthcare systems (in general, although some do want reforms) and they aren't foaming at the mouth to put guns in the hands of every citizen. On the contrary, our farthest left people are still in support of the 2nd amendment (mostly) and even <PERSON> doesn't want universal healthcare.","886"],["I thought the same thing, but then around 4th grade the other kids will get phones and your kids will be out of the social loop and then by 5th or 6th grade, the teachers are assigning work on phones and involving them in classwork. 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They write statutory law. They don't even have to be particularly familiar with *existing statuatory law*; legal clerks can deal with that. The purpose of legislating law is to make ethical, moral, economic, and social decisions and using statutory law is only one way to do that. \n\nLawyers don't have a monopoly on making good ethical and moral decisions. In fact, being a Lawyer is probably a hindrance to those ends.","812"],["That's an odd opinion. I feel like standard is way more powerful than it used to be. Just because they don't print certain modern staples doesn't make them less powerful. A lot of the modern cards you listed were in standard relatively recently and weren't super powerful or oppressive in standard. Cards are more powerful in modern because the mana is better and faster and you have more degenerate combos.","535"],["It doesn't really matter as long as they're good cards and the magic player base is growing. The real thing that drives prices is a growing player base. When the player base shrinks, people sell off their collections, so you have higher supply and lower demand. Magic formats aren't going to grow if they continually get more expensive because there is a static supply of cards (ie. modern and legacy).","471"],["They should have kept the shorter standard rotation. Their justification was reduced FNM and tournament attendance, but that was because everyone was sick of CoCo and BFZ was an absolutely abysmal set with no value unless you pulled a Gideon. Now we're going to be stuck with the same stale metas for months at a time, punctuated with surprise bannings, which are much worse than simply letting cards rotate out sooner. Also, bring back block constructed.","535"],["> You clearly have little to no idea of how statutory and common law interact\n\nStatutory law overrides common law (so long as its constitutional).\n\n > claiming that the legislature has no use for common law is one of the most ignorant things I've ever heard\n\nSee the previous statement. The legislature can pass whatever law they want. They're not beholden to case or common law.\n\n > you certainly don't sound qualified to actually speak on the matter\n\nSpoken just like a lawyer that thinks they are uniquely qualified to be a legislator and politician.","699"],["Because any idiot can essentially get unlimited loans to attend college in the US. There's a big push to get every high school graduate into 4-year universities, and all those students are driving up the price. A lot of those kids probably shouldn't be there and end up spending tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on relatively worthless liberal arts degrees.\n\nIf you have good grades and good test scores, you can go to college for much, much less. One of the good things about having every <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON> pay exorbitant amounts for Communications classes is that it allows colleges to offer more scholarships to Science and Engineering students.","108"],["Yeah, but draw-go in standard never really works out that way. For 2-3 mana, you can blank any 4+ mana spell. Sure, there is a timing restriction, but it's not like your opponent is just going to stop casting cards.\n\nI mean, at least wizards started adding virtually uncounterable on-cast triggers to the 6+ mana cards, otherwise they'd be completely unplayable in a world full of cheap counters. Especially when you have a bunch of value instant draw spells and flash creatures.","535"],["Let's be real. An ambassadorship has always been a cushy position that gets offered to political allies. It's not like our ambassadors have been negotiating any important treaties or peace deals. They've been sitting on their thumbs for 8 years while the EU falls apart, Russia and the Baltic states attack each other, Arab nations have wars and revolutions, South American countries economically destroy themselves, and so on and so on. The only diplomatic relations that have really improved are Cuba, **where we don't even have an ambassador**, or at least didn't until recently.\n\nI think America will be A.O.K. without a few more good-for-nothing bureaucrats.","124"],["Capping tuition is just setting an arbitrary number. What should the correct cap be? It probably wouldn't have much effect. Some of the US loans have 10/15-year forgiveness, but that's not really much better, because the taxpayers are basically just eating that cost.\n\n > and not worry too much about the financial side of things\n\nBut they should be considering the financial side of things. Maybe a $200k degree from harvard, or a $50k degree from a state university aren't really worth it. Just having people with college degrees isn't the end goal. The end goal is to actually produce more highly skilled and productive people. I'm not so sure a lot of college students are getting that out of college these days.","108"],["Super glue works at a chemical level. With rubbers and plastics, the two surfaces actually dissolve and physically fuse together. It also makes the fused surfaces more brittle. Paint and drywall probably don't work as well with superglue. Paint isn't really a stable surface and superglue would act somewhat like a paint thinner since it's such a volatile liquid. Drywall is too porous to work especially well with superglue, so you'd have to apply more than normal to get it to work, which means more of the wire insulation will dissolve, leading to greater chances of shorts.","761"],["Seems somewhat antithetical to the purpose of 60% keyboards. All the 60% keyboards I've used attempt to keep your fingers as close to the home rows at all times by moving all the secondary keys -- Insert, Delete, arrow keys, F-keys, etc. -- onto the primary keys through the use of function modifier keys to double or triple of the action of a particular key.\n\nFor example, my IJKL keys are function mapped as the arrow keys. You could function map that section -- UIO JKL M./ -- to be a number pad and still keep a regular keyset. After looking at your post, I might actually try that new mapping to see how it works, since I much prefer numpad numbers to the number keys.","89"],["Yeah, I think this has a lot to do with it. Liberal posts and movements are often about \"fighting for some cause\" using the federal government as the primary resource and organization. Conservatives fight for many of the same causes -- cancer research, poverty, illness -- they just do it through churches and private organizations, many of which have their own local network that doesn't really overlap with reddit.","348"],["Academia is leftist because their industry and livelihood depends on heavy government funding. Also, choosing academia over some other more lucrative career is a clear philosophical and self-satisfying life choice. There are plenty of people that are intelligent enough to be professors, but choose a career in finance, or engineering, or medicine, or any number of other fields, because it is an objectively better decision from a financial standpoint.","285"],["There is a difference between corruption and ethics violations. \"Corruption\" would generally be considered illegal. The FBI would investigate accusations of corruption and illegal activity. Ethics violations aren't necessarily against the law. A lot of the ethics violations are just based on rules that congress has set for themselves, like reporting certain types of income, or not receiving payment for another career while in office.","314"],["How so? Ironically, GDP per capita of Denmark, which skyrocketed after 9/11 to higher than the US, has been stagnate for much of the past decade and fell by over 15% last year. The GDP per capita numbers are a bit inflated though, because Denmark has had a steadily declining fertility rate for over 20 years.\n\nIt's so bad, in fact, that Denmark has an ad campaign called \"Do It For Denmark\" that is [trying](_URL_2_) to [encourage](_URL_1_) and [guilt](_URL_0_) younger people into having more kids by going on vacation and having lots of sex.","841"],["Yeah, I tried a similar deck. You definitely need more 0-1 mana sacrifice outlets, since you need to be stealing and sacrificing by turn 3 and 4 consistently or else you'll just get run over by the creature decks you're trying to prey on, and decks like GB will be too big on turn 5/6 for wrangle to work anymore.\n\nAlso, you need to be getting ahead on board in terms of creatures. Sacrificing is removal, but there's already lots of efficient removal in the format. There were definitely games where I was hitting all my draws, but eventually, even if I was sacrificing all their creatures, eventually I would run out of gas, and they would be able to kill my 1-2 creatures. I felt like the only games I was winning was able to hit for 5-6 a turn and win by turn 6 or so.\n\nI tried variations of 3/4 color builds. Syndicate trafficker and defiant salvager are other 0-mana outlets. I tried adding hidden stockpile for value, but a lot of times it just felt there was never a good time to cast it. I tried a build with Catacomb sifter, and that actually worked pretty well to keep hitting Threaten effects or sacrifice outlets when I needed them.","344"],["Lunar Force is a bad card, you're better off just playing more Void Shatters or Spell Shrivel, or Horribly Awry if you want more counter effects. I guess if you're plan is to play a lunar force and then tap out the next turn for an Eldrazi as a way to dodge sorcery-speed removal, it makes sense, but that is such a narrow situation and it still seems like a bad card in most every other situation.\n\nWith 24 lands and no ramp or mana cheating, you will likely never be able to cast Ulamog. You could maybe run an [[Oblivion Sower]] as a way to ramp you into it but still have a body on the board.\n\nTutor effects aren't really good unless you can combo off and win within a turn, or your deck is filled with a bunch of one-of utility cards. Even then, you probably don't want to pay 4 mana for it. You're better off switching those out for card draw if you want that effect, especially since there is a lot of blue card draw at instant speed.","535"],["Yeah, you really need the Dynavolt triggers to make them good. I could maybe see a similar idea for a deck with [[Paradox Engine]] or/or [[Panharmonicon]] and [[Consulate Turret]]. I think you would need a [[Whirler Virtuoso]] as an alternate energy sink, and also for the ETB energy triggers.\n\nThe general idea is to get ETB energy creatures and try to build up energy that way and the turret them to death while clogging up the board or just getting in for 2-3 damage a turn via combat.","128"],["IMO, if *playing magic* and *brewing decks* are your favorite parts of magic, you should absolutely be playing MTGO. Cards are considerably cheaper and the loss margins on selling a deck to buy another one are *way, way lower*, like 5-10%. With the creation of magic leagues, its way more convenient to play a bunch of games instead of having to wait for the entire round to end. The competition is usually much better than you would see at a normal FNM as well.\n\nBasically, when it comes to buying decks, you get more for your money on magic online. The downsides are that the MTGO meta can be substantially different than the paper meta, and you don't get the actual experience of holding the cards and seeing your opponent. But I enjoy MTGO a lot.","344"],["[[Pacification Array]] in limited\n\nReally this could be said for any cheap, repeatable \"tapper\" effect. It's great in control because it slows down your opponent until you can cast your finishers. In aggro, it taps down their best blockers so you can get through for damage, including being able to tap one creature on their end step and one on your step to get in for a giant alpha strike.\n\nThe card just seems okay, but I've played games where it basically just won me the game.","535"],["None of the control decks really want to ever tap out. Plus, Summonings is only good if your opponent can't remove the thing it's enchanting, so if it's good at all, it would really only be good in game 1, where there's a possibility your opponent didn't maindeck artifact removal.\n\nWhat targets would there be?\n\n### Dynavolt Tower\n\nIt doesn't synergize with the Tower, and if you have to tap out and they remove your tower (there's a good deal of artifact removal) or it gets countered, you just wasted 5 mana, and you are shields down for a turn. The alternate win condition is mostly meaningless here. In most cases, you're better off just leaving up mana for removal and card draw, both of which synergize with the Tower. The Tower is your win condition, better off protecting it than trying to \"win more\"\n\n### Torrential Gearhulk\n\nAgain, it's good if it survives, but given that nearly all the top decks play removal, and control decks don't have many targets for that removal, there's a good chance that your opponent is holding a fistful of exile, destroy, and sacrifice effects. Torrential is your win condition, if it dies, you die. Better to protect it than trying to \"win more\"\n\n### Clues\n\nFun idea. Gets some card advantage. The alternate win condition is a possibility. But most of the clue control decks are pretty janky and the Tower is a better card IMO.","344"],["It hasn't dropped substantially since the meta shifted about a month ago. It spiked after the Pro Tour when it did well, and then came back down once everyone realized that Saheeli was good again and that Mardu was just a better version of most of the BG decks.\n\nThe price is roughly were it was a few weeks ago, but it's likely going to keep dropping a bit because most of the good BG decks are energy based and have no use for the Flayer. \n\nThe price is also dropping (like the price of pretty much all the cards in standard) because of MM17. People are selling off the stuff they don't use so they can spend more on the new Modern cards.","471"],["Not if it's a significant reprinting enough to bring the prices to reasonable levels. There's a price point above which many players would consider buying a proxy and trying to pass it off as real in tournaments. What price point is that? $50? $100? $1000? It's different for everyone, but there's a price point where 99% of the magic community is going to choose to buy authentic cards. So all you have to do is find that price point (I'm guessing like $75-$100), and print enough cards to keep them below that threshold and proxies become a non-issue.","471"],["That sounds like complete BS. The *only* format Wizards really supports is Standard. They even say so. The bans. The Pro Tour. The rotation change. The block cadence change. These are major changes that were all done with only Standard in mind.\n\nIt seems a bit of a cop out for <PERSON> to say \"Oh, I'm just the design guy, I don't concern myself with competitive play\". The fuck he doesn't. How can you design a game without thinking about how players are going to compete with each other in that game? \n\nBasically, he's not allowed to say anything about upcoming sets, so he doesn't. He should just say he can't give any spoilers instead of making excuses about only being the \"Design Guy\".","508"],["True, but the number of cards that derive most of their value as collectibles is pretty limited IMO (basically a small portion of the reserved list and a few other early cards). I don't think collectors are generally what is driving the demand for proxies/fakes, it's mostly players who need the cards for their decks. A lot of players don't necessarily care what edition a card was printed in, so long as they can play it. Any card that derives most of it's value for it's collector status likely won't be effected much by proxies or reprintings. If Wizards decided to start reprinting Black Lotuses as masterpieces, I don't think it would really affect the price of Alpha Lotuses that much.\n\nPlus, it's much more difficult to sell fakes/proxies to collectors than it is to the average Modern/Legacy/EDH player that just wants the card for their deck. I'm sure if fakes/proxies got better, collectors would find a way to better track and legitimize all the real cards.","471"],["I upgraded to wireless AC for my main gaming machine, and it's essentially a gigibit connection. Transfer speeds are indistinguishable from wired. I mean, it probably won't work well in a 100 year old brick house, but for me it works well.\n\nGigabit has been around a while. The limiting factor for most people is their WAN speed, which is slowly increasing. Home gigabit has been around for a while and there's really not a lot of pressure to make it faster. Commercial 10gib has been around about as long, but you don't really see it being marketed for home networks.","938"],["I know, it seems odd to me that the Federal Judicial branch is the one branch of government that is immune from the electorate. On the local level, we all recognize that it's a good thing that Judge's should be elected, as they are in most states.\n\nFor what reason Federal Judges don't have to be elected, I have no clue. I've heard people say that it makes them more impartial because they don't need to worry about getting replaced for making an unpopular decision. But it also means they don't fear being replaced for making biased, partisan, self-serving decisions either. That's not a good thing.","861"],["They don't need to follow the electorate, but they at least need to be able to justify it to the electorate. There's no reason we should be looking to Federal Judges as if they are some magical source of infinite wisdom. Court decision read a lot like party talking points these days. Seldom do I see a court decision make a moral or constitutionally based argument.","861"],["I read it, I understand the intent argument, but the other two arguments -- that it effectively targets a religion because the country has an arbitrary > 90% majority religion, and that it still targets a religion despite the fact that plenty of majority Muslim countries aren't banned -- seems like fatally flawed logic to me.\n\nBasically, the entire ruling is based on determining intent, which can be subjective and open to interpretation, and intents can change. There's really no legal basis for any of the arguments besides the intent argument, and even that's pretty thin.","296"],["I mean, it works if you have a dozen people in a startup all working on similar projects and having an open office means you can rent out a cool old industrial loft and put in couches and beanbags and give it a warm and cozy feel since you're there 12 hours a day.\n\nBut then it's adopted by 100-200+ corporate offices that have all the downsides of an open design and none of the benefits. It doesn't really work the same.","479"],["Except those were based on official statements by actual named officials. Here, we just have more \"anonymous officials\" with zero evidence yet again. It's made even worse by this statement that seems to discredit the entire argument\n\n > The officials interviewed in recent weeks said that, so far, they had seen no evidence of such cooperation.\n\nWait, so you're paraphrasing anonymous officials, implying that <PERSON> was colluding with Russians. And then in the next sentence say those officials don't think he's colluding with them? Which one is it? It makes no sense.","860"],["I think you make an excellent point. If anything comes out of this investigation, it will just be \"yeah, exactly what we knew all along, <PERSON> has contacts and business interests in Russia\". The problem is that none of that stuff is illegal, and <PERSON> will just shrug it off like \"Well, yeah, I have business interests across the entire world\". Everyone that supported him won't care. Everyone that hated him will still hate him. This isn't going to change anyone's mind.","853"],["I think you hit the nail on the head. There's a lot of people that don't really identify with either party, but often vote Democrat. And a lot of those people completely wrote off <PERSON> when it seemed like the Democratic platform was more focused on hardcore liberal issues like renaming the Redskins, or making all bathrooms unisex, than actually focusing on \"real\" issues, like the economy, terrorism, immigration, and foreign policy.","468"],["I mean, these are the kinds of stories we've been hearing for the past couple months -- \"anonymous officials\" make varied and contradicting outrageous claims. None of it means anything until someone official goes on record with something real. For all we know these are just some disgruntled peons commenting on the standard vetting all government officials get as part of their security clearance.","452"],["Tournaments aren't cheap. Average GP attendance over the last year is something like 1300 people. At $75, that's roughly 100k. Half of that is paid back in prize money. So with 50k, they have to rent out a convention center, organize promotional materials, platmats, etc., organize judges, and then pay for the coverage team, pay the pro appearance fees, plus all the other expenses that go into organizing large events.\n\nLast year when Wizards wanted to end the pro appearance fees, players almost universally complained. When wizards cut GP coverage, players complained. You can't have it both ways. You either want large, expensive events, with big payouts, or you want small, cheap events with few cash prizes. Everything the community has done points to wanting the former. And that is what wizards has done.","610"],["Because they don't want Modern or Legacy PTQ's since there are no Modern or Legacy PT's. They also don't want player to need 2 competitive decks in two different formats. So Modern and Legacy players will do limited PTQ's and Limited players will play standard PTQs. A player at a GP will only ever need 1 competitive deck.","471"],["It's funny. In the US, students used to all take Home Economics. It taught some household skills like cooking, ironing, and sewing. But it also taught things like budgeting, interest, and taxes. A lot of schools began dropping the course and replacing it with \"Technology\" courses about 20 years ago. It seems now people are beginning to realize the importance of financial literacy.","832"],["Show intent to what? Do business in Russia? I think it's pretty far-fetched to seriously believe <PERSON> has some ulterior motive to harm america by colluding with Russians.\n\nRepublicans won't oppose <PERSON>. He's too popular. He gathered more votes than any Republican that's ever run for president. Many of the congressman who won their districts owe a lot of that to <PERSON>. <PERSON> supporters are among the most loyal there are. Expect any congressman or senators who oppose <PERSON> to be personally targeted by <PERSON> in the next election and immediately be voted out. For better or for worse, <PERSON> is president, and likely will be for the next 8 years. Instead of simply protesting *every* thing he does, you'd be better off actually proposing real and alternative solutions to the problems and issues <PERSON> supporters care about -- immigration, terrorism, job outsourcing, the economy -- instead of of focusing on a bunch of trivial pet issues like renaming the Redskins or transgender bathrooms.","853"],["You get more value IMO if you sell your paper cards for MTGO credit. With power creep and masters reprints, along with Wizards continuing to push out Modern in favor of standard, there's really no guarantee of cards holding value anymore once they rotate out of Standard unless they're on the reserve list (which has it's own set of problems).\n\nI like playing lots of different decks, and I can play significantly more decks on MTGO than I can in paper because it's that much cheaper. Plus, if I want to try a new deck, buy prices on MTGO are like a 5% markdown from sell prices. So I can bump around from a bunch of standard decks and only take a $10-15 hit each time (most STD decks don't cost more than $200-300 online). You could never do that in paper. You take like a 30-40% hit selling your cards.\n\nLike you, I very rarely find a time where I can set aside 4/5 hours to play in person. With leagues on MTGO now, it's much easier to fit a game in here or there and I don't have to spend a bunch of time waiting around for rounds to end.\n\nI still love playing magic in person; I still go to all the Pre-releases, and maybe the occasional draft, or local tournament, or maybe even a GP or SCG open if it comes to my city, but it's been a while since I've been able to hit up an FNM.","471"],["I'm not really sure, it feels like if anything they make the card more popular at least for a little while after the reprint. Prices are **way** more swingier on MTGO. Cards can quickly go up several hundred percent if a deck becomes popular, and then fall to like almost worthless in the span of a couple weeks. That comment was just to say that thinking of magic cards (in paper or digital) as an investment that will hold value isn't really going to pay off. You're better off just buying the cards you're going to use, and then selling the ones you're not. I basically sell most of my cards whenever standard rotates. I'll usually keep lands, and maybe some cards that I really like to play, but that's about it.","471"],["> at some point he'll do something to alienate some number of Republican senators\n\nI think you're still under the misguided assumption that it matters at all what congressman and senators think of <PERSON>. Sure, they don't like him. That's part of his appeal. So long as <PERSON> is popular with Republican voters (and he is), Republicans can't touch him. If this election has proven anything, it's that <PERSON> supporters don't really care how much dirt they throw at him. It could come out tomorrow that <PERSON> killed a man and I don't think his supporters would even bat an eye. Hell, it might increase his popularity.","249"],["There are enough serious side effects and interactions with the different forms of birth control that it makes sense to consult with at least one healthcare professional before starting it the first time. That being said, Pharmacists, PA's, RN's, heck, even Pharmacist Assistants generally have enough knowledge to correctly recommend the right one.","343"],["Yeah, I feel like most standards at least allowed you to play some of the jankier decks built around some of the lesser played mythics and rares. At worst you'd get to do some oil durdly things with your deck and then lose on turn 12 or 13. Now all those decks lose on turn 4 without getting to even play any of the cool expensive cards.","344"],["You can play the red combustible artifact. Black has sinister concoction and the other enchantment that destroy creatures, the second one requires artifacts though. Any of the pingers work as well, they used to see play in the Ur spells deck. If you can discard, fiery temper works. Either way, these all require you to leave up at least 1 MANA every turn plus whatever it requires to trigger the other costs for those situational spells.","961"],["I mean, you've basically just described what a good regular standard format looks like. That being said, I think most of the problem is saheeli. It's the only consistent turn 4 deck in standard that really limits what you can do to interact with it. I mean, that was basically the same complaint with Marvel and why Emrakul was banned. It's a turn 4 deck that is difficult to interact with. People like to point to all the removal options, but that's kind of meaningless since saheeli can just stall to turn 6 or 7 and just counter whatever removal you have.\n\nMardu is technically a turn 4 deck, but realistically it's more like a 5/6 turn deck if you have at least some removal.","344"],["When I first moved to LA almost 15 years ago, I had to get a new cell phone. So I went to a T-Mobile near West Hollywood. I was trying to get some help, so I look over at the counter and there is <PERSON> in all his glory. There was only one girl working in the store, and she was *completely* infatuated with <PERSON>. I figured there was just no way I can compete with that. So I ended up going to Verizon instead.","898"],["Well, the problem is both Saheeli and Mardu Vehicles can win on turn 4. BG isn't far behind, turn 5 or 6. \n\nI'm guessing the nut draw for the improvise deck is turn 1: artifact, turn 2: artifact, turn 3: statuary, into 7 drop improvise on turn 4, or maybe 8 drop on 5. But are there any good 7-8 drops that just win you the game? Plus you have to find a way to stay alive that long and hope your bombs don't just die to unlicensed disintegration. And if you don't draw statuary, you're just stuck with a bunch of useless 7 drops that you'll never get to cast. \n\nI like the idea, but it seems like it requires a lot to come together for not that big of a payoff.","344"],["Exactly, and both those points are wrong. Theres never been a time when technical innovation and increased efficiency and production through automation has resulted in less tax revenue. The idea that the economy is going to collapse and there will be no jobs isn't a new idea. People have been preaching that nonsense every time we displace or obsolete an industry going all the way back to the luddites.","28"],["Because technically it's a separate company. You could do the same thing. Set up an LLC, or whatever the foreign equivalent is, and receive foreign payments to that Corp. As long as the money stays in that Corp, you don't pay US taxes on it, though you'll probably pay foreign taxes on it. But now, if you ever want to bring that money back to the US economy, you'll be taxed *again*. This is why so many companies just leave their money overseas. It's just not worth the double tax.","940"],["It's a pejorative term for any economic (but usually tax-related) policy that benefits wealthy people or corporations. It's usually used to refer to the tax cuts in the US originally instituted by <PERSON>. <PERSON> cut the top tax rate from 70% to 28%, and cut the bottom rate from 15% to 11%. Eventually they re-raised the bottom rate back to 15% (which was stupid). <PERSON> lowered it back to 10% when he cut taxes. There were other parts of his economic policy, like cutting certain departments and overall spending, but he was less successful with those. \n\nIn general, the idea behind *supply-side or free market economics* is that a large bureaucratic institution like the Federal government is not very efficient at spending and redistributing money. It makes no sense to tax poor and middle-class people on the margins, and then have states fight to get that money back so it can be distributed to these same people through hundreds of different little welfare programs, each of which require time and effort to administer and to receive. Taxing the most productive people who earn the most income at absurdly high tax rates isn't effective either. It's never been shown to actually increase tax revenue, and the only real effect is that wealthy people either hide their income or move it to lower tax destinations, neither of which helps the US economy. It's better to just leave money in the economy rather than having a complex system of taxing that money out and then trying to spend and redistribute it over an entire nation.","786"],["> Companies always want to make as much money as possible.\n\nThat's kind of the point. People and companies spending the money are going to be as efficient as possible with that money. They are going to get the most production, the most services, the best bang for their buck out of that money. If you tax that money away, and try to spend or redistribute it through a large bureaucracy like the Federal government, most of it ends up getting wasted and it's spent for many reasons that have nothing to do with efficiency and more to do with providing political favors.","786"],["This seems like a false dichotomy. In supply-side economics, or at least the way it was implemented, we weren't giving money to anyone. It's the difference between high taxation with inefficient redistribution, or low taxation with very little redistribution. The whole idea was for the government to tax and spend less, and let those decisions be made by the market.\n\nThe conflict usually arises when you have an economy in a state that isn't working very efficiently. How do you get the economy \"going\" again? For Keynsians, the answer, regardless of the actual cause of the economic problems, is always to inflate the currency and create demand. It doesn't matter where in the economy that demand is created, you could literally just have people digging holes and filling them back up again, just create demand for something, so that people can fill that supply and earn money.\n\nFor supply-siders, the answer is not always the same. It depends on what caused the problem to begin with. Almost always, the initial cause was an external influence, like a government tax or economic policy, that caused that market to invest resources in non-productive ventures. Once it's realized that all those investments are worth nothing, people feel poorer, because they are, and so they spend less and the economy slows. Basically, all that bad investment *needs* to be made worthless and liquidated so that people stop investing resources in it. Once that happens, people can rebuild their investments again. Keysians sometimes acknowledge this, they just believe that there's no reason we should have to wait. Why go through a couple years of misery to get back to a productive economy when we could just print and spend money for two years to avert that misery? The problem is that without diagnosing the cause of the problem, Keynsians are just as likely to keep dumping money into unproductive ventures, and the market will never correct itself, and the problem will just be worse when the government spending is turned off.","786"],["Core sets were usually a pretty fun draft format. It's possible that by the time the 3rd set came out in a block, I was so sick of drafting it that Core sets seemed much better than they were just because it was something different. I don't know that I'd want them back over the current 2 blocks a year format, though. Having a new draft format every other set is much better. If they released core sets as supplemental products, I don't think it would hate it.","471"],["Saffron Olive did a [Deck Tech](_URL_0_) on a Mardu Reanimator deck that plays it as a 1-of. It doesn't really match up against the current meta very well. If games were longer and grindier, it might be better. It imposes a lot of deckbuilding restrictions, there's not a lot of room in the current meta to just tap out for 6 mana when it won't immediately win you the game, and there are easier ways to cheat big creatures into play with aetherworks marvel.","344"],["Not really. Take a poll of magic players and you'll find an overwhelming majority in favor of abolishing the reserve list. Because most players don't have those cards. Take a look at the recent modern matters set. They reprinted nearly all the big money cards in the format. Wizards doesn't really have a problem with devaluing cards through reprints anymore. And bad around the MM3 hype, neither do most of the players","471"],["See, this is how you do it. <PERSON> could have just criticized <PERSON> for 5 minutes, but what would that have accomplished? Maybe some reddit karma and a chance for democrats to pat themselves on the back for how clever they are. \n\nInstead, he made optimistic and empowering statements that play towards <PERSON> major issues -- jobs, free market, ego, legacy. He's actually making real arguments to try and persuade <PERSON> and his ilk, instead of just calling them idiots and racists.","614"],["Think of any reasonably complex product you can buy right now. It's highly unlikely that you would save any money (especially if you factor in the cost of your time and labor) by trying to design and build it yourself. The reason defense contractors can design and build these things so much cheaper than the government is because they're *already* building similar products on the open market -- jets, rockets, airplanes, satellites. The overhead of factories and production are already being financed by other ventures. So when NASA comes out with a one-off product they need built, contractors are just going to use their existing build processes.","74"],["Exactly, I think it's just about reworking priorities. People always act like there's this giant army of bad people out there who are deadset trying to ruin the environment and the EPA is some defense against them. Developers and manufacturers aren't these terrible people. The EPAs primary goal should be in helping and promoting clean business practices. You can't do that if your constantly slowing down projects and only seen as a bureaucratic nightmare.","771"],["It's not necessarily that, it's just morally offensive to tax old people and poor people to pay for extravagances like space travel. Private market space travel is largely being paid for by very wealthy people. The price will come down, but it will still largely be funded by the wealthy for a while. And you didn't have to take money from poor and old people to do it.","143"],["> An empirically general truth should be concealed in favor of not offending the conservatard snowflakes\n\nIt's not the <PERSON> people you should be worried about, it's all the other people that didn't vote for <PERSON> *or* <PERSON>. Demagoguing <PERSON> isn't really going to win them over for you\n\n > how's that record smashing disapproval rating working out for you?\n\nDoesn't seem to be having any effect. Republicans are still in the middle of repealing obamacare, dismantling a handful of bloated bureacracies, and cutting the budget. If the trend continues, by the time the next elections roll around we'll have lower taxes, the Dow and S & P will still be breaking all-time record highs, unemployment will continue to be at 10 year lows, and job growth will be stronger than it's been in a long time. Good luck winning that election.\n\nThe disapproval rating means nothing. If the last election taught us anything, it's that polls don't matter when it comes to <PERSON>. Apparently, there are a lot of people who don't publicly support <PERSON>, and might even disagree with a lot of his policies, but end up voting for him because of selfish reasons. Namely, the last thing they want are all the tax hikes Democrats keep proposing.","800"],["Anything over the standard deduction ($6300) is going to get hit with federal income taxes. You're still going to pay 7.65% on everything for SS and medicare, plus the employer match, so you're wage is going to be a little lower to account for that. Then you usually have state income and payroll taxes.\n\nWhen you're only making $200-400/week, an extra $50-80 bucks makes a difference. Most people are going to be working the rest of their lives, a few years not paying SS benefits isn't that big of a deal.","51"],["They've changed their format. Originally, IMAX was the super giant format that mostly only existed in museums and there wasn't a lot of content for them.\n\nWhen they switched to digital, they created a smaller format that supposedly lets viewers sit closer to the screen to give the same effect. I've been to both styles. I can honestly say that I never liked the old style IMAX and would never see a movie in one. They just made me sick.\n\nThe new-style theaters are basically just really good digital theaters. I haven't tried sitting super close to the screen or anything, but the picture and sound are about the best you can expect from a theater experience.","321"],["How is this different from not wanting to pay income taxes? It is essentially the same thing but in a different form, no? Objecting to military service is one thing, but for civilian service, it's essentially like a mandatory 100% tax rate for 2 years.\n\nDon't get me wrong, I don't like the idea of compulsory service either, but I also don't like the idea of income taxes in general, and I don't see how you could reasonably draw a significant distinction between the two.","322"],["Also, if you're doing an emergency compulsory draft, the overwhelming majority of that force is going to be combat infantry. The size, weight, and strength differences between men and women make women almost universally unsuited for that type of military service. It's far more expensive and problematic to try and pick out the 1-3% of women that may be suited for combat infantry than to just not draft them at all.","798"],["Functionally, they're the same group. It's not correlation, it's just the same exact demographic. If I say rain is slippery, and showers are slippery, and the reason is because water is slippery, I'm not correlating showers to rain, I'm just stating that the reason is water. We know the suicide rate of men is higher than women. If you measure populations that contain mostly men, then you're likely going to get a higher suicide rate compared to other professions that contain more women and fewer men.","490"],["> more self-administration\n\nMoreso than other careers? Do you think it's at all related to the binary success of Ph.D students? That is, an uncompleted 5 year Ph.D. is worth almost nothing compared to a completed Ph.D, whereas 5 years spent in a job that I end up leaving for a different career still has value and doesn't necessarily feel like wasted time.","907"],["But your solution isn't any more equitable. The premise of your argument is that because current fines are the same for all people, those with higher incomes will be more likely to commit a crime because the *perceived* punishment is less than it would be for people of lower income.\n\nIf punishments were a percentage of Income, then the *perceived* punishment would be far, far less for lower income people, especially for severe crimes. If the fine for theft was a percentage of income, people with little to no income have very little to lose with a percentage-based fine structure.\n\nI would argue that current data on which economic demographics are more likely to commit crimes would show that people of lower incomes are more likely to commit crimes than those with higher income. So your proposal is a solution in search of a problem that doesn't actually exist.","314"],["Corporations can't donate to campaigns. When individuals donate to a campaign, they have to list their employer. Individuals have a yearly limit of $2700. So when the news says she received $600k over 14 years, that translates to about 15 people that work for telecoms giving her the max donation every year.\n\nThe problem with restricting campaign donations is that people just end up spending the money themselves. That's why we have superpacs now with spending that is largely completely untracked. If I'm a wealthy person, instead of donating a measly $2700, I'll just buy $1 million in campaign ads myself. Advertising is protected speech, so you can't stop it.\n\n\nThe real solution is to reduce the budget that politicians have to spend, or decentralize those decisions. If you're going to give a few hundred people the power to spend almost 25% of the entire economy, then people are going to try and influence that spending. The problem is giving too few people too much power, not campaign contributions.","736"],["If you can splash another color, [[Painful Truths]] can draw you an extra card. Going green would get you access to some energy, so [[Glint-Sleeve Siphoner]] could get you some repeatable card draw and a way to chip in for damage. It would also give you access to [[Catacomb Sifter]], which can combo with [[Hidden Stockpile]] to get a decent amount of scrys, which are pretty close to drawing in the late game. \n\nThe biggest problem is that a lot of those cards are too slow for the format, and only work if you're doing something truly broken, like abusing Kalastria Healer and Zulaport Cutthroat. [[Pious Evangel]] might be another card with a similar effect.\n\nThough, I'm thinking of this more as an aristocrats deck than an allies deck.","535"],["Mercurial takes a simple idea -- branches -- and splits that concept between two different features -- branches and bookmarks -- neither of which work as well as git branches.\n\nMost of the time, branches are meant to be disposable. They exist only so we can continue multiple lines of development simultaneously, without disturbing the \"master\" or \"trunk\". Once a branch is completed, maintaining that branch or the incremental history in that branch isn't all that useful and just serves as noise in the commit log. Mercurial doesn't have a concept of local vs tracked branches from another repository, so there's no elegant way to deal with name conflicts for branches you pull from another repo. Mercurial branches are all long-lived. It's an unnecessary maintenance burden, and although the burden may be small, it's still just added noise. \n\nBookmarks are like a less useful version of git branches. They allow us to create temporary \"branches\" of development, but they're not easily sharable with others, and they don't prevent commits from disturbing master/trunk. The fact that hg uses two different features for essentially the same thing seems to indicate a fundamental flaw in the initial branch design.","95"],["True, but most projects don't care about tracking the hundreds of branches that have existed over the life of a product. Once a feature is completed, I don't really care what the name of the branch was, or even if the history is a separate branch. It's much more elegant, historically, to have that feature show up as a single commit in the master branch. I don't care about all the iterative commits that were made while that feature was being developed. I don't care that the feature was initially branched from commit 1234 and merged in at 1267. I just want to see that at commit 1266 the product didn't have this feature, and at 1267, it did have this feature. Maintaining branch history is just added noise that has no real additional value.","95"],["> Since hg's \"bookmarks\" are the equivalent of git \"branches\"\n\nBut they're not. You can't easily share bookmarks. They're not tracked along with the repo. And the don't prevent you from disturbing the master branch. I'd say bookmarks are likely to lead to more trouble, since locally, it feels like you're working with a bunch of different \"branches\", but remotely, you're just pushing everything to master.","570"],["I assume you're talking about git rebase, which while technically supported in hg via an extension, isn't heavily used by most people.\n\nYou don't actually lose information with git rebase. The full history of commits is still there. All you're doing is curating the history that you publish for others to see and that eventually make their way into the master branch.\n\nIt allows me to do things like create several different local branches with different strategies for implementing a feature, with plenty of commits to preserve development states, but when pushing that out to others to view, there's really no value in pushing all that noise and adding 50 commits to the main commit tree. It's an extra step that hg users don't really consider. Git users don't *have* to do this commit log curation, but because the git tools and workflow make it relatively easy, many do.","570"],["Not really. Initially, hg had far better windows support, a much better command line interface, and the transition support from svn to hg was much better. But that was like 6-7 years ago. Moving from svn \"branching\" to hg branching literally changed the way I develop. It was such a huge improvement it's really hard to explain in words. But git branching is just better. And the tools for sharing your commits and branches with others are much better simply because more people in git use them and so they get developed. I have the feeling that most people that still use hg use it in roughly the same way they used (or would have used) svn, perhaps with a bit more branching. But I don't think they're really taking advantage of the power of DVCS's and commit curation that is pretty standard in the git community.","684"],["Not sure it's worth splashing for green. For humans to work,you really need to be playing creatures on curve starting on turn 1. You can't really afford taplands or inconsistent Mana. Also, Avacyn is a better in the 5 drop slot in almost every scenario. Kari zev is probably better than Pia and costs 1 less Mana. \n\nYou could probably cut a land or two and sigarda to add Gideon or the anthem enchantment or just more 1 drops like inventors apprentice.","122"],["I've seen two flavors of Tezzeret decks. The first is a UB or Grixis Improvise deck that plays things like [[Servo Schematic]] and [[Implement of Combustion]] to ramp out Improvise cards like [[Maverick Thopterist]], [[Bastion Inventor]], and especially [[Herald of Anguish]]. In that deck, Tezz is usually a 1 or 2-of.\n\nThe other deck are various versions of control decks. Sometimes it's straight UB with Torrential Gearhulk as the top end, and sometimes it's a 3 or 4-color dynavolt deck that just happens to have Tezz in it.\n\nI don't have much experience with the 2nd deck, but the first one can be good when you get the nut draws, but pretty terrible if you don't draw your cards in the right order.","344"],["But there are plenty of people that pay for Google services, or people that got windows upgrades for free. The fact that a company has a free option doesn't really change the root of the argument. Now you're just arguing about prices. For all you know, paid products are cheaper because the sellers can monetize the advertising data. What if a service was only a dollar a year, then can they sell advertising data?","358"],["Basically, the FCC reclassified an entire industry just so it could regulate it and take that power away from the FTC, who normally regulates issues dealing with consumer protection, and regulates other internet companies like google, Facebook, microsoft, etc.\n\nIn many ways, the FCC is becoming obsolete. They used to regulate the phone companies, and the public airwaves, and much of it was related to censoring content. But many of those technologies are less relevant today, and censoring content isn't as popular an issue as it once was, and most content isn't distributed over public airwaves like it once was. This is basically a last ditch attempt by the FCC to remain relevant.","717"],["If magic continues to grow, and wizards doesn't actually address the reprint issue, Modern will die. Maybe not right away, but a format can't grow indefinitely with a static supply of cards. Modern Masters doesn't really affect the supply that much. The price of Modern is already pretty restrictive, and unlike Standard, more Modern players will drive the deck prices up. In Standard, deck prices are pretty much determined by the price of the boosters, since if prices get too high, we can just open more boosters. \n\nModern worked initially because a lot of players *already* had a bunch of essentially worthless \"Modern\" cards that just weren't playable in any format, so Modern was created. But now you have a ton more players who haven't been playing that long. They don't have a bunch of Modern cards. But they do have a bunch of Frontier cards that are essentially worthless. So now we get Frontier. It will probably grow and replace Modern as the dominant non-rotating format. Modern will die just like Legacy did. Eventually, Frontier will die the same death in 5-6 years.\n\nOf course, this could all change if Wizards massively changes it's reprint policy and starts re-releasing entire sets, or the price of Modern Masters comes down.","471"],["Legacy is dead by any reasonable measure. Of the dozens of GP's, only 1 is Legacy. It has zero presence in the pro circuit. Most LGS's don't even host Legacy events. Sure, there are some people that still play Legacy, but Legacy isn't growing. It's not attracting new players, because there just aren't enough cards to serve the current player base. Modern is beginning to suffer from the safe problem. The two benefits that modern has over Legacy is that the Player base was much larger at the time Modern cards were printed, so the supply was greater, and Modern doesn't have to deal with the Reserve List. \n\n > As I said before I don't think moderns soon to die either way\n\nI think that's probably true, too. The player base for Modern has always been much higher than Legacy. But it really depends on how quickly magic grows. If Wizards releases a Hearthstone-like client that works on tablets and phones, and the player base doubles, Modern will die much quicker. There's a limited number of events and tournaments every year. New players are playing Standard and Limited almost exclusively. As the new player base grows, it's only going to push out Modern events the same way Legacy got pushed out.\n\nWizards could fix it though (even for Legacy, too). They could scrap the reserve list, start unlimited reprint sets that run alongside the normal standard set printings and make Modern and Legacy a relevant part of the Pro Tour again.","471"],["The main advantage is price, and I don't think that would degrade all that quickly. There is *a lot* of M15+ cards in circulation, far more than many of the Modern sets. But yeah, it's going to suffer the same problem eventially, especially if it ever gets a pro tour presence, because then the metagame tends to warp around whatever was played at the pro tour and all the prices spike.","471"],["> Except the promotional tour isn't for showing off old cards. They want the newest cards on camera\n\nTrue, it doesn't have to be the whole Pro Tour. They already split up the Pro Tour into Standard and Limited sections. They could just replace one of the Standard sections with Modern or Legacy. Or make it a larger side event that takes place the day before. Plus, if they start doing reprint runs, showing those cards being used in Modern and Legacy will probably sell more product as well\n\n > Most lgs don't run modern much less frontier\n\nWhat LGS's are you going to? At all the LGS's near me, Modern is just as, if not more popular than Standard. For example, at the biggest LGS near me, they run *two* Modern events at FNM and only a single Standard event. I think that's probably due more to a lot of people that are tired of the current standard, but Modern is still pretty popular. I think Standard still has the most long-term growth potential.","471"],["Generally, it's when the geography or expense is such that building a bridge would be more expensive given the size of ships that need to pass through the waterway. \n\nA good example is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. The channel needs to allow US Navy ships to pass, like Aircraft Carrier size navy ships. It wouldn't really be economical to build a bridge that size. So for the portions of the bridge that cross the actual shipping channels, there is a tunnel instead of a bridge.","485"],["Yes, they should have allowed all that bad debt to be liquidated. Basically, housing prices should have fallen at least 30-40%. Probably half of the investment banks should have been forced to declare bankruptcy and have their assets bought by the other half that were more responsible.\n\nFor the housing and investment banking industry, it would have been much, much worse... for about a year. But it would have been pretty great for everyone else. Instead, we spread that misery over the entire economy and it took 8 years to really recover.","499"],["I feel like most of the Democratic party is in massive denial. Doubling down on super-progressive policies isn't going to win back middle America. Railing against racism and the 1% and transgender discrimination might play well to the base, but those aren't high priority issues for most of America. Foreign policy, immigration, domestic economic policy, terrorism -- these are the primary issues middle America cares about. If Democrats want to win again, they need to start addressing these issues as primary pillars of their platform instead of focusimg on the same dog whistle issues that progressives love to pat themselves on the back for, but largely fall on deaf ears when it come toThe rest of America.","468"],["I think the progressive wing of the Democratic party has deluded themselves into thinking their issues are far more relevant and popular than they really are. It's not that the Democratic establishment is opposed to economic justice, or environmental policy changes, or military non-intervention, or campaign finance reform, it's just that none of those issues are high priority issues for most voters. Most of the nation is concerned with economic policy, immigration, and foreign policy. Republicans are talking about these issues. Democrat politicians aren't, except to complain about Republicans.","313"],["It's because most of their accusations aren't based on anything. Yelp doesn't manipulate reviews. They certainly manipulate rankings and search results, but so does Google. Keeping a good yelp presence requires work. If your the type of business that doesn't really care if 1 out of a hundred customers leaves unhappy, you're going to have terrible Yelp reviews even if 99% of your customers are happy, because angry people leave more reviews. You either need to make sure customers don't leave angry, or encourage your happy customers to go on Yelp and leave rewiews","99"],["It makes lobbying much more expensive and less effective. If you only have to cultivate relationships with a couple hundred people, lobbying is easier. If all 500+ people change every couple years, you have to spend a lot more time and money cultivating those relationships. Also, people are generally the most idealistic when they first arrive in office. It's good that they have to leave office before they get too jaded and just start trying to monetize their position.","736"],["The Forbes article isn't very convincing. All they did was run a job search for Liberal Arts, History, and English and (surprise!) managed to find some job postings. They didn't compare the *total number* of available jobs vs the number of graduates, or even compare it to job searches for other majors.\n\nI think there is plenty of evidence to show that the rapidly rising cost of college has made Liberal Arts and similar majors a poor return on investment.","108"],["Anything more than about $2, or anything that sees regular play in standard get sleeved and goes in a binder.\n\nBulk rares go into square plastic cases that hold about 100 cards, unsleeved.\n\nCommons/Uncommons go into cardboard boxes. I used to separate them by set/rarity/color, but now I don't even bother and just keep them separated by set.\n\nPretty much everything in the binder gets sold before it rotates out of standard. I'll usually sell the bulk rares/mythics at the same time.","471"],["All the things you're mentioning though have either already happened or we tried it and didn't like it so we stopped automating it.\n\nRetail and cashiers are already being automated. It works okay. Hopefully amazon does a better job than the current automated checkouts.\n\nWe've been automating factories for a long time. That will continue to happen.\n\nTrucks and taxis will become automated. Delivery probably not so much. Deliveries are too varied for robots at the moment. Just walking up stairs or traversing uneven terrain is fairly difficult task for robots right now.\n\nHotels, banks, and wait staff are already about as automated as they ever will be. It turns out that in the hospitality industry, people prefer dealing with humans. Also, the types of jobs we're talking about have to deal with a lot of different requests that can't necessarily be scripted. \n\nIt's worth noting that these types of improvements don't necessarily \"take away jobs\". For example, the Amazon stores are likely adding jobs. Those retail outlets didn't exist before. They still need people to stock the store and deliver the items. And to plan future stock and manage the inventory. Those jobs didn't exist before either.","28"],["Automation leading to less work and automation leading to mass unemployment are two very different things. \n\nChild labor was never very productive to begin with. Child labor didn't end because of automation, it ended because we became much wealthier.\n\n > we're living longer\n\nThat would seem to counter much of your argument. People living longer means they're still occupying jobs that could have been given to someone younger. So the end effect is that there needs to be *more* jobs as people live longer.\n\n > People used to work until they died.\n\nBelieve it or not, the concept of retirement has existed much longer than you think. At least more than a hundred years for the general population. Again, not really a result of automation, but of increased wealth.\n\n > 34 hour work week\n\nTrue, but again, this is largely the result of increased wealth, not automation. People in developing countries have access to many of the same automation techniques, and yet they still work many more hours because they're societies aren't wealthy.\n\nAs you'll notice, none of these wealthy luxuries that allowed us to work less lead to mass unemployment or a collapse of society or a reduction in overall wealth of the average person. Quite the opposite in fact.\n\n > .One might wonder what happens if the trends of the past ~200 years continue.\n\nProbably more of the same of what has been happening. We will be more productive. We will be wealthier. If the productivity gain is high enough people may even start to work less hours per week. They may retire sooner. All good things.\n\nWhat won't happen is long-term mass unemployment. That would be unprecedented in history.","28"],["> Only if you're using some weird, unintuitive definition for unemployment like the bureau of labor statistics does\n\nMy definition of unemployment is people wanting and needing to work, and not being able to. People that don't work because they *choose* not to work, and because they can afford not to work are not unemployed. \n\n > I don't follow your \"we're wealthier\" argument\n\nChildren not working and old people retiring earlier is a luxury, made available by the fact that we're wealthier (which is indirectly the result of capital resources, technical innovation, and yes, automation). Child labor still exists in this world, but it's mainly limited to poor families in poor countries that *require* that child labor to survive. They don't have the luxury of allowing their children to engage in non-productive behavior, like school, which may yield greater productivity in the future, but only if you're able to sacrifice productivity *now*. It's an investment. Poor families in extremely poor countries don't have the luxury of making that investment.\n\nMy point is that working less has always been the result of increased wealth. It's never been the result of job loss due to automation. \n\n > So what happens if that trend of less work continues?\n\nThat would be a good thing. The only way that would happen is if production skyrockets, leading to greater overall wealth, meaning we can all afford the luxury of working less for the same quality of life. That's much different than the narrative being pushed by the \"OMG automation, the sky-is-falling\" crowd. They believe automation will lead to mass unemployment where everyone is much poorer. I agree that both scenarios will have less people working, but in my scenario they will only work less if they choose to, and even then, they will be wealthier.\n\nWorking is a largely a value judgement. Right now, I could earn more money by getting a second job and working more hours. That choice is available to many people. But most people *choose* not to work more hours, because they value their free time *more* than the nominal increase in wealth provided by working more hours. This same dynamic applies in your example. As production increases in the future because of automation, the purchasing power of workers should also increase by a similar amount. If production gains are 20%, I could either choose to work the same amount of hours with a 20% increase in the standard of living, or work 20% fewer hours for the same standard of living, or some combination in the middle.","28"],["Well, the main difference is it will be a fraction of the cost. The moon missions in the 60's used extremely expensive components that could only be used for a single launch with minimal payload and were either destroyed or unusable afterwards. SpaceX missions are flown with almost 100% reusable components (except the fuel, of course). It's a rather large design jump.\n\nIt's kind of like the difference between the first mainframe computers and the first personal computer.","241"],["> productivity pay gap\n\nIt's a little bit disingenuous. The problem is highlighted really well by the [one article](_URL_0_) you mentioned. Take a look at the \"Labor Productivity\" and \"Real GDP per Capita\" lines. Seems kind of odd that Labor Productivity would go up, and Real GDP per capita doesn't, right? How could that happen? It's mostly an artifact of measuring GDP in terms of prices and nominal income. \n\nLets say there's a factory that can produce 100 widgets a year, and sells them for $10/widget ($1000 in GDP per year). Now, the next year the company is able to reduce costs significantly (through automation) and is able to produce twice as many widgets (200). Instead of charging the same price as before (which would result in a doubling of their contribution to the GDP), they decrease the price by 40% ($6/widget). So, they contribute $1200 to the GDP, an increase of 20%, even though their actual output increased 100%. \n\nTheoretically, producing more stuff means prices for everything should fall, leading to a higher standard of living and greater purchasing power for workers *even if their nominal salary doesn't increase*. In effect though, the deflationary pressure of increased production is at least partially counteracted by inflationary policies perpetrated by the Federal Reserve and other central banks.\n\nEither way, these points are kind of moot, because it still isn't going to lead to massive unemployment as the result of automation.","73"],["Interesting, it looks like they've suspended plans to reuse the 2nd stage. It sounds like it's mostly a design limitation at the moment -- not wanting to reduce the payload just to make the 2nd stage reusable. I still think reusability is the ultimate goal (at least it was originally designed with reusability in mind), and once there is a sufficient number of launches it will become a priority again.\n\nStill, they're definitely reusing the first stage. They've been recovering them successfully for a while now, and they're set to start reusing first stage rockets this year. \n\nNeither the Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy have third stages AFAIK. \n\nIt's worth noting that the Falcon Heavy is just 3 Falcon 9 first stages tied together, so the reusability at least seems to scale.","241"],["First of all, even if they weren't reusing anything, the launches are already an [order of magnitude cheaper](_URL_0_). Adjusting for inflation, the Saturn V cost about 1.23 *Billion* per launch. The Falcon Heavy will cost about $90 *Million*, and that's without reusing anything. Re-using the 3 stage 1 rockets should bring that cost down further.\n\nSecond, the fact that they're recovering the first stage intact means they've already saved that money. Considering they're already scheduled to start reusing rockets this year, I think it's safe to say they'll be reusing them in 2018 or later when the moon missions start.","241"],["Interesting. The only price they have on their website is the $90 million figure, even though all the \"performance\" figures are for no recovery at all, except for the GTO amount (8 metric tons). However, based on [this interview](_URL_0_), it doesn't seem like they're factoring any possible savings from recovery into the price. I mean, it sounds like almost the entire cost of the launch is the cost of the first stage rocket. \n\nYou also have to consider that SpaceX is trying to turn a profit, while the NASA prices are just pure cost. Even based on those prices, it's still less than a quarter of the cost.","241"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"It's actually not that useful. \\n\\nLaw (in the US at least) is mostly about learning and understanding previous legal court rulings, which inform further rulings in common law, and can be used as arguments in future cases.\\n\\nThe legislative branch has no use for common law. They write statutory law. They don't even have to be particularly familiar with *existing statuatory law*; legal clerks can deal with that. The purpose of legislating law is to make ethical, moral, economic, and social decisions and using statutory law is only one way to do that. \\n\\nLawyers don't have a monopoly on making good ethical and moral decisions. In fact, being a Lawyer is probably a hindrance to those ends.\",\n \"812\"\n ],\n [\n \"That's an odd opinion. I feel like standard is way more powerful than it used to be. Just because they don't print certain modern staples doesn't make them less powerful. A lot of the modern cards you listed were in standard relatively recently and weren't super powerful or oppressive in standard. Cards are more powerful in modern because the mana is better and faster and you have more degenerate combos.\",\n \"535\"\n ],\n [\n \"It doesn't really matter as long as they're good cards and the magic player base is growing. The real thing that drives prices is a growing player base. When the player base shrinks, people sell off their collections, so you have higher supply and lower demand. Magic formats aren't going to grow if they continually get more expensive because there is a static supply of cards (ie. modern and legacy).\",\n \"471\"\n ],\n [\n \"They should have kept the shorter standard rotation. Their justification was reduced FNM and tournament attendance, but that was because everyone was sick of CoCo and BFZ was an absolutely abysmal set with no value unless you pulled a Gideon. Now we're going to be stuck with the same stale metas for months at a time, punctuated with surprise bannings, which are much worse than simply letting cards rotate out sooner. Also, bring back block constructed.\",\n \"535\"\n ],\n [\n \"> You clearly have little to no idea of how statutory and common law interact\\n\\nStatutory law overrides common law (so long as its constitutional).\\n\\n > claiming that the legislature has no use for common law is one of the most ignorant things I've ever heard\\n\\nSee the previous statement. The legislature can pass whatever law they want. They're not beholden to case or common law.\\n\\n > you certainly don't sound qualified to actually speak on the matter\\n\\nSpoken just like a lawyer that thinks they are uniquely qualified to be a legislator and politician.\",\n \"699\"\n ],\n [\n \"Because any idiot can essentially get unlimited loans to attend college in the US. There's a big push to get every high school graduate into 4-year universities, and all those students are driving up the price. A lot of those kids probably shouldn't be there and end up spending tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on relatively worthless liberal arts degrees.\\n\\nIf you have good grades and good test scores, you can go to college for much, much less. One of the good things about having every <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON> pay exorbitant amounts for Communications classes is that it allows colleges to offer more scholarships to Science and Engineering students.\",\n \"108\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, but draw-go in standard never really works out that way. For 2-3 mana, you can blank any 4+ mana spell. Sure, there is a timing restriction, but it's not like your opponent is just going to stop casting cards.\\n\\nI mean, at least wizards started adding virtually uncounterable on-cast triggers to the 6+ mana cards, otherwise they'd be completely unplayable in a world full of cheap counters. Especially when you have a bunch of value instant draw spells and flash creatures.\",\n \"535\"\n ],\n [\n \"Let's be real. An ambassadorship has always been a cushy position that gets offered to political allies. It's not like our ambassadors have been negotiating any important treaties or peace deals. They've been sitting on their thumbs for 8 years while the EU falls apart, Russia and the Baltic states attack each other, Arab nations have wars and revolutions, South American countries economically destroy themselves, and so on and so on. The only diplomatic relations that have really improved are Cuba, **where we don't even have an ambassador**, or at least didn't until recently.\\n\\nI think America will be A.O.K. without a few more good-for-nothing bureaucrats.\",\n \"124\"\n ],\n [\n \"Capping tuition is just setting an arbitrary number. What should the correct cap be? It probably wouldn't have much effect. Some of the US loans have 10/15-year forgiveness, but that's not really much better, because the taxpayers are basically just eating that cost.\\n\\n > and not worry too much about the financial side of things\\n\\nBut they should be considering the financial side of things. Maybe a $200k degree from harvard, or a $50k degree from a state university aren't really worth it. Just having people with college degrees isn't the end goal. The end goal is to actually produce more highly skilled and productive people. I'm not so sure a lot of college students are getting that out of college these days.\",\n \"108\"\n ],\n [\n \"Super glue works at a chemical level. With rubbers and plastics, the two surfaces actually dissolve and physically fuse together. It also makes the fused surfaces more brittle. Paint and drywall probably don't work as well with superglue. Paint isn't really a stable surface and superglue would act somewhat like a paint thinner since it's such a volatile liquid. Drywall is too porous to work especially well with superglue, so you'd have to apply more than normal to get it to work, which means more of the wire insulation will dissolve, leading to greater chances of shorts.\",\n \"761\"\n ],\n [\n \"Seems somewhat antithetical to the purpose of 60% keyboards. All the 60% keyboards I've used attempt to keep your fingers as close to the home rows at all times by moving all the secondary keys -- Insert, Delete, arrow keys, F-keys, etc. -- onto the primary keys through the use of function modifier keys to double or triple of the action of a particular key.\\n\\nFor example, my IJKL keys are function mapped as the arrow keys. You could function map that section -- UIO JKL M./ -- to be a number pad and still keep a regular keyset. After looking at your post, I might actually try that new mapping to see how it works, since I much prefer numpad numbers to the number keys.\",\n \"89\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, I think this has a lot to do with it. Liberal posts and movements are often about \\\"fighting for some cause\\\" using the federal government as the primary resource and organization. Conservatives fight for many of the same causes -- cancer research, poverty, illness -- they just do it through churches and private organizations, many of which have their own local network that doesn't really overlap with reddit.\",\n \"348\"\n ],\n [\n \"Academia is leftist because their industry and livelihood depends on heavy government funding. Also, choosing academia over some other more lucrative career is a clear philosophical and self-satisfying life choice. There are plenty of people that are intelligent enough to be professors, but choose a career in finance, or engineering, or medicine, or any number of other fields, because it is an objectively better decision from a financial standpoint.\",\n \"285\"\n ],\n [\n \"There is a difference between corruption and ethics violations. \\\"Corruption\\\" would generally be considered illegal. The FBI would investigate accusations of corruption and illegal activity. Ethics violations aren't necessarily against the law. A lot of the ethics violations are just based on rules that congress has set for themselves, like reporting certain types of income, or not receiving payment for another career while in office.\",\n \"314\"\n ],\n [\n \"How so? Ironically, GDP per capita of Denmark, which skyrocketed after 9/11 to higher than the US, has been stagnate for much of the past decade and fell by over 15% last year. The GDP per capita numbers are a bit inflated though, because Denmark has had a steadily declining fertility rate for over 20 years.\\n\\nIt's so bad, in fact, that Denmark has an ad campaign called \\\"Do It For Denmark\\\" that is [trying](_URL_2_) to [encourage](_URL_1_) and [guilt](_URL_0_) younger people into having more kids by going on vacation and having lots of sex.\",\n \"841\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, I tried a similar deck. You definitely need more 0-1 mana sacrifice outlets, since you need to be stealing and sacrificing by turn 3 and 4 consistently or else you'll just get run over by the creature decks you're trying to prey on, and decks like GB will be too big on turn 5/6 for wrangle to work anymore.\\n\\nAlso, you need to be getting ahead on board in terms of creatures. Sacrificing is removal, but there's already lots of efficient removal in the format. There were definitely games where I was hitting all my draws, but eventually, even if I was sacrificing all their creatures, eventually I would run out of gas, and they would be able to kill my 1-2 creatures. I felt like the only games I was winning was able to hit for 5-6 a turn and win by turn 6 or so.\\n\\nI tried variations of 3/4 color builds. Syndicate trafficker and defiant salvager are other 0-mana outlets. I tried adding hidden stockpile for value, but a lot of times it just felt there was never a good time to cast it. I tried a build with Catacomb sifter, and that actually worked pretty well to keep hitting Threaten effects or sacrifice outlets when I needed them.\",\n \"344\"\n ],\n [\n \"Lunar Force is a bad card, you're better off just playing more Void Shatters or Spell Shrivel, or Horribly Awry if you want more counter effects. I guess if you're plan is to play a lunar force and then tap out the next turn for an Eldrazi as a way to dodge sorcery-speed removal, it makes sense, but that is such a narrow situation and it still seems like a bad card in most every other situation.\\n\\nWith 24 lands and no ramp or mana cheating, you will likely never be able to cast Ulamog. You could maybe run an [[Oblivion Sower]] as a way to ramp you into it but still have a body on the board.\\n\\nTutor effects aren't really good unless you can combo off and win within a turn, or your deck is filled with a bunch of one-of utility cards. Even then, you probably don't want to pay 4 mana for it. You're better off switching those out for card draw if you want that effect, especially since there is a lot of blue card draw at instant speed.\",\n \"535\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, you really need the Dynavolt triggers to make them good. I could maybe see a similar idea for a deck with [[Paradox Engine]] or/or [[Panharmonicon]] and [[Consulate Turret]]. I think you would need a [[Whirler Virtuoso]] as an alternate energy sink, and also for the ETB energy triggers.\\n\\nThe general idea is to get ETB energy creatures and try to build up energy that way and the turret them to death while clogging up the board or just getting in for 2-3 damage a turn via combat.\",\n \"128\"\n ],\n [\n \"IMO, if *playing magic* and *brewing decks* are your favorite parts of magic, you should absolutely be playing MTGO. Cards are considerably cheaper and the loss margins on selling a deck to buy another one are *way, way lower*, like 5-10%. With the creation of magic leagues, its way more convenient to play a bunch of games instead of having to wait for the entire round to end. The competition is usually much better than you would see at a normal FNM as well.\\n\\nBasically, when it comes to buying decks, you get more for your money on magic online. The downsides are that the MTGO meta can be substantially different than the paper meta, and you don't get the actual experience of holding the cards and seeing your opponent. But I enjoy MTGO a lot.\",\n \"344\"\n ],\n [\n \"[[Pacification Array]] in limited\\n\\nReally this could be said for any cheap, repeatable \\\"tapper\\\" effect. It's great in control because it slows down your opponent until you can cast your finishers. In aggro, it taps down their best blockers so you can get through for damage, including being able to tap one creature on their end step and one on your step to get in for a giant alpha strike.\\n\\nThe card just seems okay, but I've played games where it basically just won me the game.\",\n \"535\"\n ],\n [\n \"None of the control decks really want to ever tap out. Plus, Summonings is only good if your opponent can't remove the thing it's enchanting, so if it's good at all, it would really only be good in game 1, where there's a possibility your opponent didn't maindeck artifact removal.\\n\\nWhat targets would there be?\\n\\n### Dynavolt Tower\\n\\nIt doesn't synergize with the Tower, and if you have to tap out and they remove your tower (there's a good deal of artifact removal) or it gets countered, you just wasted 5 mana, and you are shields down for a turn. The alternate win condition is mostly meaningless here. In most cases, you're better off just leaving up mana for removal and card draw, both of which synergize with the Tower. The Tower is your win condition, better off protecting it than trying to \\\"win more\\\"\\n\\n### Torrential Gearhulk\\n\\nAgain, it's good if it survives, but given that nearly all the top decks play removal, and control decks don't have many targets for that removal, there's a good chance that your opponent is holding a fistful of exile, destroy, and sacrifice effects. Torrential is your win condition, if it dies, you die. Better to protect it than trying to \\\"win more\\\"\\n\\n### Clues\\n\\nFun idea. Gets some card advantage. The alternate win condition is a possibility. But most of the clue control decks are pretty janky and the Tower is a better card IMO.\",\n \"344\"\n ],\n [\n \"It hasn't dropped substantially since the meta shifted about a month ago. It spiked after the Pro Tour when it did well, and then came back down once everyone realized that Saheeli was good again and that Mardu was just a better version of most of the BG decks.\\n\\nThe price is roughly were it was a few weeks ago, but it's likely going to keep dropping a bit because most of the good BG decks are energy based and have no use for the Flayer. \\n\\nThe price is also dropping (like the price of pretty much all the cards in standard) because of MM17. People are selling off the stuff they don't use so they can spend more on the new Modern cards.\",\n \"471\"\n ],\n [\n \"Not if it's a significant reprinting enough to bring the prices to reasonable levels. There's a price point above which many players would consider buying a proxy and trying to pass it off as real in tournaments. What price point is that? $50? $100? $1000? It's different for everyone, but there's a price point where 99% of the magic community is going to choose to buy authentic cards. So all you have to do is find that price point (I'm guessing like $75-$100), and print enough cards to keep them below that threshold and proxies become a non-issue.\",\n \"471\"\n ],\n [\n \"That sounds like complete BS. The *only* format Wizards really supports is Standard. They even say so. The bans. The Pro Tour. The rotation change. The block cadence change. These are major changes that were all done with only Standard in mind.\\n\\nIt seems a bit of a cop out for <PERSON> to say \\\"Oh, I'm just the design guy, I don't concern myself with competitive play\\\". The fuck he doesn't. How can you design a game without thinking about how players are going to compete with each other in that game? \\n\\nBasically, he's not allowed to say anything about upcoming sets, so he doesn't. He should just say he can't give any spoilers instead of making excuses about only being the \\\"Design Guy\\\".\",\n \"508\"\n ],\n [\n \"True, but the number of cards that derive most of their value as collectibles is pretty limited IMO (basically a small portion of the reserved list and a few other early cards). I don't think collectors are generally what is driving the demand for proxies/fakes, it's mostly players who need the cards for their decks. A lot of players don't necessarily care what edition a card was printed in, so long as they can play it. Any card that derives most of it's value for it's collector status likely won't be effected much by proxies or reprintings. If Wizards decided to start reprinting Black Lotuses as masterpieces, I don't think it would really affect the price of Alpha Lotuses that much.\\n\\nPlus, it's much more difficult to sell fakes/proxies to collectors than it is to the average Modern/Legacy/EDH player that just wants the card for their deck. I'm sure if fakes/proxies got better, collectors would find a way to better track and legitimize all the real cards.\",\n \"471\"\n ],\n [\n \"I upgraded to wireless AC for my main gaming machine, and it's essentially a gigibit connection. Transfer speeds are indistinguishable from wired. I mean, it probably won't work well in a 100 year old brick house, but for me it works well.\\n\\nGigabit has been around a while. The limiting factor for most people is their WAN speed, which is slowly increasing. Home gigabit has been around for a while and there's really not a lot of pressure to make it faster. Commercial 10gib has been around about as long, but you don't really see it being marketed for home networks.\",\n \"938\"\n ],\n [\n \"I know, it seems odd to me that the Federal Judicial branch is the one branch of government that is immune from the electorate. On the local level, we all recognize that it's a good thing that Judge's should be elected, as they are in most states.\\n\\nFor what reason Federal Judges don't have to be elected, I have no clue. I've heard people say that it makes them more impartial because they don't need to worry about getting replaced for making an unpopular decision. But it also means they don't fear being replaced for making biased, partisan, self-serving decisions either. That's not a good thing.\",\n \"861\"\n ],\n [\n \"They don't need to follow the electorate, but they at least need to be able to justify it to the electorate. There's no reason we should be looking to Federal Judges as if they are some magical source of infinite wisdom. Court decision read a lot like party talking points these days. Seldom do I see a court decision make a moral or constitutionally based argument.\",\n \"861\"\n ],\n [\n \"I read it, I understand the intent argument, but the other two arguments -- that it effectively targets a religion because the country has an arbitrary > 90% majority religion, and that it still targets a religion despite the fact that plenty of majority Muslim countries aren't banned -- seems like fatally flawed logic to me.\\n\\nBasically, the entire ruling is based on determining intent, which can be subjective and open to interpretation, and intents can change. There's really no legal basis for any of the arguments besides the intent argument, and even that's pretty thin.\",\n \"296\"\n ],\n [\n \"I mean, it works if you have a dozen people in a startup all working on similar projects and having an open office means you can rent out a cool old industrial loft and put in couches and beanbags and give it a warm and cozy feel since you're there 12 hours a day.\\n\\nBut then it's adopted by 100-200+ corporate offices that have all the downsides of an open design and none of the benefits. It doesn't really work the same.\",\n \"479\"\n ],\n [\n \"Except those were based on official statements by actual named officials. Here, we just have more \\\"anonymous officials\\\" with zero evidence yet again. It's made even worse by this statement that seems to discredit the entire argument\\n\\n > The officials interviewed in recent weeks said that, so far, they had seen no evidence of such cooperation.\\n\\nWait, so you're paraphrasing anonymous officials, implying that <PERSON> was colluding with Russians. And then in the next sentence say those officials don't think he's colluding with them? Which one is it? It makes no sense.\",\n \"860\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think you make an excellent point. If anything comes out of this investigation, it will just be \\\"yeah, exactly what we knew all along, <PERSON> has contacts and business interests in Russia\\\". The problem is that none of that stuff is illegal, and <PERSON> will just shrug it off like \\\"Well, yeah, I have business interests across the entire world\\\". Everyone that supported him won't care. Everyone that hated him will still hate him. This isn't going to change anyone's mind.\",\n \"853\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think you hit the nail on the head. There's a lot of people that don't really identify with either party, but often vote Democrat. And a lot of those people completely wrote off <PERSON> when it seemed like the Democratic platform was more focused on hardcore liberal issues like renaming the Redskins, or making all bathrooms unisex, than actually focusing on \\\"real\\\" issues, like the economy, terrorism, immigration, and foreign policy.\",\n \"468\"\n ],\n [\n \"I mean, these are the kinds of stories we've been hearing for the past couple months -- \\\"anonymous officials\\\" make varied and contradicting outrageous claims. None of it means anything until someone official goes on record with something real. For all we know these are just some disgruntled peons commenting on the standard vetting all government officials get as part of their security clearance.\",\n \"452\"\n ],\n [\n \"Tournaments aren't cheap. Average GP attendance over the last year is something like 1300 people. At $75, that's roughly 100k. Half of that is paid back in prize money. So with 50k, they have to rent out a convention center, organize promotional materials, platmats, etc., organize judges, and then pay for the coverage team, pay the pro appearance fees, plus all the other expenses that go into organizing large events.\\n\\nLast year when Wizards wanted to end the pro appearance fees, players almost universally complained. When wizards cut GP coverage, players complained. You can't have it both ways. You either want large, expensive events, with big payouts, or you want small, cheap events with few cash prizes. Everything the community has done points to wanting the former. And that is what wizards has done.\",\n \"610\"\n ],\n [\n \"Because they don't want Modern or Legacy PTQ's since there are no Modern or Legacy PT's. They also don't want player to need 2 competitive decks in two different formats. So Modern and Legacy players will do limited PTQ's and Limited players will play standard PTQs. A player at a GP will only ever need 1 competitive deck.\",\n \"471\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's funny. In the US, students used to all take Home Economics. It taught some household skills like cooking, ironing, and sewing. But it also taught things like budgeting, interest, and taxes. A lot of schools began dropping the course and replacing it with \\\"Technology\\\" courses about 20 years ago. It seems now people are beginning to realize the importance of financial literacy.\",\n \"832\"\n ],\n [\n \"Show intent to what? Do business in Russia? I think it's pretty far-fetched to seriously believe <PERSON> has some ulterior motive to harm america by colluding with Russians.\\n\\nRepublicans won't oppose <PERSON>. He's too popular. He gathered more votes than any Republican that's ever run for president. Many of the congressman who won their districts owe a lot of that to <PERSON>. <PERSON> supporters are among the most loyal there are. Expect any congressman or senators who oppose <PERSON> to be personally targeted by <PERSON> in the next election and immediately be voted out. For better or for worse, <PERSON> is president, and likely will be for the next 8 years. Instead of simply protesting *every* thing he does, you'd be better off actually proposing real and alternative solutions to the problems and issues <PERSON> supporters care about -- immigration, terrorism, job outsourcing, the economy -- instead of of focusing on a bunch of trivial pet issues like renaming the Redskins or transgender bathrooms.\",\n \"853\"\n ],\n [\n \"You get more value IMO if you sell your paper cards for MTGO credit. With power creep and masters reprints, along with Wizards continuing to push out Modern in favor of standard, there's really no guarantee of cards holding value anymore once they rotate out of Standard unless they're on the reserve list (which has it's own set of problems).\\n\\nI like playing lots of different decks, and I can play significantly more decks on MTGO than I can in paper because it's that much cheaper. Plus, if I want to try a new deck, buy prices on MTGO are like a 5% markdown from sell prices. So I can bump around from a bunch of standard decks and only take a $10-15 hit each time (most STD decks don't cost more than $200-300 online). You could never do that in paper. You take like a 30-40% hit selling your cards.\\n\\nLike you, I very rarely find a time where I can set aside 4/5 hours to play in person. With leagues on MTGO now, it's much easier to fit a game in here or there and I don't have to spend a bunch of time waiting around for rounds to end.\\n\\nI still love playing magic in person; I still go to all the Pre-releases, and maybe the occasional draft, or local tournament, or maybe even a GP or SCG open if it comes to my city, but it's been a while since I've been able to hit up an FNM.\",\n \"471\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm not really sure, it feels like if anything they make the card more popular at least for a little while after the reprint. Prices are **way** more swingier on MTGO. Cards can quickly go up several hundred percent if a deck becomes popular, and then fall to like almost worthless in the span of a couple weeks. That comment was just to say that thinking of magic cards (in paper or digital) as an investment that will hold value isn't really going to pay off. You're better off just buying the cards you're going to use, and then selling the ones you're not. I basically sell most of my cards whenever standard rotates. I'll usually keep lands, and maybe some cards that I really like to play, but that's about it.\",\n \"471\"\n ],\n [\n \"> at some point he'll do something to alienate some number of Republican senators\\n\\nI think you're still under the misguided assumption that it matters at all what congressman and senators think of <PERSON>. Sure, they don't like him. That's part of his appeal. So long as <PERSON> is popular with Republican voters (and he is), Republicans can't touch him. If this election has proven anything, it's that <PERSON> supporters don't really care how much dirt they throw at him. It could come out tomorrow that <PERSON> killed a man and I don't think his supporters would even bat an eye. Hell, it might increase his popularity.\",\n \"249\"\n ],\n [\n \"There are enough serious side effects and interactions with the different forms of birth control that it makes sense to consult with at least one healthcare professional before starting it the first time. That being said, Pharmacists, PA's, RN's, heck, even Pharmacist Assistants generally have enough knowledge to correctly recommend the right one.\",\n \"343\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, I feel like most standards at least allowed you to play some of the jankier decks built around some of the lesser played mythics and rares. At worst you'd get to do some oil durdly things with your deck and then lose on turn 12 or 13. Now all those decks lose on turn 4 without getting to even play any of the cool expensive cards.\",\n \"344\"\n ],\n [\n \"You can play the red combustible artifact. Black has sinister concoction and the other enchantment that destroy creatures, the second one requires artifacts though. Any of the pingers work as well, they used to see play in the Ur spells deck. If you can discard, fiery temper works. Either way, these all require you to leave up at least 1 MANA every turn plus whatever it requires to trigger the other costs for those situational spells.\",\n \"961\"\n ],\n [\n \"I mean, you've basically just described what a good regular standard format looks like. That being said, I think most of the problem is saheeli. It's the only consistent turn 4 deck in standard that really limits what you can do to interact with it. I mean, that was basically the same complaint with Marvel and why Emrakul was banned. It's a turn 4 deck that is difficult to interact with. People like to point to all the removal options, but that's kind of meaningless since saheeli can just stall to turn 6 or 7 and just counter whatever removal you have.\\n\\nMardu is technically a turn 4 deck, but realistically it's more like a 5/6 turn deck if you have at least some removal.\",\n \"344\"\n ],\n [\n \"When I first moved to LA almost 15 years ago, I had to get a new cell phone. So I went to a T-Mobile near West Hollywood. I was trying to get some help, so I look over at the counter and there is <PERSON> in all his glory. There was only one girl working in the store, and she was *completely* infatuated with <PERSON>. I figured there was just no way I can compete with that. So I ended up going to Verizon instead.\",\n \"898\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well, the problem is both Saheeli and Mardu Vehicles can win on turn 4. BG isn't far behind, turn 5 or 6. \\n\\nI'm guessing the nut draw for the improvise deck is turn 1: artifact, turn 2: artifact, turn 3: statuary, into 7 drop improvise on turn 4, or maybe 8 drop on 5. But are there any good 7-8 drops that just win you the game? Plus you have to find a way to stay alive that long and hope your bombs don't just die to unlicensed disintegration. And if you don't draw statuary, you're just stuck with a bunch of useless 7 drops that you'll never get to cast. \\n\\nI like the idea, but it seems like it requires a lot to come together for not that big of a payoff.\",\n \"344\"\n ],\n [\n \"Exactly, and both those points are wrong. Theres never been a time when technical innovation and increased efficiency and production through automation has resulted in less tax revenue. The idea that the economy is going to collapse and there will be no jobs isn't a new idea. People have been preaching that nonsense every time we displace or obsolete an industry going all the way back to the luddites.\",\n \"28\"\n ],\n [\n \"Because technically it's a separate company. You could do the same thing. Set up an LLC, or whatever the foreign equivalent is, and receive foreign payments to that Corp. As long as the money stays in that Corp, you don't pay US taxes on it, though you'll probably pay foreign taxes on it. But now, if you ever want to bring that money back to the US economy, you'll be taxed *again*. This is why so many companies just leave their money overseas. It's just not worth the double tax.\",\n \"940\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's a pejorative term for any economic (but usually tax-related) policy that benefits wealthy people or corporations. It's usually used to refer to the tax cuts in the US originally instituted by <PERSON>. <PERSON> cut the top tax rate from 70% to 28%, and cut the bottom rate from 15% to 11%. Eventually they re-raised the bottom rate back to 15% (which was stupid). <PERSON> lowered it back to 10% when he cut taxes. There were other parts of his economic policy, like cutting certain departments and overall spending, but he was less successful with those. \\n\\nIn general, the idea behind *supply-side or free market economics* is that a large bureaucratic institution like the Federal government is not very efficient at spending and redistributing money. It makes no sense to tax poor and middle-class people on the margins, and then have states fight to get that money back so it can be distributed to these same people through hundreds of different little welfare programs, each of which require time and effort to administer and to receive. Taxing the most productive people who earn the most income at absurdly high tax rates isn't effective either. It's never been shown to actually increase tax revenue, and the only real effect is that wealthy people either hide their income or move it to lower tax destinations, neither of which helps the US economy. It's better to just leave money in the economy rather than having a complex system of taxing that money out and then trying to spend and redistribute it over an entire nation.\",\n \"786\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Companies always want to make as much money as possible.\\n\\nThat's kind of the point. People and companies spending the money are going to be as efficient as possible with that money. They are going to get the most production, the most services, the best bang for their buck out of that money. If you tax that money away, and try to spend or redistribute it through a large bureaucracy like the Federal government, most of it ends up getting wasted and it's spent for many reasons that have nothing to do with efficiency and more to do with providing political favors.\",\n \"786\"\n ],\n [\n \"This seems like a false dichotomy. In supply-side economics, or at least the way it was implemented, we weren't giving money to anyone. It's the difference between high taxation with inefficient redistribution, or low taxation with very little redistribution. The whole idea was for the government to tax and spend less, and let those decisions be made by the market.\\n\\nThe conflict usually arises when you have an economy in a state that isn't working very efficiently. How do you get the economy \\\"going\\\" again? For Keynsians, the answer, regardless of the actual cause of the economic problems, is always to inflate the currency and create demand. It doesn't matter where in the economy that demand is created, you could literally just have people digging holes and filling them back up again, just create demand for something, so that people can fill that supply and earn money.\\n\\nFor supply-siders, the answer is not always the same. It depends on what caused the problem to begin with. Almost always, the initial cause was an external influence, like a government tax or economic policy, that caused that market to invest resources in non-productive ventures. Once it's realized that all those investments are worth nothing, people feel poorer, because they are, and so they spend less and the economy slows. Basically, all that bad investment *needs* to be made worthless and liquidated so that people stop investing resources in it. Once that happens, people can rebuild their investments again. Keysians sometimes acknowledge this, they just believe that there's no reason we should have to wait. Why go through a couple years of misery to get back to a productive economy when we could just print and spend money for two years to avert that misery? The problem is that without diagnosing the cause of the problem, Keynsians are just as likely to keep dumping money into unproductive ventures, and the market will never correct itself, and the problem will just be worse when the government spending is turned off.\",\n \"786\"\n ],\n [\n \"Core sets were usually a pretty fun draft format. It's possible that by the time the 3rd set came out in a block, I was so sick of drafting it that Core sets seemed much better than they were just because it was something different. I don't know that I'd want them back over the current 2 blocks a year format, though. Having a new draft format every other set is much better. If they released core sets as supplemental products, I don't think it would hate it.\",\n \"471\"\n ],\n [\n \"Saffron Olive did a [Deck Tech](_URL_0_) on a Mardu Reanimator deck that plays it as a 1-of. It doesn't really match up against the current meta very well. If games were longer and grindier, it might be better. It imposes a lot of deckbuilding restrictions, there's not a lot of room in the current meta to just tap out for 6 mana when it won't immediately win you the game, and there are easier ways to cheat big creatures into play with aetherworks marvel.\",\n \"344\"\n ],\n [\n \"Not really. Take a poll of magic players and you'll find an overwhelming majority in favor of abolishing the reserve list. Because most players don't have those cards. Take a look at the recent modern matters set. They reprinted nearly all the big money cards in the format. Wizards doesn't really have a problem with devaluing cards through reprints anymore. And bad around the MM3 hype, neither do most of the players\",\n \"471\"\n ],\n [\n \"See, this is how you do it. <PERSON> could have just criticized <PERSON> for 5 minutes, but what would that have accomplished? Maybe some reddit karma and a chance for democrats to pat themselves on the back for how clever they are. \\n\\nInstead, he made optimistic and empowering statements that play towards <PERSON> major issues -- jobs, free market, ego, legacy. He's actually making real arguments to try and persuade <PERSON> and his ilk, instead of just calling them idiots and racists.\",\n \"614\"\n ],\n [\n \"Think of any reasonably complex product you can buy right now. It's highly unlikely that you would save any money (especially if you factor in the cost of your time and labor) by trying to design and build it yourself. The reason defense contractors can design and build these things so much cheaper than the government is because they're *already* building similar products on the open market -- jets, rockets, airplanes, satellites. The overhead of factories and production are already being financed by other ventures. So when NASA comes out with a one-off product they need built, contractors are just going to use their existing build processes.\",\n \"74\"\n ],\n [\n \"Exactly, I think it's just about reworking priorities. People always act like there's this giant army of bad people out there who are deadset trying to ruin the environment and the EPA is some defense against them. Developers and manufacturers aren't these terrible people. The EPAs primary goal should be in helping and promoting clean business practices. You can't do that if your constantly slowing down projects and only seen as a bureaucratic nightmare.\",\n \"771\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's not necessarily that, it's just morally offensive to tax old people and poor people to pay for extravagances like space travel. Private market space travel is largely being paid for by very wealthy people. The price will come down, but it will still largely be funded by the wealthy for a while. And you didn't have to take money from poor and old people to do it.\",\n \"143\"\n ],\n [\n \"> An empirically general truth should be concealed in favor of not offending the conservatard snowflakes\\n\\nIt's not the <PERSON> people you should be worried about, it's all the other people that didn't vote for <PERSON> *or* <PERSON>. Demagoguing <PERSON> isn't really going to win them over for you\\n\\n > how's that record smashing disapproval rating working out for you?\\n\\nDoesn't seem to be having any effect. Republicans are still in the middle of repealing obamacare, dismantling a handful of bloated bureacracies, and cutting the budget. If the trend continues, by the time the next elections roll around we'll have lower taxes, the Dow and S & P will still be breaking all-time record highs, unemployment will continue to be at 10 year lows, and job growth will be stronger than it's been in a long time. Good luck winning that election.\\n\\nThe disapproval rating means nothing. If the last election taught us anything, it's that polls don't matter when it comes to <PERSON>. Apparently, there are a lot of people who don't publicly support <PERSON>, and might even disagree with a lot of his policies, but end up voting for him because of selfish reasons. Namely, the last thing they want are all the tax hikes Democrats keep proposing.\",\n \"800\"\n ],\n [\n \"Anything over the standard deduction ($6300) is going to get hit with federal income taxes. You're still going to pay 7.65% on everything for SS and medicare, plus the employer match, so you're wage is going to be a little lower to account for that. Then you usually have state income and payroll taxes.\\n\\nWhen you're only making $200-400/week, an extra $50-80 bucks makes a difference. Most people are going to be working the rest of their lives, a few years not paying SS benefits isn't that big of a deal.\",\n \"51\"\n ],\n [\n \"They've changed their format. Originally, IMAX was the super giant format that mostly only existed in museums and there wasn't a lot of content for them.\\n\\nWhen they switched to digital, they created a smaller format that supposedly lets viewers sit closer to the screen to give the same effect. I've been to both styles. I can honestly say that I never liked the old style IMAX and would never see a movie in one. They just made me sick.\\n\\nThe new-style theaters are basically just really good digital theaters. I haven't tried sitting super close to the screen or anything, but the picture and sound are about the best you can expect from a theater experience.\",\n \"321\"\n ],\n [\n \"How is this different from not wanting to pay income taxes? It is essentially the same thing but in a different form, no? Objecting to military service is one thing, but for civilian service, it's essentially like a mandatory 100% tax rate for 2 years.\\n\\nDon't get me wrong, I don't like the idea of compulsory service either, but I also don't like the idea of income taxes in general, and I don't see how you could reasonably draw a significant distinction between the two.\",\n \"322\"\n ],\n [\n \"Also, if you're doing an emergency compulsory draft, the overwhelming majority of that force is going to be combat infantry. The size, weight, and strength differences between men and women make women almost universally unsuited for that type of military service. It's far more expensive and problematic to try and pick out the 1-3% of women that may be suited for combat infantry than to just not draft them at all.\",\n \"798\"\n ],\n [\n \"Functionally, they're the same group. It's not correlation, it's just the same exact demographic. If I say rain is slippery, and showers are slippery, and the reason is because water is slippery, I'm not correlating showers to rain, I'm just stating that the reason is water. We know the suicide rate of men is higher than women. If you measure populations that contain mostly men, then you're likely going to get a higher suicide rate compared to other professions that contain more women and fewer men.\",\n \"490\"\n ],\n [\n \"> more self-administration\\n\\nMoreso than other careers? Do you think it's at all related to the binary success of Ph.D students? That is, an uncompleted 5 year Ph.D. is worth almost nothing compared to a completed Ph.D, whereas 5 years spent in a job that I end up leaving for a different career still has value and doesn't necessarily feel like wasted time.\",\n \"907\"\n ],\n [\n \"But your solution isn't any more equitable. The premise of your argument is that because current fines are the same for all people, those with higher incomes will be more likely to commit a crime because the *perceived* punishment is less than it would be for people of lower income.\\n\\nIf punishments were a percentage of Income, then the *perceived* punishment would be far, far less for lower income people, especially for severe crimes. If the fine for theft was a percentage of income, people with little to no income have very little to lose with a percentage-based fine structure.\\n\\nI would argue that current data on which economic demographics are more likely to commit crimes would show that people of lower incomes are more likely to commit crimes than those with higher income. So your proposal is a solution in search of a problem that doesn't actually exist.\",\n \"314\"\n ],\n [\n \"Corporations can't donate to campaigns. When individuals donate to a campaign, they have to list their employer. Individuals have a yearly limit of $2700. So when the news says she received $600k over 14 years, that translates to about 15 people that work for telecoms giving her the max donation every year.\\n\\nThe problem with restricting campaign donations is that people just end up spending the money themselves. That's why we have superpacs now with spending that is largely completely untracked. If I'm a wealthy person, instead of donating a measly $2700, I'll just buy $1 million in campaign ads myself. Advertising is protected speech, so you can't stop it.\\n\\n\\nThe real solution is to reduce the budget that politicians have to spend, or decentralize those decisions. If you're going to give a few hundred people the power to spend almost 25% of the entire economy, then people are going to try and influence that spending. The problem is giving too few people too much power, not campaign contributions.\",\n \"736\"\n ],\n [\n \"If you can splash another color, [[Painful Truths]] can draw you an extra card. Going green would get you access to some energy, so [[Glint-Sleeve Siphoner]] could get you some repeatable card draw and a way to chip in for damage. It would also give you access to [[Catacomb Sifter]], which can combo with [[Hidden Stockpile]] to get a decent amount of scrys, which are pretty close to drawing in the late game. \\n\\nThe biggest problem is that a lot of those cards are too slow for the format, and only work if you're doing something truly broken, like abusing Kalastria Healer and Zulaport Cutthroat. [[Pious Evangel]] might be another card with a similar effect.\\n\\nThough, I'm thinking of this more as an aristocrats deck than an allies deck.\",\n \"535\"\n ],\n [\n \"Mercurial takes a simple idea -- branches -- and splits that concept between two different features -- branches and bookmarks -- neither of which work as well as git branches.\\n\\nMost of the time, branches are meant to be disposable. They exist only so we can continue multiple lines of development simultaneously, without disturbing the \\\"master\\\" or \\\"trunk\\\". Once a branch is completed, maintaining that branch or the incremental history in that branch isn't all that useful and just serves as noise in the commit log. Mercurial doesn't have a concept of local vs tracked branches from another repository, so there's no elegant way to deal with name conflicts for branches you pull from another repo. Mercurial branches are all long-lived. It's an unnecessary maintenance burden, and although the burden may be small, it's still just added noise. \\n\\nBookmarks are like a less useful version of git branches. They allow us to create temporary \\\"branches\\\" of development, but they're not easily sharable with others, and they don't prevent commits from disturbing master/trunk. The fact that hg uses two different features for essentially the same thing seems to indicate a fundamental flaw in the initial branch design.\",\n \"95\"\n ],\n [\n \"True, but most projects don't care about tracking the hundreds of branches that have existed over the life of a product. Once a feature is completed, I don't really care what the name of the branch was, or even if the history is a separate branch. It's much more elegant, historically, to have that feature show up as a single commit in the master branch. I don't care about all the iterative commits that were made while that feature was being developed. I don't care that the feature was initially branched from commit 1234 and merged in at 1267. I just want to see that at commit 1266 the product didn't have this feature, and at 1267, it did have this feature. Maintaining branch history is just added noise that has no real additional value.\",\n \"95\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Since hg's \\\"bookmarks\\\" are the equivalent of git \\\"branches\\\"\\n\\nBut they're not. You can't easily share bookmarks. They're not tracked along with the repo. And the don't prevent you from disturbing the master branch. I'd say bookmarks are likely to lead to more trouble, since locally, it feels like you're working with a bunch of different \\\"branches\\\", but remotely, you're just pushing everything to master.\",\n \"570\"\n ],\n [\n \"I assume you're talking about git rebase, which while technically supported in hg via an extension, isn't heavily used by most people.\\n\\nYou don't actually lose information with git rebase. The full history of commits is still there. All you're doing is curating the history that you publish for others to see and that eventually make their way into the master branch.\\n\\nIt allows me to do things like create several different local branches with different strategies for implementing a feature, with plenty of commits to preserve development states, but when pushing that out to others to view, there's really no value in pushing all that noise and adding 50 commits to the main commit tree. It's an extra step that hg users don't really consider. Git users don't *have* to do this commit log curation, but because the git tools and workflow make it relatively easy, many do.\",\n \"570\"\n ],\n [\n \"Not really. Initially, hg had far better windows support, a much better command line interface, and the transition support from svn to hg was much better. But that was like 6-7 years ago. Moving from svn \\\"branching\\\" to hg branching literally changed the way I develop. It was such a huge improvement it's really hard to explain in words. But git branching is just better. And the tools for sharing your commits and branches with others are much better simply because more people in git use them and so they get developed. I have the feeling that most people that still use hg use it in roughly the same way they used (or would have used) svn, perhaps with a bit more branching. But I don't think they're really taking advantage of the power of DVCS's and commit curation that is pretty standard in the git community.\",\n \"684\"\n ],\n [\n \"Not sure it's worth splashing for green. For humans to work,you really need to be playing creatures on curve starting on turn 1. You can't really afford taplands or inconsistent Mana. Also, Avacyn is a better in the 5 drop slot in almost every scenario. Kari zev is probably better than Pia and costs 1 less Mana. \\n\\nYou could probably cut a land or two and sigarda to add Gideon or the anthem enchantment or just more 1 drops like inventors apprentice.\",\n \"122\"\n ],\n [\n \"I've seen two flavors of Tezzeret decks. The first is a UB or Grixis Improvise deck that plays things like [[Servo Schematic]] and [[Implement of Combustion]] to ramp out Improvise cards like [[Maverick Thopterist]], [[Bastion Inventor]], and especially [[Herald of Anguish]]. In that deck, Tezz is usually a 1 or 2-of.\\n\\nThe other deck are various versions of control decks. Sometimes it's straight UB with Torrential Gearhulk as the top end, and sometimes it's a 3 or 4-color dynavolt deck that just happens to have Tezz in it.\\n\\nI don't have much experience with the 2nd deck, but the first one can be good when you get the nut draws, but pretty terrible if you don't draw your cards in the right order.\",\n \"344\"\n ],\n [\n \"But there are plenty of people that pay for Google services, or people that got windows upgrades for free. The fact that a company has a free option doesn't really change the root of the argument. Now you're just arguing about prices. For all you know, paid products are cheaper because the sellers can monetize the advertising data. What if a service was only a dollar a year, then can they sell advertising data?\",\n \"358\"\n ],\n [\n \"Basically, the FCC reclassified an entire industry just so it could regulate it and take that power away from the FTC, who normally regulates issues dealing with consumer protection, and regulates other internet companies like google, Facebook, microsoft, etc.\\n\\nIn many ways, the FCC is becoming obsolete. They used to regulate the phone companies, and the public airwaves, and much of it was related to censoring content. But many of those technologies are less relevant today, and censoring content isn't as popular an issue as it once was, and most content isn't distributed over public airwaves like it once was. This is basically a last ditch attempt by the FCC to remain relevant.\",\n \"717\"\n ],\n [\n \"If magic continues to grow, and wizards doesn't actually address the reprint issue, Modern will die. Maybe not right away, but a format can't grow indefinitely with a static supply of cards. Modern Masters doesn't really affect the supply that much. The price of Modern is already pretty restrictive, and unlike Standard, more Modern players will drive the deck prices up. In Standard, deck prices are pretty much determined by the price of the boosters, since if prices get too high, we can just open more boosters. \\n\\nModern worked initially because a lot of players *already* had a bunch of essentially worthless \\\"Modern\\\" cards that just weren't playable in any format, so Modern was created. But now you have a ton more players who haven't been playing that long. They don't have a bunch of Modern cards. But they do have a bunch of Frontier cards that are essentially worthless. So now we get Frontier. It will probably grow and replace Modern as the dominant non-rotating format. Modern will die just like Legacy did. Eventually, Frontier will die the same death in 5-6 years.\\n\\nOf course, this could all change if Wizards massively changes it's reprint policy and starts re-releasing entire sets, or the price of Modern Masters comes down.\",\n \"471\"\n ],\n [\n \"Legacy is dead by any reasonable measure. Of the dozens of GP's, only 1 is Legacy. It has zero presence in the pro circuit. Most LGS's don't even host Legacy events. Sure, there are some people that still play Legacy, but Legacy isn't growing. It's not attracting new players, because there just aren't enough cards to serve the current player base. Modern is beginning to suffer from the safe problem. The two benefits that modern has over Legacy is that the Player base was much larger at the time Modern cards were printed, so the supply was greater, and Modern doesn't have to deal with the Reserve List. \\n\\n > As I said before I don't think moderns soon to die either way\\n\\nI think that's probably true, too. The player base for Modern has always been much higher than Legacy. But it really depends on how quickly magic grows. If Wizards releases a Hearthstone-like client that works on tablets and phones, and the player base doubles, Modern will die much quicker. There's a limited number of events and tournaments every year. New players are playing Standard and Limited almost exclusively. As the new player base grows, it's only going to push out Modern events the same way Legacy got pushed out.\\n\\nWizards could fix it though (even for Legacy, too). They could scrap the reserve list, start unlimited reprint sets that run alongside the normal standard set printings and make Modern and Legacy a relevant part of the Pro Tour again.\",\n \"471\"\n ],\n [\n \"The main advantage is price, and I don't think that would degrade all that quickly. There is *a lot* of M15+ cards in circulation, far more than many of the Modern sets. But yeah, it's going to suffer the same problem eventially, especially if it ever gets a pro tour presence, because then the metagame tends to warp around whatever was played at the pro tour and all the prices spike.\",\n \"471\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Except the promotional tour isn't for showing off old cards. They want the newest cards on camera\\n\\nTrue, it doesn't have to be the whole Pro Tour. They already split up the Pro Tour into Standard and Limited sections. They could just replace one of the Standard sections with Modern or Legacy. Or make it a larger side event that takes place the day before. Plus, if they start doing reprint runs, showing those cards being used in Modern and Legacy will probably sell more product as well\\n\\n > Most lgs don't run modern much less frontier\\n\\nWhat LGS's are you going to? At all the LGS's near me, Modern is just as, if not more popular than Standard. For example, at the biggest LGS near me, they run *two* Modern events at FNM and only a single Standard event. I think that's probably due more to a lot of people that are tired of the current standard, but Modern is still pretty popular. I think Standard still has the most long-term growth potential.\",\n \"471\"\n ],\n [\n \"Generally, it's when the geography or expense is such that building a bridge would be more expensive given the size of ships that need to pass through the waterway. \\n\\nA good example is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. The channel needs to allow US Navy ships to pass, like Aircraft Carrier size navy ships. It wouldn't really be economical to build a bridge that size. So for the portions of the bridge that cross the actual shipping channels, there is a tunnel instead of a bridge.\",\n \"485\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yes, they should have allowed all that bad debt to be liquidated. Basically, housing prices should have fallen at least 30-40%. Probably half of the investment banks should have been forced to declare bankruptcy and have their assets bought by the other half that were more responsible.\\n\\nFor the housing and investment banking industry, it would have been much, much worse... for about a year. But it would have been pretty great for everyone else. Instead, we spread that misery over the entire economy and it took 8 years to really recover.\",\n \"499\"\n ],\n [\n \"I feel like most of the Democratic party is in massive denial. Doubling down on super-progressive policies isn't going to win back middle America. Railing against racism and the 1% and transgender discrimination might play well to the base, but those aren't high priority issues for most of America. Foreign policy, immigration, domestic economic policy, terrorism -- these are the primary issues middle America cares about. If Democrats want to win again, they need to start addressing these issues as primary pillars of their platform instead of focusimg on the same dog whistle issues that progressives love to pat themselves on the back for, but largely fall on deaf ears when it come toThe rest of America.\",\n \"468\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think the progressive wing of the Democratic party has deluded themselves into thinking their issues are far more relevant and popular than they really are. It's not that the Democratic establishment is opposed to economic justice, or environmental policy changes, or military non-intervention, or campaign finance reform, it's just that none of those issues are high priority issues for most voters. Most of the nation is concerned with economic policy, immigration, and foreign policy. Republicans are talking about these issues. Democrat politicians aren't, except to complain about Republicans.\",\n \"313\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's because most of their accusations aren't based on anything. Yelp doesn't manipulate reviews. They certainly manipulate rankings and search results, but so does Google. Keeping a good yelp presence requires work. If your the type of business that doesn't really care if 1 out of a hundred customers leaves unhappy, you're going to have terrible Yelp reviews even if 99% of your customers are happy, because angry people leave more reviews. You either need to make sure customers don't leave angry, or encourage your happy customers to go on Yelp and leave rewiews\",\n \"99\"\n ],\n [\n \"It makes lobbying much more expensive and less effective. If you only have to cultivate relationships with a couple hundred people, lobbying is easier. If all 500+ people change every couple years, you have to spend a lot more time and money cultivating those relationships. Also, people are generally the most idealistic when they first arrive in office. It's good that they have to leave office before they get too jaded and just start trying to monetize their position.\",\n \"736\"\n ],\n [\n \"The Forbes article isn't very convincing. All they did was run a job search for Liberal Arts, History, and English and (surprise!) managed to find some job postings. They didn't compare the *total number* of available jobs vs the number of graduates, or even compare it to job searches for other majors.\\n\\nI think there is plenty of evidence to show that the rapidly rising cost of college has made Liberal Arts and similar majors a poor return on investment.\",\n \"108\"\n ],\n [\n \"Anything more than about $2, or anything that sees regular play in standard get sleeved and goes in a binder.\\n\\nBulk rares go into square plastic cases that hold about 100 cards, unsleeved.\\n\\nCommons/Uncommons go into cardboard boxes. I used to separate them by set/rarity/color, but now I don't even bother and just keep them separated by set.\\n\\nPretty much everything in the binder gets sold before it rotates out of standard. I'll usually sell the bulk rares/mythics at the same time.\",\n \"471\"\n ],\n [\n \"All the things you're mentioning though have either already happened or we tried it and didn't like it so we stopped automating it.\\n\\nRetail and cashiers are already being automated. It works okay. Hopefully amazon does a better job than the current automated checkouts.\\n\\nWe've been automating factories for a long time. That will continue to happen.\\n\\nTrucks and taxis will become automated. Delivery probably not so much. Deliveries are too varied for robots at the moment. Just walking up stairs or traversing uneven terrain is fairly difficult task for robots right now.\\n\\nHotels, banks, and wait staff are already about as automated as they ever will be. It turns out that in the hospitality industry, people prefer dealing with humans. Also, the types of jobs we're talking about have to deal with a lot of different requests that can't necessarily be scripted. \\n\\nIt's worth noting that these types of improvements don't necessarily \\\"take away jobs\\\". For example, the Amazon stores are likely adding jobs. Those retail outlets didn't exist before. They still need people to stock the store and deliver the items. And to plan future stock and manage the inventory. Those jobs didn't exist before either.\",\n \"28\"\n ],\n [\n \"Automation leading to less work and automation leading to mass unemployment are two very different things. \\n\\nChild labor was never very productive to begin with. Child labor didn't end because of automation, it ended because we became much wealthier.\\n\\n > we're living longer\\n\\nThat would seem to counter much of your argument. People living longer means they're still occupying jobs that could have been given to someone younger. So the end effect is that there needs to be *more* jobs as people live longer.\\n\\n > People used to work until they died.\\n\\nBelieve it or not, the concept of retirement has existed much longer than you think. At least more than a hundred years for the general population. Again, not really a result of automation, but of increased wealth.\\n\\n > 34 hour work week\\n\\nTrue, but again, this is largely the result of increased wealth, not automation. People in developing countries have access to many of the same automation techniques, and yet they still work many more hours because they're societies aren't wealthy.\\n\\nAs you'll notice, none of these wealthy luxuries that allowed us to work less lead to mass unemployment or a collapse of society or a reduction in overall wealth of the average person. Quite the opposite in fact.\\n\\n > .One might wonder what happens if the trends of the past ~200 years continue.\\n\\nProbably more of the same of what has been happening. We will be more productive. We will be wealthier. If the productivity gain is high enough people may even start to work less hours per week. They may retire sooner. All good things.\\n\\nWhat won't happen is long-term mass unemployment. That would be unprecedented in history.\",\n \"28\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Only if you're using some weird, unintuitive definition for unemployment like the bureau of labor statistics does\\n\\nMy definition of unemployment is people wanting and needing to work, and not being able to. People that don't work because they *choose* not to work, and because they can afford not to work are not unemployed. \\n\\n > I don't follow your \\\"we're wealthier\\\" argument\\n\\nChildren not working and old people retiring earlier is a luxury, made available by the fact that we're wealthier (which is indirectly the result of capital resources, technical innovation, and yes, automation). Child labor still exists in this world, but it's mainly limited to poor families in poor countries that *require* that child labor to survive. They don't have the luxury of allowing their children to engage in non-productive behavior, like school, which may yield greater productivity in the future, but only if you're able to sacrifice productivity *now*. It's an investment. Poor families in extremely poor countries don't have the luxury of making that investment.\\n\\nMy point is that working less has always been the result of increased wealth. It's never been the result of job loss due to automation. \\n\\n > So what happens if that trend of less work continues?\\n\\nThat would be a good thing. The only way that would happen is if production skyrockets, leading to greater overall wealth, meaning we can all afford the luxury of working less for the same quality of life. That's much different than the narrative being pushed by the \\\"OMG automation, the sky-is-falling\\\" crowd. They believe automation will lead to mass unemployment where everyone is much poorer. I agree that both scenarios will have less people working, but in my scenario they will only work less if they choose to, and even then, they will be wealthier.\\n\\nWorking is a largely a value judgement. Right now, I could earn more money by getting a second job and working more hours. That choice is available to many people. But most people *choose* not to work more hours, because they value their free time *more* than the nominal increase in wealth provided by working more hours. This same dynamic applies in your example. As production increases in the future because of automation, the purchasing power of workers should also increase by a similar amount. If production gains are 20%, I could either choose to work the same amount of hours with a 20% increase in the standard of living, or work 20% fewer hours for the same standard of living, or some combination in the middle.\",\n \"28\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well, the main difference is it will be a fraction of the cost. The moon missions in the 60's used extremely expensive components that could only be used for a single launch with minimal payload and were either destroyed or unusable afterwards. SpaceX missions are flown with almost 100% reusable components (except the fuel, of course). It's a rather large design jump.\\n\\nIt's kind of like the difference between the first mainframe computers and the first personal computer.\",\n \"241\"\n ],\n [\n \"> productivity pay gap\\n\\nIt's a little bit disingenuous. The problem is highlighted really well by the [one article](_URL_0_) you mentioned. Take a look at the \\\"Labor Productivity\\\" and \\\"Real GDP per Capita\\\" lines. Seems kind of odd that Labor Productivity would go up, and Real GDP per capita doesn't, right? How could that happen? It's mostly an artifact of measuring GDP in terms of prices and nominal income. \\n\\nLets say there's a factory that can produce 100 widgets a year, and sells them for $10/widget ($1000 in GDP per year). Now, the next year the company is able to reduce costs significantly (through automation) and is able to produce twice as many widgets (200). Instead of charging the same price as before (which would result in a doubling of their contribution to the GDP), they decrease the price by 40% ($6/widget). So, they contribute $1200 to the GDP, an increase of 20%, even though their actual output increased 100%. \\n\\nTheoretically, producing more stuff means prices for everything should fall, leading to a higher standard of living and greater purchasing power for workers *even if their nominal salary doesn't increase*. In effect though, the deflationary pressure of increased production is at least partially counteracted by inflationary policies perpetrated by the Federal Reserve and other central banks.\\n\\nEither way, these points are kind of moot, because it still isn't going to lead to massive unemployment as the result of automation.\",\n \"73\"\n ],\n [\n \"Interesting, it looks like they've suspended plans to reuse the 2nd stage. It sounds like it's mostly a design limitation at the moment -- not wanting to reduce the payload just to make the 2nd stage reusable. I still think reusability is the ultimate goal (at least it was originally designed with reusability in mind), and once there is a sufficient number of launches it will become a priority again.\\n\\nStill, they're definitely reusing the first stage. They've been recovering them successfully for a while now, and they're set to start reusing first stage rockets this year. \\n\\nNeither the Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy have third stages AFAIK. \\n\\nIt's worth noting that the Falcon Heavy is just 3 Falcon 9 first stages tied together, so the reusability at least seems to scale.\",\n \"241\"\n ],\n [\n \"First of all, even if they weren't reusing anything, the launches are already an [order of magnitude cheaper](_URL_0_). Adjusting for inflation, the Saturn V cost about 1.23 *Billion* per launch. The Falcon Heavy will cost about $90 *Million*, and that's without reusing anything. Re-using the 3 stage 1 rockets should bring that cost down further.\\n\\nSecond, the fact that they're recovering the first stage intact means they've already saved that money. Considering they're already scheduled to start reusing rockets this year, I think it's safe to say they'll be reusing them in 2018 or later when the moon missions start.\",\n \"241\"\n ],\n [\n \"Interesting. The only price they have on their website is the $90 million figure, even though all the \\\"performance\\\" figures are for no recovery at all, except for the GTO amount (8 metric tons). However, based on [this interview](_URL_0_), it doesn't seem like they're factoring any possible savings from recovery into the price. I mean, it sounds like almost the entire cost of the launch is the cost of the first stage rocket. \\n\\nYou also have to consider that SpaceX is trying to turn a profit, while the NASA prices are just pure cost. 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Funded by the UK.\n\n > Why should the EU be the 1st to sign a contract with a phase 2 british vaccine?\n\nBecause that's how the UK has been so successful. It rapidly purchased vaccines at very early stages of development.\n\n > Can't the US and the UK be labeled as failures by failing to contract with curevac a phase 3 vaccine that might be ready in 1-2 months?\n\nNo because both countries are miles ahead in vaccinations and will be complete long before the EU.\n\n > The EU has order more vaccines as a % of total pop that the US.\n\nSo? The EU ordered late in pretty much every instance because it wanted to haggle on price.","374"],["I'm not lying. Read what they proposed. If a manufacturer has a shortfall in its commitment to the EU, the EU will block exports to other countries until the shortfall is made up.\n\nStop lying, and start reading.\n\n > EU countries would only grant such authorizations after making sure vaccine makers have delivered the doses of vaccines promised in their “advanced purchasing agreements” with the EU.\n\n > Since both Pfizer/BioNTech and Astra Zeneca are below their delivery targets, this would permit the EU to block exports up to the level of weekly delivery targets.","374"],["> When this is all over and the EU has not blocked or restricted a single drop, what then? you and all the other troglodytes will carry on, not a worry, despite all the lies, misinformation and fearmongering. \n\nIt's not a lie. It's not misinformation. It's right there in black and white. Those are the powers they've given themselves.\n\n > The EU is flexing on AZ by making them show what they produce and where they export\n\nBullshit. The EU already said they know everything. They said they know how many are produced and where they went. The idea that this is for transparency does not tally with their previous comments.\n\nAlso this isn't just about AZ. It's about Pfizer who are also behind.","374"],["> You think both groups threatening each other is the way to move forward in a pandemic that demand cooperation? \n\nNo I don't. The UK isn't making any threats. It's keeping a level-head. The point is if the EU did block exports, then threats need to be reciprocated to change their mind.\n\n > Astro Zeneca has made many errors. Just blithely assuming how the can distribute vaccines is only one of them.\n\n > Thinking they would have 80 million vaccines when they have 31 million is another huge mistake.\n\nIrrelevant. The UK and Canada are receiving Pfizer doses.","374"],["Look I'm not having this discussion again. Go and do some reading.\n\nThe UK has a contract for 100% of the output until fulfilment. Somebody claimed that the sites were listed as primary sites for the EU but there's absolutely no evidence of that and it doesn't make sense that AZ would be stupid enough to do that.\n\nAll of which is besides the point because the EU is doing something different to the UK.\n\n > EU is threatening to block doses destined for other customers. \n\nWe are blocking nothing. That's the difference. That's the end of the discussion. If you want to talk about the contract come back when it's published.","374"],["The hell are you on about? \n\nYou said:\n\n > Then the UK and \"Canda\" can make vaccines in their own facilities.\n\n > If they don't have any, then maybe they both need to rethink their policies toward nations they need things from.\n\nNothing to do with \"law\".\n\n > Next time, try cultivating friendships instead of rudely dismissing partnerships due to racism.\n\nFriendships? The EU is actively hostile.\n\n > I got my first vaccine three weeks ago. Maybe you'll get yours in 2022, unless of course your rotting fish research pays off. Cheers.\n\nLol what a ridiclous claim. The UK is far ahead of you and we have already received a huge amount of our Pfizer doses and can complete our vaccination programme ahead of the EU with the internal capacity we built because we didn't dither and delay for months like the EU Commission who are now in a blind panic.\n\nCheers.","374"],["> I imagine long term this will be an absolute boom for the Swiss economy.\n\nEveryone except the EU. It's likely we'll need tweaked vaccines every year. Where will companies set up any new facilities they need? Certianly not the EU who have now proven a willingness to block them from delivering on their contractual obligations. The states around the EU like Switzerland, the UK, and Norway, stand to benefit.","374"],["> It's not like taking the vaccine will get you any freedoms back right now until herd immunity is achieved\n\nThis is why you would take it. If people don't take it, it'll take longer to get to that point.\n\nAnyway, you can be young and vulnerable, so still able to benefit from this vaccine.\n\n > Public trust has been destroyed\n\nIt's almost like that was their goal.","235"],["> If AZ promised a certain quantity by a certain time\n\nSeems like you don't understand that AZ said they didn't make a promise. The contract is out tomorrow. We'll see.\n\n > Also seems like there are a lot of Brexiteers\n\nI'm a remainer though. The EU just look like utter shit heads this week and deserve all the hate they're getting.","564"],["> The thing is even if the mood in the UK was charitable and pro-eu (it’s not, even in left wing papers), their plants aren’t producing enough to make a significant dent in the Eu’s shortfall.\n\nThis is one of the reasons why the EU's demands are absurd. The UK has a bigger shortfall than the EU but it thinks it can requisition UK supplies to make up its smaller shortfall, all the while screaming that it expects countries to share the shortfalls, but will block exports to all countries until the EU doesn't have a shortfall.","631"],["I think when they say:\n\n > Germany is spreading disinformation about the vaccine\n\nThey may be referring to certain papers who decided to run with the claim that it's only 8% effective in over 65s as if that's a fact, even the confidence interval is so huge the number could be almost anything. In fact the interval is so huge, the paper could have claimed that the vaccine actually promotes new infections in over 65s and it would have been equally as valid.\n\nAs for the rest of their comment, it makes no sense.","929"],["This. The EU's position is one of hypocrisy. \n\nOn the one hand they say they'll stop exports from EU-based facilities if they have a shortfall on deliveries. On the other hand, they say they're happy to take vaccines from non-EU facilities to make up their shortfall, even though the facilities they're threatening to take from already have a shortfall in their other obligations.\n\nThere is nothing stopping the UK from taking the same measures and blocking exports until, at the very least, our 90% shortfall is resolved. \n\nAnother example of their hypocrisy is that they say they want all countries to share the shortfalls equally. Well that's already at odds with them blocking exports, but the UK has a bigger shortfall and yet they want to take UK vaccines making its shortfall worse. Hardly equal.\n\nAnd finally, they say vaccine nationalism is bad. But they've thrown the first stone.","374"],["The EU is already threatening to cut off those exports. Their new powers will allow them to block export from any supplier who has a shortfall in its commitments to the EU. Pfizer has a shortfall and I read it's not expected to make it up until end of February. So that is potentially several weeks of blocked exports already on the cards.\n\nBesides, the UK has already received a huge amount of its Pfizer order. It's producing 2m doses a week internally of the AZ vaccine. It's about to receive Moderna via Switzerland, and Novavax produced domestically. Also J & J via the EU with the UK's deliveries scheduled before the EU's, so they can't claim there is a shortfall and block it. It's about to open a new facility capable of producing 15m doses a month: _URL_0_\n\nThe UK will be fine.","374"],["The UK placed its order first. Almost immediately after that order, AZ spun up EU production, because it could as the UK paid for it. EU production would be even further behind if the UK hadnd't ordered.\n\nAlso, the plants you refer to, are owned by AZ, a British company. The implication that the UK's tiny shipment in December was stolen from the EU is totally false. And even if it was stolen, it was nowhere near enough to explain the shortfall. It's not like the UK got 75m doses that were meant to go to the EU.\n\n > Beyond that, the UK has already vaccinated the most vulnerable and is far ahead of Europe\n\nNo it hasn't. All vulnerable groups should be done by April so long as our \"friends\" don't try and steal our supplies.\n\n > It would be pretty stupid of the UK to try and not cooperate here. They are by FAR the weaker party, too.\n\nIn terms of vaccinations, they are in a much stronger position. The EU is the one in desperation here. They don't even appear to have approached the UK directly. Instead they just publicly imply they're going to take it. It's really poor diplomacy, and they're doing a great job of making themselves look like villains. They've also sent a clear message to other companies that they are not a reliable place to build new pharmaceutical facilities as they're quite willing to block your exports and prevent you fulfilling your contracts.","374"],["> Still doesn’t mean that EU fucked up or anything. I think UK fucked WAY more up giving the elderly a vaccine that hasn’t been tested on them. Absolutely ridiculous and IMHO criminal. \n\nOh please. There may be a lack of efficacy data but there is no lack of safety data. It's an extremely safe vaccine, and giving it to over 65s is therefore an extremely low risk. Any protection at this point is better than no protection. If the efficacy turns out to be low, they can be revaccinated with something else later. The fact is we have a lot of vaccine available right now, and the criminal act would be to NOT put it in people's arms.\n\n > Still doesn’t mean that EU fucked up or anythin\n\nThe EU delayed by three months. Their production could be three months ahead by now and this situation would not even exist. EU bureaucracy is slow and that's why their vaccine programme is so far behind the US and UK. They are *still* negotiating for things like Novavax.","374"],["The fuckup is on the EU side. If you don't see the political games the EU is playing, then perhaps your own media has got to you.\n\nThey've ordered late for multiple vaccines and will receive shipments later than other countries. There was already a deal like the UK's on the table, but the Commission took over and after three months of delay changed nothing.\n\nThey want all countries to share equally in shortfalls, but today will sign a law that allows them to block exports so that the EU's shortfall is made up first.\n\nThey don't want vaccine nationalism, but are playing nationalistic games.\n\nGermany has elections soon. One of the candidates to replace <PERSON> is the Health Minister.\n\nEU's vaccination rollout is way behind the UK and US.\n\nThe optics are terrible. Internally this is a huge political mess and they're desperately lashing out and trying to cover it up by making other countries or companies look bad.\n\n > Its right to stop the export of vaccines if companies are fucking the EU over and the UK is still insisting on receiving the same quantity, rather than sharing success. \n\nThis is such a hypocritical statement. The UK was due 30m doses from AZ in September. We've got nowhere near that. How is it right that the EU can stop the export of vaccines to recover their shortfall? How is it not right for the UK to do the same?","374"],["That's not even the same thing and you know it. The UK has not banned exports. The UK has pre-ordered the first 100m doses from its facility. There's nothing else to sell to anyone.\n\nOn the other hand, the Pfizer facility in Belgium has contracts with the EU, UK, Canada, and probably Israel. The EU is threatening to block them all.\n\nThe UK's position is that it expects what it paid for. The EU's position is that it is willing to take what others paid for.","374"],["> I agree, I don't understand why the AstraZeneca CEO thought it would be a good idea to talk about confidential parts of the agreement with newspapers all over Europe. With that he broke the confidentiality clause. It shows incompetence from AZ's part once again.\n\nYou've got this wrong. The EU demanded the contract be released. Then when he spoke of the \"best effort\" clause, they lost their minds, said he breached confidentiality, and that his actions breached the contract.\n\nThey did not like that revelation at all which suggests the best effort clause may indeed exist. But we'll see.","374"],["> The EU has also pre-ordered 100mil doses and it seems than thise doses are to be supplied by UK factories.\n\nNo the EU paid for the upgrade of the Belgian facility to get these doses \n\n > Good thing that the EU made the purchase last year then.\n\nThree months after the UK already purchased the UK's first 100m doses\n\n > And on the other foot, the AZ facility in the UK has contract with the EU and the UK is threatening to block it.\n\nNobody knows for certain. The UK has not threatened to block it, actually.\n\n > The EU's position is that it expects what it paid for. The UK's position is that it is willing to take what others paid for.\n\nYou've switched this around, but it's wrong. The EU ordered Pfizer doses from a shared facility (owned by an American company). But it's threatening to block exports from it.\n\nThe UK ordered doses from a facility it paid to construct, and it paid for exclusive rights to use it. There's nothing to block because those doses already belong to the UK.","374"],["What do you think of 5.1? It seems to me (not a lawyer so this is my bs opinion) that the contract is clear that the \"Initial Europe Doses\" (that is, the first 300m) are to be manufacutred \"within the EU\" (which in 5.1 does not include the UK). \n\nOnly 5.4 includes the UK, and it says that the inclusion of the UK only applies to 5.4.\n\nMy (again probably bullshit) interpretation is that the intention was for the first 300m doses to be produced in the EU. Meanwhile, in its separate contract with the UK, the UK's first 100m doses are produced exclusively in the UK. By time the EU's 300m was expected to be delivered, the UK's 100m would also be delivered, meaning they could then deliver the \"Optional Doses\" from the EU (including the UK).","374"],["> UK manufacturing sites are mentioned, but only to say that AZ may use them, but need permission for other non-EU sites - see 'only for the purpose of this section'. \n\nNo because in 5.4 the UK is regarded as part of the EU, and only for clause 5.4, so no permission is needed for AZ to manufacutre in the UK.\n\nYou missed clause 5.1 which is arguably the most important. It makes quite clear that the first 300m (Initial Europe Doses) will be made in the EU, which in that section does **not** include the UK.","374"],["> No this is where AZ fuck up is. The EU contract says there is no sequencing. i.e. no other contract would affect the EU contract. So best reasonable effort is overridden.\n\nYes there is a sequence. \"Intitial Europe Doses\" then \"Optional Doses\".\n\nClause 5.1 says the \"Initial Europe Doses\" will be produced in the EU. That does not include the UK.\n\nClause 8.3 defines \"Initial Europe Doses\" as 300 million.","374"],["Basically that clause seems to give AZ the option to produce in the UK, without asking for the EU's permission (because UK has equivalent laws and standards, presumably). \n\n5.1 says the first 300m doses will be made in the EU.\n\n5.4 says the UK being treated as part of the EU applies in clause 5.4 only.\n\nClause 5.4 references the optional order of 100m doses.\n\nAZ can use UK facilities to produce any of the doses, in particular the 100m doses, but can not be forced to do so.","374"],["By murdering British people who have already paid for the vaccine doses you intend on stealing. I thought the EU was meant to be a \"guiding light\" A bastion of morality and all that's good in the world? How long will you let your crisis go on before you decide to invade some other country to take vaccines by force?\n\nEU is literally evil right now.","374"],["5.1 says the initial doses will be made in the EU.\n\n5.4 gives AZ the *option* of using UK facilities (without seeking EU permission), but does not require it to do so. It seems more targetted at either a future ramp up in capacity (i.e. when the UK's contract is delivered), or the production of the 100m option which will almost certainly be long after the UK's 100m doses are complete.\n\nThis is great news for the UK. They can't have our vaccines.","374"],["Not quite. The Initial Europe Doses will be produced in the EU (5.1).\n\n5.4 gives the option to AZ to accelerate delivery using UK facilities without permission from the EU, but only at their reasonable best efforts.\n\nSo it's up to AZ. EU can't force them. Reasonable best efforts can't possibly include breaking a pre-existing contract.\n\nClause 5.4 goes on to talk about the optional doses. Clearly AZ's intent was to accelerate delivery of the initial doses, if possible, when the UK's order was complete, and to use UK facilities to produce the optional doses.","374"],["What has Android got to do with macOS? macOS and iOS have totally different ways of managing memory. On iOS if you run out of memory, apps get evicted (that's why they reload) to free memory for the app that you're using. On macOS, if you run out of memory, it starts using your SSD as a swap device but keeps all of your apps running.","697"],["Honestly it's insane and the most puzzling part is the claim an i9 MacBook Pro struggled. I have a much more extreme workload including running IDEs, virtual machines, and smulators, on an old 16GB 15\" rMBP and it's fine. It swaps a lot, but it does the job and it never feels slow. My work isn't even that CPU intensive, so it's rare I even hear the fans spin up.","689"],["> They break many of the concepts that we have come to accept. You may have needed 32 GB of upgradeable memory in the past, and internal storage which you can replace as your Music library grows. Now all the main components – CPU, GPU, memory and internal storage – are tightly integrated and interdependent.\n\nPlenty of people still do need 32GB of memory. Yes there's a clear advantage to not having to copy from disk to RAM and then to VRAM, but that's only an advantage working with things that require your GPU. Not everyone does that with their Mac. Developers run complex IDEs and multiple virtual machines and simulators. The M1 does not change their need for memory.\n\nAlso this type of improvement isn't unique to Apple. The PS5 can do it, and nvidia's new GPUs can load data directly from an NVMe SSD, bypassing the CPU and RAM.\n\n > After all, an internal SSD is only larger and slightly slower-access memory.\n\nActually DDR4 has a throughput of up to 25GB/sec, meanwhile Apple went cheap on the SSDs that only deliver around 2 to 2.5GB/sec, yet there exist NVMe drives that can now do 6-7GB/sec, which still isn't close to RAM. And that's before you even consider latency. SSDs have a latency of around 50,000ns vs RAM at 50ns. Yes requests to NVMe SSDs take 1000x longer than RAM.","448"],["I can't see that happening. Selling high priced enthusiast components is a big money maker for all involved. SoCs like the M1 might become the norm for cheap business machines but not for gaming. AMD and nvidia already have or are working on technologies that can replicate some of the features in M1. E.g. new AMD CPUs can write directly to the VRAM of new AMD GPUs. New nvidia GPUs can now read directly from an NVMe SSD instead of waiting for the CPU to copy data in to RAM then in to VRAM.","816"],["There are a few advantages\n\n1. For GPU work there's no need to move data between RAM and VRAM, it's one and the same;\n2. Similarly, other components like the Neural Engine, also have direct access to memory;\n3. The RAM is physically closer to the CPU which lowers latency\n\nThat's about it. Really #1 is the biggest advantage, but it's something consoles now have too. Hardly unique. But you have people on here who've been drinking the kool aid running around saying an M1 with 8GB of RAM will do everything an i9 with 32GB of RAM could do. Like there's some kind of magic memory fairy inside.","153"],["> Not true. Unified memory and the way the OS handles memory can result in significant improvements. Unified memory means the data in the RAM doesn't have to be copied from the CPU to the GPU and vice versa. Both can access it at the same time. Less duplication means lesser memory required. \n\nThis is great if your workload is GPU-bound. But otherwise it doesn't help much.","85"],["This article is pretty bad. See my comments here: _URL_0_\n\niPhones get away with limited memory because iOS aggressively evicts apps from memory if it starts to run out, and because iOS itself simply needs less than Android.\n\nmacOS is totally different to iOS so in no way are your observations about iOS' memory management applicable to a Mac, not even one with Apple Silicon in it. If you run out of memory on macOS, it won't kill other apps. It will use your SSD as swap and keep your apps running.","689"],["> The 2nd highest ranked link when you search for \"unified memory\" is that page.\n\nGoogle's ranking algorithm accounts for popularity, not correctness.\n\n > I've seen a lot of iPhones from non-tech users and they have dozens of apps running in the background.\n\n > I even pointed it out to some and taught them how to quit these background apps when their iPhone becomes too sluggish.\n\nWell you're incorrect because iOS doesn't have true multitasking for third-party apps. iOS allows apps to complete very specific tasks in the background using APIs provided by Apple. When you switch away from an app, for the most part it is simply suspended in-memory.\n\nSince an app is not really running in the background, and since iOS will automatically kill apps to free up RAM, manually quitting them will not improve performance.\n\nIn fact, manually quitting an app like that may worsen your battery life because if iOS did not need to evict it, then all you've done is cause it to reload from scratch the next time you open it.\n\n > Tech transfer from iOS to macOS, thanks.\n\nThis sentence makes no sense whatsoever.\n\n > My first statement specified that both macOS and Apple Silicon allows for more efficient unified memory management.\n\nThe unified memory of the M1 increases speed, and is more efficient for GPU workloads. That's all.\n\n > I've been using Macs since MacOS 9.x and iPhones when iOS was formerly called iPhone OS so I am somewhat familiar with how Apple's OS behaves.\n\nSo have I. Big deal. It's not something I feel the need brag about. I don't think you know as much as you claim to.","697"],["> iPads are not directly comparable with gaming laptops.\n\nI never compared them. If your interest is gaming, then a desktop PC is better. The iPad is a portable computing device, and if you want you can stream games from your PC to it.\n\n > And if you're going to count bulk and battery life as a negative for gaming laptops then you should count them as double negative on desktops as they're significantly more bulky, have zero battery.\n\nThis is a bizarre thing to claim. You don't need to carry a desktop PC around. It never needs to run on battery.","127"],["You want citations but don't provide any of your own? If you know so much about iOS and macOS why do you even need to verify my claims? You should just know I'm right.\n\nDDR4: _URL_3_ - 35.2GB/sec\n\nSamsung's best SSD: _URL_5_ - up to 7GB/sec\n\nMacBook Air SSD speed: _URL_4_ - only 2.6GB/sec\n\nNVMe latency _URL_1_ - 250 microseconds = 250,000ns\n\nDDR4 latency _URL_6_ - < 8ns\n\nClosing apps makes battery life worse: _URL_0_\n\niOS apps do not run in the background and instead have to use very specific APIs: _URL_2_","448"],["Plenty of people do. Why do you think Apple sells Macs with up to 1.5TB of memory?\n\n > This is why iOS can get by with 4-6GB but android typically has 8-16GB.\n\nNo this is completely false. iOS needs less memory for itself than Android. Also, iOS does not support true multi-tasking for third-party apps unlike Android. Instead iOS apps are forced to implement specific background functionality through APIs Apple make available. And finally, iOS will agressively kill any app that isn't in the foreground if the app that is in the foreground needs more memory than is currently available.\n\n*That's* how iOS does it. Not because of some undefined memory magic.\n\nmacOS does absolutely none of this. Instead it will use your SSD as swap and keep apps running forever.","697"],["The only difference is that data bound for the GPU doesn't have to be copied through main memory. As I said earlier, this is a boost for GPU-bound applications.\n\nEverything I provided is up-to-date. There is no additional \"magic\" going on inside macOS. It works the same way it always did, and an SSD is a poor substitute for a lack of memory, and using my references above you will see why the article that claimed SSDs were almost as fast as memory is absolutely wrong.\n\nNow, do you have any citations to counter anything I said?","689"],["How about we just use React Native for desktop instead? Electron isn't salvageable, every app has an entire copy of Chrome inside it and Google have shown no interest in reducing Chrome's memory usage or making it use less CPU.\n\nElectron was always a bad idea. I'd rather use a Java app than Electron.","561"],["Fusion Drives were an awful way for Apple to avoid putting an SSD in an iMac, and a spinning disk has no place in a laptop. It's far too vulnerable. The new MacBook Air finally has no moving parts inside. Apple have finally been able to make it what it always should have been. It's perfect. Let's not ruin it.\n\nA Fusion Drive with such fast flash would also be difficult to make. The Fusion Drive was SATA, which M1 likely doesn't support. To get those kinds of speeds you need NVMe, which the M1 does support, but the HDD would still have to be SATA.","448"],["> Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider runs the server, and dynamically manages the allocation of machine resources. Pricing is based on the actual amount of resources consumed by an application, rather than on pre-purchased units of capacity.[1] It can be a form of utility computing. Serverless is a misnomer in the sense that servers are still used by cloud service providers to execute code for developers. The management and details of these servers are transparent to the application developers. \n\n_URL_0_","570"],["I've had about enough of YouTube, they're now using it to push Google Chrome.\n\nUp until a few weeks ago I could go to _URL_0_ and enter a code from the app on my TV, which would allow me to browse YouTube on my computer and send the video to my TV to play.\n\nBut they've now taken that away. You can only \"cast\" to a TV app if you use Chrome. Fuck that. I'm now watching less YouTube and therefore seeing less ads as a result.\n\nAlso I have the same experience as you in that my recommendations are full of stuff I've already seen.","358"],["No that's what we're talking about. You just moved the goalposts. You said \"No correct program is going to be memory bound on a laptop.\" which is completely false.\n\nMy IDE needs about 4GB just to analyse my code. That's not faulty behaviour, it's expected behaviour.\n\nIf I have a virtual machine that needs 16GB of RAM to run, that's not faulty behaviour, that's expected behaviour. Using up RAM does not indicate a problem, it can simply indicate that storing a large amount of data is necessary.\n\nIf you have complex analytics software such as R, and you need to open up a 16GB dataset, guess how much memory you'll need? That's right, 16GB and that doesn't make a programme broken.\n\nYou literally have no idea what you're talking about, so this conversation isn't going to go anywhere. Bye.","448"],["> RAM does not directly increase the speed of your system, there’s no difference between 8gb of ram and 16gb of ram if you’re not using more than 8gb in the first place. \n\nWell, your OS can cache commonly used files and applications in the extra memory, so it's not totally wasted. The difference is marginal, but it's there.\n\n > This is especially true with Apple products as they manage RAM differently than a typical windows system by heavily relying on virtual memory and efficient resource management. \n\nThey're not that different really. Both will swap/page if you get low on memory. Both will cache files in memory.\n\n > Edit: I believe apple also compresses RAM giving it a huge advantage over traditional RAM management.\n\nBoth macOS and Windows 10 use memory compression.","689"],["> If you’re arguing that we should be trying to minimize virtual memory then you would still only get minimal performance gains as the point of virtual memory is to store the inactive RAM.\n\nThis isn't true. The point of virtual memory is to avoid your computer running out of memory. If you had no virtual memory your computer could just crash if you ran out of physical memory. Stuff moved to virtual memory isn't necessarily inactive, it just might be a bit old. As soon as you try and access that data again it has to be moved back in to memory, and something else will be moved out to take its place. If you only go over your physicaly memory by a little bit, you won't really noticed. But if you exceed your physical memory by a lot, then the OS will be nearly constantly moving stuff around and you switch between apps.","171"],["macOS doesn't manage memory in the same was as iPad OS though. iPad OS will force quit apps if the app you have in the foreground requests more memory than is available. macOS never does this. 4K video editing can be enabled by having fast flash, so when you scrub through content it gets streamed off disk instead of being held completely in memory.","689"],["If true it will likely mean lockdown longer than people hope. A quarter of all COVID admissions are under 55. We're only vaccinating 70+ by mid-February, if we even meet that target.\n\nIf we let a highly transmissible variant run rife then it's likely that young people alone are enough to fill up hospitals, which as this article indicates does actually cause a lot of deaths to non-covid issues.","912"],["What the WHO has forgotten is that we've been working with manufacturers around the world to get them producing the AZ vaccine. It will be sold at cost. We're basically going to give away billions of doses, but they think we should stop our internal programme for the sake of a few million, which as you say, is barely a drop in the ocean.\n\nWe're also the biggest contributor to COVAX and Gavi.","374"],["Yes 5.4 is talking about where production is allowed to take place, and what happens if there's a shortfall. The inclusion of the UK seems to be so that the EU doesn't have to waste time granting permission to AZ to optionally produce some vaccine there. This is because the UK still has an identical framework of laws and standards to the EU. Non-EU countries require approval.\n\nThe inclusion of the UK does not seem to be to require production there. \n\nThat much is clear because: \n\n1. There's a mandate in 5.1 which explicitly calls for the first 300m doses to be produced in the EU;\n2. 5.4 clearly says the UK's inclusion as part of the EU is only for the purposes of 5.4. In other words it's deliberately worded so as not to override 5.1.","374"],["Can you explain your reasoning for that, because we've already been through this? BREs cannot compel them to break another contract, especially if that pre-existing contract allowed this one to even come in to existence.\n\n5.4 grants them permission to use the UK, but not for IED as those are required to be produced in the EU by 5.1.\n\nAnyway, I'm done. You asked me to explain the reasoning. I did. Now you're starting another argument. The legal consensus is clear that AZ does not have to supply any of the first 300m doses from the UK.","374"],["Now that the contract has been released, lots of lawyers have weighed in with their opinion. \n\nThere's consensus that:\n\n* AZ is correct, it does not have to take supplies from the UK to meet its obligations;\n* AZ is also correct when it said its contract was best-effort.\n\nThere's an open question: has AZ done enough to meet its best reasonable efforts requirement? But that doesn't affect the UK suppiles.\n\n_URL_1_\n\n_URL_6_\n\n_URL_10_\n\n_URL_5_\n\n_URL_4_\n\n_URL_0_\n\n_URL_3_\n\n_URL_8_\n\n_URL_7_\n\n_URL_9_\n\n_URL_2_","374"],["> our production capacity\n\nIn Pfizer's* production capacity. They own that facility.\n\n > But AZ Europe is having production issues, but AZ UK won't share production capacities.\n\nYou accidentally made an interesting point. The UK and EU have contracts with two different companies. One based in Sweden, one in the UK.\n\nAlso, you missed out on a very important point. The UK's early order allowed AZ to kickstart production in the EU. The EU is already benefitting from the UK's money. If the UK hadn't ordered, your production would be further behind. You have no right to double-dip.","374"],["> Having said all of this, I would have been supportive of sharing some of the UK vaccine stock - but the EC is making that an increasingly difficult stance to support\n\nThis is a huge problem they've created for themselves. They've literally dropped bombs on their relationship with the UK with their claims they're entitled to the UK doses, and that they can and will take them, or that they can and will block exports, etc etc.\n\nBut the fact is, their contract gives them no right.\n\nThe only way they can share in our supply is to be fucking adults and ask the UK nicely. Only the UK can give permission, not AZ. But since they decided to have public temper tantrums and piss off the UK I can only imagine what the answer will be. Last week the British public would have probably been in support of helping. This week, everyone is fucking done with the EU. Even remainers like me.","374"],["> No, it really isn't. Because according to the contract AZ would have to apply to supply from India\n\nYes they would have to apply to the EU, not to India. So why aren't the EU demanding this happen? Oh that's right, they can only apply to produce somewhere else. Not steal from somewhere else. Same reason they can't take from the UK. They can only produce there, but there is no facility available for them to produce in. The only ones that exist are already contracted out.","374"],["Keyword: reasonable. Yes that quote gives them *permission* to use the UK supply. It doesn't compel them to, because the UK output is already contracted out. Breaking a contract is not *reasonable* behaviour. If it's reasonable to break one contract to honour this one, it's reasonable to break this contract to honour another.\n\nEg1: AZ's UK facility is idle, not producing anything. Should AZ use that capacity to fulfill its EU order? Yes, that's reasonable.\n\nEg2: AZ's UK facility is fully contracted out to another country. Should AZ use that capacity to fulfill the EU order? No, because breaking a contract is not reasonable.","374"],["Misleading headline\n\n > Constructive talks with Prime Minister @BorisJohnson\n tonight. \n > We agreed on the principle that there should not be restrictions on the export of vaccines by companies where they are fulfilling contractual responsibilities.\n\nThis is what she Tweeted last night. In effect, nothing has changed. This is exactly what they were planning anyway. If Pfizer ends up with a shortfall they will block exports, including to the UK.","374"],["> It was always just a measure to check if the EU got their fair share.\n\nIncorrect. The plan was to block all exports from a manufacturer if it had a shortfall to the EU. In other words, EU will take more than its fair share until the shortfall is made up, rather than sharing the shortfall among all customers which is what they claimed they wanted just days before announcing this policy.","437"],["How much time, energy, and money went in to that technology? It was wrong of you to claim it as all your own.\n\n > But even without that, I would like to highlight how stupid it is to say that because the vaccine was developed in country A people from country A should have priority\n\nYou're right. That's why the UK is licensing its IP out so vaccines can be produced at no cost across the world.\n\nIs Germany/BioNTech doing that? No, they're milking all the profit. Profiting from a global health crisis? That's just vile.","374"],["Clause 13.1(e) seems to not apply for two reasons:\n\nFirstly, AZ is only obligated by 5.1 to use EU facilities for the Initial Europe Doses. Since it's currently producing those IEDs, it is under no obligation to use UK facilities. Therefore, its pre-existing commitment to the UK to use UK facilities does not prevent it from fulfilling its obligation to use EU facilities to produce for the EU.\n\nSecondly, the pre-existing contract is a benefit to the EU. The UK's order allowed AZ to kickstart production in the EU. Without that order, the EU's production would be even further behind. In other words, AZ's pre-existing commitments is actually helping AZ to deliver on its obligations.\n\nEven if AZ was in breach of 13.1(e), it gives the EU no power to demand UK vaccines. It simply means AZ is in breach and the EU can sue for damages.","374"],["> They do seem to have gone quiet on claiming a contractual obligation and simply moved to a possible national security kind of argument, I think?\n\nYeah now that the contract's out. The consensus is that the EU was wrong to claim rights over vaccines produced in the UK. It also vindicated AZ's claim that it was a \"best-efforts\" contract. What a hole they've dug for themselves. The only question that remains is *has* AZ met is reasonable best efforts obligations?","374"],["100% agree. I even posted the latest news where the EU and UK agreed a \"reset\" but that was deleted because of the megathread. 99% of the replies were nice and chill, very contstructive, and people were moving on from the drama. But the megathread is a cesspit where the link to the article about the \"reset\" has been buried under a stream of new toxicity. By confining the drama to that thread, they're prolonging it because whenever anybody opens it, they're immediately presented with a toxic mess.","564"],["If you wan't to meet climate aims you shouldn't be taking [transatlantic flights](_URL_0_) either because one ~~flight~~ trip undoes two years of being vegan~~, so one round trip undoes four~~.\n\n > You can love animals and kill them after they've only lived 5% of their life expectancy in a cage/concrete pen?\n\nIf only we had ways of rearing animals for food without torturing them...\n\n > But what about pandemics? Most are being caused by animal-ag.\n\nTighter regulations and harsh enforcement. These things happen because of unsanitary conditions.\n\n > And then we've got unhealthy rivers, monocultures, ocean dead zones, 60-80% of all plastic in the ocean is made up of fishing nets, etc, etc ,etc, etc, etc, etc\n\nSo change fishing practices? Fishing can be completely sustainable.","166"],["I'm not a long way off actually. Here are some calculations: _URL_0_ once you factor in the entire supply chain and the extra damage high altitude emissions does, you get to 250KG CO2e per passenger per hour of flight. 7hrs for a London < - > New York flight, and you're at 1.75 tonnes. Add in the round trip and you're at 3.5 tonnes.\n\nUsing your figures, that return flight is equivalent to 813 days of savings made from switching from meat to a vegan diet.","516"],["I just put a pork shoulder joint in the oven. Organic, free-range, and ethically reared and slaughtered from a local farm. I agree not everyone can afford to pay £25 for that (you can get the same cut and weight for only £5 in Aldi) but animal welfare can be improved with only marginal increases in cost. \n\nAlmost every egg sold in the country is now free-range, which while not perfect, is a huge step up from the battery farmed hell eggs that used to be sold. Eggs are still affordable.\n\nAlmost all of our beef already comes from cows that are allowed to graze and eat grass naturally in the summer, while being fed silage in the winter. Yet in other countries \"grass-fed\" has become really trendy because their cattle is treat like shit and literally fed chicken shit amongst other things. Intensively farmed beef is the exception in the UK.","166"],["Touched a nerve did I? \n\nThis particular comment thread was regarding improving animal welfare, and nothing to do with the environment. But since you've decided to take it down that route... I really hate vegans who get preachy about the environment when they take transatlantic flights like yourself. Your diet is not saving the world. You need to do more than be a virtue signalling vegan on Reddit to do that.\n\nWant to know what I do? I pay more for 100% green electricity. I don't own a car. I don't like flights. I use public transport. I spend more money on energy-efficient appliances. I make electronics like computers, TVs, and phones last 5 to 10 years. If they break, they are repaired whenever practical, rather than being dumped and replaced. I am about to start taxing myself by way of having 24 trees planted every year so that, in 30 years time, my entire lifetime's emissions, and much more, will have been sequestered. My carbon footprint is about to be -18 tonnes CO2e (yes negative!) per year *even though I eat meat*. What's your carbon footprint you sanctimonious prick? Don't forget to include your transatlantic flights! I bet you own a car too. What are you actually doing about it because being vegan alone is not enough?\n\n\n > You do know that male chicks from the egg industry are macerated on the day they are born and that free-range means about 13-15 chickens per square metre.\n\nYou know I said this particular thread was about improving animal welfare? Guess what, it's possible: _URL_0_\n\n > You know that the leading cause of unhealthy rivers, ocean dead zones are cattle \"grazing\" as they pollute and kill off local eco systems in rivers, waterways, etc. We have about 15% of healthy rivers in England and Wales because of animal-ag.\n\nYou know fetilisers are used on plants? And this runs off too? Don't just blame it on animals.\n\n > You know that cows burp methane which is a worse contributor to climate change than all of transport combined, including flying.\n\nMost of the figures that put animal agriculture above aviation are based on emissions directly from the plane. They don't consider that emissions at high altitude are twice as damaging than at ground level. They don't consider the entire supply chain, from extracting fossil fuels, to construction and maintenance of the aircraft, to travel to and from airports.\n\nI'm sorry that this doesn't fit with your worldview that you're saving the planet by eating soy, but continuing to jet across the globe on a trail of burnt hydrocarbons.","909"],["40,000 farms worldwide. My meat doesn't come from the whole world, it comes from the UK. Intensively rearing beef in California by importing soy and using loads of water in a dry climate is going to be far worse than just letting cows graze on a meadow in England eating grass that was naturally watered by rainfall.\n\nAre you just going to ignore the fact I'm eating meat while not destroying the environment?","166"],["If his numbers are wrong, you're saying our government's numbers are wrong.\n\n > Watch Apocalypse Cow, <PERSON> talks to the dairy industry spokeslady as she's at her farm. She gets a delivery for her \"free range\", \"organic\", dairy cows which consists of Soy, Palm and other imports from what was previously rainforest.\n\nMost cows eat grass. We literally have fields and fields of it for them to eat, and it's free.","166"],["Yeah it takes quite a bit of work to really get a vegan diet right. So people see healthy vegans who got absolutely obsessed over cooking and nutrition and absolutely nailed the diet, and start spouting that a vegan diet is inherently healthy but ignore the fact that if you obsess about cooking and nutrition with an omnivorous diet you can be equally healthy. \n\nThe reality is that if you go vegan and want to succeed you have to pay much more attention to your nutrition than you would on a standard diet. Problem is we have a nation of people who barely know the difference between protein, fat, and carbohydrate.","909"],["UK politics really is further left than in the US. I mean you just called a right-wing politician \"liberal\".\n\nIn the UK climate change isn't even a left vs right issue. We don't have any credible politicians denying it exists. You have a president that thinks he can make \"clean coal\" whatever the fuck that is. Both sides acknowledge that the writing is on the wall for humanity unless we do something about it.","886"],["Well that term can range from \"bricked\" (the correct term) where the firmware is irreversibly damaged and can only be repaired by Apple, thus making the computer as useful as a brick, and \"bricked\" as a lay term for anything that breaks the OS but can be fixed by simply reinstalling. It's not clear yet how \"bricked\" things are. I've seen some people suggesting that wiping the SSD in another Mac will fix it. But I've also seen some people say that Apple said it has to be repaired by them.","923"],["I said animal welfare can be improved for marginal cost and gave the example of free range eggs. I said not everybody can afford £25. I did not give it as an example of a marginal cost.\n\nYou can improve welfare a little bit my making £5 meat cost £6, or £6.50. That's marginal.\n\nYou can make eggs higher welfare by making them cost just 5-10p more each.","166"],["Not a lot in the short term. Apple was a relatively small customer and they won't be selling M1 chips to companies would who have bought Intel chips.\n\nAMD is the biggest issue they face as they compete in the same sectors.\n\nLong-term we may see desktop and laptop computers switching to ARM en-masse if other ARM CPU manufacturers can replicate what Apple have achieved. Ultimately these chips will make their way in to servers, and that could be the end of Intel.","85"],["Best I can do at Aldi:\n\n12 Free Range Eggs - ~£1.69\n\nOnions - ~£0.50\n\n1KG Frozen Broccoli - £0.59 x2 = £1.18\n\n250g Grated Cheddar - £1.60 (can save money grating your own)\n\n500g beef mince - £1.49\n\nTuna in sunflower oil - £0.75\n\nGreek yogurt - £1.29\n\n1.5KG pork shoulder - Under £5\n\n85% dark chocolate, 5 bars - £1.49\n\n£14.99 total\n\nYou'll be able to create a lot of cheese and onion omeletes.\n\nEnough here to get a good 285g of green veg per day. Buy more veg whenever you can stretch to it though. A pack of peppers would add £1.50 but would add extra flavour to omelettes, and go with some onion as a side salad to tuna.\n\nThe pork shoulder is the best thing here. It's super cheap, but if you roast it slowly it's absolutely delicious as pulled pork. As a fatty cut it will give you lots of energy. You should get six meals out of it.\n\nThe mince (20% fat!) you can create various things with, including making your own burgers.\n\nMost days you'll be able to have two treats: some yogurt, and a bit of dark chocolate.\n\nRemember to always buy the fattiest versions of food you can find, like 20% mince and tuna in oil rather than brine. More fat is more energy.","783"],["No these machines are powerful enough to use as a primary machine. I know lots of developers who use them as a mobile workstation, but also as a desktop replacement hooked up to two monitors. \n\nJust because you don't need two displays doesn't mean other people don't. \n\nAlso you recommending a Mac Mini makes no sense as it now has the same CPU.\n\nAnd recommending a PC is just bizarre if you're an app developer. You really need a Mac and Xcode. Even just web developers prefer to use a Unix OS with commercial software support.","689"],["Apple don't state their SSD endurance. A 250GB EVO has a warranty of 150TBW and my workload could cause it to write 110TB in just a year. I don't know why you're even quoting Samsung SSDs because it's not possible to replace the SSD in newer Macs - that's my worry. In my current MBP I'm not bothered because everything is backed up and I can just stick in a new NVMe drive when it dies (and it already has once before). I can push my 32GB desktop machine to using swap too. When I buy a new Mac I am not settling for less than 64GB RAM when I can't replace the SSD. 16GB is an absolute joke.","448"],["This is the most wrong thing I've ever read on Reddit. Apple went out of their way to say these CPUs have the fastest *cores* in the world. That means single core performance. Just wait for benchmarks next week. Some sites are already making an inference based on the A14's insane performance that Apple's claims are extremely plausible.","85"],["> They argue it would leave the average employee no worse off because of savings made by not commuting and not buying lunch on-the-go and fewer purchases of work clothing. \n\nPlebs with a better work life balance and able to save money? Better take it away from them!\n\n > “A big chunk of people have disconnected themselves from the face-to-face world yet are still leading a full economic life. That means remote workers are contributing less to the infrastructure of the economy whilst still receiving its benefits. That is a big problem for the economy.”\n\nIt talks like they've suddenly stopped paying taxes. Most people have probably just shifted their spending elsewhere. The only thing I save is £65 for a monthly bus ticket. I would continue making lunches at home even if I was in the office.\n\n > Under Deutsche Bank’s proposals, the new tax could also support people who have lost their jobs \n\nThis is why I pay National Insurance!","786"],["Well Apple did claim these CPUs had the fastest cores in the world, and Anandtech extraoplated the performance of the A14 CPU and concluded that Apple's claim was extremely credible.\n\nThis is Apple's slowest laptop CPU. Imagine what's coming to large MacBook Pros and desktop machines. Sorry PCMR, but this meme was dead before OP posted it.","85"],["Are you really suggesting Apple rebuilt macOS for ARM, from the ground-up, while continuing to support an identical version of the OS for x86? No, of course not. Most of the code will be exactly the same, with specific tweaks for Apple Silicon Macs. You're a developer, you should know how you can compile for different architectures from the same code base.\n\n > The multitasking that you are talking about is not a real multitasking\n\nmacOS is a fully multi-tasking operating system, based on BSD. You have no idea what you're talking about.","689"],["That makes no sense. Apple creates APIs. Their own apps use their own APIs. They optimise the APIs for a new architecture, and all of their existing apps get compiled using the right APIs for the architecture. That's how easy it is for Apple, and that's how easy it has been for developers to port to Apple Silicon. For the majority, they just open their project in Xcode and recompile and it all just works. Apple made this easy years ago by completely dropping 32bit support and dozens of legacy APIs. You can bet they've been working on this transition ever since they started making their own chips. \n\n > So, yes, Apple wrote it from 0 or used the iPad Os as base\n\nNo, what are you talking about? macOS is for Macs and always has been. iPad OS is based on macOS, not the other way around. They didn't take iPad OS and turn it back in to macOS for Apple Silicon Macs. macOS was already ready for it. It is literally the same operating system.","689"],["Please explain your reasoning.\n\nThese chips have a lower TDP than the outgoing Intel chips, and their performance per watt is far, far higher. They use the same cooling solution in the MacBook Pro as they did for the Intel chip.\n\nTherefore these CPUs can handle much heavier tasks, all while using less power, and therefore generating less heat.","85"],["Incorrect.\n\nMacBook Air - no fan\n\nMac Mini - fan\n\nMacBook Pro - fan\n\nI think the active cooling solution will be more than enough to sustain full performance of a low TDP chip, considering the same cooling solutions were designed for much higher TDP Intel chips.\n\nEven if the M1 gets throttled, it will almost certainly still be faster than the outgoing Intel chips running at full speed.","81"],["No that's not what's being asked.\n\nThe new MacBook Air supports one external display. They're asking if they close the lid for it to drive two external displays.\n\nYour MacBook Air supports two external displays. So of course you can close the lid and use one display.\n\nNo Mac has ever let you close the lid and gain an *extra* external display.","689"],["The major difference is the operating system. So no. You might as well ask does the M1 chip make the MacBook a glorified Raspberry Pi?\n\nAlso:\n\n > Now that the RAM is part of the chip, the new Macbook lineup will not let you upgrade the RAM in the future. If you buy a Macbook with 8GB of RAM you’re stuck with 8GB until you buy a new machine.\n\nThis has been the case for a very long time with MacBooks. At least seven years.","689"],["That doesn't even matter. You said:\n\n > I use the internal display and two external displays with my 2013 Macbook Air FFS.\n\nThat doesn't change the fact they can only use one external display. Closing the lid is just an obvious mechanism for telling macOS you want to switch off the internal display in favour of an external one.","689"],["> From a performance standpoint, the new Apple M1 MacBooks do fairly well considering that they are using a complete processor based around the ARM instruction set. But compared to a typical desktop workstation from Puget Systems that is around 2-3x faster on average (albeit at a higher cost), they certainly can't keep up.\n\nYes a 10W passively cooled chip in a laptop can't keep up with AMD's best 105W 16-core desktop chip cooled by an enormous heatsink and fan.\n\n*How very surprising*","127"],["Just a little correction but they were only to measure power draw at the wall and admitted they actually don't know what the TDP is. \n\nAlso most CPUs can increase their TDP if they turbo. Quoted TDP is always nominal TDP. A 125W 10900k can draw 200W from the board, with a much higher figure from the wall once overall system power consumption is added.","121"],["Yeah it's so broken. I don't need a strong GPU for my work, so one of the things that excites me most about the M1 is that even the most basic slowest iGPU in the lineup as more than enough power to smoothly drive a nice 5K or even 6K display for desktop usage. Current Intel iGPUs such as the one in the Mac Mini technically support 5K output but it's sluggish and horrible.","689"],["It's embarassing how Apple release these Pro machines and then just abandon them. I mean the non-Pro iMac is better for most use cases now. The 10-core i9 slaughters the 10-core and 14-core Xeon options for a fraction of the price. It now has a 10Gb networking option. It supports up to 128GB RAM which is enough for a huge range of applications. Unless you were really desperate for 256GB RAM in an iMac form factor, or really needed an 18-core Xeon which is only 20% faster than the i9, *why on Earth would you buy it for twice the price*? Honestly I think being Space Grey is a bigger selling point than anything else.","689"],["Sure but the only Apple chip so far is the M1 which is an ultra-low power mobile chip. It's not reasonable to expect M1 to compete with Ryzen 5000 chips on multi-core considering they're desktop chips with ten times the power budget, and cooling systems that can expel lots of head from a relatively large chassis.\n\nThe fact M1 can do what it does while drawing less power than some LED light bulbs... wow it's impressive. Really impressive.","85"],["I already cancelled Christmas this year. It's not happening. BBC News right now is reporting that people can mix from the 24th December for a short amount of time. How the hell am I meant to get a train on Christmas Eve? Even if possible it will be absolute chaos. Not only that but LNER have already emailed me saying travel until 3rd January will have significant disruption, including delays and cancelled services, due to Network Rail carrying out maintenance... over the fucking Christmas period 🤦🏻♂️","691"],["> But Apple doesn’t call it a “fan”. They call it an “active cooling system”. That sounds like a marketing euphemism, but it’s not fair to call this a “fan”. It is something else altogether, and nothing at all like the cooling systems in any previous Mac laptop.\n\n > I’ve never once heard it in an entire week.\n\n\nUmm... what? It's exactly the same. You don't hear the fan on an idling Intel system either. The cooling system is no different. The difference is the chip being cooled doesn't need much air to keep it cool, so the fan never has to ramp up.","81"],["Chrome for Linux and Chrome for Windows will have a lot of different code to work with the underlying OS and the APIs it provides. It's not always as simple as pushing compile. The ARM version of Windows depracted a huge amount of old APIs, some of which Chrome might be using. If that's the case, then they can't just click compile for ARM, they'd have to do a lot of work which I guess they think isn't worth their time due to the low uptake of ARM Windows.\n\nOn macOS, Apple got developers to do the hard work a few years back when they dropped 32bit support and a load of old APIs. All current Mac apps will be using APIs that are available on Big Sur on an M1 Mac, so in a lot of cases it really is as simple as recompiling.","684"],["It's currently not even possible. This will only happen if Microsoft releases the ARM version of Windows to the general public. Currently it's only available to OEMs. If that happens then for best results Apple will need to create Bootcamp for Apple Silicon Macs. Even if Microsoft does this, the Windows apps you like to use may not even be available.\n\nFor running Windows on a Mac your best hope is for a virtual machine with an x86 emulator, but none exist yet. If you're lucky, you may see something in the next year, but you will be disappointed with the performance.\n\nIf you want to run Windows natively on an Apple Silicon Mac, I think you're in for a very long wait and the day may never come.","689"],["Did anybody else thing the CGI scenes for Federation HQ were a blurry mess? Could hardly make out anything. Seems to be extremel common for scenes to be rendered like this in Discovery. Shows where ships are clear and detailed include: The Mandalorian, The Expanse, and The Orville. Why can't Star Trek go back to the clean look of TNG, with long, slow shots of the ships?","571"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"> Valneva ... british vaccine\\n\\nValneva is a French vaccine. Funded by the UK.\\n\\n > Why should the EU be the 1st to sign a contract with a phase 2 british vaccine?\\n\\nBecause that's how the UK has been so successful. It rapidly purchased vaccines at very early stages of development.\\n\\n > Can't the US and the UK be labeled as failures by failing to contract with curevac a phase 3 vaccine that might be ready in 1-2 months?\\n\\nNo because both countries are miles ahead in vaccinations and will be complete long before the EU.\\n\\n > The EU has order more vaccines as a % of total pop that the US.\\n\\nSo? The EU ordered late in pretty much every instance because it wanted to haggle on price.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm not lying. Read what they proposed. If a manufacturer has a shortfall in its commitment to the EU, the EU will block exports to other countries until the shortfall is made up.\\n\\nStop lying, and start reading.\\n\\n > EU countries would only grant such authorizations after making sure vaccine makers have delivered the doses of vaccines promised in their “advanced purchasing agreements” with the EU.\\n\\n > Since both Pfizer/BioNTech and Astra Zeneca are below their delivery targets, this would permit the EU to block exports up to the level of weekly delivery targets.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"> When this is all over and the EU has not blocked or restricted a single drop, what then? you and all the other troglodytes will carry on, not a worry, despite all the lies, misinformation and fearmongering. \\n\\nIt's not a lie. It's not misinformation. It's right there in black and white. Those are the powers they've given themselves.\\n\\n > The EU is flexing on AZ by making them show what they produce and where they export\\n\\nBullshit. The EU already said they know everything. They said they know how many are produced and where they went. The idea that this is for transparency does not tally with their previous comments.\\n\\nAlso this isn't just about AZ. It's about Pfizer who are also behind.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"> You think both groups threatening each other is the way to move forward in a pandemic that demand cooperation? \\n\\nNo I don't. The UK isn't making any threats. It's keeping a level-head. The point is if the EU did block exports, then threats need to be reciprocated to change their mind.\\n\\n > Astro Zeneca has made many errors. Just blithely assuming how the can distribute vaccines is only one of them.\\n\\n > Thinking they would have 80 million vaccines when they have 31 million is another huge mistake.\\n\\nIrrelevant. The UK and Canada are receiving Pfizer doses.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"Look I'm not having this discussion again. Go and do some reading.\\n\\nThe UK has a contract for 100% of the output until fulfilment. Somebody claimed that the sites were listed as primary sites for the EU but there's absolutely no evidence of that and it doesn't make sense that AZ would be stupid enough to do that.\\n\\nAll of which is besides the point because the EU is doing something different to the UK.\\n\\n > EU is threatening to block doses destined for other customers. \\n\\nWe are blocking nothing. That's the difference. That's the end of the discussion. If you want to talk about the contract come back when it's published.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"The hell are you on about? \\n\\nYou said:\\n\\n > Then the UK and \\\"Canda\\\" can make vaccines in their own facilities.\\n\\n > If they don't have any, then maybe they both need to rethink their policies toward nations they need things from.\\n\\nNothing to do with \\\"law\\\".\\n\\n > Next time, try cultivating friendships instead of rudely dismissing partnerships due to racism.\\n\\nFriendships? The EU is actively hostile.\\n\\n > I got my first vaccine three weeks ago. Maybe you'll get yours in 2022, unless of course your rotting fish research pays off. Cheers.\\n\\nLol what a ridiclous claim. The UK is far ahead of you and we have already received a huge amount of our Pfizer doses and can complete our vaccination programme ahead of the EU with the internal capacity we built because we didn't dither and delay for months like the EU Commission who are now in a blind panic.\\n\\nCheers.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I imagine long term this will be an absolute boom for the Swiss economy.\\n\\nEveryone except the EU. It's likely we'll need tweaked vaccines every year. Where will companies set up any new facilities they need? Certianly not the EU who have now proven a willingness to block them from delivering on their contractual obligations. The states around the EU like Switzerland, the UK, and Norway, stand to benefit.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"> It's not like taking the vaccine will get you any freedoms back right now until herd immunity is achieved\\n\\nThis is why you would take it. If people don't take it, it'll take longer to get to that point.\\n\\nAnyway, you can be young and vulnerable, so still able to benefit from this vaccine.\\n\\n > Public trust has been destroyed\\n\\nIt's almost like that was their goal.\",\n \"235\"\n ],\n [\n \"> If AZ promised a certain quantity by a certain time\\n\\nSeems like you don't understand that AZ said they didn't make a promise. The contract is out tomorrow. We'll see.\\n\\n > Also seems like there are a lot of Brexiteers\\n\\nI'm a remainer though. The EU just look like utter shit heads this week and deserve all the hate they're getting.\",\n \"564\"\n ],\n [\n \"> The thing is even if the mood in the UK was charitable and pro-eu (it’s not, even in left wing papers), their plants aren’t producing enough to make a significant dent in the Eu’s shortfall.\\n\\nThis is one of the reasons why the EU's demands are absurd. The UK has a bigger shortfall than the EU but it thinks it can requisition UK supplies to make up its smaller shortfall, all the while screaming that it expects countries to share the shortfalls, but will block exports to all countries until the EU doesn't have a shortfall.\",\n \"631\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think when they say:\\n\\n > Germany is spreading disinformation about the vaccine\\n\\nThey may be referring to certain papers who decided to run with the claim that it's only 8% effective in over 65s as if that's a fact, even the confidence interval is so huge the number could be almost anything. In fact the interval is so huge, the paper could have claimed that the vaccine actually promotes new infections in over 65s and it would have been equally as valid.\\n\\nAs for the rest of their comment, it makes no sense.\",\n \"929\"\n ],\n [\n \"This. The EU's position is one of hypocrisy. \\n\\nOn the one hand they say they'll stop exports from EU-based facilities if they have a shortfall on deliveries. On the other hand, they say they're happy to take vaccines from non-EU facilities to make up their shortfall, even though the facilities they're threatening to take from already have a shortfall in their other obligations.\\n\\nThere is nothing stopping the UK from taking the same measures and blocking exports until, at the very least, our 90% shortfall is resolved. \\n\\nAnother example of their hypocrisy is that they say they want all countries to share the shortfalls equally. Well that's already at odds with them blocking exports, but the UK has a bigger shortfall and yet they want to take UK vaccines making its shortfall worse. Hardly equal.\\n\\nAnd finally, they say vaccine nationalism is bad. But they've thrown the first stone.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"The EU is already threatening to cut off those exports. Their new powers will allow them to block export from any supplier who has a shortfall in its commitments to the EU. Pfizer has a shortfall and I read it's not expected to make it up until end of February. So that is potentially several weeks of blocked exports already on the cards.\\n\\nBesides, the UK has already received a huge amount of its Pfizer order. It's producing 2m doses a week internally of the AZ vaccine. It's about to receive Moderna via Switzerland, and Novavax produced domestically. Also J & J via the EU with the UK's deliveries scheduled before the EU's, so they can't claim there is a shortfall and block it. It's about to open a new facility capable of producing 15m doses a month: _URL_0_\\n\\nThe UK will be fine.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"The UK placed its order first. Almost immediately after that order, AZ spun up EU production, because it could as the UK paid for it. EU production would be even further behind if the UK hadnd't ordered.\\n\\nAlso, the plants you refer to, are owned by AZ, a British company. The implication that the UK's tiny shipment in December was stolen from the EU is totally false. And even if it was stolen, it was nowhere near enough to explain the shortfall. It's not like the UK got 75m doses that were meant to go to the EU.\\n\\n > Beyond that, the UK has already vaccinated the most vulnerable and is far ahead of Europe\\n\\nNo it hasn't. All vulnerable groups should be done by April so long as our \\\"friends\\\" don't try and steal our supplies.\\n\\n > It would be pretty stupid of the UK to try and not cooperate here. They are by FAR the weaker party, too.\\n\\nIn terms of vaccinations, they are in a much stronger position. The EU is the one in desperation here. They don't even appear to have approached the UK directly. Instead they just publicly imply they're going to take it. It's really poor diplomacy, and they're doing a great job of making themselves look like villains. They've also sent a clear message to other companies that they are not a reliable place to build new pharmaceutical facilities as they're quite willing to block your exports and prevent you fulfilling your contracts.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Still doesn’t mean that EU fucked up or anything. I think UK fucked WAY more up giving the elderly a vaccine that hasn’t been tested on them. Absolutely ridiculous and IMHO criminal. \\n\\nOh please. There may be a lack of efficacy data but there is no lack of safety data. It's an extremely safe vaccine, and giving it to over 65s is therefore an extremely low risk. Any protection at this point is better than no protection. If the efficacy turns out to be low, they can be revaccinated with something else later. The fact is we have a lot of vaccine available right now, and the criminal act would be to NOT put it in people's arms.\\n\\n > Still doesn’t mean that EU fucked up or anythin\\n\\nThe EU delayed by three months. Their production could be three months ahead by now and this situation would not even exist. EU bureaucracy is slow and that's why their vaccine programme is so far behind the US and UK. They are *still* negotiating for things like Novavax.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"The fuckup is on the EU side. If you don't see the political games the EU is playing, then perhaps your own media has got to you.\\n\\nThey've ordered late for multiple vaccines and will receive shipments later than other countries. There was already a deal like the UK's on the table, but the Commission took over and after three months of delay changed nothing.\\n\\nThey want all countries to share equally in shortfalls, but today will sign a law that allows them to block exports so that the EU's shortfall is made up first.\\n\\nThey don't want vaccine nationalism, but are playing nationalistic games.\\n\\nGermany has elections soon. One of the candidates to replace <PERSON> is the Health Minister.\\n\\nEU's vaccination rollout is way behind the UK and US.\\n\\nThe optics are terrible. Internally this is a huge political mess and they're desperately lashing out and trying to cover it up by making other countries or companies look bad.\\n\\n > Its right to stop the export of vaccines if companies are fucking the EU over and the UK is still insisting on receiving the same quantity, rather than sharing success. \\n\\nThis is such a hypocritical statement. The UK was due 30m doses from AZ in September. We've got nowhere near that. How is it right that the EU can stop the export of vaccines to recover their shortfall? How is it not right for the UK to do the same?\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"That's not even the same thing and you know it. The UK has not banned exports. The UK has pre-ordered the first 100m doses from its facility. There's nothing else to sell to anyone.\\n\\nOn the other hand, the Pfizer facility in Belgium has contracts with the EU, UK, Canada, and probably Israel. The EU is threatening to block them all.\\n\\nThe UK's position is that it expects what it paid for. The EU's position is that it is willing to take what others paid for.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I agree, I don't understand why the AstraZeneca CEO thought it would be a good idea to talk about confidential parts of the agreement with newspapers all over Europe. With that he broke the confidentiality clause. It shows incompetence from AZ's part once again.\\n\\nYou've got this wrong. The EU demanded the contract be released. Then when he spoke of the \\\"best effort\\\" clause, they lost their minds, said he breached confidentiality, and that his actions breached the contract.\\n\\nThey did not like that revelation at all which suggests the best effort clause may indeed exist. But we'll see.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"> The EU has also pre-ordered 100mil doses and it seems than thise doses are to be supplied by UK factories.\\n\\nNo the EU paid for the upgrade of the Belgian facility to get these doses \\n\\n > Good thing that the EU made the purchase last year then.\\n\\nThree months after the UK already purchased the UK's first 100m doses\\n\\n > And on the other foot, the AZ facility in the UK has contract with the EU and the UK is threatening to block it.\\n\\nNobody knows for certain. The UK has not threatened to block it, actually.\\n\\n > The EU's position is that it expects what it paid for. The UK's position is that it is willing to take what others paid for.\\n\\nYou've switched this around, but it's wrong. The EU ordered Pfizer doses from a shared facility (owned by an American company). But it's threatening to block exports from it.\\n\\nThe UK ordered doses from a facility it paid to construct, and it paid for exclusive rights to use it. There's nothing to block because those doses already belong to the UK.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"What do you think of 5.1? It seems to me (not a lawyer so this is my bs opinion) that the contract is clear that the \\\"Initial Europe Doses\\\" (that is, the first 300m) are to be manufacutred \\\"within the EU\\\" (which in 5.1 does not include the UK). \\n\\nOnly 5.4 includes the UK, and it says that the inclusion of the UK only applies to 5.4.\\n\\nMy (again probably bullshit) interpretation is that the intention was for the first 300m doses to be produced in the EU. Meanwhile, in its separate contract with the UK, the UK's first 100m doses are produced exclusively in the UK. By time the EU's 300m was expected to be delivered, the UK's 100m would also be delivered, meaning they could then deliver the \\\"Optional Doses\\\" from the EU (including the UK).\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"> UK manufacturing sites are mentioned, but only to say that AZ may use them, but need permission for other non-EU sites - see 'only for the purpose of this section'. \\n\\nNo because in 5.4 the UK is regarded as part of the EU, and only for clause 5.4, so no permission is needed for AZ to manufacutre in the UK.\\n\\nYou missed clause 5.1 which is arguably the most important. It makes quite clear that the first 300m (Initial Europe Doses) will be made in the EU, which in that section does **not** include the UK.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"> No this is where AZ fuck up is. The EU contract says there is no sequencing. i.e. no other contract would affect the EU contract. So best reasonable effort is overridden.\\n\\nYes there is a sequence. \\\"Intitial Europe Doses\\\" then \\\"Optional Doses\\\".\\n\\nClause 5.1 says the \\\"Initial Europe Doses\\\" will be produced in the EU. That does not include the UK.\\n\\nClause 8.3 defines \\\"Initial Europe Doses\\\" as 300 million.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"Basically that clause seems to give AZ the option to produce in the UK, without asking for the EU's permission (because UK has equivalent laws and standards, presumably). \\n\\n5.1 says the first 300m doses will be made in the EU.\\n\\n5.4 says the UK being treated as part of the EU applies in clause 5.4 only.\\n\\nClause 5.4 references the optional order of 100m doses.\\n\\nAZ can use UK facilities to produce any of the doses, in particular the 100m doses, but can not be forced to do so.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"By murdering British people who have already paid for the vaccine doses you intend on stealing. I thought the EU was meant to be a \\\"guiding light\\\" A bastion of morality and all that's good in the world? How long will you let your crisis go on before you decide to invade some other country to take vaccines by force?\\n\\nEU is literally evil right now.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"5.1 says the initial doses will be made in the EU.\\n\\n5.4 gives AZ the *option* of using UK facilities (without seeking EU permission), but does not require it to do so. It seems more targetted at either a future ramp up in capacity (i.e. when the UK's contract is delivered), or the production of the 100m option which will almost certainly be long after the UK's 100m doses are complete.\\n\\nThis is great news for the UK. They can't have our vaccines.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"Not quite. The Initial Europe Doses will be produced in the EU (5.1).\\n\\n5.4 gives the option to AZ to accelerate delivery using UK facilities without permission from the EU, but only at their reasonable best efforts.\\n\\nSo it's up to AZ. EU can't force them. Reasonable best efforts can't possibly include breaking a pre-existing contract.\\n\\nClause 5.4 goes on to talk about the optional doses. Clearly AZ's intent was to accelerate delivery of the initial doses, if possible, when the UK's order was complete, and to use UK facilities to produce the optional doses.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"What has Android got to do with macOS? macOS and iOS have totally different ways of managing memory. On iOS if you run out of memory, apps get evicted (that's why they reload) to free memory for the app that you're using. On macOS, if you run out of memory, it starts using your SSD as a swap device but keeps all of your apps running.\",\n \"697\"\n ],\n [\n \"Honestly it's insane and the most puzzling part is the claim an i9 MacBook Pro struggled. I have a much more extreme workload including running IDEs, virtual machines, and smulators, on an old 16GB 15\\\" rMBP and it's fine. It swaps a lot, but it does the job and it never feels slow. My work isn't even that CPU intensive, so it's rare I even hear the fans spin up.\",\n \"689\"\n ],\n [\n \"> They break many of the concepts that we have come to accept. You may have needed 32 GB of upgradeable memory in the past, and internal storage which you can replace as your Music library grows. Now all the main components – CPU, GPU, memory and internal storage – are tightly integrated and interdependent.\\n\\nPlenty of people still do need 32GB of memory. Yes there's a clear advantage to not having to copy from disk to RAM and then to VRAM, but that's only an advantage working with things that require your GPU. Not everyone does that with their Mac. Developers run complex IDEs and multiple virtual machines and simulators. The M1 does not change their need for memory.\\n\\nAlso this type of improvement isn't unique to Apple. The PS5 can do it, and nvidia's new GPUs can load data directly from an NVMe SSD, bypassing the CPU and RAM.\\n\\n > After all, an internal SSD is only larger and slightly slower-access memory.\\n\\nActually DDR4 has a throughput of up to 25GB/sec, meanwhile Apple went cheap on the SSDs that only deliver around 2 to 2.5GB/sec, yet there exist NVMe drives that can now do 6-7GB/sec, which still isn't close to RAM. And that's before you even consider latency. SSDs have a latency of around 50,000ns vs RAM at 50ns. Yes requests to NVMe SSDs take 1000x longer than RAM.\",\n \"448\"\n ],\n [\n \"I can't see that happening. Selling high priced enthusiast components is a big money maker for all involved. SoCs like the M1 might become the norm for cheap business machines but not for gaming. AMD and nvidia already have or are working on technologies that can replicate some of the features in M1. E.g. new AMD CPUs can write directly to the VRAM of new AMD GPUs. New nvidia GPUs can now read directly from an NVMe SSD instead of waiting for the CPU to copy data in to RAM then in to VRAM.\",\n \"816\"\n ],\n [\n \"There are a few advantages\\n\\n1. For GPU work there's no need to move data between RAM and VRAM, it's one and the same;\\n2. Similarly, other components like the Neural Engine, also have direct access to memory;\\n3. The RAM is physically closer to the CPU which lowers latency\\n\\nThat's about it. Really #1 is the biggest advantage, but it's something consoles now have too. Hardly unique. But you have people on here who've been drinking the kool aid running around saying an M1 with 8GB of RAM will do everything an i9 with 32GB of RAM could do. Like there's some kind of magic memory fairy inside.\",\n \"153\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Not true. Unified memory and the way the OS handles memory can result in significant improvements. Unified memory means the data in the RAM doesn't have to be copied from the CPU to the GPU and vice versa. Both can access it at the same time. Less duplication means lesser memory required. \\n\\nThis is great if your workload is GPU-bound. But otherwise it doesn't help much.\",\n \"85\"\n ],\n [\n \"This article is pretty bad. See my comments here: _URL_0_\\n\\niPhones get away with limited memory because iOS aggressively evicts apps from memory if it starts to run out, and because iOS itself simply needs less than Android.\\n\\nmacOS is totally different to iOS so in no way are your observations about iOS' memory management applicable to a Mac, not even one with Apple Silicon in it. If you run out of memory on macOS, it won't kill other apps. It will use your SSD as swap and keep your apps running.\",\n \"689\"\n ],\n [\n \"> The 2nd highest ranked link when you search for \\\"unified memory\\\" is that page.\\n\\nGoogle's ranking algorithm accounts for popularity, not correctness.\\n\\n > I've seen a lot of iPhones from non-tech users and they have dozens of apps running in the background.\\n\\n > I even pointed it out to some and taught them how to quit these background apps when their iPhone becomes too sluggish.\\n\\nWell you're incorrect because iOS doesn't have true multitasking for third-party apps. iOS allows apps to complete very specific tasks in the background using APIs provided by Apple. When you switch away from an app, for the most part it is simply suspended in-memory.\\n\\nSince an app is not really running in the background, and since iOS will automatically kill apps to free up RAM, manually quitting them will not improve performance.\\n\\nIn fact, manually quitting an app like that may worsen your battery life because if iOS did not need to evict it, then all you've done is cause it to reload from scratch the next time you open it.\\n\\n > Tech transfer from iOS to macOS, thanks.\\n\\nThis sentence makes no sense whatsoever.\\n\\n > My first statement specified that both macOS and Apple Silicon allows for more efficient unified memory management.\\n\\nThe unified memory of the M1 increases speed, and is more efficient for GPU workloads. That's all.\\n\\n > I've been using Macs since MacOS 9.x and iPhones when iOS was formerly called iPhone OS so I am somewhat familiar with how Apple's OS behaves.\\n\\nSo have I. Big deal. It's not something I feel the need brag about. I don't think you know as much as you claim to.\",\n \"697\"\n ],\n [\n \"> iPads are not directly comparable with gaming laptops.\\n\\nI never compared them. If your interest is gaming, then a desktop PC is better. The iPad is a portable computing device, and if you want you can stream games from your PC to it.\\n\\n > And if you're going to count bulk and battery life as a negative for gaming laptops then you should count them as double negative on desktops as they're significantly more bulky, have zero battery.\\n\\nThis is a bizarre thing to claim. You don't need to carry a desktop PC around. It never needs to run on battery.\",\n \"127\"\n ],\n [\n \"You want citations but don't provide any of your own? If you know so much about iOS and macOS why do you even need to verify my claims? You should just know I'm right.\\n\\nDDR4: _URL_3_ - 35.2GB/sec\\n\\nSamsung's best SSD: _URL_5_ - up to 7GB/sec\\n\\nMacBook Air SSD speed: _URL_4_ - only 2.6GB/sec\\n\\nNVMe latency _URL_1_ - 250 microseconds = 250,000ns\\n\\nDDR4 latency _URL_6_ - < 8ns\\n\\nClosing apps makes battery life worse: _URL_0_\\n\\niOS apps do not run in the background and instead have to use very specific APIs: _URL_2_\",\n \"448\"\n ],\n [\n \"Plenty of people do. Why do you think Apple sells Macs with up to 1.5TB of memory?\\n\\n > This is why iOS can get by with 4-6GB but android typically has 8-16GB.\\n\\nNo this is completely false. iOS needs less memory for itself than Android. Also, iOS does not support true multi-tasking for third-party apps unlike Android. Instead iOS apps are forced to implement specific background functionality through APIs Apple make available. And finally, iOS will agressively kill any app that isn't in the foreground if the app that is in the foreground needs more memory than is currently available.\\n\\n*That's* how iOS does it. Not because of some undefined memory magic.\\n\\nmacOS does absolutely none of this. Instead it will use your SSD as swap and keep apps running forever.\",\n \"697\"\n ],\n [\n \"The only difference is that data bound for the GPU doesn't have to be copied through main memory. As I said earlier, this is a boost for GPU-bound applications.\\n\\nEverything I provided is up-to-date. There is no additional \\\"magic\\\" going on inside macOS. It works the same way it always did, and an SSD is a poor substitute for a lack of memory, and using my references above you will see why the article that claimed SSDs were almost as fast as memory is absolutely wrong.\\n\\nNow, do you have any citations to counter anything I said?\",\n \"689\"\n ],\n [\n \"How about we just use React Native for desktop instead? Electron isn't salvageable, every app has an entire copy of Chrome inside it and Google have shown no interest in reducing Chrome's memory usage or making it use less CPU.\\n\\nElectron was always a bad idea. I'd rather use a Java app than Electron.\",\n \"561\"\n ],\n [\n \"Fusion Drives were an awful way for Apple to avoid putting an SSD in an iMac, and a spinning disk has no place in a laptop. It's far too vulnerable. The new MacBook Air finally has no moving parts inside. Apple have finally been able to make it what it always should have been. It's perfect. Let's not ruin it.\\n\\nA Fusion Drive with such fast flash would also be difficult to make. The Fusion Drive was SATA, which M1 likely doesn't support. To get those kinds of speeds you need NVMe, which the M1 does support, but the HDD would still have to be SATA.\",\n \"448\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider runs the server, and dynamically manages the allocation of machine resources. Pricing is based on the actual amount of resources consumed by an application, rather than on pre-purchased units of capacity.[1] It can be a form of utility computing. Serverless is a misnomer in the sense that servers are still used by cloud service providers to execute code for developers. The management and details of these servers are transparent to the application developers. \\n\\n_URL_0_\",\n \"570\"\n ],\n [\n \"I've had about enough of YouTube, they're now using it to push Google Chrome.\\n\\nUp until a few weeks ago I could go to _URL_0_ and enter a code from the app on my TV, which would allow me to browse YouTube on my computer and send the video to my TV to play.\\n\\nBut they've now taken that away. You can only \\\"cast\\\" to a TV app if you use Chrome. Fuck that. I'm now watching less YouTube and therefore seeing less ads as a result.\\n\\nAlso I have the same experience as you in that my recommendations are full of stuff I've already seen.\",\n \"358\"\n ],\n [\n \"No that's what we're talking about. You just moved the goalposts. You said \\\"No correct program is going to be memory bound on a laptop.\\\" which is completely false.\\n\\nMy IDE needs about 4GB just to analyse my code. That's not faulty behaviour, it's expected behaviour.\\n\\nIf I have a virtual machine that needs 16GB of RAM to run, that's not faulty behaviour, that's expected behaviour. Using up RAM does not indicate a problem, it can simply indicate that storing a large amount of data is necessary.\\n\\nIf you have complex analytics software such as R, and you need to open up a 16GB dataset, guess how much memory you'll need? That's right, 16GB and that doesn't make a programme broken.\\n\\nYou literally have no idea what you're talking about, so this conversation isn't going to go anywhere. Bye.\",\n \"448\"\n ],\n [\n \"> RAM does not directly increase the speed of your system, there’s no difference between 8gb of ram and 16gb of ram if you’re not using more than 8gb in the first place. \\n\\nWell, your OS can cache commonly used files and applications in the extra memory, so it's not totally wasted. The difference is marginal, but it's there.\\n\\n > This is especially true with Apple products as they manage RAM differently than a typical windows system by heavily relying on virtual memory and efficient resource management. \\n\\nThey're not that different really. Both will swap/page if you get low on memory. Both will cache files in memory.\\n\\n > Edit: I believe apple also compresses RAM giving it a huge advantage over traditional RAM management.\\n\\nBoth macOS and Windows 10 use memory compression.\",\n \"689\"\n ],\n [\n \"> If you’re arguing that we should be trying to minimize virtual memory then you would still only get minimal performance gains as the point of virtual memory is to store the inactive RAM.\\n\\nThis isn't true. The point of virtual memory is to avoid your computer running out of memory. If you had no virtual memory your computer could just crash if you ran out of physical memory. Stuff moved to virtual memory isn't necessarily inactive, it just might be a bit old. As soon as you try and access that data again it has to be moved back in to memory, and something else will be moved out to take its place. If you only go over your physicaly memory by a little bit, you won't really noticed. But if you exceed your physical memory by a lot, then the OS will be nearly constantly moving stuff around and you switch between apps.\",\n \"171\"\n ],\n [\n \"macOS doesn't manage memory in the same was as iPad OS though. iPad OS will force quit apps if the app you have in the foreground requests more memory than is available. macOS never does this. 4K video editing can be enabled by having fast flash, so when you scrub through content it gets streamed off disk instead of being held completely in memory.\",\n \"689\"\n ],\n [\n \"If true it will likely mean lockdown longer than people hope. A quarter of all COVID admissions are under 55. We're only vaccinating 70+ by mid-February, if we even meet that target.\\n\\nIf we let a highly transmissible variant run rife then it's likely that young people alone are enough to fill up hospitals, which as this article indicates does actually cause a lot of deaths to non-covid issues.\",\n \"912\"\n ],\n [\n \"What the WHO has forgotten is that we've been working with manufacturers around the world to get them producing the AZ vaccine. It will be sold at cost. We're basically going to give away billions of doses, but they think we should stop our internal programme for the sake of a few million, which as you say, is barely a drop in the ocean.\\n\\nWe're also the biggest contributor to COVAX and Gavi.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yes 5.4 is talking about where production is allowed to take place, and what happens if there's a shortfall. The inclusion of the UK seems to be so that the EU doesn't have to waste time granting permission to AZ to optionally produce some vaccine there. This is because the UK still has an identical framework of laws and standards to the EU. Non-EU countries require approval.\\n\\nThe inclusion of the UK does not seem to be to require production there. \\n\\nThat much is clear because: \\n\\n1. There's a mandate in 5.1 which explicitly calls for the first 300m doses to be produced in the EU;\\n2. 5.4 clearly says the UK's inclusion as part of the EU is only for the purposes of 5.4. In other words it's deliberately worded so as not to override 5.1.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"Can you explain your reasoning for that, because we've already been through this? BREs cannot compel them to break another contract, especially if that pre-existing contract allowed this one to even come in to existence.\\n\\n5.4 grants them permission to use the UK, but not for IED as those are required to be produced in the EU by 5.1.\\n\\nAnyway, I'm done. You asked me to explain the reasoning. I did. Now you're starting another argument. The legal consensus is clear that AZ does not have to supply any of the first 300m doses from the UK.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"Now that the contract has been released, lots of lawyers have weighed in with their opinion. \\n\\nThere's consensus that:\\n\\n* AZ is correct, it does not have to take supplies from the UK to meet its obligations;\\n* AZ is also correct when it said its contract was best-effort.\\n\\nThere's an open question: has AZ done enough to meet its best reasonable efforts requirement? But that doesn't affect the UK suppiles.\\n\\n_URL_1_\\n\\n_URL_6_\\n\\n_URL_10_\\n\\n_URL_5_\\n\\n_URL_4_\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\n_URL_3_\\n\\n_URL_8_\\n\\n_URL_7_\\n\\n_URL_9_\\n\\n_URL_2_\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"> our production capacity\\n\\nIn Pfizer's* production capacity. They own that facility.\\n\\n > But AZ Europe is having production issues, but AZ UK won't share production capacities.\\n\\nYou accidentally made an interesting point. The UK and EU have contracts with two different companies. One based in Sweden, one in the UK.\\n\\nAlso, you missed out on a very important point. The UK's early order allowed AZ to kickstart production in the EU. The EU is already benefitting from the UK's money. If the UK hadn't ordered, your production would be further behind. You have no right to double-dip.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Having said all of this, I would have been supportive of sharing some of the UK vaccine stock - but the EC is making that an increasingly difficult stance to support\\n\\nThis is a huge problem they've created for themselves. They've literally dropped bombs on their relationship with the UK with their claims they're entitled to the UK doses, and that they can and will take them, or that they can and will block exports, etc etc.\\n\\nBut the fact is, their contract gives them no right.\\n\\nThe only way they can share in our supply is to be fucking adults and ask the UK nicely. Only the UK can give permission, not AZ. But since they decided to have public temper tantrums and piss off the UK I can only imagine what the answer will be. Last week the British public would have probably been in support of helping. This week, everyone is fucking done with the EU. Even remainers like me.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"> No, it really isn't. Because according to the contract AZ would have to apply to supply from India\\n\\nYes they would have to apply to the EU, not to India. So why aren't the EU demanding this happen? Oh that's right, they can only apply to produce somewhere else. Not steal from somewhere else. Same reason they can't take from the UK. They can only produce there, but there is no facility available for them to produce in. The only ones that exist are already contracted out.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"Keyword: reasonable. Yes that quote gives them *permission* to use the UK supply. It doesn't compel them to, because the UK output is already contracted out. Breaking a contract is not *reasonable* behaviour. If it's reasonable to break one contract to honour this one, it's reasonable to break this contract to honour another.\\n\\nEg1: AZ's UK facility is idle, not producing anything. Should AZ use that capacity to fulfill its EU order? Yes, that's reasonable.\\n\\nEg2: AZ's UK facility is fully contracted out to another country. Should AZ use that capacity to fulfill the EU order? No, because breaking a contract is not reasonable.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"Misleading headline\\n\\n > Constructive talks with Prime Minister @BorisJohnson\\n tonight. \\n > We agreed on the principle that there should not be restrictions on the export of vaccines by companies where they are fulfilling contractual responsibilities.\\n\\nThis is what she Tweeted last night. In effect, nothing has changed. This is exactly what they were planning anyway. If Pfizer ends up with a shortfall they will block exports, including to the UK.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"> It was always just a measure to check if the EU got their fair share.\\n\\nIncorrect. The plan was to block all exports from a manufacturer if it had a shortfall to the EU. In other words, EU will take more than its fair share until the shortfall is made up, rather than sharing the shortfall among all customers which is what they claimed they wanted just days before announcing this policy.\",\n \"437\"\n ],\n [\n \"How much time, energy, and money went in to that technology? It was wrong of you to claim it as all your own.\\n\\n > But even without that, I would like to highlight how stupid it is to say that because the vaccine was developed in country A people from country A should have priority\\n\\nYou're right. That's why the UK is licensing its IP out so vaccines can be produced at no cost across the world.\\n\\nIs Germany/BioNTech doing that? No, they're milking all the profit. Profiting from a global health crisis? That's just vile.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"Clause 13.1(e) seems to not apply for two reasons:\\n\\nFirstly, AZ is only obligated by 5.1 to use EU facilities for the Initial Europe Doses. Since it's currently producing those IEDs, it is under no obligation to use UK facilities. Therefore, its pre-existing commitment to the UK to use UK facilities does not prevent it from fulfilling its obligation to use EU facilities to produce for the EU.\\n\\nSecondly, the pre-existing contract is a benefit to the EU. The UK's order allowed AZ to kickstart production in the EU. Without that order, the EU's production would be even further behind. In other words, AZ's pre-existing commitments is actually helping AZ to deliver on its obligations.\\n\\nEven if AZ was in breach of 13.1(e), it gives the EU no power to demand UK vaccines. It simply means AZ is in breach and the EU can sue for damages.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"> They do seem to have gone quiet on claiming a contractual obligation and simply moved to a possible national security kind of argument, I think?\\n\\nYeah now that the contract's out. The consensus is that the EU was wrong to claim rights over vaccines produced in the UK. It also vindicated AZ's claim that it was a \\\"best-efforts\\\" contract. What a hole they've dug for themselves. The only question that remains is *has* AZ met is reasonable best efforts obligations?\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"100% agree. I even posted the latest news where the EU and UK agreed a \\\"reset\\\" but that was deleted because of the megathread. 99% of the replies were nice and chill, very contstructive, and people were moving on from the drama. But the megathread is a cesspit where the link to the article about the \\\"reset\\\" has been buried under a stream of new toxicity. By confining the drama to that thread, they're prolonging it because whenever anybody opens it, they're immediately presented with a toxic mess.\",\n \"564\"\n ],\n [\n \"If you wan't to meet climate aims you shouldn't be taking [transatlantic flights](_URL_0_) either because one ~~flight~~ trip undoes two years of being vegan~~, so one round trip undoes four~~.\\n\\n > You can love animals and kill them after they've only lived 5% of their life expectancy in a cage/concrete pen?\\n\\nIf only we had ways of rearing animals for food without torturing them...\\n\\n > But what about pandemics? Most are being caused by animal-ag.\\n\\nTighter regulations and harsh enforcement. These things happen because of unsanitary conditions.\\n\\n > And then we've got unhealthy rivers, monocultures, ocean dead zones, 60-80% of all plastic in the ocean is made up of fishing nets, etc, etc ,etc, etc, etc, etc\\n\\nSo change fishing practices? Fishing can be completely sustainable.\",\n \"166\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm not a long way off actually. Here are some calculations: _URL_0_ once you factor in the entire supply chain and the extra damage high altitude emissions does, you get to 250KG CO2e per passenger per hour of flight. 7hrs for a London < - > New York flight, and you're at 1.75 tonnes. Add in the round trip and you're at 3.5 tonnes.\\n\\nUsing your figures, that return flight is equivalent to 813 days of savings made from switching from meat to a vegan diet.\",\n \"516\"\n ],\n [\n \"I just put a pork shoulder joint in the oven. Organic, free-range, and ethically reared and slaughtered from a local farm. I agree not everyone can afford to pay £25 for that (you can get the same cut and weight for only £5 in Aldi) but animal welfare can be improved with only marginal increases in cost. \\n\\nAlmost every egg sold in the country is now free-range, which while not perfect, is a huge step up from the battery farmed hell eggs that used to be sold. Eggs are still affordable.\\n\\nAlmost all of our beef already comes from cows that are allowed to graze and eat grass naturally in the summer, while being fed silage in the winter. Yet in other countries \\\"grass-fed\\\" has become really trendy because their cattle is treat like shit and literally fed chicken shit amongst other things. Intensively farmed beef is the exception in the UK.\",\n \"166\"\n ],\n [\n \"Touched a nerve did I? \\n\\nThis particular comment thread was regarding improving animal welfare, and nothing to do with the environment. But since you've decided to take it down that route... I really hate vegans who get preachy about the environment when they take transatlantic flights like yourself. Your diet is not saving the world. You need to do more than be a virtue signalling vegan on Reddit to do that.\\n\\nWant to know what I do? I pay more for 100% green electricity. I don't own a car. I don't like flights. I use public transport. I spend more money on energy-efficient appliances. I make electronics like computers, TVs, and phones last 5 to 10 years. If they break, they are repaired whenever practical, rather than being dumped and replaced. I am about to start taxing myself by way of having 24 trees planted every year so that, in 30 years time, my entire lifetime's emissions, and much more, will have been sequestered. My carbon footprint is about to be -18 tonnes CO2e (yes negative!) per year *even though I eat meat*. What's your carbon footprint you sanctimonious prick? Don't forget to include your transatlantic flights! I bet you own a car too. What are you actually doing about it because being vegan alone is not enough?\\n\\n\\n > You do know that male chicks from the egg industry are macerated on the day they are born and that free-range means about 13-15 chickens per square metre.\\n\\nYou know I said this particular thread was about improving animal welfare? Guess what, it's possible: _URL_0_\\n\\n > You know that the leading cause of unhealthy rivers, ocean dead zones are cattle \\\"grazing\\\" as they pollute and kill off local eco systems in rivers, waterways, etc. We have about 15% of healthy rivers in England and Wales because of animal-ag.\\n\\nYou know fetilisers are used on plants? And this runs off too? Don't just blame it on animals.\\n\\n > You know that cows burp methane which is a worse contributor to climate change than all of transport combined, including flying.\\n\\nMost of the figures that put animal agriculture above aviation are based on emissions directly from the plane. They don't consider that emissions at high altitude are twice as damaging than at ground level. They don't consider the entire supply chain, from extracting fossil fuels, to construction and maintenance of the aircraft, to travel to and from airports.\\n\\nI'm sorry that this doesn't fit with your worldview that you're saving the planet by eating soy, but continuing to jet across the globe on a trail of burnt hydrocarbons.\",\n \"909\"\n ],\n [\n \"40,000 farms worldwide. My meat doesn't come from the whole world, it comes from the UK. Intensively rearing beef in California by importing soy and using loads of water in a dry climate is going to be far worse than just letting cows graze on a meadow in England eating grass that was naturally watered by rainfall.\\n\\nAre you just going to ignore the fact I'm eating meat while not destroying the environment?\",\n \"166\"\n ],\n [\n \"If his numbers are wrong, you're saying our government's numbers are wrong.\\n\\n > Watch Apocalypse Cow, <PERSON> talks to the dairy industry spokeslady as she's at her farm. She gets a delivery for her \\\"free range\\\", \\\"organic\\\", dairy cows which consists of Soy, Palm and other imports from what was previously rainforest.\\n\\nMost cows eat grass. We literally have fields and fields of it for them to eat, and it's free.\",\n \"166\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah it takes quite a bit of work to really get a vegan diet right. So people see healthy vegans who got absolutely obsessed over cooking and nutrition and absolutely nailed the diet, and start spouting that a vegan diet is inherently healthy but ignore the fact that if you obsess about cooking and nutrition with an omnivorous diet you can be equally healthy. \\n\\nThe reality is that if you go vegan and want to succeed you have to pay much more attention to your nutrition than you would on a standard diet. Problem is we have a nation of people who barely know the difference between protein, fat, and carbohydrate.\",\n \"909\"\n ],\n [\n \"UK politics really is further left than in the US. I mean you just called a right-wing politician \\\"liberal\\\".\\n\\nIn the UK climate change isn't even a left vs right issue. We don't have any credible politicians denying it exists. You have a president that thinks he can make \\\"clean coal\\\" whatever the fuck that is. Both sides acknowledge that the writing is on the wall for humanity unless we do something about it.\",\n \"886\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well that term can range from \\\"bricked\\\" (the correct term) where the firmware is irreversibly damaged and can only be repaired by Apple, thus making the computer as useful as a brick, and \\\"bricked\\\" as a lay term for anything that breaks the OS but can be fixed by simply reinstalling. It's not clear yet how \\\"bricked\\\" things are. I've seen some people suggesting that wiping the SSD in another Mac will fix it. But I've also seen some people say that Apple said it has to be repaired by them.\",\n \"923\"\n ],\n [\n \"I said animal welfare can be improved for marginal cost and gave the example of free range eggs. I said not everybody can afford £25. I did not give it as an example of a marginal cost.\\n\\nYou can improve welfare a little bit my making £5 meat cost £6, or £6.50. 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You should get six meals out of it.\\n\\nThe mince (20% fat!) you can create various things with, including making your own burgers.\\n\\nMost days you'll be able to have two treats: some yogurt, and a bit of dark chocolate.\\n\\nRemember to always buy the fattiest versions of food you can find, like 20% mince and tuna in oil rather than brine. More fat is more energy.\",\n \"783\"\n ],\n [\n \"No these machines are powerful enough to use as a primary machine. I know lots of developers who use them as a mobile workstation, but also as a desktop replacement hooked up to two monitors. \\n\\nJust because you don't need two displays doesn't mean other people don't. \\n\\nAlso you recommending a Mac Mini makes no sense as it now has the same CPU.\\n\\nAnd recommending a PC is just bizarre if you're an app developer. You really need a Mac and Xcode. 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[...] As a term, communist state is used by Western historians, political scientists and media to refer to these countries and distinguish them from other socialist states.\n\n_URL_0_","534"],["Well, no, Nazi Germany isn't called a socialist state. It's in the name, sure, but no historian or political scientist describes it as one. Because it doesn't fit the definition. In contrast, the USSR does fit the definition of a communist state, despite communist state not being in the name, so it's called one. For source, scroll up 2 comments where I link the Wikipedia article that explains what a communist state is and lists the USSR as one.\n\nThe key here, that you may be missing because you're too busy arguing to read, is that \"communist state\" does not mean \"state that is communist\". As I've said many times, the USSR was socialist and not communist - those two not being the same thing - but was a communist *state* because it was a one-party socialist state run by a Marxist-Leninist party. That's the definition of communist state. If you have a problem with that definition take it up with political scientists, not me.","534"],["It doesn't matter if they're on different scales because you're looking at the trends, not the actual prices. Obviously 7 bananas isn't going to cost the same as a SuperBowl ad. That's not what you're looking at. You're looking to see if the price of bananas rises in conjunction with the price of SuperBowl ads.\n\nThe scale chosen isn't arbitrary or \"not corrected\", its chosen to fit the heights of the two graphs. Putting them on the same scale would just give you a yellow line on the x axis.","185"],["> Except now they can bounce that fee up with no relation to your property tax\n\nThe city can already raise the fees collected for the fire department\n\n > Publically funded services should not cost extra to the public. Whether that's a monthly fee or the bus fare.\n\nBut they do, via taxes. Which are a fee paid monthly (or whatever period). There's no difference between saying \"you need to pay $1000 property tax and $200 fire department fee\" or \"you need to pay $1200 property tax, $200 of which will be used to fund the fire department\"","322"],["Sure, you could pick the number of bananas to show them in one scale. But the graph would look identical and you don't gain any thing. Because, again, you're not comparing the price of bananas to ads, you're comparing the price of bananas in 2020 to the price of bananas in 1980, and similarly with ads. And for that the scale doesn't matter. \n\n In fact you would *lose* meaning by scaling it like that, because people know that $2 for 7 bananas is expensive, but you have to do conversions to know what a reasonable price for 1.859 million bananas is. Or you make it a round number and then the heights don't match and it's impossible to compare the relative price changes","618"],["> If you want to use a banana for scale to better understand how prices for the Super Bowl have increased you could increase the already silly 7 bananas (why not just use 1 as that would make more sense for what you say) to 10,000,000 or even 15,000,000\n\nI agree 1 (or 1 lb) is better than 7, but 7 is still better than 15,000,000. You don't gain anything by making it 15,000,000 bananas and you lose the intuition for what's expensive or cheap \n\n > . “Oh wow, in 2008 Super Bowl ads were the same price as 15,000,000 bananas.”\n\nBut that's not the point of the graph. It's to show the changes in prices, not how many bananas a SuperBowl ad costs\n\n > Even better than that though would be to just eliminate dollars as the measure and convert it to bananas.\n\nThis is the worst suggestion of all, because you wouldn't be able to tell if a change in the plot is because of a change in the price of bananas or a change in the price of ads","618"],["That's not how patents work. You can be granted a new patent for a small change, but the old patent doesn't get extended and people are free to use it once it expires, same as always. And you *can* buy generic insulin for not much more than the $15 quoted above ($25 in Walmart). It's not medically recommended, because it turns out those small changes make a big difference, and modern insulin is much safer and much more effective than even the 25 year old designs.","618"],["Because that patent is 100 years old and medicine has come a long way since then. You don't even need to go back to the original patent; you can buy generic insulin for cheap at Walmart, made with a formula from ~30 years ago since the patent covering it has expired. But even that is much less safe and less effective than modern insulin, so it's not medically recommended unless you have absolutely no way to afford anything better","764"],["This is a non-story. In Israel you are not required to be present for the entire trial and the court can let you be absent for parts of it. <PERSON> was required to appear for the duration of the opening hearings, and he did. It's not like he stood up halfway through and said \"this is bullshit I'm out\". He did what was legally required and left when the court said they were done with him and he could go. He will be required to show up again for certain parts, but there's no point in making him sit there silently while his lawyers argue the case","12"],["Well there was also the whole kerfuffle of shady backroom deals involving bribes and threats to become appointed chancellor, and then physically barring representatives from entering the Reichstag while other members voted on whether to give him more power. Not really a standard part of Israeli elections\n\nAnd again, tons of leaders never win a majority of legislative seats? So what? Why bring <PERSON> into this? Canada's PM currently has a minority mandate. Are you going to say that <PERSON> came to power the same way as <PERSON>?","207"],["Stuff will fall even if the kinetic energy doesn't eventually decrease. For example, if its a valley with another hill on the other side (and no friction) the ball will endlessly go back and forth between the two hills, energy being transferred back and forth between potential and kinetic. Or if it's an infinite hill, the ball will keep falling forever.\n\nThis explanation requires that the object knows it will eventually lose that kinetic energy by coming to a stop at the bottom of a hill, which is nonesense","792"],["Yes that's generally true. Later courses are considered more important, and admissions boards also look at trends in your grades. If you started off poorly but improved and had a very strong final year, it shows them that you have been improving your study skills and although overall your grades are low, you're now at a point where you are ready for the program. The catch there, however, is that you have to get your application considered by a person first. If the overall GPA is too low or the number of fails too high some schools may unfortunately automatically reject the application without considering it further. But as long as you meet their cutoffs, strong upper year grades and reference letters will make up for a bad start.","154"],["If you define the potential energy by -grad(U) = F then forces point in the direction of decreasing potential. You need the minus sign there in order to keep total energy conserved; if you tried to say F = grad(U) so that forces point in the direction of *increasing* potential you wouldn't have the T + U is conserved, so this definition doesn't really make sense as an energy. \n\nBut ultimately it's just an observation about how nature tends to behave without any deeper insight into why. People noticed that objects fall towards earth and opposite charges come towards eachother, gaining speed and therefore kinetic energy as they do, and invented the concept of potential energy to make the math describing that look nice. Rather unsatisfyingly, you could say that bodies try to decrease potential energy because potential energy is defined as the thing that bodies try to decrease.","792"],["Because a lot of the economy still relies on the oil industry. And while a planned transition to renewable sources with investment in green sectors will protect from economic fallout, its very easy to make it sound like <PERSON> is going to kill the industry on day 1 and everyone that relies on it is going to be out of a job. What he said was a no brainer but it's a mistake to say something that can be taken out of context like that. Anyone that just hears <PERSON> say \"I'm going to get rid of oil\" isn't hearing \"were going to switch from oil to renewables and you'll have a job there instead\", they're hearing \"your job is at risk\" \n\nIt's the same reason <PERSON> keeps hitting <PERSON> on fracking, even though <PERSON> has made it clear he's going to regulate and slowly move away from fracking, not ban it. He's waiting for the soundbite of <PERSON> slipping up and saying \"we're going to get rid of fracking\" that he can cut the \"in 30 years after everyone in the industry has a job in greener energies\" out of and use as an argument in states that rely on fracking","771"],["If literally all you ate was butter you would indeed lose weight, because you'd be dead. But no, ketosis does not automatically make you lose weight. You're right that low carb diets can be more successful for some people because they find it easier to keep calories in control, but an excess of calories on a purely fat diet will still make you gain weight","978"],["No, the point of separation is that the government can't force you to follow or not follow a specific religion, and that The Church can't make the laws. But there's nothing saying that the people can't vote in religious representatives who are members of a church. In fact the constitution expressly makes it clear that no public servant can be denied office because of their religion. And if a religious person is in office you can't stop them from basing their personal beliefs on their religion, since that's again protected by freedom of religion.\n\nAs long as the laws aren't actually infringing on people's freedom of religion, the constitution doesn't say anything about religiously motivated laws. In fact it protects them, since forbidding it would be a gross violation of said freedom of religion.","165"],["Low carb diets can work for people, but really only because they find it easier to maintain a healthy diet. Keto is a whole other story - the weight loss benefits of ketosis are unknown, as are the potential health risks. Assuming people on \"keto\" actually go into ketosis, which they rarely do.\n\nBut mostly the keto diet (and any other fad diet, tok be fair) is surrounding by a cloud of bullshit broscience and I wanted to see some memes about it","978"],["If there was a legitimate religion where the right to abortion was a religious belief, then generally it would probably be unconstitutional for the federal government to outright ban abortion, though they could restrict it. Although with abortion, while obviously religiously motivated, the actual argument against it is based on the idea that the baby should considered a living person with rights after week x. If you accept that then freedom of religion doesn't protect your right to an abortion anymore. You can't say killing people is part of your religion, for example.","674"],["Yes, that's what I said. Ketosis requires incredibly low carb intake for a sustained period of time and it seems like most people on a keto diet don't actually go into ketosis, at least not for very long\n\nAnd again, if keto works for you its only because you find it easier to eat less calories on a low carb diet. Any other benefits of low carb diet (while certainly there) are much smaller factors. There's nothing really special about keto other than some people find it easier to stick to\n\nAlso, I question your claim that keto works so well compared to others. It's not been shown to be particularly more successful than any other type of diet","978"],["Probably not. You couldn't get the leader of the Jedi order to say a child doesn't have the right to life until they're 5 years old, for example. While it might religiously motivated, the legal argument about when a person is considered a person would not be a religious one.\n\nBTW, I'm not a lawyer so if you really want to understand this issue more completely you should ignore everything I've said and go read some books on constitutional law","151"],["You're not guaranteed to eat much less. If you were then every single person would succeed in their diet, which is obviously untrue. You might be more likely to eat less, but that's not the same as a guarantee. \n\nAlso, that's the whole point of a low carb diet. Keto specifically has a different point, one not yet proven to be beneficial\n\nAlso also, it's not so successful. Keto hasn't been shown to be particularly more successful than other diets","978"],["> So you don't even understand how keto works, and are not familiar with individuals success stories? You need a study to tell you water is wet?\n\nYes, because that's how science works. Knowing a few people that lost weight on keto doesn't prove keto is the perfect diet. I'm well aware it can work; what's not so obvious, and what isn't stated in either of those two links, is that keto is significantly better than other diets for weight loss","978"],["It may not be ok, but separation of church and state doesn't forbid it, nor could it without eroding individual freedoms. If a legislator is allowed to say \"my parents taught me that gay people are equal therefore I think they should be able to get married\", they can also say \"my parents taught me that <PERSON> said marriage is between man and women therefore I think gay people shouldn't be able to get married\". To say otherwise would be tantamount to the government saying \"you can only hold office if you have these specific religious beliefs\", which is an egregious violation of religious freedom.\n\nAnd of course a judge should never base a decision on their religion over the law, which is why gay people *can* get married. But that's not the same as saying a religious person can't be a politician or that a politician isn't allowed to exercise their religious beliefs while in office.","165"],["A black hole is not a very dense lump of matter. In general relativity, a black hole has a singularity surrounded by an event horizon. There is no lump of mass - all of the mass is concentrated in the singularity. There are some sense in which a black hole might be considered to have a boundary. For example the photon sphere or similar concept can be considered as the a boundary since it defines some limit, like where you can have an orbit or where you'll see a shadow. But they're just specific distances where some interesting behaviour happens - there's no physical border there. The event horizon can be considered as a boundary but again there's nothing physically there. You could hypothetically cross over the event horizon and never even know it.","576"],["It's ambiguous. Some people consider that multiplication and division should always be done left to right, so 8 / 2(2+2) = (8/2) x (2+2) = 16. Others consider that everything on the otherside of the division sign is considered part of the denominator, so multiplication takes precedence and 8 / 2(2+2) = 8 / (2(2+2)) = 1. \n\nYou should avoid writing expressions like this by using brackets [eg 8 / (2(2+2))], reordering terms [eg 8(2+2) / 2] or replacing division with multiplication of a reciprocal [eg 8 x (1/2) x (2+2)]","87"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"<PERSON> said the $600 would be raised to $2000. That was what the Democrats were trying to pass in congress and what <PERSON> promised would pass if the Dems won the senate. By the time the Democrats had the majority the $600 cheques had already started to go out, so they couldn't change the value of those and instead are adding an additional $1400 as a second cheque. For those keeping count at home, $1400 + $600 = $2000, the promised amount\\n\\n > Biden could easily, with a stroke of his pen, send out checks.\\n\\nActually no, he couldn't. Only congress has the power to do that\",\n \"332\"\n ],\n [\n \"> A communist state, also known as a Marxist–Leninist state, is a one-party state that is administered and governed by a communist party guided by Marxism–Leninism [...] These parties are usually Marxist–Leninist or some national variation thereof such as Maoism or Titoism, with the official aim of achieving socialism and progressing toward a communist society. 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Putting them on the same scale would just give you a yellow line on the x axis.\",\n \"185\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Except now they can bounce that fee up with no relation to your property tax\\n\\nThe city can already raise the fees collected for the fire department\\n\\n > Publically funded services should not cost extra to the public. Whether that's a monthly fee or the bus fare.\\n\\nBut they do, via taxes. Which are a fee paid monthly (or whatever period). There's no difference between saying \\\"you need to pay $1000 property tax and $200 fire department fee\\\" or \\\"you need to pay $1200 property tax, $200 of which will be used to fund the fire department\\\"\",\n \"322\"\n ],\n [\n \"Sure, you could pick the number of bananas to show them in one scale. But the graph would look identical and you don't gain any thing. Because, again, you're not comparing the price of bananas to ads, you're comparing the price of bananas in 2020 to the price of bananas in 1980, and similarly with ads. And for that the scale doesn't matter. \\n\\n In fact you would *lose* meaning by scaling it like that, because people know that $2 for 7 bananas is expensive, but you have to do conversions to know what a reasonable price for 1.859 million bananas is. Or you make it a round number and then the heights don't match and it's impossible to compare the relative price changes\",\n \"618\"\n ],\n [\n \"> If you want to use a banana for scale to better understand how prices for the Super Bowl have increased you could increase the already silly 7 bananas (why not just use 1 as that would make more sense for what you say) to 10,000,000 or even 15,000,000\\n\\nI agree 1 (or 1 lb) is better than 7, but 7 is still better than 15,000,000. You don't gain anything by making it 15,000,000 bananas and you lose the intuition for what's expensive or cheap \\n\\n > . “Oh wow, in 2008 Super Bowl ads were the same price as 15,000,000 bananas.”\\n\\nBut that's not the point of the graph. 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You don't even need to go back to the original patent; you can buy generic insulin for cheap at Walmart, made with a formula from ~30 years ago since the patent covering it has expired. But even that is much less safe and less effective than modern insulin, so it's not medically recommended unless you have absolutely no way to afford anything better\",\n \"764\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is a non-story. In Israel you are not required to be present for the entire trial and the court can let you be absent for parts of it. <PERSON> was required to appear for the duration of the opening hearings, and he did. It's not like he stood up halfway through and said \\\"this is bullshit I'm out\\\". He did what was legally required and left when the court said they were done with him and he could go. 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For example, if its a valley with another hill on the other side (and no friction) the ball will endlessly go back and forth between the two hills, energy being transferred back and forth between potential and kinetic. Or if it's an infinite hill, the ball will keep falling forever.\\n\\nThis explanation requires that the object knows it will eventually lose that kinetic energy by coming to a stop at the bottom of a hill, which is nonesense\",\n \"792\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yes that's generally true. Later courses are considered more important, and admissions boards also look at trends in your grades. If you started off poorly but improved and had a very strong final year, it shows them that you have been improving your study skills and although overall your grades are low, you're now at a point where you are ready for the program. The catch there, however, is that you have to get your application considered by a person first. If the overall GPA is too low or the number of fails too high some schools may unfortunately automatically reject the application without considering it further. But as long as you meet their cutoffs, strong upper year grades and reference letters will make up for a bad start.\",\n \"154\"\n ],\n [\n \"If you define the potential energy by -grad(U) = F then forces point in the direction of decreasing potential. You need the minus sign there in order to keep total energy conserved; if you tried to say F = grad(U) so that forces point in the direction of *increasing* potential you wouldn't have the T + U is conserved, so this definition doesn't really make sense as an energy. \\n\\nBut ultimately it's just an observation about how nature tends to behave without any deeper insight into why. People noticed that objects fall towards earth and opposite charges come towards eachother, gaining speed and therefore kinetic energy as they do, and invented the concept of potential energy to make the math describing that look nice. Rather unsatisfyingly, you could say that bodies try to decrease potential energy because potential energy is defined as the thing that bodies try to decrease.\",\n \"792\"\n ],\n [\n \"Because a lot of the economy still relies on the oil industry. And while a planned transition to renewable sources with investment in green sectors will protect from economic fallout, its very easy to make it sound like <PERSON> is going to kill the industry on day 1 and everyone that relies on it is going to be out of a job. What he said was a no brainer but it's a mistake to say something that can be taken out of context like that. Anyone that just hears <PERSON> say \\\"I'm going to get rid of oil\\\" isn't hearing \\\"were going to switch from oil to renewables and you'll have a job there instead\\\", they're hearing \\\"your job is at risk\\\" \\n\\nIt's the same reason <PERSON> keeps hitting <PERSON> on fracking, even though <PERSON> has made it clear he's going to regulate and slowly move away from fracking, not ban it. He's waiting for the soundbite of <PERSON> slipping up and saying \\\"we're going to get rid of fracking\\\" that he can cut the \\\"in 30 years after everyone in the industry has a job in greener energies\\\" out of and use as an argument in states that rely on fracking\",\n \"771\"\n ],\n [\n \"If literally all you ate was butter you would indeed lose weight, because you'd be dead. But no, ketosis does not automatically make you lose weight. 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Although with abortion, while obviously religiously motivated, the actual argument against it is based on the idea that the baby should considered a living person with rights after week x. If you accept that then freedom of religion doesn't protect your right to an abortion anymore. You can't say killing people is part of your religion, for example.\",\n \"674\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yes, that's what I said. Ketosis requires incredibly low carb intake for a sustained period of time and it seems like most people on a keto diet don't actually go into ketosis, at least not for very long\\n\\nAnd again, if keto works for you its only because you find it easier to eat less calories on a low carb diet. Any other benefits of low carb diet (while certainly there) are much smaller factors. There's nothing really special about keto other than some people find it easier to stick to\\n\\nAlso, I question your claim that keto works so well compared to others. It's not been shown to be particularly more successful than any other type of diet\",\n \"978\"\n ],\n [\n \"Probably not. You couldn't get the leader of the Jedi order to say a child doesn't have the right to life until they're 5 years old, for example. While it might religiously motivated, the legal argument about when a person is considered a person would not be a religious one.\\n\\nBTW, I'm not a lawyer so if you really want to understand this issue more completely you should ignore everything I've said and go read some books on constitutional law\",\n \"151\"\n ],\n [\n \"You're not guaranteed to eat much less. If you were then every single person would succeed in their diet, which is obviously untrue. You might be more likely to eat less, but that's not the same as a guarantee. \\n\\nAlso, that's the whole point of a low carb diet. Keto specifically has a different point, one not yet proven to be beneficial\\n\\nAlso also, it's not so successful. Keto hasn't been shown to be particularly more successful than other diets\",\n \"978\"\n ],\n [\n \"> So you don't even understand how keto works, and are not familiar with individuals success stories? You need a study to tell you water is wet?\\n\\nYes, because that's how science works. Knowing a few people that lost weight on keto doesn't prove keto is the perfect diet. I'm well aware it can work; what's not so obvious, and what isn't stated in either of those two links, is that keto is significantly better than other diets for weight loss\",\n \"978\"\n ],\n [\n \"It may not be ok, but separation of church and state doesn't forbid it, nor could it without eroding individual freedoms. If a legislator is allowed to say \\\"my parents taught me that gay people are equal therefore I think they should be able to get married\\\", they can also say \\\"my parents taught me that <PERSON> said marriage is between man and women therefore I think gay people shouldn't be able to get married\\\". To say otherwise would be tantamount to the government saying \\\"you can only hold office if you have these specific religious beliefs\\\", which is an egregious violation of religious freedom.\\n\\nAnd of course a judge should never base a decision on their religion over the law, which is why gay people *can* get married. But that's not the same as saying a religious person can't be a politician or that a politician isn't allowed to exercise their religious beliefs while in office.\",\n \"165\"\n ],\n [\n \"A black hole is not a very dense lump of matter. In general relativity, a black hole has a singularity surrounded by an event horizon. 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The NSA was breaking constitutional law by illegally listening to private phone calls and illegally obtaining private emails. <PERSON>, the former head of the NSA told congress that the NSA does not spy on americans in america. <PERSON> released documents proving <PERSON> was lying to Congress and that the NSA was spying on american citizens illegally (its illegal because the 4th amendment states that the federal government may not obtain personal private information without a warrant) *without* a warrant. That process is called search and seizure. The NSA broke the law and <PERSON> outed them for it.","776"],["> An FBI review of communications between Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. and President <PERSON>’s national security adviser did not produce any incriminating evidence, The Washington Post reported Monday night.\n\nand\n\n > According to the Post, the calls in question were obtained by the FBI as part of routine surveillance of Russian officials in the U.S., and the review was conducted in late December. <PERSON> is not the target of an investigation, the Post reported.\n\nIm a democrat and this hysteria is getting ridiculous.","860"],["this is why I shared that article. I am a Democrat and I am sick of \"my side\" acting like our shit doesnt stink. Its stuff like this that leads some to say \"both sides are the same\". However misguided that statement may be, this is the kind of thing that leads people to think that. And *depending on what topics are of the most importance to you*, \"both sides are the same\" may not be as far off the mark as many would like to think.\n\nConsider that the brother and the father were *both* american citizens and neither accused of or convicted of anything, yet the president ordered the fathers death.","856"],["> IN 2010, PRESIDENT <PERSON> directed the CIA to assassinate an American citizen in Yemen, <PERSON>, **despite the fact that he had never been charged with (let alone convicted of) any crime**, and the agency successfully carried out that order a year later with a September 2011 drone strike. While that assassination created widespread debate — the once-again-beloved ACLU sued <PERSON> to restrain him from the assassination on the ground of due process and then, when that suit was dismissed, sued <PERSON> again after the killing was carried out \n\nI gave you an upvote, but I dont think what you said is entirely accurate.","819"],["Sure, I might write a Wikipedia page on a guy I just killed without due process too. Everything on that page is \"alleged\" or merely tangential. 9/11 hijackers went to a mosque he preached in. So? They also flew American Airlines, should we drone strike AA for their association with *19* hijackers? The fact is this was an american citizen that was never charged and sentenced to death overseas. The ACLU, which has been viewed quite favorably this past week, fought <PERSON> on the issue in court *twice*.","690"],["Did this guy throw a molotov? Or did he have a world view you disagree with? He didn't shoot anyone. You are making false equivalence to weapons. The guy had a philosophy, that is not illegal. You are saying that if a DAPL protester went to Yemen, the US could drone that protester. There is a constitution and the fact that US citizens are advocating the dismantling of their own protections from the government is so fucking irritating.","399"],["> Leaks are illegal and are hated by those in power (and their followers) precisely because political officials want to hide evidence of their own wrongdoing, and want to be able to lie to the public with impunity and without detection. That’s the same reason the rest of us should celebrate such illegal leaks, and protect those who do them, often at great risk to their own interests, so that we can be informed about the real actions of those who wield the greatest power. That principle does not change based upon which political party controls the White House.","298"],["I dont mean to take that side, it certainly appears nefarious. But is it outside the realm of possibility that the transition team would be in contact with Russia especially considering the \"vitriol\" (probably the wrong word and I dont mean to imply it is unjustified) through the campaign and transition? Could they *not* be acting in bad faith? Please, I just want an answer, down vote if you want think this question is about talking points. I know less about this issue than I want to, that is all. Thanks.","860"],["Yeah they do. They just dont necessarily have all the information or the room to publish it or it doesn't fit their agenda. If the NYT could have done a WL like drop involving <PERSON> tax returns they would have if it were necessary. The innocent be damned.\n\nEdit: You should read into this thread. u/blarfk Acknowledges he lied and made up facts and refuses to edit the higher up posts where he lied repeatedly. Stating:\n\n > [I think I'll just let people read on our conversation and decide for themselves what they think of my point, minor example in my error aside.](_URL_0_)\n\n/r/quityourbullshit.","624"],["> The NYT and other major news operations operate under pretty strict journalist ethics. They have never and would not publish the hacked contents of civilians personal e-mails.\n\nThey have published stolen personal information on civilians. Trumps tax records being among them. What you are saying they wouldnt do, they did within the last 3 months very publicly. The \"ethics\" you are attributing to NYT and denying WL are the same.","452"],["Then make your edit. Your post *still* says\n\n > They have never and would not publish the hacked contents of civilians personal e-mails.\n\nThe NYT published the Pentagon Papers. The WaPo published Watergate. They should do those things. Otherwise innocent people were hurt as a result of those publications. But they should *still* publish those things. Why are you arguing that the US citizens should never have heard about WG? Or the Pentagon Papers? Why do you think those things should never have been published? Why do you think the NYT shouldnt have published <PERSON> tax records?","452"],["> Also, if you want to get technical, nobody \"hacked\" anyone to get <PERSON>'s tax returns. They were supplied to the NYT by an anonymous source who many people suspect belongs(ed) to <PERSON>'s accounting team and who had legitimate access to them.\n\nStill the same argument as WL. In fact the *exact same argument*. The emails were (as claimed by WL) a *leak* from insiders and not hacked. The ODNI report simply says that Russia hacked the DNC. It does not say that Russia supplied WL with the emails. <PERSON> himself said that they dont know if Russia supplied WL.","169"],["> But never every publication ever operates on the assumption that all information is fair game.\n\nWe are talking about what is fair game. All information is fair game. Not all information is relevant. When you are using a newspaper for comparison to an exclusively online publication, the limit for articles and data is lower. There is a limit to how much can actually be printed. If they could do more they would, look ath their own online presence to see how they expand. And will continue to expand. They already failed your litmus test in publishing illegally obtained personal information about a private citizen. They would do more if they could. And they will. They also covered the Panama Papers. Tax records are not an isolated incident.","624"],["\"Skepticism\" and the weakness of your flawed perception of reality through the senses and what can you ever *truly* know is true is a pretty major thread running through all of history. Much had been reasoned out and is the reason <PERSON> said \"I think therefore I am\". But the post above saying you \"can't actually ever know\" is arguably more factual than \"France is in Europe\", at least according to Skeptics and some Empiricists.","1019"],["> <PERSON> had a show on RT so he literally worked for the Russian government.\n\n<PERSON> had a show that RT aired. There is a huge difference. <PERSON> never worked for TBS.\n\n > There are plenty of other potential conflicts of interest to list\n\nBetween <PERSON> and Russia? I havent heard any. But Id be willing to.\n\n > having literally worked for the sinister entity in question\n\nWhy was Russia so benign when <PERSON> met with Russia in 2014? 2015?\n\nI'm sorry, I'm a democrat and a self described conspiracy theorist - so I have my mind open about Russia hacking being a possibility. I still think this is CYA from the DNC.","860"],["I think of it as two separate parts of life. At 18 you have mastered being a child. And you are 0 years an adult. When you hit 30 think of it like being 10-12 years old again and how much of the world of children you had mastered by that time. At thirty you have an understanding of adulthood as much as a 12 year old has an understanding of childhood. You think you know sooo much and that you have all this experience and what really keeps happening over and over is you learn how little you ever knew.","881"],["Its media that is flatly designed to \"influence the electorate\" with an incredibly one-sided bias. It is incredibly hypocritical to give such criticism meanwhile the left has littered these DailyShow \"satellites\" through out the media-sphere that literally push an incredibly one-sided political bias with an obvious agenda. I dont think either are wrong, by the way. It is the easiest way to get sincere (if not exactly truthful) information on the other side of the aisle. <PERSON> isnt going to tell you what is wrong with the Democrats, Fox isnt going to tell you the full truth about what is going on with the Republicans.","6"],["HyperNormalization.\n\nThe left thinks \"Fake News\" cost them the election so they are doubling down under the guise of \"fighting fire with fire\" and fairly soon there will be little left of truth in media. \n\nSince we're all cool with BuzzFeed around here:\n\n_URL_1_\n\n > The new law would give sweeping powers to the government to push television, radio, newspaper, and social media onto the U.S. public. “It removes the protection for Americans,” says a Pentagon official who is concerned about the law. “It removes oversight from the people who want to put out this information. **There are no checks and balances. No one knows if the information is accurate, partially accurate, or entirely false.”**\n\n_URL_0_","840"],["> He shouldn't have held that catastrophically idiotic press conference.\n\nI am very appreciative of your logical consistency calling his July press conference \"idiotic\". \n\n > <PERSON> is either an incompetent or malicious jackass. There are no other options at this point.\n\nWhich is ironic. This seems to be the case of many people in powerful positions over the last few years. Continuing with that logical consistency, we should stop allowing incompetence to get in the way of what is right.","495"],["> He answered repeatedly that it is policy not to confirm nor deny weather in active investigation is taking place\n\nYou ever think that maybe you won a fight that maybe you didnt want to win? You are arguing that he shouldnt have done <PERSON> wrong and that he shouldnt be making anything about her investigation public. But he *should* do <PERSON> wrong (WRONG) and make this public? Pick a side here.","12"],["This is why this is a good sub and fuck everyone that thinks otherwise. Democrats are playing into GOP hands so goddamned bad and they dont even know it. They took back the propaganda ban so they could lie to the public through media to win *this election* without realizing they gave the entire country (Republican controlled State Assemblies) the ability to *propagandize public education*. These short sighted idiots. (Im a Democrat)","468"],["They also legalized propaganda to be used against US citizens in America. Conveniently that story was also broke by BuzzFeed.\n\n_URL_1_\n\n > The new law would give sweeping powers to the government to push television, radio, newspaper, and social media onto the U.S. public. “It removes the protection for Americans,” says a Pentagon official who is concerned about the law. “It removes oversight from the people who want to put out this information. **There are no checks and balances. No one knows if the information is accurate, partially accurate, or entirely false.”**\n\n_URL_0_","840"],["I'd say it is very important to know the history of these people in office and how they manipulate and lie when is most convenient or necessary. Sure this may have been posted by someone whose political beliefs you dont agree with, but it is at least tangentially related to the conspiracy that elected officials have conflicting values depending on when the question is asked. This is also a solid response to the common argument \"the two parties are obviously different\". FWIW, Im a democrat that finds this two faced nonsense unacceptable. This is exactly why the right can get away with their bullshit and exactly why Republicans are *correct* to question the motives of the left. Similar to lying media on both sides. And as a Democrat, we liberals dont seem to notice how full of shit our side can be. I want liberals to see this stuff and hold *our own* side accountable when this inevitably happens again.","988"],["Here is Salon saying the exact opposite and not running a retraction.\n\n_URL_0_\n\n > The strike was initially planned during the final days of President <PERSON>’s administration, but because the military wanted to conduct the raid during a moonless night, <PERSON> felt the need to postpone it until after his term had ended. \n\nSince Salon has not run a retraction, the best you can say is that someone is full of shit.","906"],["Here's a non-editorial that was a top post of this sub last week:\n\n_URL_0_\n\n > The strike was initially planned during the final days of President <PERSON>’s administration, but because the military wanted to conduct the raid during a moonless night, <PERSON> felt the need to postpone it until after his term had ended. \n\nSince Salon has not run a retraction, the best you can say is that someone is full of shit.\n\nAlso your link says this:\n\n > But a current White House official claimed the order did go through National Security Council reviews until January 6, when a National Security Council Deputies Committee meeting was called. Deputies from Defense, State, CIA and the National Security Council met and approved the raid, contingent on the need for a moonless night.\n\nLiterally says <PERSON> approved the raid, which is to say that if the inauguration was in March, this raid would have occurred the same way. This isnt an <PERSON>/<PERSON> issue. This is an American Foreign Policy issue.","906"],["Yemen is already at odds with the US. I am pretty skeptical the US ever cared about having any sort of permission considering the US is backing Saudi Arabia in a genocide against the Yemeni people right now.\n\n_URL_1_\n\n_URL_0_\n\n > A blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia has further exacerbated this crisis, pushing hunger-stricken Yemen to the brink of famine. “An entire generation could be crippled by hunger,” a World Food Program official warned this week. At least 14 million Yemenis, more than half of the country’s population, are going hungry.","819"],["> But a current White House official claimed the order did go through National Security Council reviews until January 6, when a National Security Council Deputies Committee meeting was called. Deputies from Defense, State, CIA and the National Security Council met **and approved** the raid, contingent on the need for a moonless night.\n\nfrom your article.","298"],["> But a current White House official claimed the order did go through National Security Council reviews until January 6, when a National Security Council Deputies Committee meeting was called. Deputies from Defense, State, CIA and the National Security Council met and approved the raid, contingent on the need for a moonless night.\n\n_URL_0_\n\nWho was president on January 6th that approved this? <PERSON> said yes.","298"],["> But a current White House official claimed the order did go through National Security Council reviews until January 6, when a National Security Council Deputies Committee meeting was called. Deputies from Defense, State, CIA and the National Security Council met and approved the raid, contingent on the need for a moonless night.\n\n_URL_1_\n\nWho was president on January 6th that approved this?\n\nSalon huh? I wonder what else they had to say about it in an article that was at the top of this sub last week:\n\n_URL_0_\n\n\n > The strike was initially planned during the final days of President <PERSON>’s administration, but because the military wanted to conduct the raid during a moonless night, <PERSON> felt the need to postpone it until after his term had ended. \n\nSince Salon has not run a retraction, the best you can say is that someone is full of shit.\n\nEdit: Oh, no rebuttal?","906"],["nope.\n\n > But a current White House official claimed the order did go through National Security Council reviews until **January 6*, when a National Security Council Deputies Committee meeting was called. Deputies from Defense, State, CIA and the National Security Council met **and approved the raid**, contingent on the need for a moonless night.\n\n_URL_0_\n\nWho was president to approve that on January 6th?","298"],["> National Security Council \n\nDid you know the President is on the National Security Council? \n\nAnd here is Salon reporting that <PERSON> did approve the raid:\n\n_URL_0_\n\n\n > The strike was initially planned during the final days of President <PERSON>’s administration, but because the military wanted to conduct the raid during a moonless night, <PERSON> felt the need to postpone it until after his term had ended. \n\nSince Salon has not run a retraction, the best you can say is that someone is full of shit.","609"],["/enoughtrumpspam banned me but I don't know if I still am. Also there was this weird sub tracking all users that posted at t_d but I don't know what that was about, no comments zero karma no subscribers but thousands of posts. I think that sub was used to auto ban t_d users. But I am not sure. I don't know of any other bans for posting there. Also this was before the election, I could not say if they still ban those that continue to post on t_d. \n\nEdit: Just checked, still banned.","728"],["<PERSON> hosts a couple of podcasts. \"hardcore history\" and \"common sense\". They are both fantastic. Everyone in America should listen to both. But the most compelling and fascinating is his most recent \"Destroyer of Worlds\" episode of HH. It was meant to be a quick rundown of the Cuban missile crisis instead its a 6 hour explanation of the atomic age culminating in the CMC. It's amazing. Truly. And shockingly prescient.","371"],["Ohhhhhh. So anyone that doesn't agree is a nazi now? Tell me more about your \"not an echo chamber\". Seriously, you are saying your side wants to treat people like human beings but anyone that does not agree one hundred percent with everything I agree with needs to gtfo. That doesn't sound like how you treat a people when you respect their personhood and agency. \n\nEdit: I just saw your username. I get it now.","743"],["> FBI Director <PERSON> said in a July 2016 statement that the FBI investigation \"found no evidence that any of the additional work-related emails were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them.\"\n\nThat is still some bullshit. They were deleted and not handed over. That is still obstruction.\n\n > <PERSON> added in a later congressional hearing that the FBI learned no one on <PERSON>’s staff specifically asked the employee to delete the emails following the New York Times story and subpoena. Rather, the employee made that decision on his own.\n\nThis is actually claiming to have proven a negative. Literally impossible. \n\nAlso linking to Politifact after we know that the DNC coordinates to edit their articles is kind of weak.","776"],["Dont misinterpret what I am saying, I agree with you. That doesnt mean that the largest political message board in the world isnt pushing and strongly supporting a specific narrative against a vast swath of americans. What I said was a rebuttal to a very specific statement that has room to be questioned. If that statement were used in that other sub with the shoe on the other foot, you might receive death threats. That is all.","728"],["> What <PERSON> did was what 99% of government officials do.\n\nNot only is that completely bullshit, it doesnt excuse his behavior - even if entirely true. The defense is now \"I am no worse than <PERSON>\"? \n\n > <PERSON>'s emails should not have been a scandal\n\nSo neither should \"RUSSIA!\" because all Russia did was point out how the DNC likes risotto, right? Why would the DNC make anything out their risotto recipes? What are they ashamed of? Their overly liberal use of garlic? So again, maybe you are under-informed?","169"],["> You need to notify people in any lawsuit for it to proceed, in this case there are several \"John Does\" and by beginning the lawsuit <PERSON>'s lawyer has access to more legal tools to find the identity of these John Does, such as subpoenaing certain private records\n\nThe way you contact these <PERSON>'s is by publishing in local papers and all those land ownership records are public information (I do this for a living). What *private* records do you suppose would be accessible, discoverable, and of any value that a judge could grant access to that would be *more effective* than a phone call to a county recorder/assessor?","546"],["> when the reality of it was that her server might have been compromised.\n\nYour link says that it certainly happened. \n\n > Ironically, that whole debacle was less of a threat to national interests and safety than what <PERSON> managed to pull in his first day as president.\n\nWe wont know until the emails get declassified in literally 74 more years. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was declassified after 50. Until Iraq, Vietnam was the single worst foreign policy blunder in the western world that lead to over 60k american deaths. That somehow is less inflammatory than what was on the server. Food for thought.\n\nAnd so you dont get the wrong idea, Im a Democrat.","452"],["> confirmation bias\n\nYou dont need confirmation bias with primary resources.\n\n > took advantage of disgruntled <PERSON> supporters who don't understand how anything in government works\n\nLMFAO. Maybe they knew too well how it all worked considering so much of his support was from independents and they knew all that BS was going on long before the emails were released. <PERSON> supporters still deny there was anything in the emails, so who are the truly naive ones here?","452"],["I agree, on the condition that someone isnt privately working to undermine their public position. But that is nearly impossible to prove one way or the other. I dont think it is on its own a bad way to govern, and as you say it can be a good thing in the hands of quality governing. Given the option between two people, all else being equal (note Im not actually saying that all things *are* equal) it is better to take the one side that actually believes in their message vs the one espousing support because of political pressure. This reasoning is why SOPA keeps coming back, or why Keystone and DAPL arent already dead. If the public position is to oppose it and private is to support it, then all a corrupt politician would have to do is the magicians sleight of hand to distract you from your opposition to specific legislation for long enough for their privately desired option to pass.","736"],["> Is it not better than having no chance of changing her mind?\n\nIt wouldnt be unless you are being leveraged deliberately by someone that wants to use you for their own ends. At the end of the day, they wouldnt have to follow through at all because they know you are holding on to the hope that they will do the right thing, and you buy into it because that candidate told you that the opposition has no chance of carrying out your wishes. There is literally zero incentive for the left to follow through on these things unless you call them on it.","856"],["> I want so badly to embrace \"When they go low, we go high,\" but I'm afraid we're gonna have to fight just as dirty if we don't want to lose our grasp at our government.\n\nI hate this so fucking much. That said I am so fucking glad people like you are out there doing exactly that. *That* being said, I think the only way to fix our politics is to hold our own accountable. So that is my own fight. I hold democrats feet to the fire (to the point that I have to use disclaimers in any conversation long enough, pointing out im actually a Democrat). *ALL OF THAT SAID*, you are doing the lords work. Fight the good fight.","468"],["Or...unelectable people is the reason Democrats lose. Lmao. You blame the voters for not falling in line behind someone that defended many of the policies we attack <PERSON> for daily - Like the TPP, DAPL, SOPA, DOMA, CISPA, NSA spying and *fake news*. How you didnt know that those positions would cost the dems the election is on you and the DNC.","468"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"Are you american? <PERSON> worked for the NSA. The NSA was breaking constitutional law by illegally listening to private phone calls and illegally obtaining private emails. <PERSON>, the former head of the NSA told congress that the NSA does not spy on americans in america. <PERSON> released documents proving <PERSON> was lying to Congress and that the NSA was spying on american citizens illegally (its illegal because the 4th amendment states that the federal government may not obtain personal private information without a warrant) *without* a warrant. That process is called search and seizure. The NSA broke the law and <PERSON> outed them for it.\",\n \"776\"\n ],\n [\n \"> An FBI review of communications between Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. and President <PERSON>’s national security adviser did not produce any incriminating evidence, The Washington Post reported Monday night.\\n\\nand\\n\\n > According to the Post, the calls in question were obtained by the FBI as part of routine surveillance of Russian officials in the U.S., and the review was conducted in late December. <PERSON> is not the target of an investigation, the Post reported.\\n\\nIm a democrat and this hysteria is getting ridiculous.\",\n \"860\"\n ],\n [\n \"this is why I shared that article. I am a Democrat and I am sick of \\\"my side\\\" acting like our shit doesnt stink. Its stuff like this that leads some to say \\\"both sides are the same\\\". However misguided that statement may be, this is the kind of thing that leads people to think that. And *depending on what topics are of the most importance to you*, \\\"both sides are the same\\\" may not be as far off the mark as many would like to think.\\n\\nConsider that the brother and the father were *both* american citizens and neither accused of or convicted of anything, yet the president ordered the fathers death.\",\n \"856\"\n ],\n [\n \"> IN 2010, PRESIDENT <PERSON> directed the CIA to assassinate an American citizen in Yemen, <PERSON>, **despite the fact that he had never been charged with (let alone convicted of) any crime**, and the agency successfully carried out that order a year later with a September 2011 drone strike. While that assassination created widespread debate — the once-again-beloved ACLU sued <PERSON> to restrain him from the assassination on the ground of due process and then, when that suit was dismissed, sued <PERSON> again after the killing was carried out \\n\\nI gave you an upvote, but I dont think what you said is entirely accurate.\",\n \"819\"\n ],\n [\n \"Sure, I might write a Wikipedia page on a guy I just killed without due process too. Everything on that page is \\\"alleged\\\" or merely tangential. 9/11 hijackers went to a mosque he preached in. So? They also flew American Airlines, should we drone strike AA for their association with *19* hijackers? The fact is this was an american citizen that was never charged and sentenced to death overseas. The ACLU, which has been viewed quite favorably this past week, fought <PERSON> on the issue in court *twice*.\",\n \"690\"\n ],\n [\n \"Did this guy throw a molotov? Or did he have a world view you disagree with? He didn't shoot anyone. You are making false equivalence to weapons. The guy had a philosophy, that is not illegal. You are saying that if a DAPL protester went to Yemen, the US could drone that protester. There is a constitution and the fact that US citizens are advocating the dismantling of their own protections from the government is so fucking irritating.\",\n \"399\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Leaks are illegal and are hated by those in power (and their followers) precisely because political officials want to hide evidence of their own wrongdoing, and want to be able to lie to the public with impunity and without detection. That’s the same reason the rest of us should celebrate such illegal leaks, and protect those who do them, often at great risk to their own interests, so that we can be informed about the real actions of those who wield the greatest power. That principle does not change based upon which political party controls the White House.\",\n \"298\"\n ],\n [\n \"I dont mean to take that side, it certainly appears nefarious. But is it outside the realm of possibility that the transition team would be in contact with Russia especially considering the \\\"vitriol\\\" (probably the wrong word and I dont mean to imply it is unjustified) through the campaign and transition? Could they *not* be acting in bad faith? Please, I just want an answer, down vote if you want think this question is about talking points. I know less about this issue than I want to, that is all. Thanks.\",\n \"860\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah they do. They just dont necessarily have all the information or the room to publish it or it doesn't fit their agenda. If the NYT could have done a WL like drop involving <PERSON> tax returns they would have if it were necessary. The innocent be damned.\\n\\nEdit: You should read into this thread. u/blarfk Acknowledges he lied and made up facts and refuses to edit the higher up posts where he lied repeatedly. Stating:\\n\\n > [I think I'll just let people read on our conversation and decide for themselves what they think of my point, minor example in my error aside.](_URL_0_)\\n\\n/r/quityourbullshit.\",\n \"624\"\n ],\n [\n \"> The NYT and other major news operations operate under pretty strict journalist ethics. They have never and would not publish the hacked contents of civilians personal e-mails.\\n\\nThey have published stolen personal information on civilians. Trumps tax records being among them. What you are saying they wouldnt do, they did within the last 3 months very publicly. The \\\"ethics\\\" you are attributing to NYT and denying WL are the same.\",\n \"452\"\n ],\n [\n \"Then make your edit. Your post *still* says\\n\\n > They have never and would not publish the hacked contents of civilians personal e-mails.\\n\\nThe NYT published the Pentagon Papers. The WaPo published Watergate. They should do those things. Otherwise innocent people were hurt as a result of those publications. But they should *still* publish those things. Why are you arguing that the US citizens should never have heard about WG? Or the Pentagon Papers? Why do you think those things should never have been published? Why do you think the NYT shouldnt have published <PERSON> tax records?\",\n \"452\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Also, if you want to get technical, nobody \\\"hacked\\\" anyone to get <PERSON>'s tax returns. They were supplied to the NYT by an anonymous source who many people suspect belongs(ed) to <PERSON>'s accounting team and who had legitimate access to them.\\n\\nStill the same argument as WL. In fact the *exact same argument*. The emails were (as claimed by WL) a *leak* from insiders and not hacked. The ODNI report simply says that Russia hacked the DNC. It does not say that Russia supplied WL with the emails. <PERSON> himself said that they dont know if Russia supplied WL.\",\n \"169\"\n ],\n [\n \"> But never every publication ever operates on the assumption that all information is fair game.\\n\\nWe are talking about what is fair game. All information is fair game. Not all information is relevant. When you are using a newspaper for comparison to an exclusively online publication, the limit for articles and data is lower. There is a limit to how much can actually be printed. If they could do more they would, look ath their own online presence to see how they expand. And will continue to expand. They already failed your litmus test in publishing illegally obtained personal information about a private citizen. They would do more if they could. And they will. They also covered the Panama Papers. Tax records are not an isolated incident.\",\n \"624\"\n ],\n [\n \"\\\"Skepticism\\\" and the weakness of your flawed perception of reality through the senses and what can you ever *truly* know is true is a pretty major thread running through all of history. Much had been reasoned out and is the reason <PERSON> said \\\"I think therefore I am\\\". But the post above saying you \\\"can't actually ever know\\\" is arguably more factual than \\\"France is in Europe\\\", at least according to Skeptics and some Empiricists.\",\n \"1019\"\n ],\n [\n \"> <PERSON> had a show on RT so he literally worked for the Russian government.\\n\\n<PERSON> had a show that RT aired. There is a huge difference. <PERSON> never worked for TBS.\\n\\n > There are plenty of other potential conflicts of interest to list\\n\\nBetween <PERSON> and Russia? I havent heard any. But Id be willing to.\\n\\n > having literally worked for the sinister entity in question\\n\\nWhy was Russia so benign when <PERSON> met with Russia in 2014? 2015?\\n\\nI'm sorry, I'm a democrat and a self described conspiracy theorist - so I have my mind open about Russia hacking being a possibility. I still think this is CYA from the DNC.\",\n \"860\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think of it as two separate parts of life. At 18 you have mastered being a child. And you are 0 years an adult. When you hit 30 think of it like being 10-12 years old again and how much of the world of children you had mastered by that time. At thirty you have an understanding of adulthood as much as a 12 year old has an understanding of childhood. You think you know sooo much and that you have all this experience and what really keeps happening over and over is you learn how little you ever knew.\",\n \"881\"\n ],\n [\n \"Its media that is flatly designed to \\\"influence the electorate\\\" with an incredibly one-sided bias. It is incredibly hypocritical to give such criticism meanwhile the left has littered these DailyShow \\\"satellites\\\" through out the media-sphere that literally push an incredibly one-sided political bias with an obvious agenda. I dont think either are wrong, by the way. It is the easiest way to get sincere (if not exactly truthful) information on the other side of the aisle. <PERSON> isnt going to tell you what is wrong with the Democrats, Fox isnt going to tell you the full truth about what is going on with the Republicans.\",\n \"6\"\n ],\n [\n \"HyperNormalization.\\n\\nThe left thinks \\\"Fake News\\\" cost them the election so they are doubling down under the guise of \\\"fighting fire with fire\\\" and fairly soon there will be little left of truth in media. \\n\\nSince we're all cool with BuzzFeed around here:\\n\\n_URL_1_\\n\\n > The new law would give sweeping powers to the government to push television, radio, newspaper, and social media onto the U.S. public. “It removes the protection for Americans,” says a Pentagon official who is concerned about the law. “It removes oversight from the people who want to put out this information. **There are no checks and balances. No one knows if the information is accurate, partially accurate, or entirely false.”**\\n\\n_URL_0_\",\n \"840\"\n ],\n [\n \"> He shouldn't have held that catastrophically idiotic press conference.\\n\\nI am very appreciative of your logical consistency calling his July press conference \\\"idiotic\\\". \\n\\n > <PERSON> is either an incompetent or malicious jackass. There are no other options at this point.\\n\\nWhich is ironic. This seems to be the case of many people in powerful positions over the last few years. Continuing with that logical consistency, we should stop allowing incompetence to get in the way of what is right.\",\n \"495\"\n ],\n [\n \"> He answered repeatedly that it is policy not to confirm nor deny weather in active investigation is taking place\\n\\nYou ever think that maybe you won a fight that maybe you didnt want to win? You are arguing that he shouldnt have done <PERSON> wrong and that he shouldnt be making anything about her investigation public. But he *should* do <PERSON> wrong (WRONG) and make this public? Pick a side here.\",\n \"12\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is why this is a good sub and fuck everyone that thinks otherwise. Democrats are playing into GOP hands so goddamned bad and they dont even know it. They took back the propaganda ban so they could lie to the public through media to win *this election* without realizing they gave the entire country (Republican controlled State Assemblies) the ability to *propagandize public education*. These short sighted idiots. (Im a Democrat)\",\n \"468\"\n ],\n [\n \"They also legalized propaganda to be used against US citizens in America. Conveniently that story was also broke by BuzzFeed.\\n\\n_URL_1_\\n\\n > The new law would give sweeping powers to the government to push television, radio, newspaper, and social media onto the U.S. public. “It removes the protection for Americans,” says a Pentagon official who is concerned about the law. “It removes oversight from the people who want to put out this information. **There are no checks and balances. No one knows if the information is accurate, partially accurate, or entirely false.”**\\n\\n_URL_0_\",\n \"840\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'd say it is very important to know the history of these people in office and how they manipulate and lie when is most convenient or necessary. Sure this may have been posted by someone whose political beliefs you dont agree with, but it is at least tangentially related to the conspiracy that elected officials have conflicting values depending on when the question is asked. This is also a solid response to the common argument \\\"the two parties are obviously different\\\". FWIW, Im a democrat that finds this two faced nonsense unacceptable. This is exactly why the right can get away with their bullshit and exactly why Republicans are *correct* to question the motives of the left. Similar to lying media on both sides. And as a Democrat, we liberals dont seem to notice how full of shit our side can be. I want liberals to see this stuff and hold *our own* side accountable when this inevitably happens again.\",\n \"988\"\n ],\n [\n \"Here is Salon saying the exact opposite and not running a retraction.\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\n > The strike was initially planned during the final days of President <PERSON>’s administration, but because the military wanted to conduct the raid during a moonless night, <PERSON> felt the need to postpone it until after his term had ended. \\n\\nSince Salon has not run a retraction, the best you can say is that someone is full of shit.\",\n \"906\"\n ],\n [\n \"Here's a non-editorial that was a top post of this sub last week:\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\n > The strike was initially planned during the final days of President <PERSON>’s administration, but because the military wanted to conduct the raid during a moonless night, <PERSON> felt the need to postpone it until after his term had ended. \\n\\nSince Salon has not run a retraction, the best you can say is that someone is full of shit.\\n\\nAlso your link says this:\\n\\n > But a current White House official claimed the order did go through National Security Council reviews until January 6, when a National Security Council Deputies Committee meeting was called. Deputies from Defense, State, CIA and the National Security Council met and approved the raid, contingent on the need for a moonless night.\\n\\nLiterally says <PERSON> approved the raid, which is to say that if the inauguration was in March, this raid would have occurred the same way. This isnt an <PERSON>/<PERSON> issue. This is an American Foreign Policy issue.\",\n \"906\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yemen is already at odds with the US. I am pretty skeptical the US ever cared about having any sort of permission considering the US is backing Saudi Arabia in a genocide against the Yemeni people right now.\\n\\n_URL_1_\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\n > A blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia has further exacerbated this crisis, pushing hunger-stricken Yemen to the brink of famine. “An entire generation could be crippled by hunger,” a World Food Program official warned this week. At least 14 million Yemenis, more than half of the country’s population, are going hungry.\",\n \"819\"\n ],\n [\n \"> But a current White House official claimed the order did go through National Security Council reviews until January 6, when a National Security Council Deputies Committee meeting was called. Deputies from Defense, State, CIA and the National Security Council met **and approved** the raid, contingent on the need for a moonless night.\\n\\nfrom your article.\",\n \"298\"\n ],\n [\n \"> But a current White House official claimed the order did go through National Security Council reviews until January 6, when a National Security Council Deputies Committee meeting was called. Deputies from Defense, State, CIA and the National Security Council met and approved the raid, contingent on the need for a moonless night.\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\nWho was president on January 6th that approved this? <PERSON> said yes.\",\n \"298\"\n ],\n [\n \"> But a current White House official claimed the order did go through National Security Council reviews until January 6, when a National Security Council Deputies Committee meeting was called. Deputies from Defense, State, CIA and the National Security Council met and approved the raid, contingent on the need for a moonless night.\\n\\n_URL_1_\\n\\nWho was president on January 6th that approved this?\\n\\nSalon huh? I wonder what else they had to say about it in an article that was at the top of this sub last week:\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\n\\n > The strike was initially planned during the final days of President <PERSON>’s administration, but because the military wanted to conduct the raid during a moonless night, <PERSON> felt the need to postpone it until after his term had ended. \\n\\nSince Salon has not run a retraction, the best you can say is that someone is full of shit.\\n\\nEdit: Oh, no rebuttal?\",\n \"906\"\n ],\n [\n \"nope.\\n\\n > But a current White House official claimed the order did go through National Security Council reviews until **January 6*, when a National Security Council Deputies Committee meeting was called. Deputies from Defense, State, CIA and the National Security Council met **and approved the raid**, contingent on the need for a moonless night.\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\nWho was president to approve that on January 6th?\",\n \"298\"\n ],\n [\n \"> National Security Council \\n\\nDid you know the President is on the National Security Council? \\n\\nAnd here is Salon reporting that <PERSON> did approve the raid:\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\n\\n > The strike was initially planned during the final days of President <PERSON>’s administration, but because the military wanted to conduct the raid during a moonless night, <PERSON> felt the need to postpone it until after his term had ended. \\n\\nSince Salon has not run a retraction, the best you can say is that someone is full of shit.\",\n \"609\"\n ],\n [\n \"/enoughtrumpspam banned me but I don't know if I still am. Also there was this weird sub tracking all users that posted at t_d but I don't know what that was about, no comments zero karma no subscribers but thousands of posts. I think that sub was used to auto ban t_d users. But I am not sure. I don't know of any other bans for posting there. Also this was before the election, I could not say if they still ban those that continue to post on t_d. \\n\\nEdit: Just checked, still banned.\",\n \"728\"\n ],\n [\n \"<PERSON> hosts a couple of podcasts. \\\"hardcore history\\\" and \\\"common sense\\\". They are both fantastic. Everyone in America should listen to both. But the most compelling and fascinating is his most recent \\\"Destroyer of Worlds\\\" episode of HH. It was meant to be a quick rundown of the Cuban missile crisis instead its a 6 hour explanation of the atomic age culminating in the CMC. It's amazing. Truly. And shockingly prescient.\",\n \"371\"\n ],\n [\n \"Ohhhhhh. So anyone that doesn't agree is a nazi now? Tell me more about your \\\"not an echo chamber\\\". Seriously, you are saying your side wants to treat people like human beings but anyone that does not agree one hundred percent with everything I agree with needs to gtfo. That doesn't sound like how you treat a people when you respect their personhood and agency. \\n\\nEdit: I just saw your username. I get it now.\",\n \"743\"\n ],\n [\n \"> FBI Director <PERSON> said in a July 2016 statement that the FBI investigation \\\"found no evidence that any of the additional work-related emails were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them.\\\"\\n\\nThat is still some bullshit. They were deleted and not handed over. That is still obstruction.\\n\\n > <PERSON> added in a later congressional hearing that the FBI learned no one on <PERSON>’s staff specifically asked the employee to delete the emails following the New York Times story and subpoena. Rather, the employee made that decision on his own.\\n\\nThis is actually claiming to have proven a negative. Literally impossible. \\n\\nAlso linking to Politifact after we know that the DNC coordinates to edit their articles is kind of weak.\",\n \"776\"\n ],\n [\n \"Dont misinterpret what I am saying, I agree with you. That doesnt mean that the largest political message board in the world isnt pushing and strongly supporting a specific narrative against a vast swath of americans. What I said was a rebuttal to a very specific statement that has room to be questioned. If that statement were used in that other sub with the shoe on the other foot, you might receive death threats. That is all.\",\n \"728\"\n ],\n [\n \"> What <PERSON> did was what 99% of government officials do.\\n\\nNot only is that completely bullshit, it doesnt excuse his behavior - even if entirely true. The defense is now \\\"I am no worse than <PERSON>\\\"? \\n\\n > <PERSON>'s emails should not have been a scandal\\n\\nSo neither should \\\"RUSSIA!\\\" because all Russia did was point out how the DNC likes risotto, right? Why would the DNC make anything out their risotto recipes? What are they ashamed of? Their overly liberal use of garlic? So again, maybe you are under-informed?\",\n \"169\"\n ],\n [\n \"> You need to notify people in any lawsuit for it to proceed, in this case there are several \\\"John Does\\\" and by beginning the lawsuit <PERSON>'s lawyer has access to more legal tools to find the identity of these John Does, such as subpoenaing certain private records\\n\\nThe way you contact these <PERSON>'s is by publishing in local papers and all those land ownership records are public information (I do this for a living). What *private* records do you suppose would be accessible, discoverable, and of any value that a judge could grant access to that would be *more effective* than a phone call to a county recorder/assessor?\",\n \"546\"\n ],\n [\n \"> when the reality of it was that her server might have been compromised.\\n\\nYour link says that it certainly happened. \\n\\n > Ironically, that whole debacle was less of a threat to national interests and safety than what <PERSON> managed to pull in his first day as president.\\n\\nWe wont know until the emails get declassified in literally 74 more years. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was declassified after 50. Until Iraq, Vietnam was the single worst foreign policy blunder in the western world that lead to over 60k american deaths. That somehow is less inflammatory than what was on the server. Food for thought.\\n\\nAnd so you dont get the wrong idea, Im a Democrat.\",\n \"452\"\n ],\n [\n \"> confirmation bias\\n\\nYou dont need confirmation bias with primary resources.\\n\\n > took advantage of disgruntled <PERSON> supporters who don't understand how anything in government works\\n\\nLMFAO. Maybe they knew too well how it all worked considering so much of his support was from independents and they knew all that BS was going on long before the emails were released. <PERSON> supporters still deny there was anything in the emails, so who are the truly naive ones here?\",\n \"452\"\n ],\n [\n \"I agree, on the condition that someone isnt privately working to undermine their public position. But that is nearly impossible to prove one way or the other. I dont think it is on its own a bad way to govern, and as you say it can be a good thing in the hands of quality governing. Given the option between two people, all else being equal (note Im not actually saying that all things *are* equal) it is better to take the one side that actually believes in their message vs the one espousing support because of political pressure. This reasoning is why SOPA keeps coming back, or why Keystone and DAPL arent already dead. If the public position is to oppose it and private is to support it, then all a corrupt politician would have to do is the magicians sleight of hand to distract you from your opposition to specific legislation for long enough for their privately desired option to pass.\",\n \"736\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Is it not better than having no chance of changing her mind?\\n\\nIt wouldnt be unless you are being leveraged deliberately by someone that wants to use you for their own ends. At the end of the day, they wouldnt have to follow through at all because they know you are holding on to the hope that they will do the right thing, and you buy into it because that candidate told you that the opposition has no chance of carrying out your wishes. There is literally zero incentive for the left to follow through on these things unless you call them on it.\",\n \"856\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I want so badly to embrace \\\"When they go low, we go high,\\\" but I'm afraid we're gonna have to fight just as dirty if we don't want to lose our grasp at our government.\\n\\nI hate this so fucking much. That said I am so fucking glad people like you are out there doing exactly that. *That* being said, I think the only way to fix our politics is to hold our own accountable. So that is my own fight. I hold democrats feet to the fire (to the point that I have to use disclaimers in any conversation long enough, pointing out im actually a Democrat). *ALL OF THAT SAID*, you are doing the lords work. Fight the good fight.\",\n \"468\"\n ],\n [\n \"Or...unelectable people is the reason Democrats lose. Lmao. You blame the voters for not falling in line behind someone that defended many of the policies we attack <PERSON> for daily - Like the TPP, DAPL, SOPA, DOMA, CISPA, NSA spying and *fake news*. 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You're not born in \"the wrong body\". You're born in your body. A short person, an person missing toes at birth, a person with facial deformities, a person with severe allergies, they are not born in \"the wrong body\". They are born in their body and they have to deal with the hand they have been dealt just like everyone else.\n\nEveryone has the right to alter their body how they see fit and what is within their financial and physical means.","379"],["Second the lesbian drama comment. Though I might watch this on a Netflix special.\n\nIn all seriousness, just back out of the whole situation. Almost all relationships at your age fail, especially lesbian ones. \n\nWhich would be fine but by perusing <PERSON>, you basically, statistically, are sacrificing your best friend for what will likely be a short term fling.\n\n<PERSON> will not understand and be supportive. Find some other girl to crush on","494"],["You've got an uphill battle. \n\nCheating isnt a mistake like leaving the stove on. Barring rare circumstances involving drugs, cheating is a series of choices made, in which anywhere along the way you can choose a different path.\n\nAlso when it comes to your family, many people believe either a person is capable of cheating or they are not. Now they know you are the kind of person that cheats. Any many people also believe once a cheater always a cheater.\n\nAnother thing you might not have considered. Now that your family knows you had better tell any girl you start dating that you have cheated on an ex. Because from this point onward you rist your family telling them out of concern for them any time you bring a girl home.","901"],["I am a bi male and support LGBT rights. However I will not date a bi girl. Call me a hypocrite, call me insecure, whatever. Truth is the two times I did it went badly, I've never personally known a bi girl that didnt have a history of cheating, and I decided that I just dont want that added stress on my mind in a relationship.","640"],["Sadly some people still see it as cheating. I had a gf and one day she \"soft\" broke up with me. Said she liked me and still wanted to date but wasnt ready (in her words) to be in an exclusive relationship. Seems pretty crystal clear to me.\n\nA week or so later an ex hit me up, we went to dinner and then back to her place. One thing led to another but before the clothes started flying I was honest about dating someone not exclusive and we made it clear to each other this was just a night of fun and didnt mean anything.\n\nThrough the grapevine it got back to my \"gf\" and she exploded for cheating on her. I was dumbfounded. I literally assumed one of the reasons we broke up was so she could sleep with other guys! We never managed to patch things up (though after that outburst I didnt really want to)","901"],["Yes you MIGHT get COVID if you go to an event like that. MIGHT. And that's even if anyone there has it. You WOULD have been grief stricken for life if you didnt get those last special moments with your mother.\n\nYour wife was completely out of line and paranoid and making this all about her. I get your frustration with the dead bedroom situation but honestly even if everything were great in that area she was out of line here by quite a ways.","981"],["Based on the wording here, I would guess that she sees you in the getting to know each other stage of dating. With only one exception, every relationship I have started has started out just dating. I would PREFER they are not going out/sleeping with other people but I never felt it was my business until I had the \"Are we exclusive?\" talk.\n\nSo maybe this friend is still feeling you out and not ready to give up another fun aspect of her life yet until and unless she decides an exclusive relationship with you is worth giving up her FWB.\n\nCompletely reasonable though I have to admit it's even more awkward that the FWB is your roommate.\n\nI'm not sure I would proceed with this if I were you. Even if you start a relationship, you have two potential issues. One, if the relationship goes well you might get some backlash from your roommate. Two, if the relationship fails then you may find yourself in a living situation where you get to hear your ex having sex with your roommate.","657"],["<PERSON>\n\nYour sister is a major one though.\n\nPlaying the \"gay\" card is just as bad as playing the race card, the fat card, the woman card, the man card, the trans card, etc\n\nBasically saying \"I am entitled to X even if obtained illegally or at the expense of someone else because I am Y\"\n\nYour sister not only took something of yours, she also destroyed it.\n\nGay pride is one thing but saying only gays can have rainbows is.....gay narcissism? Is that a thing? Seems like it could be.","650"],["NTA as long as you are letting her go.\n\nWeddings can kind of suck for random guests anyway. I've been to two where my partner was much more involved with everyone there and I just made awkward conversations here and there. Now add on someone I might want to punch? No thanks.\n\nJust make sure you dont end up giving your wife hell for going after.","275"],["I know it kind of sucks now in the world we live in, and it also kind of sucks to \"punish\" a victim, but this sounds like a situation to seriously talk about limiting or even removing all devices she has access to that allow her this sort of behavior. No cell phone (or maybe one without internet if those are even still a thing), no personal tablets or PC. If she is doing online school it has to be in an area she can be monitored. Install keyloggers and such on devices if she cannot be.\n\nSometimes you have to protect people from themselves. I dont see that as any different than taking blades away from a cutter.","119"],["Periods are flat out gross. But just as a lot of human anatomy is and I have yet to meet a woman IRL that is happy about having them.\n\nAs I guy I do find blood disgusting and I have made it clear to all my partners that I am not interested in any vaginal play at all during a period.\n\nHowever, I am still a guy who has gone to Walmart at 3am to buy Midol and a heating pad when my partner was having horrible cramps. I've brought extra tampons to my partner when I've gotten an urgent text from them at work on their day off. Things like that.\n\nOnly time i have full on went off on my partner was when she left period panties with the very soaked pad still in them just laying on the bathroom floor and I stepped in them on accident. But I think that was a fair general household complaint.","670"],["First priority: You\n\nSecond priority: Fiance\n\nThird priority: Your child\n\n(Though I understand some people would flip two and three)\n\nFourth priority: Siblings.\n\nIt sounds like right now you are grasping at strings to barely take care of one, two, and three. This is not a time to add another. \n\nResentment WILL build. Add on top of this those kids are coming with emotional baggage. If things get bad enough the kids and possibly your own could end up being removed anyway.\n\nFoster care sounds like the right place for them, and you, right now.","774"],["I've never been asked to do that I might find it odd but not derogatory.\n\nAs a side note I would have screwed it up if asked. I was 35 watching a stand up comedian with my gf and the comedian made a joke that he thought that you just stuck the pads to your body like a bandaid. I sat up and said dead seriously \"Wait that's not how they work?\"\n\nMy gf about died laughing. I didnt know the sticky part was to hold it in the underwear.","670"],["NAH.\n\nCouple thoughts though. Kids all over the world dont get a choice if siblings come into the mix. Lots of kids would rather be only children but the parents have the right to add to their family.\n\nIf your only or main reason for not adopting a child in need is your son might be annoyed then I dont think that's a good reason. Also a LOT of special needs kids grow up, despite parents best intentions, thinking they are the center of the universe. An older sibling may actually be beneficial to his development.","361"],["Congrats you introduced me to a fetish I didnt even know about.\n\nSo do you just find hair attractive? Like....I would say well over 90% of guys have certain hairstyles they find more attractive than others.\n\nDo you want to.....get a \"hair job\"? I had one of those once where a girl with long silky hair wrapped in around my dick and jerked me off with it. It was...interesting and I certainly didnt hate it but I didnt think it was the most efficient. Even then I wouldnt put it as any weirder than a titfuck.\n\nDo you want to cut off their hair and make a wig out of it and prance around in it? That's where you may start having issues finding a compatible partner.","90"],["You got raped. Good enough reason to leave right there.\n\nAlso if it only happened once, hate to bring it up, but it might not even be your kid. Women (and true men sometimes too) can go baby crazy. She may have cheated on you without birth control to get pregnant then knew she had to do it once with you in a certain time frame to make sure you didnt suspect.\n\nRegardless if the marriage survives get a DNA test at birth if not before.","454"],["Sure cause people when they have a gun in their face go \"oh yeah I remember hearing once on this one 60 minutes special years ago that this type of robbery USUALLY ends without shots fired so I'll just comply\"\n\nVS.\n\n\"Hey this guy just threatened several people with lethal force and he currently is not looking at me or pointing a gun at me, so I can either do something OR maybe wait til he just turns back around and shoots me.\"","1016"],["A) You dont go back\n\nB) Find out the laws on how illegal this is in your state. Unfortunately that might get her punished but doesnt negate the pregnancy\n\nC) You may have to check me on this one from a legal standpoint. Do NOT agree to pay for anything pre birth at all unless legally ordered to do so.\n\nD) Insist on a paternity test. Do not sign a birth certificate without one if it gets to that.\n\nE) Make it CLEAR to her that she is one hundred percent on her own now. Regardless of how she feels morally the slap of reality in the face of realizing even with possible child support she may be a single mother is a wake up call to a lot of people.\n\nF) If friends start asking about why you broke up, be HONEST. She will be spinning a different story. Get ahead of it. Again, her realizing that she might be losing friends and family support might encourage abortions or adoptions. \n\nG) If she does end up pregnant and decides on an abortion but insists you pay, DO IT. But dont just give her a check, take her down to the clinic, pretend to be loving and supportive, then as soon as you are sure it's all done, bail and block her on everything. Not saying you have to be so heartless as to like leave her ride less at the clinic (though that would be fair) but no contact after.\n\nEdit: Changed pregnancy to paternity on point D","992"],["How do I say this without sounding homophobic?\n\nI've seen this probably about 8 times in my life with bi girls (and maybe 3 times with bi guys)\n\nIt almost seems that when people are exploring their bi side they almost dont think that doing things inappropriate with the same sex is actually \"cheating\". \n\nI had a huge fight with an ex (bi) girlfriend once because she let her lesbian friend, who had admitted to both of is she had a crush on my girlfriend, share her bed one night. She told me \"girls share beds all the time\". I asked if she would be okay if I slept with a girl that admitted she had a crush on me and she said that was completely different. No, it's not.\n\nPoint there was maybe <PERSON> somehow has twisted she hasn't actually cheated but she has.\n\nTell the bf. If your sister snaps back just tell her that if she really has feelings for <PERSON> she should be thanking you for giving her the opportunity to pursue it.\n\nIf they start denying it at dinner, put <PERSON> and your mom on the spot.\n\nAlternatively if you want a quieter approach just that the bf aside quietly.","901"],["Also I misread something. Sounds like your sister is also concealing (or in denial) about the status of <PERSON> and her boyfriend. Sounds like it could be typical cheater behavior of \"I really love YOOOOOOU but I just cant break up with my current partner because of (insert bullshit reason) but I promise I will soon!\"\n\nThe bf deserves better. Especially if hes already broken up with them before because of the accusations that might have been true before but are now.","650"],["There is risk in everything. There is risk in just getting in the car to go to their house.\n\nCOVID is not a death sentence for most people. It is okay for people to weigh risk vs reward. A parent dying and seeing their kids and grandkids for the last time is a valid reason for risk.\n\nIf people are going out to a restaurant right now (safely) and that is acceptable, this is 100 times more justifiable","912"],["NTA\n\n\"Trans culture\" or whatever you want to call it is bullshit. Your heritage is your heritage, that is not debatable. Connect more with a different culture? Great! Learn about it, appreciate it, study a language? Awesome!\n\nBut you cant, say, be born German and say you are really a Brazilian.\n\nThis sounds like a lot of just teenage angst. And are you sure they aren't just trolling you completely?","847"],["<PERSON>\n\nAs someone who has had SEVERE issues from someone calling in a mental health check on me, yeah, yta.\n\nAll this does is get cops to EITHER do a quick check where the patient lies to get them to go away. Or they get hauled off to an involuntary commitment where they (in the USA) get a huge medical bill for it and lie to get out in 3 or 4 days anyway.","260"],["Ah see but condom companies know something few people want to admit!\n\nNon parents have MUCH more sex than parents. So you start giving a 20 year old access to condoms, they will likely continue using them well into their lives. But if said, say now 25 year old has a child, they may go from sex 5 times a week to 5 times a year! And then they have to wait many years for their \"next client\" (the child) to start needing their product.","292"],["You need to separate them into different households possibly permanently. \n\nThe incest is the smaller issue here honestly.\n\nYour daughter accusing your son of rape is the thing that needs to be focused on, because one of three things just happened there.\n\n1) Your son raped your daughter. Horrible but unlikely as he is the younger. \n\n2) It was mutual and your daughter is so f**** up that she decided to throw a life altering accusation that could cause HUGE legal problems for your son as well as ruin the family dynamic forever.\n\n3) Number two, but ADD IN that as the older child your daughter could have been grooming and raping your son and he, being the younger one, as many victims are, believes its consensual. In which case you have a sociopath on your hands.","774"],["You stay with her. You be the loving supportive girlfriend she needs. You forgive her. You apologize that you cant give her what she needs right now. You tell her you will try your hardest to do right by her.\n\nUNTIL you dont need her help paying for your treatments anymore.\n\nThen you tell her now that you are recovered you feel you both need to find someone more compatible with your life goals.\n\nCheating has a price after all.","901"],["Pet names to me have always just come naturally. \n\nNot every girl I've been with had one. Usually it required some sort of event and I'll admit I can be a bit of a jerk because some (not all but most) were based on teasing.\n\nOne ex got named <PERSON> because I found her freaked out standing on a patio chair running from a rabbit and asked \"You're really scared of a little bun?\"\n\nOne got named <PERSON> because I met her at a very dark time in my life and she guided me through the darkness.\n\nOne got named <PERSON> because she had a bit of a body hair issue (which I actually found cute, it was all white hair, thin and soft)\n\nOne got named <PERSON> because she was small but fierce as hell. \n\nOtherwise the typical \"babe\" just did it for me.","777"],["NTA\n\nAt all. All the family members whining can take him in themselves. NO ONE should have to have a child by choice.\n\nThat said, I would have maybe tried to coordinate with other family about trying some sort of massive joint custody so no ones life is completely upended.\n\nOP dont listen to all these people saying YTA, I bet not one in ten would take a 15 year old dumped on their doorstep willingly.","843"],["Believe me that wasnt fun to type out.\n\nIf it were a case of siblings thinking they were in love....okay.....not great but therapy can help here.\n\nIf it were a case of siblings having sex and both of them had a mature \"hey it's just for fun and were bored/horny/lonely\"....okay.....not great but therapy can help here.\n\nBut the rape accusation is just throwing a drum of gas onto a bonfire. It almost makes everything that came before it irrelevant. \n\nIt automatically means one of your kids isnt just confused or...different. It means one of them has a SERIOUS mental issue where they are capable of inflicting great harm on a family member for their own benefit. Whichever side is right......this family will never be whole again.","454"],["IIRC, when Californina made it a felony to infect someone with HIV, people going in for HIV tests dropped through the floor. Suddenly nobody wanted to get tested because they all wanted the plausible deniability. This obviously led to an increase in the spread of the disease. Nobody wanted to have their sex life controlled by the government which is completely fair. \n\nBut also I dont think I they made it legal, just a misdemeanor. Which still sucks for a few reasons but had its benefits.","382"],["NTA.\n\nLong hair sucks. One of my exes had butt length hair. Beautiful but my god. \n\nI had to take apart the vaccum cleaner once a month and cut all the hair out of the roller.\n\nI had to spend extra time cleaning my fish tank and hair would get tangled in there.\n\nAlways had to make sure to clean the lint trap every time or dryer wouldnt dry.\n\nDumb cat would occasionally eat her hairs and get constipated so I would have to pull a three foot hair out of a screaming cats butthole every few weeks.\n\nMy ex was disabled so I did this all gladly. But if she wasnt youd be damn sure she would have been doing those things herself.","90"],["<PERSON> was a dick in general but I tried to tolerate him. With some success.\n\nOne night like 7 of us ordered a really complicated order from a delivery sandwich place. Out of seven combo meals they got everything completely right except forgot one side of chips.\n\nI even volunteered to go without mine as I got a bigger sandwich than the menu seemed to indicate.\n\nThis guy looks at our receipt (by the way it took like 10 minutes to get everything situated and checked. We counted the sandwiches to be sure on entrees but after that the delivery guy left) our receipt shows we were in fact overcharged one dollar for the missing chips.\n\nHe demanded we call the store and either get a refund of one dollar (in cash) or the delivery driver makes another trip for the chips.\n\nAll of us tried to explain why this was unreasonable and he just blurts out \"Well he should be PROUD to do his job correctly and bring you back your chips. If he cant be proud of what he does he needs to get a job somewhere else!\"\n\nYou could hear the crickets outside. Guy literally thought everyone liked their job and took pride in it and could just change at will. \n\nAnd the guy even had retail experience in high school! But i guess jobs don't grind you down when you know its just for extra fun money, you can quit anytime, and you have a high five figure already waiting for you at your family's company after high school","428"],["Not too bad but friend had moved into a new house. First night I spent the night there I had to get up to use bathroom.\n\nWas pretty big house and there were like five doors on the upstairs hallway alone.\n\nSleepily stumbled like six steps into the room before realizing A) this was not the bathroom and B) this was his parents room and C) they are doing it.\n\nI mumble an apology then decide screw the upstairs bathroom. Tiptoed downstairs to find the lower one and find his sister (college age) topless and in panties getting a midnight snack.\n\nI gave up and held it til morning.","875"],["On paper the person administering the drug.\n\nIn reality proving it is something the accused has to do and that could be from very easy to very hard.\n\nIf say a person commits a crime and a very difficult to obtain anesthetic is found in their system, there may be cause to look at that person's medical associates. \n\nIf it's something like your friend spiked your drink at a party with simple alcohol and you got pulled over for a DUI you're never going to beat that charge. No cops are going to bother to investigate it.\n\nAnd of course there is a WHOLE lot of middle ground","764"],["No. Too many variables and especially when you live in a place like the US a person can get a huge bill.\n\nWe had an employee at work with diagnosed epilepsy. He had told us during hiring but the shift manager on duty didnt know that.\n\nSo when the manager found him in the hallway he called 911. Employee woke up in the hospital, $5000 poorer, because of it boiling down to \"Oh you know you had epilepsy? Well you know there is nothing we can do for it!\"\n\nHe went around his next shift giving VERY explicit instruction to every employee to just lay him down if it happened again.","42"],["Not exactly my point. Though I do see yours.\n\nFor comparison someone helped medically (ESPECIALLY with free healthcare which catches minor stuff before turning it into major stuff) you've got a fairly good chance of turning that person back to society making money and pursuing goals and being a consumer.\n\nCollege is different. Where should the cutoff be?\n\nI can get on board with a government telling me my taxes need to be higher so <PERSON>, mother of three can get cancer treatment she couldnt afford.\n\nI cant get on board with my taxes being higher because <PERSON> isnt sure what she wants to study so just goes to school for four years, takes a bunch of art and lit classes that dont come with marketable skills then drops out before finishing.\n\nI cant tell you the perfect solution but I can say free college on every subject for all isnt it","108"],["That's why I said on paper.\n\nBut the other thing that i didnt think of before is depending on the drug what is a reasonable reacting before losing it completely?\n\nIf you felt really fuzzy and out of it, but still able to string words together, it could be argued you knew better than to get behind the wheel.\n\nIf they find a normal mild mannered college student running naked with a crowbar through a hospital yelling about the mole people coming to eat his face they may ask more questions and give benefit of the doubt.","664"],["Its usually not economical (might be more now with COVID but hopefully that is temporary) for a place to have it's own staff if not primarily deliver. \n\nOne, most drivers have to provide their own vehicles. I'm not even gonna get into much of that but people will get hired at pizza places and tell them if you're in an accident take the decal off. But anyway, if you're a driver for a pizza place you likely dont even have a dining room. All food is carryout or delivery. \n\nTwo, some drivers for family owned places are just family members or other employees, not full time employees. \n\nThree, the restaurants would need to hire enough staff to guarantee reliable delivery times. Ever get annoyed when an pizza place says 45 minutes on a Saturday night? How are you going to feel about a two hour wait (with a three dollar delivery fee) for a $5 hamburger?","897"],["Only reason I'm glad it happened was like 2 years later I'm driving behind a car just BLASTING obnoxious music. Can hear it fully with my music and windows ip.\n\nBut as I followed them I started to notice their rear tire starting to wobble. No way they could hear it.\n\nManaged to flag the two teens down and explain what was happening before they wrecked. Probably wouldnt have been injured but I'm sure I saved thousands in damages.\n\nI'm guessing insurance doesnt cover that, or at least not without a hefty deductible","449"],["Go into a reputable sex store like condoms to go or <PERSON>'s secret. If you've never been in a sex store the staff are usually VERY knowledgeable. \n\nI'm not into wax but I've heard horror stories about people getting severe burns when using the wrong kind.\n\nReally also this is a pretty mild kink. Any store should be stocked enough. You can also google those stores websites and browse products to get an idea","118"],["You say you have never had a father figure.\n\nIts possible your mother isnt concerned with the time you spend or as others have indicated something inappropriate is happening.\n\nIt may simply be that she is seeing how happy you are and worried about what will happen if six months from now they break up?\n\nBalancing a new parental figure into a kids, especially a teens life, is very hard","900"],["Sounds kinda dumb but take my cat in to be put down.\n\nI can handle human death easier than most it seems but taking my girl in...\n\nI've never been so choked up I literally couldnt talk. Only time in my life that's happened.\n\nThe other hardest was let the love of my life go. It was devastating but at least I knew that was for the best for her. Sometimes you meet the right person at the wrong wrong time","287"],["Also if it hit your brain dont worry if no one followed up with you. It is literally no ones job to. \n\nThe medics care about the patient. They appreciate (very keyword here) helpful bystanders but once they leave they dont care about the scene.\n\nPolice only want to keep order. Unless they felt someone on scene deserved investigation for criminal activity (like say if someone pushed the guy in) they dont care.\n\nHospital staff dont really care what's outside their walls. They have enough to deal with.\n\nAnd the victim probably never got your name or knows how to contact you.\n\nAnd finally because of HIPPA there is no one you can call that could legally tell you what happened except the patient themselves. \n\nSo rest assured you did your best!","141"],["That's a little different. That is an employer paying for an investment. And I have no issue with that system because it's a company taking a calculated risk.\n\nWe have that in limited forms here.\n\nThe ambulance company I worked for paid upfront for your medic certificate. However it was dependent on signing a two year contract. If you quit or got fired for any non medical reason the bill was due in full","396"],["Not so much dumb but just infuriating. \n\nI knew a friend who worked for a construction company in 2000. The Mexican guy who owned it was a hard worker but was stuck in the paper age. Friend came on and single handedly grew his business while updating.\n\nIt was construction and his business took off with more efficiency due to tech. Within a year the business has almost tripled. The owner hired more crews and at his insistence, myself and another friend were brought into the office.\n\nFor about two years we handled everything great. About 50 field staff and us three office guys.\n\nOne day we come and find the owner hired ALL FOUR of his daughters to work in the office with us. We didnt need a fourth person, let alone a fifth, sixth, or seventh.\n\nNext week all us guys had our hours cut. Then the week after (the girls were kind of trained) we guys had our hours reduced to 2 shifts a week. The next week one. \n\nWe were told point blank it would be that way until we quit. Which of course we all did but I still consider that a firing.\n\nNo other reason than nepotism.","428"],["Not reliably. First of all air dispersal is good but not 100%. Some plants just may not get hit due to wind or something but the farmer isnt trying to protect every ear of corn, just the majority. \n\nLikewise spraying a field or town is going to require a lot less than spraying every square millimeter of habituated land","408"],["I'd say far. \n\nProblems include price, size, comfort, the fact every amputee or born cripple has a slightly different stump, nerve damage happens in injuries. Probably a few I cannot think of.\n\nI think we will get close but not perfect anywhere near our lifetimes unless we get some sort of biomechanical interface that can actually regrow nerves","421"],["Unpopular opinion to be sure but if your confident enough just go up to him at some point you have him alone and tell him in no uncertain terms he will be eating his testicles if he touches you again.\n\nI'm not trying to make a joke. People take advantage of others because they look for victims. If you show him you are not, you will LIKELY feel better and he LIKELY wont press things. Everything is a gamble","591"],["What really pissed me off later was about two months before this happened I found something very incriminating while going through his stuff (as part of my job, not snooping)\n\nHe had about one half staff legal and one half staff illegal immigrants. I have no moral issue with that. Everyone has to put food on the table.\n\nThe issue was the paperwork I found (it's been almost 2 decades and I can't necessarily recall exactly but I brought it up to our accountant and that's where I found the trouble)\n\nSo what the owner was doing was he had found a way to deduct all the illegals social security pay, Medicare, etc. He CLAIMED he was doing it to keep wages fair so the illegals actually took home the same amount as the legals and the legals wouldnt get mad.\n\nBut he had found a way to report that income.....but not pay it. So he as the owner was pocketing the difference.\n\nAgain I dont necessarily have an issue stealing from the government in certain cases. But this was something I could have probably cost him his business with a couple calls.\n\nThing is.....like a lot of capitalism, it would have been a setback for the owner but devastating for the workers","113"],["This sounds sexist but more women in my experience think they can turn to public anger, insults and violence without consequences.\n\nYes your average <PERSON> knows that if she hits the male manager with a crowbar she's going to jail. But the average <PERSON> also thinks if the male manager takes a step towards him she has a right to assault him.\n\nHere is a good example of what I mean (I believe the follow up was she was sentenced to a couple years)\n\nWatch \"British tourist slaps immigration official\" on YouTube\n_URL_0_\n\nSee how he is calm and making no threats but she just assumes because he is an authority figure and a male she has a right to physically assault him","716"],["Your body WANTS to lose heat from healing, metabolism, growth, digestion, etc efficiently. \n\nThe most efficient was to move heat is from higher to lower temps. This is why if are even at 99 degree temps, just a hair over body temp, shit gets bad fast.\n\nOur body is now absorbing and not repelling heat and that causes damage. Our body needs tricks (panting, sweating, seeking shade, hell even vomiting) to try to lose heat.\n\nOnly a little related but this is why a five degree difference in the shade can feel like so much sometimes. You have exponentially increased your body's ability to cool.\n\nIt's also why I learned that going into a hot shower after a workout is miserable. \n\nI for years would work out heavily, get into a hot shower, get out and dry then immediately start sweating like I had been working out 15 seconds ago and not 15 minutes.\n\nI didn't give my body a chance to expel the heat","891"],["Depends. I see your point but by this definition all sports (save a few like running and wresting) rely on objects whether they be a bow and arrow, rings for gymnastics, a ball for soccer, or a car for a race.\n\nI would argue this. Take two cars and have them race each other. Then switch the drivers. If one car constantly wins, it is not.a sport. If one driver constantly wins regardless of the car, it is a sport","729"],["Survival post CPR is like 4%.\n\nIt is an acceptable risk to break ribs. This is why you also completely verify lack of pulse and breathing before you do CPR. Otherwise someone could have low blood sugar and you just broke 6 bones \"helping them\".\n\nFirst time I did CPR it felt like the ribcage turned to brittle glass. The sound was like putting a bunch of brittle twigs inside an aluminum chip bag and crushing it.\n\nShe did not make it.","421"],["Porn yes. Traditional movies....I want to say no but maybe?\n\nI cant think of a reason you would. You can't actually show it. Weve gotten good at camera work. Porn actors say multiple takes suck.\n\nI mean porn isn't illegal but I cannot think of a reason. It would also be stupid to sign an actor for a non porn, film half a movie, and have them change their mind","518"],["Oh. Our ambulance company used to call people nuggets when they were double, triple, or quadruple amputees that were that way because they were dumb. Almost always it was not taking care of a condition like diabetes. And we would have to run these fat immobile people to appointments and dialysis because they didnt care enough about themselves to keep all their parts.\n\nSome of the bigger ones basically looked like chicken nuggets. That's what I thought you were talking about","421"],["You might be thinking of the term \"<PERSON>'s Law\"\n\nIt states that the more stimuli or choices a person has in front of them, the harder it is to make a decision. \n\nFor example, a toddler runs out in front of your car. You have limited options (go left, go right, go straight, speed up, stop)\n\nEven though the situation is very dangerous almost all people will react quickly and decisively.\n\n Compare this to a man coming at you with a knife. Do you fight? If so how? With a weapon? What weapon? You have a knife but you see a rock on the ground.\n\nDo you scream? If so what? Get away? Dont hurt me?\n \nDo you run? If so which way?\n\nI think I made my point. More options is slower reaction.","1016"],["I've seen a video (this is not a reliable suicide because of the difficulty) where they took some people up in a plane and regulated the pressure so their oxygen saturation drops.\n\nContrary to popular belief it is NOT the oxygen in our blood that makes us breath. It is the level of CO2.\n\nBut if you just put a bag over your head (have tried dont recommend) all that happens is oxygen decreases but CO2 builds causing panic.\n\nIn the video since O2 dropped but CO2 didnt rise the people were calm. One controller even said something like \"Dude put your oxygen mask on or your going to die.\" The guy just giggled and said \"I dont want that \" but didnt reach for his mask.\n\nSounds like a great way to go","863"],["This really needs to be handled with a regular doc. \n\nIn my time in the medical field (6 years) about 98% of patients that young with that many symptoms fall into four categories.\n\nDrug seekers. \n\nHypochondriacs.\n\nMental health issues.\n\nLegit complaints with very rare serious diseases.\n\nAnd almost all are the top three.\n\nA lot of hospitals take a LONG list of symptoms with no signs as bad (symptoms are what a patient reports, signs are what can be seen)\n\nSo if a patient complains of a headache and had a scalp wound from trauma, there is no doubt an injury occured. \n\nIf a patient complains of multiple issues and all vitals and initial tests look normal, going for more expensive tests is wasteful.\n\nI dont think you have a legit complaint here. Schedule a normal appointment with her normal doctor. \n\nIF subsequent tests find something bad you can file a complaint and possibly seek damages","483"],["I guess a simple but not wholly accurate way would be to flip the scenario.\n\nReally try to see it from their view.\n\nAgain, simplified, but if you can see it but not agree with it you may be okay. If you just cant see it at all you may be a narcissist.\n\nExample. Daughter (12 years old) wants to die her hair neon blue. Is allowed at school but you feel that it's a little too rebellious and after asking her a bunch of reasons why she tells you that two of her friends are getting dye jobs and she wants to fit in. You think she shouldn't just follow the crowd and tell her no, it's not worth the time or money. That decision is questionable but not an narcissistic one.\n\nSame situation but your response is you think all girls period who dye their hair are attention seeking whores and no daughter of yours will be seen as that no matter what her reasons! That's so self centered and therefore could be sarcastic.","944"],["Some decision in a marriage are one yes means it's the same as two nos (like kids, pets, buying a house)\n\nThings like this are one yes means it's the same as two yeses. Unless the no really really wants to be the bad guy to both. \n\nAlso with things like piercings and haircuts that cant be undone its even more harmful. If one parent grounded a child and the other bought an X box it could be reversed but not here","83"],["Yes sort of. \n\nDont listen to people saying anything about starvation mode. That's kind of a myth that came about from one skewed study.\n\nNow it's TRUE what you are doing isnt great in the long term. You're going to likely feel temporary negative effects if you did what you describe for say a month straight. Horrible bloating on one day, hunger pains during the week, etc.\n\nWhere you can run into issues during short term starvation is things like vitamins and electrolytes. Not so much calories.\n\nFor an example say someone needs 2000 maintenance calories a day. They want to lose weight. So for two days a week they just dont eat at all. Hard mentally but not really bad physically. \n\nThat person will lose just over a pound a week and should suffer no nutritional issues assuming a balanced diet the other 5 days.\n\nSaid person decided that instead of losing the 30 pounds they wants they wont do it over the roughly six months it would take, they will do it all in one shot and just not eat for 45 days. \n\nBy the while their body might have the calories necessary to sustain them, they might hit things like iron, vitamin, and other deficiencies. This could be serious health issues.\n\nBut simply hitting a caloric deficit wont do it.\n\nSource: lost 80 pounds in less than six months by massive diet and exercise but no starvation. My calorie negative was around 9000 a week but kept a healthy diet.","727"],["Surrender if possible.\n\nI was talking to some stupid white kid (I'm white).when I walked out of a pool hall once. I've known this kid 25 seconds.\n\nA black guy comes out and mid sentence this white kid flips him off and says \"fuck you and everyone that looks like you\".\n\nWithout a word the black guy grabs the kids shirt, slams him into the brick, and proceeds to beat the hell out of his face. White kid lost literally half his teeth in the punches.\n\nBlack guy looks at me. Our eye meet. His gaze just says \"you with him\"?\n\nI'm a hignly martial artist. All I did was drop into my natural stance which had hands up and open. I can strike very well.and very hard from that stance. \n\nBut open hands say \"I dont want to do this.\"\n\nBlack guy nods and walks away. White kids lies unconscious in pool of own blood.\n\nA","955"],["This may be the best wrong answer I've ever read. \n\nNot being sarcastic. Reasoning is sound but your classification of disorder is off.\n\nFirst homosexuality used to be a disorder (medically classified) as it didnt synch with lifes desire to procreate. Hence disorder. Really only got removed due to political issues. Same thing is happening with trans people.\n\nLet's go extreme for a second. Take an OCD person. Sometimes they have many ticks or routines (I could be off on my terminology) That person can be happy and live in society (with help often).but _URL_0_ that they may have to literally lock their front door 86 times a day.\n\nSo I'll toss both arguments back at you. If a person with OCD just accepts that he has to lock his door 86 times to be happy does he still have a 'disorder'?\n\nIf a gay man struggles with family acceptance and a lower dating pool is he normal just because a book no longer says he has a disorder just because being gay is now accepted? (For the record have met several people who hate they are gay)","338"],["Best way I heard it described is this. \n\nFirst off, pain isnt smart. Just like you cannot turn off other sense. (Its too bright. It smells in here. It's too cold)\n\nYour senses continue to transmit data to let you know the situation hasn't changed. In the cold example if you could just turn off cold it would be very easy to fall asleep and die.\n\nPain is the same thing. Pain often lessens after the injury has occured but is still to remind you. (Yeah, hey, that hand you broke last week? Yeah lay off it for awhile til i.can heal it)\n\nNatural painkillers like adrenaline will kick in because the body goes. \"Huh. That bear just bit me. That's gonna suck tomorrow. But only if I LIVE til tomorrow. Better shut off all bad signals til we are safe\"\n\nAlso secondary effect of adrenaline. Your muscles are stronger than your soft tissues. So those enormous feats of strength you hear abou only happen because the body said fuck you to itself and damaged itself for a short term gain","461"],["Humans dont like losing senses. Sight just happens to be the one we naturally lose due to environment. \n\nSure something CAN be quieter but our hearing isnt actually affected. Same with smell and touch. Taste....bot so much a combat sense.\n\nBut given how many human survival skills require a visual understanding of our surroundings? One of the most natural fears in the world","595"],["Last question because you actually seem reasonable.\n\nSo why is it considered a 'disorder' for a 'pedophile' to be attracted to 15 or 16 year olds. Many have the bodies of adults. Many have the maturity of adults. In many places it's even legal for a 40 year old to have sex with a 16 year old. But everyone would call them a pedo.\n\nIt seems in those cases it is not even an orientation so much as a preference. (This would not apply to prepubescent people)\n\nSo in these cases it seems the 'disorder' is just imposed by society finding something uncomfortable. \n\nAnd before I sound too creepy I'm 38 and honestly the thought of being with someone under about 29 weirds me out.\n\nI just always thought \"I'm 20 and my biology is telling me to bang that body that cannot produce a child with me is completely natural but banging that 16 year old that I can impregnate is a crime against god, man, and nature\"","70"],["Maybe encourage him to try crossdressing? See how that feels to him?\n\nI'm a bi crossdresser that struggled for a couple years with the thought of \"am I trans?\"\n\nBut the more I thought of it, the more I realized I had no issue with my male body in day to day life. Working. Working out. Hanging with friends. Running errands. I never cared I was a guy.\n\nOnly during some sexy or alone times did I really want to have a different body.\n\nI admit I've LOVED the thought of having real boobs. But I know in my heart like a lot of girls do, I'd hate them in a lot of situations. \n\n(Also prefer my boy parts)\n\nMaybe see if he can experiment with some drag cloths and test his waters?","751"],["This has happened before but to my knowledge they didnt just speak to them they retained them. It an effective but costly strategy.\n\nMy understanding is consults, especially free ones, while still allowing client privilege, dont prevent entering another agreement.\n\nFor example I think it would be unethical if you consulted a lawyer, then your opponent actually paid him, and he used anything in your consult against you. Also a judge would likely call you out on thst","812"],["I'm a high level martial artist (but not MMA fighter)\n\nLearning to manage main is different that not feeling it. I can get punched full force in the face sparring and my initial thought is \"Nice hit! Good job!\" And get back to it. \n\nI'm still.processing pain but mind is trained so say \"Worry about it later\"\n\nBelieve me I wish it was just an on off \nswitch","52"],["Yes but that is kind of a different thing. \n\nBrain vs nerves.\n\nNerves are the ex girlfriend who stabbed you in the left ballsacks with a pickax when you cheated on her with her attractive but shy cousin.\n\nYour brain is your best friend showing you pictures of yourself high on morphine in the back of an ambulance holding an ice pack to your junk saying \"do you really want to go back there?\"","461"],["No. I respect them but I just think some of the sayings have taken it too far.\n\n\"Assigned male at birth.\" No, you are a male. You can change a lot about yourself but you're still a man. \n\nBut this is my opinion and dont feel strongly about it. If someone wants to say trans women are women, sure if that's what they think, cool.\n\nI think the phrase \"trans women are women\" is healthy, positive, and accepting/useful.\n\nBut I dont think that phrase can be said as a FACT.","847"],["Society functions better when people follow the rules, whether laws or interpersonal morals.\n\nUsually (obviously not always) it is in your own best interest to follow the rules.\n\nFor example if you felt it was pointless to care about stealing someone might think it is equally pointless to care about having your head in with a rock for trying.\n\nPeople that treat others well tend to have more friends and healthier relationships. \n\nPeople who dont get shunned eventually","647"],["All insurance has a gamble. Will you ever need it or not. \n\nI have been paying car insurance for 21 years and never been in an at fault accident. But if I was without insurance I could easily be financially ruined.\n\nInsurance medically doesnt usually protect from costs. It protects from catastrophe. \n\nMost if not all plans have something called an Out Of Pocket maximum. This is the most you ever have to pay in a year (for approved and covered costs)\n\nMy last policy was $6500 I would ever owe. Given that a one night stay in the ER can cost triple that, I'd have had to save my monthly payment for (quick math here...) about eight years to break even","396"],["MASSIVELY unpopular opinion coming.\n\nWhile you were legally and in my opinion morally raped with that age difference, if you have gone 12 years thinking it was okay, you will do more mental damage to yourself than the incident ever did, if you lock yourself into a victim mindset.\n\nI was sexually assaulted by a woman and it sucked and caused issues but I'm not bothered by it. \n\nI couldnt tell if you were asking this but if you were also asking if you should report it or not, no. If the woman is still alive shes 79 and no court is going to actually punish her for this","878"],["Fat medically bad for a lot of reasons.\n\nSome surgeons even refuse or are unqualified to perform surgery on very obese people.\n\nIn my EMT days we had to take a 400+ woman from one very good hospital to a specialty trauma center a long way away for a relatively simple broken leg. No surgeon at the sending was confident enough to work with all the fat tissue around the injury.\n\nI can imagine internal surgery is worse.\n\nLooking at an incredibly in shape person with a six pack you could almost tell where the organs should be by sight. Add two hundred pounds and you may have to go poking around a bit","379"],["My serious relationships have ended for the following (in this case I am putting the term longer than 6 months exclusive dating as serious)\n\n1) Her family was horrible. Not one of six kids finished high school. Two were felons. Four were drug addicts. All smoked. I just couldnt see that family being part of my life. I ended it\n\n2) She was going off to college hours away soon. She didnt want to do long distance. She ended it\n\n3) Finally ended up realizing that all we had in common was liking cats, music, and literature. Dates got progressively more awkward. Mutual ending\n\n4) Tried a last ditch effort to fix a marriage by opening it up. Went horribly. Realized I couldnt live with the way life had become. I ended it.\n\n5) Finances, living too far away, and exes we both wanted to keep in our life that the other hated. Mutually ended\n\n6) She was emotionally cheating and wanted to physically be with that person. She left me.\n\nSo that's it","585"],["Never call what she did stupid or selfish or thoughtless, even if you think it.\n\nSuicidal people are already in a lot of pain and expressing any kind of disappointment in them can set them back even farther.\n\nEven saying things like \"How could you make us live without you?\" Which might imply you care, can make the person feel even worse of a burden on you.","572"],["You couldn't communicate. He couldnt just keep running in circles without being able to work towards a solution.\n\nSomeone mad that cant explain why (regardless of illness or autism or whatever) is extremely frustrating. It's like trying to calm down a toddler.\n\nGo back when you can figure out why you were mad.\n\nAnd its also one thing to not know how to properly express you are upset (understandable) and not know WHY you are upset. \n\nIt's not like people dont just get in bad moods sometimes. That happens. But it's their job to take care of it themselves","52"],["No you're not over reacting.\n\nHe is right that it is very hard to control at that moment to pull out. I have almost cum inside girls multiple times during the heat of the moment.\n\nKey word almost.\n\nWhere he screwed up is you made your intentions clear before this incident and many times during it. So as a responsible partner, even if he honestly couldnt control it in those last seconds, he should have known better than to get TO those last seconds.\n\nI know some will disagree but I dont think this is rape. Thst doesnt mean you dont have a right to be upset or that what he did was okay.\n\nAdvice would be to stop having sex period. I'm not one to jump on the 'dump someone immediately for a mistake' wagon but this could be something you cant move past and would be okay","501"],["There is always going to be some risk if you are their first. My gf and I have fairly regular threesomes, and guys tend to be a lot more comfortable when they find out that we've done it before. So that's a solid question.\n\nIf you ARE their first, it's good to reassure both the guy and the girl you have ZERO interest in coming between them. \n\nIF you play, go slow enough that they will have 100 chances to stop. Don't literally go from talking over beers to bending her over the couch. It may sound odd, but a guy can often get over his wife having a guy kiss her neck more easily than getting railed by him.\n\nWhat I'm saying is, unfortunately with threesomes, a lot of times the fantasy is fine but the reality hits hard. If it's their first time, make sure they have the power to stop before getting hurt.","581"],["I'm gonna go against the grain here and say yes, MAYBE!\n\nFirst, totally natural for you to want sex and be frustrated in a relationship where that is LITERALLY impossible. He's not withholding, he's not impotent but able to use toys. He cannot do ANY activities (if I'm understanding you).\n\nI don't know his condition, but if it's likely he will 'wake up' soon, then I would say tough it out. But I'm GUESSING, if he's been in this state for 8 months, this might be long term/permanent.\n\nWhat would you want if the situation was reversed? Also, what do you think HE would want for you?\n\nBut if your first part, about wanting to be faithful when he is back, also means it might be a good idea to find a partner you are not very attracted to, that you can immediately call off playtimes without conflicting thoughts.","732"],["This is why people dislike dating bisexuals sometimes. And before you think I'm hating, I am a bi guy that won't date a bi girl for exactly this reason.\n\nThat said, finding a girl for a threesome, while possible, is unlikely. Girls who hook up with couples are LITERALLY called unicorns. It's not up anymore, but if you looked on craigslist, for every ONE ad where a girl was looking for a couple (and most of those were probably bots or prostitutes anyway) you would literally have 1000 ads of couples looking for a woman to join them.\n\nMost likely, if it happens, it's gonna have to be someone you know, and hopefully, don't screw up your relationship. 2 times in my life I've had a girl join in a threeway, and one time it ended in a disaster that will take way too long to spell out.\n\nBut if open or breaking up are not options, honestly, you just need to suck it up and accept you can't have lesbian sex.\n\nI love shrimp. But my girlfriend is so allergic that even kissing her after eating shrimp hours ago makes her sick (not die fortunately). So I accept that to be with her, I give up something else I like.","209"],["Bi guy here that does MMF threesomes with his gf.\n\nWorst? We met up with a younger kid, early 20s (we are late 30s) from Craigslist. He was really questioning his sexuality. When we asked him what made him want to play with guys he said it was that he was molested, as an adult, by a roommate and was confused that he liked it, and wanted to explore. Kid didn't perform much, and when he left, he looked really guilty.\n\nBest? Older guy that wanted to see if I was able to get him off by blowjob without hands. At this point, I'd only given like 3 ever, so when I was able to do it, was a pretty good feeling. Also, my girlfriend right there helped. It was the first time someone came in my mouth, so she reached over, kissed me, and pulled out most of the load with her tongue since 'she was more used to swallowing cum'.","1012"],["Depends on age. I remember reading a story, wish I could remember where, where a young boy thought he was trans, and told his parents at like 8-9.\n\nThey were very supportive, and I guess got him into both counseling and hormone therapy.\n\nHowever, when he hit 13, he suddenly realized 'he wasn't a girl'. So he wanted to transition BACK. Fortunately, nothing had been done 'downstairs' yet but they did have to schedule a surgery to remove some breast tissue. \n\nI get being supportive, but on a decision that major, letting young kids tell you things like that can backfired. Hell, I wanted to be a girl for a long time when I was a kid, but it was mostly due to feeling like the 'odd man out' as almost all of our family and friends were women.","292"],["Maybe his hormones were already out of wack? \n\nI worked with a trans girl a few months back. She, at 20, was just starting hormone therapy. However, she told me she had her hormone levels checked prior to getting on hormones, and she said her doc said she was both in the bottom 10 & #37; for testosterone and top 10 & #37; for estrogen, as far as men go. \n\nI guess the only thing I COULD have misremembered in the article was they mentioned breast removal surgery, but MAYBE that was them saying that's one of the things that would have happened had he not changed his mind when he did.","390"],["It wouldn't have gone the way I'm hopefully imagining it, but there was this 19 year old coworker (I was 33ish at the time) that kept hitting on me. As in things like she forgot her wallet at work one day, I bought her a burrito, and she said if I'd let her, she'd blow me as thanks. \n\nLet's set aside the fact this girl puts blowjob and burrito at the same price point.\n\nShe was very aggressive. And I did think she was hot. But teen coworker. \n\nAnyway, we were friends for a few weeks after she quit, and I STARTED to consider acting on it. Maybe. I do have a girlfriend, but we've done three and foursomes so it's not like I was going to cheat. \n\nHowever, my gf never liked her. When <PERSON> (other girl) asked if I wanted to go out, and I said I had a girlfriend, she literally said \"That's just an obstacle.\"\n\nSo I had kinda brought up the threesome thing to <PERSON>, or rather, I mentioned my gf and I do that, and she texted back with \"OOOOH! I volunteer!\"\n\nI run it by gf, and she just gets this faraway look on her face. My gf is pretty straight. \n\nBut she says to me \"The only reason I'd agree to that is to hate fuck her with a huge strap on.\"\n\nI would have LOVED to see this. And neither girl was kidding about their point of view.\n\nHowever, in this case, I chose to pass. I think it would have been hot, but just knowing the other girl, I think it would have ended poorly.","1012"],["Relax.\n\nAlso, you don't want to hear this, but the rate of men failing to maintain erections in threesomes is around 50 & #37; So if your little soldier is asleep on the job, don't panic, but use other things, try to not think about it, and then you will MOST likely not have an issue. \n\nAre they friends or are they together? That second one might have some jealously issues come up. \n\nI have taken Cialis with moderate success for threesomes in the past.","524"],["Bi guy. I have 'phases' that can last days or weeks were I have a very strong preference for men. It never gets enough that I would feel like leaving my partner as they 'were not the right gender that week'.\n\nI did know a bi girl that broke up with her bf of 2 years because she missed lesbian sex, and he didn't want to open the relationship. She LITERALLY told him she was breaking up, planed to hook up with a girl or two over the next month, and if he wanted, they could get back together after.\n\nProps for not cheating, but I did find that cold. But I REALLY think that's rare.","585"],["I will say that is a new one to me. Never heard of it. \n\nBeing...dominated is a thing. Maybe it's kind of the same ball park mentally.\n\nThe closest example I've got in my life is I like being pegged. But I want the girl to be a bigger girl, because knowing I can fight her off really easily is a turn off, but if she's big enough she could 'win' a fight with me, it's more arousing to be submissive.","331"],["I don't understand why this is even a question. People masturbate. I KNOW some spouses have issues, but basically, if it's not hurting the relationship, it's fine.\n\nCurrent gf had an ex that would literally get out of bed if she tried to initiate, boot up porn, and jack off, saying 'this is easier'. THAT is an example of masturbation in a relationship being bad.\n\nBut in general, it's fine. I jack off and I'm sure my gf notices a lot of tissues in the trash. I've come home and found her toys out.\n\nI will say, the only time masturbation has hurt me, AND IT SUCKS IT'S HAPPENED TWICE is when for whatever reason, my gf (2 different girls for these occasions), masturbates, with a SOLID dildo, and then leaves it on my side of the bed. If I come in, and you are asleep, I'm not gonna turn on lights. But goddamn, plopping into bed and hoping for a soft pillow and instead taking 8 inches of ribbed (for her pleasure) glass to the face HURTS!","524"],["I hope it never happens, like, a spontaneous actual attack, but with the right partner, maybe they could arrange it for you?\n\nI've literally found a guy on craigslist, messaged him, told my gf to get dressed, and drove her to his house to blow a guy she didn't even knew existed 30 minutes ago. \n\nI'm working on getting her gangbanged. The logistics are a little harder, but possible.","1012"],["Sorry, I didn't mean to make light of something that obviously is weighing on you.\n\nMaybe think of it like this, and bring it up to her if need be.\n\nPeople have different NEEDS. Take food. If you are a 225lb man, you NEED more food than a 100lb woman. Sure maybe you can eat the same for a day, a week, a month, but it's going to take its toll.\n\nThere isn't anything wrong with the bigger person getting bigger portions, or an extra meal.\n\nThat's all this is. If you ARE having sex, you (hopefully) are at least getting the romantic need met, and you are just 'filling up' on the physical by yourself.","993"],["This would worry me for a few reasons.\n\nFirst, my gf and I occasionally sleep with other people. I started reading your post and went 'holy shit if he fucks <PERSON> his gf is gonna lose it' and then you said you did and she was okay, happy even. \n\nWhy she is happy about it matters far more than the fact it makes her happy.\n\nSo, first thing first, YES it is possible for this to be a good, happy, ongoing thing. Will it be in your situation? Dunno.\n\nSo, some concerns. First, you didn't mention it too much, but what does J feel about this? You're gf taking your friend into a threesome, sure, that happens, but if J LIKES you, you're gonna have a different issue you may not have thought of. If this goes south, you might lose <PERSON> totally. \n\nNot a doc, but your SO reaction to this sounds like it could be the mania side of bipolar. Going from generally depressed to having a 'passion' she has spent a lot of time working on (from what you said, her setting things up, pushing) as a clear, but not definite side, of mania.\n\nGoing from being angry you might have cheated in a very short time to....wanting to start a channel and finding escorts? There is SOMETHING wrong in her thought process.\n\nAgain, NONE of this is wrong IN THEORY. \n\nAs far as 'fucking with your brain' to have sex with one girl and tell another you love her? I don't have either of these people in my life right now, but HANDS DOWN the best kiss of my life was when my friend was blowing me, my girlfriend was sitting next to me asking if I was close, and her bending over, whispering, \"Cum in her mouth.\" And taking me into a deep kiss. Nirvana. I had SO MUCH LOVE for my girlfriend in that second (and after, of course) despite literally blowing my load in another girls face. Love can INCREASE in non-manogamous relationships, if handled correctly.","1012"],[".....I really don't think I was out of line with my question. Hard to tell from a short reply, and I apologize if this was not your intention, but that came across as snippy and confrontational to a question that was legit. \n\nNow, to answer, people are different. I've had girls I could literally just cover my dick in lube and shove in like a vagina. I've had girls that took 20 minutes of gentle massage with fingers/tongue to be able to receive. More often, it's a few minutes, but fingers might not be a good alternative to a smaller dildo. Reason is the way your fingers can bend, and the roughness of knuckles, can be a turn off. Ex wife was fine taking my cock (which is maybe JUST above average) but could not even take one finger comfortably due to the different....uh...design?\n\nHell, even once my ex wife managed anal sex, no lube. Not even spit or vaginal fluid. Only once, took time, but was hella impressive.\n\nAlso, enemas can be different too. I've had partners that I had anal sex 50 times with and maybe 10 of those times was there only the slightest trace of feces. (Never enemas) Others have come out pretty covered most times. In short, enemas are good, but there is the occasional downside of...enemas don't really feel sexy and doing one before sex can actually get people out of the mood.","581"],["And that's bad?\n\nGo find a college kid and school him in the art of Anal Pounding! Hell, dress up as a teacher! \"Today, you're gonna earn that A! Through your A-HOLE!\"\n\n.......\n\nI dunno why I typed that. I apologize.\n\n......\n\nIn seriousness, I think you're likely to find someone, statistically, that's okay with it. Hell, I got into it when my wife (that looking back, may have been manipulating me) saying her friend's husband asked her friend to buy a strap on, and what would my reaction be to that. I said I'd be down to try, and the rest is history.","581"],["That's the issue, and you're correct. \n\nI love gangbang porn as much as the next guy. CLOSEST we've come is a foursome where his wife was being fucked by me, blowing her husband, with my gf working her boobs. But we were all friends.\n\nBut I think with actual gangbangs, whether with friends or internet hookups, you gotta deal with the reality of a guy going 'shit, how comfortable am I hanging around a lot of other men, while we fuck one girl?' and going that maybe it's just easier to find a one on one hookup.\n\nMy HOPE, and rough PLAN, is to someday try to find a pair of bi guys. (I'm bi myself), but that way we can, whether or not there is MM play, find two guys that are comfortable/feel safe with each other, and me, for a total of 3. \n\nI mean, I wouldn't really mind, say, 4 or 5 for a gang bang. But 3 pretty much covers all bases. Three holes (if you're into that). Enough positions that people can rest if they need to.","518"],["Sooo, has he been, say, literally 95 days older it would magically become fine? That makes no sense.\n\nI don't know why you think this is weird. LOTS people have relationships with 10, 20, 30 years age difference. And they are HAPPY.\n\nHell, I knew a couple, that married at 21 and 13. Her parents literally had to drive across state lines because their state wouldn't allow marriage. \n\nWhen did I meet them? At 84 and 76. \n\nMaybe you're hung up on he had another partner. Maybe, (and this one is totally fine) you are hung up on maybe he doesn't make great decisions.","429"],["I knew a girl that succeeded with what you tried. She referred to herself as \"a reluctant lesbian\". She was 100% biologically heterosexual, but unfortunately was pretty violently raped and literally could not bring herself to touch, kiss, hug, men. Her body would go into fight or flight mode. \n\nShe decided, after years, she missed human touch enough to date and sleep with women, because she missed that connection.\n\nPossibly the only person I've heard of actually choosing their orientation.","640"],["Oh, yeah. Generally nothing bad is gonna happen. Some women get extra horny on their period. That blood is coming out later that day or the next day anyway. \n\nOnly thing I can really THINK might realistically happen is if you make your gf sore from sex, which most people like (kinda like workout sore) if she cramps heavily that might cause her more pain the next day.","524"],["So what's your point. 17 and 25 is HORRIBLE! But 18 and 36 is FINE! Because some random guys decided at some point to make an official law? That's how LAW works. Not ethics.\n\nI've met 12 year olds that could probably manage a marriage, career, and kids. I've met 24 year olds that I wouldn't trust to babysit my cat.\n\nThere is no 'magic number of days we've been traveling on this ball around the sun' that makes someone ready for sex, marriage, kids, a career, or fuck, flying a kite.\n\nThe example I gave, granted, I have no idea what those people were like back then. \n\nBut, as you said, social norms really never equals right.","70"],["Well, not me, but something I said to my partner, so my fault.\n\nI was doing my wife, hard, anally. Little dirty talk, nothing much \"You like that? Take it!\" \"Yeah, fuck me!\" That kind of stuff.\n\nFor whatever reason, I randomly remembered she once told me when she was younger, her grandmother called asses 'Bobos'.\n\nSo, in some weird haze, I yell out \"Yeah, you liked getting pounded in the bobo!\"\n\nShe stomped moving completely. Then burst out laughing so hard she 'pooped' me out with her convulsions.\n\nAfter around 30 seconds, she said that, well, sorry, but we are done for the night.","875"],["Slightly funny story, because of my ex wife being legally blind, she had INSANE hearing. \n\nShe was just my friend at the time, but was hanging out with a group of us. I made a joke at my gf's expense, (nothing bad, just cheesy) and she leaned in my ear and said, very quietly 'keep that up and no anal tonight'. \n\nMy friend immediately called, from across the room. \"Hey, you should tell your girlfriend not to whisper around blind people.\" Girlfriend turns beet red and spends the next 15 minutes in the bathroom.","1012"],["That's where 'aftercare' can come into play a lot.\n\nDiscuss hard limits. For GODS sake use a safe word. This sounds like a joke but if for whatever reason in the heat of the moment you can't remember it, two that work pretty well are yelling either 'safe word' or your ex's name.\n\nAs the submissive, you can have your entire fantasy fulfilled, and let your lover know, beforehand, that after, you want it to be back to the 'normal' relationship (equal partners, cuddling, etc)","581"],["I've got a couple.\n\nAs a hetero romantic bi guy (as in, like to sleep with guys on the occasion WITH my gf) having a guy cum in me. I just don't ever see dating a guy one on one, and random hookups, fwb situations we've had just don't seem worth the risk of not playing safely.\n\nFeeder play. As a guy that likes bigger girls, I love the idea of a forced funnel situation where I feed her thousands of calories of food. I like the idea of over time making her bigger and bigger.\n\nThe issue with that one is it's kind of at odds with itself. My gf is already at about the upper end of what weight should EVER be (she's a stockier build with a decent amount of muscle, it's not all fat) but if she increases her weight much more, it might start causing (down the line) issues.\n\nSo I GUESS the only way that would work would be to someday find a skinny girl that wants to be a fat girl (and I don't see that happening for at least 10 or so reasons).","209"],["This is one of those that is MUCH more common than most people think. This day and age, it's probably something fairly safe to bring up with gfs.\n\nHave had.....5 girls peg me. One was her idea, and enthusiastically. Two were mine but well received. One was 'eh, I don't really get anything out of it but I'll do it for you every once in a while'. Last was HER idea, said she had always been curious, but in the middle of the act, SHE stopped it, saying it was kind of weirding her out.","1012"],["You MIGHT be right, but sometimes fantasies like this are not so much about the gender, but about the POWER.\n\nFor example, I am into pegging (am guy). I also don't have a 'type' of women I like. Tall, short, skinny, fat, blonde, brunette, large boobs, small boobs, older, younger. Whatever. Do not care if I like you.\n\nBUT out of the 5 girls I've had use strap ons on me, two were skinny, one was a LITTLE overweight but short, and two were roughly my height but much heavier.\n\nI MUCH more enjoyed the pegging from the bigger girls. The feeling of strength they had, (one due to muscle, the other just sheer mass). I felt less in control, more submissive, more taken, and it had nothing to do with the gender. It was more the 'oh shit, if this girl WANTED to keep going when I said stop, I wouldn't be able to make her' that was the turn on.","238"],["If you don't mind me asking, how does that work, mentally, for a straight guy?\n\nI'm bi, and dabble in crossdressing, by which I mean I would not leave the house and it's all either for solo or, thankfully, play with my gf. Now, I admit I MIGHT have a different view if my body type would make me anywhere near passible, but voice is deep, and I love my facial hair too much :P\n\nBut all that said......I don't really get the 'straight crossdresser' thing. Like for me, (and I'm nowhere near trans), the crossdressing comes with being more feminine, more submissive, and more...uh...gay than straight at the moment?","640"],["Well, I don't know if this will be helpful or not, but one of my friends (straight, but we both know a lot of gay people) got into a VERY niche cam scene for awhile. \n\nPart of me kinda wishes I was joking, but I'm not. He would tape himself, neck down, masturbating. I've never seen it, but from some of his exes that I've also been friends with, he is REALLY well endowed. If you were one of his viewers, for a commission (I don't know how much) he would jack off into a sock and mail you the sock. And if you are curious, it was NOT women buying this.....\n\nWhile I don't have numbers, he said the money coming in vs the amount of work was really good. He finally stopped on the OFF chance he was somehow found out, as he noticed word of this spread through his social circle and he was worried about it getting to someone that might blackmail him.","1017"],["....I may have misunderstood something here, not just from you but in this thread.\n\nPeople used to say 'straight okay, homo bad, pedo bad'. Now people say 'straight okay, homo okay, pedo bad'. Nothing biologically has changed, just society. \n\nI may have misread something else in this thread. I have an issue with someone judging someone for something beyond their control. Hell, you want to go fuck a moose, that's your right to FEEL that was. Doing it is a different matter. \n\nI'm fine with a pedo liking themselves. I feel bad for ANYONE that has an urge, mental issue, whatever, that makes them feel 'less than'.","418"],["Totally my opinion, but I don't think it's rape. Disrespectful, sure. A red flag? Yup.\n\nHave you ever done any forceful roleplay? I did with a few exs, and once or twice it took a few seconds to realize that 'oh, stop really means stop'. But the situations I am referring to are more 'ow, that position hurts, let me shift' than 'stop, I want sex to end NOW'.\n\nNow, if you've NEVER done anything like that, it might be a bit worse.\n\nBut based on other replies I see you made, you are considering leaving him anyway, so......maybe it doesn't really matter?","454"],["Okay. Here's the thing. It's brutally honest and anyone who says otherwise is lying.\n\nEVERYBODY 'settles' for their partner. NO ONE gets their perfect 10 out of 10. EVEN IF they did, people change, both emotionally and physically.\n\nLife isn't a video game where you get to pick and choose.\n\nI do NOT think you are an ass for your views. At all. We all have our preferences.\n\nIn my current case, for example, I just celebrated our 5 year. We've fought 2 times. We have easy conversations. We have very similar views on religion, politics, ethics, and entertainment. We love being around each other. We have a great home.\n\nOur sex life is great, as we have all the same kinks.\n\nAnd....she is the least attractive girl I've been with. Not ugly, IMO, but overweight in a way I don't find sexy (I like bigger curvy girls, but she is a bit stocky, muscular, and....well....saggy in places.)\n\nThing is, I KNOW I will NEVER find someone else that lines up on every other front like she does. Doesn't mean I cant find happiness, just that it won't be as great.\n\nThink about it this way, as you are asking for advice on not just a sex partner, but possibly a life partner: What PERCENTAGE of the time in your lives/relationship is her having big breasts going to matter? Vs what percentage of having the 'fight the problem/not person?'","993"],["It can be tricky because I have used this term to refer to perfectly logic things and absolutely ridiculous things.\n\n\"Trans people have a right to healthcare.\" Great. Makes sense.\n\n\"Trans people have a right to use whatever bathroom they feel most comfortable.\" Um....okay. I can see some arguments for an against, but sure, we can compromise here.\n\n\"Trans people have the right to go to the prison of there professed gender.\" Full stop no. An argument could me made for someone who has had extensive surgery but a 220 pound 6'4 fully biologically male doesn't suddenly get to say at sentencing he has always been a female on the inside and should go to a women's prison.\n\nI think the basic thought is usually meant to mean that any rights a cis person has a trans person should have. And yet it does get muddy in the details.","847"],["Jesus. Look at my karma. My throwaway is used for controversial topics since my main one is tied to writing, abuse recovery, and games.\n\nDid you not look up farther on the thread? I said I was the VICTIM of a non violent sexual assault but it was frustrating because since people don't see it as dangerous I'm not a true victim.\n\nI apologize for being insulting but you completely misread what I was trying to get across: that men can be victims (women too) even if violence doesn't come into it.","181"],["Eesh. I cringe at what you wrote.\n\nYes I have been 'harassed' a few times by girls I'm not interested, and as a guy it's usually not more than an annoyance. \n\nBut the fact that cute girls can get away with things is infuriating. \n\nI read on here a few months ago about a guy who was full on raped by a girl because she followed him into a room, scratched herself, then said if he DID NOT fuck her she would run out crying screaming that he tried to rape her. \n\nNo court in the would would have believed him.","331"],["It kinda depends on what you consider aliens.\n\nI personally think it's highly unlikely that there are not SOME alien species like us, just given the size of the universe. But even if you discount intelligent aliens, it's very likely that other planets have developed some basic cellular organisms.\n\nClaiming there is a GOD that created everything is a bit of a jump in logic. (Am agnostic, I'm not sure either way)\n\nBut saying that just because, I don't know, you think intersteller travel is impossible means there are no 'space ants' somewhere doesn't quite hold up.","366"],["What the fuck? A soldier is not a hero (by default)\n\nA soldier CAN be a hero. So can a librarian. Pisses me off to no end that some soldiers (far from all) get a free pass. In fact many soldiers are embarrassed when thanked for their service because they see it as just a job.\n\nThere's kind of a running....maybe gag isn't the right word but phrase of \"I'm not a hero but I served with some.\"\n\nFor all you know she died peeing her pants hiding behind cover. Which is not dishonorable necessarily but for sure doesn't make up for what she did.\n\nAnd this is all before you realize that American soldiers are not automatically heroes to non americans.\n\nYou don't need to piss on her grave but I don't think you would be faulted for dancing on it a little.","920"],["Legally yes, but it wouldn't surprise me if one local theatre is just trying to fly under the radar.\n\nHell it's even possible they tried to get permission and the studios were like 'hell just go for it'. If its one screen and one showing you'd be looking at such a small royalty check for the studio they probably wouldn't even consider going to court over it, IF anyone even told them.\n\nCompare this to say, a theatre a studio had an ongoing relationship- with and was constantly asking for the newest movies and then stopped. That would be a flag something fishy was going on.","321"],["It's not. Or rather its not complicated. \n\nCalories out have to be more than calories in to lose weight.\n\nSome common misconceptions leading to people claiming the 'just can't lose the weight'\n\n1) Check your calories. I used to, when going to work, grab a 'lite' breakfast of three small burritos. Didn't even fill me up. Checking the restaurants website one day showed me I was eating 1200 calorie breakfasts and still being hungry!\n\n2) There are 3500 calories in a pound. So to lose weight it requires burning a lot more calories than you think. Go for a three mile run every single morning? Great! Thats about a pound lost every 12 days.\n\n3) Because humans don't want to starve we often develop hunger when working out. Many a person has failed their weight lost journey by hitting the gym every day, burning 500 calories, then overeating by 1000 calories because they are 'famished'.\n\n4) Liquids are calorie nightmares. Hell technically most beer is healthier than juice if calorie counting. Don't drink your calories is a common diet mantra. Carbonated water, unsweet tea, and lightly flavored coffees are the exception.\n\n5) This one is my opinion, but most people seem to try to do one of two things when losing weight. Workout like a beast or starve themselves. Both are....not wrong but bring their own problems.\n\nLets say you want to lose a pound every four days. Thats 875 calories you have to cut. Burning that at the gym is almost 90 minutes of intense cardio. Cutting that from your diet is usually one whole meal. Both are hard to stick to.\n\nBut say you cut out your usually heavy lunch for a light snack and then hit the gym for 45 minutes a day, splitting the difference. Neither will seem as daunting as one extreme (for most people)\n\nFinally, it takes time. I lost 80 pounds in six months. People were amazed at the progress. But that accomplishment came with calorie counting every meal and 2-3 hours at the gym every day with no days off. Also completely sobriety and no soda or sweets at all. \n\nSimple? Piece of (diet) cake. Easy? Nope, was hard work every day.","35"],["You can legally use force but not excessive force. So something like flicking his face or gently pulling his hair (assuming he is still latched on and you are trying to 'end the threat' ) is probably reasonable. \n\nIf you are even a preteen or older a punch will likely be seen as too aggressive. And if the bite has already ended and he is not continuing to attack you, you likely cannot do anything legally besides walk away.","955"],["In the US, currently all states have safe haven laws. \n\n[_URL_0_](_URL_1_).\n\nThese allow people (with varying restrictions and time limits based on state) the ability to surrender kids legally they do not want. \n\nOne such thought is without these laws women would simply hide pregnancy and toss kids in a river for example.\n\nUnless these laws changed too things should be fine. We would likely see an increase in illegal abortions as well as women doing things like throwing themselves downstairs and starving themselves as well.","409"],["I regret shutting down a game of truth or dare with a boy in high school. \n\nI'm bi now but took me forever to come out. I think he was trying to come out to me that night (I didnt like him like that but kids fool around) and think he was trying to find an outlet. \n\nThe sleepover had progressed from watching Star wars clips on line to him showing me a porno mag (back in dial up times) to a truth or dare I shut down when he wanted to anally penetrate me with a finger.\n\nI regret it because I think it might have been better for both of us in the long run to safely experiment. And I honestly was curious. But my religious upbringing wouldnt let me do it. And I pulled way back from him after that night. \n\nDunno if he ever came out or not","751"],["Primal? First threesome.\n\nIn danger? Getting hit with a bullet ricochet and not knowing if I just got a small piece of shrapnel or was actually shot. (Was shrapnel. Tore my face but just a little blood)\n\nTime slowing down? Seeing a car wreck coming two seconds before impact. I swear it felt like ten minutes.\n\nMost wanting to protectile every food I'd ever eaten? Finding our my wife was cheating on me","481"],["My question is specifically for the people who havent transitioned much if at all.\n\nI worked with a ....guy at the beginning of his employment to girl by the end and knew them as both. But they wanted to start using a girls name ad pronouns months before doing any HRT or appearance changing. She was short and had longish hair but was still very obviously born male (she did develop a higher voice and boobs over time) \n\nBut I cant see anyone who would have met her as she was introduced to me the first time wouldnt be gay for being attracted to her (or straight if a girl)","751"],["She thought I wanted to go to a strip club for my eighteenth birthday due to a stupid rumor my friend started. \n\nWhen I said it wasnt true she said \"Bullshit. You just want to go see those big breasted bimbos.\"\n\nMy genius brain snapped back with what I said in the previous post. I wasnt thinking clearly but meant no I'll intent","1012"],["Oof. I wish I had better advice.\n\nIf she was a young child it could be a lesson about death. But doesnt seem to be the case.\n\nIs she religious at all? If she believes in an afterlife she will never be older than her brother.\n\nIf she doesnt.......hmmmm.\n\nMaybe.....no....I have nothing that doesnt sound insensitive.\n\nI wish you the best. Every idea I have sounds wrong trying to type it","981"],["Truly sorry. I cant think of anything that would make her feel better.\n\nJust tell her that her brother wouldnt want her to be sad. If shes a lighthearted person maybe tell her that now she had big shoes to fill as the older sibling?\n\nCan you maybe.....I dunno. Find an old photo of him and a current one of her and photo shop them together, as if they took the photo? \n\nShow her hes not completely gone?","650"],["A few reasons.\n\nSometime you can be wanting to give someone something towards a major purchase. Like if you know they want a new TV and are saving for it you can give them a bit of help.\n\nSometimes it's nice to treat someone to an experience. Like a gift card to a restaurant they probably would like but never spend the money on.\n\nSometimes its to help them out with necessities....but maybe you do worry about spending habits. So you buy a gift card to a grocery store and not just give cash.","710"],["There is a running joke (and I've even had a few of my lesbian friend say it) that all lesbian relationships come with a set of uhaul keys.\n\nLesbians tend to rush into long term relationships faster than either straight or gay men. \n\nStatistically these are more likely to fail and fail more spectacularly if too many things (finances, living situations, pets, kids) get mixed in.\n\nSo a 19 year old proposing is already a sign most people would be wary of. If it's a lesbian its even more likely that it is an overly emotional and premature decision","209"],["I was actually in the pro <PERSON> camp through most of the game (didnt play but watched the whole playthrough)\n\nI knew it was controversial. But figured I'd give it a chance.\n\nIt made relative sense until you were forced to kill a LOT of people, including your former friends, just because they didnt like the one actual transgender person they put in the game.\n\nIt made no sense for <PERSON> to kill people she grew up with because they were trying to kill this one person (who was part of a group of her peoples enemies)\n\nAnd to make it worse this trans person killed their own mother and you were supposed to see it as justified because she didnt like her kid was trans.\n\nIt just became a shitshow. I would never play a last of us three game because no game in history somehow managed to piss off people from so many viewpoints at once","1011"],["Could be. In my experience bi girls are less selective about cheating.\n\nAll that said, a lot of people when they tell you they are taken, they assume that means you will NOT misinterpret things like hugs and friendly texts as interest, and they are just outgoing.\n\nIf she was doing all that without disclosing her relationship status I would think she is into you.\n\nAlso she might just find you attractive and fun to be around but not interested in the slightest in dating.","640"],["Had an ex call me up during a dry spell in dating. We ended well so I saw no issue with going for dinner and a beer.\n\nShe was being kinda flirty and while I was seeing someone (non exclusively) I was a bit uncomfortable with her flirtations.\n\nI mentioned I wasnt interested in getting back together but just wanted to see her.\n\nShe laughed, said all she wanted to do was get some italian food, get some beers, catch up, and have me take her back to her place and fuck her up the ass. No strings attached.\n\nSucceeded on all fronts. Hell I'd have been happy with just the beer.","1012"],["No, someone made a business decision and profited off it. Just like every artist or store in existence.\n\nPeople by things based on what they are worth to them, not to the seller. \n\nIf anyone is to blame it's the people buying the inflated prices systems. Think about it. If some guy bought consoles and everyone refused to buy them he would have thousands of dollars in paperweights. \n\nBut the buyers think the sellers are the problem when the buyers are at least half as responsible","618"],["The sheer inability of people to do this math just boggles the mind. Its not even so much about the entitlement. Its just grade school math and physics. \n\nCant remember if it was this sub or not but there was a post about two ladies going into a sandwich shop in the middle of the afternoon with one employee working, ordered 90 sandwiches, and were appalled when they couldnt get out of there in ten minutes.\n\nLike how fast do you think someone can physically work?","941"],["Whether I would ever get anal sex. I'd always wanted to try it but had planned to stay a virgin (including anal) until marriage. So I figured it was going to be pure luck if I found a girl who would be into anal.\n\nWell turns out my college girlfriend was so annoyed by my marital stance that she threw this belief in my face and said she would do anal only and I might not get another chance if my future wife didnt want to.\n\nShe talked me into it. But no regrets.","1012"],["Someone called an ambulance on me once. I was having a bad reaction to a new med and was a bit confused. I wasnt able to answer all their questions appropriately so they said I had to go.\n\nI knew enough to go so as to not be escorted in by police. However I gave them no information besides my first name, lied and said I didnt have my wallet, refused to sign any paperwork, and as soon as they rolled me into the ER (and was probably the adrenaline jolt but I was coming around) I told the first nurse I saw I was walking out and not signing anything. \n\nShe looked shocked but said \"I wont stop you.\" Walked right out the front door.\n\nTotal cost: $15 bucks on the uber I spent to get where I started from (which was also thankfully not my house so they had no info)\n\nDamned if I was going to get a four digit bill for something I didnt even want or need","42"],["I mean eventually yeah. Humans just like any other species has an expiration date. We just dont know what our extinction event will be.\n\nHell tomorrow a strain if COVID could mutate into something with a 30% fatality rate and we would be fucked.\n\nClimate change will more likely knock us down a few pegs and reduce the world population and standard of living at some point but likely wont kill the entire race","795"],["Also a person may belief by going vegan themselves they are making the difference but if they just give a cat away the new home/owner is just going to feed them meat anyway. And as mentioned, killing the pet for veganism is counter productive to most vegans.\n\n\nThough I am sure there are probably some vegan extremists that think all carnivores are evil and should be exterminated","909"],["As others have said public places are fair game. \n\nJust imagine the headaches otherwise. If you were trying to televise a basketball game and had to get the personal permission of every single patron? Never could work.\n\nBasically it got scaled down to anywhere the public can be freely the public can be recorded.\n\nIn private residences it gets trickier. Some areas are a little gray (like can you record a guest in your house that you invited) \n\nAlso some states have requirements that a recording of audio (including phone calls) must have both participants permission. \n\nFinally one thing that I've never gotten a clear answer on is what happens during a crime? Say it's in your house and your mother hits your father. Technically he can claim he doesnt consent but I'm guessing that the police may see it differently. They could, for example, use the video as reason to escort the husband away but maybe it wouldnt be admissible in court. (If someone knows for sure please correct me)","260"],["In general yes. If something is gory it is not necessarily illegal. (Accidents happen, animals attack, natural disasters strike)\n\nIf it is a crime being committed FOR the act of making a video you might run into some questionable legality.\n\nFor example seeing a security video of a man pushing someone into traffic was not made for the purpose of spreading gore, it just so happened a camera caught it.\n\nHowever a guys friend with a cell phone recording the incident saying \"push him!\" Might fall under different statues.","903"],["I mean the two first ideas that come to mind are switch docs (easier said than done) but I would also try to research on if it's personal rule for their practice or a statewide restriction.\n\nSecond is set up a recording of the whole thing but that also may not be allowed by law or policy.\n\nThird idea, speakerphone during whole thing? I think the policies on that would be different than video","123"],["I have learned the hard way (and this sounds horrible) to take women's stories of rape when it comes to dating them with a grain of salt.\n\nBut the problem is if the story changes a lot, it can be a very good sign she is spinning either a consensual act into a horrific one, or at best maybe something she regrets and has played it up as worse for herself and her friends that lying about it has just come naturally.\n\nAs one or two others have said, five years from now she will be telling the story of how you raped her. And it just takes one wrong person to hear that for your life to change.","878"],["That's always blown my mind about competition at that level. I just cant imagine literally devoting my whole life to something and the difference between a life of luxury and fame is like .2 seconds on a clock or jumping just 1 inch shorter or making a landing that some random judge for a reason they probably couldn't even fully explain gave me slightly less <PERSON>'s than my competitor.","328"],["Few reasons.\n\nMany of these places were built way before anyone knew this was going to be a huge issue.\n\nGiven that some people say gender is a spectrum there would be people I am sure would say three isnt even enough.\n\nSince it's not strictly a need, and adding a new room, especially with plumbing would be HELLA expensive there is no financial reason to do this.\n\nForth and the most logical thing is just make all bathrooms everywhere unisex but people are going to complain about that too.","670"],["History is written by the winners is kind of the simple answer.\n\nA slightly more specific reason to your particular example is it was much easier for both sides in the colonial war to just part ways after the cessation of hostilities. That huge ocean and all that. We had no interest in taking the fight across the sea.\n\nThe union absolutely wanted to keep the southern territories. And as I said not quite as clear of a border from a geographical perspective.","773"],["\"If someone cant find a job I don't see why they just dont go back to school, get a degree, and apply for better jobs.\"\n\n<PERSON> was 27, very sheltered from a wealthy family, and had no clue that you need income for the time you're in school. \n\nKick on top was he thought all colleges everywhere in the U.S (where he lived) were free. He thought they were like public libraries, just walk in, grab books and sign up for whatever classes you want.","108"],["People here literally die daily from it. You even get to pick how!\n\nMany cheaply made required drugs like insulin are costed higher than a car payment. \n\nMental healthcare is so expensive it lead to drug addiction, violence, and suicide. \n\nPeople sometimes die with serious symptoms because they dont think an ambulance is worth it when they can drive. \n\nMedications are so expensive people sometimes half or reduce the dose to once every three or four days to stretch it out.\n\nScans can run tens of thousands just to FIND OUT what is wrong, let alone treat it.\n\nDoctors are forced to recommend less effective treatments with higher downsides due to income.\n\nAnd even people with Savings and healthcare can lose their homes and entire retirement just on a three day hospital stay!","36"],["I dated a legally blind girl for years.\n\nWhile it had no bearing on our eventually breaking up, shit got old fast. Was the only driver for years. Had to constantly adjust either housing or her job to account for travel in an area where there was no public transportation worth mentioning.\n\nShe hated walking everywhere even that she could because she could only see a few feet in front of her.\n\nSafety was an issue as she couldnt run fast enough for enough for her eyes to keep up.\n\nShe had to sit right in front of the TV no matter how big so watching movies or shows new to her were almost impossible with more than one other viewer just due to the angle.\n\nLots of hobbies I liked she just couldnt share in.\n\nI'm sure I can think of more but yeah it wasnt fun. I wouldnt leave someone if they became that impaired but I wouldnt enter into a relationship with someone with that disability again.","585"],["Problem is meat can be bad in two ways. First is all the little microorganisms on them can reach high levels and cause illness in humans. \n\nGood news. Safe cooking temps stop this.\n\nSecond way is all the waste those organisms produce. \n\nBad news. To break down this waste requires temps that generally make the food inedible.\n\nThe first is more of an illness if you got sick. The second is more like getting poisoned.","740"],["Dated a girl who told me she couldn't tell me if her number was in the 2 or 3 digits. Couldnt care less, BECAUSE she was honest with me.\n\nI dont think you are wrong for being upset she lied, but we all have a past. If you cant deal with hers, IMO, that's okay. You are allowed to pick your partners and also have things you wont deal with. I myself will not date bi girls. I am allowed to not date someone who is bi, or who has a past I cant deal with. What I am not allowed to do is SHAME them for it.\n\nAlso IMO the only other thing you are allowed to press a past partner for is if they were ever a cheater. I'd date a girl that screwed 1000 guys before I would date a girl that had only slept with two but one was an affair.","901"],["He deserves to know, for a LOT of reasons.\n\nOne, this wasnt in your past, it was during your relationship. So presumably, and understandably, your behavior is going to probably be different towards sex as well as even just physical touch for awhile. He deserves to know the reason.\n\nTwo, if you continue to be sexual with your boyfriend, he deserves to know that you may have been exposed to STIs.\n\nThree, god forbid you get pregnant anytime soon, either from the incident or your boyfriend, but he has the right to know if the child might not be his.\n\nFour, being a partner to someone with PTSD is ROUGH. I have dated women with it, and I have a mild form of it myself. A partner should always know when something in the relationship might be a deal breaker, or at least something that will make the relationship harder.\n\nFive, and this one sucks. Sounds like you were at a group event. This means that someone, whether the guy who assaulted you or someone else, might start spreading it around. And if their story is that it was consensual and gets back to your boyfriend, now he might think you cheated on him. And there are girls that do cry 'rape' after the fact to protect themselves. (Had it personally happen to me before anyone says I'm perpetrating false stereotypes) so then he will have to decide \"Am I dealing with a cheater and a liar or a repeat rape victim\"? That's a horrible position to put him in.\n\nSix and final, and this also sucks....some people just dont want to have a relationship with a lot of extra weight on it. I was with a disabled girl for years and I admit I wasnt a saint always with it but the constant modifications to our home, our activities, our living situation, our expenses, that came with it started to drive us apart. And she was not at fault, I knew everything before getting into the relationship. I just somehow didnt process it would be every day.\n\nSo yes. Tell your boyfriend for all the reasons I outlined. I do believe you will feel better after you do. Maybe not right after, but regardless of his reaction, at least you wont be wondering.","591"],["Tried an open relationship once and have seen a couple of friends do the same. It always has the same result.\n\nThe women are able to find men, often the same DAY, being completely honest. Think about it.\n\n\"Wait, so we can hook up, but there is no expectation of emotional support? I can just not call you for a week but then maybe we go on a date and I get laid? And I never have to worry about us moving forward or moving in together or anything? Sweet!\" As guys line up around the block.\n\nFor a guy, unless you are handsome and rich as fuck...\n\n\"Wait, so you have a girlfriend and you just want me as a side piece, that you may not even really pay attention to since you are literally only wanting sex, it's not even an affair where I might get some emotional satisfaction out of it? Pass!\"\n\nNot saying for sure your gf did this on purpose, but some women know that proposing an open relationship is getting a free pass to cheat.","971"],["Exactly. I used to be against smoking because I thought it was a waste of money, dangerous, etc. As I got older I got less judgemental and realized people should be allowed to do what they want. \n\nBut even the most respectful 'never smokes near me or in homes or cars and always throws their butts away' smoker always smells ABSOLUTELY disgusting to me.\n\nI've dated one smoker in my adult years and it was wretched. Didnt matter if she used perfume and brushed her teeth after I could still smell it and especially in her hair. I would sometimes literally gag after kissing her.","568"],["Your ambulance may not be fully stocked.\n\nOld job but found this out the....fun...way. we had just done a drop off and got stopped by a state inspector for a random inspection. He found a lot of stuff missing, some expired, some duplicates. \n\nTo be clear most of that stuff was VERY situational and not used often at all. And our company TRIED to maintain inventory by sealing cabinets with tags. If you needed something youd pop the cabinet, record the item, and restock and reseal at the end of the day.\n\nAnyway my partner and i were terrified when mistakes started coming up. The inspector finished, said all in all it wasnt that bad even with the infractions, and he had seen much worse.\n\nOur company got a fine of course.\n\nScary thing when I asked my supervisor about it?\n\n\"Heres the thing. It takes 2 people about 2 hours to inventory the box top to bottom. Our company would just rather pay the occasional fine then pay the extra labor to have people inventory the unit every day \"","237"],["I called my cats my kids, but it wasnt out of....any kind of familial bond with them. Mostly it was because I am child free and despise human children (for the most part. I dont hate them, I just cant stand to be around them) and I considered my cats way cooler than actual kids \n\nSo it would mostly come up in situations like \"Oh you're getting to the age you should already be getting ready for kids!\" And I would say \"already have two! Great fur babies!\" Mostly just to get people to leave me alone.","287"],["I have to downvote this because you are not stating an unpopular opinion. You are stating a falsehood.\n\nSure there are situations where one party can be 100% in both the legal and moral right.\n\nBut there are plenty of situations where you can have opposing views and no one is completely wrong. Say an employee does something against policy on a whim but whatever they did was good for business, increased productivity, whatever. But they violated policy so they are punished.\n\nEmployee view: But what I did helped the company!\n\nEmployer view: But it was a risk that might have hurt the company. And also if people start hearing they can just violate policy whenever they want and hope it works out, someone could make a large and possibly dangerous mistake.\n\nBoth views to me have substance.","230"],["Yeah my mom was a heavy smoker growing up. It sucked as none of my friends smoked or came from families that did. When I was still living at home and going to college I got real sick of having to shower and wash whatever clothes I was going to wear RIGHT before I left the house because friends started telling me how bad I smelled like smoke when hanging out. I couldn't even tell anymore.\n\nWasnt until I lived in a smoke free home for like six months that I started to have the sense of smell come back to how bad it was. Now I cannot tolerate it at all.","568"],["I get that. I was on similar terms with my mom when she passed. Hit me harder than I thought it would. I do believe you are completely justified in asking your wife to not share those sentiments around you, just as long as you are not faulting her for having her feelings.\n\nI'm sorry for your loss, even if the loss is similar to mine, in that you grieve for the parent you WISH you had, and the fact that the relationship can never be repaired.","900"],["I personally think the COVID reasoning is kind of silly, but I completely agree with not wanting a seemingly endless parade of strange men coming through your home, especially even B having almost no knowledge of them. What if one of them takes advantage of her after she changes her mind? What if he gets drunk and starts stumbling around and breaking stuff? Etc.\n\nThis might seem kind of childish,, but what about a rule where all guests have to be introduced to all roommates? We had this as a kind of unofficial guideline at one of my residences. If your brought someone over (anyone not just dates) you would introduce them to the roommates. Even if its just a \"Hey <PERSON>, this is my roomie <PERSON>\". It let's people get a vibe on who is in their home and if something is really off gives you a reason to kick them out. Also if a creepy guy knows hes going to have to make a bunch of introductions he might decline in the first place.\n\nAnother suggestion is that if she had been the ONLY one having guests over lately (or at least a vast majority of the time) tell her that you and A are just sick of the place being violated and that for the next bit of time if she wants she has to take them somewhere else.","698"],["Tactics ROCKS. Probably the console game I've sunk the most hours into over the course of my life. \n\nCustomization is amazing. Story line is awesome (though a bit heavy handed compared to other FF games)\n\nOnly two complaints. Near the end if you know what you are doing (and use a certain character) the game takes a massive downward spike in difficulty.\n\nThe other is there is one pair of battles, near the end of the second act I believe, that you are given a chance to save between. However the next battle is a one on one fight and unless you gave your main character certain non intuitive skills, is unbeatable. Myself and three other people I know made the mistake of only keeping one save slot and had to restart the whole game because of it.","14"],["<PERSON>.\n\nWithout knowing exactly how every conversation went, it could truly be a misunderstanding on your gfs part that <PERSON> was a bio female and depending on your language could have been misconstrued as you intentionally misleading her (I dont think you did though)\n\nI do find her reaction a little extreme given your bi, but can someone explain how this is possibly 'biphobic' at ALL? Shes dating a bisexual and presumably has no issues with it. She is worried, however incorrectly, about another biological female around her boyfriend, so that strikes me as the opposite of biphobic.\n\nTransphobic? A stretch but maybe.","603"],["This is flawed reasoning. Let's say his brother wanted to spend that money on his dream car instead and the brother told him that he would be willing to spend the money on a nice reliable economy car instead. The brother is upset that he wasnt shelling out money for his top of the line Tesla.\n\nYou wouldnt be saying he valued money and judgement over the relationship then.","49"],["Helping out family is buying them groceries, maybe even paying their rent or buying them a used car if they need one desperately. Helping out family is not paying for a completely elective procedure that as the brother even said, may produce zero results. Heck if you paid for plastic surgery at least you would get a guarantee of something.","974"],["That fight sucked. I usually got around it with auto potion and Ramzas squire skill that boosted his speed. If you could run around auto healing you eventually got to the point you could get like 6 turns to Wiegrafs one. And this would carry over til the next fight.\n\nThen you hit the rooftop IIRC and had a whole different kind of crap to deal with.","190"],["I appreciate the advice!\n\nI'll say, generally speaking, even a a guy doing gay play, I've been more sensitive and less rough. I have some gay friends that completely blow my previous understandings of gay sex out the window.\n\nWas roommates with two gay guys (not together) for awhile. One day, they didn't know me or my girlfriend was there they were going at it in their room, door closed, so all good. But MAN, the INTENSITY of what they were screaming at each other was crazy. Not just the words, but the emotion. They both sounded like they were....I dunno....screaming a a guy trying to tow their car.\n\nI'll admit, my gf and I listened for a few seconds before deciding that 'hey, a burger sounds awesome right now!'. \n\nBut it was very masculine. That's not what I want to do with men. \n\nAnd this man seems like he is willing to be what I need him to be. Possibly sweet and caring at first, rougher later if it goes that way. And I WANT to please him. \n\nI'm hetero romantic, which I'm not sure if it will be an issue in a sissy journey, but in this case, I like that I (hopefully if he doesn't change his mind) can have a bit of safety in losing my cherry virginity to someone I have, not feelings for, but trust in. \n\nI've heard some horror stories, ranging from complete disregard for boundaries to full on rape, of sissies having a first time partner that treats them wrong.","1012"],["So, it took me a LONG time (six years) to finally proposed to my current gf after a divorce.\n\nSome of my thought process in the first 5ish years was this. I had never, ever thought I would be divorced. EVER. I knew of 2 things, cheating and violence towards me or any future children. And I thought my wife incapable of that. (She MAY have cheated, but denies it to this day, so that's kind of a side issue).\n\nThing was, an event came up that I could never have forseen (long story short tried an open marriage that went sideways fast) and one day I realized I was with someone, and our situation had gotten so screwy, so out of hand, that there was no way we could fix it and BOTH be happy. \n\nBut since the reason for divorcing didn't hit one of the dealbreakers I have, I had a lot of conflicting emotions about getting engaged again. What if something different came up between us that I didn't foresee? \n\nOn top of that, while not married a second time yet, I had been saving for a ring for a girl I was dating and raising her child. In hindsight the breakup coming from her should have been obvious but it hit me out of the blue so that didn't help.\n\nNone of this means I don't value my partner and think of her as my other half. And while I have proposed, so it's not exactly the same situation, I was content to have a forever girlfriend. \n\nSo...advice? Understand that sometimes labels are just labels and he doesn't want that one.","585"],["Sadly, this issue has ended thousands if not millions of relationships over the years.\n\nI personally share her views, but my partner and I have been upfront since day 1 neither of us wants kids. Now, she is of course able to change her mind. (My partner or yours)\n\nHowever, you CANNOT compromise on this issue. If a long term relationship goes forward long enough and one is 100% committed to having children and the other isn't, one will go from irritated, to angry, to miserable, to resentful. Eventually. And between the two options, if this incompatiblity exists, the worse option is having a child with a best case scenario of a broken home and a worse case of having a parent incapable of loving them.\n\nI wouldn't break up yet. Support your GF, do not invalidate her feelings, possibly even reexamine some of your own.\n\nBut this issue is 100% a dealbreaker. \n\nWhere I do get worried is your use of the word 'betrayed'. Nothing she's done is wrong. She isn't doing something malicious to you.","774"],["Knew someone in a similar situation. Their old girlfriend that they maintained a relationship with was about to get married and they asked me if they should tell her they still had a crush on her. To be fair, he wasn't like head over heels or anything so I was basically able to tell him \"Look dude, seriously think about that. What is your BEST CASE scenario here?\" (I didn't know her well and didn't know her relationship dynamic but felt it wasn't important). \n\nThe one thing I told him that he hadn't thought about was 'what if she tells her fiance? What will his reaction be? Even if SHE is okay with it, he may not'.\n\nHonestly wasn't a close friend and haven't seen him in years (probably won't) so I don't know if he ultimately decided to say anything. But I just....I can't imagine a good outcome.","591"],["As the teacher, a threesome with one of my students and my girlfriend.\n\n(All adults, student was actually slightly older than me). We'd been working on stuff together a lot, she took me to dinner to thank me, and randomly blurted out 'hey if you ever want to have a threesome with me, I am game'. \n\nYes, I know that sounds like a bs troll post but it actually happened. Then led to a very very toxic time in my life so yeah it's not really a happy memory to be honest.","1012"],["Small tools, knives, etc are dangerous as fuck.\n\nThere was a police video in my area that went viral on 'police brutality' because an officer shot a man who wouldn't drop a screwdriver and people were saying 'it was just a screwdriver!'\n\nI can absolutely kill you in 2 seconds from 5 feet with a screwdriver. Yeah, you likely won't drop instantly but it's very very deadly. \n\nSomeone doesn't have to be holding an axe or assault rifle in front of you to be a true danger.","955"],["See, I've even done something like that myself recently and won't ever again.\n\nI am in a committed relationship with some odd boundaries. <PERSON> knows I am poly, but knows I don't NEED that to be happy. \n\nFor some reason, am guy, a lesbian friend and I developed large crushes on each other. We kinda said to each other we had feelings at the same time, so that wasn't awkward, but then as things moved forward, she got conflicted about her feelings and it just hasn't been the same since.","585"],["Some things just...need to die. \n\nI personally find it more cruel to lock up someone forever. And if you look at some of the conditions in supermax prisons, you basically have a guy in a small concrete room, alone for usually 23 hours a day, a few meals, and he doesn't even have the option of suicide (easily). That's MORE cruel than just a firing squad or gas chamber.","279"],["I would LOVE more details on that. \n\nHad this one girl hitting on me at work once (total slut, nice girl, just willing to sleep with anyone giving her attention. Offered me a blowjob because I bought her a taco bell burrito once). She tried to get me to come over, and when I told her I had a girlfriend, she said 'well, that's just an obstacle'\n\nGirlfriend didn't take it well. A few weeks later, the girl offered a threesome instead. Out of pure curiosity, I asked my girlfriend her thoughts (as we had considered having one and actually thought, oddly, she'd rather do it with someone we both disliked than someone you would get feelings for)\n\nShe paused, narrowed her eyes, and said \"Only if I can hate fuck her with a strap on\". \n\nNo, we never went through with it, but my girlfriend wasn't making a joke. She said the idea actually was appealing to her.","1012"],["That a girl I know randomly offer a threesome at dinner with me and my gf.\n\nA few weeks later we were all hanging out at her place, my gf was on the couch between us, and second girl and I started rubbing her legs, her back, etc.\n\nGirlfriend sighs, looks at both of us, and says \"I'm about to get jumped by both of you aren't I?\"\n\nAnd she did. And that night was great.\n\nThey year of fallout and toxic issues that stemmed from that encounter? Not so much.","1012"],["Yeah. Poly can kind of suck. \n\nI've been in ONE poly relationship for a matter of weeks, and on the one hand, it was one of the happiest times of my life. On the other had, it's SO freaking complicated.\n\nI've multiple times ended up in what most people would call 'emotional cheating' situations. But I CANNOT help it! I've always been a firm believer in you cannot change your feelings (about anything), only your reaction to them.\n\nIf you stub your toe on a sofa, no one would say that immediate 'oh FUCKBALLS' initial feeling was wrong. \n\nI feel the same way about developing crushes easily. I haven't physically cheated, and never would, but I can't help the feelings sometimes. Fortunately current gf understands my mindset but as I don't think I'm ever going to be able to have a multi person relationship again, I just wish those feelings wouldn't come up.","813"],["I'm seeing a lot of support here, and I am sorry for you. I am only coming at this to play devil's advocate, not defend him exactly.\n\n5 years is a long time. For anything. I haven't ever cheated, but I have been in situations where things have been held against me for years, and honestly, the other side, where I have held things against someone for years. It's frustrating.\n\nThe mindset is (and I will say this is assuming honesty on his part) \"I've told you everything. I've done everything I can to prove myself to you. WHY can't you just let it go?\"\n\nI'm not saying you can, or should. Just that's the other mindset. He's probably started to have thoughts of 'why am I trying if it's going to be this way in 5 more years? Or 10? Or 20?\"\n\nI'm ONLY saying this to give you info on where he may be coming from, if your intention is to continue to work towards the marriage.","901"],["Yeah. I was trying to describe to a friend who was curious (but not poly herself) about why they are so hard.\n\nTo me, it's simple basic math. In a 1 on 1 relationship, you have just that. ONE relationship.\n\nIn a 3 person poly (not even getting into more than that) you actually have FOUR relationships!\n\nPerson A and B. Person B and C. Person A and C. And then how all 3 of you connect.\n\nThat's 4 times the chances for hurt feelings, miscommunication, distrust, lack of being on the same page about things. Etc.","813"],["I don't have this from cheating (exactly, long story) but I do have it from a horrible traumatic event from 2010. \n\nI didn't understand PTSD before then. But today, everything is different. I can get distracted. I get moments of happiness. But then I just remember what happened and I get CRUSHED. I know I will never have the mindset I want, or the life I want, because of that one event. And yeah, life isn't horribly terrible but I didn't used to just lay in bed at nights, trying to shut the mind off, trying to not think about the events of that day.\n\nI can say for 100% sure, not one day has gone by in almost 9 years I don't think about the event for 1-2 hours a day.","147"],["I learned about death at age three when my grandfather died unexpectedly in his sleep one night in the house we were sharing with them at the time. \n\nDont recall word for word what was told to me but it is one of my earliest memories. Like most kids that age it's only flashes but I remember being in the house the morning of an lots of family activity and the fire dept coming.\n\nI remember my mom holding me over his open casket during the viewing. And I remember the funeral. (Oddly I remember that as part of the burial my cousin the same age and I were tasked with putting two scoops of dirt on the casket first. I remember us fighting over who got the red shovel and who got the blue one)\n\nI'm not sure I really understood 'death' but I did learn that at some point everyone's body just stops moving and they put you in the ground.","630"],["Probably a VERY lengthy incarnation. To prompt suicide by cop you pretty much have to commit multiple felonies.\n\nI cannot ever see a DA or judge letting someone off, even if you could prove it was a suicide attempt and someone had no intention of hurting the cops, because that would set a standard other people actually intent on cop killing could use.\n\nThe ONLY way I could see it happening where someone got off would be if they verbally resisted, did something like scream \"I've got a gun!\" And reach into their pocket where a cop might open fire before visualizing the weapon (and the person did NOT actually have one)\n\nEven then I'm pretty sure cops and lawyers are going to come up with some way to charge that person.","141"],["I watch a lot of shows with subtitles. It's not necessary but if it's a quiet movie or one with a lot of background noise I can get annoyed having to rewind and rewatch scenes.\n\nPlus I retain info better if I read than hear (this is pretty common) I find if i have subtitles on I remember character names. Otherwise sometimes I end a movie and couldnt tell you the character name of a single role.","869"],["It's kind of the \"McDonalds\" of comedy. It kinda gets the job done. It's easy and convenient (for example while there are long story arcs you can usually slap on any random episode and still follow it). It doesn't require absolute attention, it's good background filler.\n\nSo lovers tend to find it easy and comfortable, haters recognize it's really not comedy gold and the characters are all kinda crappy people for one reason or another","367"],["Sometimes it is purely psychological, and based on comparison. \n\nFor example say you get up at 6 and your spouse is still asleep. You wake up, get coffee, walk the dog, unload the dishwasher, respond to a few work emails, watch the news, get a two mile run in, start laundry. Then you're making breakfast when your spouse wakes up at 8am. \n\nNothing says you couldnt have done all those things after 8 (work/school schedule permitting) but you \"feel\" two hours ahead of your partner at this point. And this feeling tends to stick around even if they got the same amount done in their day, even if you go to bed two hours earlier.","41"],["Technically we were never really designed to wake up the way we do. If you are not waking up naturally you are being jolted out of deeper sleep by an alarm most days. The natural instinct when that happens is to want to return to sleep (unless assisted by adrenaline. For example you're wide away at 3am if you wake up to your smoke alarm going off)\n\nSecond the alarm out of reach suggestion. Gives your brain a few extra seconds to wake up.\n\nAlso, despite LOVING to sleep in a cold room and get all cozy under blankets, it makes it much harder to not crawl back under covers. Up the temp in your room.","41"],["Issue is while it may be illegal to fire you for this technically, if you live in an at will work area, they can fire you without cause.\n\nSo unless they are stupid enough to tell you on camera or in writing that you are fired for bringing up safety concerns, you will likely lose your job over this.\n\nA girl at a job I used to work at filed a sexual harassment claim because on of our cooks was bothering her (was making pretty offensive jokes, but harmless and not directed at her). Corporate investigated, cook was fired. A week later our manager fired the girl. Manager and I were close at work and be told me he fired her because he noticed that a lot of people were mad at her and people were now watching everything they said in what used to be a casual work environment. He didnt want other employees on edge or another employee to lose their job because this girl couldnt take a joke.","402"],["Ex EMT here.\n\nRan a psych call on this polite and well behaved 13 year old girl. Call itself went okay but was reading her chart.\n\nAbout 3 years prior her mom killed her dad. No good reason (as in he wasnt beating or harming his family) and mom got life in prison. So the kids (this one and her younger sister) ended up in foster care. \n\nFor two foster homes they managed to keep the sisters together. Then due to resources a few month prior to me meeting her, they were split up.\n\nAt the girls latest foster home she was raped by an older foster brother.\n\nAfter the rape she broke into an airport. She climbed up on a hanger roof and was attempting to jump off when the cops caught up to her and tazed her. \n\nWe were taking her to a long term psych facility. All she had were the clothes on her back and no family left except her sister who she didnt know where she was.\n\nI had a blanket with me (a personal one for long shifts on the box). I gave it to her just so she would have one more possession and hopefully remember some people do try to take care of others.","851"],["My girlfriend had a coworker she was working with. Said coworkers husband had just gotten a HUGE promotion and was transferred to Hawaii. <PERSON> was psyched! \n\nSo the couple and their two kids sold their house and were packing. \n\nThe day before their flight left (house in all but empty, only beds and a few things left) coworker comes home.\n\n<PERSON> had been lugging a suitcase up the stairs and tripped. Fell backwards and smashed his skull in at the bottom. She found him already dead.\n\nHe was 42 with no health problems. \n\nOnly silver lining is they were financially well off but their entire life was completely turned upside down by a staircase","428"],["I think the why is twofold.\n\nOne it would be a HUGE culture shock to any county not used to it. Youd have people arguing that the crime rate would skyrocket as people will have lost their fear of punishment, and honestly that might actually happen for awhile, as far as petty crimes go.\n\nTwo, how would that affect current prisoners. Say <PERSON> went to jail 8 years ago and still has another 8. But now his entire world is flipped upside down? Could we expect him to integrate well into this new system? Or would it just apply to all convictions after X date?","279"],["Well no one (or very few) people are picking up those coins and putting them back into circulation. \n\nA big issue is that a business GENERALLY gives out more coins than it receives. Most people paying cash will do so with bills..(Especially men as we dont have purses to carry little coin purses in) so they receive coin back more often.\n\nMany people do have coin jars at home but often dont redeem them for YEARS. And even then that money goes to banks or counting machines, not back into businesses, so the business needs to get them from banks.\n\nPlus also coins go missing, in houses, cars, streets","170"],["I absolutely think it would help recidivism. \n\nPeople who have never been in trouble with the law somehow wrap their minds around the \"fact\" that criminals are just criminals and will keep doing bad things.\n\nIn reality, MOST offenders, if you look at their records, will have started out very small. But every conviction, every gap in employment history, every time you are sealed away from how society works and have to learn to live by a completely different set of rules, makes it that much harder and finally impossible to function in a normal society anymore.","178"],["Again I have to disagree because our penalties are already really high.\n\nMost offenders of those things do get long sentences. Many are assaulted or killed by victims family members. In prison they are treated as the worst of the worst and attacked and raped frequently. After prison they are screwed. Hell I worked at a job where we hired a guy convicted of murder (though once we had the story it made a lot of sense) but still no one will hire a minor sex offender for anything.\n\nPoint is, I think if people already have THAT stacked against them a little more punishment wont be the deciding factor","178"],["It's all about when life begins.\n\nAt its CORE it actually has nothing to do with women's rights. If it did, we would allow women to yeet their one day old infant out the window when she realized she didnt actually want a baby. But of course no one allows that.\n\nSo just because the fetus is INSIDE the woman, does it have rights or not? \n\nThat is the basis for the argument.\n\nThere are some extremists that will argue that its \"sinful\" or \"abortion shouldn't be used as birth control\" but those are siddskirting the main contention.","626"],["Probably not. Just more people adding to the internet then 16 years ago.\n\nOne thing that HAS upticked though, at least in my experience, is people using mental illness and autism as excuses for bad or criminal behavior. As mental illness becomes more discussed and a topic out in the open, where before people wouldnt admit to a mental illness due to the stigma, people will now be like \"You cant get mad my 11 year old son grabbed your butt! Hes autistic!\" That HAS generated more frustration in some people","652"],["Race is kind of a societal man made construct.\n\nAt its core it's just skin color as far as biology is concerned. It's not body parts. \n\nThere is nothing wrong with embracing another culture you agree with more than the one you are raised in. \n\nYou can \"feel\" like a woman if you are born male.\n\nYou cant really \"feel\" like your skin is the wrong color (I mean you can, otherwise people wouldnt tan) but it has nothing to do with who you are inside","818"],["That's likely not true. In the US 34 states the age of consent is 16 and in 6 it is 17. Only a handful of states is it 18, and much of the world it is under 18 as well.\n\nPeople jump to the conclusion that 18 must be the age of consent because its tied to other events, like legally signing contracts, the age a parent can legally kick a child out, the ability to produce porn, and the age most crimes can be tried as an adult","70"],["No. Weight is just redistribution of resources already in the planet.\n\nPlanet only gains weight from extra terrestrial objects hitting it.\n\nIn fact, I would be curious if since matter can be converted to energy if the planet actually LOSES weight due to the fact energy is being used by living creatures and thus dissipating as heat.","792"],["It honestly depends.\n\nIf you're in good health and its within your healthy caloric intake for the day, a snickers isnt going to have any negative consequences (assuming we aren't doing this several times a day for a long period). For that person the candy bar will be better \n\nFor someone in good health but overweight then the cigarette will likely have less negative effects than the sugar from the candy bar. Not anything good, but less bad","956"],["Huh. Learned a new term today.\n\nBased on reading about what qualifies as a fantasy of manners I would say it fits about half of the characteristics. It is a pretty low magic setting, though there is some supernatural elements. Violence and character deaths are high. A lot of it is quite humorous but a lot of it is dry humor and a lot of the laughs come from character frustrations or well laid one liners, but its far from a comedy show.","1010"],["Most bacteria inside the human body are not harmful to it. Or rather no bacteria that is part of our body is harmful if it stays in the right place.\n\nIf displaced it can cause issues, but generally your immune system (and stomach if you are THAT into scat) can handle it.\n\nNow if someone has an intestinal infection or food poisoning or something and has...those activites.....there is cross contamination, no different than making out with someone with the flu","642"],["Am I understanding correctly in that you want an option for a pop up video for a sign language interpreter for a YouTube video?\n\nAs in an option for EVERY video?\n\nThere are millions of videos on youtube. That would never be feasible. \n\nAlso unlike movies YouTube uses voice recognition software for their closed captioning. I dont have hearing lose but like subtitles but youtube just cant quite accurate recognize every word and just takes their best (but often very incorrect) guess.\n\nAs for why CC often just says \"music\" instead of the lyrics it's because the music is supposed to be in the background while the dialog is what you are paying attention to.\n\nIf both were on screen at the same time it would take up a lot of screen space and also most people dont read that fast","999"],["From what I hear they actually treat their employees pretty well but any company that forces a script that hard core just grates on my nerves.\n\nI worked a job once that while we didnt have an 'official' end to conversation script, I got chewed out from my boss for saying \"Have a good one.\" They thought it sounded to casual and I should say \"Have a nice day.\" Instead. (<PERSON>)","402"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"Disagree. You're not born in \\\"the wrong body\\\". You're born in your body. A short person, an person missing toes at birth, a person with facial deformities, a person with severe allergies, they are not born in \\\"the wrong body\\\". They are born in their body and they have to deal with the hand they have been dealt just like everyone else.\\n\\nEveryone has the right to alter their body how they see fit and what is within their financial and physical means.\",\n \"379\"\n ],\n [\n \"Second the lesbian drama comment. Though I might watch this on a Netflix special.\\n\\nIn all seriousness, just back out of the whole situation. Almost all relationships at your age fail, especially lesbian ones. \\n\\nWhich would be fine but by perusing <PERSON>, you basically, statistically, are sacrificing your best friend for what will likely be a short term fling.\\n\\n<PERSON> will not understand and be supportive. Find some other girl to crush on\",\n \"494\"\n ],\n [\n \"You've got an uphill battle. \\n\\nCheating isnt a mistake like leaving the stove on. Barring rare circumstances involving drugs, cheating is a series of choices made, in which anywhere along the way you can choose a different path.\\n\\nAlso when it comes to your family, many people believe either a person is capable of cheating or they are not. Now they know you are the kind of person that cheats. Any many people also believe once a cheater always a cheater.\\n\\nAnother thing you might not have considered. Now that your family knows you had better tell any girl you start dating that you have cheated on an ex. Because from this point onward you rist your family telling them out of concern for them any time you bring a girl home.\",\n \"901\"\n ],\n [\n \"I am a bi male and support LGBT rights. However I will not date a bi girl. Call me a hypocrite, call me insecure, whatever. Truth is the two times I did it went badly, I've never personally known a bi girl that didnt have a history of cheating, and I decided that I just dont want that added stress on my mind in a relationship.\",\n \"640\"\n ],\n [\n \"Sadly some people still see it as cheating. I had a gf and one day she \\\"soft\\\" broke up with me. Said she liked me and still wanted to date but wasnt ready (in her words) to be in an exclusive relationship. Seems pretty crystal clear to me.\\n\\nA week or so later an ex hit me up, we went to dinner and then back to her place. One thing led to another but before the clothes started flying I was honest about dating someone not exclusive and we made it clear to each other this was just a night of fun and didnt mean anything.\\n\\nThrough the grapevine it got back to my \\\"gf\\\" and she exploded for cheating on her. I was dumbfounded. I literally assumed one of the reasons we broke up was so she could sleep with other guys! We never managed to patch things up (though after that outburst I didnt really want to)\",\n \"901\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yes you MIGHT get COVID if you go to an event like that. MIGHT. And that's even if anyone there has it. You WOULD have been grief stricken for life if you didnt get those last special moments with your mother.\\n\\nYour wife was completely out of line and paranoid and making this all about her. I get your frustration with the dead bedroom situation but honestly even if everything were great in that area she was out of line here by quite a ways.\",\n \"981\"\n ],\n [\n \"Based on the wording here, I would guess that she sees you in the getting to know each other stage of dating. With only one exception, every relationship I have started has started out just dating. I would PREFER they are not going out/sleeping with other people but I never felt it was my business until I had the \\\"Are we exclusive?\\\" talk.\\n\\nSo maybe this friend is still feeling you out and not ready to give up another fun aspect of her life yet until and unless she decides an exclusive relationship with you is worth giving up her FWB.\\n\\nCompletely reasonable though I have to admit it's even more awkward that the FWB is your roommate.\\n\\nI'm not sure I would proceed with this if I were you. Even if you start a relationship, you have two potential issues. One, if the relationship goes well you might get some backlash from your roommate. Two, if the relationship fails then you may find yourself in a living situation where you get to hear your ex having sex with your roommate.\",\n \"657\"\n ],\n [\n \"<PERSON>\\n\\nYour sister is a major one though.\\n\\nPlaying the \\\"gay\\\" card is just as bad as playing the race card, the fat card, the woman card, the man card, the trans card, etc\\n\\nBasically saying \\\"I am entitled to X even if obtained illegally or at the expense of someone else because I am Y\\\"\\n\\nYour sister not only took something of yours, she also destroyed it.\\n\\nGay pride is one thing but saying only gays can have rainbows is.....gay narcissism? Is that a thing? Seems like it could be.\",\n \"650\"\n ],\n [\n \"NTA as long as you are letting her go.\\n\\nWeddings can kind of suck for random guests anyway. I've been to two where my partner was much more involved with everyone there and I just made awkward conversations here and there. Now add on someone I might want to punch? No thanks.\\n\\nJust make sure you dont end up giving your wife hell for going after.\",\n \"275\"\n ],\n [\n \"I know it kind of sucks now in the world we live in, and it also kind of sucks to \\\"punish\\\" a victim, but this sounds like a situation to seriously talk about limiting or even removing all devices she has access to that allow her this sort of behavior. No cell phone (or maybe one without internet if those are even still a thing), no personal tablets or PC. If she is doing online school it has to be in an area she can be monitored. Install keyloggers and such on devices if she cannot be.\\n\\nSometimes you have to protect people from themselves. I dont see that as any different than taking blades away from a cutter.\",\n \"119\"\n ],\n [\n \"Periods are flat out gross. But just as a lot of human anatomy is and I have yet to meet a woman IRL that is happy about having them.\\n\\nAs I guy I do find blood disgusting and I have made it clear to all my partners that I am not interested in any vaginal play at all during a period.\\n\\nHowever, I am still a guy who has gone to Walmart at 3am to buy Midol and a heating pad when my partner was having horrible cramps. I've brought extra tampons to my partner when I've gotten an urgent text from them at work on their day off. Things like that.\\n\\nOnly time i have full on went off on my partner was when she left period panties with the very soaked pad still in them just laying on the bathroom floor and I stepped in them on accident. But I think that was a fair general household complaint.\",\n \"670\"\n ],\n [\n \"First priority: You\\n\\nSecond priority: Fiance\\n\\nThird priority: Your child\\n\\n(Though I understand some people would flip two and three)\\n\\nFourth priority: Siblings.\\n\\nIt sounds like right now you are grasping at strings to barely take care of one, two, and three. This is not a time to add another. \\n\\nResentment WILL build. Add on top of this those kids are coming with emotional baggage. If things get bad enough the kids and possibly your own could end up being removed anyway.\\n\\nFoster care sounds like the right place for them, and you, right now.\",\n \"774\"\n ],\n [\n \"I've never been asked to do that I might find it odd but not derogatory.\\n\\nAs a side note I would have screwed it up if asked. I was 35 watching a stand up comedian with my gf and the comedian made a joke that he thought that you just stuck the pads to your body like a bandaid. I sat up and said dead seriously \\\"Wait that's not how they work?\\\"\\n\\nMy gf about died laughing. I didnt know the sticky part was to hold it in the underwear.\",\n \"670\"\n ],\n [\n \"NAH.\\n\\nCouple thoughts though. Kids all over the world dont get a choice if siblings come into the mix. Lots of kids would rather be only children but the parents have the right to add to their family.\\n\\nIf your only or main reason for not adopting a child in need is your son might be annoyed then I dont think that's a good reason. Also a LOT of special needs kids grow up, despite parents best intentions, thinking they are the center of the universe. An older sibling may actually be beneficial to his development.\",\n \"361\"\n ],\n [\n \"Congrats you introduced me to a fetish I didnt even know about.\\n\\nSo do you just find hair attractive? Like....I would say well over 90% of guys have certain hairstyles they find more attractive than others.\\n\\nDo you want to.....get a \\\"hair job\\\"? I had one of those once where a girl with long silky hair wrapped in around my dick and jerked me off with it. It was...interesting and I certainly didnt hate it but I didnt think it was the most efficient. Even then I wouldnt put it as any weirder than a titfuck.\\n\\nDo you want to cut off their hair and make a wig out of it and prance around in it? That's where you may start having issues finding a compatible partner.\",\n \"90\"\n ],\n [\n \"You got raped. Good enough reason to leave right there.\\n\\nAlso if it only happened once, hate to bring it up, but it might not even be your kid. Women (and true men sometimes too) can go baby crazy. She may have cheated on you without birth control to get pregnant then knew she had to do it once with you in a certain time frame to make sure you didnt suspect.\\n\\nRegardless if the marriage survives get a DNA test at birth if not before.\",\n \"454\"\n ],\n [\n \"Sure cause people when they have a gun in their face go \\\"oh yeah I remember hearing once on this one 60 minutes special years ago that this type of robbery USUALLY ends without shots fired so I'll just comply\\\"\\n\\nVS.\\n\\n\\\"Hey this guy just threatened several people with lethal force and he currently is not looking at me or pointing a gun at me, so I can either do something OR maybe wait til he just turns back around and shoots me.\\\"\",\n \"1016\"\n ],\n [\n \"A) You dont go back\\n\\nB) Find out the laws on how illegal this is in your state. Unfortunately that might get her punished but doesnt negate the pregnancy\\n\\nC) You may have to check me on this one from a legal standpoint. Do NOT agree to pay for anything pre birth at all unless legally ordered to do so.\\n\\nD) Insist on a paternity test. Do not sign a birth certificate without one if it gets to that.\\n\\nE) Make it CLEAR to her that she is one hundred percent on her own now. Regardless of how she feels morally the slap of reality in the face of realizing even with possible child support she may be a single mother is a wake up call to a lot of people.\\n\\nF) If friends start asking about why you broke up, be HONEST. She will be spinning a different story. Get ahead of it. Again, her realizing that she might be losing friends and family support might encourage abortions or adoptions. \\n\\nG) If she does end up pregnant and decides on an abortion but insists you pay, DO IT. But dont just give her a check, take her down to the clinic, pretend to be loving and supportive, then as soon as you are sure it's all done, bail and block her on everything. Not saying you have to be so heartless as to like leave her ride less at the clinic (though that would be fair) but no contact after.\\n\\nEdit: Changed pregnancy to paternity on point D\",\n \"992\"\n ],\n [\n \"How do I say this without sounding homophobic?\\n\\nI've seen this probably about 8 times in my life with bi girls (and maybe 3 times with bi guys)\\n\\nIt almost seems that when people are exploring their bi side they almost dont think that doing things inappropriate with the same sex is actually \\\"cheating\\\". \\n\\nI had a huge fight with an ex (bi) girlfriend once because she let her lesbian friend, who had admitted to both of is she had a crush on my girlfriend, share her bed one night. She told me \\\"girls share beds all the time\\\". I asked if she would be okay if I slept with a girl that admitted she had a crush on me and she said that was completely different. No, it's not.\\n\\nPoint there was maybe <PERSON> somehow has twisted she hasn't actually cheated but she has.\\n\\nTell the bf. If your sister snaps back just tell her that if she really has feelings for <PERSON> she should be thanking you for giving her the opportunity to pursue it.\\n\\nIf they start denying it at dinner, put <PERSON> and your mom on the spot.\\n\\nAlternatively if you want a quieter approach just that the bf aside quietly.\",\n \"901\"\n ],\n [\n \"Also I misread something. Sounds like your sister is also concealing (or in denial) about the status of <PERSON> and her boyfriend. Sounds like it could be typical cheater behavior of \\\"I really love YOOOOOOU but I just cant break up with my current partner because of (insert bullshit reason) but I promise I will soon!\\\"\\n\\nThe bf deserves better. Especially if hes already broken up with them before because of the accusations that might have been true before but are now.\",\n \"650\"\n ],\n [\n \"There is risk in everything. There is risk in just getting in the car to go to their house.\\n\\nCOVID is not a death sentence for most people. It is okay for people to weigh risk vs reward. A parent dying and seeing their kids and grandkids for the last time is a valid reason for risk.\\n\\nIf people are going out to a restaurant right now (safely) and that is acceptable, this is 100 times more justifiable\",\n \"912\"\n ],\n [\n \"NTA\\n\\n\\\"Trans culture\\\" or whatever you want to call it is bullshit. Your heritage is your heritage, that is not debatable. Connect more with a different culture? Great! Learn about it, appreciate it, study a language? Awesome!\\n\\nBut you cant, say, be born German and say you are really a Brazilian.\\n\\nThis sounds like a lot of just teenage angst. And are you sure they aren't just trolling you completely?\",\n \"847\"\n ],\n [\n \"<PERSON>\\n\\nAs someone who has had SEVERE issues from someone calling in a mental health check on me, yeah, yta.\\n\\nAll this does is get cops to EITHER do a quick check where the patient lies to get them to go away. Or they get hauled off to an involuntary commitment where they (in the USA) get a huge medical bill for it and lie to get out in 3 or 4 days anyway.\",\n \"260\"\n ],\n [\n \"Ah see but condom companies know something few people want to admit!\\n\\nNon parents have MUCH more sex than parents. So you start giving a 20 year old access to condoms, they will likely continue using them well into their lives. But if said, say now 25 year old has a child, they may go from sex 5 times a week to 5 times a year! And then they have to wait many years for their \\\"next client\\\" (the child) to start needing their product.\",\n \"292\"\n ],\n [\n \"You need to separate them into different households possibly permanently. \\n\\nThe incest is the smaller issue here honestly.\\n\\nYour daughter accusing your son of rape is the thing that needs to be focused on, because one of three things just happened there.\\n\\n1) Your son raped your daughter. Horrible but unlikely as he is the younger. \\n\\n2) It was mutual and your daughter is so f**** up that she decided to throw a life altering accusation that could cause HUGE legal problems for your son as well as ruin the family dynamic forever.\\n\\n3) Number two, but ADD IN that as the older child your daughter could have been grooming and raping your son and he, being the younger one, as many victims are, believes its consensual. In which case you have a sociopath on your hands.\",\n \"774\"\n ],\n [\n \"You stay with her. You be the loving supportive girlfriend she needs. You forgive her. You apologize that you cant give her what she needs right now. You tell her you will try your hardest to do right by her.\\n\\nUNTIL you dont need her help paying for your treatments anymore.\\n\\nThen you tell her now that you are recovered you feel you both need to find someone more compatible with your life goals.\\n\\nCheating has a price after all.\",\n \"901\"\n ],\n [\n \"Pet names to me have always just come naturally. \\n\\nNot every girl I've been with had one. Usually it required some sort of event and I'll admit I can be a bit of a jerk because some (not all but most) were based on teasing.\\n\\nOne ex got named <PERSON> because I found her freaked out standing on a patio chair running from a rabbit and asked \\\"You're really scared of a little bun?\\\"\\n\\nOne got named <PERSON> because I met her at a very dark time in my life and she guided me through the darkness.\\n\\nOne got named <PERSON> because she had a bit of a body hair issue (which I actually found cute, it was all white hair, thin and soft)\\n\\nOne got named <PERSON> because she was small but fierce as hell. \\n\\nOtherwise the typical \\\"babe\\\" just did it for me.\",\n \"777\"\n ],\n [\n \"NTA\\n\\nAt all. All the family members whining can take him in themselves. NO ONE should have to have a child by choice.\\n\\nThat said, I would have maybe tried to coordinate with other family about trying some sort of massive joint custody so no ones life is completely upended.\\n\\nOP dont listen to all these people saying YTA, I bet not one in ten would take a 15 year old dumped on their doorstep willingly.\",\n \"843\"\n ],\n [\n \"Believe me that wasnt fun to type out.\\n\\nIf it were a case of siblings thinking they were in love....okay.....not great but therapy can help here.\\n\\nIf it were a case of siblings having sex and both of them had a mature \\\"hey it's just for fun and were bored/horny/lonely\\\"....okay.....not great but therapy can help here.\\n\\nBut the rape accusation is just throwing a drum of gas onto a bonfire. It almost makes everything that came before it irrelevant. \\n\\nIt automatically means one of your kids isnt just confused or...different. It means one of them has a SERIOUS mental issue where they are capable of inflicting great harm on a family member for their own benefit. Whichever side is right......this family will never be whole again.\",\n \"454\"\n ],\n [\n \"IIRC, when Californina made it a felony to infect someone with HIV, people going in for HIV tests dropped through the floor. Suddenly nobody wanted to get tested because they all wanted the plausible deniability. This obviously led to an increase in the spread of the disease. Nobody wanted to have their sex life controlled by the government which is completely fair. \\n\\nBut also I dont think I they made it legal, just a misdemeanor. Which still sucks for a few reasons but had its benefits.\",\n \"382\"\n ],\n [\n \"NTA.\\n\\nLong hair sucks. One of my exes had butt length hair. Beautiful but my god. \\n\\nI had to take apart the vaccum cleaner once a month and cut all the hair out of the roller.\\n\\nI had to spend extra time cleaning my fish tank and hair would get tangled in there.\\n\\nAlways had to make sure to clean the lint trap every time or dryer wouldnt dry.\\n\\nDumb cat would occasionally eat her hairs and get constipated so I would have to pull a three foot hair out of a screaming cats butthole every few weeks.\\n\\nMy ex was disabled so I did this all gladly. But if she wasnt youd be damn sure she would have been doing those things herself.\",\n \"90\"\n ],\n [\n \"<PERSON> was a dick in general but I tried to tolerate him. With some success.\\n\\nOne night like 7 of us ordered a really complicated order from a delivery sandwich place. Out of seven combo meals they got everything completely right except forgot one side of chips.\\n\\nI even volunteered to go without mine as I got a bigger sandwich than the menu seemed to indicate.\\n\\nThis guy looks at our receipt (by the way it took like 10 minutes to get everything situated and checked. We counted the sandwiches to be sure on entrees but after that the delivery guy left) our receipt shows we were in fact overcharged one dollar for the missing chips.\\n\\nHe demanded we call the store and either get a refund of one dollar (in cash) or the delivery driver makes another trip for the chips.\\n\\nAll of us tried to explain why this was unreasonable and he just blurts out \\\"Well he should be PROUD to do his job correctly and bring you back your chips. If he cant be proud of what he does he needs to get a job somewhere else!\\\"\\n\\nYou could hear the crickets outside. Guy literally thought everyone liked their job and took pride in it and could just change at will. \\n\\nAnd the guy even had retail experience in high school! But i guess jobs don't grind you down when you know its just for extra fun money, you can quit anytime, and you have a high five figure already waiting for you at your family's company after high school\",\n \"428\"\n ],\n [\n \"Not too bad but friend had moved into a new house. First night I spent the night there I had to get up to use bathroom.\\n\\nWas pretty big house and there were like five doors on the upstairs hallway alone.\\n\\nSleepily stumbled like six steps into the room before realizing A) this was not the bathroom and B) this was his parents room and C) they are doing it.\\n\\nI mumble an apology then decide screw the upstairs bathroom. Tiptoed downstairs to find the lower one and find his sister (college age) topless and in panties getting a midnight snack.\\n\\nI gave up and held it til morning.\",\n \"875\"\n ],\n [\n \"On paper the person administering the drug.\\n\\nIn reality proving it is something the accused has to do and that could be from very easy to very hard.\\n\\nIf say a person commits a crime and a very difficult to obtain anesthetic is found in their system, there may be cause to look at that person's medical associates. \\n\\nIf it's something like your friend spiked your drink at a party with simple alcohol and you got pulled over for a DUI you're never going to beat that charge. No cops are going to bother to investigate it.\\n\\nAnd of course there is a WHOLE lot of middle ground\",\n \"764\"\n ],\n [\n \"No. Too many variables and especially when you live in a place like the US a person can get a huge bill.\\n\\nWe had an employee at work with diagnosed epilepsy. He had told us during hiring but the shift manager on duty didnt know that.\\n\\nSo when the manager found him in the hallway he called 911. Employee woke up in the hospital, $5000 poorer, because of it boiling down to \\\"Oh you know you had epilepsy? Well you know there is nothing we can do for it!\\\"\\n\\nHe went around his next shift giving VERY explicit instruction to every employee to just lay him down if it happened again.\",\n \"42\"\n ],\n [\n \"Not exactly my point. Though I do see yours.\\n\\nFor comparison someone helped medically (ESPECIALLY with free healthcare which catches minor stuff before turning it into major stuff) you've got a fairly good chance of turning that person back to society making money and pursuing goals and being a consumer.\\n\\nCollege is different. Where should the cutoff be?\\n\\nI can get on board with a government telling me my taxes need to be higher so <PERSON>, mother of three can get cancer treatment she couldnt afford.\\n\\nI cant get on board with my taxes being higher because <PERSON> isnt sure what she wants to study so just goes to school for four years, takes a bunch of art and lit classes that dont come with marketable skills then drops out before finishing.\\n\\nI cant tell you the perfect solution but I can say free college on every subject for all isnt it\",\n \"108\"\n ],\n [\n \"That's why I said on paper.\\n\\nBut the other thing that i didnt think of before is depending on the drug what is a reasonable reacting before losing it completely?\\n\\nIf you felt really fuzzy and out of it, but still able to string words together, it could be argued you knew better than to get behind the wheel.\\n\\nIf they find a normal mild mannered college student running naked with a crowbar through a hospital yelling about the mole people coming to eat his face they may ask more questions and give benefit of the doubt.\",\n \"664\"\n ],\n [\n \"Its usually not economical (might be more now with COVID but hopefully that is temporary) for a place to have it's own staff if not primarily deliver. \\n\\nOne, most drivers have to provide their own vehicles. I'm not even gonna get into much of that but people will get hired at pizza places and tell them if you're in an accident take the decal off. But anyway, if you're a driver for a pizza place you likely dont even have a dining room. All food is carryout or delivery. \\n\\nTwo, some drivers for family owned places are just family members or other employees, not full time employees. \\n\\nThree, the restaurants would need to hire enough staff to guarantee reliable delivery times. Ever get annoyed when an pizza place says 45 minutes on a Saturday night? How are you going to feel about a two hour wait (with a three dollar delivery fee) for a $5 hamburger?\",\n \"897\"\n ],\n [\n \"Only reason I'm glad it happened was like 2 years later I'm driving behind a car just BLASTING obnoxious music. Can hear it fully with my music and windows ip.\\n\\nBut as I followed them I started to notice their rear tire starting to wobble. No way they could hear it.\\n\\nManaged to flag the two teens down and explain what was happening before they wrecked. Probably wouldnt have been injured but I'm sure I saved thousands in damages.\\n\\nI'm guessing insurance doesnt cover that, or at least not without a hefty deductible\",\n \"449\"\n ],\n [\n \"Go into a reputable sex store like condoms to go or <PERSON>'s secret. If you've never been in a sex store the staff are usually VERY knowledgeable. \\n\\nI'm not into wax but I've heard horror stories about people getting severe burns when using the wrong kind.\\n\\nReally also this is a pretty mild kink. Any store should be stocked enough. You can also google those stores websites and browse products to get an idea\",\n \"118\"\n ],\n [\n \"You say you have never had a father figure.\\n\\nIts possible your mother isnt concerned with the time you spend or as others have indicated something inappropriate is happening.\\n\\nIt may simply be that she is seeing how happy you are and worried about what will happen if six months from now they break up?\\n\\nBalancing a new parental figure into a kids, especially a teens life, is very hard\",\n \"900\"\n ],\n [\n \"Sounds kinda dumb but take my cat in to be put down.\\n\\nI can handle human death easier than most it seems but taking my girl in...\\n\\nI've never been so choked up I literally couldnt talk. Only time in my life that's happened.\\n\\nThe other hardest was let the love of my life go. It was devastating but at least I knew that was for the best for her. Sometimes you meet the right person at the wrong wrong time\",\n \"287\"\n ],\n [\n \"Also if it hit your brain dont worry if no one followed up with you. It is literally no ones job to. \\n\\nThe medics care about the patient. They appreciate (very keyword here) helpful bystanders but once they leave they dont care about the scene.\\n\\nPolice only want to keep order. Unless they felt someone on scene deserved investigation for criminal activity (like say if someone pushed the guy in) they dont care.\\n\\nHospital staff dont really care what's outside their walls. They have enough to deal with.\\n\\nAnd the victim probably never got your name or knows how to contact you.\\n\\nAnd finally because of HIPPA there is no one you can call that could legally tell you what happened except the patient themselves. \\n\\nSo rest assured you did your best!\",\n \"141\"\n ],\n [\n \"That's a little different. That is an employer paying for an investment. And I have no issue with that system because it's a company taking a calculated risk.\\n\\nWe have that in limited forms here.\\n\\nThe ambulance company I worked for paid upfront for your medic certificate. However it was dependent on signing a two year contract. If you quit or got fired for any non medical reason the bill was due in full\",\n \"396\"\n ],\n [\n \"Not so much dumb but just infuriating. \\n\\nI knew a friend who worked for a construction company in 2000. The Mexican guy who owned it was a hard worker but was stuck in the paper age. Friend came on and single handedly grew his business while updating.\\n\\nIt was construction and his business took off with more efficiency due to tech. Within a year the business has almost tripled. The owner hired more crews and at his insistence, myself and another friend were brought into the office.\\n\\nFor about two years we handled everything great. About 50 field staff and us three office guys.\\n\\nOne day we come and find the owner hired ALL FOUR of his daughters to work in the office with us. We didnt need a fourth person, let alone a fifth, sixth, or seventh.\\n\\nNext week all us guys had our hours cut. Then the week after (the girls were kind of trained) we guys had our hours reduced to 2 shifts a week. The next week one. \\n\\nWe were told point blank it would be that way until we quit. Which of course we all did but I still consider that a firing.\\n\\nNo other reason than nepotism.\",\n \"428\"\n ],\n [\n \"Not reliably. First of all air dispersal is good but not 100%. Some plants just may not get hit due to wind or something but the farmer isnt trying to protect every ear of corn, just the majority. \\n\\nLikewise spraying a field or town is going to require a lot less than spraying every square millimeter of habituated land\",\n \"408\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'd say far. \\n\\nProblems include price, size, comfort, the fact every amputee or born cripple has a slightly different stump, nerve damage happens in injuries. Probably a few I cannot think of.\\n\\nI think we will get close but not perfect anywhere near our lifetimes unless we get some sort of biomechanical interface that can actually regrow nerves\",\n \"421\"\n ],\n [\n \"Unpopular opinion to be sure but if your confident enough just go up to him at some point you have him alone and tell him in no uncertain terms he will be eating his testicles if he touches you again.\\n\\nI'm not trying to make a joke. People take advantage of others because they look for victims. If you show him you are not, you will LIKELY feel better and he LIKELY wont press things. Everything is a gamble\",\n \"591\"\n ],\n [\n \"What really pissed me off later was about two months before this happened I found something very incriminating while going through his stuff (as part of my job, not snooping)\\n\\nHe had about one half staff legal and one half staff illegal immigrants. I have no moral issue with that. Everyone has to put food on the table.\\n\\nThe issue was the paperwork I found (it's been almost 2 decades and I can't necessarily recall exactly but I brought it up to our accountant and that's where I found the trouble)\\n\\nSo what the owner was doing was he had found a way to deduct all the illegals social security pay, Medicare, etc. He CLAIMED he was doing it to keep wages fair so the illegals actually took home the same amount as the legals and the legals wouldnt get mad.\\n\\nBut he had found a way to report that income.....but not pay it. So he as the owner was pocketing the difference.\\n\\nAgain I dont necessarily have an issue stealing from the government in certain cases. But this was something I could have probably cost him his business with a couple calls.\\n\\nThing is.....like a lot of capitalism, it would have been a setback for the owner but devastating for the workers\",\n \"113\"\n ],\n [\n \"This sounds sexist but more women in my experience think they can turn to public anger, insults and violence without consequences.\\n\\nYes your average <PERSON> knows that if she hits the male manager with a crowbar she's going to jail. But the average <PERSON> also thinks if the male manager takes a step towards him she has a right to assault him.\\n\\nHere is a good example of what I mean (I believe the follow up was she was sentenced to a couple years)\\n\\nWatch \\\"British tourist slaps immigration official\\\" on YouTube\\n_URL_0_\\n\\nSee how he is calm and making no threats but she just assumes because he is an authority figure and a male she has a right to physically assault him\",\n \"716\"\n ],\n [\n \"Your body WANTS to lose heat from healing, metabolism, growth, digestion, etc efficiently. \\n\\nThe most efficient was to move heat is from higher to lower temps. This is why if are even at 99 degree temps, just a hair over body temp, shit gets bad fast.\\n\\nOur body is now absorbing and not repelling heat and that causes damage. Our body needs tricks (panting, sweating, seeking shade, hell even vomiting) to try to lose heat.\\n\\nOnly a little related but this is why a five degree difference in the shade can feel like so much sometimes. You have exponentially increased your body's ability to cool.\\n\\nIt's also why I learned that going into a hot shower after a workout is miserable. \\n\\nI for years would work out heavily, get into a hot shower, get out and dry then immediately start sweating like I had been working out 15 seconds ago and not 15 minutes.\\n\\nI didn't give my body a chance to expel the heat\",\n \"891\"\n ],\n [\n \"Depends. I see your point but by this definition all sports (save a few like running and wresting) rely on objects whether they be a bow and arrow, rings for gymnastics, a ball for soccer, or a car for a race.\\n\\nI would argue this. Take two cars and have them race each other. Then switch the drivers. If one car constantly wins, it is not.a sport. If one driver constantly wins regardless of the car, it is a sport\",\n \"729\"\n ],\n [\n \"Survival post CPR is like 4%.\\n\\nIt is an acceptable risk to break ribs. This is why you also completely verify lack of pulse and breathing before you do CPR. Otherwise someone could have low blood sugar and you just broke 6 bones \\\"helping them\\\".\\n\\nFirst time I did CPR it felt like the ribcage turned to brittle glass. The sound was like putting a bunch of brittle twigs inside an aluminum chip bag and crushing it.\\n\\nShe did not make it.\",\n \"421\"\n ],\n [\n \"Porn yes. Traditional movies....I want to say no but maybe?\\n\\nI cant think of a reason you would. You can't actually show it. Weve gotten good at camera work. Porn actors say multiple takes suck.\\n\\nI mean porn isn't illegal but I cannot think of a reason. It would also be stupid to sign an actor for a non porn, film half a movie, and have them change their mind\",\n \"518\"\n ],\n [\n \"Oh. Our ambulance company used to call people nuggets when they were double, triple, or quadruple amputees that were that way because they were dumb. Almost always it was not taking care of a condition like diabetes. And we would have to run these fat immobile people to appointments and dialysis because they didnt care enough about themselves to keep all their parts.\\n\\nSome of the bigger ones basically looked like chicken nuggets. That's what I thought you were talking about\",\n \"421\"\n ],\n [\n \"You might be thinking of the term \\\"<PERSON>'s Law\\\"\\n\\nIt states that the more stimuli or choices a person has in front of them, the harder it is to make a decision. \\n\\nFor example, a toddler runs out in front of your car. You have limited options (go left, go right, go straight, speed up, stop)\\n\\nEven though the situation is very dangerous almost all people will react quickly and decisively.\\n\\n Compare this to a man coming at you with a knife. Do you fight? If so how? With a weapon? What weapon? You have a knife but you see a rock on the ground.\\n\\nDo you scream? If so what? Get away? Dont hurt me?\\n \\nDo you run? If so which way?\\n\\nI think I made my point. More options is slower reaction.\",\n \"1016\"\n ],\n [\n \"I've seen a video (this is not a reliable suicide because of the difficulty) where they took some people up in a plane and regulated the pressure so their oxygen saturation drops.\\n\\nContrary to popular belief it is NOT the oxygen in our blood that makes us breath. It is the level of CO2.\\n\\nBut if you just put a bag over your head (have tried dont recommend) all that happens is oxygen decreases but CO2 builds causing panic.\\n\\nIn the video since O2 dropped but CO2 didnt rise the people were calm. One controller even said something like \\\"Dude put your oxygen mask on or your going to die.\\\" The guy just giggled and said \\\"I dont want that \\\" but didnt reach for his mask.\\n\\nSounds like a great way to go\",\n \"863\"\n ],\n [\n \"This really needs to be handled with a regular doc. \\n\\nIn my time in the medical field (6 years) about 98% of patients that young with that many symptoms fall into four categories.\\n\\nDrug seekers. \\n\\nHypochondriacs.\\n\\nMental health issues.\\n\\nLegit complaints with very rare serious diseases.\\n\\nAnd almost all are the top three.\\n\\nA lot of hospitals take a LONG list of symptoms with no signs as bad (symptoms are what a patient reports, signs are what can be seen)\\n\\nSo if a patient complains of a headache and had a scalp wound from trauma, there is no doubt an injury occured. \\n\\nIf a patient complains of multiple issues and all vitals and initial tests look normal, going for more expensive tests is wasteful.\\n\\nI dont think you have a legit complaint here. Schedule a normal appointment with her normal doctor. \\n\\nIF subsequent tests find something bad you can file a complaint and possibly seek damages\",\n \"483\"\n ],\n [\n \"I guess a simple but not wholly accurate way would be to flip the scenario.\\n\\nReally try to see it from their view.\\n\\nAgain, simplified, but if you can see it but not agree with it you may be okay. If you just cant see it at all you may be a narcissist.\\n\\nExample. Daughter (12 years old) wants to die her hair neon blue. Is allowed at school but you feel that it's a little too rebellious and after asking her a bunch of reasons why she tells you that two of her friends are getting dye jobs and she wants to fit in. You think she shouldn't just follow the crowd and tell her no, it's not worth the time or money. That decision is questionable but not an narcissistic one.\\n\\nSame situation but your response is you think all girls period who dye their hair are attention seeking whores and no daughter of yours will be seen as that no matter what her reasons! That's so self centered and therefore could be sarcastic.\",\n \"944\"\n ],\n [\n \"Some decision in a marriage are one yes means it's the same as two nos (like kids, pets, buying a house)\\n\\nThings like this are one yes means it's the same as two yeses. Unless the no really really wants to be the bad guy to both. \\n\\nAlso with things like piercings and haircuts that cant be undone its even more harmful. If one parent grounded a child and the other bought an X box it could be reversed but not here\",\n \"83\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yes sort of. \\n\\nDont listen to people saying anything about starvation mode. That's kind of a myth that came about from one skewed study.\\n\\nNow it's TRUE what you are doing isnt great in the long term. You're going to likely feel temporary negative effects if you did what you describe for say a month straight. Horrible bloating on one day, hunger pains during the week, etc.\\n\\nWhere you can run into issues during short term starvation is things like vitamins and electrolytes. Not so much calories.\\n\\nFor an example say someone needs 2000 maintenance calories a day. They want to lose weight. So for two days a week they just dont eat at all. Hard mentally but not really bad physically. \\n\\nThat person will lose just over a pound a week and should suffer no nutritional issues assuming a balanced diet the other 5 days.\\n\\nSaid person decided that instead of losing the 30 pounds they wants they wont do it over the roughly six months it would take, they will do it all in one shot and just not eat for 45 days. \\n\\nBy the while their body might have the calories necessary to sustain them, they might hit things like iron, vitamin, and other deficiencies. This could be serious health issues.\\n\\nBut simply hitting a caloric deficit wont do it.\\n\\nSource: lost 80 pounds in less than six months by massive diet and exercise but no starvation. My calorie negative was around 9000 a week but kept a healthy diet.\",\n \"727\"\n ],\n [\n \"Surrender if possible.\\n\\nI was talking to some stupid white kid (I'm white).when I walked out of a pool hall once. I've known this kid 25 seconds.\\n\\nA black guy comes out and mid sentence this white kid flips him off and says \\\"fuck you and everyone that looks like you\\\".\\n\\nWithout a word the black guy grabs the kids shirt, slams him into the brick, and proceeds to beat the hell out of his face. White kid lost literally half his teeth in the punches.\\n\\nBlack guy looks at me. Our eye meet. His gaze just says \\\"you with him\\\"?\\n\\nI'm a hignly martial artist. All I did was drop into my natural stance which had hands up and open. I can strike very well.and very hard from that stance. \\n\\nBut open hands say \\\"I dont want to do this.\\\"\\n\\nBlack guy nods and walks away. White kids lies unconscious in pool of own blood.\\n\\nA\",\n \"955\"\n ],\n [\n \"This may be the best wrong answer I've ever read. \\n\\nNot being sarcastic. Reasoning is sound but your classification of disorder is off.\\n\\nFirst homosexuality used to be a disorder (medically classified) as it didnt synch with lifes desire to procreate. Hence disorder. Really only got removed due to political issues. Same thing is happening with trans people.\\n\\nLet's go extreme for a second. Take an OCD person. Sometimes they have many ticks or routines (I could be off on my terminology) That person can be happy and live in society (with help often).but _URL_0_ that they may have to literally lock their front door 86 times a day.\\n\\nSo I'll toss both arguments back at you. If a person with OCD just accepts that he has to lock his door 86 times to be happy does he still have a 'disorder'?\\n\\nIf a gay man struggles with family acceptance and a lower dating pool is he normal just because a book no longer says he has a disorder just because being gay is now accepted? (For the record have met several people who hate they are gay)\",\n \"338\"\n ],\n [\n \"Best way I heard it described is this. \\n\\nFirst off, pain isnt smart. Just like you cannot turn off other sense. (Its too bright. It smells in here. It's too cold)\\n\\nYour senses continue to transmit data to let you know the situation hasn't changed. In the cold example if you could just turn off cold it would be very easy to fall asleep and die.\\n\\nPain is the same thing. Pain often lessens after the injury has occured but is still to remind you. (Yeah, hey, that hand you broke last week? Yeah lay off it for awhile til i.can heal it)\\n\\nNatural painkillers like adrenaline will kick in because the body goes. \\\"Huh. That bear just bit me. That's gonna suck tomorrow. But only if I LIVE til tomorrow. Better shut off all bad signals til we are safe\\\"\\n\\nAlso secondary effect of adrenaline. Your muscles are stronger than your soft tissues. So those enormous feats of strength you hear abou only happen because the body said fuck you to itself and damaged itself for a short term gain\",\n \"461\"\n ],\n [\n \"Humans dont like losing senses. Sight just happens to be the one we naturally lose due to environment. \\n\\nSure something CAN be quieter but our hearing isnt actually affected. Same with smell and touch. Taste....bot so much a combat sense.\\n\\nBut given how many human survival skills require a visual understanding of our surroundings? One of the most natural fears in the world\",\n \"595\"\n ],\n [\n \"Last question because you actually seem reasonable.\\n\\nSo why is it considered a 'disorder' for a 'pedophile' to be attracted to 15 or 16 year olds. Many have the bodies of adults. Many have the maturity of adults. In many places it's even legal for a 40 year old to have sex with a 16 year old. But everyone would call them a pedo.\\n\\nIt seems in those cases it is not even an orientation so much as a preference. (This would not apply to prepubescent people)\\n\\nSo in these cases it seems the 'disorder' is just imposed by society finding something uncomfortable. \\n\\nAnd before I sound too creepy I'm 38 and honestly the thought of being with someone under about 29 weirds me out.\\n\\nI just always thought \\\"I'm 20 and my biology is telling me to bang that body that cannot produce a child with me is completely natural but banging that 16 year old that I can impregnate is a crime against god, man, and nature\\\"\",\n \"70\"\n ],\n [\n \"Maybe encourage him to try crossdressing? See how that feels to him?\\n\\nI'm a bi crossdresser that struggled for a couple years with the thought of \\\"am I trans?\\\"\\n\\nBut the more I thought of it, the more I realized I had no issue with my male body in day to day life. Working. Working out. Hanging with friends. Running errands. I never cared I was a guy.\\n\\nOnly during some sexy or alone times did I really want to have a different body.\\n\\nI admit I've LOVED the thought of having real boobs. But I know in my heart like a lot of girls do, I'd hate them in a lot of situations. \\n\\n(Also prefer my boy parts)\\n\\nMaybe see if he can experiment with some drag cloths and test his waters?\",\n \"751\"\n ],\n [\n \"This has happened before but to my knowledge they didnt just speak to them they retained them. It an effective but costly strategy.\\n\\nMy understanding is consults, especially free ones, while still allowing client privilege, dont prevent entering another agreement.\\n\\nFor example I think it would be unethical if you consulted a lawyer, then your opponent actually paid him, and he used anything in your consult against you. Also a judge would likely call you out on thst\",\n \"812\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm a high level martial artist (but not MMA fighter)\\n\\nLearning to manage main is different that not feeling it. I can get punched full force in the face sparring and my initial thought is \\\"Nice hit! Good job!\\\" And get back to it. \\n\\nI'm still.processing pain but mind is trained so say \\\"Worry about it later\\\"\\n\\nBelieve me I wish it was just an on off \\nswitch\",\n \"52\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yes but that is kind of a different thing. \\n\\nBrain vs nerves.\\n\\nNerves are the ex girlfriend who stabbed you in the left ballsacks with a pickax when you cheated on her with her attractive but shy cousin.\\n\\nYour brain is your best friend showing you pictures of yourself high on morphine in the back of an ambulance holding an ice pack to your junk saying \\\"do you really want to go back there?\\\"\",\n \"461\"\n ],\n [\n \"No. I respect them but I just think some of the sayings have taken it too far.\\n\\n\\\"Assigned male at birth.\\\" No, you are a male. You can change a lot about yourself but you're still a man. \\n\\nBut this is my opinion and dont feel strongly about it. If someone wants to say trans women are women, sure if that's what they think, cool.\\n\\nI think the phrase \\\"trans women are women\\\" is healthy, positive, and accepting/useful.\\n\\nBut I dont think that phrase can be said as a FACT.\",\n \"847\"\n ],\n [\n \"Society functions better when people follow the rules, whether laws or interpersonal morals.\\n\\nUsually (obviously not always) it is in your own best interest to follow the rules.\\n\\nFor example if you felt it was pointless to care about stealing someone might think it is equally pointless to care about having your head in with a rock for trying.\\n\\nPeople that treat others well tend to have more friends and healthier relationships. \\n\\nPeople who dont get shunned eventually\",\n \"647\"\n ],\n [\n \"All insurance has a gamble. Will you ever need it or not. \\n\\nI have been paying car insurance for 21 years and never been in an at fault accident. But if I was without insurance I could easily be financially ruined.\\n\\nInsurance medically doesnt usually protect from costs. It protects from catastrophe. \\n\\nMost if not all plans have something called an Out Of Pocket maximum. This is the most you ever have to pay in a year (for approved and covered costs)\\n\\nMy last policy was $6500 I would ever owe. Given that a one night stay in the ER can cost triple that, I'd have had to save my monthly payment for (quick math here...) about eight years to break even\",\n \"396\"\n ],\n [\n \"MASSIVELY unpopular opinion coming.\\n\\nWhile you were legally and in my opinion morally raped with that age difference, if you have gone 12 years thinking it was okay, you will do more mental damage to yourself than the incident ever did, if you lock yourself into a victim mindset.\\n\\nI was sexually assaulted by a woman and it sucked and caused issues but I'm not bothered by it. \\n\\nI couldnt tell if you were asking this but if you were also asking if you should report it or not, no. If the woman is still alive shes 79 and no court is going to actually punish her for this\",\n \"878\"\n ],\n [\n \"Fat medically bad for a lot of reasons.\\n\\nSome surgeons even refuse or are unqualified to perform surgery on very obese people.\\n\\nIn my EMT days we had to take a 400+ woman from one very good hospital to a specialty trauma center a long way away for a relatively simple broken leg. No surgeon at the sending was confident enough to work with all the fat tissue around the injury.\\n\\nI can imagine internal surgery is worse.\\n\\nLooking at an incredibly in shape person with a six pack you could almost tell where the organs should be by sight. Add two hundred pounds and you may have to go poking around a bit\",\n \"379\"\n ],\n [\n \"My serious relationships have ended for the following (in this case I am putting the term longer than 6 months exclusive dating as serious)\\n\\n1) Her family was horrible. Not one of six kids finished high school. Two were felons. Four were drug addicts. All smoked. I just couldnt see that family being part of my life. I ended it\\n\\n2) She was going off to college hours away soon. She didnt want to do long distance. She ended it\\n\\n3) Finally ended up realizing that all we had in common was liking cats, music, and literature. Dates got progressively more awkward. Mutual ending\\n\\n4) Tried a last ditch effort to fix a marriage by opening it up. Went horribly. Realized I couldnt live with the way life had become. I ended it.\\n\\n5) Finances, living too far away, and exes we both wanted to keep in our life that the other hated. Mutually ended\\n\\n6) She was emotionally cheating and wanted to physically be with that person. She left me.\\n\\nSo that's it\",\n \"585\"\n ],\n [\n \"Never call what she did stupid or selfish or thoughtless, even if you think it.\\n\\nSuicidal people are already in a lot of pain and expressing any kind of disappointment in them can set them back even farther.\\n\\nEven saying things like \\\"How could you make us live without you?\\\" Which might imply you care, can make the person feel even worse of a burden on you.\",\n \"572\"\n ],\n [\n \"You couldn't communicate. He couldnt just keep running in circles without being able to work towards a solution.\\n\\nSomeone mad that cant explain why (regardless of illness or autism or whatever) is extremely frustrating. It's like trying to calm down a toddler.\\n\\nGo back when you can figure out why you were mad.\\n\\nAnd its also one thing to not know how to properly express you are upset (understandable) and not know WHY you are upset. \\n\\nIt's not like people dont just get in bad moods sometimes. That happens. But it's their job to take care of it themselves\",\n \"52\"\n ],\n [\n \"No you're not over reacting.\\n\\nHe is right that it is very hard to control at that moment to pull out. I have almost cum inside girls multiple times during the heat of the moment.\\n\\nKey word almost.\\n\\nWhere he screwed up is you made your intentions clear before this incident and many times during it. So as a responsible partner, even if he honestly couldnt control it in those last seconds, he should have known better than to get TO those last seconds.\\n\\nI know some will disagree but I dont think this is rape. Thst doesnt mean you dont have a right to be upset or that what he did was okay.\\n\\nAdvice would be to stop having sex period. I'm not one to jump on the 'dump someone immediately for a mistake' wagon but this could be something you cant move past and would be okay\",\n \"501\"\n ],\n [\n \"There is always going to be some risk if you are their first. My gf and I have fairly regular threesomes, and guys tend to be a lot more comfortable when they find out that we've done it before. So that's a solid question.\\n\\nIf you ARE their first, it's good to reassure both the guy and the girl you have ZERO interest in coming between them. \\n\\nIF you play, go slow enough that they will have 100 chances to stop. Don't literally go from talking over beers to bending her over the couch. It may sound odd, but a guy can often get over his wife having a guy kiss her neck more easily than getting railed by him.\\n\\nWhat I'm saying is, unfortunately with threesomes, a lot of times the fantasy is fine but the reality hits hard. If it's their first time, make sure they have the power to stop before getting hurt.\",\n \"581\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm gonna go against the grain here and say yes, MAYBE!\\n\\nFirst, totally natural for you to want sex and be frustrated in a relationship where that is LITERALLY impossible. He's not withholding, he's not impotent but able to use toys. He cannot do ANY activities (if I'm understanding you).\\n\\nI don't know his condition, but if it's likely he will 'wake up' soon, then I would say tough it out. But I'm GUESSING, if he's been in this state for 8 months, this might be long term/permanent.\\n\\nWhat would you want if the situation was reversed? Also, what do you think HE would want for you?\\n\\nBut if your first part, about wanting to be faithful when he is back, also means it might be a good idea to find a partner you are not very attracted to, that you can immediately call off playtimes without conflicting thoughts.\",\n \"732\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is why people dislike dating bisexuals sometimes. And before you think I'm hating, I am a bi guy that won't date a bi girl for exactly this reason.\\n\\nThat said, finding a girl for a threesome, while possible, is unlikely. Girls who hook up with couples are LITERALLY called unicorns. It's not up anymore, but if you looked on craigslist, for every ONE ad where a girl was looking for a couple (and most of those were probably bots or prostitutes anyway) you would literally have 1000 ads of couples looking for a woman to join them.\\n\\nMost likely, if it happens, it's gonna have to be someone you know, and hopefully, don't screw up your relationship. 2 times in my life I've had a girl join in a threeway, and one time it ended in a disaster that will take way too long to spell out.\\n\\nBut if open or breaking up are not options, honestly, you just need to suck it up and accept you can't have lesbian sex.\\n\\nI love shrimp. But my girlfriend is so allergic that even kissing her after eating shrimp hours ago makes her sick (not die fortunately). So I accept that to be with her, I give up something else I like.\",\n \"209\"\n ],\n [\n \"Bi guy here that does MMF threesomes with his gf.\\n\\nWorst? We met up with a younger kid, early 20s (we are late 30s) from Craigslist. He was really questioning his sexuality. When we asked him what made him want to play with guys he said it was that he was molested, as an adult, by a roommate and was confused that he liked it, and wanted to explore. Kid didn't perform much, and when he left, he looked really guilty.\\n\\nBest? Older guy that wanted to see if I was able to get him off by blowjob without hands. At this point, I'd only given like 3 ever, so when I was able to do it, was a pretty good feeling. Also, my girlfriend right there helped. It was the first time someone came in my mouth, so she reached over, kissed me, and pulled out most of the load with her tongue since 'she was more used to swallowing cum'.\",\n \"1012\"\n ],\n [\n \"Depends on age. I remember reading a story, wish I could remember where, where a young boy thought he was trans, and told his parents at like 8-9.\\n\\nThey were very supportive, and I guess got him into both counseling and hormone therapy.\\n\\nHowever, when he hit 13, he suddenly realized 'he wasn't a girl'. So he wanted to transition BACK. Fortunately, nothing had been done 'downstairs' yet but they did have to schedule a surgery to remove some breast tissue. \\n\\nI get being supportive, but on a decision that major, letting young kids tell you things like that can backfired. Hell, I wanted to be a girl for a long time when I was a kid, but it was mostly due to feeling like the 'odd man out' as almost all of our family and friends were women.\",\n \"292\"\n ],\n [\n \"Maybe his hormones were already out of wack? \\n\\nI worked with a trans girl a few months back. She, at 20, was just starting hormone therapy. However, she told me she had her hormone levels checked prior to getting on hormones, and she said her doc said she was both in the bottom 10 & #37; for testosterone and top 10 & #37; for estrogen, as far as men go. \\n\\nI guess the only thing I COULD have misremembered in the article was they mentioned breast removal surgery, but MAYBE that was them saying that's one of the things that would have happened had he not changed his mind when he did.\",\n \"390\"\n ],\n [\n \"It wouldn't have gone the way I'm hopefully imagining it, but there was this 19 year old coworker (I was 33ish at the time) that kept hitting on me. As in things like she forgot her wallet at work one day, I bought her a burrito, and she said if I'd let her, she'd blow me as thanks. \\n\\nLet's set aside the fact this girl puts blowjob and burrito at the same price point.\\n\\nShe was very aggressive. And I did think she was hot. But teen coworker. \\n\\nAnyway, we were friends for a few weeks after she quit, and I STARTED to consider acting on it. Maybe. I do have a girlfriend, but we've done three and foursomes so it's not like I was going to cheat. \\n\\nHowever, my gf never liked her. When <PERSON> (other girl) asked if I wanted to go out, and I said I had a girlfriend, she literally said \\\"That's just an obstacle.\\\"\\n\\nSo I had kinda brought up the threesome thing to <PERSON>, or rather, I mentioned my gf and I do that, and she texted back with \\\"OOOOH! I volunteer!\\\"\\n\\nI run it by gf, and she just gets this faraway look on her face. My gf is pretty straight. \\n\\nBut she says to me \\\"The only reason I'd agree to that is to hate fuck her with a huge strap on.\\\"\\n\\nI would have LOVED to see this. And neither girl was kidding about their point of view.\\n\\nHowever, in this case, I chose to pass. I think it would have been hot, but just knowing the other girl, I think it would have ended poorly.\",\n \"1012\"\n ],\n [\n \"Relax.\\n\\nAlso, you don't want to hear this, but the rate of men failing to maintain erections in threesomes is around 50 & #37; So if your little soldier is asleep on the job, don't panic, but use other things, try to not think about it, and then you will MOST likely not have an issue. \\n\\nAre they friends or are they together? That second one might have some jealously issues come up. \\n\\nI have taken Cialis with moderate success for threesomes in the past.\",\n \"524\"\n ],\n [\n \"Bi guy. I have 'phases' that can last days or weeks were I have a very strong preference for men. It never gets enough that I would feel like leaving my partner as they 'were not the right gender that week'.\\n\\nI did know a bi girl that broke up with her bf of 2 years because she missed lesbian sex, and he didn't want to open the relationship. She LITERALLY told him she was breaking up, planed to hook up with a girl or two over the next month, and if he wanted, they could get back together after.\\n\\nProps for not cheating, but I did find that cold. But I REALLY think that's rare.\",\n \"585\"\n ],\n [\n \"I will say that is a new one to me. Never heard of it. \\n\\nBeing...dominated is a thing. Maybe it's kind of the same ball park mentally.\\n\\nThe closest example I've got in my life is I like being pegged. But I want the girl to be a bigger girl, because knowing I can fight her off really easily is a turn off, but if she's big enough she could 'win' a fight with me, it's more arousing to be submissive.\",\n \"331\"\n ],\n [\n \"I don't understand why this is even a question. People masturbate. I KNOW some spouses have issues, but basically, if it's not hurting the relationship, it's fine.\\n\\nCurrent gf had an ex that would literally get out of bed if she tried to initiate, boot up porn, and jack off, saying 'this is easier'. THAT is an example of masturbation in a relationship being bad.\\n\\nBut in general, it's fine. I jack off and I'm sure my gf notices a lot of tissues in the trash. I've come home and found her toys out.\\n\\nI will say, the only time masturbation has hurt me, AND IT SUCKS IT'S HAPPENED TWICE is when for whatever reason, my gf (2 different girls for these occasions), masturbates, with a SOLID dildo, and then leaves it on my side of the bed. If I come in, and you are asleep, I'm not gonna turn on lights. But goddamn, plopping into bed and hoping for a soft pillow and instead taking 8 inches of ribbed (for her pleasure) glass to the face HURTS!\",\n \"524\"\n ],\n [\n \"I hope it never happens, like, a spontaneous actual attack, but with the right partner, maybe they could arrange it for you?\\n\\nI've literally found a guy on craigslist, messaged him, told my gf to get dressed, and drove her to his house to blow a guy she didn't even knew existed 30 minutes ago. \\n\\nI'm working on getting her gangbanged. The logistics are a little harder, but possible.\",\n \"1012\"\n ],\n [\n \"Sorry, I didn't mean to make light of something that obviously is weighing on you.\\n\\nMaybe think of it like this, and bring it up to her if need be.\\n\\nPeople have different NEEDS. Take food. If you are a 225lb man, you NEED more food than a 100lb woman. Sure maybe you can eat the same for a day, a week, a month, but it's going to take its toll.\\n\\nThere isn't anything wrong with the bigger person getting bigger portions, or an extra meal.\\n\\nThat's all this is. If you ARE having sex, you (hopefully) are at least getting the romantic need met, and you are just 'filling up' on the physical by yourself.\",\n \"993\"\n ],\n [\n \"This would worry me for a few reasons.\\n\\nFirst, my gf and I occasionally sleep with other people. I started reading your post and went 'holy shit if he fucks <PERSON> his gf is gonna lose it' and then you said you did and she was okay, happy even. \\n\\nWhy she is happy about it matters far more than the fact it makes her happy.\\n\\nSo, first thing first, YES it is possible for this to be a good, happy, ongoing thing. Will it be in your situation? Dunno.\\n\\nSo, some concerns. First, you didn't mention it too much, but what does J feel about this? You're gf taking your friend into a threesome, sure, that happens, but if J LIKES you, you're gonna have a different issue you may not have thought of. If this goes south, you might lose <PERSON> totally. \\n\\nNot a doc, but your SO reaction to this sounds like it could be the mania side of bipolar. Going from generally depressed to having a 'passion' she has spent a lot of time working on (from what you said, her setting things up, pushing) as a clear, but not definite side, of mania.\\n\\nGoing from being angry you might have cheated in a very short time to....wanting to start a channel and finding escorts? There is SOMETHING wrong in her thought process.\\n\\nAgain, NONE of this is wrong IN THEORY. \\n\\nAs far as 'fucking with your brain' to have sex with one girl and tell another you love her? I don't have either of these people in my life right now, but HANDS DOWN the best kiss of my life was when my friend was blowing me, my girlfriend was sitting next to me asking if I was close, and her bending over, whispering, \\\"Cum in her mouth.\\\" And taking me into a deep kiss. Nirvana. I had SO MUCH LOVE for my girlfriend in that second (and after, of course) despite literally blowing my load in another girls face. Love can INCREASE in non-manogamous relationships, if handled correctly.\",\n \"1012\"\n ],\n [\n \".....I really don't think I was out of line with my question. Hard to tell from a short reply, and I apologize if this was not your intention, but that came across as snippy and confrontational to a question that was legit. \\n\\nNow, to answer, people are different. I've had girls I could literally just cover my dick in lube and shove in like a vagina. I've had girls that took 20 minutes of gentle massage with fingers/tongue to be able to receive. More often, it's a few minutes, but fingers might not be a good alternative to a smaller dildo. Reason is the way your fingers can bend, and the roughness of knuckles, can be a turn off. Ex wife was fine taking my cock (which is maybe JUST above average) but could not even take one finger comfortably due to the different....uh...design?\\n\\nHell, even once my ex wife managed anal sex, no lube. Not even spit or vaginal fluid. Only once, took time, but was hella impressive.\\n\\nAlso, enemas can be different too. I've had partners that I had anal sex 50 times with and maybe 10 of those times was there only the slightest trace of feces. (Never enemas) Others have come out pretty covered most times. In short, enemas are good, but there is the occasional downside of...enemas don't really feel sexy and doing one before sex can actually get people out of the mood.\",\n \"581\"\n ],\n [\n \"And that's bad?\\n\\nGo find a college kid and school him in the art of Anal Pounding! Hell, dress up as a teacher! \\\"Today, you're gonna earn that A! Through your A-HOLE!\\\"\\n\\n.......\\n\\nI dunno why I typed that. I apologize.\\n\\n......\\n\\nIn seriousness, I think you're likely to find someone, statistically, that's okay with it. Hell, I got into it when my wife (that looking back, may have been manipulating me) saying her friend's husband asked her friend to buy a strap on, and what would my reaction be to that. I said I'd be down to try, and the rest is history.\",\n \"581\"\n ],\n [\n \"That's the issue, and you're correct. \\n\\nI love gangbang porn as much as the next guy. CLOSEST we've come is a foursome where his wife was being fucked by me, blowing her husband, with my gf working her boobs. But we were all friends.\\n\\nBut I think with actual gangbangs, whether with friends or internet hookups, you gotta deal with the reality of a guy going 'shit, how comfortable am I hanging around a lot of other men, while we fuck one girl?' and going that maybe it's just easier to find a one on one hookup.\\n\\nMy HOPE, and rough PLAN, is to someday try to find a pair of bi guys. (I'm bi myself), but that way we can, whether or not there is MM play, find two guys that are comfortable/feel safe with each other, and me, for a total of 3. \\n\\nI mean, I wouldn't really mind, say, 4 or 5 for a gang bang. But 3 pretty much covers all bases. Three holes (if you're into that). Enough positions that people can rest if they need to.\",\n \"518\"\n ],\n [\n \"Sooo, has he been, say, literally 95 days older it would magically become fine? That makes no sense.\\n\\nI don't know why you think this is weird. LOTS people have relationships with 10, 20, 30 years age difference. And they are HAPPY.\\n\\nHell, I knew a couple, that married at 21 and 13. Her parents literally had to drive across state lines because their state wouldn't allow marriage. \\n\\nWhen did I meet them? At 84 and 76. \\n\\nMaybe you're hung up on he had another partner. Maybe, (and this one is totally fine) you are hung up on maybe he doesn't make great decisions.\",\n \"429\"\n ],\n [\n \"I knew a girl that succeeded with what you tried. She referred to herself as \\\"a reluctant lesbian\\\". She was 100% biologically heterosexual, but unfortunately was pretty violently raped and literally could not bring herself to touch, kiss, hug, men. Her body would go into fight or flight mode. \\n\\nShe decided, after years, she missed human touch enough to date and sleep with women, because she missed that connection.\\n\\nPossibly the only person I've heard of actually choosing their orientation.\",\n \"640\"\n ],\n [\n \"Oh, yeah. Generally nothing bad is gonna happen. Some women get extra horny on their period. That blood is coming out later that day or the next day anyway. \\n\\nOnly thing I can really THINK might realistically happen is if you make your gf sore from sex, which most people like (kinda like workout sore) if she cramps heavily that might cause her more pain the next day.\",\n \"524\"\n ],\n [\n \"So what's your point. 17 and 25 is HORRIBLE! But 18 and 36 is FINE! Because some random guys decided at some point to make an official law? That's how LAW works. Not ethics.\\n\\nI've met 12 year olds that could probably manage a marriage, career, and kids. I've met 24 year olds that I wouldn't trust to babysit my cat.\\n\\nThere is no 'magic number of days we've been traveling on this ball around the sun' that makes someone ready for sex, marriage, kids, a career, or fuck, flying a kite.\\n\\nThe example I gave, granted, I have no idea what those people were like back then. \\n\\nBut, as you said, social norms really never equals right.\",\n \"70\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well, not me, but something I said to my partner, so my fault.\\n\\nI was doing my wife, hard, anally. Little dirty talk, nothing much \\\"You like that? Take it!\\\" \\\"Yeah, fuck me!\\\" That kind of stuff.\\n\\nFor whatever reason, I randomly remembered she once told me when she was younger, her grandmother called asses 'Bobos'.\\n\\nSo, in some weird haze, I yell out \\\"Yeah, you liked getting pounded in the bobo!\\\"\\n\\nShe stomped moving completely. Then burst out laughing so hard she 'pooped' me out with her convulsions.\\n\\nAfter around 30 seconds, she said that, well, sorry, but we are done for the night.\",\n \"875\"\n ],\n [\n \"Slightly funny story, because of my ex wife being legally blind, she had INSANE hearing. \\n\\nShe was just my friend at the time, but was hanging out with a group of us. I made a joke at my gf's expense, (nothing bad, just cheesy) and she leaned in my ear and said, very quietly 'keep that up and no anal tonight'. \\n\\nMy friend immediately called, from across the room. \\\"Hey, you should tell your girlfriend not to whisper around blind people.\\\" Girlfriend turns beet red and spends the next 15 minutes in the bathroom.\",\n \"1012\"\n ],\n [\n \"That's where 'aftercare' can come into play a lot.\\n\\nDiscuss hard limits. For GODS sake use a safe word. This sounds like a joke but if for whatever reason in the heat of the moment you can't remember it, two that work pretty well are yelling either 'safe word' or your ex's name.\\n\\nAs the submissive, you can have your entire fantasy fulfilled, and let your lover know, beforehand, that after, you want it to be back to the 'normal' relationship (equal partners, cuddling, etc)\",\n \"581\"\n ],\n [\n \"I've got a couple.\\n\\nAs a hetero romantic bi guy (as in, like to sleep with guys on the occasion WITH my gf) having a guy cum in me. I just don't ever see dating a guy one on one, and random hookups, fwb situations we've had just don't seem worth the risk of not playing safely.\\n\\nFeeder play. As a guy that likes bigger girls, I love the idea of a forced funnel situation where I feed her thousands of calories of food. I like the idea of over time making her bigger and bigger.\\n\\nThe issue with that one is it's kind of at odds with itself. My gf is already at about the upper end of what weight should EVER be (she's a stockier build with a decent amount of muscle, it's not all fat) but if she increases her weight much more, it might start causing (down the line) issues.\\n\\nSo I GUESS the only way that would work would be to someday find a skinny girl that wants to be a fat girl (and I don't see that happening for at least 10 or so reasons).\",\n \"209\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is one of those that is MUCH more common than most people think. This day and age, it's probably something fairly safe to bring up with gfs.\\n\\nHave had.....5 girls peg me. One was her idea, and enthusiastically. Two were mine but well received. One was 'eh, I don't really get anything out of it but I'll do it for you every once in a while'. Last was HER idea, said she had always been curious, but in the middle of the act, SHE stopped it, saying it was kind of weirding her out.\",\n \"1012\"\n ],\n [\n \"You MIGHT be right, but sometimes fantasies like this are not so much about the gender, but about the POWER.\\n\\nFor example, I am into pegging (am guy). I also don't have a 'type' of women I like. Tall, short, skinny, fat, blonde, brunette, large boobs, small boobs, older, younger. Whatever. Do not care if I like you.\\n\\nBUT out of the 5 girls I've had use strap ons on me, two were skinny, one was a LITTLE overweight but short, and two were roughly my height but much heavier.\\n\\nI MUCH more enjoyed the pegging from the bigger girls. The feeling of strength they had, (one due to muscle, the other just sheer mass). I felt less in control, more submissive, more taken, and it had nothing to do with the gender. It was more the 'oh shit, if this girl WANTED to keep going when I said stop, I wouldn't be able to make her' that was the turn on.\",\n \"238\"\n ],\n [\n \"If you don't mind me asking, how does that work, mentally, for a straight guy?\\n\\nI'm bi, and dabble in crossdressing, by which I mean I would not leave the house and it's all either for solo or, thankfully, play with my gf. Now, I admit I MIGHT have a different view if my body type would make me anywhere near passible, but voice is deep, and I love my facial hair too much :P\\n\\nBut all that said......I don't really get the 'straight crossdresser' thing. Like for me, (and I'm nowhere near trans), the crossdressing comes with being more feminine, more submissive, and more...uh...gay than straight at the moment?\",\n \"640\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well, I don't know if this will be helpful or not, but one of my friends (straight, but we both know a lot of gay people) got into a VERY niche cam scene for awhile. \\n\\nPart of me kinda wishes I was joking, but I'm not. He would tape himself, neck down, masturbating. I've never seen it, but from some of his exes that I've also been friends with, he is REALLY well endowed. If you were one of his viewers, for a commission (I don't know how much) he would jack off into a sock and mail you the sock. And if you are curious, it was NOT women buying this.....\\n\\nWhile I don't have numbers, he said the money coming in vs the amount of work was really good. He finally stopped on the OFF chance he was somehow found out, as he noticed word of this spread through his social circle and he was worried about it getting to someone that might blackmail him.\",\n \"1017\"\n ],\n [\n \"....I may have misunderstood something here, not just from you but in this thread.\\n\\nPeople used to say 'straight okay, homo bad, pedo bad'. Now people say 'straight okay, homo okay, pedo bad'. Nothing biologically has changed, just society. \\n\\nI may have misread something else in this thread. I have an issue with someone judging someone for something beyond their control. Hell, you want to go fuck a moose, that's your right to FEEL that was. Doing it is a different matter. \\n\\nI'm fine with a pedo liking themselves. I feel bad for ANYONE that has an urge, mental issue, whatever, that makes them feel 'less than'.\",\n \"418\"\n ],\n [\n \"Totally my opinion, but I don't think it's rape. Disrespectful, sure. A red flag? Yup.\\n\\nHave you ever done any forceful roleplay? I did with a few exs, and once or twice it took a few seconds to realize that 'oh, stop really means stop'. But the situations I am referring to are more 'ow, that position hurts, let me shift' than 'stop, I want sex to end NOW'.\\n\\nNow, if you've NEVER done anything like that, it might be a bit worse.\\n\\nBut based on other replies I see you made, you are considering leaving him anyway, so......maybe it doesn't really matter?\",\n \"454\"\n ],\n [\n \"Okay. Here's the thing. It's brutally honest and anyone who says otherwise is lying.\\n\\nEVERYBODY 'settles' for their partner. NO ONE gets their perfect 10 out of 10. EVEN IF they did, people change, both emotionally and physically.\\n\\nLife isn't a video game where you get to pick and choose.\\n\\nI do NOT think you are an ass for your views. At all. We all have our preferences.\\n\\nIn my current case, for example, I just celebrated our 5 year. We've fought 2 times. We have easy conversations. We have very similar views on religion, politics, ethics, and entertainment. We love being around each other. We have a great home.\\n\\nOur sex life is great, as we have all the same kinks.\\n\\nAnd....she is the least attractive girl I've been with. Not ugly, IMO, but overweight in a way I don't find sexy (I like bigger curvy girls, but she is a bit stocky, muscular, and....well....saggy in places.)\\n\\nThing is, I KNOW I will NEVER find someone else that lines up on every other front like she does. Doesn't mean I cant find happiness, just that it won't be as great.\\n\\nThink about it this way, as you are asking for advice on not just a sex partner, but possibly a life partner: What PERCENTAGE of the time in your lives/relationship is her having big breasts going to matter? Vs what percentage of having the 'fight the problem/not person?'\",\n \"993\"\n ],\n [\n \"It can be tricky because I have used this term to refer to perfectly logic things and absolutely ridiculous things.\\n\\n\\\"Trans people have a right to healthcare.\\\" Great. Makes sense.\\n\\n\\\"Trans people have a right to use whatever bathroom they feel most comfortable.\\\" Um....okay. I can see some arguments for an against, but sure, we can compromise here.\\n\\n\\\"Trans people have the right to go to the prison of there professed gender.\\\" Full stop no. An argument could me made for someone who has had extensive surgery but a 220 pound 6'4 fully biologically male doesn't suddenly get to say at sentencing he has always been a female on the inside and should go to a women's prison.\\n\\nI think the basic thought is usually meant to mean that any rights a cis person has a trans person should have. And yet it does get muddy in the details.\",\n \"847\"\n ],\n [\n \"Jesus. Look at my karma. My throwaway is used for controversial topics since my main one is tied to writing, abuse recovery, and games.\\n\\nDid you not look up farther on the thread? I said I was the VICTIM of a non violent sexual assault but it was frustrating because since people don't see it as dangerous I'm not a true victim.\\n\\nI apologize for being insulting but you completely misread what I was trying to get across: that men can be victims (women too) even if violence doesn't come into it.\",\n \"181\"\n ],\n [\n \"Eesh. I cringe at what you wrote.\\n\\nYes I have been 'harassed' a few times by girls I'm not interested, and as a guy it's usually not more than an annoyance. \\n\\nBut the fact that cute girls can get away with things is infuriating. \\n\\nI read on here a few months ago about a guy who was full on raped by a girl because she followed him into a room, scratched herself, then said if he DID NOT fuck her she would run out crying screaming that he tried to rape her. \\n\\nNo court in the would would have believed him.\",\n \"331\"\n ],\n [\n \"It kinda depends on what you consider aliens.\\n\\nI personally think it's highly unlikely that there are not SOME alien species like us, just given the size of the universe. But even if you discount intelligent aliens, it's very likely that other planets have developed some basic cellular organisms.\\n\\nClaiming there is a GOD that created everything is a bit of a jump in logic. (Am agnostic, I'm not sure either way)\\n\\nBut saying that just because, I don't know, you think intersteller travel is impossible means there are no 'space ants' somewhere doesn't quite hold up.\",\n \"366\"\n ],\n [\n \"What the fuck? A soldier is not a hero (by default)\\n\\nA soldier CAN be a hero. So can a librarian. Pisses me off to no end that some soldiers (far from all) get a free pass. In fact many soldiers are embarrassed when thanked for their service because they see it as just a job.\\n\\nThere's kind of a running....maybe gag isn't the right word but phrase of \\\"I'm not a hero but I served with some.\\\"\\n\\nFor all you know she died peeing her pants hiding behind cover. Which is not dishonorable necessarily but for sure doesn't make up for what she did.\\n\\nAnd this is all before you realize that American soldiers are not automatically heroes to non americans.\\n\\nYou don't need to piss on her grave but I don't think you would be faulted for dancing on it a little.\",\n \"920\"\n ],\n [\n \"Legally yes, but it wouldn't surprise me if one local theatre is just trying to fly under the radar.\\n\\nHell it's even possible they tried to get permission and the studios were like 'hell just go for it'. If its one screen and one showing you'd be looking at such a small royalty check for the studio they probably wouldn't even consider going to court over it, IF anyone even told them.\\n\\nCompare this to say, a theatre a studio had an ongoing relationship- with and was constantly asking for the newest movies and then stopped. That would be a flag something fishy was going on.\",\n \"321\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's not. Or rather its not complicated. \\n\\nCalories out have to be more than calories in to lose weight.\\n\\nSome common misconceptions leading to people claiming the 'just can't lose the weight'\\n\\n1) Check your calories. I used to, when going to work, grab a 'lite' breakfast of three small burritos. Didn't even fill me up. Checking the restaurants website one day showed me I was eating 1200 calorie breakfasts and still being hungry!\\n\\n2) There are 3500 calories in a pound. So to lose weight it requires burning a lot more calories than you think. Go for a three mile run every single morning? Great! Thats about a pound lost every 12 days.\\n\\n3) Because humans don't want to starve we often develop hunger when working out. Many a person has failed their weight lost journey by hitting the gym every day, burning 500 calories, then overeating by 1000 calories because they are 'famished'.\\n\\n4) Liquids are calorie nightmares. Hell technically most beer is healthier than juice if calorie counting. Don't drink your calories is a common diet mantra. Carbonated water, unsweet tea, and lightly flavored coffees are the exception.\\n\\n5) This one is my opinion, but most people seem to try to do one of two things when losing weight. Workout like a beast or starve themselves. Both are....not wrong but bring their own problems.\\n\\nLets say you want to lose a pound every four days. Thats 875 calories you have to cut. Burning that at the gym is almost 90 minutes of intense cardio. Cutting that from your diet is usually one whole meal. Both are hard to stick to.\\n\\nBut say you cut out your usually heavy lunch for a light snack and then hit the gym for 45 minutes a day, splitting the difference. Neither will seem as daunting as one extreme (for most people)\\n\\nFinally, it takes time. I lost 80 pounds in six months. People were amazed at the progress. But that accomplishment came with calorie counting every meal and 2-3 hours at the gym every day with no days off. Also completely sobriety and no soda or sweets at all. \\n\\nSimple? Piece of (diet) cake. Easy? Nope, was hard work every day.\",\n \"35\"\n ],\n [\n \"You can legally use force but not excessive force. So something like flicking his face or gently pulling his hair (assuming he is still latched on and you are trying to 'end the threat' ) is probably reasonable. \\n\\nIf you are even a preteen or older a punch will likely be seen as too aggressive. And if the bite has already ended and he is not continuing to attack you, you likely cannot do anything legally besides walk away.\",\n \"955\"\n ],\n [\n \"In the US, currently all states have safe haven laws. \\n\\n[_URL_0_](_URL_1_).\\n\\nThese allow people (with varying restrictions and time limits based on state) the ability to surrender kids legally they do not want. \\n\\nOne such thought is without these laws women would simply hide pregnancy and toss kids in a river for example.\\n\\nUnless these laws changed too things should be fine. We would likely see an increase in illegal abortions as well as women doing things like throwing themselves downstairs and starving themselves as well.\",\n \"409\"\n ],\n [\n \"I regret shutting down a game of truth or dare with a boy in high school. \\n\\nI'm bi now but took me forever to come out. I think he was trying to come out to me that night (I didnt like him like that but kids fool around) and think he was trying to find an outlet. \\n\\nThe sleepover had progressed from watching Star wars clips on line to him showing me a porno mag (back in dial up times) to a truth or dare I shut down when he wanted to anally penetrate me with a finger.\\n\\nI regret it because I think it might have been better for both of us in the long run to safely experiment. And I honestly was curious. But my religious upbringing wouldnt let me do it. And I pulled way back from him after that night. \\n\\nDunno if he ever came out or not\",\n \"751\"\n ],\n [\n \"Primal? First threesome.\\n\\nIn danger? Getting hit with a bullet ricochet and not knowing if I just got a small piece of shrapnel or was actually shot. (Was shrapnel. Tore my face but just a little blood)\\n\\nTime slowing down? Seeing a car wreck coming two seconds before impact. I swear it felt like ten minutes.\\n\\nMost wanting to protectile every food I'd ever eaten? Finding our my wife was cheating on me\",\n \"481\"\n ],\n [\n \"My question is specifically for the people who havent transitioned much if at all.\\n\\nI worked with a ....guy at the beginning of his employment to girl by the end and knew them as both. But they wanted to start using a girls name ad pronouns months before doing any HRT or appearance changing. She was short and had longish hair but was still very obviously born male (she did develop a higher voice and boobs over time) \\n\\nBut I cant see anyone who would have met her as she was introduced to me the first time wouldnt be gay for being attracted to her (or straight if a girl)\",\n \"751\"\n ],\n [\n \"She thought I wanted to go to a strip club for my eighteenth birthday due to a stupid rumor my friend started. \\n\\nWhen I said it wasnt true she said \\\"Bullshit. You just want to go see those big breasted bimbos.\\\"\\n\\nMy genius brain snapped back with what I said in the previous post. I wasnt thinking clearly but meant no I'll intent\",\n \"1012\"\n ],\n [\n \"Oof. I wish I had better advice.\\n\\nIf she was a young child it could be a lesson about death. But doesnt seem to be the case.\\n\\nIs she religious at all? If she believes in an afterlife she will never be older than her brother.\\n\\nIf she doesnt.......hmmmm.\\n\\nMaybe.....no....I have nothing that doesnt sound insensitive.\\n\\nI wish you the best. Every idea I have sounds wrong trying to type it\",\n \"981\"\n ],\n [\n \"Truly sorry. I cant think of anything that would make her feel better.\\n\\nJust tell her that her brother wouldnt want her to be sad. If shes a lighthearted person maybe tell her that now she had big shoes to fill as the older sibling?\\n\\nCan you maybe.....I dunno. Find an old photo of him and a current one of her and photo shop them together, as if they took the photo? \\n\\nShow her hes not completely gone?\",\n \"650\"\n ],\n [\n \"A few reasons.\\n\\nSometime you can be wanting to give someone something towards a major purchase. Like if you know they want a new TV and are saving for it you can give them a bit of help.\\n\\nSometimes it's nice to treat someone to an experience. Like a gift card to a restaurant they probably would like but never spend the money on.\\n\\nSometimes its to help them out with necessities....but maybe you do worry about spending habits. So you buy a gift card to a grocery store and not just give cash.\",\n \"710\"\n ],\n [\n \"There is a running joke (and I've even had a few of my lesbian friend say it) that all lesbian relationships come with a set of uhaul keys.\\n\\nLesbians tend to rush into long term relationships faster than either straight or gay men. \\n\\nStatistically these are more likely to fail and fail more spectacularly if too many things (finances, living situations, pets, kids) get mixed in.\\n\\nSo a 19 year old proposing is already a sign most people would be wary of. If it's a lesbian its even more likely that it is an overly emotional and premature decision\",\n \"209\"\n ],\n [\n \"I was actually in the pro <PERSON> camp through most of the game (didnt play but watched the whole playthrough)\\n\\nI knew it was controversial. But figured I'd give it a chance.\\n\\nIt made relative sense until you were forced to kill a LOT of people, including your former friends, just because they didnt like the one actual transgender person they put in the game.\\n\\nIt made no sense for <PERSON> to kill people she grew up with because they were trying to kill this one person (who was part of a group of her peoples enemies)\\n\\nAnd to make it worse this trans person killed their own mother and you were supposed to see it as justified because she didnt like her kid was trans.\\n\\nIt just became a shitshow. I would never play a last of us three game because no game in history somehow managed to piss off people from so many viewpoints at once\",\n \"1011\"\n ],\n [\n \"Could be. In my experience bi girls are less selective about cheating.\\n\\nAll that said, a lot of people when they tell you they are taken, they assume that means you will NOT misinterpret things like hugs and friendly texts as interest, and they are just outgoing.\\n\\nIf she was doing all that without disclosing her relationship status I would think she is into you.\\n\\nAlso she might just find you attractive and fun to be around but not interested in the slightest in dating.\",\n \"640\"\n ],\n [\n \"Had an ex call me up during a dry spell in dating. We ended well so I saw no issue with going for dinner and a beer.\\n\\nShe was being kinda flirty and while I was seeing someone (non exclusively) I was a bit uncomfortable with her flirtations.\\n\\nI mentioned I wasnt interested in getting back together but just wanted to see her.\\n\\nShe laughed, said all she wanted to do was get some italian food, get some beers, catch up, and have me take her back to her place and fuck her up the ass. No strings attached.\\n\\nSucceeded on all fronts. Hell I'd have been happy with just the beer.\",\n \"1012\"\n ],\n [\n \"No, someone made a business decision and profited off it. Just like every artist or store in existence.\\n\\nPeople by things based on what they are worth to them, not to the seller. \\n\\nIf anyone is to blame it's the people buying the inflated prices systems. Think about it. If some guy bought consoles and everyone refused to buy them he would have thousands of dollars in paperweights. \\n\\nBut the buyers think the sellers are the problem when the buyers are at least half as responsible\",\n \"618\"\n ],\n [\n \"The sheer inability of people to do this math just boggles the mind. Its not even so much about the entitlement. Its just grade school math and physics. \\n\\nCant remember if it was this sub or not but there was a post about two ladies going into a sandwich shop in the middle of the afternoon with one employee working, ordered 90 sandwiches, and were appalled when they couldnt get out of there in ten minutes.\\n\\nLike how fast do you think someone can physically work?\",\n \"941\"\n ],\n [\n \"Whether I would ever get anal sex. I'd always wanted to try it but had planned to stay a virgin (including anal) until marriage. So I figured it was going to be pure luck if I found a girl who would be into anal.\\n\\nWell turns out my college girlfriend was so annoyed by my marital stance that she threw this belief in my face and said she would do anal only and I might not get another chance if my future wife didnt want to.\\n\\nShe talked me into it. But no regrets.\",\n \"1012\"\n ],\n [\n \"Someone called an ambulance on me once. I was having a bad reaction to a new med and was a bit confused. I wasnt able to answer all their questions appropriately so they said I had to go.\\n\\nI knew enough to go so as to not be escorted in by police. However I gave them no information besides my first name, lied and said I didnt have my wallet, refused to sign any paperwork, and as soon as they rolled me into the ER (and was probably the adrenaline jolt but I was coming around) I told the first nurse I saw I was walking out and not signing anything. \\n\\nShe looked shocked but said \\\"I wont stop you.\\\" Walked right out the front door.\\n\\nTotal cost: $15 bucks on the uber I spent to get where I started from (which was also thankfully not my house so they had no info)\\n\\nDamned if I was going to get a four digit bill for something I didnt even want or need\",\n \"42\"\n ],\n [\n \"I mean eventually yeah. Humans just like any other species has an expiration date. We just dont know what our extinction event will be.\\n\\nHell tomorrow a strain if COVID could mutate into something with a 30% fatality rate and we would be fucked.\\n\\nClimate change will more likely knock us down a few pegs and reduce the world population and standard of living at some point but likely wont kill the entire race\",\n \"795\"\n ],\n [\n \"Also a person may belief by going vegan themselves they are making the difference but if they just give a cat away the new home/owner is just going to feed them meat anyway. And as mentioned, killing the pet for veganism is counter productive to most vegans.\\n\\n\\nThough I am sure there are probably some vegan extremists that think all carnivores are evil and should be exterminated\",\n \"909\"\n ],\n [\n \"As others have said public places are fair game. \\n\\nJust imagine the headaches otherwise. If you were trying to televise a basketball game and had to get the personal permission of every single patron? Never could work.\\n\\nBasically it got scaled down to anywhere the public can be freely the public can be recorded.\\n\\nIn private residences it gets trickier. Some areas are a little gray (like can you record a guest in your house that you invited) \\n\\nAlso some states have requirements that a recording of audio (including phone calls) must have both participants permission. \\n\\nFinally one thing that I've never gotten a clear answer on is what happens during a crime? Say it's in your house and your mother hits your father. Technically he can claim he doesnt consent but I'm guessing that the police may see it differently. They could, for example, use the video as reason to escort the husband away but maybe it wouldnt be admissible in court. (If someone knows for sure please correct me)\",\n \"260\"\n ],\n [\n \"In general yes. If something is gory it is not necessarily illegal. (Accidents happen, animals attack, natural disasters strike)\\n\\nIf it is a crime being committed FOR the act of making a video you might run into some questionable legality.\\n\\nFor example seeing a security video of a man pushing someone into traffic was not made for the purpose of spreading gore, it just so happened a camera caught it.\\n\\nHowever a guys friend with a cell phone recording the incident saying \\\"push him!\\\" Might fall under different statues.\",\n \"903\"\n ],\n [\n \"I mean the two first ideas that come to mind are switch docs (easier said than done) but I would also try to research on if it's personal rule for their practice or a statewide restriction.\\n\\nSecond is set up a recording of the whole thing but that also may not be allowed by law or policy.\\n\\nThird idea, speakerphone during whole thing? I think the policies on that would be different than video\",\n \"123\"\n ],\n [\n \"I have learned the hard way (and this sounds horrible) to take women's stories of rape when it comes to dating them with a grain of salt.\\n\\nBut the problem is if the story changes a lot, it can be a very good sign she is spinning either a consensual act into a horrific one, or at best maybe something she regrets and has played it up as worse for herself and her friends that lying about it has just come naturally.\\n\\nAs one or two others have said, five years from now she will be telling the story of how you raped her. And it just takes one wrong person to hear that for your life to change.\",\n \"878\"\n ],\n [\n \"That's always blown my mind about competition at that level. I just cant imagine literally devoting my whole life to something and the difference between a life of luxury and fame is like .2 seconds on a clock or jumping just 1 inch shorter or making a landing that some random judge for a reason they probably couldn't even fully explain gave me slightly less <PERSON>'s than my competitor.\",\n \"328\"\n ],\n [\n \"Few reasons.\\n\\nMany of these places were built way before anyone knew this was going to be a huge issue.\\n\\nGiven that some people say gender is a spectrum there would be people I am sure would say three isnt even enough.\\n\\nSince it's not strictly a need, and adding a new room, especially with plumbing would be HELLA expensive there is no financial reason to do this.\\n\\nForth and the most logical thing is just make all bathrooms everywhere unisex but people are going to complain about that too.\",\n \"670\"\n ],\n [\n \"History is written by the winners is kind of the simple answer.\\n\\nA slightly more specific reason to your particular example is it was much easier for both sides in the colonial war to just part ways after the cessation of hostilities. That huge ocean and all that. We had no interest in taking the fight across the sea.\\n\\nThe union absolutely wanted to keep the southern territories. And as I said not quite as clear of a border from a geographical perspective.\",\n \"773\"\n ],\n [\n \"\\\"If someone cant find a job I don't see why they just dont go back to school, get a degree, and apply for better jobs.\\\"\\n\\n<PERSON> was 27, very sheltered from a wealthy family, and had no clue that you need income for the time you're in school. \\n\\nKick on top was he thought all colleges everywhere in the U.S (where he lived) were free. He thought they were like public libraries, just walk in, grab books and sign up for whatever classes you want.\",\n \"108\"\n ],\n [\n \"People here literally die daily from it. You even get to pick how!\\n\\nMany cheaply made required drugs like insulin are costed higher than a car payment. \\n\\nMental healthcare is so expensive it lead to drug addiction, violence, and suicide. \\n\\nPeople sometimes die with serious symptoms because they dont think an ambulance is worth it when they can drive. \\n\\nMedications are so expensive people sometimes half or reduce the dose to once every three or four days to stretch it out.\\n\\nScans can run tens of thousands just to FIND OUT what is wrong, let alone treat it.\\n\\nDoctors are forced to recommend less effective treatments with higher downsides due to income.\\n\\nAnd even people with Savings and healthcare can lose their homes and entire retirement just on a three day hospital stay!\",\n \"36\"\n ],\n [\n \"I dated a legally blind girl for years.\\n\\nWhile it had no bearing on our eventually breaking up, shit got old fast. Was the only driver for years. Had to constantly adjust either housing or her job to account for travel in an area where there was no public transportation worth mentioning.\\n\\nShe hated walking everywhere even that she could because she could only see a few feet in front of her.\\n\\nSafety was an issue as she couldnt run fast enough for enough for her eyes to keep up.\\n\\nShe had to sit right in front of the TV no matter how big so watching movies or shows new to her were almost impossible with more than one other viewer just due to the angle.\\n\\nLots of hobbies I liked she just couldnt share in.\\n\\nI'm sure I can think of more but yeah it wasnt fun. I wouldnt leave someone if they became that impaired but I wouldnt enter into a relationship with someone with that disability again.\",\n \"585\"\n ],\n [\n \"Problem is meat can be bad in two ways. First is all the little microorganisms on them can reach high levels and cause illness in humans. \\n\\nGood news. Safe cooking temps stop this.\\n\\nSecond way is all the waste those organisms produce. \\n\\nBad news. To break down this waste requires temps that generally make the food inedible.\\n\\nThe first is more of an illness if you got sick. The second is more like getting poisoned.\",\n \"740\"\n ],\n [\n \"Dated a girl who told me she couldn't tell me if her number was in the 2 or 3 digits. Couldnt care less, BECAUSE she was honest with me.\\n\\nI dont think you are wrong for being upset she lied, but we all have a past. If you cant deal with hers, IMO, that's okay. You are allowed to pick your partners and also have things you wont deal with. I myself will not date bi girls. I am allowed to not date someone who is bi, or who has a past I cant deal with. What I am not allowed to do is SHAME them for it.\\n\\nAlso IMO the only other thing you are allowed to press a past partner for is if they were ever a cheater. I'd date a girl that screwed 1000 guys before I would date a girl that had only slept with two but one was an affair.\",\n \"901\"\n ],\n [\n \"He deserves to know, for a LOT of reasons.\\n\\nOne, this wasnt in your past, it was during your relationship. So presumably, and understandably, your behavior is going to probably be different towards sex as well as even just physical touch for awhile. He deserves to know the reason.\\n\\nTwo, if you continue to be sexual with your boyfriend, he deserves to know that you may have been exposed to STIs.\\n\\nThree, god forbid you get pregnant anytime soon, either from the incident or your boyfriend, but he has the right to know if the child might not be his.\\n\\nFour, being a partner to someone with PTSD is ROUGH. I have dated women with it, and I have a mild form of it myself. A partner should always know when something in the relationship might be a deal breaker, or at least something that will make the relationship harder.\\n\\nFive, and this one sucks. Sounds like you were at a group event. This means that someone, whether the guy who assaulted you or someone else, might start spreading it around. And if their story is that it was consensual and gets back to your boyfriend, now he might think you cheated on him. And there are girls that do cry 'rape' after the fact to protect themselves. (Had it personally happen to me before anyone says I'm perpetrating false stereotypes) so then he will have to decide \\\"Am I dealing with a cheater and a liar or a repeat rape victim\\\"? That's a horrible position to put him in.\\n\\nSix and final, and this also sucks....some people just dont want to have a relationship with a lot of extra weight on it. I was with a disabled girl for years and I admit I wasnt a saint always with it but the constant modifications to our home, our activities, our living situation, our expenses, that came with it started to drive us apart. And she was not at fault, I knew everything before getting into the relationship. I just somehow didnt process it would be every day.\\n\\nSo yes. Tell your boyfriend for all the reasons I outlined. I do believe you will feel better after you do. Maybe not right after, but regardless of his reaction, at least you wont be wondering.\",\n \"591\"\n ],\n [\n \"Tried an open relationship once and have seen a couple of friends do the same. It always has the same result.\\n\\nThe women are able to find men, often the same DAY, being completely honest. Think about it.\\n\\n\\\"Wait, so we can hook up, but there is no expectation of emotional support? I can just not call you for a week but then maybe we go on a date and I get laid? And I never have to worry about us moving forward or moving in together or anything? Sweet!\\\" As guys line up around the block.\\n\\nFor a guy, unless you are handsome and rich as fuck...\\n\\n\\\"Wait, so you have a girlfriend and you just want me as a side piece, that you may not even really pay attention to since you are literally only wanting sex, it's not even an affair where I might get some emotional satisfaction out of it? Pass!\\\"\\n\\nNot saying for sure your gf did this on purpose, but some women know that proposing an open relationship is getting a free pass to cheat.\",\n \"971\"\n ],\n [\n \"Exactly. I used to be against smoking because I thought it was a waste of money, dangerous, etc. As I got older I got less judgemental and realized people should be allowed to do what they want. \\n\\nBut even the most respectful 'never smokes near me or in homes or cars and always throws their butts away' smoker always smells ABSOLUTELY disgusting to me.\\n\\nI've dated one smoker in my adult years and it was wretched. Didnt matter if she used perfume and brushed her teeth after I could still smell it and especially in her hair. I would sometimes literally gag after kissing her.\",\n \"568\"\n ],\n [\n \"Your ambulance may not be fully stocked.\\n\\nOld job but found this out the....fun...way. we had just done a drop off and got stopped by a state inspector for a random inspection. He found a lot of stuff missing, some expired, some duplicates. \\n\\nTo be clear most of that stuff was VERY situational and not used often at all. And our company TRIED to maintain inventory by sealing cabinets with tags. If you needed something youd pop the cabinet, record the item, and restock and reseal at the end of the day.\\n\\nAnyway my partner and i were terrified when mistakes started coming up. The inspector finished, said all in all it wasnt that bad even with the infractions, and he had seen much worse.\\n\\nOur company got a fine of course.\\n\\nScary thing when I asked my supervisor about it?\\n\\n\\\"Heres the thing. It takes 2 people about 2 hours to inventory the box top to bottom. Our company would just rather pay the occasional fine then pay the extra labor to have people inventory the unit every day \\\"\",\n \"237\"\n ],\n [\n \"I called my cats my kids, but it wasnt out of....any kind of familial bond with them. Mostly it was because I am child free and despise human children (for the most part. I dont hate them, I just cant stand to be around them) and I considered my cats way cooler than actual kids \\n\\nSo it would mostly come up in situations like \\\"Oh you're getting to the age you should already be getting ready for kids!\\\" And I would say \\\"already have two! Great fur babies!\\\" Mostly just to get people to leave me alone.\",\n \"287\"\n ],\n [\n \"I have to downvote this because you are not stating an unpopular opinion. You are stating a falsehood.\\n\\nSure there are situations where one party can be 100% in both the legal and moral right.\\n\\nBut there are plenty of situations where you can have opposing views and no one is completely wrong. Say an employee does something against policy on a whim but whatever they did was good for business, increased productivity, whatever. But they violated policy so they are punished.\\n\\nEmployee view: But what I did helped the company!\\n\\nEmployer view: But it was a risk that might have hurt the company. And also if people start hearing they can just violate policy whenever they want and hope it works out, someone could make a large and possibly dangerous mistake.\\n\\nBoth views to me have substance.\",\n \"230\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah my mom was a heavy smoker growing up. It sucked as none of my friends smoked or came from families that did. When I was still living at home and going to college I got real sick of having to shower and wash whatever clothes I was going to wear RIGHT before I left the house because friends started telling me how bad I smelled like smoke when hanging out. I couldn't even tell anymore.\\n\\nWasnt until I lived in a smoke free home for like six months that I started to have the sense of smell come back to how bad it was. Now I cannot tolerate it at all.\",\n \"568\"\n ],\n [\n \"I get that. I was on similar terms with my mom when she passed. Hit me harder than I thought it would. I do believe you are completely justified in asking your wife to not share those sentiments around you, just as long as you are not faulting her for having her feelings.\\n\\nI'm sorry for your loss, even if the loss is similar to mine, in that you grieve for the parent you WISH you had, and the fact that the relationship can never be repaired.\",\n \"900\"\n ],\n [\n \"I personally think the COVID reasoning is kind of silly, but I completely agree with not wanting a seemingly endless parade of strange men coming through your home, especially even B having almost no knowledge of them. What if one of them takes advantage of her after she changes her mind? What if he gets drunk and starts stumbling around and breaking stuff? Etc.\\n\\nThis might seem kind of childish,, but what about a rule where all guests have to be introduced to all roommates? We had this as a kind of unofficial guideline at one of my residences. If your brought someone over (anyone not just dates) you would introduce them to the roommates. Even if its just a \\\"Hey <PERSON>, this is my roomie <PERSON>\\\". It let's people get a vibe on who is in their home and if something is really off gives you a reason to kick them out. Also if a creepy guy knows hes going to have to make a bunch of introductions he might decline in the first place.\\n\\nAnother suggestion is that if she had been the ONLY one having guests over lately (or at least a vast majority of the time) tell her that you and A are just sick of the place being violated and that for the next bit of time if she wants she has to take them somewhere else.\",\n \"698\"\n ],\n [\n \"Tactics ROCKS. Probably the console game I've sunk the most hours into over the course of my life. \\n\\nCustomization is amazing. Story line is awesome (though a bit heavy handed compared to other FF games)\\n\\nOnly two complaints. Near the end if you know what you are doing (and use a certain character) the game takes a massive downward spike in difficulty.\\n\\nThe other is there is one pair of battles, near the end of the second act I believe, that you are given a chance to save between. However the next battle is a one on one fight and unless you gave your main character certain non intuitive skills, is unbeatable. Myself and three other people I know made the mistake of only keeping one save slot and had to restart the whole game because of it.\",\n \"14\"\n ],\n [\n \"<PERSON>.\\n\\nWithout knowing exactly how every conversation went, it could truly be a misunderstanding on your gfs part that <PERSON> was a bio female and depending on your language could have been misconstrued as you intentionally misleading her (I dont think you did though)\\n\\nI do find her reaction a little extreme given your bi, but can someone explain how this is possibly 'biphobic' at ALL? Shes dating a bisexual and presumably has no issues with it. She is worried, however incorrectly, about another biological female around her boyfriend, so that strikes me as the opposite of biphobic.\\n\\nTransphobic? A stretch but maybe.\",\n \"603\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is flawed reasoning. Let's say his brother wanted to spend that money on his dream car instead and the brother told him that he would be willing to spend the money on a nice reliable economy car instead. The brother is upset that he wasnt shelling out money for his top of the line Tesla.\\n\\nYou wouldnt be saying he valued money and judgement over the relationship then.\",\n \"49\"\n ],\n [\n \"Helping out family is buying them groceries, maybe even paying their rent or buying them a used car if they need one desperately. Helping out family is not paying for a completely elective procedure that as the brother even said, may produce zero results. Heck if you paid for plastic surgery at least you would get a guarantee of something.\",\n \"974\"\n ],\n [\n \"That fight sucked. I usually got around it with auto potion and Ramzas squire skill that boosted his speed. If you could run around auto healing you eventually got to the point you could get like 6 turns to Wiegrafs one. And this would carry over til the next fight.\\n\\nThen you hit the rooftop IIRC and had a whole different kind of crap to deal with.\",\n \"190\"\n ],\n [\n \"I appreciate the advice!\\n\\nI'll say, generally speaking, even a a guy doing gay play, I've been more sensitive and less rough. I have some gay friends that completely blow my previous understandings of gay sex out the window.\\n\\nWas roommates with two gay guys (not together) for awhile. One day, they didn't know me or my girlfriend was there they were going at it in their room, door closed, so all good. But MAN, the INTENSITY of what they were screaming at each other was crazy. Not just the words, but the emotion. They both sounded like they were....I dunno....screaming a a guy trying to tow their car.\\n\\nI'll admit, my gf and I listened for a few seconds before deciding that 'hey, a burger sounds awesome right now!'. \\n\\nBut it was very masculine. That's not what I want to do with men. \\n\\nAnd this man seems like he is willing to be what I need him to be. Possibly sweet and caring at first, rougher later if it goes that way. And I WANT to please him. \\n\\nI'm hetero romantic, which I'm not sure if it will be an issue in a sissy journey, but in this case, I like that I (hopefully if he doesn't change his mind) can have a bit of safety in losing my cherry virginity to someone I have, not feelings for, but trust in. \\n\\nI've heard some horror stories, ranging from complete disregard for boundaries to full on rape, of sissies having a first time partner that treats them wrong.\",\n \"1012\"\n ],\n [\n \"So, it took me a LONG time (six years) to finally proposed to my current gf after a divorce.\\n\\nSome of my thought process in the first 5ish years was this. I had never, ever thought I would be divorced. EVER. I knew of 2 things, cheating and violence towards me or any future children. And I thought my wife incapable of that. (She MAY have cheated, but denies it to this day, so that's kind of a side issue).\\n\\nThing was, an event came up that I could never have forseen (long story short tried an open marriage that went sideways fast) and one day I realized I was with someone, and our situation had gotten so screwy, so out of hand, that there was no way we could fix it and BOTH be happy. \\n\\nBut since the reason for divorcing didn't hit one of the dealbreakers I have, I had a lot of conflicting emotions about getting engaged again. What if something different came up between us that I didn't foresee? \\n\\nOn top of that, while not married a second time yet, I had been saving for a ring for a girl I was dating and raising her child. In hindsight the breakup coming from her should have been obvious but it hit me out of the blue so that didn't help.\\n\\nNone of this means I don't value my partner and think of her as my other half. And while I have proposed, so it's not exactly the same situation, I was content to have a forever girlfriend. \\n\\nSo...advice? Understand that sometimes labels are just labels and he doesn't want that one.\",\n \"585\"\n ],\n [\n \"Sadly, this issue has ended thousands if not millions of relationships over the years.\\n\\nI personally share her views, but my partner and I have been upfront since day 1 neither of us wants kids. Now, she is of course able to change her mind. (My partner or yours)\\n\\nHowever, you CANNOT compromise on this issue. If a long term relationship goes forward long enough and one is 100% committed to having children and the other isn't, one will go from irritated, to angry, to miserable, to resentful. Eventually. And between the two options, if this incompatiblity exists, the worse option is having a child with a best case scenario of a broken home and a worse case of having a parent incapable of loving them.\\n\\nI wouldn't break up yet. Support your GF, do not invalidate her feelings, possibly even reexamine some of your own.\\n\\nBut this issue is 100% a dealbreaker. \\n\\nWhere I do get worried is your use of the word 'betrayed'. Nothing she's done is wrong. She isn't doing something malicious to you.\",\n \"774\"\n ],\n [\n \"Knew someone in a similar situation. Their old girlfriend that they maintained a relationship with was about to get married and they asked me if they should tell her they still had a crush on her. To be fair, he wasn't like head over heels or anything so I was basically able to tell him \\\"Look dude, seriously think about that. What is your BEST CASE scenario here?\\\" (I didn't know her well and didn't know her relationship dynamic but felt it wasn't important). \\n\\nThe one thing I told him that he hadn't thought about was 'what if she tells her fiance? What will his reaction be? Even if SHE is okay with it, he may not'.\\n\\nHonestly wasn't a close friend and haven't seen him in years (probably won't) so I don't know if he ultimately decided to say anything. But I just....I can't imagine a good outcome.\",\n \"591\"\n ],\n [\n \"As the teacher, a threesome with one of my students and my girlfriend.\\n\\n(All adults, student was actually slightly older than me). We'd been working on stuff together a lot, she took me to dinner to thank me, and randomly blurted out 'hey if you ever want to have a threesome with me, I am game'. \\n\\nYes, I know that sounds like a bs troll post but it actually happened. Then led to a very very toxic time in my life so yeah it's not really a happy memory to be honest.\",\n \"1012\"\n ],\n [\n \"Small tools, knives, etc are dangerous as fuck.\\n\\nThere was a police video in my area that went viral on 'police brutality' because an officer shot a man who wouldn't drop a screwdriver and people were saying 'it was just a screwdriver!'\\n\\nI can absolutely kill you in 2 seconds from 5 feet with a screwdriver. Yeah, you likely won't drop instantly but it's very very deadly. \\n\\nSomeone doesn't have to be holding an axe or assault rifle in front of you to be a true danger.\",\n \"955\"\n ],\n [\n \"See, I've even done something like that myself recently and won't ever again.\\n\\nI am in a committed relationship with some odd boundaries. <PERSON> knows I am poly, but knows I don't NEED that to be happy. \\n\\nFor some reason, am guy, a lesbian friend and I developed large crushes on each other. We kinda said to each other we had feelings at the same time, so that wasn't awkward, but then as things moved forward, she got conflicted about her feelings and it just hasn't been the same since.\",\n \"585\"\n ],\n [\n \"Some things just...need to die. \\n\\nI personally find it more cruel to lock up someone forever. And if you look at some of the conditions in supermax prisons, you basically have a guy in a small concrete room, alone for usually 23 hours a day, a few meals, and he doesn't even have the option of suicide (easily). That's MORE cruel than just a firing squad or gas chamber.\",\n \"279\"\n ],\n [\n \"I would LOVE more details on that. \\n\\nHad this one girl hitting on me at work once (total slut, nice girl, just willing to sleep with anyone giving her attention. Offered me a blowjob because I bought her a taco bell burrito once). She tried to get me to come over, and when I told her I had a girlfriend, she said 'well, that's just an obstacle'\\n\\nGirlfriend didn't take it well. A few weeks later, the girl offered a threesome instead. Out of pure curiosity, I asked my girlfriend her thoughts (as we had considered having one and actually thought, oddly, she'd rather do it with someone we both disliked than someone you would get feelings for)\\n\\nShe paused, narrowed her eyes, and said \\\"Only if I can hate fuck her with a strap on\\\". \\n\\nNo, we never went through with it, but my girlfriend wasn't making a joke. She said the idea actually was appealing to her.\",\n \"1012\"\n ],\n [\n \"That a girl I know randomly offer a threesome at dinner with me and my gf.\\n\\nA few weeks later we were all hanging out at her place, my gf was on the couch between us, and second girl and I started rubbing her legs, her back, etc.\\n\\nGirlfriend sighs, looks at both of us, and says \\\"I'm about to get jumped by both of you aren't I?\\\"\\n\\nAnd she did. And that night was great.\\n\\nThey year of fallout and toxic issues that stemmed from that encounter? Not so much.\",\n \"1012\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah. Poly can kind of suck. \\n\\nI've been in ONE poly relationship for a matter of weeks, and on the one hand, it was one of the happiest times of my life. On the other had, it's SO freaking complicated.\\n\\nI've multiple times ended up in what most people would call 'emotional cheating' situations. But I CANNOT help it! I've always been a firm believer in you cannot change your feelings (about anything), only your reaction to them.\\n\\nIf you stub your toe on a sofa, no one would say that immediate 'oh FUCKBALLS' initial feeling was wrong. \\n\\nI feel the same way about developing crushes easily. I haven't physically cheated, and never would, but I can't help the feelings sometimes. Fortunately current gf understands my mindset but as I don't think I'm ever going to be able to have a multi person relationship again, I just wish those feelings wouldn't come up.\",\n \"813\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm seeing a lot of support here, and I am sorry for you. I am only coming at this to play devil's advocate, not defend him exactly.\\n\\n5 years is a long time. For anything. I haven't ever cheated, but I have been in situations where things have been held against me for years, and honestly, the other side, where I have held things against someone for years. It's frustrating.\\n\\nThe mindset is (and I will say this is assuming honesty on his part) \\\"I've told you everything. I've done everything I can to prove myself to you. WHY can't you just let it go?\\\"\\n\\nI'm not saying you can, or should. Just that's the other mindset. He's probably started to have thoughts of 'why am I trying if it's going to be this way in 5 more years? Or 10? Or 20?\\\"\\n\\nI'm ONLY saying this to give you info on where he may be coming from, if your intention is to continue to work towards the marriage.\",\n \"901\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah. I was trying to describe to a friend who was curious (but not poly herself) about why they are so hard.\\n\\nTo me, it's simple basic math. In a 1 on 1 relationship, you have just that. ONE relationship.\\n\\nIn a 3 person poly (not even getting into more than that) you actually have FOUR relationships!\\n\\nPerson A and B. Person B and C. Person A and C. And then how all 3 of you connect.\\n\\nThat's 4 times the chances for hurt feelings, miscommunication, distrust, lack of being on the same page about things. Etc.\",\n \"813\"\n ],\n [\n \"I don't have this from cheating (exactly, long story) but I do have it from a horrible traumatic event from 2010. \\n\\nI didn't understand PTSD before then. But today, everything is different. I can get distracted. I get moments of happiness. But then I just remember what happened and I get CRUSHED. I know I will never have the mindset I want, or the life I want, because of that one event. And yeah, life isn't horribly terrible but I didn't used to just lay in bed at nights, trying to shut the mind off, trying to not think about the events of that day.\\n\\nI can say for 100% sure, not one day has gone by in almost 9 years I don't think about the event for 1-2 hours a day.\",\n \"147\"\n ],\n [\n \"I learned about death at age three when my grandfather died unexpectedly in his sleep one night in the house we were sharing with them at the time. \\n\\nDont recall word for word what was told to me but it is one of my earliest memories. Like most kids that age it's only flashes but I remember being in the house the morning of an lots of family activity and the fire dept coming.\\n\\nI remember my mom holding me over his open casket during the viewing. And I remember the funeral. (Oddly I remember that as part of the burial my cousin the same age and I were tasked with putting two scoops of dirt on the casket first. I remember us fighting over who got the red shovel and who got the blue one)\\n\\nI'm not sure I really understood 'death' but I did learn that at some point everyone's body just stops moving and they put you in the ground.\",\n \"630\"\n ],\n [\n \"Probably a VERY lengthy incarnation. To prompt suicide by cop you pretty much have to commit multiple felonies.\\n\\nI cannot ever see a DA or judge letting someone off, even if you could prove it was a suicide attempt and someone had no intention of hurting the cops, because that would set a standard other people actually intent on cop killing could use.\\n\\nThe ONLY way I could see it happening where someone got off would be if they verbally resisted, did something like scream \\\"I've got a gun!\\\" And reach into their pocket where a cop might open fire before visualizing the weapon (and the person did NOT actually have one)\\n\\nEven then I'm pretty sure cops and lawyers are going to come up with some way to charge that person.\",\n \"141\"\n ],\n [\n \"I watch a lot of shows with subtitles. It's not necessary but if it's a quiet movie or one with a lot of background noise I can get annoyed having to rewind and rewatch scenes.\\n\\nPlus I retain info better if I read than hear (this is pretty common) I find if i have subtitles on I remember character names. Otherwise sometimes I end a movie and couldnt tell you the character name of a single role.\",\n \"869\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's kind of the \\\"McDonalds\\\" of comedy. It kinda gets the job done. It's easy and convenient (for example while there are long story arcs you can usually slap on any random episode and still follow it). It doesn't require absolute attention, it's good background filler.\\n\\nSo lovers tend to find it easy and comfortable, haters recognize it's really not comedy gold and the characters are all kinda crappy people for one reason or another\",\n \"367\"\n ],\n [\n \"Sometimes it is purely psychological, and based on comparison. \\n\\nFor example say you get up at 6 and your spouse is still asleep. You wake up, get coffee, walk the dog, unload the dishwasher, respond to a few work emails, watch the news, get a two mile run in, start laundry. Then you're making breakfast when your spouse wakes up at 8am. \\n\\nNothing says you couldnt have done all those things after 8 (work/school schedule permitting) but you \\\"feel\\\" two hours ahead of your partner at this point. And this feeling tends to stick around even if they got the same amount done in their day, even if you go to bed two hours earlier.\",\n \"41\"\n ],\n [\n \"Technically we were never really designed to wake up the way we do. If you are not waking up naturally you are being jolted out of deeper sleep by an alarm most days. The natural instinct when that happens is to want to return to sleep (unless assisted by adrenaline. For example you're wide away at 3am if you wake up to your smoke alarm going off)\\n\\nSecond the alarm out of reach suggestion. Gives your brain a few extra seconds to wake up.\\n\\nAlso, despite LOVING to sleep in a cold room and get all cozy under blankets, it makes it much harder to not crawl back under covers. Up the temp in your room.\",\n \"41\"\n ],\n [\n \"Issue is while it may be illegal to fire you for this technically, if you live in an at will work area, they can fire you without cause.\\n\\nSo unless they are stupid enough to tell you on camera or in writing that you are fired for bringing up safety concerns, you will likely lose your job over this.\\n\\nA girl at a job I used to work at filed a sexual harassment claim because on of our cooks was bothering her (was making pretty offensive jokes, but harmless and not directed at her). Corporate investigated, cook was fired. A week later our manager fired the girl. Manager and I were close at work and be told me he fired her because he noticed that a lot of people were mad at her and people were now watching everything they said in what used to be a casual work environment. He didnt want other employees on edge or another employee to lose their job because this girl couldnt take a joke.\",\n \"402\"\n ],\n [\n \"Ex EMT here.\\n\\nRan a psych call on this polite and well behaved 13 year old girl. Call itself went okay but was reading her chart.\\n\\nAbout 3 years prior her mom killed her dad. No good reason (as in he wasnt beating or harming his family) and mom got life in prison. So the kids (this one and her younger sister) ended up in foster care. \\n\\nFor two foster homes they managed to keep the sisters together. Then due to resources a few month prior to me meeting her, they were split up.\\n\\nAt the girls latest foster home she was raped by an older foster brother.\\n\\nAfter the rape she broke into an airport. 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However pruning on smarter trousers and a blouse takes just as long as jeans and a t shirt so I feel like she could do that much occasionally. However makeup is annoying and I cba with it always so I get where she’s coming from there lol","179"],["Probably neater trousers and a shirt. However females can wear neater trousers and a blouse to dress up a bit so I mean he shouldn’t have a problem with her wearing something like that if what I’m guessing he wore is what he wore.\n\nEdit: a word. Smh it would’ve completely made my post make no sense lol.","179"],["NTA oh my god I see so many stories similar with twins. The parents should NEVER blatantly have a favourite child! It’s kinda disgusting and so horrible to the non favourite I mean you’re in the army ffs and they’re telling you to man up and being like “you’re not all that much of a *real* soldier” like wtf no dude that’s horrible. Ignore them, they need to really evaluate their actions before they see you again. Maybe don’t cut them off completely but stay away for a while it’ll probably do you a lot of good. Hope they see the faults in their actions soon. I’m so sorry you had to deal with that.","405"],["Dude the army treats people harshly to toughen them up and prepare them for some of the horrors, you should know that having worked in the army and being a vet, but your family isn’t there to make you get tougher they’re meant to have a far more caring attitude towards each other and even if small fights or nasty things are said they should ultimately realise their wrongs and apologise and make up. They shouldn’t constantly degrade and destroy someone’s self esteem their whole life. There’s tough love and treating someone like they’re not good enough/wanted. Family’s should **not** be the latter.\n\nEdit: a word","920"],["Maybe don’t cut contact forever but stage something like what op did and leave showing you have no intent to come back unless they can find ways to make amends. Maybe try and get them to see how hurtful they’ve been instead of completely just cutting them off. It might work out but until you can get out of there I wish you the best.","206"],["<PERSON>\n\n\nThey’re obviously trying to be like ‘haha ur probably gay, betcha feel gay, stupid, you’re not all that straight since I wasn’t a Male’\nThen you were like ‘ok but no lol since u were Male’\nThen they got sad. They’re just a dumbass and what the tried to pull completely bit them back in their own arse. 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They 100% the asshole and need to F off with that womanhood thing. If I say I’m a female then I’m a female and that’s all the female-ness I need to have. I don’t need to be into a single girly thing. Nothing is black and white and no female will love all girly things wether they’re born female or not. Hate when people do stuff like say “man up” instead of being supportive to men it’s just so rude and doesn’t help anyone.","181"],["“OmG thAt WaS SO HarD tO UndErStaNd! WhAT ClAn aRe TheY fRoM?”\n\n<PERSON> and when they come over to Scotland and Ireland looking for their clans and fucking get pissed when the pubs aren’t ‘Scottish/Irish enough’ lmfaoooo I both laugh so hard but also just facepalm","5"],["It really can’t. I can understand people who use Aussie slang and I’m not Australian, all of you act like we’re talking in Gaelic when it’s Doric and even then sometimes it’s not even Doric it’s just spelling things funny lmfao. Your only excuse is if the post uses heavy amounts of Gaelic since Gaelic is actually a different language.","625"],["I think the only one I really, *really* can’t stand is the “””step”””brother shit because like ew. A lot of the time it might as well be incest and I just can’t fuck with that it’s too distracting and grossed me out (like incest shit used to make me throw up in my mouth a bit sometimes bc wtf is that??! Why do they’ve have to be at all related?!)\n\nWell anyways I agree with the gross toxic shit being fun to read but never actually wanting that irl for myself","244"],["Firstly, why are you looking for something you’ll disagree with? What?\n\nSecondly, I didn’t say they/others can’t like or shouldn’t like incest(in fiction), just that I personally don’t like it.\n\nIsn’t it hypocritical to shit on me for sharing my opinion of what I like and dislike, while condemning me when I wasn’t actually doing what you thought I was? \n\nI also closed it off by saying I agree, it’s harmless to read it (which means that in reality, it doesn’t matter since it’s fiction) and as long as people don’t want that irl then it’s healthy.\n\nI think in future you should double check before you comment this stuff because you’re definitely just looking for an argument but you didn’t actually understand what I said.","837"],["Again that’s still not the same as “but you also can’t like this thing because I dislike it”\n\nJust as I’m allowed to say “I don’t like x” you can say you dislike the things I like which are trashy. I also didn’t say “idk how anyone can like it” I just said “I don’t like it”\n\nThis is literally just you continually misconstruing what I said and putting words in my mouth. You’re the one who’s acting simple since you can’t actually understand what I said. If you like incest, that’s up to you, and just because I hate it doesn’t mean that you’re suddenly not allowed to read it.\n\nMaybe don’t go looking for fights and being so hostile in the future. Especially if you’re not actually going to be able to present your opinion without giving up, it makes no sense. (Again I can’t understand why you would specifically be going to try and find something you disagree with, that doesn’t seem healthy).","730"],["I’ve seen someone do the same transition, but op at least isn’t using the same image as them, as the person I saw do this prior had at least one more block in there - gravel. They might’ve also had one more of the mossy/green transition blocks but I can’t remember it super clearly.\n\nAnyways yeah it’s been done before but I think op did at least make this specific image","484"],["Isn’t that the same in (SPOILER) > !the “who made me a princess” manhwa?! < where she was originally from the “otome game (or was it a book? Can’t remember.)” world, then went to “our world: Korea” then back to the fantasy world?\n\nEdit: oh an also > !the doctor girl one, <PERSON> the surgeon with the lamp, something like that?! < because I really like those two, so if it’s the same concept I’ll def check this out","547"],["Also since when were skinny jeans “out”?\n\nSkinny jeans will forever look better than bootcut and *especially* bell bottoms imo (and I’m overweight. I just hate how stumpy and extra fat wide cut jeans make me look. I look so much better in skinny cut jeans (although the super skinny ones obviously are too thin for me))\n\nAlthough obviously everyone has their own preferences, styles, and some people look great in non skinny jeans, it’s super rude to comment on something like that (seemingly) unprompted imo\n\nPoint is whatever they like and suits them is the best choice. I look bad in turtle necks so even if they’re “in” I won’t wear them because why would I do that to myself? Simple as that. Wear what suits you","179"],["I’m sure they’ll last! I can’t think of a time skinny jeans have been unacceptable to wear.\n\nI mean sure boot cut or flared jeans might become the more popular choice, but I feel like there’s never been a time I’ve not been able to go to the shops when I’ve needed trousers and find some skinnier cut jeans.","433"],["Probably one of those people who claim to be from a country but really they mean their great great <PERSON>’s dog was from there smh my head. 😕😕\n\nThere’s literally no other explanation as poopenfarten is real and the real German word and I would know because my Mum’s friend’s dog sitter is German and they said so them self. Fake Germans is a plague of this century 😔😭\n\nLiterally can’t believe there are still poopenfarten deniers in the 21st century","157"],["Ok but the person who said “Americans: If you come to America you gotta speak English. Also Americans: HAHA LET’S TALK SHIT ABOUT OTHER LANGUAGES” absolutely *enrages* me bc their logic is shit. Like yeah, if someone said “you must speak English” then surely that means that they think English is superior, so then it wouldn’t be a shock of they then made fun of other languages.\n\nAlso they’re not even making fun of other languages. Also also, who says any of them are American? Idk that comment just really bugs me cause there’s so many flaws in it (and I don’t even care about the stereotype of Americans being like “must speak English” since I’m not American and idk if they actually do that? Maybe? Not the point!)","930"],["Nah the the bus driver was covered in his own blood.\n\nWhat happened was the scooter guy was riding in the bus lane (sometimes cyclists do it too but a scooter doing that’s just as bad) and then the scooter guy in the green t shirt punched the bus driver in the face for “driving too close to him” when he was a bus driver... in a BUS lane. \n\nSo the bus driver tries to get the guy to stay so he can get a picture of him so he can file a police report I assume and then the guy doesn’t want his photo taken so he runs off onto a road then gets hit.","449"],["Ok so just to be clear the reason it’s a facepalm is that buzzfeed posted that article on April first so the article is a troll it’s intentionally dumb.\n\nSo then someone posted it to a subreddit that’s about disliking buzzfeed, their post got over 1 thousand upvotes *but* the buzzfeed article was *meant* to be stupid. So the one thousand people who upvoted the post fell for buzzfeed’s article since it was a joke.\n\n\n(Sorry If this comes off as condescending since I spelled it all out I just wanted to make sure that I was being clear)","272"],["I get where you’re coming from but maybe you could just explain to a guidance counsellor or idk but I’ve heard before that there’s someone who kinda knows about the students with special requirements and you could maybe mention that due to your disability you struggle with accents and request that you can get professors without accents. I get where you’re coming from because at the end of the day you’re not discriminating against them in a negative way just trying to make sure you can actually pass your classes.\n\nBtw I’m half African and I’ve not even once met someone who could just read my last name without mispronouncing it. However it is 11 letters long and super hard to figure out if you don’t speak a very specific language. My first name is also foreign, <PERSON>. I have no accent though, and I have a best friend who’s got two foreign parents and who was technically born in a different country but has no accent so do keep in mind it might just be better to specifically request professors with no accents and make it clear it’s because you genuinely can’t understand them. I don’t think you’re an ass because it’s not your fault and you’re just trying to get someone you can understand.","948"],["<PERSON>\n\n\nHe’s the dude that’s been fucking up all the public toilets lol.\n\nSeriously though how is it hard that if you drop toilet paper you pick it up, you don’t have to use it, but you just put it in the toilet and it gets flushed away?\n\nOr if you get something on the seat, you just gotta take some tp, and wipe around the seat after wetting it with some water.\n\nHe’s a fully grown adult, not a toddler, he needs to act like it.","670"],["Yeah and I don’t feel like you can really get offended at a lot of the posts since people come here to share their personal experiences and opinions of/from so many different subreddits that it’s hard for people to pander to the sub as a whole since a lot of people with different interests might be here.","837"],["No. They were not. They were darker skinned. Darker skinned does not equal black.\n\nAmazigh people can be very fair skinned naturally and have blue or green eyes which has been happening for over 400 years since European women were taken as slaves back to North Africa. However Amazigh people were also naturally not always very dark, but could be just brown or very tanned looking. Amazigh people can dark enough to be considered black, but a lot of them are paler (kind of like Middle Easterns, you can tell they’re not just a white person with a tan, but they can be light enough to have the same shade as a white person with a dark tan).\n\nAsian people were also never black. They were very dark skinned but the rick naturally became lighter skinned and that’s why a lot of Asian people even today strive to be pale skinned. The rich never had to work on the farm as the poor did so they became noticeably pale and then the poor wanted to look like that and that’s how it started (this was a long time ago). Now most Asian people don’t want to be pale to look rich it’s just became a part of their culture.\n\n\nAlso Amazigh is the term for Berber that most Amazigh people prefer... Berber was the name the Romans gave them just in case you didn’t know and were thinking “why are you going on about them?” \n\nAlso also I’m Moroccan so that’s why I know about this and I’m learning mandarin so I’ve studied up on Asian culture (but specifically Chinese) because I like to learn background when I learn a language since I think it’s interesting to know the background and sometimes it can even aid in you learning the language.","818"],["Please, for your own sake, seek help! There are a lot of sources and plenty of people who would love to hear about your feelings and help get you through your struggles.\n\n\nI can guarantee there are people in your life who love and care about you, even if you feel like they don’t. Like the post said, they’d rather hear your struggles than about your death or even attempted death.","168"],["I see what you mean. I think a lot of guys do look after themselves in some ways (shaving for example) but then maybe don’t cut their nails often etc. plus, some guys thing it’s “prissy” or whatever. However a lot of men will at least make themselves look presentable.\n\nStill though, wether a dude books his appointment or not as long as he *is* getting his hair done I don’t see much difference.","90"],["Yeah, I don’t think it’s prissy either and actually I think it’s important for people to teach guys to treat themselves with respect! Just some men seem to be very selective with their grooming.\n\nAlso usually the guys who put down their gfs really are slobs in their appearance! Ironic as hell.\n\nAnd yeah sometimes I cba shaving but then I always wear long sleeves or a jacket and full length trousers so it doesn’t really make a difference lol but I care so it does to myself.","90"],["Yeah if someone can’t afford to buy tons of books then they should at least be able to access them through a library! Jesus so what if they lose some sales? The people who get books from libraries might not be able to afford always spending money on books. Even if they *are* being truthful in that their sales went up, I bet if this policy continued and people were fully aware their profits would go back to how they were originally after a period.","215"],["Yeah anything fits here really. You had something bugging you and you posted it to get it off your chest! What you did was literally the whole point of this subreddit so don’t worry!\n\n\nAlso yeah I agree I think people should feign ignorance unless they’re specifically told in situations like that. It’s annoying and it feels invasive.\n\n\n\nEdit: well not “anything” but if something’s bugging someone then it fits here as far as I’m aware. As long as they don’t break the subreddit’s rules.","837"],["See they’re obviously more qualified than me, but I think “relatively normal” doesn’t necessarily mean “healthy”...\n\nI mean I can get that kinda response given the stress you’d face, but I would’ve thought they’d council you on ways to cope with and release that stress or built up emotions... that or they took “wanting to kill” not at face value which they probably shouldn’t be doing either","52"],["You’d be surprised. If you mention anything that someone evil/nasty did correct or well, people have a tendency to make extreme mental leaps and want to bicker for the point of bickering. \n\nIt’s annoying so I just wanted to clarify and not deal with some prick being like “omg how could you even say that!? You think the Nazis did a certain task well?!? OMG YOU JUST SAID YOU SUPPORT NAZIS?!?!? YOU SUPPORT GENOCIDE?!!?!?!?” I can almost hear the cogs turning in their head lmao","743"],["I like all but the anti-freeze bc her gender shouldn’t matter. If it were only female characters being used for that, it’d be extra bad, but I think that should be changed to “no person” since it’s generally a tactic which I think often indicates bad writing, no matter the gender of the victimised character, or the gender of the perp.\n\nUnless they worded it that way since it’s centred around women, but even then you can have some general rules for people sprinkled in imo.\n\nOverall I like these tests and they’re very good to check against a film. It’s strange that otome isekai which is often written by and for women don’t pass even half of these tests :(","1010"],["As a woman who prefers neutrals or grey/black and white, I envy men’s clothing.\n\nNo frills, no floral, no stupid lace, no random pleats, extra upper arm room, less super thin or curved edges. More subtle details. Less ridiculous buttons where they don’t need to be, etc.\n\nOnly downside is no nipped in waste or extra room for breasts. Basically the shape of the garments can be overly boxy so too baggy at the waist, too narrow at the hips and too narrow at the chest/bust but perfect apart from that","179"],["My point is that it actually is an issue for men and it stuck out to me as one which has nuances which applies to men, whereas many of the others are more issues with female characters hence why you have a bechdel test but there’s no male equivalent. It’s similar to a rule about having people of colour I’ve seen before, but there’s not a white equivalent.\n\nFor example with male characters I’ve seen gay male characters be used to make a homophobic character have “personal growth” (not be homophobic human trash) and usually when they hit a gay person, then have some internal dilemma or guilt or something about it, it’s a gay man who’s hit and is used as a device to make them grow and not a lesbian woman. That’s one example I’ve seen far too many times.","256"],["Exactly. It’s like they can’t comprehend that one of the scary things about people like Nazis who managed to commit so many atrocities is the fact that they were clever enough or good enough in some ways to gain the power to commit those vile acts. Yet somehow not smart enough to see how awful what they did was. Pointing that out doesn’t = supporting them in any way! If anything it’s a criticism in some ways.","743"],["I get it to an extent - as I mentioned men and women tend to have different body shapes so it’s better to have different shapes of clothes.\n\nApart from that though, it just annoys me. Plenty of men like wearing bright colours or even stuff like floral and look great in it! Plenty of women love darker, bolder colours and don’t suit frills and pale or bright colours (or suit it but don’t like it). There’s definitely a market for it, why not cater to that market?","179"],["Yeah but it’d probably be too hard to enforce, and the lazy pieces of shit who do this probably still wouldn’t care, as they definitely wouldn’t be the people who’d clean it, it’d probably be some nice person who wants to help or wants the path opened.\n\nIn a perfect world they could be caught on film doing it and held responsible directly, but that’s even more difficult to enforce!","695"],["You hit the nail on the head, if they were so incompetent it really does make their victims out to be idiots or incapable, which obviously is blatantly untrue. It can also discredit any resistance groups like “well if they were good enough they could’ve been more successful” ignoring how difficult that would be to try and fight, and making them seem less brave and more plain reckless or stupid. Definitely helps to fully understand how power can be abused in underhanded and manipulative ways and how that can snowball if left unchecked.","305"],["Well in that case, shouldn’t a spot be recognising as he’s stepping back that:\n\nHis form’s way off\n\nHe stepped too far back (which I think the spot told him to do?) from the safety rails\n\nHe’s shaking a bit and obviously already struggling to lift that weight.\n\nHence the spotter technically shouldn’t even need to support him in this case since he never should’ve been trying something this heavy","525"],["Well that was a bit of a mental leap there.\n\nMany of the people there I don’t personally like to watch, but there are a few people who are pretty interesting to watch. I’m not a fan or <PERSON> or <PERSON> though, which is kinda annoying since they frequently show up in other people’s streams.\n\nI’ll watch the occasional <PERSON> and <PERSON> though, they’re good imo (also <PERSON> and a few other people but they’re far more occasional). However you’d have to pay me to actively get involved in the fandoms lol","919"],["He also does this knowing he has a young and impressionable audience who act fucking crazy, harassing people who even say “I’m personally not a fan” without actually saying anything bad about him, nevermind when someone actually criticises him. They’ll believe what he says especially if he has “scientific/mathematical evidence/proof”\n\nI genuinely believe he was never trying to convince outsiders that he wasn’t guilty, he was just trying to do damage control on his crazed stans and protect his image in their eyes. \n\nHe also actively encourages the crazy stans, which has allowed a whole community of them to make porn of people like <PERSON> or <PERSON> who were underage (plus they’ve specifically said they’re disgusted by it or don’t like it, which should be enough for people to stop, regardless of their age). And allows his stans to feel vindicated and like they’re supported when attacking people. \n\nIdk, he’s human, he’s not completely a pos and has handled some situations ok, but he’s also done some very shady and disingenuous stuff so I can’t support that personally.","936"],["Damn ikr, especially after he deleted like 200 of his older videos.\n\nHis old style of humour has been fading recently (since mid 2020 I’d say) and just slowly seems to be more kid friendly based stuff? Idk if that sounds completely ridiculous considering the blood for the blood god stuff, but it feels less mature and more persona ish than in the past. I guess that makes sense since it’s an roleplaying smp, but I still miss some of his older more sarcastic humour and some of the times he would go on tangents about stuff in his life or stuff he’s learned about, they were interesting. Or even videos like doing impressive stuff (potato wars, hypixel championships, hunger games, sky wars, bed wars, etc.)\n\nOr hell, even when he played mc story mode and just mocked the shit out of it lol","936"],["Both basically hamper your learning (E: or ability to do standard education. Without extra support it’d be pretty impossible to get your full potential out of school) ability greatly.\n\nDyslexia - pretty obvious since it’s partly being unable to read easily, however there are other symptoms like short attention span, difficulty expressing yourself, disorganisation, poor memory.\n\nADHD - basically you have to spend hours more than peers to complete some of the same tasks, this effects your social and private life too since you spend a lot more time on homework. Lacking attention span, and finding it hard to store and follow through on multiple instructions at the same time like if the teacher says “read pages 1-4, then do questions s-y on page 5 of your work book, finally go to the Google classroom and complete the task we started yesterday” someone with ADHD can have issues with doing all of that without a list to help remind them the order and what to do. For example one of my friend’s teacher never put the homework on Google classroom with a reminder, so he could sometimes forget about homework or complete it incorrectly so he has issues there. I wasn’t in his class so I couldn’t help out sadly, and the teacher wasn’t being supportive.","91"],["Yeah he deleted 200+ vids. The background that triggered it is he made a tweet back in 2014 or 16, where he said “I didn’t know <PERSON> was a lesbian” (CONTEXT: there was a paper at the time of his tweet that discovered under Nazis, for some reason lesbians weren’t persecuted nearly as much as other minorities, to at all, hence the joke that <PERSON> was a lesbian) and some weird Kpop stan on Twitter who’d obviously been digging through his old tweets to bring up issues, decided to critique him on it and try to get him cancelled.\n\nIt didn’t really catch on, but regardless he deleted a lot of the old stuff since he used to make some edgier jokes.\n\n(The irony is that Techno has said he’d “die for lesbians” and openly supported lesbians specifically before)","337"],["It’ll be interesting in 20+ years time when people around my age are looking back on their youth. I wonder how many of them will regret spending such a significant part of it obsessing over every move of some strangers online, and having that become their personality. Whether it’s Kpop or minecraft stans. \n\nI’m genuinely curious if it’ll be viewed sort of like trekkies or extreme fans of other media, or if it’ll be viewed differently. Maybe it’ll be viewed like celebrity worship (like a lot of singers have, the 1D fandom seemed to act similarly to this fandom, well from an outsider’s perspective anyways lol)?","336"],["When youre one of the people who’s been enjoying the irony, and slowly you start thinking “wait. That doesn’t seem ironic... maybe I’m just missing the tone, it’s purely through text, after all” then proceeds to notice more and more dubiously ironic content, having more and more moments like “wait, that *is* ironic, right? Well the replies at least look like they are... so probably. Wait, but actually these 2 replies don’t seem so ironic... oh shit” and then you realise the unironic people have started going in there and have to jump ship real quick ‘cause you don’t want any part of that lol","339"],["I’m guessing there’s more context and they don’t want to escalate it? I mean no one seemed all that shocked, even the girl being assaulted, which struck me as pretty odd. Idk, seemed like a very weird situation overall, so I’m wondering if they’ve fought before or something.\n\nDoesn’t mean the friends shouldn’t still at least separate them, more just trying to figure out why there was an overall non reaction from them","186"],["He went through a tough time, I can’t remember what it was. Went on a religious journey bc of that, and went through a period where he legit would preach about Christianity. Creeped me the fuck out bc I’d not been on his channel in 4 years at that point and it was like he was a different person 😕\n\nE: oh yeah, and he started trend chasing. Abandoned mc when it fell in popularity (before he’d switched to a more kid friendly persona though) then hopped on fortnite *hard* then rejoined mc when it got big again. Plays among us too now. Basically went for a you kid audience based channel.","936"],["I wouldn’t, I don’t want them to get hurt. I’d much prefer their instinct is to deescalate the situation so that I don’t get hurt, they don’t get hurt, and they don’t get into any issues for defending me.\n\nOf course, if they started getting hit, I’d be fine with self defence!","955"],["Oh nah I was genuinely asking, it’s more that I know people can be prescribed drugs with dangerous side effects, stuff like morphine or ketamine can be used for example despite both being pretty addictive, but I was just thinking with antidepressants in particular, there’s a really wide range of them that don’t have as serious side effects, so I found it weird that they’d do that.\n\n(looking back, I think I interpreted it as that being the first antidepressant they tried with him, which may or may not be true, but with anti depressants it can take some trial and error to find the right ones which work on an individual basis. Generally in personal experience, if an anti depressant doesn’t show signs of working, or especially if it’s showing some of the more extreme side effects (for most drugs) they’ll try to get you onto an alternative ASAP)","398"],["Yeah that’s what I’m wondering, just from personal experience, even if it’s working, if you start showing some of the bad side effects then they usually take you off pretty quickly and start trying to find a new one that’ll work for you. Feels bad he went through losing his wife that way, then dealt with poor drug comparability on top of it","398"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"See, as a female, if I were to go on a date I personally wouldn’t mind occasionally putting on some makeup or a dress (although I’m working on getting my weight down before I start wearing skirts again but I would wear nicer smarter trousers or a blouse instead of a T-shirt) I feel like throwing in a blouse instead of a t shirt isn’t a difficult feat - but I also don’t feel like the gf is in the wrong here because she probably just feels that it’s not necessary to dress up for dates anymore. However pruning on smarter trousers and a blouse takes just as long as jeans and a t shirt so I feel like she could do that much occasionally. However makeup is annoying and I cba with it always so I get where she’s coming from there lol\",\n \"179\"\n ],\n [\n \"Probably neater trousers and a shirt. However females can wear neater trousers and a blouse to dress up a bit so I mean he shouldn’t have a problem with her wearing something like that if what I’m guessing he wore is what he wore.\\n\\nEdit: a word. Smh it would’ve completely made my post make no sense lol.\",\n \"179\"\n ],\n [\n \"NTA oh my god I see so many stories similar with twins. The parents should NEVER blatantly have a favourite child! It’s kinda disgusting and so horrible to the non favourite I mean you’re in the army ffs and they’re telling you to man up and being like “you’re not all that much of a *real* soldier” like wtf no dude that’s horrible. Ignore them, they need to really evaluate their actions before they see you again. Maybe don’t cut them off completely but stay away for a while it’ll probably do you a lot of good. Hope they see the faults in their actions soon. I’m so sorry you had to deal with that.\",\n \"405\"\n ],\n [\n \"Dude the army treats people harshly to toughen them up and prepare them for some of the horrors, you should know that having worked in the army and being a vet, but your family isn’t there to make you get tougher they’re meant to have a far more caring attitude towards each other and even if small fights or nasty things are said they should ultimately realise their wrongs and apologise and make up. They shouldn’t constantly degrade and destroy someone’s self esteem their whole life. There’s tough love and treating someone like they’re not good enough/wanted. Family’s should **not** be the latter.\\n\\nEdit: a word\",\n \"920\"\n ],\n [\n \"Maybe don’t cut contact forever but stage something like what op did and leave showing you have no intent to come back unless they can find ways to make amends. Maybe try and get them to see how hurtful they’ve been instead of completely just cutting them off. It might work out but until you can get out of there I wish you the best.\",\n \"206\"\n ],\n [\n \"<PERSON>\\n\\n\\nThey’re obviously trying to be like ‘haha ur probably gay, betcha feel gay, stupid, you’re not all that straight since I wasn’t a Male’\\nThen you were like ‘ok but no lol since u were Male’\\nThen they got sad. They’re just a dumbass and what the tried to pull completely bit them back in their own arse. Honestly they’re just stupid and got what was coming lol.\",\n \"339\"\n ],\n [\n \"I mean most trans people say ‘ I kinda always knew/was different (aka more like the gender they weren’t born as)’ so yeah but a lot also say they didn’t understand what the feelings meant until they were older (whereas some do kinda always know) so yeah I think most trans people agree with that statement... they kinda were always meant to be the other gender just don’t always know until one day it strikes.\\n\\nHowever yeh some people might think differently.\",\n \"390\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah no that’s bullshit they were obviously trying to do a ‘gotcha’ kinda thing and it backfired. They weren’t a female at the time, at least not physically and since they didn’t know what they were dealing with at the time thus not even thinking about transitioning yet, they were not female at the time. Just like they weren’t female when they were born. They were mentally, but physically no, and they didn’t know until far later from my perspective. They 100% the asshole and need to F off with that womanhood thing. If I say I’m a female then I’m a female and that’s all the female-ness I need to have. I don’t need to be into a single girly thing. Nothing is black and white and no female will love all girly things wether they’re born female or not. Hate when people do stuff like say “man up” instead of being supportive to men it’s just so rude and doesn’t help anyone.\",\n \"181\"\n ],\n [\n \"“OmG thAt WaS SO HarD tO UndErStaNd! WhAT ClAn aRe TheY fRoM?”\\n\\n<PERSON> and when they come over to Scotland and Ireland looking for their clans and fucking get pissed when the pubs aren’t ‘Scottish/Irish enough’ lmfaoooo I both laugh so hard but also just facepalm\",\n \"5\"\n ],\n [\n \"It really can’t. I can understand people who use Aussie slang and I’m not Australian, all of you act like we’re talking in Gaelic when it’s Doric and even then sometimes it’s not even Doric it’s just spelling things funny lmfao. Your only excuse is if the post uses heavy amounts of Gaelic since Gaelic is actually a different language.\",\n \"625\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think the only one I really, *really* can’t stand is the “””step”””brother shit because like ew. A lot of the time it might as well be incest and I just can’t fuck with that it’s too distracting and grossed me out (like incest shit used to make me throw up in my mouth a bit sometimes bc wtf is that??! Why do they’ve have to be at all related?!)\\n\\nWell anyways I agree with the gross toxic shit being fun to read but never actually wanting that irl for myself\",\n \"244\"\n ],\n [\n \"Firstly, why are you looking for something you’ll disagree with? What?\\n\\nSecondly, I didn’t say they/others can’t like or shouldn’t like incest(in fiction), just that I personally don’t like it.\\n\\nIsn’t it hypocritical to shit on me for sharing my opinion of what I like and dislike, while condemning me when I wasn’t actually doing what you thought I was? \\n\\nI also closed it off by saying I agree, it’s harmless to read it (which means that in reality, it doesn’t matter since it’s fiction) and as long as people don’t want that irl then it’s healthy.\\n\\nI think in future you should double check before you comment this stuff because you’re definitely just looking for an argument but you didn’t actually understand what I said.\",\n \"837\"\n ],\n [\n \"Again that’s still not the same as “but you also can’t like this thing because I dislike it”\\n\\nJust as I’m allowed to say “I don’t like x” you can say you dislike the things I like which are trashy. I also didn’t say “idk how anyone can like it” I just said “I don’t like it”\\n\\nThis is literally just you continually misconstruing what I said and putting words in my mouth. You’re the one who’s acting simple since you can’t actually understand what I said. If you like incest, that’s up to you, and just because I hate it doesn’t mean that you’re suddenly not allowed to read it.\\n\\nMaybe don’t go looking for fights and being so hostile in the future. Especially if you’re not actually going to be able to present your opinion without giving up, it makes no sense. (Again I can’t understand why you would specifically be going to try and find something you disagree with, that doesn’t seem healthy).\",\n \"730\"\n ],\n [\n \"I’ve seen someone do the same transition, but op at least isn’t using the same image as them, as the person I saw do this prior had at least one more block in there - gravel. They might’ve also had one more of the mossy/green transition blocks but I can’t remember it super clearly.\\n\\nAnyways yeah it’s been done before but I think op did at least make this specific image\",\n \"484\"\n ],\n [\n \"Isn’t that the same in (SPOILER) > !the “who made me a princess” manhwa?! < where she was originally from the “otome game (or was it a book? Can’t remember.)” world, then went to “our world: Korea” then back to the fantasy world?\\n\\nEdit: oh an also > !the doctor girl one, <PERSON> the surgeon with the lamp, something like that?! < because I really like those two, so if it’s the same concept I’ll def check this out\",\n \"547\"\n ],\n [\n \"Also since when were skinny jeans “out”?\\n\\nSkinny jeans will forever look better than bootcut and *especially* bell bottoms imo (and I’m overweight. I just hate how stumpy and extra fat wide cut jeans make me look. I look so much better in skinny cut jeans (although the super skinny ones obviously are too thin for me))\\n\\nAlthough obviously everyone has their own preferences, styles, and some people look great in non skinny jeans, it’s super rude to comment on something like that (seemingly) unprompted imo\\n\\nPoint is whatever they like and suits them is the best choice. I look bad in turtle necks so even if they’re “in” I won’t wear them because why would I do that to myself? Simple as that. Wear what suits you\",\n \"179\"\n ],\n [\n \"I’m sure they’ll last! I can’t think of a time skinny jeans have been unacceptable to wear.\\n\\nI mean sure boot cut or flared jeans might become the more popular choice, but I feel like there’s never been a time I’ve not been able to go to the shops when I’ve needed trousers and find some skinnier cut jeans.\",\n \"433\"\n ],\n [\n \"Probably one of those people who claim to be from a country but really they mean their great great <PERSON>’s dog was from there smh my head. 😕😕\\n\\nThere’s literally no other explanation as poopenfarten is real and the real German word and I would know because my Mum’s friend’s dog sitter is German and they said so them self. Fake Germans is a plague of this century 😔😭\\n\\nLiterally can’t believe there are still poopenfarten deniers in the 21st century\",\n \"157\"\n ],\n [\n \"Ok but the person who said “Americans: If you come to America you gotta speak English. Also Americans: HAHA LET’S TALK SHIT ABOUT OTHER LANGUAGES” absolutely *enrages* me bc their logic is shit. Like yeah, if someone said “you must speak English” then surely that means that they think English is superior, so then it wouldn’t be a shock of they then made fun of other languages.\\n\\nAlso they’re not even making fun of other languages. Also also, who says any of them are American? Idk that comment just really bugs me cause there’s so many flaws in it (and I don’t even care about the stereotype of Americans being like “must speak English” since I’m not American and idk if they actually do that? Maybe? Not the point!)\",\n \"930\"\n ],\n [\n \"Nah the the bus driver was covered in his own blood.\\n\\nWhat happened was the scooter guy was riding in the bus lane (sometimes cyclists do it too but a scooter doing that’s just as bad) and then the scooter guy in the green t shirt punched the bus driver in the face for “driving too close to him” when he was a bus driver... in a BUS lane. \\n\\nSo the bus driver tries to get the guy to stay so he can get a picture of him so he can file a police report I assume and then the guy doesn’t want his photo taken so he runs off onto a road then gets hit.\",\n \"449\"\n ],\n [\n \"Ok so just to be clear the reason it’s a facepalm is that buzzfeed posted that article on April first so the article is a troll it’s intentionally dumb.\\n\\nSo then someone posted it to a subreddit that’s about disliking buzzfeed, their post got over 1 thousand upvotes *but* the buzzfeed article was *meant* to be stupid. So the one thousand people who upvoted the post fell for buzzfeed’s article since it was a joke.\\n\\n\\n(Sorry If this comes off as condescending since I spelled it all out I just wanted to make sure that I was being clear)\",\n \"272\"\n ],\n [\n \"I get where you’re coming from but maybe you could just explain to a guidance counsellor or idk but I’ve heard before that there’s someone who kinda knows about the students with special requirements and you could maybe mention that due to your disability you struggle with accents and request that you can get professors without accents. I get where you’re coming from because at the end of the day you’re not discriminating against them in a negative way just trying to make sure you can actually pass your classes.\\n\\nBtw I’m half African and I’ve not even once met someone who could just read my last name without mispronouncing it. However it is 11 letters long and super hard to figure out if you don’t speak a very specific language. My first name is also foreign, <PERSON>. I have no accent though, and I have a best friend who’s got two foreign parents and who was technically born in a different country but has no accent so do keep in mind it might just be better to specifically request professors with no accents and make it clear it’s because you genuinely can’t understand them. I don’t think you’re an ass because it’s not your fault and you’re just trying to get someone you can understand.\",\n \"948\"\n ],\n [\n \"<PERSON>\\n\\n\\nHe’s the dude that’s been fucking up all the public toilets lol.\\n\\nSeriously though how is it hard that if you drop toilet paper you pick it up, you don’t have to use it, but you just put it in the toilet and it gets flushed away?\\n\\nOr if you get something on the seat, you just gotta take some tp, and wipe around the seat after wetting it with some water.\\n\\nHe’s a fully grown adult, not a toddler, he needs to act like it.\",\n \"670\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah and I don’t feel like you can really get offended at a lot of the posts since people come here to share their personal experiences and opinions of/from so many different subreddits that it’s hard for people to pander to the sub as a whole since a lot of people with different interests might be here.\",\n \"837\"\n ],\n [\n \"No. They were not. They were darker skinned. Darker skinned does not equal black.\\n\\nAmazigh people can be very fair skinned naturally and have blue or green eyes which has been happening for over 400 years since European women were taken as slaves back to North Africa. However Amazigh people were also naturally not always very dark, but could be just brown or very tanned looking. Amazigh people can dark enough to be considered black, but a lot of them are paler (kind of like Middle Easterns, you can tell they’re not just a white person with a tan, but they can be light enough to have the same shade as a white person with a dark tan).\\n\\nAsian people were also never black. They were very dark skinned but the rick naturally became lighter skinned and that’s why a lot of Asian people even today strive to be pale skinned. The rich never had to work on the farm as the poor did so they became noticeably pale and then the poor wanted to look like that and that’s how it started (this was a long time ago). Now most Asian people don’t want to be pale to look rich it’s just became a part of their culture.\\n\\n\\nAlso Amazigh is the term for Berber that most Amazigh people prefer... Berber was the name the Romans gave them just in case you didn’t know and were thinking “why are you going on about them?” \\n\\nAlso also I’m Moroccan so that’s why I know about this and I’m learning mandarin so I’ve studied up on Asian culture (but specifically Chinese) because I like to learn background when I learn a language since I think it’s interesting to know the background and sometimes it can even aid in you learning the language.\",\n \"818\"\n ],\n [\n \"Please, for your own sake, seek help! There are a lot of sources and plenty of people who would love to hear about your feelings and help get you through your struggles.\\n\\n\\nI can guarantee there are people in your life who love and care about you, even if you feel like they don’t. Like the post said, they’d rather hear your struggles than about your death or even attempted death.\",\n \"168\"\n ],\n [\n \"I see what you mean. I think a lot of guys do look after themselves in some ways (shaving for example) but then maybe don’t cut their nails often etc. plus, some guys thing it’s “prissy” or whatever. However a lot of men will at least make themselves look presentable.\\n\\nStill though, wether a dude books his appointment or not as long as he *is* getting his hair done I don’t see much difference.\",\n \"90\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, I don’t think it’s prissy either and actually I think it’s important for people to teach guys to treat themselves with respect! Just some men seem to be very selective with their grooming.\\n\\nAlso usually the guys who put down their gfs really are slobs in their appearance! Ironic as hell.\\n\\nAnd yeah sometimes I cba shaving but then I always wear long sleeves or a jacket and full length trousers so it doesn’t really make a difference lol but I care so it does to myself.\",\n \"90\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah if someone can’t afford to buy tons of books then they should at least be able to access them through a library! Jesus so what if they lose some sales? The people who get books from libraries might not be able to afford always spending money on books. Even if they *are* being truthful in that their sales went up, I bet if this policy continued and people were fully aware their profits would go back to how they were originally after a period.\",\n \"215\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah anything fits here really. You had something bugging you and you posted it to get it off your chest! What you did was literally the whole point of this subreddit so don’t worry!\\n\\n\\nAlso yeah I agree I think people should feign ignorance unless they’re specifically told in situations like that. It’s annoying and it feels invasive.\\n\\n\\n\\nEdit: well not “anything” but if something’s bugging someone then it fits here as far as I’m aware. As long as they don’t break the subreddit’s rules.\",\n \"837\"\n ],\n [\n \"See they’re obviously more qualified than me, but I think “relatively normal” doesn’t necessarily mean “healthy”...\\n\\nI mean I can get that kinda response given the stress you’d face, but I would’ve thought they’d council you on ways to cope with and release that stress or built up emotions... that or they took “wanting to kill” not at face value which they probably shouldn’t be doing either\",\n \"52\"\n ],\n [\n \"You’d be surprised. If you mention anything that someone evil/nasty did correct or well, people have a tendency to make extreme mental leaps and want to bicker for the point of bickering. \\n\\nIt’s annoying so I just wanted to clarify and not deal with some prick being like “omg how could you even say that!? You think the Nazis did a certain task well?!? OMG YOU JUST SAID YOU SUPPORT NAZIS?!?!? YOU SUPPORT GENOCIDE?!!?!?!?” I can almost hear the cogs turning in their head lmao\",\n \"743\"\n ],\n [\n \"I like all but the anti-freeze bc her gender shouldn’t matter. If it were only female characters being used for that, it’d be extra bad, but I think that should be changed to “no person” since it’s generally a tactic which I think often indicates bad writing, no matter the gender of the victimised character, or the gender of the perp.\\n\\nUnless they worded it that way since it’s centred around women, but even then you can have some general rules for people sprinkled in imo.\\n\\nOverall I like these tests and they’re very good to check against a film. It’s strange that otome isekai which is often written by and for women don’t pass even half of these tests :(\",\n \"1010\"\n ],\n [\n \"As a woman who prefers neutrals or grey/black and white, I envy men’s clothing.\\n\\nNo frills, no floral, no stupid lace, no random pleats, extra upper arm room, less super thin or curved edges. More subtle details. Less ridiculous buttons where they don’t need to be, etc.\\n\\nOnly downside is no nipped in waste or extra room for breasts. Basically the shape of the garments can be overly boxy so too baggy at the waist, too narrow at the hips and too narrow at the chest/bust but perfect apart from that\",\n \"179\"\n ],\n [\n \"My point is that it actually is an issue for men and it stuck out to me as one which has nuances which applies to men, whereas many of the others are more issues with female characters hence why you have a bechdel test but there’s no male equivalent. It’s similar to a rule about having people of colour I’ve seen before, but there’s not a white equivalent.\\n\\nFor example with male characters I’ve seen gay male characters be used to make a homophobic character have “personal growth” (not be homophobic human trash) and usually when they hit a gay person, then have some internal dilemma or guilt or something about it, it’s a gay man who’s hit and is used as a device to make them grow and not a lesbian woman. That’s one example I’ve seen far too many times.\",\n \"256\"\n ],\n [\n \"Exactly. It’s like they can’t comprehend that one of the scary things about people like Nazis who managed to commit so many atrocities is the fact that they were clever enough or good enough in some ways to gain the power to commit those vile acts. Yet somehow not smart enough to see how awful what they did was. Pointing that out doesn’t = supporting them in any way! If anything it’s a criticism in some ways.\",\n \"743\"\n ],\n [\n \"I get it to an extent - as I mentioned men and women tend to have different body shapes so it’s better to have different shapes of clothes.\\n\\nApart from that though, it just annoys me. Plenty of men like wearing bright colours or even stuff like floral and look great in it! Plenty of women love darker, bolder colours and don’t suit frills and pale or bright colours (or suit it but don’t like it). There’s definitely a market for it, why not cater to that market?\",\n \"179\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah but it’d probably be too hard to enforce, and the lazy pieces of shit who do this probably still wouldn’t care, as they definitely wouldn’t be the people who’d clean it, it’d probably be some nice person who wants to help or wants the path opened.\\n\\nIn a perfect world they could be caught on film doing it and held responsible directly, but that’s even more difficult to enforce!\",\n \"695\"\n ],\n [\n \"You hit the nail on the head, if they were so incompetent it really does make their victims out to be idiots or incapable, which obviously is blatantly untrue. It can also discredit any resistance groups like “well if they were good enough they could’ve been more successful” ignoring how difficult that would be to try and fight, and making them seem less brave and more plain reckless or stupid. Definitely helps to fully understand how power can be abused in underhanded and manipulative ways and how that can snowball if left unchecked.\",\n \"305\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well in that case, shouldn’t a spot be recognising as he’s stepping back that:\\n\\nHis form’s way off\\n\\nHe stepped too far back (which I think the spot told him to do?) from the safety rails\\n\\nHe’s shaking a bit and obviously already struggling to lift that weight.\\n\\nHence the spotter technically shouldn’t even need to support him in this case since he never should’ve been trying something this heavy\",\n \"525\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well that was a bit of a mental leap there.\\n\\nMany of the people there I don’t personally like to watch, but there are a few people who are pretty interesting to watch. I’m not a fan or <PERSON> or <PERSON> though, which is kinda annoying since they frequently show up in other people’s streams.\\n\\nI’ll watch the occasional <PERSON> and <PERSON> though, they’re good imo (also <PERSON> and a few other people but they’re far more occasional). However you’d have to pay me to actively get involved in the fandoms lol\",\n \"919\"\n ],\n [\n \"He also does this knowing he has a young and impressionable audience who act fucking crazy, harassing people who even say “I’m personally not a fan” without actually saying anything bad about him, nevermind when someone actually criticises him. They’ll believe what he says especially if he has “scientific/mathematical evidence/proof”\\n\\nI genuinely believe he was never trying to convince outsiders that he wasn’t guilty, he was just trying to do damage control on his crazed stans and protect his image in their eyes. \\n\\nHe also actively encourages the crazy stans, which has allowed a whole community of them to make porn of people like <PERSON> or <PERSON> who were underage (plus they’ve specifically said they’re disgusted by it or don’t like it, which should be enough for people to stop, regardless of their age). And allows his stans to feel vindicated and like they’re supported when attacking people. \\n\\nIdk, he’s human, he’s not completely a pos and has handled some situations ok, but he’s also done some very shady and disingenuous stuff so I can’t support that personally.\",\n \"936\"\n ],\n [\n \"Damn ikr, especially after he deleted like 200 of his older videos.\\n\\nHis old style of humour has been fading recently (since mid 2020 I’d say) and just slowly seems to be more kid friendly based stuff? Idk if that sounds completely ridiculous considering the blood for the blood god stuff, but it feels less mature and more persona ish than in the past. I guess that makes sense since it’s an roleplaying smp, but I still miss some of his older more sarcastic humour and some of the times he would go on tangents about stuff in his life or stuff he’s learned about, they were interesting. Or even videos like doing impressive stuff (potato wars, hypixel championships, hunger games, sky wars, bed wars, etc.)\\n\\nOr hell, even when he played mc story mode and just mocked the shit out of it lol\",\n \"936\"\n ],\n [\n \"Both basically hamper your learning (E: or ability to do standard education. Without extra support it’d be pretty impossible to get your full potential out of school) ability greatly.\\n\\nDyslexia - pretty obvious since it’s partly being unable to read easily, however there are other symptoms like short attention span, difficulty expressing yourself, disorganisation, poor memory.\\n\\nADHD - basically you have to spend hours more than peers to complete some of the same tasks, this effects your social and private life too since you spend a lot more time on homework. Lacking attention span, and finding it hard to store and follow through on multiple instructions at the same time like if the teacher says “read pages 1-4, then do questions s-y on page 5 of your work book, finally go to the Google classroom and complete the task we started yesterday” someone with ADHD can have issues with doing all of that without a list to help remind them the order and what to do. For example one of my friend’s teacher never put the homework on Google classroom with a reminder, so he could sometimes forget about homework or complete it incorrectly so he has issues there. I wasn’t in his class so I couldn’t help out sadly, and the teacher wasn’t being supportive.\",\n \"91\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah he deleted 200+ vids. The background that triggered it is he made a tweet back in 2014 or 16, where he said “I didn’t know <PERSON> was a lesbian” (CONTEXT: there was a paper at the time of his tweet that discovered under Nazis, for some reason lesbians weren’t persecuted nearly as much as other minorities, to at all, hence the joke that <PERSON> was a lesbian) and some weird Kpop stan on Twitter who’d obviously been digging through his old tweets to bring up issues, decided to critique him on it and try to get him cancelled.\\n\\nIt didn’t really catch on, but regardless he deleted a lot of the old stuff since he used to make some edgier jokes.\\n\\n(The irony is that Techno has said he’d “die for lesbians” and openly supported lesbians specifically before)\",\n \"337\"\n ],\n [\n \"It’ll be interesting in 20+ years time when people around my age are looking back on their youth. I wonder how many of them will regret spending such a significant part of it obsessing over every move of some strangers online, and having that become their personality. Whether it’s Kpop or minecraft stans. \\n\\nI’m genuinely curious if it’ll be viewed sort of like trekkies or extreme fans of other media, or if it’ll be viewed differently. Maybe it’ll be viewed like celebrity worship (like a lot of singers have, the 1D fandom seemed to act similarly to this fandom, well from an outsider’s perspective anyways lol)?\",\n \"336\"\n ],\n [\n \"When youre one of the people who’s been enjoying the irony, and slowly you start thinking “wait. That doesn’t seem ironic... maybe I’m just missing the tone, it’s purely through text, after all” then proceeds to notice more and more dubiously ironic content, having more and more moments like “wait, that *is* ironic, right? Well the replies at least look like they are... so probably. Wait, but actually these 2 replies don’t seem so ironic... oh shit” and then you realise the unironic people have started going in there and have to jump ship real quick ‘cause you don’t want any part of that lol\",\n \"339\"\n ],\n [\n \"I’m guessing there’s more context and they don’t want to escalate it? I mean no one seemed all that shocked, even the girl being assaulted, which struck me as pretty odd. Idk, seemed like a very weird situation overall, so I’m wondering if they’ve fought before or something.\\n\\nDoesn’t mean the friends shouldn’t still at least separate them, more just trying to figure out why there was an overall non reaction from them\",\n \"186\"\n ],\n [\n \"He went through a tough time, I can’t remember what it was. Went on a religious journey bc of that, and went through a period where he legit would preach about Christianity. Creeped me the fuck out bc I’d not been on his channel in 4 years at that point and it was like he was a different person 😕\\n\\nE: oh yeah, and he started trend chasing. Abandoned mc when it fell in popularity (before he’d switched to a more kid friendly persona though) then hopped on fortnite *hard* then rejoined mc when it got big again. Plays among us too now. Basically went for a you kid audience based channel.\",\n \"936\"\n ],\n [\n \"I wouldn’t, I don’t want them to get hurt. I’d much prefer their instinct is to deescalate the situation so that I don’t get hurt, they don’t get hurt, and they don’t get into any issues for defending me.\\n\\nOf course, if they started getting hit, I’d be fine with self defence!\",\n \"955\"\n ],\n [\n \"Oh nah I was genuinely asking, it’s more that I know people can be prescribed drugs with dangerous side effects, stuff like morphine or ketamine can be used for example despite both being pretty addictive, but I was just thinking with antidepressants in particular, there’s a really wide range of them that don’t have as serious side effects, so I found it weird that they’d do that.\\n\\n(looking back, I think I interpreted it as that being the first antidepressant they tried with him, which may or may not be true, but with anti depressants it can take some trial and error to find the right ones which work on an individual basis. Generally in personal experience, if an anti depressant doesn’t show signs of working, or especially if it’s showing some of the more extreme side effects (for most drugs) they’ll try to get you onto an alternative ASAP)\",\n \"398\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah that’s what I’m wondering, just from personal experience, even if it’s working, if you start showing some of the bad side effects then they usually take you off pretty quickly and start trying to find a new one that’ll work for you. Feels bad he went through losing his wife that way, then dealt with poor drug comparability on top of it\",\n \"398\"\n ]\n]","isConversational":false},"cluster":{"kind":"number","value":359,"string":"359"},"retrieval_idx":{"kind":"list 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That is a problem (that I'd love to think a solution to). \n\nI'm not sure how this is one-sided data collection. This is just collecting data on what they want to measure: incidents of silencing or shaming or the like in response to good faith. What's the \"other side\" of that one side supposed to be, all the incidents when people just have regular productive conversations? The point is that that's supposed to be the default, and the opposite is supposed to not happen.\n\nIt's not one-sided to collect incidents of sexual harassment when trying to get a sense of if sexual harassment is a major problem in whatever environment you're concerned about. \n\nNow, I could see a stronger argument one could make, that, if one wants to determine if there's a sexual harassment crisis, one should also get a count of all non-sexual-harassment incidents, so that we can get both the denominator and the numerator and thus get a true rate of the bad incidents, rather than just taking a raw count of all incidents, which lacks context. For instance, using some made-up fantasy numbers, if there are 1,000 sexual harassment incidents in a month, that might sound really large and scary, but if the context is among 7 billion people making quadrillions of non-sexual-harassment interactions with each other in the same time frame, then it's hardly anything to be concerned about.\n\nWhich is a fair point; this collection wouldn't give us a great sense of how many non-silencing/shaming/whatever in response to good faith incidents happen, and it's not clear how we would measure that.\n\nBut then we can get into the context of the academy, which is an institution that's specifically designed for not having silencing/shaming/whatever in response to good faith, and thus any count that's not infinitesimally close to zero is highly troubling. Furthermore, we do at least have a count of (very roughly) ~5,000 colleges in the USA and ~20MM students, which presents a maximum upper bound for the population. \n\nSo if we were to count up just the sexual harassment incidents in battered women's shelters, that would be pretty concerning if the count wasn't near zero, and we'd also have the count of ~1,500 such shelters in the USA to provide an upper bound for the population, even without collecting data on how many non-sexual-harassment interactions happen in such settings.","185"],["Do all of the buffs in <PERSON>'s NP count as just 1 for the purposes of nullification? That's really nasty. Does that include the heal-over-time, too?\n\nAnd it seems that <PERSON> uses her skills after dropping below 50% health then below 25% health; any idea if the nullify buff skills stack, so that, for instance, if you drop her from 51% to 24% in one shot, and she uses the skill twice in one turn, then your next 2 buffs will be nullified?","991"],["Each fills a different role.\n\n<PERSON> is good for her debuff & heal skills. However, her 3rd skill isn't available yet..\n\n<PERSON> and <PERSON> has a very *very* powerful single-target Noble Phantasm, and is pretty good at creating & using stars. However, using them optimally is a high-risk-high-reward endeavor, and they're generally one-and-done.\n\n<PERSON> is very good at survival with her triple-invul skill and her NP providing healing.\n\nSo choose 1 based on what you need now, and work on the others later. Note that having at least 1 AOE Rider is useful for farming Doors. And also that <PERSON> Mary has a very high ceiling as a damage dealer among any servant due to their NP.","456"],["One thing that stood out to me was how much the writer of the piece seems to rely on a shared article of faith with her readers. Much like how, say, if <PERSON> were writing for his audience, he wouldn't bother arguing that the bible is inerrant, he would just assume that the readers believed it too.\n\nFor instance, the exchange in one part you quoted:\n\n > “Half the men fail,” he says, meaning that they don’t procreate. “And no one cares about the men who fail.”\n > \n > I laugh, because it is absurd.\n\nIf the conversation went any further than <PERSON>'s \"disappointed\" response, she doesn't say it, and she doesn't bother explaining to the readers why <PERSON>'s statement was absurd. It may be incorrect, or it may be correct, but to claim that it's absurd without explanation, expecting the reader to buy it, is a statement of faith, like, say, the claim that <PERSON> built an ark to carry a bunch of animals during a 40-day worldwide flood.\n\nMore generally, looking at the title of the piece \"Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy\" and lots of parts of the piece such as this one: \n\n > The left, he believes, refuses to admit that men might be in charge because they are better at it. “The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence,” he said.\n\nthe core article of faith that's being invoked seems to be the patriarchy narrative. The 1st sentence of that paragraph, \"The left, he believes, refuses to admit that men might be in charge because they are better at it\" only makes sense as an interpretation of his quote \"The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence\" if you interpret his words through that faith. That is, <PERSON> clearly doesn't buy into that faith, and when he refers to the \"current hierarchy,\" he's not referring to the patriarchy narrative that \"men [are] in charge\" of the world, since he doesn't see things in terms of demographic groups, but rather of individuals.\n\nThis stuff probably struck me in particular because this sort of faith is what I was spoonfed all throughout my childhood, and I'm now a little more aware of things that had caused my cognitive faculties to shut down in order to protect against the cognitive dissonance.","520"],["I've read at least 1 report of someone saying that they saw their Cu's <PERSON> successfully do an instant kill on <PERSON>.\n\nJust keep in mind that all enemy servants have insanely high death resist, such that, by most estimates, the odds of getting an instant kill under the *best possible conditions* is still well under 1%.","345"],["> The problem is modern feminism's intellectual underpinnings are hostile to utilitarianism.\n\nI don't think it's this that's such a big problem as just honesty. *If* it is the case that modern feminism \"succeeding\" will mean 50% of men and some minority of women becoming absolutely miserable (as a feminist, I don't actually buy this, but *if*), then the line shouldn't be that feminism is beneficial for both men and women or that anyone who has basic human decency/empathy should be on our side. It should be, Fuck those 25% that we're gonna steamroll; I'm in the other 75% as is everyone I care about, so I just don't give a shit about the suffering of that 25%.","278"],["The piece is just chock full of selective quoting and connecting various lines from him with the author's own constructed summaries which are dripping with her personal interpretation, so I wouldn't be surprised if selective quoting were involved here.\n\nHowever, I doubt that NYTimes would publish outright fabricated quotes (sure, people like <PERSON> exist, but they're exceedingly rare), so I would guess that whatever is in quotation marks are accurate transcriptions of what <PERSON> actually said verbatim.\n\nI think it'd be interesting to watch or even just listen to the entire conversation between <PERSON> and the author uncut, from which the various quotes in this piece were taken and then stitched together with her summaries. I'm guessing such footage doesn't exist, which is a shame.","622"],["> I mean, sure, the interviewer takes it for granted most of her readers don’t believe women are genetically inferior to men and all the unearned privilege our society bestows on men is in fact deserved because its “predicated on competence”. \n\nFirst of all, the notion of women being genetically inferior to men is neither here nor there, because that's not even a faith, or a claim about reality - there's no actual true definition of \"inferior\" as it comes to genetics, at least in the general sense. At best, you can make a claim about inferiority *with respect to certain goals* - e.g. men are genetically inferior to women *when it comes to giving birth to a human child*, I am genetically inferior to <PERSON> *when it comes to playing basketball*, etc. \n\nThere's nothing in the piece that really touches on the concept of women being genetically inferior to men - in general or in specific avenues - so this just seems to be a non sequitur. \n\nThe 2nd part:\n\n > the interviewer takes it for granted most of her readers don’t believe... all the unearned privilege our society bestows on men is in fact deserved because its “predicated on competence”. \n\nis a bit more substantive. Now, taken literally, the statement is actually a tautology, because anything that's *unearned* privilege is, by definition, undeserved. And like any tautology, it's completely vapid and devoid of meaning. \n\nBut to engage with what I believe is actually meant, it's that her readers believe that society bestows upon men unearned privilege over women, and that this unearned privilege is what is generally referred to when people use phrases like \"male privilege.\" \n\nThis is a nontrivial empirical claim about reality, and it needs to be supported by actual science. The trouble is, that science isn't there. Which is why it's an article of faith. Now, as someone who was indoctrinated to this faith from a young age, it wouldn't surprise me if it's a safe assumption that much of her readership buys into this article of faith, but that doesn't make it any less an article of faith.","177"],["I wouldn't be surprised if that's what he said on the topic, but I would be quite shocked if that's *all* he said on the topic during the conversation. \n\nThen again, conversation is a multi-party activity. It's possible that that's all he got a chance to say due to however she reacted. If you're curious to hear how he talks when basically given free reign, I think the Joe Rogan Experience appearances are good, because <PERSON> is generally so good at letting his conversation partner talk as much as they want without interruption.","622"],["The 20% bonus from class matching is significant enough that you should try to match class whenever possible. But you should try to go all-in on a single servant for any given class. This is because it's far better to have 1 servant at level 80 than it is to have several servants at level 60. Most difficult fights are going to have you rely on just 1 hard hitting damage dealer being supported by others, so making that damage dealer as strong as possible is higher priority. \n\nI'd recommend prioritizing getting Herc to level 80 over anyone else - like all Berserkers, he does have problems staying alive, but he negates that weakness better than any other Berserker not named <PERSON>, and he hits hard against everyone thanks to his class and stat.","163"],["My guess was either the notion that half the men would fail without enforced monogamy to be absurd, or that no one would care about that half to be absurd. Those are empirical claims about reality which require support that she doesn't provide. \n\nThere's also the possibility that she's referring to stuff from before, Ie that enforced monogamy is a viable solution to such a problem. That could just be an issue of values rather than one of empirical reality, but without her actually going into the explanation for why it's absurd, it turns into a bald article of faith that such a solution is absurd.\n\nLooking at it again now, I also see the possibility that she sees as absurd notion that not procreating is \"failing,\" but that seems the biggest stretch for me, as that would then make <PERSON>'s disappointment at her lack of empathy justified, and this was clearly not written to give the reader such an impression.","797"],["> OP said two things, I made a response that encompassed both of them, as far as I can tell you're saying 'but why did you respond to the second one when they said the first one also?' If that objection doesn't make sense to you then maybe I'm not understanding your point.\n\nBut you *didn't* make a response that encompassed both of them, because you took those 2 things the OP said (i.e. 1. \"race is fuzzy\" and 2. \"it will be difficult to decide who actually gets to stay\") and treated the latter as separate from the former, when it's obvious from the OP that the latter is only within the context of the former.\n\nThere are many issues relating to how \"it will be difficult to decide who actually gets to stay\" for any sort of white nationalists' utopia to become reality, and the fuzziness of race is one of them. This doesn't mean that bringing up any issues relating to how \"it will be difficult to decide who actually gets to stay\" is actually a response to the OP. If you started talking about the logistical issues of relocating millions of people, that too would be \"responding\" to the issue of \"it will be difficult to decide who actually gets to stay,\" but it would have basically *nothing* to do with what the OP was talking about.\n\nLikewise, the potential dishonesty of white nationalists - i.e. they don't really believe in/care about the categories they are currently pushing, and will change them when it suits their preference - is another issue when it comes to \"it will be difficult to decide who actually gets to stay.\" This has marginally more to do with \"race is fuzzy\" than the above made-up example of relocation logistics, since such dishonesty is more easily enabled by the fuzziness of races, but ultimately the core of that issue is the dishonesty, which would remain an issue regardless of the fuzziness of race. That is, the fuzziness of race is superfluous to the argument that white nationalists don't really believe in/care about the categories they are currently pushing, and will change them when it suits their preference, and so you're not actually responding to the question about the apparent double standard of how the \"race is fuzzy\" criticism is applied. \n\nEspecially since your choice of Asians as one of your examples makes it clear that the core issue you're raising really is the dishonesty, entirely separate from the \"race is fuzzy\" point. \"Race is fuzzy\" making Asians and whites identified as the same race isn't a thing. <PERSON> won't somehow be identified as the same race as <PERSON> - rather, \"race is fuzzy\" is that <PERSON> will be identified as the same race as <PERSON> sometimes and as <PERSON> other times. Or that <PERSON> will be identified as the same race as <PERSON> sometimes and as <PERSON> other times.","255"],["> If it is to \"promote the general welfare,\" then perhaps AA is a reasonable policy. Eg, high levels of \"horizontal inequality\" - ie, economic inequality between groups - is associated with civil strife _URL_0_. \n\nPerhaps it is, perhaps it isn't. What's the rigorous data on whether or not AA reduces economic inequality? A priori, there seems to be little reason to believe that it would, and so *some* rigorous data showing empirically that AA has a positive influence on the \"promotion of the general welfare\" seems like the bare minimum bar we should want to meet. I've seen a ton of indications that AA has a negative influence on that: it's all anecdotal, no data, rigorous or otherwise, but that's still infinitely more indication than I've seen that AA has a positive influence on that.","954"],["I use 4-star Nero with damage CE, Spartacus, and Waver. Take 3 (sometimes 4, very rarely 2) turns in round 1 building NP. Use Spartacus NP in round 2, with face cards from Nero to take down the horse. Use Nero NP, which usually leaves <PERSON> with a few thousand HP, which Spartacus or Nero can face card. Usually 5 turns, sometimes 6, very rarely 4. \n\nAny AOE Saber should be able to substitute for Nero. Spartacus in particular is really useful here, though, because of his 30% NP charge. \n\nIf you use starting NP CEs like Golden Sumo or Kaleidoscope along with the plugsuit you might be able to make it quicker by using an NP to wipe the 1st wave and having <PERSON> and <PERSON> get their NPs up through a combination of Waver and starting NP CE. But I prefer to put more drop CEs on.","122"],["> My understanding is that the Harvard case alleges intentional discrimination against Asian applicants (eg, giving them low scores on personality, etc) as opposed to the case being a challenge to affirmative action per se. \n\nThe intentional discrimination against Asian applicants *is* the affirmative action that's being challenged. That's the exact mechanism by which affirmative action works in this case. Affirmative action isn't a single rigorously defined program of discrimination, it's a general cluster of discriminatory policies which includes this specific one taken on by Harvard to discriminate against Asian applicants.\n\n > More broadly, I am not familiar with the exact numbers re Harvard, but the general claim I hear is that Asians need an SAT score of X to get into elite schools, while non-Asians need lower SAT scores. As I mention above, that can be entirely explained by Asians applying disproportionately to Engineering and other highly competitive colleges. \n\nNo it can't. The SAT score differential comes from data on Harvard's undergrad admissions (among other places), which is just one school. It's *specifically* when doing a *like-for-like comparison* that we see that, with all-else being equal including the specific school one is applying to, *being Asian* means you get an effective penalty on your admissions score compared to not being Asian.","205"],["> All it needs to entail is putting politeness or niceness or whatever you want to call it over your world view. And we all do that all the time surely?\n\nDo we? I see politeness and niceness as *part of* my world view. And whenever there's something that contradicts my world view that's put forward with the justification that it's polite or nice, my world view wins out. I say \"please\" and \"thank you\" and even \"you're welcome\" and \"bless you\" because they're polite, nice, *and* congruent with my world view. If someone is a horrible singer and asks for my opinion, it might be *polite* or *nice* to lie to them that they're decent, but that would contradict my world view that people deserve to get accurate assessments of their abilities when they ask, so I tell them the truth that they're horrible. In as polite and nice words as I can, of course, but I won't be *so* polite or nice as to lie to them.\n\nBut if we presume for a moment that we *do* do this all the time as you assert, this presents another interesting issue, which is that this sort of thing flows in all directions. \n\nJust because you, just to be polite to a person you know, don't object when someone else uses pronouns you don't identify with to describe you, it doesn't follow that you have to believe in their truth about your pronouns or \"real\" gender or whatever. You can keep your own world view while letting others continue to use whatever pronouns they choose to use, no matter how much those pronouns contradict your world view. \n\nSome people could claim that trans people suffer harm from others openly contradicting their world view with regards to their identified gender, but that also goes in all directions: there's no particular reason to believe that the harm they suffer is any greater than the harm suffered by anyone who is compelled or otherwise pushed to use words that directly contradict their own world view. One could argue that there's a case to be made that since this has to do with the trans person's own identity, that they could claim greater harm, but one could just argue just as well that there's an equally reasonable case to be made that since this has to do with the speaker's choice of words that come out of their own mouths modulated by their own brains, that *they* could claim greater harm. And I don't think there's much in the way of empirical evidence on this, from my looking.","847"],["> The middle one was deeply unhinged. <PERSON> and <PERSON> are trying to get to trans people murdered?!\n\nCan't see the tweet, but this sort of rhetoric has been basically standard for at least a few years now. The chain of reasoning goes something like: \n\n * Publicly arguing that trans-X aren't \"real\" X or that people ought to be free not to have to refer to them by their preferred pronouns will convince some people that trans-X aren't \"real\" X.\n * The phenomenon of straight men murdering a trans woman after initially believing that she was a cis woman is semi-common and is based on the notion that trans women aren't \"real\" women.\n * Therefore, when people like <PERSON> or <PERSON> argue against the trans activists' demands, they will cause more trans women to be murdered. \n\nNow, one might claim that even presuming that the above bullet points are true (a largely unsupported presumption), that it doesn't follow that they're *trying* to get trans women murdered, because *they* presumably don't believe it's true, or place the responsibility to not murder people on the individuals doing/not doing the murdering. However, another premise is that the above bullet points are *so obviously true* that clearly anyone who doesn't believe it are doing so out of either ignorance or malevolence; and people like <PERSON> and <PERSON> have no excuse being ignorant. Thus either they are *knowingly* doing things that will get trans people murdered or they are *recklessly disregarding truth* in a way that will get people murdered.\n\nThis is the same sort of reasoning that causes people to state completely unironically that using the term \"trap\" to refer to people and characters (typically anime characters) who are male but appear female on first glance causes the murder of trans people.","847"],["I mean, you're far more likely to get run over by a car than be eaten by a shark, but someone who literally spends 100% of his time on the beach and in the ocean swimming is pretty justified in fearing being eaten by a shark more than being run over by a car.\n\nIt strikes me that the people who fear being fired for saying things-interpreted-to-be-mean on Twitter are far more likely to say things-interpreted-to-be-mean on Twitter than they are to advocate for unionization or actively complain on Facebook about conditions at their work. \n\nIt also strikes me that, from what I've noticed, <PERSON> people who agitate against firing people for things-interpreted-to-be-mean on Twitter tend to agitate against firing people for advocating for unionization to *just as much an extent*, relative to how high profile such incidents become in the news.","633"],["> Re income inequality, it is my understanding that a degree from an elite college is a ticket to the upper reaches of the income distribution (though not a guaranteed ticket, nor the only ticket). Indeed, that understanding is apparently shared by the Asian applicants who oppose affirmative action; otherwise, why would they care? So, AA should be expected to decrease income inequality, at least if you define it based on percentages who at the top of the income distribution. It is possible that a degree from an elite college does not have that effect on AA admittees, but I don't have that evidence. \n\nI believe your understanding is incomplete. From what little research on education I've done, I don't believe a degree from an elite college is a ticket to the upper reaches of the income distribution. The evidence I've seen is that it's a ticket *for some individuals* and not a ticket *for some other individuals*. The Asian applicants who oppose affirmative action believe, with some justification - they actually meet the objective standards which indicate that they're in that group - that they're in the former group of people, which is why they care. \n\nAlso, I notice you didn't mention race in this paragraph, but rather income inequality. AA doesn't distinguish between people based on income, but rather based on race. Race is a *proxy* for income, but due to <PERSON>'s law, there's little reason to believe that the proxy holds when race is explicitly targeted as a criteria for admissions. \n\n > I am curious what your evidence is that AA has a negative influence on the general welfare\n\nLet me repeat that this is not rigorous, and completely anecdotal. I've noticed that AA, which are policies that, by definition, are explicitly racially discriminatory, has caused individuals of certain races to group together and antagonize one another on the basis of their differential treatment under AA. I believe that individuals of certain races deciding to group together and antagonize individuals of other races is bad for the general welfare of any society, but particularly one with individuals from such a diversity of races like the USA.","205"],["> Except this is a fully generalizable argument. I can then claim it would harm me not to be able to call someone a small minded evil bigot for refusing to use a requested pronoun. And then they can claim it would harm them not to say that I am a liberal brainwashed cuck or something. Then it's just insults all the way down.\n\nWell, yes. That's part of my point. The argument that calling trans people by their preferred pronouns because it would harm them to do otherwise is a fully generalizable argument that you can apply to anything, which is why it's a *terrible* argument.\n\n\n > Part of society is abiding by the politeness standards of the community you dwell within. Those will change over time and we should adapt as they do. Those are norms that have evolved over long times to stop us from ripping each others faces off when we live in close proximity. And yes that will feel bad when you think the standards are wrong, but those are the breaks of gaining all the advantages human society gives.\n\nWell sure. And people either *incorporate those standards into their world view* - such as how I incorporated saying \"you're welcome\" into my world view, even though the standard seemed absurd to me initially - or they refuse and leave/get evicted by that community.\n\nBut perhaps this is a semantic issue, and you'd say that *incorporating politeness standards into your world view* is just another way of saying \"putting politeness over your world view,\" which seems reasonable to me. That then raises the issues I brought up earlier of this argument going in all directions. \n\nSome people are declaring that the standard of politeness is \"use pronouns based on the subject's preference,\" while others are disagreeing that such a standard exists, and that the general baseline standard of politeness of \"let others use the words they wish to use\" is what's actually correct. As you write, these norms have evolved over long times, and we don't have a stone tablet to refer to to determine who is correct, and so these groups get to argue with each other on which standard we ought to adopt in our shared society (the one that neither side really has exit ability from).\n\nBut what we definitely know *isn't* correct is the supposition that putting politeness over your world view means having to call someone else by their preferred pronouns; no, one could argue *just as validly* that putting politeness over your world view means having to accept it when someone else refers to you by a pronoun you don't identify as.","847"],["> I think this is about what you said, but a bit more general in the forms I've generally heard it.\n\nI agree, but I think your more general use of the terms makes the bullets less comprehensible, which is why I didn't use generic, loosely-defined terms like \"social recognition,\" or \"derision.\" \n\nTo the people who make these claims, the idea that people like <PERSON> or <PERSON>, in arguing against self-declared trans activists, are opposing recognizing/respecting trans folks or affording them less social recognition than they are due is obvious fact, something they believe in just as much as <PERSON> believes that <PERSON> built an Ark to survive a genocidal flood. However, this is something that many people, especially people on this board, disagree with them on, so I used more specific terms that I thought would be more generally agreed as being true.","847"],["> The last part is where I totally disagree with you - for instance, I saw many people, including supposedly 'reasonable' conservatives, talking about how it was the end of the world that <PERSON> couldn't get into Harvard, because he said terrible things about a classmate, that was recorded in a Google doc.\n > \n > OTOH, all those conservatives all support less power for unions, etc. and even the supposed populist conservatives that are standing up to Silicon Valley are also anti-union (<PERSON>, etc.). \n\nFair enough, I don't pay much attention to conservatives, because AFAICT, they just don't matter in the whole anti-SJW cluster of people. The anti-SJW/IDW cluster, AFAICT, are overwhelmingly liberal and leftwing like myself, so it's their behavior that I'm drawing my impression from. I 100% believe you that there are tons of unprincipled conservatives who performatively take outsized offense at leftwing attacks on free speech while quietly ignoring the rightwing ones. After all, I see the mirror phenomenon happening all the time with my peers on the left, and it would be bizarre to me if conservatives/right-wingers were more principled and well behaving than leftists.\n\n > Now, I suppose there some liberal anti-SJW's who are supposedly pro-union, but usually, their response is a single Tweet, that says, \"this is also bad,\" before they write up their next 5,000 word story or 25 tweetstorm about how free speech is dead on college campuses. \n\nThis doesn't match my experience, but if that's your experience, I think your impression is reasonable.\n\n > Also, I'd point out the fact that stories about somebody being fired because they say a mean thing on Twitter become news, while somebody being fired because they try to organize a union is in large part because of our corporate right-wing dominated (on economic issues) media, that's complicit, along with a partisan right wing media that of course, cares about the culture war, with a bonus of making sure nobody hears about union organizers being fired. \n\nIs this a fact? What convinced you of this being a fact, and could you point me to it so that I can be convinced of this being a fact?","965"],["> No, it isn't. They are separate issues. See the separate arguments made here _URL_0_\n\nThat's a 78 page document, and the phrase \"affirmative action\" doesn't appear anywhere from a Ctrl-F. Could you either point me to the paragraphs that show that discrimination against Asian applicants isn't a form of affirmative action or summarize the argument? \n\n > I am talking about elite schools in general, not just Harvard, and specifically re claims commonly made in the media.\n\nAnd so am I, drawing on the Harvard-specific data set that we actually had access to.\n\nAgain, all the evidence we've seen show that, *holding all else equal*, being an Asian gives you a penalty in admissions to elite colleges. You've put forth a completely unsupported hypothesis about Asian students applying more to technical schools as well as about schools wanting to balance student interests and Asian students disproportionately preferring STEM fields, but as they say, that which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. You are free to come up with all the hypotheticals you want, but there's no reason for anyone to consider your hypotheticals plausible or even believable unless you provide specific evidence.","205"],["> Oh absolutely there will be times where changes are propagating. But most people here seem to have come to the conclusion that the Overton Window has shifted, that they will be fired and de-personed for misgendering someone etc. **If that's the case society has ALREADY moved on** and we either move with it or we show that we are no longer part of civil society. \n\n(Bolding mine)\n\nI don't think the bolded part is true. I think breaking social norms can cause one to be fired and de-personed, but the converse doesn't follow; just because someone is legitimately fearful of being fired and de-personed for a certain action, it doesn't follow that the certain action breaks a social norm.\n\nAnd from looking the actual mechanism by which this happens, I think this is pretty clear. It's a tiny proportion of the populace that actually even cares about enforced pronoun use, and an even tinier proportion actually does the enforcing. The fact that these people are particularly effective at this enforcement right now doesn't imply that the norms they enforce are the norms that society in general has decided upon. It just means that there are certain subsections of society where people are cowed by their norms. That's not an issue of politeness norms, that's an issue of power.\n\nUnless you mean to say that politeness norms are what people who have the power to punish people choose to enforce. In which case it would follow that sometimes breaking politeness norms in favor of one's own world view is desirable and beneficial to society and something worth encouraging depending on the case.","402"],["> This really does seem to be the fundamental liberal/progressive split, where liberalism is about designing institutions for people and progressivism is about designing people for institutions.\n\nThis reminds me of a thought that occurred to me after I read *Brave New World* as a progressive teenager and talked about it with some people. Which was that, \"The difference between someone who is progressive and someone who isn't is that a progressive sees *Brave New World* as a legitimate successful *u*topia rather than a *dys*topia.\" \n\nSince then, I've learned that I'm more of a liberal than a progressive, though I continue to agree with my younger self that I think the real world turning into *Brave New World* would be a good thing.","285"],["> And yes I kinda do mean that politeness norms are what people who have power decide upon. Though I would argue the people in power part is an aggregate of what each person believes that comes to some kind of equilibrium. Weighted by individual power perhaps?\n\nOK, so if politeness norms are purely power-based, then it follows that overriding politeness norms with one's own world view is sometimes good and desirable for the improvement of society. The fact that powerful people decided to enforce some social norm doesn't imply that that social norm is at all good for the society, whether that be for its thriving or stability or anything else. And thus the argument that goes along the lines of \"X is the politeness norm, therefore you should do X even if that means overriding your own world view\" is faulty; the argument would have to include some extra component that makes some positive case for the specific politeness norm in question being something good and desirable for our society. \n\n > And yes you absolutely can try to change norms you think are wrong, but don't then complain that society is ostracizing you. You are the one choosing to put your beliefs over the **majority** so you accept the individual risk in return for a chance of change. You could absolutely argue that that's what the gay and trans rights movements did/are doing after all. Also don't be surprised if \"society\" selects for stability not truth. That's kind of its job. Conformity is a strength when it comes to keeping a society together.\n\n(Bolding mine)\n\nIt seems to me that the gay and trans rights movements succeeded in part *because* they tried to change norms and complained whenever society decided to ostracize them for it. So I think it follows that complaining that society is ostracizing you is a good thing to do if society ostracizes you on the basis of you trying to change norms you think are wrong.\n\nAlso, the bolded part doesn't follow from what you wrote in the previous quoted paragraph. You are choosing to put your beliefs over the **powerful**, which *might* be the majority, but which also might not. In the realm of democracies where power flows in large part from popularity, there's an argument that the powerful *reflects* the majority, but looking at the mechanism of \"cancel culture,\" it seems pretty clear to me that it's not a democratic realm.","647"],["> I think we agree - I mentioned that it is not a guaranteed ticket, and also thatis possible that a degree from an elite college does not have that effect on AA admittees\n\nOK, so it seems that you agree that there's no reason to believe that AA admittees are in the group of people for whom an elite college degree is a ticket. Then it follows that there's no reason to believe that AA will help to uplift the incomes of poor AA admittees, and thus there's no reason to believe that AA will help to equalize income inequality.\n\n > Yes, because I originally made reference to research that inequality between groups can contribute to violence between those groups, so I said that AA would reduce that by decreasing inequality between groups (**at least as measured by the pct of each group who are at the top of the income distribution**). I should have been more clear, and said \"AA should be expected to decrease income inequality between groups\" -- left off the last two words.\n\n(Bolding mine)\n\nOK, it seems the part I bolded is the key here. You're measuring inequality between racial groups by \"% of that group who are at the top of the income distribution.\" \n\nFirst of all, I haven't seen any evidence that \"% of racial group who are at the top of the income distribution\" - which measures something very *very* different from income inequality between racial groups - contributes to civil strife. The abstract of the [article you linked](_URL_0_) doesn't specify if your particular definition of income inequality - having to do with % of a group at the top of the income distribution - was what they were measuring with respect to horizontal inequality. \n\nAnd second, again, given that there is no reason to believe that an elite college degree will be a ticket to the top of the income distribution for AA admittees, it follows that there's no reason to believe that AA will result in less inequality, by your particular definition of income inequality.\n\n\n > i think (anecdotally as well) that that is pretty rare. And even if it happens, why does that imply that AA is not, on balance, good for the general welfare? [And, again, it might not be, but my point is that the original post completely ingnored that issue)\n\nI never said that that implies that AA is not, on balance, good for the general welfare. I said that I've seen exactly zero indication that AA does anything positive for general welfare, and loads of anecdotes that it does terrible things for general welfare. This doesn't mean that AA isn't, on balance, good for the general welfare, but this does mean that we'd need *some* evidence or at least indication that AA is, on balance, good for the general welfare for us to support it.","205"],["> The section entitled \"HARVARD CONSIDERS RACE IN THE MANNER PERMITTED BY PRECEDENT\" is a reference to the affirmative action argument - the precedents are affirmative action cases. That is on page 58 of the filing. The lion's share is re the central, and separate, issue that Harvard intentionally discriminates against Asians (as opposed to in favor of Hispanics and African Americans, per affirmative action)\n\nThank you. I read that section, and I couldn't find anywhere in there that argued that Harvard's discrimination against Asians isn't part of Affirmative Action. Could you point out to me where they make this argument or summarize it for me? \n\nAFAICT, that section is Harvard responding to a set of SFFA's arguments that Harvard isn't meeting the standards they have to follow as set by court precedent, by citing the stuff Harvard *is* doing that meets those standards. But just because Harvard's AA program does various things that *don't* discriminate against Asians, it doesn't follow that the AA program doesn't discriminate against Asians. It can do 2 things at the same time.\n\n > Re my evidence, I taught for many years at a Calif high school and have had many conversations with counselors about admissions stats (which is why I am familiar with the UCs). About half of our students were Asian American, the rest being African American or Hispanic. The patterns I discussed were certainly true of our students. Re schools balancing interests, I have attended admissions sessions at several elite East Coast schools on seven occasions each when chaperoning college tours, and they all said that they look to balance the incoming freshman class in the manner that I describe.\n\nOK, so you have some anecdotes. *At best*, you can use that to draw conclusions about the *specific students and schools with whom you interacted*. But even that's faulty, because you didn't collect data in a rigorous way and are going off memory. \n\nSo, again, if you want to make up some hypotheses based on your anecdotes, you're welcome to, but the rest of us are free to reject them as being unsupported.","205"],["Leveling up her 1st skill to level 4 means she'll charge 20% NP, which makes it possible to make her NP immediately with a Kaleidoscope. \n\nHer big use is against male Sabers, so leveling up her 2nd skill to raise the probability of her charm landing can be very useful, too. Even if you won't reach 100% until you hit level 10, getting up to at least level 4 by just using blue & red gems is probably well worth it.","163"],["If you know that you're gonna kill all the drunk men in a given turn, it can be useful to use <PERSON>'s crit star skill in that turn, instead of on the 1st turn of <PERSON>. That's because the stars <PERSON> generates will be used on the 1st turn of <PERSON>, but his Def down debuff won't matter for the 1 turn going from round 1 to round 2. Plus, that also means you get the crit star skill on cool down earlier.\n\nIt's minor, but basically erasing 1/3 of the disadvantage of Hans's Def debuff is nice, and every advantage you can get matters in 3BP.","922"],["Have you tried making use of your taunters to eat NPs?\n\nFor everything but the current Saber day, I've been using the following team with good success:\n\nFront line of Jeanne - Scathach - Waver, back line of <PERSON> or <PERSON>.\n\nWhat I'd do is to use <PERSON>'s NP ASAP, use <PERSON>'s NP to stall enemy NP gain, and have <PERSON>'s stun in my back pocket to stall <PERSON> for 1 turn if needed. I'll sometimes use <PERSON>'s NP during turn 1 or 2 if I have it charged, just to top up everyone's HP, prevent 1 turn of damage, and buff up the defense for 1 turn - but otherwise, I'll save <PERSON>'s NP for Ibaraki's NP.\n\nAfter using Scathach's NP on Ibaraki, I'll focus on taking down the hands while charging NP. I'll trade out <PERSON> for Mash if Ibaraki is about to NP, and I can't use Jeanne's stun or NP to block it. Then <PERSON> would buff up everyone's defense, give either <PERSON> or <PERSON> invincibility + some extra NP charge, and then eat the NP and go down, bringing out <PERSON> or <PERSON>.\n\nThe focus at this point will be on keeping <PERSON> alive as long as possible while she takes down <PERSON> (assuming both hands are gone already). <PERSON>/Georgios will usually die before <PERSON> NPs again, but that'll bring out <PERSON>, who can hopefully use her NP or stun to stall for 1 more turn. Then comes out Cu for hopefully a few more turns, if needed.\n\nIt seems you don't have a Scathach, but if you substitute your Jalter, you might be able to do something similar. <PERSON> doesn't have the nice guaranteed stun on her NP, but she does have an invincibility, which you should prioritize using for that feature, rather than for the Buster up. And obviously your level 100 Jalter's gonna hit much harder than my level 90 NP1 Scathach. And <PERSON>'s crit star skill can be killer in combination with <PERSON>'s crit skill.","97"],["Rider hands when basically every comp I've used has relied heavily on a support 10/10/10 Waver sounds rather nightmarish. I do have a level 100 10/10/10 Assassin Shiki I'd like to whip out for this, but I'm afraid Waver will just go down too quickly to make this work. \n\nI wonder if it will be viable to try to take down the hands ASAP within 2 or 3 turns using Shiki, so that it then basically becomes just like any other day. But then <PERSON> as DPS isn't all that great compared to the units I'd been using up to now - Scathach & Orion - as her NP doesn't offer the advantages of guaranteed stun or NP drain like those 2.\n\nI'll probably stick my MLB Ushi CE on <PERSON> on my support list, at least.","395"],["In terms of banners to pull on, it's generally best to wait for banners where servants you like get rate-ups, and then pull on them, unless you literally don't care which 4-star or 5-star servant you get. Personally, I think waiting for rate-ups just to reduce the chances of getting spooked by Fionn or Stheno is worth it alone.\n\nAlso, keep in mind that the guaranteed 5-star banner for the anniversary will require 30 paid quartz, so saving up the quartz you have won't really help you with that one. \n\nFor handling the story, you can't get by in this game with just 1 strong unit, even if that 1 unit is <PERSON>. Build up the 3/2/1-star units you get from your daily Friend Point summons. Hans & Cursed Arm Hassan are great 2-star units for supporting <PERSON> with stars. But there are plenty of other servants who will be able to help you out, like <PERSON> or <PERSON> for their team-wide offensive buffs, <PERSON> for her buff clear, <PERSON> for keeping you from losing if things go sideways, <PERSON> & <PERSON> for being able to out-damage <PERSON> when facing some Sabers some of the time, or <PERSON> for his team-wide protection. Also taunt units like Georgios, Leonidas, and Mash can help you deal with hard content by protecting your Jalter for enough turns for her to destroy the enemy.","395"],["IIRC, the ones that come to you directly from completing singularities aren't all that great. But you should eventually get NP5 of every 3-star and below servant anyway, just from the friend point pulls, even if it'll take several months. Try playing around with the ones you have and finding ones that match your style.\n\nAnd keep in mind that farming the daily Chaldea Gate quests for Embers, Monuments/Pieces/Gems, and QP is a big part of the game, and thus investing in some good farmers is a good idea. For the Embers and QP, you'll want good AOE Berserkers and Riders, such as <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON>.","910"],["I think your best shot might be maxing out <PERSON> & Hans, then taking Hans - Okita - support Waver front line with taunter - taunter - Cu at the back. Spam their NPs to keep the Def buffs & healing up while also stalling <PERSON>'s NPs. Switch in taunters to eat Ibaraki's NPs. Even so, it's gonna be tough, since <PERSON> even at level 65 and max Fous can die in 1 unlucky crit, even with all the buffs.\n\nUnfortunately, tomorrow is Rider day, which means a front line with Hans & Waver are gonna almost surely fail. And even if you max out <PERSON>, <PERSON> & Waver are still gonna be left exposed to the hands for a few turns. \n\nYou could try having a front line with taunter - Okita/Jack - support Waver, with Hans - taunter - Cu at the back, to protect <PERSON> & Waver as much as possible from the start of the fight, too. That'll require you to get your taunters up to as high a level as possible, so they can tank more than just 1 hit.\n\nAnd none of these strategies are gonna work if you don't 1st get your damage dealers up to max level.","128"],["Hm, I wonder if <PERSON> would be strong enough to clear the hands if he just had a MLB Carp for the 50% starting NP. Along with 2 other Carps + 1 MLB Carp from support, that's +300% damage for him, compared to +500% damage if he had a non-MLB Ushi CE. Including the base 100%, that's a drop of 1/3 of the damage. Maybe it'd do enough damage that the hands could be taken down with regular attacks within the same turn as his NP.","913"],["Haha I see, you've got a pretty darn good setup for maxing Santa Alter's damage there.\n\nI ended up giving it a shot anyway and did come out the other end alive, with about 4.7MM damage dealt, which is a win in my book, but the fight was too close for me to try again. I only had +300% from Carps - 1 MLB, 2 normal, 1 support MLB, and a support Waver 10/10/10, and I lack a Jalter for her nice double buff, and my Santa Alter mana burst is at 6, so those hands stayed around for quite a few turns after her NP, but I had some good luck with Waver hanging on until I got rid of them, and also <PERSON> targeting my Mash when everyone was naked.\n\nI think I'll spend some of the rice balls I'd been hoarding for today's 2BP Quests, so I can reach 20MM and get those Feathers & Hearts.","913"],["There's no pity mechanic in the gacha. The odds of getting an SSR is always 1% for every single roll. The only exceptions are the twice-yearly guaranteed 5-star banners, which can only be pulled on once each, and which require at least 30 paid Saint Quartz.\n\nLeveling up is done by use of Embers, which are materials that drop from enemies - playing Quests only levels up your servants' Bond levels, which don't affect their gameplay abilities until you hit Bond level 10, which requires somewhere on the order of a year's worth of regular playing. You always have access to daily Quests that will always drop a set number of Embers, though.","734"],["I think I'd be happy enough with just buff cleanse after damage and/or like 10-20% defense down after damage. Doing buff cleanse before damage would be awesome, but it's such an overpowered ability that I think there's a good reason why so few servants have it. And both buff cleanse & def down do fit her lore somewhat.\n\nBut you know what? I'd really be just content if they made it so that when either Void Shiki or <PERSON> successfully did an instakill, that they gained NP charge from their Arts NP at Overkill rate, instead of gaining 0 NP like they do now. It's just annoying that when something that's supposed to be good happens, you also get penalized for it, especially in the case of Assassin Shiki where it does hurt her significant NP spam ability.","884"],["Once at the anniversary, which is coming up in a month or so, and then once at Thanksgiving. In JP, they did it on New Year's, so I don't know if they'll change the Thanksgiving one around this year.\n\nAlso, I forgot, there *is* a pity mechanic, but it's only useful for people who spend in the order of 10s of thousands of dollars in the game, or just have ridiculous god-level luck. Basically, if you collect more than 5 of any given SSR, you get an item for every 1 after the 5th one, and if you have 10 of those items, you can trade it in for a SSR servant of your choice (that's available on a current banner). That means you need, at a minimum, to have pulled 15 SSRs (that's a best case scenario, where you pulled 15 of the SAME SSR). I've been playing this game since day 1 and have spent a couple hundred $ and have pulled only 10 SSRs so far.","835"],["Hey, you can always use them in the rerun! With 0 drops, that's 12 from both events, which is enough to have 2 MLB + 2 regular. Since you already got 2 drops, if you get just 1 more drop, you'll be able to run 3 MLB Carps, which means +300% for everyone with 1 CE slot still left open! +400% for everyone with a support MLB Carp, and +700% for your damage dealer with a MLB Ushi.","805"],["It's almost never worth it to fuse 5-star CEs until you have at least 5, IMHO. Fusing 2 will raise its level cap, but the stat increase isn't all that significant anyway, and that's *only if* you invest heavily in the CEs & QP required to actually level it up.\n\nOn the other hand, with 2 Formal Crafts, you can potentially field a team with 2 Arts-based attackers who will both gain the benefit of stronger Arts cards & more NP gain. That 25% Arts bonus, when used on the right servants, is far more valuable than the little bit of extra stats you can get on 1 servant.","163"],["Maybe it's just because of recency, but listening to this episode this morning, when the English teacher who escalated the issue (<PERSON>, I think?) called the student who set up the TPUSA table (<PERSON>, I think?) a \"<PERSON>\" - \"a white girl/woman who weaponizes her white privilege\" or something like that - I couldn't help but be reminded of the term \"<PERSON>\" and \"<PERSON>\" from the incel crowd. Maybe this sort of thing happens more often than I realize, but this is only the latest among a bunch of similarities between the SJW & incel crowd I noticed.","389"],["I don't know what's going on, but I got 7 drops of this CE while only using natural regen AP (OK, a couple copper apples here and there when I didn't have 30AP to run a Quest, as well as 1 Master level up, but still). And I've even been burning 80AP each day the last week on the daily Ember & Class quests. I'm thinking putting 2 MLB ones on supports will give me a pseudo-2030, which I still don't have despite dropping 240SQ on Scathach's banner way back in the day.","734"],["I've been spending almost all my farming at the Samurai node, for the Feather and Claw drops. Been needing both of those for Altera/Nero skills as well as ascending Billy.\n\nThe drops are pretty bad, though. Did get double claws once, but the vast majority of the runs net just QP. That said, getting like 2MM QP on a single 30AP run is pretty satisfying.","734"],["I thought this was unfortunately just as much talking-past-each-other as JBP's podcasts with <PERSON>. \n\nOne big thing that stood out to me was that they don't really define \"god\" at the start of the conversation or anything, and thus end up talking about different things which causes them to be confused about each other - including that one time when <PERSON> seemed to get visibly angry at <PERSON> for using \"so you're saying\" at him. As far as I can tell, <PERSON> disbelieves in a supernatural god in exactly the same way that <PERSON> does, and <PERSON> believes in a metaphorical god in exactly the same way that <PERSON> does - that is, <PERSON> is an atheist by <PERSON>'s lights, but <PERSON> is a theist by <PERSON>'s - but neither of them see it that way. I think the answer about Crime & Punishment was pretty illuminating on this - to <PERSON>, anyone who doesn't truly create their own values from whole cloth, unbound even from their own biologically-derived moral intuitions, is a theist, whereas to <PERSON>, merely believing that one disbelieves in a god is enough. Also why <PERSON> sees the emergent morality in behavior of other animals as evidence of a (non-literal, non-supernatural) god, while <PERSON> sees it as the exact opposite.\n\nI liked it toward the end when <PERSON> talked about how he's cool with all the metaphorical goodness notions of god, but has his issue with all the supernatural claims - I wish talk of that thread had dominated their conversation instead.","520"],["> For my part, I think social justice has long since reached the point of decreasing marginal returns. It was easier to convince people that everyone should be treated equally in the law, because you could appeal to fallacies in racist thinking or ideology. It was harder to convince people to support forms of racial redistribution to address issues we saw in culture, not just in our legal system. It’s hardest to convince people about things like microaggressions, diversity for the sake of diversity, etc. because at every step more and more people became skeptical about how useful it would do.\n\nI don't have much to add, but I think your insight about SJ being something akin to religious fundamentalism is a good one, and it's one I had myself a few years ago. And I think the above paragraph I quoted points to the faith that underlies the ideology that makes it so much like a religion. Equal treatment under the law is easily empirically verifiable, at least in principle, and even to some extent in practice. So one can clearly empirically prove that a problem exists and convince people to get on board in solving that problem, like the Civil Rights movements of the mid-late-20th Century USA.\n\nIssues in culture are *also* empirically verifiable, but the ones that are raised by SJ tend not to be empirically verified. Furthermore, any scrutiny is labeled as a bad act, and empirical evidence that does exist tend to get scrutinized based on how well they support the pre-existing narrative rather than actual scientific competence - hence why we *still* see the Implicit Association Test and the related concept of Implicit Bias held up by SJ as something useful for getting a grip on biases. \n\nAnd stuff involving microagressions are just intrinsically empirically unverifiable, because microagressions by definition involve *only* the subjective internal judgments of individuals - that is, the term \"microaggression\" is defined such that if someone declares something a \"microaggression,\" then it is so. \"Diversity for the sake of diversity\" is also just a terminal value, though one could steelman it into an empirical claim about \"diversity leads to better outcomes,\" which runs into the problem in the previous paragraph that the empirical evidence for that is severely lacking, and any desire to investigate further without putting your thumb on the scale is seen as a hostile and worthy of being shut down.\n\nI graduated college just before all this stuff gained steam, though in retrospect I did see some signs of it while at school - one was a workshop I had in high school where we were asked to define \"racism\" and told that our definitions were wrong because they were race-neutral and didn't point to the \"structural systems by which white people have advantages over people of other races,\" or something like that; another was being asked in college to sign some statement about not abusing intimate partners, as if it was a big issue that I declare this publicly. But after college I was turned on to a lot of this stuff from attending a feminist anime group online where we'd have Skype chats about such issues, and learning that discussion and scrutiny based on ideas rather than on the gender/race/sexuality category of the speaker were verboten in these chats. \n\nI've always been far left and pro-SJ issues, and I still am far left and pro-SJ issues, though I see myself turning more toward left (neo-?)liberalism as my views evolve. But at this point, I've personally come to the conclusion that the SJ ideology is so clearly anti-intellectual and pro-faith in exactly the same way that religions are, and also no less harmful, that it'd be far more beneficial - not only to the cis/straight/white/male oppressor majority but *even more to the very same oppressed people the SJWs are purporting to help* - for the whole movement to burn to the ground than for them to continue to gain power and influence.","68"],["> The IDW's main opponent seem to be university campus activists, already a group that are more reviled and less influential than they are. \n\nI think this may be at the crux of the issue. Unfortunately, I'm not sure there are objective definitions and measures of \"revulsion\" and \"influence\" that we can use to empirically test this claim. But I believe the IDW & its fans would say the exact opposite as you.\n\nI would, too, but I also imagine my judgment is biased heavily by the fact that I live in one of the bluest of blue areas in the USA. \n\nBut perhaps that then points to the fact that different contexts in different clumps of society matter a lot; it's possible that university campus activists are more reviled and less influential than IDW in the population of USA/English-speaking world/Earth, but it's also possible that it's the exact opposite in certain subsets of those, and the IDW cares a lot more about those subsets than the entire population.","859"],["I must say, getting smeared multiple times on a publication as influential and popular as Vox, or being falsely labeled a bigot or extremist by SPLC, or being hunted on your own college campus by students with baseball bats while the college prez specifically orders security not to protect you seem pretty darn consequential. Far more so than receiving an unlimited amount of arbitrarily mean tweets and messages on the internet.","633"],["> Is that the most important thing, though? Does it matter at the social level? Enough for this level of publicity for this quest?\n\nWell, who knows what the most important thing is, anyway? But in terms of whether it matters at the social level, I think it absolutely does. There's a ton of legal policy that either follow downstream from or are heavily influenced by such groups. And that's not even counting the soft power of pop culture and such, which have both direct effects and indirect feedback effects.\n\nEnough for this level of publicity? Well, that would depend a lot on who's being asked, I would guess. For the author of that NYTimes piece, obviously yes. I would guess from what I've heard from the IDW \"members\" mentioned in the piece, most of them would answer \"No.\"","336"],["One key similarity I see between the 2 is a politics of resentment, whereby individuals consider themselves unlucky by virtue of the luck of their birth in this society. Which is actually quite true and reasonable, but the *resentment* comes in the idea that all the responsibility for this bad luck comes from other, more powerful people who have agency - i.e. oppressors - and the correct solution to this predicament is to constantly emphasize one's own helplessness and to focus on correcting - or just punishing merely for the sake of the visceral pleasure of revenge - the actions of those powerful people who have agency, rather than focusing on navigating the unfair world with the best of their ability.\n\nObviously one should do both, but it's an issue of focus.\n\n > In both, you have a dynamic that's generated when a lot of people at the margins of society find a network where they can talk to each other and reinforce each other's positions and identities.\n\nI think this probably happens in a lot of places online. I don't know the current consensus in the social sciences, but I heard about a study that showed that if you group people with similar opinions together, you end up with everyone in the group becoming more extreme, rather than, say, everyone in the group landing at some average of that group. Again, it's just 1 study and might fail on replication, but I find it plausible that such a phenomenon might be real and might have happened in those communities. \n\n > The community then secretes into the public consciousness a mixture of legitimate complaints and toxic bitterness, that normies either appropriate or react to, depending on their own partisan leanings.\n\nI think one difference is that SJW communities are really an offshoot of the very powerful and long-running feminist movement, via the \"XXX studies\" and \"critical XXX theory\" lines of studies at university. So in their case, the community doesn't so much secrete onto the popular consciousness as it's actively shot at them with a Super Soaker.","68"],["It might be you're confused because the parts before the paragraph weren't included. I don't have the transcript on-hand, but the \"lineage\" that <PERSON> is referring to here is the history of racist scientists who *thought* they were using objective science to justify their racism, when in fact they were using pseudoscience to excuse it. He's claiming that <PERSON> & <PERSON> and others like <PERSON> who want to study the issue objectively should have the burden of proof placed on them that their pursuit of objective science isn't actually just (possibly unconscious) cover for excusing racism.\n\nThe following sentence is probably the most confusing from that paragraph:\n\n > Here is why we are at a point, either in American history, or science, or whatever, where we are certain that nobody in 50 years is going to look back at us and say that. \n\nI think what <PERSON> is saying is that the notion that people 50 years in the future won't look back at scientists like <PERSON> & <PERSON> and consider them as pseudoscientific racists, just like we consider the scientists of yesteryear the same, is unjustified. His next sentence:\n\n > Because scientifically what, the scientists who are on my side of this argument, think, and they include <PERSON> and many others, they say that’s where we are here.\n\nis just saying that <PERSON> and other scientists on his side believe that <PERSON> & <PERSON> are on the wrong side of history, so to speak, and that's why they're speaking out on this issue (<PERSON> name drops <PERSON> quite a few times in this conversation, but I don't think <PERSON> himself has publicly endorsed either side or anything else).","569"],["No, I meant [<PERSON>_). <PERSON> is just a neuroscientist who hasn't done neuroscience in years AFAIK and is mainly a public personality who interviews people and gives talks, whose intersection with the science of IQ and race only comes from his general interest in science and his interest in the unjust demonization of <PERSON> he saw in the <PERSON> incident. <PERSON> is an actual current research psychologist who has experience in intelligence research. During the <PERSON>-<PERSON> exchange, <PERSON> independently submitted a counterpoint to Vox's piece on the <PERSON>-Murray podcast, which <PERSON> refused to publish - it was later [published on Quillette](_URL_0_). \n\nI referenced <PERSON> as an example of an intelligence scientist, along with <PERSON>, that <PERSON> is calling out in that quote. <PERSON> doesn't fit so well because, again, he's not a current practicing scientist, just a public intellectual who talks and learns about stuff from actual current practicing scientists.\n\n > [He has.](_URL_2_)\n\nCould you help me out in what I'm suppose to be seeing in <PERSON>'s Wikipedia page? I couldn't find anything there that showed him commenting on the <PERSON>-Harris affair. There *is* a part about him in relation to <PERSON> and his views on the study of intelligence and race:\n\n > <PERSON>'s 2007 book What Is Intelligence? impressed <PERSON>, a co-author of the book The Bell Curve, who wrote in a statement published on the book's back cover, \"This book is a gold mine of pointers to interesting work, much of which was new to me. All of us who wrestle with the extraordinarily difficult questions about intelligence that <PERSON> discusses are in his debt.\"[6]\n > \n > <PERSON> is transparent about his belief in racial equality in his work, but **he advocates for open scientific debate about controversial social science claims and is critical of the suppression of research into race and intelligence**, where \"courses are taught on The Bell Curve that do not assign the Bell Curve, where courses on intelligence are not offered simply because some student might raise the question of racial differences, where someone taking IQ seriously would be ostracized in an education or gender studies department, where the history of the black family is distorted for political purposes, where scholars rise in wrath when a speaker details obvious ethnic differences\".[7] He only urges those with related beliefs to refrain from advancing them without solid evidence.[8]\n(Bolding mine)\n\nThe bolded part indicates that he would fall squarely on the side of <PERSON>, but if you click on the reference [7], it leads to an [article](_URL_3_) he wrote in the journal *Intelligence* (for which the aforementioned <PERSON> is the editor in chief, interestingly enough) for its March–April 2013 issue, which is 4 years before the whole <PERSON>-Harris affair. So his opinion might have changed since then.","520"],["Yeah, it's really tiresome. I recall <PERSON> pulling this out during his conversation with <PERSON>, repeating that <PERSON> is doing just fine with a successful career at a renowned think tank, as if that somehow made the behavior of dishonestly smearing him OK.\n\nIt's kinda like shooting someone in the knee, then when after extensive surgery and years of physical therapy they can finally walk and run again, claiming, \"See, I didn't hurt them! They're just fine!\" \n\nPeople like <PERSON> and <PERSON> do a great job of putting a veneer of credibility on it, enough that people are able to convince themselves that it's a sensible argument, as long as it's directed at the correct people. I've personally experienced being pulled into such arguments and allowing them to override my own cognitive dissonance exactly in cases like this, back when I would've agreed with <PERSON> and <PERSON> on basically everything. \n\nI will say, though, this perspective actually does make a lot of sense if you view everything through the lens of power. From such a perspective, there's no concept of principles or honesty, it's just that, as long as the person you're attacking has the power to withstand it, any attacks you throw at them are justified. <PERSON> has power due to the conservative think tank industry that stands behind him - as well as the \"classical liberal\" societal structure that stands behind *that* - and so dishonest smears against him - or even literal physical violence against him, as in the case of Middlebury - are entirely justified.","495"],["> And the root of the anger is that <PERSON> spends excessive time focusing on black people potentially being genetically dumb while being completely uninterested in centuries of brutal colonialism and slavery, which <PERSON> believes to be orders of magnitude more important in explaining the reality of black America.\n\nI've seen this sort of thing asserted a bunch, but I haven't seen it actually supported with scientific evidence. Sure, it seems <PERSON> believes \"centuries of brutal colonialism and slavery\" to be \"orders of magnitude more important in explaining the reality of black America,\" but as best as I can tell, that's just an article of faith, not something actually supported by empirical evidence. <PERSON> provides plenty of just-so stories that sound intuitively plausible on their faces, but the one thing we know about science - particularly social sciences - is that \"intuitively plausible\" has basically zero correlation with \"true.\" And certainly we can criticize the science of IQ, but at least it's actually *science* backed by actual *empirical research*.","180"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"> Sure, they are doing one-sided data collection. That is a problem (that I'd love to think a solution to). \\n\\nI'm not sure how this is one-sided data collection. This is just collecting data on what they want to measure: incidents of silencing or shaming or the like in response to good faith. What's the \\\"other side\\\" of that one side supposed to be, all the incidents when people just have regular productive conversations? The point is that that's supposed to be the default, and the opposite is supposed to not happen.\\n\\nIt's not one-sided to collect incidents of sexual harassment when trying to get a sense of if sexual harassment is a major problem in whatever environment you're concerned about. \\n\\nNow, I could see a stronger argument one could make, that, if one wants to determine if there's a sexual harassment crisis, one should also get a count of all non-sexual-harassment incidents, so that we can get both the denominator and the numerator and thus get a true rate of the bad incidents, rather than just taking a raw count of all incidents, which lacks context. For instance, using some made-up fantasy numbers, if there are 1,000 sexual harassment incidents in a month, that might sound really large and scary, but if the context is among 7 billion people making quadrillions of non-sexual-harassment interactions with each other in the same time frame, then it's hardly anything to be concerned about.\\n\\nWhich is a fair point; this collection wouldn't give us a great sense of how many non-silencing/shaming/whatever in response to good faith incidents happen, and it's not clear how we would measure that.\\n\\nBut then we can get into the context of the academy, which is an institution that's specifically designed for not having silencing/shaming/whatever in response to good faith, and thus any count that's not infinitesimally close to zero is highly troubling. Furthermore, we do at least have a count of (very roughly) ~5,000 colleges in the USA and ~20MM students, which presents a maximum upper bound for the population. \\n\\nSo if we were to count up just the sexual harassment incidents in battered women's shelters, that would be pretty concerning if the count wasn't near zero, and we'd also have the count of ~1,500 such shelters in the USA to provide an upper bound for the population, even without collecting data on how many non-sexual-harassment interactions happen in such settings.\",\n \"185\"\n ],\n [\n \"Do all of the buffs in <PERSON>'s NP count as just 1 for the purposes of nullification? That's really nasty. Does that include the heal-over-time, too?\\n\\nAnd it seems that <PERSON> uses her skills after dropping below 50% health then below 25% health; any idea if the nullify buff skills stack, so that, for instance, if you drop her from 51% to 24% in one shot, and she uses the skill twice in one turn, then your next 2 buffs will be nullified?\",\n \"991\"\n ],\n [\n \"Each fills a different role.\\n\\n<PERSON> is good for her debuff & heal skills. However, her 3rd skill isn't available yet..\\n\\n<PERSON> and <PERSON> has a very *very* powerful single-target Noble Phantasm, and is pretty good at creating & using stars. However, using them optimally is a high-risk-high-reward endeavor, and they're generally one-and-done.\\n\\n<PERSON> is very good at survival with her triple-invul skill and her NP providing healing.\\n\\nSo choose 1 based on what you need now, and work on the others later. Note that having at least 1 AOE Rider is useful for farming Doors. And also that <PERSON> Mary has a very high ceiling as a damage dealer among any servant due to their NP.\",\n \"456\"\n ],\n [\n \"One thing that stood out to me was how much the writer of the piece seems to rely on a shared article of faith with her readers. Much like how, say, if <PERSON> were writing for his audience, he wouldn't bother arguing that the bible is inerrant, he would just assume that the readers believed it too.\\n\\nFor instance, the exchange in one part you quoted:\\n\\n > “Half the men fail,” he says, meaning that they don’t procreate. “And no one cares about the men who fail.”\\n > \\n > I laugh, because it is absurd.\\n\\nIf the conversation went any further than <PERSON>'s \\\"disappointed\\\" response, she doesn't say it, and she doesn't bother explaining to the readers why <PERSON>'s statement was absurd. It may be incorrect, or it may be correct, but to claim that it's absurd without explanation, expecting the reader to buy it, is a statement of faith, like, say, the claim that <PERSON> built an ark to carry a bunch of animals during a 40-day worldwide flood.\\n\\nMore generally, looking at the title of the piece \\\"Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy\\\" and lots of parts of the piece such as this one: \\n\\n > The left, he believes, refuses to admit that men might be in charge because they are better at it. “The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence,” he said.\\n\\nthe core article of faith that's being invoked seems to be the patriarchy narrative. The 1st sentence of that paragraph, \\\"The left, he believes, refuses to admit that men might be in charge because they are better at it\\\" only makes sense as an interpretation of his quote \\\"The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence\\\" if you interpret his words through that faith. That is, <PERSON> clearly doesn't buy into that faith, and when he refers to the \\\"current hierarchy,\\\" he's not referring to the patriarchy narrative that \\\"men [are] in charge\\\" of the world, since he doesn't see things in terms of demographic groups, but rather of individuals.\\n\\nThis stuff probably struck me in particular because this sort of faith is what I was spoonfed all throughout my childhood, and I'm now a little more aware of things that had caused my cognitive faculties to shut down in order to protect against the cognitive dissonance.\",\n \"520\"\n ],\n [\n \"I've read at least 1 report of someone saying that they saw their Cu's <PERSON> successfully do an instant kill on <PERSON>.\\n\\nJust keep in mind that all enemy servants have insanely high death resist, such that, by most estimates, the odds of getting an instant kill under the *best possible conditions* is still well under 1%.\",\n \"345\"\n ],\n [\n \"> The problem is modern feminism's intellectual underpinnings are hostile to utilitarianism.\\n\\nI don't think it's this that's such a big problem as just honesty. *If* it is the case that modern feminism \\\"succeeding\\\" will mean 50% of men and some minority of women becoming absolutely miserable (as a feminist, I don't actually buy this, but *if*), then the line shouldn't be that feminism is beneficial for both men and women or that anyone who has basic human decency/empathy should be on our side. It should be, Fuck those 25% that we're gonna steamroll; I'm in the other 75% as is everyone I care about, so I just don't give a shit about the suffering of that 25%.\",\n \"278\"\n ],\n [\n \"The piece is just chock full of selective quoting and connecting various lines from him with the author's own constructed summaries which are dripping with her personal interpretation, so I wouldn't be surprised if selective quoting were involved here.\\n\\nHowever, I doubt that NYTimes would publish outright fabricated quotes (sure, people like <PERSON> exist, but they're exceedingly rare), so I would guess that whatever is in quotation marks are accurate transcriptions of what <PERSON> actually said verbatim.\\n\\nI think it'd be interesting to watch or even just listen to the entire conversation between <PERSON> and the author uncut, from which the various quotes in this piece were taken and then stitched together with her summaries. I'm guessing such footage doesn't exist, which is a shame.\",\n \"622\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I mean, sure, the interviewer takes it for granted most of her readers don’t believe women are genetically inferior to men and all the unearned privilege our society bestows on men is in fact deserved because its “predicated on competence”. \\n\\nFirst of all, the notion of women being genetically inferior to men is neither here nor there, because that's not even a faith, or a claim about reality - there's no actual true definition of \\\"inferior\\\" as it comes to genetics, at least in the general sense. At best, you can make a claim about inferiority *with respect to certain goals* - e.g. men are genetically inferior to women *when it comes to giving birth to a human child*, I am genetically inferior to <PERSON> *when it comes to playing basketball*, etc. \\n\\nThere's nothing in the piece that really touches on the concept of women being genetically inferior to men - in general or in specific avenues - so this just seems to be a non sequitur. \\n\\nThe 2nd part:\\n\\n > the interviewer takes it for granted most of her readers don’t believe... all the unearned privilege our society bestows on men is in fact deserved because its “predicated on competence”. \\n\\nis a bit more substantive. Now, taken literally, the statement is actually a tautology, because anything that's *unearned* privilege is, by definition, undeserved. And like any tautology, it's completely vapid and devoid of meaning. \\n\\nBut to engage with what I believe is actually meant, it's that her readers believe that society bestows upon men unearned privilege over women, and that this unearned privilege is what is generally referred to when people use phrases like \\\"male privilege.\\\" \\n\\nThis is a nontrivial empirical claim about reality, and it needs to be supported by actual science. The trouble is, that science isn't there. Which is why it's an article of faith. Now, as someone who was indoctrinated to this faith from a young age, it wouldn't surprise me if it's a safe assumption that much of her readership buys into this article of faith, but that doesn't make it any less an article of faith.\",\n \"177\"\n ],\n [\n \"I wouldn't be surprised if that's what he said on the topic, but I would be quite shocked if that's *all* he said on the topic during the conversation. \\n\\nThen again, conversation is a multi-party activity. It's possible that that's all he got a chance to say due to however she reacted. If you're curious to hear how he talks when basically given free reign, I think the Joe Rogan Experience appearances are good, because <PERSON> is generally so good at letting his conversation partner talk as much as they want without interruption.\",\n \"622\"\n ],\n [\n \"The 20% bonus from class matching is significant enough that you should try to match class whenever possible. But you should try to go all-in on a single servant for any given class. This is because it's far better to have 1 servant at level 80 than it is to have several servants at level 60. Most difficult fights are going to have you rely on just 1 hard hitting damage dealer being supported by others, so making that damage dealer as strong as possible is higher priority. \\n\\nI'd recommend prioritizing getting Herc to level 80 over anyone else - like all Berserkers, he does have problems staying alive, but he negates that weakness better than any other Berserker not named <PERSON>, and he hits hard against everyone thanks to his class and stat.\",\n \"163\"\n ],\n [\n \"My guess was either the notion that half the men would fail without enforced monogamy to be absurd, or that no one would care about that half to be absurd. Those are empirical claims about reality which require support that she doesn't provide. \\n\\nThere's also the possibility that she's referring to stuff from before, Ie that enforced monogamy is a viable solution to such a problem. That could just be an issue of values rather than one of empirical reality, but without her actually going into the explanation for why it's absurd, it turns into a bald article of faith that such a solution is absurd.\\n\\nLooking at it again now, I also see the possibility that she sees as absurd notion that not procreating is \\\"failing,\\\" but that seems the biggest stretch for me, as that would then make <PERSON>'s disappointment at her lack of empathy justified, and this was clearly not written to give the reader such an impression.\",\n \"797\"\n ],\n [\n \"> OP said two things, I made a response that encompassed both of them, as far as I can tell you're saying 'but why did you respond to the second one when they said the first one also?' If that objection doesn't make sense to you then maybe I'm not understanding your point.\\n\\nBut you *didn't* make a response that encompassed both of them, because you took those 2 things the OP said (i.e. 1. \\\"race is fuzzy\\\" and 2. \\\"it will be difficult to decide who actually gets to stay\\\") and treated the latter as separate from the former, when it's obvious from the OP that the latter is only within the context of the former.\\n\\nThere are many issues relating to how \\\"it will be difficult to decide who actually gets to stay\\\" for any sort of white nationalists' utopia to become reality, and the fuzziness of race is one of them. This doesn't mean that bringing up any issues relating to how \\\"it will be difficult to decide who actually gets to stay\\\" is actually a response to the OP. If you started talking about the logistical issues of relocating millions of people, that too would be \\\"responding\\\" to the issue of \\\"it will be difficult to decide who actually gets to stay,\\\" but it would have basically *nothing* to do with what the OP was talking about.\\n\\nLikewise, the potential dishonesty of white nationalists - i.e. they don't really believe in/care about the categories they are currently pushing, and will change them when it suits their preference - is another issue when it comes to \\\"it will be difficult to decide who actually gets to stay.\\\" This has marginally more to do with \\\"race is fuzzy\\\" than the above made-up example of relocation logistics, since such dishonesty is more easily enabled by the fuzziness of races, but ultimately the core of that issue is the dishonesty, which would remain an issue regardless of the fuzziness of race. That is, the fuzziness of race is superfluous to the argument that white nationalists don't really believe in/care about the categories they are currently pushing, and will change them when it suits their preference, and so you're not actually responding to the question about the apparent double standard of how the \\\"race is fuzzy\\\" criticism is applied. \\n\\nEspecially since your choice of Asians as one of your examples makes it clear that the core issue you're raising really is the dishonesty, entirely separate from the \\\"race is fuzzy\\\" point. \\\"Race is fuzzy\\\" making Asians and whites identified as the same race isn't a thing. <PERSON> won't somehow be identified as the same race as <PERSON> - rather, \\\"race is fuzzy\\\" is that <PERSON> will be identified as the same race as <PERSON> sometimes and as <PERSON> other times. Or that <PERSON> will be identified as the same race as <PERSON> sometimes and as <PERSON> other times.\",\n \"255\"\n ],\n [\n \"> If it is to \\\"promote the general welfare,\\\" then perhaps AA is a reasonable policy. Eg, high levels of \\\"horizontal inequality\\\" - ie, economic inequality between groups - is associated with civil strife _URL_0_. \\n\\nPerhaps it is, perhaps it isn't. What's the rigorous data on whether or not AA reduces economic inequality? A priori, there seems to be little reason to believe that it would, and so *some* rigorous data showing empirically that AA has a positive influence on the \\\"promotion of the general welfare\\\" seems like the bare minimum bar we should want to meet. I've seen a ton of indications that AA has a negative influence on that: it's all anecdotal, no data, rigorous or otherwise, but that's still infinitely more indication than I've seen that AA has a positive influence on that.\",\n \"954\"\n ],\n [\n \"I use 4-star Nero with damage CE, Spartacus, and Waver. Take 3 (sometimes 4, very rarely 2) turns in round 1 building NP. Use Spartacus NP in round 2, with face cards from Nero to take down the horse. Use Nero NP, which usually leaves <PERSON> with a few thousand HP, which Spartacus or Nero can face card. Usually 5 turns, sometimes 6, very rarely 4. \\n\\nAny AOE Saber should be able to substitute for Nero. Spartacus in particular is really useful here, though, because of his 30% NP charge. \\n\\nIf you use starting NP CEs like Golden Sumo or Kaleidoscope along with the plugsuit you might be able to make it quicker by using an NP to wipe the 1st wave and having <PERSON> and <PERSON> get their NPs up through a combination of Waver and starting NP CE. But I prefer to put more drop CEs on.\",\n \"122\"\n ],\n [\n \"> My understanding is that the Harvard case alleges intentional discrimination against Asian applicants (eg, giving them low scores on personality, etc) as opposed to the case being a challenge to affirmative action per se. \\n\\nThe intentional discrimination against Asian applicants *is* the affirmative action that's being challenged. That's the exact mechanism by which affirmative action works in this case. Affirmative action isn't a single rigorously defined program of discrimination, it's a general cluster of discriminatory policies which includes this specific one taken on by Harvard to discriminate against Asian applicants.\\n\\n > More broadly, I am not familiar with the exact numbers re Harvard, but the general claim I hear is that Asians need an SAT score of X to get into elite schools, while non-Asians need lower SAT scores. As I mention above, that can be entirely explained by Asians applying disproportionately to Engineering and other highly competitive colleges. \\n\\nNo it can't. The SAT score differential comes from data on Harvard's undergrad admissions (among other places), which is just one school. It's *specifically* when doing a *like-for-like comparison* that we see that, with all-else being equal including the specific school one is applying to, *being Asian* means you get an effective penalty on your admissions score compared to not being Asian.\",\n \"205\"\n ],\n [\n \"> All it needs to entail is putting politeness or niceness or whatever you want to call it over your world view. And we all do that all the time surely?\\n\\nDo we? I see politeness and niceness as *part of* my world view. And whenever there's something that contradicts my world view that's put forward with the justification that it's polite or nice, my world view wins out. I say \\\"please\\\" and \\\"thank you\\\" and even \\\"you're welcome\\\" and \\\"bless you\\\" because they're polite, nice, *and* congruent with my world view. If someone is a horrible singer and asks for my opinion, it might be *polite* or *nice* to lie to them that they're decent, but that would contradict my world view that people deserve to get accurate assessments of their abilities when they ask, so I tell them the truth that they're horrible. In as polite and nice words as I can, of course, but I won't be *so* polite or nice as to lie to them.\\n\\nBut if we presume for a moment that we *do* do this all the time as you assert, this presents another interesting issue, which is that this sort of thing flows in all directions. \\n\\nJust because you, just to be polite to a person you know, don't object when someone else uses pronouns you don't identify with to describe you, it doesn't follow that you have to believe in their truth about your pronouns or \\\"real\\\" gender or whatever. You can keep your own world view while letting others continue to use whatever pronouns they choose to use, no matter how much those pronouns contradict your world view. \\n\\nSome people could claim that trans people suffer harm from others openly contradicting their world view with regards to their identified gender, but that also goes in all directions: there's no particular reason to believe that the harm they suffer is any greater than the harm suffered by anyone who is compelled or otherwise pushed to use words that directly contradict their own world view. One could argue that there's a case to be made that since this has to do with the trans person's own identity, that they could claim greater harm, but one could just argue just as well that there's an equally reasonable case to be made that since this has to do with the speaker's choice of words that come out of their own mouths modulated by their own brains, that *they* could claim greater harm. And I don't think there's much in the way of empirical evidence on this, from my looking.\",\n \"847\"\n ],\n [\n \"> The middle one was deeply unhinged. <PERSON> and <PERSON> are trying to get to trans people murdered?!\\n\\nCan't see the tweet, but this sort of rhetoric has been basically standard for at least a few years now. The chain of reasoning goes something like: \\n\\n * Publicly arguing that trans-X aren't \\\"real\\\" X or that people ought to be free not to have to refer to them by their preferred pronouns will convince some people that trans-X aren't \\\"real\\\" X.\\n * The phenomenon of straight men murdering a trans woman after initially believing that she was a cis woman is semi-common and is based on the notion that trans women aren't \\\"real\\\" women.\\n * Therefore, when people like <PERSON> or <PERSON> argue against the trans activists' demands, they will cause more trans women to be murdered. \\n\\nNow, one might claim that even presuming that the above bullet points are true (a largely unsupported presumption), that it doesn't follow that they're *trying* to get trans women murdered, because *they* presumably don't believe it's true, or place the responsibility to not murder people on the individuals doing/not doing the murdering. However, another premise is that the above bullet points are *so obviously true* that clearly anyone who doesn't believe it are doing so out of either ignorance or malevolence; and people like <PERSON> and <PERSON> have no excuse being ignorant. Thus either they are *knowingly* doing things that will get trans people murdered or they are *recklessly disregarding truth* in a way that will get people murdered.\\n\\nThis is the same sort of reasoning that causes people to state completely unironically that using the term \\\"trap\\\" to refer to people and characters (typically anime characters) who are male but appear female on first glance causes the murder of trans people.\",\n \"847\"\n ],\n [\n \"I mean, you're far more likely to get run over by a car than be eaten by a shark, but someone who literally spends 100% of his time on the beach and in the ocean swimming is pretty justified in fearing being eaten by a shark more than being run over by a car.\\n\\nIt strikes me that the people who fear being fired for saying things-interpreted-to-be-mean on Twitter are far more likely to say things-interpreted-to-be-mean on Twitter than they are to advocate for unionization or actively complain on Facebook about conditions at their work. \\n\\nIt also strikes me that, from what I've noticed, <PERSON> people who agitate against firing people for things-interpreted-to-be-mean on Twitter tend to agitate against firing people for advocating for unionization to *just as much an extent*, relative to how high profile such incidents become in the news.\",\n \"633\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Re income inequality, it is my understanding that a degree from an elite college is a ticket to the upper reaches of the income distribution (though not a guaranteed ticket, nor the only ticket). Indeed, that understanding is apparently shared by the Asian applicants who oppose affirmative action; otherwise, why would they care? So, AA should be expected to decrease income inequality, at least if you define it based on percentages who at the top of the income distribution. It is possible that a degree from an elite college does not have that effect on AA admittees, but I don't have that evidence. \\n\\nI believe your understanding is incomplete. From what little research on education I've done, I don't believe a degree from an elite college is a ticket to the upper reaches of the income distribution. The evidence I've seen is that it's a ticket *for some individuals* and not a ticket *for some other individuals*. The Asian applicants who oppose affirmative action believe, with some justification - they actually meet the objective standards which indicate that they're in that group - that they're in the former group of people, which is why they care. \\n\\nAlso, I notice you didn't mention race in this paragraph, but rather income inequality. AA doesn't distinguish between people based on income, but rather based on race. Race is a *proxy* for income, but due to <PERSON>'s law, there's little reason to believe that the proxy holds when race is explicitly targeted as a criteria for admissions. \\n\\n > I am curious what your evidence is that AA has a negative influence on the general welfare\\n\\nLet me repeat that this is not rigorous, and completely anecdotal. I've noticed that AA, which are policies that, by definition, are explicitly racially discriminatory, has caused individuals of certain races to group together and antagonize one another on the basis of their differential treatment under AA. I believe that individuals of certain races deciding to group together and antagonize individuals of other races is bad for the general welfare of any society, but particularly one with individuals from such a diversity of races like the USA.\",\n \"205\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Except this is a fully generalizable argument. I can then claim it would harm me not to be able to call someone a small minded evil bigot for refusing to use a requested pronoun. And then they can claim it would harm them not to say that I am a liberal brainwashed cuck or something. Then it's just insults all the way down.\\n\\nWell, yes. That's part of my point. The argument that calling trans people by their preferred pronouns because it would harm them to do otherwise is a fully generalizable argument that you can apply to anything, which is why it's a *terrible* argument.\\n\\n\\n > Part of society is abiding by the politeness standards of the community you dwell within. Those will change over time and we should adapt as they do. Those are norms that have evolved over long times to stop us from ripping each others faces off when we live in close proximity. And yes that will feel bad when you think the standards are wrong, but those are the breaks of gaining all the advantages human society gives.\\n\\nWell sure. And people either *incorporate those standards into their world view* - such as how I incorporated saying \\\"you're welcome\\\" into my world view, even though the standard seemed absurd to me initially - or they refuse and leave/get evicted by that community.\\n\\nBut perhaps this is a semantic issue, and you'd say that *incorporating politeness standards into your world view* is just another way of saying \\\"putting politeness over your world view,\\\" which seems reasonable to me. That then raises the issues I brought up earlier of this argument going in all directions. \\n\\nSome people are declaring that the standard of politeness is \\\"use pronouns based on the subject's preference,\\\" while others are disagreeing that such a standard exists, and that the general baseline standard of politeness of \\\"let others use the words they wish to use\\\" is what's actually correct. As you write, these norms have evolved over long times, and we don't have a stone tablet to refer to to determine who is correct, and so these groups get to argue with each other on which standard we ought to adopt in our shared society (the one that neither side really has exit ability from).\\n\\nBut what we definitely know *isn't* correct is the supposition that putting politeness over your world view means having to call someone else by their preferred pronouns; no, one could argue *just as validly* that putting politeness over your world view means having to accept it when someone else refers to you by a pronoun you don't identify as.\",\n \"847\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I think this is about what you said, but a bit more general in the forms I've generally heard it.\\n\\nI agree, but I think your more general use of the terms makes the bullets less comprehensible, which is why I didn't use generic, loosely-defined terms like \\\"social recognition,\\\" or \\\"derision.\\\" \\n\\nTo the people who make these claims, the idea that people like <PERSON> or <PERSON>, in arguing against self-declared trans activists, are opposing recognizing/respecting trans folks or affording them less social recognition than they are due is obvious fact, something they believe in just as much as <PERSON> believes that <PERSON> built an Ark to survive a genocidal flood. However, this is something that many people, especially people on this board, disagree with them on, so I used more specific terms that I thought would be more generally agreed as being true.\",\n \"847\"\n ],\n [\n \"> The last part is where I totally disagree with you - for instance, I saw many people, including supposedly 'reasonable' conservatives, talking about how it was the end of the world that <PERSON> couldn't get into Harvard, because he said terrible things about a classmate, that was recorded in a Google doc.\\n > \\n > OTOH, all those conservatives all support less power for unions, etc. and even the supposed populist conservatives that are standing up to Silicon Valley are also anti-union (<PERSON>, etc.). \\n\\nFair enough, I don't pay much attention to conservatives, because AFAICT, they just don't matter in the whole anti-SJW cluster of people. The anti-SJW/IDW cluster, AFAICT, are overwhelmingly liberal and leftwing like myself, so it's their behavior that I'm drawing my impression from. I 100% believe you that there are tons of unprincipled conservatives who performatively take outsized offense at leftwing attacks on free speech while quietly ignoring the rightwing ones. After all, I see the mirror phenomenon happening all the time with my peers on the left, and it would be bizarre to me if conservatives/right-wingers were more principled and well behaving than leftists.\\n\\n > Now, I suppose there some liberal anti-SJW's who are supposedly pro-union, but usually, their response is a single Tweet, that says, \\\"this is also bad,\\\" before they write up their next 5,000 word story or 25 tweetstorm about how free speech is dead on college campuses. \\n\\nThis doesn't match my experience, but if that's your experience, I think your impression is reasonable.\\n\\n > Also, I'd point out the fact that stories about somebody being fired because they say a mean thing on Twitter become news, while somebody being fired because they try to organize a union is in large part because of our corporate right-wing dominated (on economic issues) media, that's complicit, along with a partisan right wing media that of course, cares about the culture war, with a bonus of making sure nobody hears about union organizers being fired. \\n\\nIs this a fact? What convinced you of this being a fact, and could you point me to it so that I can be convinced of this being a fact?\",\n \"965\"\n ],\n [\n \"> No, it isn't. They are separate issues. See the separate arguments made here _URL_0_\\n\\nThat's a 78 page document, and the phrase \\\"affirmative action\\\" doesn't appear anywhere from a Ctrl-F. Could you either point me to the paragraphs that show that discrimination against Asian applicants isn't a form of affirmative action or summarize the argument? \\n\\n > I am talking about elite schools in general, not just Harvard, and specifically re claims commonly made in the media.\\n\\nAnd so am I, drawing on the Harvard-specific data set that we actually had access to.\\n\\nAgain, all the evidence we've seen show that, *holding all else equal*, being an Asian gives you a penalty in admissions to elite colleges. You've put forth a completely unsupported hypothesis about Asian students applying more to technical schools as well as about schools wanting to balance student interests and Asian students disproportionately preferring STEM fields, but as they say, that which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. You are free to come up with all the hypotheticals you want, but there's no reason for anyone to consider your hypotheticals plausible or even believable unless you provide specific evidence.\",\n \"205\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Oh absolutely there will be times where changes are propagating. But most people here seem to have come to the conclusion that the Overton Window has shifted, that they will be fired and de-personed for misgendering someone etc. **If that's the case society has ALREADY moved on** and we either move with it or we show that we are no longer part of civil society. \\n\\n(Bolding mine)\\n\\nI don't think the bolded part is true. I think breaking social norms can cause one to be fired and de-personed, but the converse doesn't follow; just because someone is legitimately fearful of being fired and de-personed for a certain action, it doesn't follow that the certain action breaks a social norm.\\n\\nAnd from looking the actual mechanism by which this happens, I think this is pretty clear. It's a tiny proportion of the populace that actually even cares about enforced pronoun use, and an even tinier proportion actually does the enforcing. The fact that these people are particularly effective at this enforcement right now doesn't imply that the norms they enforce are the norms that society in general has decided upon. It just means that there are certain subsections of society where people are cowed by their norms. That's not an issue of politeness norms, that's an issue of power.\\n\\nUnless you mean to say that politeness norms are what people who have the power to punish people choose to enforce. In which case it would follow that sometimes breaking politeness norms in favor of one's own world view is desirable and beneficial to society and something worth encouraging depending on the case.\",\n \"402\"\n ],\n [\n \"> This really does seem to be the fundamental liberal/progressive split, where liberalism is about designing institutions for people and progressivism is about designing people for institutions.\\n\\nThis reminds me of a thought that occurred to me after I read *Brave New World* as a progressive teenager and talked about it with some people. Which was that, \\\"The difference between someone who is progressive and someone who isn't is that a progressive sees *Brave New World* as a legitimate successful *u*topia rather than a *dys*topia.\\\" \\n\\nSince then, I've learned that I'm more of a liberal than a progressive, though I continue to agree with my younger self that I think the real world turning into *Brave New World* would be a good thing.\",\n \"285\"\n ],\n [\n \"> And yes I kinda do mean that politeness norms are what people who have power decide upon. Though I would argue the people in power part is an aggregate of what each person believes that comes to some kind of equilibrium. Weighted by individual power perhaps?\\n\\nOK, so if politeness norms are purely power-based, then it follows that overriding politeness norms with one's own world view is sometimes good and desirable for the improvement of society. The fact that powerful people decided to enforce some social norm doesn't imply that that social norm is at all good for the society, whether that be for its thriving or stability or anything else. And thus the argument that goes along the lines of \\\"X is the politeness norm, therefore you should do X even if that means overriding your own world view\\\" is faulty; the argument would have to include some extra component that makes some positive case for the specific politeness norm in question being something good and desirable for our society. \\n\\n > And yes you absolutely can try to change norms you think are wrong, but don't then complain that society is ostracizing you. You are the one choosing to put your beliefs over the **majority** so you accept the individual risk in return for a chance of change. You could absolutely argue that that's what the gay and trans rights movements did/are doing after all. Also don't be surprised if \\\"society\\\" selects for stability not truth. That's kind of its job. Conformity is a strength when it comes to keeping a society together.\\n\\n(Bolding mine)\\n\\nIt seems to me that the gay and trans rights movements succeeded in part *because* they tried to change norms and complained whenever society decided to ostracize them for it. So I think it follows that complaining that society is ostracizing you is a good thing to do if society ostracizes you on the basis of you trying to change norms you think are wrong.\\n\\nAlso, the bolded part doesn't follow from what you wrote in the previous quoted paragraph. You are choosing to put your beliefs over the **powerful**, which *might* be the majority, but which also might not. In the realm of democracies where power flows in large part from popularity, there's an argument that the powerful *reflects* the majority, but looking at the mechanism of \\\"cancel culture,\\\" it seems pretty clear to me that it's not a democratic realm.\",\n \"647\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I think we agree - I mentioned that it is not a guaranteed ticket, and also thatis possible that a degree from an elite college does not have that effect on AA admittees\\n\\nOK, so it seems that you agree that there's no reason to believe that AA admittees are in the group of people for whom an elite college degree is a ticket. Then it follows that there's no reason to believe that AA will help to uplift the incomes of poor AA admittees, and thus there's no reason to believe that AA will help to equalize income inequality.\\n\\n > Yes, because I originally made reference to research that inequality between groups can contribute to violence between those groups, so I said that AA would reduce that by decreasing inequality between groups (**at least as measured by the pct of each group who are at the top of the income distribution**). I should have been more clear, and said \\\"AA should be expected to decrease income inequality between groups\\\" -- left off the last two words.\\n\\n(Bolding mine)\\n\\nOK, it seems the part I bolded is the key here. You're measuring inequality between racial groups by \\\"% of that group who are at the top of the income distribution.\\\" \\n\\nFirst of all, I haven't seen any evidence that \\\"% of racial group who are at the top of the income distribution\\\" - which measures something very *very* different from income inequality between racial groups - contributes to civil strife. The abstract of the [article you linked](_URL_0_) doesn't specify if your particular definition of income inequality - having to do with % of a group at the top of the income distribution - was what they were measuring with respect to horizontal inequality. \\n\\nAnd second, again, given that there is no reason to believe that an elite college degree will be a ticket to the top of the income distribution for AA admittees, it follows that there's no reason to believe that AA will result in less inequality, by your particular definition of income inequality.\\n\\n\\n > i think (anecdotally as well) that that is pretty rare. And even if it happens, why does that imply that AA is not, on balance, good for the general welfare? [And, again, it might not be, but my point is that the original post completely ingnored that issue)\\n\\nI never said that that implies that AA is not, on balance, good for the general welfare. I said that I've seen exactly zero indication that AA does anything positive for general welfare, and loads of anecdotes that it does terrible things for general welfare. This doesn't mean that AA isn't, on balance, good for the general welfare, but this does mean that we'd need *some* evidence or at least indication that AA is, on balance, good for the general welfare for us to support it.\",\n \"205\"\n ],\n [\n \"> The section entitled \\\"HARVARD CONSIDERS RACE IN THE MANNER PERMITTED BY PRECEDENT\\\" is a reference to the affirmative action argument - the precedents are affirmative action cases. That is on page 58 of the filing. The lion's share is re the central, and separate, issue that Harvard intentionally discriminates against Asians (as opposed to in favor of Hispanics and African Americans, per affirmative action)\\n\\nThank you. I read that section, and I couldn't find anywhere in there that argued that Harvard's discrimination against Asians isn't part of Affirmative Action. Could you point out to me where they make this argument or summarize it for me? \\n\\nAFAICT, that section is Harvard responding to a set of SFFA's arguments that Harvard isn't meeting the standards they have to follow as set by court precedent, by citing the stuff Harvard *is* doing that meets those standards. But just because Harvard's AA program does various things that *don't* discriminate against Asians, it doesn't follow that the AA program doesn't discriminate against Asians. It can do 2 things at the same time.\\n\\n > Re my evidence, I taught for many years at a Calif high school and have had many conversations with counselors about admissions stats (which is why I am familiar with the UCs). About half of our students were Asian American, the rest being African American or Hispanic. The patterns I discussed were certainly true of our students. Re schools balancing interests, I have attended admissions sessions at several elite East Coast schools on seven occasions each when chaperoning college tours, and they all said that they look to balance the incoming freshman class in the manner that I describe.\\n\\nOK, so you have some anecdotes. *At best*, you can use that to draw conclusions about the *specific students and schools with whom you interacted*. But even that's faulty, because you didn't collect data in a rigorous way and are going off memory. \\n\\nSo, again, if you want to make up some hypotheses based on your anecdotes, you're welcome to, but the rest of us are free to reject them as being unsupported.\",\n \"205\"\n ],\n [\n \"Leveling up her 1st skill to level 4 means she'll charge 20% NP, which makes it possible to make her NP immediately with a Kaleidoscope. \\n\\nHer big use is against male Sabers, so leveling up her 2nd skill to raise the probability of her charm landing can be very useful, too. Even if you won't reach 100% until you hit level 10, getting up to at least level 4 by just using blue & red gems is probably well worth it.\",\n \"163\"\n ],\n [\n \"If you know that you're gonna kill all the drunk men in a given turn, it can be useful to use <PERSON>'s crit star skill in that turn, instead of on the 1st turn of <PERSON>. That's because the stars <PERSON> generates will be used on the 1st turn of <PERSON>, but his Def down debuff won't matter for the 1 turn going from round 1 to round 2. Plus, that also means you get the crit star skill on cool down earlier.\\n\\nIt's minor, but basically erasing 1/3 of the disadvantage of Hans's Def debuff is nice, and every advantage you can get matters in 3BP.\",\n \"922\"\n ],\n [\n \"Have you tried making use of your taunters to eat NPs?\\n\\nFor everything but the current Saber day, I've been using the following team with good success:\\n\\nFront line of Jeanne - Scathach - Waver, back line of <PERSON> or <PERSON>.\\n\\nWhat I'd do is to use <PERSON>'s NP ASAP, use <PERSON>'s NP to stall enemy NP gain, and have <PERSON>'s stun in my back pocket to stall <PERSON> for 1 turn if needed. I'll sometimes use <PERSON>'s NP during turn 1 or 2 if I have it charged, just to top up everyone's HP, prevent 1 turn of damage, and buff up the defense for 1 turn - but otherwise, I'll save <PERSON>'s NP for Ibaraki's NP.\\n\\nAfter using Scathach's NP on Ibaraki, I'll focus on taking down the hands while charging NP. I'll trade out <PERSON> for Mash if Ibaraki is about to NP, and I can't use Jeanne's stun or NP to block it. Then <PERSON> would buff up everyone's defense, give either <PERSON> or <PERSON> invincibility + some extra NP charge, and then eat the NP and go down, bringing out <PERSON> or <PERSON>.\\n\\nThe focus at this point will be on keeping <PERSON> alive as long as possible while she takes down <PERSON> (assuming both hands are gone already). <PERSON>/Georgios will usually die before <PERSON> NPs again, but that'll bring out <PERSON>, who can hopefully use her NP or stun to stall for 1 more turn. Then comes out Cu for hopefully a few more turns, if needed.\\n\\nIt seems you don't have a Scathach, but if you substitute your Jalter, you might be able to do something similar. <PERSON> doesn't have the nice guaranteed stun on her NP, but she does have an invincibility, which you should prioritize using for that feature, rather than for the Buster up. And obviously your level 100 Jalter's gonna hit much harder than my level 90 NP1 Scathach. And <PERSON>'s crit star skill can be killer in combination with <PERSON>'s crit skill.\",\n \"97\"\n ],\n [\n \"Rider hands when basically every comp I've used has relied heavily on a support 10/10/10 Waver sounds rather nightmarish. I do have a level 100 10/10/10 Assassin Shiki I'd like to whip out for this, but I'm afraid Waver will just go down too quickly to make this work. \\n\\nI wonder if it will be viable to try to take down the hands ASAP within 2 or 3 turns using Shiki, so that it then basically becomes just like any other day. But then <PERSON> as DPS isn't all that great compared to the units I'd been using up to now - Scathach & Orion - as her NP doesn't offer the advantages of guaranteed stun or NP drain like those 2.\\n\\nI'll probably stick my MLB Ushi CE on <PERSON> on my support list, at least.\",\n \"395\"\n ],\n [\n \"In terms of banners to pull on, it's generally best to wait for banners where servants you like get rate-ups, and then pull on them, unless you literally don't care which 4-star or 5-star servant you get. Personally, I think waiting for rate-ups just to reduce the chances of getting spooked by Fionn or Stheno is worth it alone.\\n\\nAlso, keep in mind that the guaranteed 5-star banner for the anniversary will require 30 paid quartz, so saving up the quartz you have won't really help you with that one. \\n\\nFor handling the story, you can't get by in this game with just 1 strong unit, even if that 1 unit is <PERSON>. Build up the 3/2/1-star units you get from your daily Friend Point summons. Hans & Cursed Arm Hassan are great 2-star units for supporting <PERSON> with stars. But there are plenty of other servants who will be able to help you out, like <PERSON> or <PERSON> for their team-wide offensive buffs, <PERSON> for her buff clear, <PERSON> for keeping you from losing if things go sideways, <PERSON> & <PERSON> for being able to out-damage <PERSON> when facing some Sabers some of the time, or <PERSON> for his team-wide protection. Also taunt units like Georgios, Leonidas, and Mash can help you deal with hard content by protecting your Jalter for enough turns for her to destroy the enemy.\",\n \"395\"\n ],\n [\n \"IIRC, the ones that come to you directly from completing singularities aren't all that great. But you should eventually get NP5 of every 3-star and below servant anyway, just from the friend point pulls, even if it'll take several months. Try playing around with the ones you have and finding ones that match your style.\\n\\nAnd keep in mind that farming the daily Chaldea Gate quests for Embers, Monuments/Pieces/Gems, and QP is a big part of the game, and thus investing in some good farmers is a good idea. For the Embers and QP, you'll want good AOE Berserkers and Riders, such as <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON>.\",\n \"910\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think your best shot might be maxing out <PERSON> & Hans, then taking Hans - Okita - support Waver front line with taunter - taunter - Cu at the back. Spam their NPs to keep the Def buffs & healing up while also stalling <PERSON>'s NPs. Switch in taunters to eat Ibaraki's NPs. Even so, it's gonna be tough, since <PERSON> even at level 65 and max Fous can die in 1 unlucky crit, even with all the buffs.\\n\\nUnfortunately, tomorrow is Rider day, which means a front line with Hans & Waver are gonna almost surely fail. And even if you max out <PERSON>, <PERSON> & Waver are still gonna be left exposed to the hands for a few turns. \\n\\nYou could try having a front line with taunter - Okita/Jack - support Waver, with Hans - taunter - Cu at the back, to protect <PERSON> & Waver as much as possible from the start of the fight, too. That'll require you to get your taunters up to as high a level as possible, so they can tank more than just 1 hit.\\n\\nAnd none of these strategies are gonna work if you don't 1st get your damage dealers up to max level.\",\n \"128\"\n ],\n [\n \"Hm, I wonder if <PERSON> would be strong enough to clear the hands if he just had a MLB Carp for the 50% starting NP. Along with 2 other Carps + 1 MLB Carp from support, that's +300% damage for him, compared to +500% damage if he had a non-MLB Ushi CE. Including the base 100%, that's a drop of 1/3 of the damage. Maybe it'd do enough damage that the hands could be taken down with regular attacks within the same turn as his NP.\",\n \"913\"\n ],\n [\n \"Haha I see, you've got a pretty darn good setup for maxing Santa Alter's damage there.\\n\\nI ended up giving it a shot anyway and did come out the other end alive, with about 4.7MM damage dealt, which is a win in my book, but the fight was too close for me to try again. I only had +300% from Carps - 1 MLB, 2 normal, 1 support MLB, and a support Waver 10/10/10, and I lack a Jalter for her nice double buff, and my Santa Alter mana burst is at 6, so those hands stayed around for quite a few turns after her NP, but I had some good luck with Waver hanging on until I got rid of them, and also <PERSON> targeting my Mash when everyone was naked.\\n\\nI think I'll spend some of the rice balls I'd been hoarding for today's 2BP Quests, so I can reach 20MM and get those Feathers & Hearts.\",\n \"913\"\n ],\n [\n \"There's no pity mechanic in the gacha. The odds of getting an SSR is always 1% for every single roll. The only exceptions are the twice-yearly guaranteed 5-star banners, which can only be pulled on once each, and which require at least 30 paid Saint Quartz.\\n\\nLeveling up is done by use of Embers, which are materials that drop from enemies - playing Quests only levels up your servants' Bond levels, which don't affect their gameplay abilities until you hit Bond level 10, which requires somewhere on the order of a year's worth of regular playing. You always have access to daily Quests that will always drop a set number of Embers, though.\",\n \"734\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think I'd be happy enough with just buff cleanse after damage and/or like 10-20% defense down after damage. Doing buff cleanse before damage would be awesome, but it's such an overpowered ability that I think there's a good reason why so few servants have it. And both buff cleanse & def down do fit her lore somewhat.\\n\\nBut you know what? I'd really be just content if they made it so that when either Void Shiki or <PERSON> successfully did an instakill, that they gained NP charge from their Arts NP at Overkill rate, instead of gaining 0 NP like they do now. It's just annoying that when something that's supposed to be good happens, you also get penalized for it, especially in the case of Assassin Shiki where it does hurt her significant NP spam ability.\",\n \"884\"\n ],\n [\n \"Once at the anniversary, which is coming up in a month or so, and then once at Thanksgiving. In JP, they did it on New Year's, so I don't know if they'll change the Thanksgiving one around this year.\\n\\nAlso, I forgot, there *is* a pity mechanic, but it's only useful for people who spend in the order of 10s of thousands of dollars in the game, or just have ridiculous god-level luck. Basically, if you collect more than 5 of any given SSR, you get an item for every 1 after the 5th one, and if you have 10 of those items, you can trade it in for a SSR servant of your choice (that's available on a current banner). That means you need, at a minimum, to have pulled 15 SSRs (that's a best case scenario, where you pulled 15 of the SAME SSR). I've been playing this game since day 1 and have spent a couple hundred $ and have pulled only 10 SSRs so far.\",\n \"835\"\n ],\n [\n \"Hey, you can always use them in the rerun! With 0 drops, that's 12 from both events, which is enough to have 2 MLB + 2 regular. Since you already got 2 drops, if you get just 1 more drop, you'll be able to run 3 MLB Carps, which means +300% for everyone with 1 CE slot still left open! +400% for everyone with a support MLB Carp, and +700% for your damage dealer with a MLB Ushi.\",\n \"805\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's almost never worth it to fuse 5-star CEs until you have at least 5, IMHO. Fusing 2 will raise its level cap, but the stat increase isn't all that significant anyway, and that's *only if* you invest heavily in the CEs & QP required to actually level it up.\\n\\nOn the other hand, with 2 Formal Crafts, you can potentially field a team with 2 Arts-based attackers who will both gain the benefit of stronger Arts cards & more NP gain. That 25% Arts bonus, when used on the right servants, is far more valuable than the little bit of extra stats you can get on 1 servant.\",\n \"163\"\n ],\n [\n \"Maybe it's just because of recency, but listening to this episode this morning, when the English teacher who escalated the issue (<PERSON>, I think?) called the student who set up the TPUSA table (<PERSON>, I think?) a \\\"<PERSON>\\\" - \\\"a white girl/woman who weaponizes her white privilege\\\" or something like that - I couldn't help but be reminded of the term \\\"<PERSON>\\\" and \\\"<PERSON>\\\" from the incel crowd. Maybe this sort of thing happens more often than I realize, but this is only the latest among a bunch of similarities between the SJW & incel crowd I noticed.\",\n \"389\"\n ],\n [\n \"I don't know what's going on, but I got 7 drops of this CE while only using natural regen AP (OK, a couple copper apples here and there when I didn't have 30AP to run a Quest, as well as 1 Master level up, but still). And I've even been burning 80AP each day the last week on the daily Ember & Class quests. I'm thinking putting 2 MLB ones on supports will give me a pseudo-2030, which I still don't have despite dropping 240SQ on Scathach's banner way back in the day.\",\n \"734\"\n ],\n [\n \"I've been spending almost all my farming at the Samurai node, for the Feather and Claw drops. Been needing both of those for Altera/Nero skills as well as ascending Billy.\\n\\nThe drops are pretty bad, though. Did get double claws once, but the vast majority of the runs net just QP. That said, getting like 2MM QP on a single 30AP run is pretty satisfying.\",\n \"734\"\n ],\n [\n \"I thought this was unfortunately just as much talking-past-each-other as JBP's podcasts with <PERSON>. \\n\\nOne big thing that stood out to me was that they don't really define \\\"god\\\" at the start of the conversation or anything, and thus end up talking about different things which causes them to be confused about each other - including that one time when <PERSON> seemed to get visibly angry at <PERSON> for using \\\"so you're saying\\\" at him. As far as I can tell, <PERSON> disbelieves in a supernatural god in exactly the same way that <PERSON> does, and <PERSON> believes in a metaphorical god in exactly the same way that <PERSON> does - that is, <PERSON> is an atheist by <PERSON>'s lights, but <PERSON> is a theist by <PERSON>'s - but neither of them see it that way. I think the answer about Crime & Punishment was pretty illuminating on this - to <PERSON>, anyone who doesn't truly create their own values from whole cloth, unbound even from their own biologically-derived moral intuitions, is a theist, whereas to <PERSON>, merely believing that one disbelieves in a god is enough. Also why <PERSON> sees the emergent morality in behavior of other animals as evidence of a (non-literal, non-supernatural) god, while <PERSON> sees it as the exact opposite.\\n\\nI liked it toward the end when <PERSON> talked about how he's cool with all the metaphorical goodness notions of god, but has his issue with all the supernatural claims - I wish talk of that thread had dominated their conversation instead.\",\n \"520\"\n ],\n [\n \"> For my part, I think social justice has long since reached the point of decreasing marginal returns. It was easier to convince people that everyone should be treated equally in the law, because you could appeal to fallacies in racist thinking or ideology. It was harder to convince people to support forms of racial redistribution to address issues we saw in culture, not just in our legal system. It’s hardest to convince people about things like microaggressions, diversity for the sake of diversity, etc. because at every step more and more people became skeptical about how useful it would do.\\n\\nI don't have much to add, but I think your insight about SJ being something akin to religious fundamentalism is a good one, and it's one I had myself a few years ago. And I think the above paragraph I quoted points to the faith that underlies the ideology that makes it so much like a religion. Equal treatment under the law is easily empirically verifiable, at least in principle, and even to some extent in practice. So one can clearly empirically prove that a problem exists and convince people to get on board in solving that problem, like the Civil Rights movements of the mid-late-20th Century USA.\\n\\nIssues in culture are *also* empirically verifiable, but the ones that are raised by SJ tend not to be empirically verified. Furthermore, any scrutiny is labeled as a bad act, and empirical evidence that does exist tend to get scrutinized based on how well they support the pre-existing narrative rather than actual scientific competence - hence why we *still* see the Implicit Association Test and the related concept of Implicit Bias held up by SJ as something useful for getting a grip on biases. \\n\\nAnd stuff involving microagressions are just intrinsically empirically unverifiable, because microagressions by definition involve *only* the subjective internal judgments of individuals - that is, the term \\\"microaggression\\\" is defined such that if someone declares something a \\\"microaggression,\\\" then it is so. \\\"Diversity for the sake of diversity\\\" is also just a terminal value, though one could steelman it into an empirical claim about \\\"diversity leads to better outcomes,\\\" which runs into the problem in the previous paragraph that the empirical evidence for that is severely lacking, and any desire to investigate further without putting your thumb on the scale is seen as a hostile and worthy of being shut down.\\n\\nI graduated college just before all this stuff gained steam, though in retrospect I did see some signs of it while at school - one was a workshop I had in high school where we were asked to define \\\"racism\\\" and told that our definitions were wrong because they were race-neutral and didn't point to the \\\"structural systems by which white people have advantages over people of other races,\\\" or something like that; another was being asked in college to sign some statement about not abusing intimate partners, as if it was a big issue that I declare this publicly. But after college I was turned on to a lot of this stuff from attending a feminist anime group online where we'd have Skype chats about such issues, and learning that discussion and scrutiny based on ideas rather than on the gender/race/sexuality category of the speaker were verboten in these chats. \\n\\nI've always been far left and pro-SJ issues, and I still am far left and pro-SJ issues, though I see myself turning more toward left (neo-?)liberalism as my views evolve. But at this point, I've personally come to the conclusion that the SJ ideology is so clearly anti-intellectual and pro-faith in exactly the same way that religions are, and also no less harmful, that it'd be far more beneficial - not only to the cis/straight/white/male oppressor majority but *even more to the very same oppressed people the SJWs are purporting to help* - for the whole movement to burn to the ground than for them to continue to gain power and influence.\",\n \"68\"\n ],\n [\n \"> The IDW's main opponent seem to be university campus activists, already a group that are more reviled and less influential than they are. \\n\\nI think this may be at the crux of the issue. Unfortunately, I'm not sure there are objective definitions and measures of \\\"revulsion\\\" and \\\"influence\\\" that we can use to empirically test this claim. But I believe the IDW & its fans would say the exact opposite as you.\\n\\nI would, too, but I also imagine my judgment is biased heavily by the fact that I live in one of the bluest of blue areas in the USA. \\n\\nBut perhaps that then points to the fact that different contexts in different clumps of society matter a lot; it's possible that university campus activists are more reviled and less influential than IDW in the population of USA/English-speaking world/Earth, but it's also possible that it's the exact opposite in certain subsets of those, and the IDW cares a lot more about those subsets than the entire population.\",\n \"859\"\n ],\n [\n \"I must say, getting smeared multiple times on a publication as influential and popular as Vox, or being falsely labeled a bigot or extremist by SPLC, or being hunted on your own college campus by students with baseball bats while the college prez specifically orders security not to protect you seem pretty darn consequential. Far more so than receiving an unlimited amount of arbitrarily mean tweets and messages on the internet.\",\n \"633\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Is that the most important thing, though? Does it matter at the social level? Enough for this level of publicity for this quest?\\n\\nWell, who knows what the most important thing is, anyway? But in terms of whether it matters at the social level, I think it absolutely does. There's a ton of legal policy that either follow downstream from or are heavily influenced by such groups. And that's not even counting the soft power of pop culture and such, which have both direct effects and indirect feedback effects.\\n\\nEnough for this level of publicity? Well, that would depend a lot on who's being asked, I would guess. For the author of that NYTimes piece, obviously yes. I would guess from what I've heard from the IDW \\\"members\\\" mentioned in the piece, most of them would answer \\\"No.\\\"\",\n \"336\"\n ],\n [\n \"One key similarity I see between the 2 is a politics of resentment, whereby individuals consider themselves unlucky by virtue of the luck of their birth in this society. Which is actually quite true and reasonable, but the *resentment* comes in the idea that all the responsibility for this bad luck comes from other, more powerful people who have agency - i.e. oppressors - and the correct solution to this predicament is to constantly emphasize one's own helplessness and to focus on correcting - or just punishing merely for the sake of the visceral pleasure of revenge - the actions of those powerful people who have agency, rather than focusing on navigating the unfair world with the best of their ability.\\n\\nObviously one should do both, but it's an issue of focus.\\n\\n > In both, you have a dynamic that's generated when a lot of people at the margins of society find a network where they can talk to each other and reinforce each other's positions and identities.\\n\\nI think this probably happens in a lot of places online. I don't know the current consensus in the social sciences, but I heard about a study that showed that if you group people with similar opinions together, you end up with everyone in the group becoming more extreme, rather than, say, everyone in the group landing at some average of that group. Again, it's just 1 study and might fail on replication, but I find it plausible that such a phenomenon might be real and might have happened in those communities. \\n\\n > The community then secretes into the public consciousness a mixture of legitimate complaints and toxic bitterness, that normies either appropriate or react to, depending on their own partisan leanings.\\n\\nI think one difference is that SJW communities are really an offshoot of the very powerful and long-running feminist movement, via the \\\"XXX studies\\\" and \\\"critical XXX theory\\\" lines of studies at university. So in their case, the community doesn't so much secrete onto the popular consciousness as it's actively shot at them with a Super Soaker.\",\n \"68\"\n ],\n [\n \"It might be you're confused because the parts before the paragraph weren't included. I don't have the transcript on-hand, but the \\\"lineage\\\" that <PERSON> is referring to here is the history of racist scientists who *thought* they were using objective science to justify their racism, when in fact they were using pseudoscience to excuse it. He's claiming that <PERSON> & <PERSON> and others like <PERSON> who want to study the issue objectively should have the burden of proof placed on them that their pursuit of objective science isn't actually just (possibly unconscious) cover for excusing racism.\\n\\nThe following sentence is probably the most confusing from that paragraph:\\n\\n > Here is why we are at a point, either in American history, or science, or whatever, where we are certain that nobody in 50 years is going to look back at us and say that. \\n\\nI think what <PERSON> is saying is that the notion that people 50 years in the future won't look back at scientists like <PERSON> & <PERSON> and consider them as pseudoscientific racists, just like we consider the scientists of yesteryear the same, is unjustified. His next sentence:\\n\\n > Because scientifically what, the scientists who are on my side of this argument, think, and they include <PERSON> and many others, they say that’s where we are here.\\n\\nis just saying that <PERSON> and other scientists on his side believe that <PERSON> & <PERSON> are on the wrong side of history, so to speak, and that's why they're speaking out on this issue (<PERSON> name drops <PERSON> quite a few times in this conversation, but I don't think <PERSON> himself has publicly endorsed either side or anything else).\",\n \"569\"\n ],\n [\n \"No, I meant [<PERSON>_). <PERSON> is just a neuroscientist who hasn't done neuroscience in years AFAIK and is mainly a public personality who interviews people and gives talks, whose intersection with the science of IQ and race only comes from his general interest in science and his interest in the unjust demonization of <PERSON> he saw in the <PERSON> incident. <PERSON> is an actual current research psychologist who has experience in intelligence research. During the <PERSON>-<PERSON> exchange, <PERSON> independently submitted a counterpoint to Vox's piece on the <PERSON>-Murray podcast, which <PERSON> refused to publish - it was later [published on Quillette](_URL_0_). \\n\\nI referenced <PERSON> as an example of an intelligence scientist, along with <PERSON>, that <PERSON> is calling out in that quote. <PERSON> doesn't fit so well because, again, he's not a current practicing scientist, just a public intellectual who talks and learns about stuff from actual current practicing scientists.\\n\\n > [He has.](_URL_2_)\\n\\nCould you help me out in what I'm suppose to be seeing in <PERSON>'s Wikipedia page? I couldn't find anything there that showed him commenting on the <PERSON>-Harris affair. There *is* a part about him in relation to <PERSON> and his views on the study of intelligence and race:\\n\\n > <PERSON>'s 2007 book What Is Intelligence? impressed <PERSON>, a co-author of the book The Bell Curve, who wrote in a statement published on the book's back cover, \\\"This book is a gold mine of pointers to interesting work, much of which was new to me. All of us who wrestle with the extraordinarily difficult questions about intelligence that <PERSON> discusses are in his debt.\\\"[6]\\n > \\n > <PERSON> is transparent about his belief in racial equality in his work, but **he advocates for open scientific debate about controversial social science claims and is critical of the suppression of research into race and intelligence**, where \\\"courses are taught on The Bell Curve that do not assign the Bell Curve, where courses on intelligence are not offered simply because some student might raise the question of racial differences, where someone taking IQ seriously would be ostracized in an education or gender studies department, where the history of the black family is distorted for political purposes, where scholars rise in wrath when a speaker details obvious ethnic differences\\\".[7] He only urges those with related beliefs to refrain from advancing them without solid evidence.[8]\\n(Bolding mine)\\n\\nThe bolded part indicates that he would fall squarely on the side of <PERSON>, but if you click on the reference [7], it leads to an [article](_URL_3_) he wrote in the journal *Intelligence* (for which the aforementioned <PERSON> is the editor in chief, interestingly enough) for its March–April 2013 issue, which is 4 years before the whole <PERSON>-Harris affair. So his opinion might have changed since then.\",\n \"520\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, it's really tiresome. I recall <PERSON> pulling this out during his conversation with <PERSON>, repeating that <PERSON> is doing just fine with a successful career at a renowned think tank, as if that somehow made the behavior of dishonestly smearing him OK.\\n\\nIt's kinda like shooting someone in the knee, then when after extensive surgery and years of physical therapy they can finally walk and run again, claiming, \\\"See, I didn't hurt them! They're just fine!\\\" \\n\\nPeople like <PERSON> and <PERSON> do a great job of putting a veneer of credibility on it, enough that people are able to convince themselves that it's a sensible argument, as long as it's directed at the correct people. I've personally experienced being pulled into such arguments and allowing them to override my own cognitive dissonance exactly in cases like this, back when I would've agreed with <PERSON> and <PERSON> on basically everything. \\n\\nI will say, though, this perspective actually does make a lot of sense if you view everything through the lens of power. From such a perspective, there's no concept of principles or honesty, it's just that, as long as the person you're attacking has the power to withstand it, any attacks you throw at them are justified. <PERSON> has power due to the conservative think tank industry that stands behind him - as well as the \\\"classical liberal\\\" societal structure that stands behind *that* - and so dishonest smears against him - or even literal physical violence against him, as in the case of Middlebury - are entirely justified.\",\n \"495\"\n ],\n [\n \"> And the root of the anger is that <PERSON> spends excessive time focusing on black people potentially being genetically dumb while being completely uninterested in centuries of brutal colonialism and slavery, which <PERSON> believes to be orders of magnitude more important in explaining the reality of black America.\\n\\nI've seen this sort of thing asserted a bunch, but I haven't seen it actually supported with scientific evidence. Sure, it seems <PERSON> believes \\\"centuries of brutal colonialism and slavery\\\" to be \\\"orders of magnitude more important in explaining the reality of black America,\\\" but as best as I can tell, that's just an article of faith, not something actually supported by empirical evidence. <PERSON> provides plenty of just-so stories that sound intuitively plausible on their faces, but the one thing we know about science - particularly social sciences - is that \\\"intuitively plausible\\\" has basically zero correlation with \\\"true.\\\" And certainly we can criticize the science of IQ, but at least it's actually *science* backed by actual *empirical research*.\",\n \"180\"\n ]\n]","isConversational":false},"cluster":{"kind":"number","value":458,"string":"458"},"retrieval_idx":{"kind":"list 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gay people donating blood, regardless of if they’ve been married 5 years and that’s their only sexual partner.\n\nEDIT: Replying with \"ackshually if you had sex with a literal prostitute you need to wait 3 months\" isn't the gotcha on monogamous gay men donating blood you think it is.","65"],["Who said anything about predicting the future? I gave you an article from 2016 citing the exact food issues that were obvious to be caused by leaving the EU at the time. \n\n\n\nIt was painfully obvious in 2016 and the majority of the people saying it was a dumb idea to blindly go into a referendum was stating these exact points:\n\n - Nobody has a unified idea of what the UK wants \n\n\n - Nobody has any fucking clue how to negotiate that\n\n - The UK is smaller than the EU, therefore it's immediately at a disadvantage in trade talks\n\n\n\nBut hey, keep thinking it's predicting the future to work out that leaving a trading union that you get the majority of your food and imports from means you will have shortages in food and goods.\n\nEDIT: Since you love these amazing future predictions so much though\n\n\n _URL_1_\n\n\n_URL_0_\n\n_URL_2_","564"],["> They are the UK's police of the sea the weapons the have are there because of the dangers they face doing that job. \n\nYea, gotta look out for those French fishermen incase they throw a piece of haddock at ya.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n > Funny how no one had a problem with them having those guns while protecting the French fishermen from illegal fishing from outside the EU. \n\n\"Funny how no one had a problem with protecting from actual illegal fishing activities rather than threatening allies and neighbouring countries\"\n\n\nYou're a lil' bit dense aren't ya?\n\n\nI'm sure the French fishermen are quaking in their boots at a 2 boat presence across the entirety of the UK's waters.","485"],["Sure.\n\n\n\nThreatening to starve Ireland out if trade agreements couldn't be arranged.\n\nThe month-long circle jerk that all right-wing media in the UK had over the idea of the Royal Navy invading Spain to protect Gibraltar.\n\n\nComparing the EU to the USSR (<PERSON>)\n\nComparing the EU to <PERSON> and <PERSON> (<PERSON>)\n\n[Or how about turning away, literally disrespecting the entire institution of the EU Parliament?](_URL_0_)\n\nWant me to go on?","437"],["> Have you had gay sex in the last 3 months? No? Okay we will take your blood because there's no risk of hiv to transfer\n\n\nYou do realise that HIV can spread in many ways that isn't through gay sex, right? Straight people can get aids, asexual people can get aids, it's not a gay only thing.\n\n\n > Why was this change even necessary when it literally exists as a precaution to not spread disease...\n\nMaybe learn why this change was necessary and why it was implemented before just looking dumb","65"],["_URL_0_\n\nHere's the NHS blood donation requirements.\n\nYou could go out, have anal sex with a stranger and then go right out to donate blood with no issues at all. \n\n\nA gay man, living in a monogamous relationship where their husband is their only partner, using condoms and any form of contraceptive protection from STD's would still be banned from donating blood unless they didn't have sex for three months.\n\n\nRegardless of what you think - That clearly doesn't make any sense other that homophobia. You can have a risky straight person allowed to donate blood but a safe gay person banned.","640"],["Which also makes zero sense, your blood isn't permanently turned into some black slurry if you were paid for sex once when you were 20 and you're now 40.\n\n\nThe rules they set are so painfully contradictory there's literally no defense of them.\n\nPerson A is gay, has had sex once his entire life and it was with their husband. They are banned from donating blood for 3 months under old rules.\n\nPerson B is a 60 year old woman who was a prostitute when she was 20. She's banned from donating blood forever.\n\n\nPerson C goes out around town on a Saturday night before his Monday blood donation sleeping with any girl he fancies. He's able to donate blood normally and without any issues.\n\n\n[61% of respondents admitted that they'd ignore the restrictions anyway, meaning they're essentially useless and only serve to make people not admit to **potentially** risky behaviour that could be used to screen further](_URL_0_).\n\n\nWhy admit you were a prostitute 30 years ago if it'd block you from donating blood for no reason? Why not 29? 28? It'll get slid down by people who are deciding based on their own feelings instead of the science making it far riskier than if the NHS said \"No people who have acted as prostitutes for the last 3 months\" would ever be.","772"],["You're right, he's just lying and hoping he doesn't get called out. They specifically ask if you're a man who has had sex with another man when you give blood, it has nothing to do with anal and even applies to oral sex with a man despite there being almost no evidence that oral sex can even spread HIV without both people involved having massive open sores in their mouth and on their penis.","65"],["Kids don't exist in a habitat completely separated and isolated from the other age groups. \n\n\nUni students went back in the UK leading to a spike of Uni student cases, leading to a spike in cases of people in the local areas leading to a nationwide spike in cases in all age groups because Uni students spread the infection.","110"],["Except the rules put in place have literally nothing to do with health, why can a straight guy who sleeps around with literally any girl who gives him a second glance donate blood freely while a guy in a monogamous relationship with only 1 sexual partner can't? There's a vastly higher chance of getting HIV from the straight guy than the gay guy.","418"],["[Go tell the NHS that then](_URL_0_)\n\n\nAnal sex is only mentioned twice on the entire page, first for men who have sex with men (even including Oral despite it posing almost no HIV transmission risk) and the second is for women who've had sex with a man who has had anal sex.\n\n\nNothing stops a woman from having anal sex with strangers all night and then donating blood. I guess women's arseholes are magical and able to prevent HIV from entering?","65"],["No you don't lmao, how are you failing to understand this.\n\n\nPerson A has sex with women he meets at a pub on a night out every single week without a condom.\n\nPerson B is gay and has only had sex with their husband while using a condom and nobody else.\n\nPerson A is objectively more at risk of spreading HIV, Person B isn't gonna magically develop HIV by virtue of him just being gay. Why should person B be banned from donating blood when Person A is far riskier?","65"],["> How many people do you think are regularly out here having heterosexual sexual contact with 9 people in a night to begin with?\n\n\nWhy does it matter? Why is one group of people allowed while another isn't.\n\n\n > If you turn round and say that you just had a 9 person orgy and you're unsure whether all of them were \"safe\", then you will not be allowed to donate.\n\nAnd if the people in the 9 person orgy were all your friends and female? All good then.\n\nIf the other 8 people at the orgy were friends and guys? The horror! Now you must have aids!\n\n\nYou've got such little clue what you're talking about it's actually adorable.\n\n\nTell ya what, I'll try make it bold this time since you've got such issues reading.\n\n\n\n***Tell me why it's acceptable for a straight guy to sleep around without any protection and be fine to donate blood but a gay guy having sex once with a condom is a limiting factor?***","442"],["> Person B is imaginary. In real life there’s 10,000 Person Bs and if some of their partners cheat they will be at a higher risk of HIV than 10,000 Person As. \n\nCheating isn't a gay only thing, not sure if you knew that one.\n\n\n\n\n > unless you have absolute proof that you and your partner aren’t cheating. In real life we don’t have that.\n\nSo, like I've already said: Where's the proof that a husband isn't cheating on their wife and spreading HIV? Why isn't the wife banned from donating blood because their husband could have cheated on them and passed HIV to them?\n\nOr what if the Husband is a drug addict? He could catch HIV from sharing needles, therefore the wife must also be banned too right?\n\n\n\nPerson A's HIV risk isn't lower, why are you just lying? Do you not realise that vaginal sex is still capable of passing on HIV?","65"],["> Most HIV diagnoses in this country are gay men.\n\nLie.\n\n\n40% HIV diagnosis were from gay ***and bisexual*** men [and the rate of infection is at a decades low rate](_URL_0_)\n\n\n > Straight men have a very low rate of having HIV. Therefore a man who has anal sex with a man has a high chance of catching it.\n\n\nThe chance of catching HIV by having insertive anal sex with a man is the same comparable to both receptive and insertive vaginal sex.\n\n\nYou can't complain about the risk of a man getting HIV while ignoring all risk factors that reduce the chance of them having HIV massively while ignoring the fact that the risk is roughly the same for women and if you're gonna use the \"what if their partner cheats\" argument on gay people you need to apply it to everyone.\n\n\nBlack people are also disproportionately represented in HIV diagnosis too, I'm guessing you'll be calling for a ban on all black people donating blood soon as well I presume?","65"],["> MSM make up > 5% of the population but > 50% new and > 70% historical HIV diagnosis.\n\n\n40%*\n\n\n \n\n > There isn’t any. If her husband cheats with a woman her risk is still very low. How is that so hard to grasp?\n\n\n\n\nThe risk to the woman is almost exactly the same as it is for insertive anal sex with a HIV positive man. Stop lying lmao\n\n\n\n > SHE WOULD BE\n\n > That’s the whole fucking point\n\n\n\n****Not if the wife doesn't know about it, your whole basis for your argument of why gay people should be banned even if they're in a monogamous relationship because \"hurr durr they might cheat****","65"],["> Again; this is a lie, as per your own source. You are a liar. \n\nAlready addressed, learn to read.\n\n\n > You’ve been linked the cdc stats showing you are wrong. Calling me a liar won’t make it true. \n\nThe CDC didn't say anything of the sort lmao, I provided a link to the actual CDC study that lists the risk of infection per act from an infected source.","76"],["> Who the hell wants to go to school for four years to be a police officer?\n\nSomeone who wants to earn a six figure salary?\n\n\nLess Police isn't a bad thing, put more funding into mental health support and don't use Police as a catch all \"deal with this person\" role.\n\nSomeone threatening to commit suicide? Why not send someone who is trained in talking someone down from suicide instead of a random cop?","582"],["> ***between*** 99.8% and 100%\n\n\nNothing medical is foolproof, you shouldn't be having any blood transfusions, surgery or medical care at any time if any risk is unacceptable to you.\n\n\n99.8% effectiveness is also for positive samples, meaning you'd need to have a million HIV positive people donate blood before you'd have the risk of 200 possible failures. As there's barely a 10th of that population living with HIV in the UK, i'd say we're pretty safe","65"],["Then why do you say nothing when a bank gets a tax cut that single handedly reduces its tax obligation by billions, despite ever increasing profit margins?\n\n\nWhy do Republicans only get angry about the idea of the Government giving money to people when it’s not in the form of a bailout or subsidy to large companies?\n\n\nAgain: Why should I have to pay off a banks financial obligations. They took a loan, just pay it back. Not that hard, right? Why do Banks have the ability to get occasional bailouts but the idea of doing something that’s already easily possible makes everyone here meltdown at the prospect","499"],["That’s not what I’m asking though.\n\n\nWhy would exactly 0 Republicans turn up their noses if a bank needed a bailout tomorrow and yet student loan forgiveness is a foreign concept despite the fact that one obviously benefits average citizens a lot more than the other.\n\n\n\nThis pandemic has shown pretty clearly that all the magic money trees and “we can’t possible afford that” goes out the window instantly when politicians want to.\n\n\n\n\nCan you give an actual reason why not besides “they got a loan, therefore they need to pay it back” since I’ve shown that taking out a loan means fucking nothing for any other group of people if they have issues with repayment?","499"],["Except an end to bail outs would lead to a run on the banks on 2008 and mass defaults, your economy is now dead for the foreseeable future.\n\n\nBailouts aren’t a bad and spooky thing, they happen literally all the time. The bad part is that for some reason Americans who would directly benefit from the help it would give them will argue against it while billionaires will happily accept the tax cuts \n\n\n2% of the annual US military budget could end homelessness in the US (estimated around $20 billion)\n\n\nWhich would benefit you more? An unnoticeable 2% increase in the US military spending or literally everyone in the US able to live in housing?\n\n\n<PERSON> gets millions written off his taxes by claiming that all his businesses are unprofitable but the idea of a college student having 50k of Federal student loan debt cancelled by the federal government (something they could literally do tomorrow if they chose to) is too far?\n\n\nYou do you man, you’ve gotta stop acting like a temporarily embarrassed-millionaire who’s down on their luck and who is gonna make it big one day and realise that you also deserve your share of the cake, rather than letting the cake be siphoned off to the Maldives to escape Us taxes","264"],["And like I ***literally*** just said, it only applies if they try to charge you with drug dealing. If it’s clearly for personal use and you’re an addict consuming the drug regularly then you’ll face a fine at most. Find a personal drug user in Portugal charged with drug dealing because they have more than 10 days worth of a drug at a time where it was blatant that they’d been only using it themselves \n\n\n\n\n\nAnd no, you keep repeating it but it’s not forced rehab. Read your own quotes from the law.\n\n\nIf you have 3 days worth of Heroin then no crime has been committed, if you’ve got a months worth of heroin *and* it’s clearly for personal use then the court suspends all sentencing if you go to rehab. That’s a fraction of all drug users, the vast majority of drug arrests are for small personal amounts of a few grams at a time.\n\n\n\nDude, just learn what you’re talking about rather than just quoting headlines. Drugs are decriminalised in Portugal, nobody said they were fully legal. No shit if you’re a drug dealer you can still be arrested for selling drugs.","615"],["Literally when did I say it would be the child's fault.\n\n\nFuck me, 3 replies with the same fucking response. Have none of you ever heard of survivor guilt? People blame themselves after surviving or going through traumatic experiences that were 100% out of their control because \"Why did I survive when X didn't\" or \"If I did Y differently then X wouldn't have happened\".\n\n\nEither quote where I said it was the child's fault or stop tring to put words in my mouth because you're incapable of accepting that a kid would probably blame themself if they spread Covid to a family member and they later died.\n\n\nFuck, if I spread Covid to my girlfriend's mum who's going through Chemo i'd feel fucking awful about it. You might wanna go study up on how emotions work if you can't understand that.","335"],["I don't think it's that far apart but if i'm wrong i'm more than happy to be corrected.\n\n\n\nEngland is more densely connected to the world too, Heathrow was probably a huge source of early Covid spread to the UK whereas Scotland doesn't have any airports of the same size that deal with the same qualitity and distance of international flights \n\n\nNot to say the UK government didn't fuck up Covid OFC, they did fucking terrible.","852"],["Mind naming some examples of US military interventions that began with an invasion force of 20 trucks and no jet/tank support and then (after entering the country <PERSON> apparently wants to start a war with) waited for several days for no apparent reason?\n\nLike, literally any?\n\nA single one?\n\n\n\nThe US already operates military bases in Syria and has drones capable of flying more than 300 miles at once (since they've got neighbouring allies). They don't need to setup any of that stuff, it already exists and if it didn't it wouldn't come in the form of 20 trucks with no wider military support.\n\n[<PERSON> left hundreds of soldiers in Eastern Syria back in 2019](_URL_2_) and [they already operate military bases there](_URL_0_) \n\n[The Syrian Government even complained about the fact that the US has military bases in Syria](_URL_1_)\n\nYou're not making any sense lmao.","819"],["> He's investing more into the middle east, regardless of what exactly is in those trucks\n\nSupport and logistics assets, the same thing the US has been continually doing when they support local groups in Syria that claim to be the actual Government. If you're outraged about that then you should have been outraged for the past 50 years.\n\n\n\n > If it's not anything against the Trumpian policy of leaving the middle east, why the suspicious timing of being right after the inauguration?\n\nLeaving the middle east....and leaving hundreds of soldiers behind in Syria alone? Haha, what? How can he want to leave the Middle East and also leave a military base open and also leave soldiers stationed around oil fields in Eastern Syria? Literally makes 0 sense \n\n > We know the general staff did not cooperate with <PERSON>'s policy. If they had plans to re-engage then right after the inauguration is when it would begin.\n\n\nAnd they've what? Invaded Syria despite already having assets in the area that they could use more easily? If you was complaining about <PERSON> moving thousands of tanks across Jorden towards Syria maybe I'd see your point. But a 20 truck convoy carrying supplies into a rebel-held area in the Middle East to give them supplies isn't WW3 in American foreign policy. If they wanted to invade Syria why is there 0 movement at all at any of the other bases that would be clear launching off points for an invasion/attack?\n\n\n\n\n\n > Someone terrorist is going to take a crack at american convoys eventually, and then what? Peacefully give up on whatever operation is in progress?\n\nWhereas they're incapable of doing the same with the hundreds of soldiers that <PERSON> left in Syria? They're all just magical and etherial and incapable of being shot by terrorists?","819"],["You do realise price isn't a 1:1 correlation with quantity, right? \n\nMeth in some countries costs a lot less than in other countries. New Zealand and Australia have extremely strict drug checks on incoming packages, therefore Meth is either produced in Australia or is expensive.\n\n\nMeanwhile, the EU has a mainland connection to all of Asia and Africa. Totally comparable lmao","79"],["> The United States should not be interfering with the politics of other states. If the Syrians want a civil war that's for them to sort out. Everything the US touches in that cursed place turns to shit.\n\nAnd when Al Quada v2 comes up threatening the US? Just let them accrue power in the Middle East until they're actually capable of threatening the US and then doing something?\n\n\n > Then they're maintainance or escalation. Both are bad. \n\n\nMaintainance that's been ongoing since the Middle East has been noticed by colonial powers. Again, would you rather enemies accrue power in the Middle East until it destabilises to the point of threatening the US?\n\n\n > The US doesn't have a history of trying to control and puppet Middle Eastern dictators right? Why would I be concerned about what the US is wanting to do in the mid-East? 😂\n\nYea, i'm sure the main invasion force is coming from 20 trucks when hundreds of soldiers were already there. Ya found them out","819"],["No. Read my original text, I specifically asked for an example of an athlete who clearly transitioned for an advantage. Here, i'll help you.\n\n\n - \"Got some examples of any athletes changing their genders to get an advantage?\"\n\n\nSee, crazy what reading can get ya.\n\n\nThe Athlete you originally mentioned, <PERSON>, is apparently such a liar that they've kept up their lie (just for winning the athlete awards, totally no other reason despite her being on testosterone suppressants for a year and therefore having 0 advantage over a female athlete) for another 4 years.\n\n\n > <PERSON>\n\n\nThe one who has been on Estrogen for almost 6 years now? That one? \n\n\nBuddy, after 6 years you're not gonna be as strong as the equivilant guy. Muscle mass decreases\n\n\nOr are you gonna be incapable of reading what I wrote and you're just hearing what you want me to say rather than what I'm actually saying because you realise you've got 0 argument","253"],["> If you insist on being comparable, look at your chart. The biggest pie is SEA, with combined population of 650mil. 10 times the population, yet only 2 times the market value.\n\n\nAgain: Meth is more expensive in some places than others, some countries consume more meth (especially poorer countries). You're comparing apples to oranges because you forgot that drugs aren't equal prices worldwide.\n\n\nThe EU paper you linked literally talks about EU smuggling to Australia, the price rises 7-10x from the cheapest EU country to Australia.","841"],["> According to the report\n\n\nAh, cool. Let's see who this report is from.\n\n - Syrian state news agency SANA reports\n\nAh, cool. Let's see who they are.\n\n[Oh look, they're a <PERSON> paper who it would be directly advantagous for to paint a picture of the US helping anti-Government rebels](_URL_0_). What a surprise.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe only one who's gonna be coping is you for the next 8 years :)","0"],["Literally when did I say the convoy didn’t exist. I said that the claims of helicopters that have 0 evidence of existing outside of random unnamed Syrian locals that a Syrian propaganda news station spoke to. No photos like the rest of the convoy, no flight tracking data showing any US military ariel movements \n\n\nCope","226"],["Lmao, I don’t support <PERSON> at all. He’s gonna be a warmonger like every single US president of the last century. The difference is that I’m not gonna cry and pretend it’s WW3 because 20 trucks carrying supplies entered a rebel held place in Syria, just like they’ve done for decades","308"],["Ya, it does. Literally all presidents, regardless of party are scum that only support what’s politically viable to support with their own agendas added.\n\n\nThe difference is I don’t pretend like it’s only Democrats who couldn’t give less of a fuck about the average person\n\n\nYou are capable of processing that, right? That someone can simultaneous not support the Democrats and the Republicans? Or is that too foreign of a concept for you to understand? \n\n\nNot gonna bother replying more, DM me if you’d like to complain about things as consistent as the sky being blue some more. 10 minute delays between comments is too much effort for such shitty arguments","313"],["> Depression is a physiological state, and no matter what substance you take, that physiological state will still be present unless you change the lifestyle factor that's preventing you from being healthy/happy\n\nI suffered from self harm and depression for years before I started taking anti depressants last year, they massively helped. Why would an anti depressant help someone suffering from depression while a psychadelic can't? \n\nThere are 100% chemical causes within the body that cause depression, that's the whole point of anti depressants","739"],["> But those chemical causes are not random or arbitrary, they're a result of your body not having the resources to produce an optimal chemical state. \n\nWhich is exactly what anti depressants do\n\n\n > For example certain B vitamins are involved in creating the precursors for serotonin (the brain chemical that SSRIs interact with), and those B vitamins are \"activated\" (via a process called phosphorylation) in the liver using minerals like zinc\n\n\nAnd what happens when the root cause of the depression is because the brain is reuptaking serotonin too strongly? Literally no amount of pumping your body full of Iron or vitamin B is going to help you, literally the only help that could be offered is an SSRI to increase the effectiveness of the Serotonin already inside your body.\n\n\n\n > and instead of solving something in a year it turns into a life-long battle of hopping from drug to drug.\n\nAnd what happens to those people who don't \"solve it in a year\" and instead end up ending their own life? Studies have shown the effectiveness of SSRI's, without them I probably wouldn't be here now.\n\n\n\n\n > I think the best things people can do are to eat intuitive, balanced meals they enjoy (balances of carbs/protein/fat that feels good, even at breakfast; so not just toast/cereal) and to go out walking/jogging (walk a bit then run slowly then walk again) every other day. Doing that can cover a multitude of sins and help people return to a state in which neurochemicals and hormonal profile is healthier.\n\nSorry, but anyone who's been through depression knows this advice is trash. Eating healthy and going for a walk isn't gonna stop someone wanting to end their own life and cutting themself.\n\n\nDepression isn't being sad that you can fix by just going for a quick walk, it's not showering for a week because you can't be bothered to get out of bed, it's wishing you were dead because you're just a burden on everyone else, it's not wanting to leave your house for any reason because being out in public feels massively uncomfortable.\n\n\nA walk doesn't fix that.","739"],["If only <PERSON> had his own website, Twitter account and press releases where he could submit evidence of fraud rather than just stringing along idiots by making unsubstantiated claims.\n\n\nOh wait, he does.\n\nI'd love to know how Google would prevent <PERSON> from holding a White House press briefing and laying out all evidence of fraud in the 2020 elections. I wonder why he's too afraid to do so?","452"],["> ecause your side censored discussion of the topic\n\nBy \"my side\" you mean Google, saying that you can't post conspiracy theories on YouTube? \n\nI get that you've got a pretty poor understanding of how the internet works but Google isn't the controller of all the internet, you can still post things online if Google doesn't want you to.\n\n\n > The trouble is, we can't have that debate anymore because Google has censored it.\n\n\nWe're having this debate right now, wtf are you talking about.\n\n\nAgain: Why are <PERSON>'s lawyers too afraid to claim it was fraud like the President has frequently claimed the trials are about?","106"],["> By \"your side\" I mean every major U.S. corporation. Your side is Wall Street, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, academia, the deep state, all the institutions of real power. Your side is The Cathedral.\n\n\nDamn, all US corporations have decided that they're gonna join my side and start treating their workers fairly with fair compensation and strong worker rights? Glad to hear it.\n\n\nOh wait, you don't realise that the only two options aren't \"Democrat\" or \"Republican\". \n\n\n > No we're not, because that requires both sides. All we've got is your side.\n\n\nThe other side is <PERSON>'s lawyers, are you seriously claiming that they're unable to claim there was fraud despite the fact that Google has literally nothing to do with a court procedure?\n\n\nAgain: ***Why has <PERSON> claimed he has evidence of fraud and then not provided any of the evidence?*** You can't cry and blame Google when <PERSON> claimed he had evidence of fraud a month ago and still hasn't had a single lawyer present their evidence in court.","23"],["> Scroll through the comments here and see how many times your side is making that exact argument.\n\n\nHow poor is your understanding of politics if you think everyone who thinks <PERSON> is an idiot who is baselessly claiming fraud is on the same side?\n\n\nYou're the poster child of the reason people want a test to be carried out before someone votes.\n\n\n\n\n > That's right, because the only two options are actually the rebels or The Cathedral.\n\n\nWhat the fuck are you talking about?\n\n\n\n\n\nFor the third fucking time:\n\n\n***Why hasn't <PERSON> offered evidence in the over a month since he lost the election of any type of fraud?***","210"],["> But sir, we just fined Facebook last month. \n\nOh, I'll have to tell the Police next time I get a fine for speeding that they actually can't fine me again because I already have a fine from last month.\n\n\n > Fine them for what? For breaking some law, who cares?\n\n\nIf only these laws had been on the books since 2009 with it being pretty clear you need to ask a user's consent before adding cookies to a user's browser. \n\n\nOr was 11 years not enough for Google to stop breaking the law?\n\n\nI'd love to know the reality you live in where a modern country's budget defecit is settled by a $100 million fine. It's literally 1/300th the amount of money that France pays on it interest alone for 2019.","99"],["That's kinda what my experience with mental health services was too. \n\n\n\nI didn't have any reason for feeling depressed itself and I hate talking to strangers so I made it pretty clear i'd prefer being prescribed something rather than going to counselling when there isn't (as far as I can tell) any underlying cause.\n\nMy girlfriend ended up going through the same process, getting ignored my GP's who only gave scribbled down phone numbers for unrelated services (Such as being given an alcohol addiction helpline number despite not mentioning alcohol abuse once).\n\n\n\nMental health gets a lot of talk and media attention but I don't know anyone who's been through the process of seeking mental health support who has actually felt happy with the process.\n\n\nI haven't heard anything about Covid directly causing Covid although I suppose it's not surprising when people are self-isolating and being sick with little to no human contact is pretty depressing in and of itself.\n\n\nHope you feel better soon anyway!","739"],["Eh, kinda depends. $2.50 from each passenger ticket goes towards the TSA so if they removed the TSA they'd also presumably remove the ticket fee.\n\n[It would technically reduce the deficit by ~$7.9 billion ](_URL_0_) if the TSA just suddenly ceased to exist overnight, in reality it'd be less though since the full ~$7.9 billion doesn't all come from normal tax revenue.","780"],["Again: The EU and Europe are different. European import laws aren't a concept, not all countries are EU members. The EU decides the import and export tariffs for EU members, nobody else.\n\n\nAndorra, Armenia, Belarus, Iceland, Georgia, Armenia, etc are all in Europe, none of them are EU members. Being a European nation isn't even a requirement to be in the EU, there have been frequent discussions about future expansion into Northern African countries and how politically viable it'd be.","437"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"[Fouth generation hiv tests are between 99.8% and 100% accurate based on CDC studies](_URL_0_)\\n\\n\\nThat’s not even the argument that was used against using blood donations from gay people, the original complaint was the increasing costs of testing blood due to more positive tests when carrying out pooling tests of multiple samples at once.\\n\\n\\nYou can’t seriously argue that the NHS should be 100% fine with accepting blood from a straight guy who sleeps around every night while also saying that there needs to be a blanket ban on all gay people donating blood, regardless of if they’ve been married 5 years and that’s their only sexual partner.\\n\\nEDIT: Replying with \\\"ackshually if you had sex with a literal prostitute you need to wait 3 months\\\" isn't the gotcha on monogamous gay men donating blood you think it is.\",\n \"65\"\n ],\n [\n \"Who said anything about predicting the future? I gave you an article from 2016 citing the exact food issues that were obvious to be caused by leaving the EU at the time. \\n\\n\\n\\nIt was painfully obvious in 2016 and the majority of the people saying it was a dumb idea to blindly go into a referendum was stating these exact points:\\n\\n - Nobody has a unified idea of what the UK wants \\n\\n\\n - Nobody has any fucking clue how to negotiate that\\n\\n - The UK is smaller than the EU, therefore it's immediately at a disadvantage in trade talks\\n\\n\\n\\nBut hey, keep thinking it's predicting the future to work out that leaving a trading union that you get the majority of your food and imports from means you will have shortages in food and goods.\\n\\nEDIT: Since you love these amazing future predictions so much though\\n\\n\\n _URL_1_\\n\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\n_URL_2_\",\n \"564\"\n ],\n [\n \"> They are the UK's police of the sea the weapons the have are there because of the dangers they face doing that job. \\n\\nYea, gotta look out for those French fishermen incase they throw a piece of haddock at ya.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n > Funny how no one had a problem with them having those guns while protecting the French fishermen from illegal fishing from outside the EU. \\n\\n\\\"Funny how no one had a problem with protecting from actual illegal fishing activities rather than threatening allies and neighbouring countries\\\"\\n\\n\\nYou're a lil' bit dense aren't ya?\\n\\n\\nI'm sure the French fishermen are quaking in their boots at a 2 boat presence across the entirety of the UK's waters.\",\n \"485\"\n ],\n [\n \"Sure.\\n\\n\\n\\nThreatening to starve Ireland out if trade agreements couldn't be arranged.\\n\\nThe month-long circle jerk that all right-wing media in the UK had over the idea of the Royal Navy invading Spain to protect Gibraltar.\\n\\n\\nComparing the EU to the USSR (<PERSON>)\\n\\nComparing the EU to <PERSON> and <PERSON> (<PERSON>)\\n\\n[Or how about turning away, literally disrespecting the entire institution of the EU Parliament?](_URL_0_)\\n\\nWant me to go on?\",\n \"437\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Have you had gay sex in the last 3 months? No? Okay we will take your blood because there's no risk of hiv to transfer\\n\\n\\nYou do realise that HIV can spread in many ways that isn't through gay sex, right? Straight people can get aids, asexual people can get aids, it's not a gay only thing.\\n\\n\\n > Why was this change even necessary when it literally exists as a precaution to not spread disease...\\n\\nMaybe learn why this change was necessary and why it was implemented before just looking dumb\",\n \"65\"\n ],\n [\n \"_URL_0_\\n\\nHere's the NHS blood donation requirements.\\n\\nYou could go out, have anal sex with a stranger and then go right out to donate blood with no issues at all. \\n\\n\\nA gay man, living in a monogamous relationship where their husband is their only partner, using condoms and any form of contraceptive protection from STD's would still be banned from donating blood unless they didn't have sex for three months.\\n\\n\\nRegardless of what you think - That clearly doesn't make any sense other that homophobia. You can have a risky straight person allowed to donate blood but a safe gay person banned.\",\n \"640\"\n ],\n [\n \"Which also makes zero sense, your blood isn't permanently turned into some black slurry if you were paid for sex once when you were 20 and you're now 40.\\n\\n\\nThe rules they set are so painfully contradictory there's literally no defense of them.\\n\\nPerson A is gay, has had sex once his entire life and it was with their husband. They are banned from donating blood for 3 months under old rules.\\n\\nPerson B is a 60 year old woman who was a prostitute when she was 20. She's banned from donating blood forever.\\n\\n\\nPerson C goes out around town on a Saturday night before his Monday blood donation sleeping with any girl he fancies. He's able to donate blood normally and without any issues.\\n\\n\\n[61% of respondents admitted that they'd ignore the restrictions anyway, meaning they're essentially useless and only serve to make people not admit to **potentially** risky behaviour that could be used to screen further](_URL_0_).\\n\\n\\nWhy admit you were a prostitute 30 years ago if it'd block you from donating blood for no reason? Why not 29? 28? It'll get slid down by people who are deciding based on their own feelings instead of the science making it far riskier than if the NHS said \\\"No people who have acted as prostitutes for the last 3 months\\\" would ever be.\",\n \"772\"\n ],\n [\n \"You're right, he's just lying and hoping he doesn't get called out. They specifically ask if you're a man who has had sex with another man when you give blood, it has nothing to do with anal and even applies to oral sex with a man despite there being almost no evidence that oral sex can even spread HIV without both people involved having massive open sores in their mouth and on their penis.\",\n \"65\"\n ],\n [\n \"Kids don't exist in a habitat completely separated and isolated from the other age groups. \\n\\n\\nUni students went back in the UK leading to a spike of Uni student cases, leading to a spike in cases of people in the local areas leading to a nationwide spike in cases in all age groups because Uni students spread the infection.\",\n \"110\"\n ],\n [\n \"Except the rules put in place have literally nothing to do with health, why can a straight guy who sleeps around with literally any girl who gives him a second glance donate blood freely while a guy in a monogamous relationship with only 1 sexual partner can't? There's a vastly higher chance of getting HIV from the straight guy than the gay guy.\",\n \"418\"\n ],\n [\n \"[Go tell the NHS that then](_URL_0_)\\n\\n\\nAnal sex is only mentioned twice on the entire page, first for men who have sex with men (even including Oral despite it posing almost no HIV transmission risk) and the second is for women who've had sex with a man who has had anal sex.\\n\\n\\nNothing stops a woman from having anal sex with strangers all night and then donating blood. I guess women's arseholes are magical and able to prevent HIV from entering?\",\n \"65\"\n ],\n [\n \"No you don't lmao, how are you failing to understand this.\\n\\n\\nPerson A has sex with women he meets at a pub on a night out every single week without a condom.\\n\\nPerson B is gay and has only had sex with their husband while using a condom and nobody else.\\n\\nPerson A is objectively more at risk of spreading HIV, Person B isn't gonna magically develop HIV by virtue of him just being gay. Why should person B be banned from donating blood when Person A is far riskier?\",\n \"65\"\n ],\n [\n \"> How many people do you think are regularly out here having heterosexual sexual contact with 9 people in a night to begin with?\\n\\n\\nWhy does it matter? Why is one group of people allowed while another isn't.\\n\\n\\n > If you turn round and say that you just had a 9 person orgy and you're unsure whether all of them were \\\"safe\\\", then you will not be allowed to donate.\\n\\nAnd if the people in the 9 person orgy were all your friends and female? All good then.\\n\\nIf the other 8 people at the orgy were friends and guys? The horror! Now you must have aids!\\n\\n\\nYou've got such little clue what you're talking about it's actually adorable.\\n\\n\\nTell ya what, I'll try make it bold this time since you've got such issues reading.\\n\\n\\n\\n***Tell me why it's acceptable for a straight guy to sleep around without any protection and be fine to donate blood but a gay guy having sex once with a condom is a limiting factor?***\",\n \"442\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Person B is imaginary. In real life there’s 10,000 Person Bs and if some of their partners cheat they will be at a higher risk of HIV than 10,000 Person As. \\n\\nCheating isn't a gay only thing, not sure if you knew that one.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n > unless you have absolute proof that you and your partner aren’t cheating. In real life we don’t have that.\\n\\nSo, like I've already said: Where's the proof that a husband isn't cheating on their wife and spreading HIV? Why isn't the wife banned from donating blood because their husband could have cheated on them and passed HIV to them?\\n\\nOr what if the Husband is a drug addict? He could catch HIV from sharing needles, therefore the wife must also be banned too right?\\n\\n\\n\\nPerson A's HIV risk isn't lower, why are you just lying? Do you not realise that vaginal sex is still capable of passing on HIV?\",\n \"65\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Most HIV diagnoses in this country are gay men.\\n\\nLie.\\n\\n\\n40% HIV diagnosis were from gay ***and bisexual*** men [and the rate of infection is at a decades low rate](_URL_0_)\\n\\n\\n > Straight men have a very low rate of having HIV. Therefore a man who has anal sex with a man has a high chance of catching it.\\n\\n\\nThe chance of catching HIV by having insertive anal sex with a man is the same comparable to both receptive and insertive vaginal sex.\\n\\n\\nYou can't complain about the risk of a man getting HIV while ignoring all risk factors that reduce the chance of them having HIV massively while ignoring the fact that the risk is roughly the same for women and if you're gonna use the \\\"what if their partner cheats\\\" argument on gay people you need to apply it to everyone.\\n\\n\\nBlack people are also disproportionately represented in HIV diagnosis too, I'm guessing you'll be calling for a ban on all black people donating blood soon as well I presume?\",\n \"65\"\n ],\n [\n \"> MSM make up > 5% of the population but > 50% new and > 70% historical HIV diagnosis.\\n\\n\\n40%*\\n\\n\\n \\n\\n > There isn’t any. If her husband cheats with a woman her risk is still very low. How is that so hard to grasp?\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nThe risk to the woman is almost exactly the same as it is for insertive anal sex with a HIV positive man. Stop lying lmao\\n\\n\\n\\n > SHE WOULD BE\\n\\n > That’s the whole fucking point\\n\\n\\n\\n****Not if the wife doesn't know about it, your whole basis for your argument of why gay people should be banned even if they're in a monogamous relationship because \\\"hurr durr they might cheat****\",\n \"65\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Again; this is a lie, as per your own source. You are a liar. \\n\\nAlready addressed, learn to read.\\n\\n\\n > You’ve been linked the cdc stats showing you are wrong. Calling me a liar won’t make it true. \\n\\nThe CDC didn't say anything of the sort lmao, I provided a link to the actual CDC study that lists the risk of infection per act from an infected source.\",\n \"76\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Who the hell wants to go to school for four years to be a police officer?\\n\\nSomeone who wants to earn a six figure salary?\\n\\n\\nLess Police isn't a bad thing, put more funding into mental health support and don't use Police as a catch all \\\"deal with this person\\\" role.\\n\\nSomeone threatening to commit suicide? Why not send someone who is trained in talking someone down from suicide instead of a random cop?\",\n \"582\"\n ],\n [\n \"> ***between*** 99.8% and 100%\\n\\n\\nNothing medical is foolproof, you shouldn't be having any blood transfusions, surgery or medical care at any time if any risk is unacceptable to you.\\n\\n\\n99.8% effectiveness is also for positive samples, meaning you'd need to have a million HIV positive people donate blood before you'd have the risk of 200 possible failures. As there's barely a 10th of that population living with HIV in the UK, i'd say we're pretty safe\",\n \"65\"\n ],\n [\n \"Then why do you say nothing when a bank gets a tax cut that single handedly reduces its tax obligation by billions, despite ever increasing profit margins?\\n\\n\\nWhy do Republicans only get angry about the idea of the Government giving money to people when it’s not in the form of a bailout or subsidy to large companies?\\n\\n\\nAgain: Why should I have to pay off a banks financial obligations. They took a loan, just pay it back. Not that hard, right? Why do Banks have the ability to get occasional bailouts but the idea of doing something that’s already easily possible makes everyone here meltdown at the prospect\",\n \"499\"\n ],\n [\n \"That’s not what I’m asking though.\\n\\n\\nWhy would exactly 0 Republicans turn up their noses if a bank needed a bailout tomorrow and yet student loan forgiveness is a foreign concept despite the fact that one obviously benefits average citizens a lot more than the other.\\n\\n\\n\\nThis pandemic has shown pretty clearly that all the magic money trees and “we can’t possible afford that” goes out the window instantly when politicians want to.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nCan you give an actual reason why not besides “they got a loan, therefore they need to pay it back” since I’ve shown that taking out a loan means fucking nothing for any other group of people if they have issues with repayment?\",\n \"499\"\n ],\n [\n \"Except an end to bail outs would lead to a run on the banks on 2008 and mass defaults, your economy is now dead for the foreseeable future.\\n\\n\\nBailouts aren’t a bad and spooky thing, they happen literally all the time. The bad part is that for some reason Americans who would directly benefit from the help it would give them will argue against it while billionaires will happily accept the tax cuts \\n\\n\\n2% of the annual US military budget could end homelessness in the US (estimated around $20 billion)\\n\\n\\nWhich would benefit you more? An unnoticeable 2% increase in the US military spending or literally everyone in the US able to live in housing?\\n\\n\\n<PERSON> gets millions written off his taxes by claiming that all his businesses are unprofitable but the idea of a college student having 50k of Federal student loan debt cancelled by the federal government (something they could literally do tomorrow if they chose to) is too far?\\n\\n\\nYou do you man, you’ve gotta stop acting like a temporarily embarrassed-millionaire who’s down on their luck and who is gonna make it big one day and realise that you also deserve your share of the cake, rather than letting the cake be siphoned off to the Maldives to escape Us taxes\",\n \"264\"\n ],\n [\n \"And like I ***literally*** just said, it only applies if they try to charge you with drug dealing. If it’s clearly for personal use and you’re an addict consuming the drug regularly then you’ll face a fine at most. Find a personal drug user in Portugal charged with drug dealing because they have more than 10 days worth of a drug at a time where it was blatant that they’d been only using it themselves \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nAnd no, you keep repeating it but it’s not forced rehab. Read your own quotes from the law.\\n\\n\\nIf you have 3 days worth of Heroin then no crime has been committed, if you’ve got a months worth of heroin *and* it’s clearly for personal use then the court suspends all sentencing if you go to rehab. That’s a fraction of all drug users, the vast majority of drug arrests are for small personal amounts of a few grams at a time.\\n\\n\\n\\nDude, just learn what you’re talking about rather than just quoting headlines. Drugs are decriminalised in Portugal, nobody said they were fully legal. No shit if you’re a drug dealer you can still be arrested for selling drugs.\",\n \"615\"\n ],\n [\n \"Literally when did I say it would be the child's fault.\\n\\n\\nFuck me, 3 replies with the same fucking response. Have none of you ever heard of survivor guilt? People blame themselves after surviving or going through traumatic experiences that were 100% out of their control because \\\"Why did I survive when X didn't\\\" or \\\"If I did Y differently then X wouldn't have happened\\\".\\n\\n\\nEither quote where I said it was the child's fault or stop tring to put words in my mouth because you're incapable of accepting that a kid would probably blame themself if they spread Covid to a family member and they later died.\\n\\n\\nFuck, if I spread Covid to my girlfriend's mum who's going through Chemo i'd feel fucking awful about it. You might wanna go study up on how emotions work if you can't understand that.\",\n \"335\"\n ],\n [\n \"I don't think it's that far apart but if i'm wrong i'm more than happy to be corrected.\\n\\n\\n\\nEngland is more densely connected to the world too, Heathrow was probably a huge source of early Covid spread to the UK whereas Scotland doesn't have any airports of the same size that deal with the same qualitity and distance of international flights \\n\\n\\nNot to say the UK government didn't fuck up Covid OFC, they did fucking terrible.\",\n \"852\"\n ],\n [\n \"Mind naming some examples of US military interventions that began with an invasion force of 20 trucks and no jet/tank support and then (after entering the country <PERSON> apparently wants to start a war with) waited for several days for no apparent reason?\\n\\nLike, literally any?\\n\\nA single one?\\n\\n\\n\\nThe US already operates military bases in Syria and has drones capable of flying more than 300 miles at once (since they've got neighbouring allies). They don't need to setup any of that stuff, it already exists and if it didn't it wouldn't come in the form of 20 trucks with no wider military support.\\n\\n[<PERSON> left hundreds of soldiers in Eastern Syria back in 2019](_URL_2_) and [they already operate military bases there](_URL_0_) \\n\\n[The Syrian Government even complained about the fact that the US has military bases in Syria](_URL_1_)\\n\\nYou're not making any sense lmao.\",\n \"819\"\n ],\n [\n \"> He's investing more into the middle east, regardless of what exactly is in those trucks\\n\\nSupport and logistics assets, the same thing the US has been continually doing when they support local groups in Syria that claim to be the actual Government. If you're outraged about that then you should have been outraged for the past 50 years.\\n\\n\\n\\n > If it's not anything against the Trumpian policy of leaving the middle east, why the suspicious timing of being right after the inauguration?\\n\\nLeaving the middle east....and leaving hundreds of soldiers behind in Syria alone? Haha, what? How can he want to leave the Middle East and also leave a military base open and also leave soldiers stationed around oil fields in Eastern Syria? Literally makes 0 sense \\n\\n > We know the general staff did not cooperate with <PERSON>'s policy. If they had plans to re-engage then right after the inauguration is when it would begin.\\n\\n\\nAnd they've what? Invaded Syria despite already having assets in the area that they could use more easily? If you was complaining about <PERSON> moving thousands of tanks across Jorden towards Syria maybe I'd see your point. But a 20 truck convoy carrying supplies into a rebel-held area in the Middle East to give them supplies isn't WW3 in American foreign policy. If they wanted to invade Syria why is there 0 movement at all at any of the other bases that would be clear launching off points for an invasion/attack?\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n > Someone terrorist is going to take a crack at american convoys eventually, and then what? Peacefully give up on whatever operation is in progress?\\n\\nWhereas they're incapable of doing the same with the hundreds of soldiers that <PERSON> left in Syria? They're all just magical and etherial and incapable of being shot by terrorists?\",\n \"819\"\n ],\n [\n \"You do realise price isn't a 1:1 correlation with quantity, right? \\n\\nMeth in some countries costs a lot less than in other countries. New Zealand and Australia have extremely strict drug checks on incoming packages, therefore Meth is either produced in Australia or is expensive.\\n\\n\\nMeanwhile, the EU has a mainland connection to all of Asia and Africa. Totally comparable lmao\",\n \"79\"\n ],\n [\n \"> The United States should not be interfering with the politics of other states. If the Syrians want a civil war that's for them to sort out. Everything the US touches in that cursed place turns to shit.\\n\\nAnd when Al Quada v2 comes up threatening the US? Just let them accrue power in the Middle East until they're actually capable of threatening the US and then doing something?\\n\\n\\n > Then they're maintainance or escalation. Both are bad. \\n\\n\\nMaintainance that's been ongoing since the Middle East has been noticed by colonial powers. Again, would you rather enemies accrue power in the Middle East until it destabilises to the point of threatening the US?\\n\\n\\n > The US doesn't have a history of trying to control and puppet Middle Eastern dictators right? Why would I be concerned about what the US is wanting to do in the mid-East? 😂\\n\\nYea, i'm sure the main invasion force is coming from 20 trucks when hundreds of soldiers were already there. Ya found them out\",\n \"819\"\n ],\n [\n \"No. Read my original text, I specifically asked for an example of an athlete who clearly transitioned for an advantage. Here, i'll help you.\\n\\n\\n - \\\"Got some examples of any athletes changing their genders to get an advantage?\\\"\\n\\n\\nSee, crazy what reading can get ya.\\n\\n\\nThe Athlete you originally mentioned, <PERSON>, is apparently such a liar that they've kept up their lie (just for winning the athlete awards, totally no other reason despite her being on testosterone suppressants for a year and therefore having 0 advantage over a female athlete) for another 4 years.\\n\\n\\n > <PERSON>\\n\\n\\nThe one who has been on Estrogen for almost 6 years now? That one? \\n\\n\\nBuddy, after 6 years you're not gonna be as strong as the equivilant guy. Muscle mass decreases\\n\\n\\nOr are you gonna be incapable of reading what I wrote and you're just hearing what you want me to say rather than what I'm actually saying because you realise you've got 0 argument\",\n \"253\"\n ],\n [\n \"> If you insist on being comparable, look at your chart. The biggest pie is SEA, with combined population of 650mil. 10 times the population, yet only 2 times the market value.\\n\\n\\nAgain: Meth is more expensive in some places than others, some countries consume more meth (especially poorer countries). You're comparing apples to oranges because you forgot that drugs aren't equal prices worldwide.\\n\\n\\nThe EU paper you linked literally talks about EU smuggling to Australia, the price rises 7-10x from the cheapest EU country to Australia.\",\n \"841\"\n ],\n [\n \"> According to the report\\n\\n\\nAh, cool. Let's see who this report is from.\\n\\n - Syrian state news agency SANA reports\\n\\nAh, cool. Let's see who they are.\\n\\n[Oh look, they're a <PERSON> paper who it would be directly advantagous for to paint a picture of the US helping anti-Government rebels](_URL_0_). What a surprise.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nThe only one who's gonna be coping is you for the next 8 years :)\",\n \"0\"\n ],\n [\n \"Literally when did I say the convoy didn’t exist. I said that the claims of helicopters that have 0 evidence of existing outside of random unnamed Syrian locals that a Syrian propaganda news station spoke to. No photos like the rest of the convoy, no flight tracking data showing any US military ariel movements \\n\\n\\nCope\",\n \"226\"\n ],\n [\n \"Lmao, I don’t support <PERSON> at all. He’s gonna be a warmonger like every single US president of the last century. The difference is that I’m not gonna cry and pretend it’s WW3 because 20 trucks carrying supplies entered a rebel held place in Syria, just like they’ve done for decades\",\n \"308\"\n ],\n [\n \"Ya, it does. Literally all presidents, regardless of party are scum that only support what’s politically viable to support with their own agendas added.\\n\\n\\nThe difference is I don’t pretend like it’s only Democrats who couldn’t give less of a fuck about the average person\\n\\n\\nYou are capable of processing that, right? That someone can simultaneous not support the Democrats and the Republicans? Or is that too foreign of a concept for you to understand? \\n\\n\\nNot gonna bother replying more, DM me if you’d like to complain about things as consistent as the sky being blue some more. 10 minute delays between comments is too much effort for such shitty arguments\",\n \"313\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Depression is a physiological state, and no matter what substance you take, that physiological state will still be present unless you change the lifestyle factor that's preventing you from being healthy/happy\\n\\nI suffered from self harm and depression for years before I started taking anti depressants last year, they massively helped. Why would an anti depressant help someone suffering from depression while a psychadelic can't? \\n\\nThere are 100% chemical causes within the body that cause depression, that's the whole point of anti depressants\",\n \"739\"\n ],\n [\n \"> But those chemical causes are not random or arbitrary, they're a result of your body not having the resources to produce an optimal chemical state. \\n\\nWhich is exactly what anti depressants do\\n\\n\\n > For example certain B vitamins are involved in creating the precursors for serotonin (the brain chemical that SSRIs interact with), and those B vitamins are \\\"activated\\\" (via a process called phosphorylation) in the liver using minerals like zinc\\n\\n\\nAnd what happens when the root cause of the depression is because the brain is reuptaking serotonin too strongly? Literally no amount of pumping your body full of Iron or vitamin B is going to help you, literally the only help that could be offered is an SSRI to increase the effectiveness of the Serotonin already inside your body.\\n\\n\\n\\n > and instead of solving something in a year it turns into a life-long battle of hopping from drug to drug.\\n\\nAnd what happens to those people who don't \\\"solve it in a year\\\" and instead end up ending their own life? Studies have shown the effectiveness of SSRI's, without them I probably wouldn't be here now.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n > I think the best things people can do are to eat intuitive, balanced meals they enjoy (balances of carbs/protein/fat that feels good, even at breakfast; so not just toast/cereal) and to go out walking/jogging (walk a bit then run slowly then walk again) every other day. Doing that can cover a multitude of sins and help people return to a state in which neurochemicals and hormonal profile is healthier.\\n\\nSorry, but anyone who's been through depression knows this advice is trash. Eating healthy and going for a walk isn't gonna stop someone wanting to end their own life and cutting themself.\\n\\n\\nDepression isn't being sad that you can fix by just going for a quick walk, it's not showering for a week because you can't be bothered to get out of bed, it's wishing you were dead because you're just a burden on everyone else, it's not wanting to leave your house for any reason because being out in public feels massively uncomfortable.\\n\\n\\nA walk doesn't fix that.\",\n \"739\"\n ],\n [\n \"If only <PERSON> had his own website, Twitter account and press releases where he could submit evidence of fraud rather than just stringing along idiots by making unsubstantiated claims.\\n\\n\\nOh wait, he does.\\n\\nI'd love to know how Google would prevent <PERSON> from holding a White House press briefing and laying out all evidence of fraud in the 2020 elections. I wonder why he's too afraid to do so?\",\n \"452\"\n ],\n [\n \"> ecause your side censored discussion of the topic\\n\\nBy \\\"my side\\\" you mean Google, saying that you can't post conspiracy theories on YouTube? \\n\\nI get that you've got a pretty poor understanding of how the internet works but Google isn't the controller of all the internet, you can still post things online if Google doesn't want you to.\\n\\n\\n > The trouble is, we can't have that debate anymore because Google has censored it.\\n\\n\\nWe're having this debate right now, wtf are you talking about.\\n\\n\\nAgain: Why are <PERSON>'s lawyers too afraid to claim it was fraud like the President has frequently claimed the trials are about?\",\n \"106\"\n ],\n [\n \"> By \\\"your side\\\" I mean every major U.S. corporation. Your side is Wall Street, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, academia, the deep state, all the institutions of real power. Your side is The Cathedral.\\n\\n\\nDamn, all US corporations have decided that they're gonna join my side and start treating their workers fairly with fair compensation and strong worker rights? Glad to hear it.\\n\\n\\nOh wait, you don't realise that the only two options aren't \\\"Democrat\\\" or \\\"Republican\\\". \\n\\n\\n > No we're not, because that requires both sides. All we've got is your side.\\n\\n\\nThe other side is <PERSON>'s lawyers, are you seriously claiming that they're unable to claim there was fraud despite the fact that Google has literally nothing to do with a court procedure?\\n\\n\\nAgain: ***Why has <PERSON> claimed he has evidence of fraud and then not provided any of the evidence?*** You can't cry and blame Google when <PERSON> claimed he had evidence of fraud a month ago and still hasn't had a single lawyer present their evidence in court.\",\n \"23\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Scroll through the comments here and see how many times your side is making that exact argument.\\n\\n\\nHow poor is your understanding of politics if you think everyone who thinks <PERSON> is an idiot who is baselessly claiming fraud is on the same side?\\n\\n\\nYou're the poster child of the reason people want a test to be carried out before someone votes.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n > That's right, because the only two options are actually the rebels or The Cathedral.\\n\\n\\nWhat the fuck are you talking about?\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nFor the third fucking time:\\n\\n\\n***Why hasn't <PERSON> offered evidence in the over a month since he lost the election of any type of fraud?***\",\n \"210\"\n ],\n [\n \"> But sir, we just fined Facebook last month. \\n\\nOh, I'll have to tell the Police next time I get a fine for speeding that they actually can't fine me again because I already have a fine from last month.\\n\\n\\n > Fine them for what? For breaking some law, who cares?\\n\\n\\nIf only these laws had been on the books since 2009 with it being pretty clear you need to ask a user's consent before adding cookies to a user's browser. \\n\\n\\nOr was 11 years not enough for Google to stop breaking the law?\\n\\n\\nI'd love to know the reality you live in where a modern country's budget defecit is settled by a $100 million fine. It's literally 1/300th the amount of money that France pays on it interest alone for 2019.\",\n \"99\"\n ],\n [\n \"That's kinda what my experience with mental health services was too. \\n\\n\\n\\nI didn't have any reason for feeling depressed itself and I hate talking to strangers so I made it pretty clear i'd prefer being prescribed something rather than going to counselling when there isn't (as far as I can tell) any underlying cause.\\n\\nMy girlfriend ended up going through the same process, getting ignored my GP's who only gave scribbled down phone numbers for unrelated services (Such as being given an alcohol addiction helpline number despite not mentioning alcohol abuse once).\\n\\n\\n\\nMental health gets a lot of talk and media attention but I don't know anyone who's been through the process of seeking mental health support who has actually felt happy with the process.\\n\\n\\nI haven't heard anything about Covid directly causing Covid although I suppose it's not surprising when people are self-isolating and being sick with little to no human contact is pretty depressing in and of itself.\\n\\n\\nHope you feel better soon anyway!\",\n \"739\"\n ],\n [\n \"Eh, kinda depends. $2.50 from each passenger ticket goes towards the TSA so if they removed the TSA they'd also presumably remove the ticket fee.\\n\\n[It would technically reduce the deficit by ~$7.9 billion ](_URL_0_) if the TSA just suddenly ceased to exist overnight, in reality it'd be less though since the full ~$7.9 billion doesn't all come from normal tax revenue.\",\n \"780\"\n ],\n [\n \"Again: The EU and Europe are different. 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The reasons they are pulling ratings are because they are actually REAL now. Reporters are grilling <PERSON> and it's not the same old stale 5 talking points reporters asking generic soft balls with the one token Fox guy asking a few real questions. They have video questions, and letting smaller outlets show that they are relevant, and really, they are a real wild card in the future because they aren't the establishment and have nothing to lose and everything to gain from creating the new path as the others struggle to adapt. \n\nThe reporters look like they are enjoying their jobs for the first time in a decade and now there is actual competition starting to take place beyond just ratings, but integrity. They've added a new dimension and it's really fascinating to watch unfold a completely new dynamic. I think either side of the fence you sit on, you have to admit that at least.","6"],["This is the one I understand the least. I can understand the rest of their talking points being based in a naive compassion like a child that you have to explain to why you can't afford to go feed every homeless person we see, but we help the ones we can, when we can. The child is being altruistic, there's no problem there, he/she just doesn't understand why we can't afford to. They offer their own toy, and convince their sibling to give up one of theirs too... we can all sacrifice. It's sweet, it's just not realistic. I love my liberal friends to death, I just wish we could have a rational conversation about it.","974"],["Since he deleted his comment he said: \n\n\n > Ok....Anyone that opposes <PERSON> ends up dead or in jail on bogus charges ruling them ineligible to oppose him. Sounds like a free democracy to me🙄SM\n\n\n\n\n\nIt doesn't impact the United States any more than any past administration is dealing with. I mean, let's do that same thing with Saudi Arabia and Iran. Are they better or worse than <PERSON>? Everyone is cool with us being frenemies with them... so they must be better than Russia? Right? Those countries would never do anything worse? The left must be outraged! Right? (they're not)","853"],["Not just reddit, it's the entirety of media. TV shows affect how people interact. It goes deep. 6-7 minute intervals of conversation. What people see on TV they think is \"normal\".. they are creating the norms and creating characters for people to relate to. Once a character is relatable they can shift the character through emotional series of interactions in time into a completely different person and get to control where they go. The psychological implications of this shouldn't be underestimated and I think any reasonable psychologist would agree that a popular move/show/book can heavily impact a person's psychology. This is why these things are historically popular, because they have a very heavy impact on humanity as a whole and shaping it. A very interesting phenomenon, and not one to look at through completely rose colored lenses.","367"],["Seriously, they are violently attacking peaceful people that are simply trying to voice their opinions. The guy at the airport fled for his life and still got beat while some freaky man child is screaming like he just won the superbowl by taking a guy down in 20 on 1 mob violence. How much of a pussy do you have to be to cheer for that type of shit, to think that's some kind of accomplishment. It's getting really old really fast.","669"],["Hilarious part is they can't take either position now without agreeing with someone on <PERSON>'s team. <PERSON> said he wouldn't use it, <PERSON> says he is with <PERSON> even though he thinks it works and <PERSON> claimed they used it on the guy they got the information from to carry out the <PERSON> raid... then he delivers this report to expose it all. This is going to have them chasing their own tail for a week.","452"],["LOL what? The <PERSON> admin lied and covered up every scandal for everyone while they threw the underlings under the bus every step of the way. Executive privilege protections for fast and furious... <PERSON> taking the 5th... more executive privilege for Benghazi. The blatant lies about benghazi. Tell me you guys aren't completely blind to the fact that your own side is pretty corrupt itself... meanwhile you are contemplating \"what ifs\" because you have absolutely nothing else.","693"],["It was a response to someone who was being interviewed that made the claim that <PERSON> was worse than <PERSON> on <PERSON> (if i remember correctly). This was a quick bullet point <PERSON> went through to illustrate how ridiculous it was to compare the two. And regardless of your beliefs, that type of vile hyperbolic rhetoric would be laughably absurd if the guy was joking, but he kept insisting he was serious. \n\n\n<PERSON> destroyed any credibility that guy had left, tbh.","182"],["But that gets into other issues on how to create a society. When murder happens, is it eye for an eye? With no state, naturally, some group will always try to attain control and power. That's a historical permanent that seems to be embedded in many humans, and there's billions. Who controls the borders? Or do we have no borders? Who protects the cities from invaders? Who protects you from foreign states that want to invade to take our resources and women? \n\n\nI'm trying to figure out how anyone thinks anarchism is a viable system, and so far I just don't see it, though I'm open to understanding. Capitalism isn't perfect, but nothing is, and so far it's the best imperfect system we've found.","101"],["If he does nothing other than take down the pedo network from top to bottom it will be worth everything else. People who harm children are the lowest of the low. Rational people instinctively want to protect children even when they don't have any of their own. These sick fucks are no longer human. I've no idea how they got to that point, and frankly I don't give a shit. They need to be stopped, and fortunately the ever growing list of raids is very encouraging. Drain the swamp!","94"],["That's why they are celebrating so hard and take this as such a big win. The media knows that truth isn't on their side and all they have is brainwashing. They are celebrating \"winning\". They aren't celebrating exposing anything, because they haven't exposed anything. Their goal is to spin anything and everything to take down <PERSON> and anyone in his admin. They are celebrating a successful brain washing Psy Op. It's sedition if someone can find hard evidence of collusion, even though it seems obvious to anyone with a working brain.","827"],["It's far beyond that. Twitter has extreme data metrics... you can look it up but they know a lot about you by cookies stored from ad sites and what you follow, like, and comment on. Seriously, when I saw extreme, I mean a vast volume. I believe you can even look at some of them yourself. But, I am guessing they have created algorithms that push up the \"verified\" accounts, especially those that carry higher data points in certain metrics... like left leaning/liberal/democrat. \n\n\nHere's the latest on their censorship moves.\n\n_URL_0_","106"],["Doesn't even matter either way. There's no way anyone could try to claim there's an expectation to privacy in a classroom. It's only illegal to record people unknowingly if there is an expectation to privacy, as far as I can tell, in most states anyways. I'm sure a few states have weird laws regarding this, but I think that's almost universally true, if not completely universally true.","607"],["They could try, but any decent lawyer would pose the question... so if a person confesses to a misdemeanor in class and somebody recorded it, would it be legally admissible in court? Because it's illegal to record anyone where there is an expectation to privacy in california without their consent UNLESS they in the act of committing or conspiring to commit a felony. I don't know that any judge wouldn't want to blur the lines that much and it'd probably end up moving to higher courts on appeal if they did.","260"],["Considering <PERSON> was the only other viable option after she colluded with MSM, the DNC, and dictatorships in 3rd world countries and all the big banks and wall street to *steal the election from <PERSON>*, it's a valid point as <PERSON> was the only other option lest we be left with her corrupt ass... it's a completely legitimate argument. Nothing would have been worse than <PERSON>. She belongs behind bars.","557"],["See, but that's the thing. If the evidence is a paperclip vs a bowling ball it should speak for itself and you shouldn't fear people telling their side, because like you just said, it should be obvious the weight of evidence lies the majority to your favor. The fact of the matter is you think you are smarter than everyone else so if they disagree with you they are simply wrong in your mind. So you'd just prefer the other side doesn't get to speak because you are afraid they might end up disagreeing with you if the other side gets a voice. That's the problem. You aren't into real journalism. You are into activism. You want journalists to promote your ideology while silencing the other side... which if we use everything you just said here makes it apparent that you don't have as much evidence on your side, otherwise everyone would agree with you. Just admit that you prefer fascism as long as your party is the one in charge, that's at least honest, since you are promoting fascist biased and activist journalism. \n\n\nYour assumption is that just because something is in the minority of beliefs that it's wrong... which if everyone in history thought like you, we'd simply have a global dictatorship with no journalism because any dissenting voices would be thrown out to never be heard and spread. I honestly can't believe you are advocating for silencing those you disagree with. If we did that, then gays and women would have never gained any rights. I don't think you've thought this through very well, as I don't think your intent is fascism, yet that's exactly what you are advocating for.","112"],["Pre ACA would be awesome for everyone but those with preexisting conditions. It would be easier to figure out a charitable way to take care of those people than to simply redistribute wealth... this article says they are taxing the \"wealthy\".. well that's simply not true. The premiums are through the roof to pay for those that contribute nothing into taxes or the system... many of them contribute nothing by choice, not because they are unable. It's burdening small businesses and the middle class the most. The only people that aren't hurt by the bill are the very very poor and the very very wealthy, everyone in the middle is paying for these shitty plans that do nothing for more of the poor people they are paying for. The entire ACA was a con job that was written partially by a felon that was in jail for fraud, and people like <PERSON> who openly admit that they relied on the stupidity of the American people to ram it through because if they knew what was in it they would never be able to pass it. Literally subverting the will of the people and going against the very people they are supposed to represent. \n\n\nHow can anybody still defend it? Even the dems aren't defending Obamacare anymore, they are just pissed the republicans aren't replacing it with anything that creates more entitlements for their rich friends and breaking the backs of the middle class. My fear is that it's too far and too gone to bring the prices back down to where they were pre ACA with was about 150-200 dollars for GOOD insurance for an individual. Now it's 500 a month for a young healthy adult for a decent plan and for a family of 5 it's 1600 a month for a decent basic plan. That's a mortgage payment on a decent condo or small house. Where before the ACA they would have payed about 450-600 for their entire family per month with better coverage.\n\n\nComplete sham.","56"],["This is a last ditch effort to delegitimize <PERSON> to save their grasp on the political establishment which gives them their media monopoly on truth. All they can do is try to call <PERSON> a liar or they know they are done. At this point, it's not even about turning profits, it about keeping their heads above water as they drown in a new media landscape where the dinosaurs are becoming extinct and <PERSON> is the meteor decimating them. They are out for blood because they know once they are done there's no coming back. They are almost ready to stick a fork in them. They don't care about professionalism, it was just a facade anyway. Look professional and act professional and people will believe you. They've been caught lying too many times so now they have to double down. Politifact put out a whole series of calling <PERSON> a liar when in every fact check they basically say that his numbers and what he said was accurate, they just didn't like the way he said it, so therefore it was \"mostly false\" or \"half true\" when they do the opposite for liberal politicians. I hope they all go under, we'll be better off without the fake news.","988"],["I'm betting that the real conspiracy is that <PERSON> and <PERSON> are the ones actually working with the Russians to delegitimize the <PERSON> administration. I wouldn't be surprised is the ambassador is a double or triple spy. We know <PERSON> set up the meeting between him and sessions and that he met at the white house with <PERSON> at least half a dozen to a dozen times on record and that many other democrats met with him and some even lied about it directly saying she had met with an ambassador but not that particular ambassador (<PERSON>) which turned out to be a lie as there is a photo of it.\n\n\nMark my words, I'm betting the real story is that if anyone is in collusion with the Russians, it's <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and the dems.","860"],["They are pushing this shit to kids via snapchat. I rarely use the app, but have some friends that are avid users and it's entertaining to see what they are up to without having to be on facebook. I noticed one day there were sponsored articles and blurbs and what are basically power pointesque type of article things. The amount of propaganda from CNN, VICE, VOX, Salon, etc... was mind boggling. Everything from polyamory to <PERSON> being a pussy grabbing liar and how much he's harming the country. The headlines will be \"How will the country recover after a <PERSON> presidency\" Then have a slideshow of lies presented as facts. Right now they have one titled \"which one is the real <PERSON>\" Then one of the mini videos has a graphic saying \"diplomacy, real handshakes\" and a few others and them dropping into a golden toilet with <PERSON>'s name on it while this guy goes around in these videos talking shit on <PERSON>. Calling him an autocrat and accidental president. Then continuing implying he's wrong about calling CNN and them fake news. It's disgusting that This is being pushed to kids and their parents likely don't even know the app has that function.\n\n\nThe other one today is \"can you spot the fake news\" and to their credit they showed that fake <PERSON> quote about running as a republican was fake, but continued on mostly pushing mainstream news as being real as long as they don't use .co or some other shorter prefix in the url. \n\n\nIt's a shame that they need these giant media companies to profit off of children.","827"],["<PERSON> resigned for lying, his conversation was not illegal, and it's been thoroughly debunked that he even really intended to lie. His mistake was not being thorough enough in his briefing to <PERSON>. It's a big nothing burger. \n\n\nThe Dossier has been floating around for more than half a year and nobody is trying to claim it's real, and they've shown the author was being paid by one of our agencies to create dirt on <PERSON>. \n\n\nI am impressed at your ability to bookmark ridiculous fake news stories that take hearsay from anonymous sources and publish \"possibilities\" like a fun fantasy story for people like you to go attempt to connect dots where there are none. \n\n\nThe reason we go back to <PERSON> is because that's who you guys prefer to be in office. Now go connect dots for her, where there is PROOF she was taking money from 3rd world dictators through her foundation and has ACTUAL ties to Russia and helped sign off on the Uranium One deal as money was flowing into her laundering foundation, er I mean \"charity\" that her own daughter hired laywers to investigate because she thought they were doing illegal things. Those lawyers said it was operating like a political operation, not a charity... and surprise! They shut down the charity right after she would have more time to dedicate to go around helping all those poor people they helped. \n\n\n<PERSON> connections are all these imaginary things... <PERSON>'s were real and verifiable. Yet, you guys were pretty quiet on her throughout the election.","860"],["Those were not really concentration camps in the way most people might think of the term concentration camp. It was horrible, but many of the Japanese that lived through it said they understood why it was done and held no grudge about it, and it was ultimately overturned and they even paid reparations to them and their families. It took a while until we did that, but we did. When you are hit by a surprise attack and lose a lot of people, tempers flare and people act irrationally.","655"],["Actually, it's illegal to even collect all of that technically. They just dance around it making it sound like they weren't doing that by using spook speak that the general public doesn't recognize. <PERSON> flat out lied and you could tell he didn't want to but knew he had to. \n\n\nHe had that same look again in the most recent TV interview saying \"I can deny\"... which looked like a knee jerk response to CYA.","903"],["And you are missing the point that it's not a journalist's job to \"fact check\". Journalism has rules of ethics which is why \"bias\" is considered such a bad word in journalism. The point is that if the journalists are biased, then you have nobody to trust to simply inform the people of the facts since bias leads to skewed facts, slanted stories, and spin on top of spin, which is what we are seeing today in all forms of media. \n\n\nJournalists are supposed to be skeptical and push back on both sides equally, and let the people defending those sides defend them for themselves and be an objective observer. Especially since the term \"facts\" are thrown around pretty loosely. Look at politifact.. professional fact checking site and they are extremely biased, which most liberals in this sub even often admit is the case. \n\n\nJournalist's jobs are to ask questions, and report the answers, not to tell you the viewer what you should believe. I know it's tempting when your people are in control of the media to want them to just report your beliefs as infallible empirical truth, but that's how tyranny happens. Especially in a world where 6 people own 90% of the media. Go look up the <PERSON> segments on how the news all sounds the same. Even their little kitten stories are all scripted. Biased journalism is how we got to this point of so much fake news. Maybe the flat earther doesn't need as much time in front of the screen, but we shouldn't be afraid of him being on the screen at all. As soon as he can't defend his position thoroughly it all falls apart. It's not a journalists job to tell people... but to simply show them by asking questions. \n\n\nI know this will be unpopular in this sub, but watch <PERSON>... he's pretty fair and questions people on both the right and left fairly equally. But his brilliance comes from simply asking questions and letting people try to defend what they said and watching it unravel as they can't even defend their stance outside of the catchy soundbytes and catch phrases. But then you turn on CNN or MSNBC and watch them call people liars and have a panel of 3 people supporting their side and 1 person on the other where they literally team up and bully people and call them names and talk over them. That's not journalism, it's activism, and I'm sure if conservatives owned most of the mainstream media you wouldn't agree with thinking they should be \"fact checking\" the people live on air because you know it will be just as biased favoring them as every lefty media company is these days. \n\n\nAnd the people's whose job is to investigate often like to lie or mislead or omit things. So people have to do their own research. It's unfortunate but it's reality.","840"],["Then you go and use fake news.\n\nThe \"muslim ban\" wasn't a muslim ban, it was an extension of a travel ban requiring more stringent vetting that was enacted by the <PERSON> administration and actually more lax and shorter in length than the <PERSON> administration. <PERSON> targeted those seven countries as terror threats after the bowling green incident where they arrested 2 men who were flying weapons to Al Qaeda, one of which had his finger prints found on an IED that killed American troops. But believe your fake news it's a \"muslim ban\" despite many citizens from most muslim countries having no trouble coming in. That's fake news you are watching telling you that.\n\n\nDo nothing wall? The one <PERSON> and <PERSON> and <PERSON> all voted for? He's using the law that was already passed by them to do it. <PERSON> built over 700 miles of that wall while he was president using he same law.\n\n\nHealthcare is a clusterfuck admittedly and Obamacare was a disaster, at the moment that's still up in the air but unlikely to get much better until some heads roll for obamacare.\n\ndenial of admittedly fabricated data? Show my exactly what percentage of climate change humans are attributed for... you can't, because that data doesn't exist. Nobody can say and most the data is adjusted and manipulated to fit the narrative. We don't even have enough hard data to actually make the case for anthropomorphic climate change.\n\nTwitter rage fits? <PERSON> just threw them on camera as did <PERSON>. <PERSON> came out and scolded the nation as some sort of higher moral authority when things didn't go his way... the ex coke head, bath house visiting stoner... yeah that's rich. <PERSON> \"why am I not drunkenly 50 points ahead\" <PERSON>. Seriously, they are all jokes.\n\n\nEveryone in politics is a walking conflict of interest. <PERSON> at least made his money, while congress voted themselves raises and legalized insider trading... things Trump would have been arrested for if he had done them. But yeah... that evil <PERSON> calling people on their lies. Please.","296"],["His ban was based on <PERSON>'s ban, but you didn't care when <PERSON> did it, right? \n\n\nA bit hypocritical... but that seems to be the leftist platform these days. \n\n\nTell me again how carbon taxes are saving the planet and not just concentrating the ability to pollute to the wealthiest big corps? And it's a known fact that dems are attacking the fossil fuel industry because it holds political power. <PERSON> went after the <PERSON> brothers despite the fact they hold less power than any of the major dem investors. And you say I'm sticking my head in the sand? The left is just bitter they lost and is throwing a collective temper tantrum. Saudi Arabia holds power through OPEC... I suggest you look into that if you want real answers about why not even trump can ban the Saudis... just like <PERSON> didn't.","771"],["That's the thing. They don't care. They are projecting their own actions and biases onto <PERSON> supporters. <PERSON> has been in office for one month and they are already acting like the world is ending when all he's done is enforce the laws and implement a ban on travel from 7 countries <PERSON>'s admin picked as terror risk countries. The rest is hyperbolic manufactured outrage over hearsay from anonymous sources. When any of these people are willing to put their actual reputation on the line to make these claims about Trump, not just reporting what some anonymous person claims *might* be partially true... then it may warrant an investigation. When I hear democrats call for an investigation into pedogate or the clinton foundation now that they are shutting it down right after losing their pay to play ability, then I might start taking them seriously. But it's just a temper tantrum, a bunch of spoiled kids with daddy issues that are used to stomping their feet and getting their way, and the politicians coddle them and reassure them their tantrums are justified. It's pretty appalling. Most <PERSON> supporters are simply anti establishment, and <PERSON> is hated by both sides of the establishment, which to me means he's doing something right.","249"],["It has a little to do with his celebrity, known as a tough shrewd businessman that went to one of the most in debt men in the country, to one of the wealthiest. Name recognition and reputation help... <PERSON>'s reputation was riding <PERSON>'s coattails and corruption and she seemed vapid, hollow, and in some videos like she was a drunk \"WHY AM I NOT 50 POINTS AHEAD YOU MIGHT ASK\". She is also the definition of establishment. \n\n\nThe reason <PERSON> won isn't because of some imaginary racism or misogyny or the patriarchy, it's because people were sick of the political establishment whores lying to them while skirting the laws and changing them so they can profit and ignoring the laws they didn't like to the detriment of our own citizens. Welfare for illegals is outright theft, period. That was a big one. <PERSON>, quite frankly, was America's middle finger to the <PERSON> administration. The racism was coming from democrats blaming straight white males for all the problems in the black community and calling them racist and bigots if they disagreed with <PERSON> on anything. If the dems continue with their racism, then you may actually create number 2, but it doesn't exist and wasn't the reason <PERSON> won. Keep calling people racist, and xenophobic, and bigots that are good decent people and eventually they will push back... if simply defending themselves by saying you are wrong, then they may eventually feel they might as well become those things, because then there's at least a path other than simply putting their tail between their legs and retreating to the names you call them. \n\n\nYou guys better wake up to your party's bullshit soon, or you will create the problem you imagine you have. And trust me, if you actually had that problem, of number 2, things would be very different and that's not a world you want to live in, nor continue to create. But this democrat hyperbolic rhetoric is pushing some people to their tipping point... you guys are creating the problem, not pointing it out.","939"],["I'd have voted for literally anyone other than <PERSON>. <PERSON> was a corrupt <PERSON> and Global Bankster puppet using the Clinton Foundation in an incredibly shady way, selling out our country to line her and her family's coffers. I would have voted for <PERSON> or <PERSON> before I'd vote for that corrupt disgusting wench of a woman. Her arrogance was unparalleled with anything I've seen from anyone... her lies were constant to the point I doubt she even has any real opinions on anything anymore, just what her puppet masters command her to. And she's connected to that sick fuck <PERSON>.\n\n\nSo you hit the nail on the head. <PERSON> was the middle finger to <PERSON> and the <PERSON> admin for playing identity politics and blaming a majority of the country (hard working white men) for all the problems in the world. The real racists and bigots were the dems, and they played that card one too many times.","557"],["No, an emolument is a fee, salary, or profit from employment or office. \n\n\nI know you want it to mean what you just said, but words have actual definitions and meanings, and what you just said is *factually incorrect* and is the further spreading of a falsehood. \n\n\nLet's see what an actual *constitutional lawyer* has to say... through the washington post even...\n\n_URL_0_\n\n\nYeah sorry, he's not breaking any laws. I know you all want it to be true so bad, but he isn't yet.","712"],["Oh please. Didn't hurt <PERSON> or <PERSON> and they were lying straight through their teeth on a regular basis. They couldn't even keep a straight face through most of their lies and scolded the press when they pressed too hard... they set the precedent. \n\n\nThis is the first time the press room has actually felt alive and not the same 7 people repeating the same questions over and over day after day for their scripted MSM agendas. People from all over are getting a chance to ask real questions for a change. He will be very loved by everyone in media, as everyone knows the job is to go be the president's voice whether he agrees with him or not.","622"],["Because they didn't hold enough in the senate, and impeachment can't go anywhere without the senate votes. It's as simple as that. It's pretty clear he did... and while I don't agree with everything on this following list being a crime and the website is fairly sensational, it's a pretty decent starting point and some of these more than likely had to be crimes. The worst in my opinion were fast and furious and the failure to faithfully execute our immigration laws claiming prosecutorial discretion, which historically by the spirit and letter of the law was used in an individual case by case basis, not to be used as a blanket for an entire category of law, which led to the catch and release of murders, rapists, felons, child kidnappers and abusers, and more... and that's an indisputable fact.\n\n\nBut here's a pretty decent list...\n\n_URL_0_","554"],["But anybody that knows how budgets work know that money is fungible even when they try to act like it isn't. \n\nExample: Let's say you make 1000 dollars a month. Your current spending is 700 dollars on rent 200 on food and 100 dollars on house supplies. Now at the moment you can't afford to buy weed and I promise that as long as you don't spend it on weed I'll help you out with an extra 100 dollars a month. Now you could put that money into a special savings and show me you are only spending that on your house supplies... but now it has freed up 100 dollars from your old budget you can now go spend on weed.\n\n\nSo basically, if they are getting government funding it could free money to be used for that purpose. However, my understanding is that PP charges for abortions and makes a significant amount of money from them, so I'm not sure how it is being claimed the money is being spent on abortions unless they are only charging partial costs from patients for the procedure.","683"],["In Oregon? You mean the wildlife refuge where everyone charged was found not guilty, and the only casualty was a guy that knew they wanted to shoot him so he ran away from his car to make sure they didn't shoot the rest of his family? \n\n\nAnd when governments start shooting on protesters that's when foreign governments come in and start arming them. See: Every single regime change and government overthrow the US has orchestrated through covert and overt methods... you know kind of like how <PERSON> and <PERSON> armed \"moderate\" rebels to overthrow <PERSON>. As soon as <PERSON> shot at his own citizens it was game over until the Russians stepped in to defend him. \n\n\nYou should go read the federalist papers and then follow that up with some constitutional professor's writings from the top colleges and top military leaders of our country. You'd be really surprised.","399"],["This is exactly right. I have worked in HR and their job, really, is to protect the company. They have to take certain things seriously and that's definitely one of them. Unfortunately, white straight males are not a protected class (at least not in my state). And, being a protected class is pretty much the only way you can win a lawsuit, which is what they are afraid of. \n\n\nSo this may or may not work depending on your work environment, the size of the company, the level of diversity, the company culture, etc... \n\n\nCould be a good strategy, I'm just not a huge fan of the sink to their level type of stuff, but I suppose sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.","679"],["If you list their business on your social media, then any lawyer could make a pretty easy case that you are, in fact, representing their company, and they would have a right to fire you. In many states they don't even need to state a reason to fire someone, in which case, makes it smart to either not put stuff on your social media that makes the company look bad, or don't put the company name on your page and keep it private.","402"],["It would be tough to be worse and more divisive than <PERSON> as he does everything to undermine the smooth transition of power and our democracy after saying the election can't be rigged and \"what does that even mean\" when he thought they had it rigged themselves, playing dumb, when that intel report was supposedly going around for months, and the emails had been out for months with the Russia claim. Pure dishonesty and quite the charlatan. Then he ends his term by signing off on allowing tons of raw Uranium to be sold to Iran and is talking about releasing a bunch of prisoners from Gitmo, and writing as many lame duck regulations as he can before he leaves. \n\n\nIf <PERSON> does worse, I would almost be impressed. But I really don't think it's possible. The media is mostly left leaning though, so he could fix everything and they'll still say the sky is falling to keep you as their mental slaves on their plantation.","533"],["I honestly don't think he's going to hurt social issues, that's not his goal. His goal is to enforce our laws and cut the fat and reign everything in back to a manageable size as per the constitution, returning many things to state's rights, where yes, some social issues may go back the other way. But that's how the state's were designed, so there could be a place for everybody to go, but are protected as a group of states despite our differences. \n\nIt gets confusing to me, because the main single social issue of the left seems to be gay marriage and abortion and raising minimum wage. Yet, at the same time, they are importing cheap uneducated labor that doesn't speak a lick of english that's willing to work for pennies on the dollar driving wages down instead of up and sapping up tax dollars that should go to our own citizens while they send money out of our economy back to Mexico. \n\nAnd importing ultra conservative refugees (muslim refugees) is going to hurt social issues more in the long run. They out breed the rest of the world and have very large families and are very anti gay and anti women having rights and anti any type of western type of having fun like drinking. To me, that's where the left really loses me completely on the logic. Why not have strict standards on who we let in, just as you would for letting guests into your own home? \n\n\nIt just seems contradictory to me, and I genuinely do not understand. It seems like it comes from an altruistic place, but it seems overly altruistic to the point of ignoring reality hoping that flooding the country with religious fanatics isn't going to back fire. \n\nAnyway... I guess only time will tell. I don't think you have as much to worry about as the media would like to have you think. That's how they keep their viewers thinking the way they want (on both sides) sell you fear to keep you tuned in. Cheers.","799"],["They can think, they choose not to, because it would mean they have to go against the social flow and ruffle feathers. Most liberals pride themselves on their social circles and being liked by the people that they want to like them. It's willful ignorance to not rock the boat of their friends. It's a culture of peer pressure, victim status (for more attention and credibility when addressing social issues), and how violently you speak out against the opposition. Once they are in that deep, it takes a lot to break them free of the conditioning.","30"],["Not immunity, but white collar prisons I'd be ok with as long as it's substantial information exposing at least 5 routes that lead to other connections or 3 of the top heads of several smaller operations. Things like pie gate are difficult because infiltrating it requires allowing kids to be abused if they want to dig deeper and find more connections instead of just squashing it and rescuing the kids. The incredibly unfortunate reality is that if it's as big as it seems, you would have to let a lot of children go on being hurt for quite a while in hopes that you could eventually dig deep enough to stop it from the top. I don't envy the men and women that investigate this type of stuff, but I sure as hell respect them immensely. The hardest of jobs.","279"],["Quite possibly. But, this isn't the first time he's requested this. He sees that now it's a real possibility, he doesn't have to give himself up to the US, seems like he's pushing because he sees a real chance it might happen and he wants to make it more enticing to do so, and the fact that in his recent interview he implied they were going after his family... he's been held captive for 5 years and had all kinds of fake charges brought against him. It's the next chapter and he still has insurance files. Cabin fever has to be getting to him at this point.","140"],["Not even just rejected <PERSON>, but if the media was less corrupt they wouldn't have buried her corruption and we wouldn't have people who spend their lives in an echo chamber thinking the world is about to end and that they are all going to be put into camps. It's emotional terrorism for political gain on their own followers, and it's absolutely reprehensible because many of them are actually very altruistic people with good intentions. The media is taking advantage of their trust and notoriety. It's disgusting and I hope most of them awaken soon.","759"],["> No matter political orientation, you have the right to be outraged by this incident. This is deeply wrong.\n\n\nThe fact that a mod had to make that post and state this above shows what a shit show that sub is, clarifying that <PERSON> haters still have the right to be mad about it, because they are so crazy about their hate they need to be told it's ok to not cheer on a kidnapping and torture. Then they try to claim they were being \"brigaded\" and that it wasn't their actual users of that sub glorifying the attack, despite the fact it's a sub literally based around hate, so it's unsurprising. The media equating <PERSON> to a Nazi and bullshit social media echo chambers like that sub are the exact reason <PERSON> supporters are being attacked. \"<PERSON> is racist, a bigot, xenophobic, LITERALLY Hitler!!1!\" (etc, etc, etc...) This mentality sets the stage for slightly unstable people to feel in the right and justified, because after all we HATE the Nazis... so if <PERSON> is <PERSON> then his followers must be Nazis. That is an intentional function. Then the top comment is saying it wasn't racially motivated. Please. That sub is trash, I don't consider them the enemy, I consider them hateful fools that waste their lives spewing negativity instead of trying to make the world a more positive place. I feel sorry for them and how completely brainwashed they are. I hope they find some peace in their lives and break free of their conditioning eventually.","743"],["I was out camping in the desert with a kid who grew up in Los Angeles and had never really been outside of the city or been camping. He didn't even think to look up, when I pointed it out, he was in awe and looked really confused. He just looked up staring and said \"What IS that?\". And I told him it was stars, and he looked at me even more confused and skeptical like I was pulling his leg. \"Those... are ALL stars... what is that thing going across?\" as he pointed at the milky way... and I told him it was the milky way. He must of stood there staring for a good 10-15 minutes in awe. There was no moon and perfectly clear that night so it was as good as it gets for that area, where the closest city larger than a couple blocks was probably 2 hours away in any direction.","8"],["Actually, originally, and I wish I knew where the original article was as it was many years ago, but tasers were ruled that they should ONLY be used in a situation where a gun would be used to minimize the chances of death resulting. One of the largest creators of tasers recommends not shooting above the waste due to the possibility of cardiac arrest. I'm unaware if any of this actually changed in the 6 plus years ago I read about that in, but technically yes... they are supposed to engage in physical combat.","1016"],["I have mixed feelings on it. I can see both sides of the argument. Non compliance can be extended pretty far and then becomes subjective. Is the lady drawing on the sidewalk with chalk disobeying the cop's orders, as he tells her to stop and she refuses, allowed to be tazed? Or just men of equal size or bigger or people that look twacked out? It's a tough situation, but in the past the rules of engagement of the old created a less tense atmosphere around cops than exists these days. Just watch the really old episodes of the TV show COPS. Interesting perspective.","141"],["But from what I read <PERSON> replaced a lot of the top brass from top to bottom. And in a national emergency type of false flag situation, there'd be a lot of confusion and claims that it's Russia or something. I think it's pretty far fetched, but I used to think the global pedo ring and some of these people being lucipherians was far fetched too. So at this point, I'm not sure anything would surprise me with how desperate the establishment seems at the moment. Just look at this Russia bullshit and pissgate.","629"],["Except BLM has defended horrible people. Sorry, bang a guy's head into concrete you get shot (<PERSON>). Nobody listened to the court case, they wanted to lynch his shooter because the media made him look whiter and edited his tape to sound racist. Then you have a kid walking in the street disobeying orders after just committing a strong arm theft of blunts which is technically robbery who then decides to attack a police officer in his car that outweighed the officer by a lot and had the upper hand in hand to hand. (<PERSON>) and they go out and made up the \"hands up don't shoot\" lie to make him look innocent and the white officer look like he decided to go make a sport of shooting a black \"kid\". \n\n\nThe whole movement is racist against blacks, as it insists that they should hold no responsibility for their actions because they will be inherently violent and disobey authority and expect no consequences. So they want to be able to commit crimes, disobey authority, resist arrest, fight with people trying to enforce our laws and expect there to be no consequences. Either they are trying to create black supremacy by allowing them to commit crimes and fight police, or they think they are incapable of not committing crimes and fighting. Either way, BLM is racist against their own, and it's propagated and funded mostly by people like <PERSON> that are using these fools as pawns to push their own agendas. Hope they start waking up soon. It's a cultural problem, not a race problem.","577"],["<PERSON> is an incredibly unfortunate situation and to my knowledge we do not have video of what led up to the shooting. He was (supposedly legally) carrying a weapon and went to reach for his license. The officer involved was clearly not taking any joy in that situation as he was nearly in tears. But if you tell an officer you are armed, you don't reach for anything, doesn't matter what color you are. This was a chinese officer, this man was not targeted because he was black, it was because he was armed and started reaching down. They are carrying weed with their daughter in the car, so their judgement clearly isn't the greatest in the world. He supposedly matched an description of an armed robbery suspect as well, though that was fairly weak from what I remember. Unfortunate, but you don't reach for ANYthing once an officer knows you are armed. We don't know if they were giving him attitude and being rude which will put an officer even more on edge when someone starts reaching for something. \n\n\n<PERSON> is one of the few, along with <PERSON>. But again, you have a couple issues. Once <PERSON> tried to grab his taser, and fought and resisted, it became a felony. In many states it is legal to shoot a fleeing felon. I understand why the law exists, and in some cases it may be justified, though I don't believe this to be one of them. However, did he break the law? Not if they have the fleeing felon law. But he is one of the better cases they should be talking about. Not \"hands up don't shoot\". \n\n\nThe best case they had I forget the name of the guy because BLM for some reason never ran with that one. It was a man that worked taking care of mentally handicapped adults, and was trying to protect one of the patients and they just opened fire for no apparent reason. Yet, they never pushed for it. Why? Because they couldn't make it about race because a white handicapped guy sparked the whole event. \n\n\nSo, yeah most of these have a lot of circumstances surrounding them, long histories of crimes or active crimes, and combative behavior. \n\n\nI think <PERSON>, from what I can see on the videos, should not have been shot. But if it wasn't illegal to do so because of the fleeing felon rule, then the law is the problem that needs to be addressed along with a culture of crime in poor neighborhoods. Hopefully <PERSON> makes some good strides there, and hopefully that community will stop thinking it's not cool to be smart and be educated and do homework and speak properly so they can get good jobs. As long as being a thug and hard and dealing drugs is \"cool\" and give you street red, unfortunately the culture will not change. It's deeply imbedded in most of their music as well, which is how most young kids are recruited into all types of shady scenes. The neo nazis used ska and punk bands as recruitment tools. I don't know how to fix it. But BLM is making things more tense, not creating peace or fixing anything.","399"],["Close... they live in a different reality. Because, reality is what you perceive it to be... at least to you it is. Phenomenology. When you live in echo chambers, you end up believing the consensus is the same everywhere as it is inside your echo chamber. So to many of them, they truly live in a different reality in their own minds. The media plays on this. Go watch the news... they use fear constantly because fear is the most primal instinctual emotion beyond hunger and sex. And fear takes over both of those. Talk about something scary, make it sound more common and scarier and people listen closely trying to learn how to protect themselves from the danger. They end up in these feedback loops where they've decided what the threats are and solutions are... and anyone that disagrees is the thing they are afraid of. Which is why they try to shut down opposing speech... because they've convinced them that the \"danger\" they face is opposing ideas. It would be impressive if it wasn't so sad and kind of frightening that they are capable of painting 50 & #37; of the country as \"deplorable\" people that are beyond redemption by twisting <PERSON>'s words out of context to make him look \"racist\" and like a \"bigot\". They call everyone xenophobic, yet ironically are the people that shut themselves off from any ideas outside of their echo chambers. \n\nWe need a T. Gondii study badly... I'm convinced that liberals have impaired threat assessment capabilities, and ironically pharma bro sold the cure to that.","30"],["You are missing the point that this just awakened another concept people weren't thinking about. If they win this case against <PERSON> they are declaring Twitter an official public forum. By doing so they may open themselves up to another law where company owned cities were unable to limit speech because they had a monopoly on the city. So it may stand that Twitter, by banning political speech, may be in violation of the same law they previously ruled on. You should read the link.","106"],["I remember as soon as some departments started ordering cameras these stories started getting more press about civil rights violations. They know they are all mostly making shit up. Every single time someone goes to the media with something the footage always comes out and nearly always exonerates the cops... at least when it's THEIR body camera. Which means the body cameras are having the proper effect. And, when wrong doing is done, it is answered for, like when the kid was shot in the hall after the crazy cop made them play simon says and crawl on his knees against all training and proper procedures.","141"],["Actually, all taxes are supposed to be voluntary. In fact, <PERSON> repeatedly in a veiled way kind of threatened the IRS with that fact during the weaponizing of the IRS. Basically reminding them that they are technically supposed to be \"voluntary\" and that people could stop trusting the IRS and stop paying if that trust is lost. Obviously he parsed his words carefully because everyone in government knows how important tax dollars are... but it was a good moment that he did a few times. Basically, we don't NEED the IRS in a voluntary system and the taxes are decided by the citizens. Obviously they will still arrest you if you don't pay your taxes... but technically they aren't supposed to be able to as per the constitution. Double taxation is also kind of ridiculous, and some states have gotten it right by not having income tax. It's almost triple taxation if you think about it, same with yearly housing taxes, which a few states don't have as well. You get feds taxing your income, the state taxing your income, then when you go to spend your money you are taxed again on the item by the state, in most states at least. You pay tax on your house, then you pay taxes again every year even when it is paid off.","322"],["Eh, in an age where pensions don't exist as often anymore I have no problem with Social Security. You pay into it your whole life and get an amount back based on what you were paying in. I know WAY too many retirees who depend on social security to survive off of along with their meager savings after working hard their entire lives. The problem is that congress has looted the SS fund to give to other programs basically leaving an IOU in its place. Another reason why they want population growth through immigration, because they need new people to prop up those funds... rather than making cuts in spending and finding other ways to repay the funds. Government exists to sustain and expand itself, which is why it's important to have checks, balances, and extensive audits. Because if they don't use all their budget it gets cut the next year \\(as it should\\) so instead they end up wasting money on ridiculous luxuries at the end of the year. Oh we have 50k we didn't spend? Better go upgrade all the chairs in the office to 2k dollar designer chairs... better put some marbling in the entry way of the building... better get some 5 star catered lunches and a team building exercise at that 5 star resort.","264"],["I am talking about both sides. However, I'd say if you look at statistics, one side has a better argument than the other. Liberals want you to fear ideas that are different than theirs. Conservatives want you to fear stupid policies that allow our country to be taken over by lawlessness. It's all a distraction from the shit they are actually doing behind the scenes. It's all theater. These guys are all buddies for the most part behind closed doors. They go put on a pretty show for their constituents in front of the cameras. Then go back and scheme how to push through legislation that benefits them and screws the tax payers. The media is part of the government now it seems as you never hear them report on bipartisan legislation that is passed... like when they legalized propaganda to be used on our own citizens here in America. Or when they repealed consumer protection laws. Or when they made it legal for them to do insider trading while keeping it illegal for citizens. Or when they looted social security. Or when they exempted themselves from Obamacare... etc etc","348"],["Have you ever met someone that went into journalism? They almost ALL go into broadcast journalism because they want to be famous on TV but have no talent in acting and know they aren't that intelligent. So they think.. gee I can go listen to people, write stuff down and then read it just fine. They are not the sharpest tools in the shed and for the most part investigative journalism is dead... especially with the deaths of <PERSON> and <PERSON>. And guess who the target of <PERSON> next story was right before his car exploded after thinking it was tampered with? I'll give you a hit... he was high up in the intel community and looks like super villain and recently turned twitter troll.","624"],["Also, we never saw those 33k emails... we saw <PERSON>'s emails.\n\nBut another point... since liberals are ok with all this \"not spying\" I'm sure they'd be ok if <PERSON>'s CIA and FBI planted \"informants\" in liberal campaigns this campaign season... you know for the good of the country to make sure they are conspiring with foreign governments or anything. Surely they won't mind.","298"],["Separation between church and state doesn't have anything to do with banning all mention of God in courts and schools though. Has to do with mandating religious beliefs. They have no problem teaching kids about the quran in school... I say fine... lets teach kids about every religion and their beliefs. Teach them all, or teach none... or endorse charter school voucher program so people can choose the school that teaches the values that they want their kids to be taught.","165"],["Or, maybe his brother knew <PERSON> was going to pass the emails to Wikileaks and maybe even had a hand in it, and now they are all afraid for that truth to come out because they don't want to lose their other son, or worse. There is a witch hunt for \"Russia\"... but what if you knew your own son or brother or yourself as the brother was in fact the \"Russia\" they have been hunting for. You might just want to keep it quiet... and the democrats want to distance themselves from <PERSON>, as it DOES seem politically motivated... and if it's proven that the <PERSON> brothers are the \"Russian hackers\" then their entire year long rants about Russia backfires spectacularly. That's the only thing that makes sense other than some kind of direct threat for them to keep their mouths shut, and it would make more sense to me at this point.","169"],["She literally said that after she heard about <PERSON> rich she was afraid to stand in front of windows fearing snipers. She knows how dirty her side is... they all do. That's what keeps them all in line. It's like people in abusive relationships. They fear messing up, so they always do what will keep their abusers happy, and in return the abuser occasionally does really big acts of kindness and treats them very very well, until they \"mess up\" again. They are afraid to leave, knowing how dangerous they are and don't want to make them mad. Look at <PERSON>... look at <PERSON>... look what happens when you start thinking out of lockstep. Not even endorsing the other side inherently... just criticizing theirs and thinking differently. They instantly start to collectively attack like a bee hive that just got the chemical signal to all attack. Actual hive mind mentality.","52"],["> We are organizing a synchronized mass meditation/prayer for the mass arrests of the DC pedophiles (see pizagate). This will happen on Saturday February 25th 11:11am - 11:33am (22 minutes) EST (16:11 UTC). Visualize the criminals being arrested leading to fair and public trials. The intention should not be for revenge but for saving the children and the healing of humanity.\n > If you are unsure about what effect this can have please read about the science that proves the power of the mind:\n > _URL_2_\n > and especially the effect of mass meditations (also known as Maharishi effect):\n > _URL_1_\n > Please spread this message!\n > If anybody knows <PERSON> or other \"well-connected\" people in this community, please tell them about this.\n > Note: by bringing this issue to public attention (through public trials) the \"healing of humanity\" will occur.\n > _URL_0_\n\n\n\nJust commenting to check out your links later. Good call and good intention pede.","587"],["To be fair, there is a way he could have known. Other people come in and out of the dressing rooms. Simply asking one of the coaches or team assistants if everyone was dressed before walking in is a pretty common thing in the sports world for both men and women when someone from the opposite sex wants to come in and say a word or give a greeting. Lots of men coach women's teams and do exactly that.","139"],["It's been a month... lol. So far he's increased vetting for immigrants (the ban wasn't stopped by the way, just one part of it had an injunction placed on it by the 9th circuit which is historically almost always overturned and has like 9 judges out of 24 appointed by <PERSON>), he's unleashed ICE and border agents to be able to actually do their jobs without fear of repercussions for doing so. He's called out the media for their lies and spin on everything for the last decade. He avoided WW3 with Russia (that <PERSON> clearly wanted). His pick got rid of the 7th floor \"Shadow government\" (that is the FBI report's description of them), he's increased the press pool where they are actually calling on smaller networks and getting real questions instead of the fluff they used to give <PERSON>. He's put a real General that is trusted by the military in charge of it. He's brought down the cost of the fighter jets. He's getting rid of the TPP. He's read to renegotiate NAFTA. He's signed the order to build the wall (that <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON> all voted for). He's weathered a storm of manufactured outrage and fake protesters. He appointed a real patriot as AG instead of some partisan hack like <PERSON> who *literally said we need to brainwash people to think about guns differently using hollywood*. \n\nHe signed an order to delay the fudiciary rules so they could review them or stop the train wreck <PERSON> tried to leave for him (which was smart even if you don't like it).\n\nSigned an order to create more concise regulations by having to eliminate two for every one created.\n\nThe lobbyist ban is long overdue and doesn't go far enough. And I think with as many regulations as we have on citizens, one for ex politicians addressing rampant corruption is not bad, but you can't bring yourself to agree with anything <PERSON> does, so you imagine that's bad some how... go figure...\n\nHe signed an order to devise a comprehensive plan to take out ISIS that we now have a new alliance with Russia to help us do.\n\nAn order to build back up the military, an order to end sanctuary cities encouraging people to break our laws and leach off the tax payers.\n\n\nForcing the pipeline to be built with american made steel, and expediting the reviewal process for government approval of new construction projects and speeding up environmental reviews (that right now take incredibly long amounts of time). \n\nFederal hiring freeze, stopping the already over bloated government from bloating itself more.\n\n\nEliminated the penalty for the ACA and working on rolling it back, which even democrats admit was a disaster and are secretly hoping he comes up with something better to save themselves from the disaster that comes at the end of the year when that finally starts to completely collapse, which it has already been doing the last several years on its own.\n\nEtc... only been a month.. pretty good, I'd say. What did <PERSON> do in 8 years again?","825"],["It's supposed to be voluntary, which is funny since they use the threat of arrest to make people pay.\n\n\nBut, if they want people to pay taxes and be happy about doing it, then they should allow us to allocate 50% of our taxes however we see fit. It would eliminate a lot of waste and show what people really care about. Then you allow any and all extra money to be also allocated wherever the citizen wants them to go. Then the people who really believe in paying for planned parenthood can do so, and those that don't will not have to. People might actually be a little more excited to pay taxes then.","409"],["Look, I feel for refugees and poor people alike. But the absolute fact of the matter is that we have an American culture and we have to protect it and other 1st world nations or there will be nowhere for anyone to flee to. We have finite sources and cannot take just anyone and everyone that wants to come here in. Period. That's why immigration laws exist. It's not a hard concept to understand, and if these immigrants were all voting red you guys would be fighting tooth and nail against bringing them in. I'm tired of everyone pretending like that isn't the case. I know it, you know it, everyone knows it, and you guys aren't fooling anyone but maybe yourselves and the most politically ignorant among us.","799"],["Actually the word was unsubstantiated. AKA there's nothing that suggests it's true, which in journalism means you don't report it. If you are reporting that other people are reporting it in a serious way, giving credulity to an entertainment site like Buzzfeed then you are *in fact* also reporting on it. That's reality. You can try to play word games with the semantics of it all, but you are only fooling yourself and people desperate to believe that because they live in an echo chamber of fear and vitriolic rhetoric telling them the world is going to end and that <PERSON> is literally <PERSON>. It's absurd, and the liberals are becoming the real fascists spreading propaganda trying to undermine our president and democracy. It's a collective temper tantrum and this is how spoiled children act when you take away their favorite toy. The behavior of these so called \"tolerant\" liberals is absolutely abhorrent and despicable.","30"],["Calling to dismantle the state is pretty much bordering on domestic terrorism, especially since they are beating people unconscious and using violence and destroying property. Blowing up an empty trash can is terrorism even if nobody is around if it's to instill fear and intimidate people. So why isn't destroying stores, looting and rioting when it's for political intimidation.","673"],["Just make your own pizza, it's way overpriced and it's easy and cheap to make it yourself! \n\nYou can do it in about 20 minutes. Flour, yeast, salt, water for the dough... then some sauce, cheese and whatever toppings you like. You can make about 10 pizzas for 20 dollars unless you get crazy with the toppings. Even then, it's so easy and tastes so much better and you can usually have it made and done before you could ever get it delivered.","324"],["He's guilty of the same thing <PERSON> is (nothing that we know of)... which is saying that he didn't believe he was molested by the older person because he was attracted to him. It's a common response to child victims because they don't want to feel like they were a victim, and perhaps in their mind they weren't. But any adult, from outside objectively looking in, knows they were victims.\n\n\nThe point here is showing their hypocrisy by putting pressure on a leftist icon. They will have to choose to sacrifice their own (which they probably will) or ease up on <PERSON> (don't hold your breath)","219"],["Yeah, they kept just vaguely saying stuff like \"nothing happened in Bowling Green, there was no massacre\" omitting the terrorists being caught there which led to the Iraq refugee ban. Now people try to justify it saying, well, they had a reason back then, but nothing has happened to warrant that now. Which is ridiculous because the vetting problems are even worse going into this new travel ban... and why the fuck should we wait until there is an actual massacre to actually do something. It seems like they won't be happy until people are actually dead first.","296"],["Especially the way he tried to say that pulling the emails out that reference any word would have taken a team of hundreds of people to do... despite the fact they were in a key word searchable database. The guy is a dolt, and CIA officers don't usually go around bragging about their hacking exploits on comedy shows to try and push the \"DAE RUSSIA!!!\" agenda even more. Sad.","629"],["To put it simply... if you are going to make that argument, there are a lot of safe spaces on reddit (almost every sub) that you can go state how you feel and people will pat you on the back and agree without putting any thought into it. \n\n\nIf you want to disagree with <PERSON>, to people who agree with him, then you have to be ready to engage in a debate beyond your feelings and use facts and back them up with sources. Most of what <PERSON> says it absolutely undeniably true and fact. And even your example of transgenders being the victim of sexual assault... that may or may not be true, I don't know because I've never looked into it. But let's assume it is, the immediate thing that comes to my mind is the behaviors I've seen the transgender people I've known engaging in (I lived in LA for over a decade and worked in many facets of the entertainment industry so saw my fair share) and I start wondering if these people were victims to the underground scenes they were indulging in, or related to drug use, etc... I don't mean offense by stating this. But the reality is that even people who know a lot of transgender people see they are often (but not always) into some seedier scenes and lifestyles that raise some questions. \n\n\nSo it's a complex thing that you are asking... but yes, sources and facts are the only thing that is going to work. Emotions aren't logical and will not be respected by themselves as an argument about anything beyond them. If I come to you and tell you that everything you believe is wrong because of how it makes me feel, I'm sure you won't really care what I have to say unless I use some facts to prove my point... right? It goes both ways.","847"],["> Also, it is incredibly condescending to have you, a cis person, try to tell me what the fuck I should care about\n\n\nSee, this is where you are going to lose every time. You are now arguing emotion, saying his opinion isn't valid. Unfortunately most of the world is not trans, and they have a certain view of it, whether you agree with them or not. The way you are arguing here, is never going to change someone's mind... it's framing yourself as a victim, and people are ridiculously sick of victim politics because the LGBT community has been acting like it's the victim olympics, where the more things you have wrong with you, the more right you have to speak. That will never win and is a big part of why <PERSON> and <PERSON> are as popular as they are. Just food for thought.","847"],["Can you show me a couple examples of fast food employees going on to own franchises later? As you are implying this is a very common thing to have happen. This is simply mathematically impossible. There is no way this can be a very common thing... statistically with a 0% turn over rate and an average staff of 20 people for a small fast food business would mean there's a 5% chance at that ever happening even when we use magical non existent probabilities of an absolutely fairy tail best case scenario assuming no turn over and that eventually every franchise would be run by someone who started out at minimum wage. \n\nQuite frankly the story you just spouted is an absolute pipe dream. \n\nHowever, in mom and pop shops, where they often pay much better than franchises this is much more common. But you are talking about a very long time of working there until the owners retiring before you get that chance, and then hope it doesn't fall down the chain through nepotism instead of you. So even where it's more likely it still isn't likely, unfortunately.","479"],["No, actually I've looked extensively into every economic model and every proposal that comes up for a vote. This isn't the first time this has come up. And, in places where the government has an actual resource to use to subsidize the program, you MIGHT have a chance of it working on a very small scale before it just causes inflation and just lands up devaluing your resources and landing back on the tax payers regardless, it'll just create a temporary buffer before you've screwed yourselves worse in that case. But in a place like the US on a large scale with our cultural problems and welfare queens, it's simply a pipe dream. It will never work. Cultures of laziness can't succeed while encouraging laziness. The government is horrible at managing resources because they have no competition and are made up of people with no experience running things efficiently, only figuring out how they can spend more and filter more into their own coffers... so it's no surprise that when they take over the means of production that it always leads to famine, genocide, and collapse.","683"],["The burqa ban is stupid anyways... people think they are banning full face coverings. It's a hollow gesture even when it passes, because it will still make it legal to cover the whole face, the burqa covers the eyes with a mesh as well. That's the only difference. So it's all just bullshit political theater. It does nothing to change anything. Just gives them all something meaningless to argue about that everyone is too ignorant about to realize it. The niqab should go too.\n\n_URL_0_","972"],["Wow, you know you lost the argument when you resort to <PERSON> is a Kenyan nonsense to make your point in an argument about economics. Nice try... but yes... I'm right, I thought it was common knowledge. According to MIT, the cost to produce the iphone in the US would cost an extra 30-40 dollars per phone... I used the 50% number so when you looked it up and saw that that it wasn't even 25% you'd realize how ridiculous you were being, but you didn't do any research, so I made the mistake of giving you more credit than do. \n\n_URL_1_\n\n_URL_0_\n\n\nAnd the problem is that we've isolated ourselves from reality by living above our means with massive amounts of credit card debt and outsourcing jobs and manufacturing because Americans would rather have a bunch of cheap shit than a few quality items they actually take care of and use that were made here locally. They aren't smart enough to realize that by shopping walmart and supporting cheap chinese knock offs you are killing the mom and pop shops that paid actual wages people could live on, because they products were higher quality and made locally by other people paid actual living wages. \n\n\nYou all want your cheap shit but you want someone else to pay for it, then complain when the adults want to help fix things for you. How many more partisan red herrings you want to bring up to avoid the fact you were wrong now?","21"],["You guys are being pretty easily fooled by this. Do you think <PERSON> kept all of <PERSON>'s guys? And if he did keep any of them on for the transition, do you think he would have if <PERSON> went full blitz and tried to delegitimize him for weeks before taking office?\n\n\nThose positions are always replaced when a new administration comes in, this is a bunch of hoopla about nothing, and a paranoid conspiracy theory. \n\n\nThis type of rhetoric is getting dangerously close to sounding like <PERSON> tier conspiracies, actually, I think it's already gone just as far in that regard... the only difference is <PERSON> followers fought peacefully from behind the scenes... you all are getting the pitchforks out, calling everyone Nazis and many calling for harm to not just the admin but his supporters. That's collective fucking lunacy. This is fucking insane how brainwashed people are by media that is all controlled by a handful of people.","906"],["He's watched the leftist media and politicians manipulate liberals for decades... and he's dealt with them himself for decades with professional PR people that know how to do so very well. Honestly manipulating the left isn't very difficult... it's more the media doing it right now trying to bash <PERSON> than <PERSON> himself. He's ordered to build the wall, shocking, <PERSON> built 700 miles during his presidency under the bill that <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON> all voted in favor for. He instituted a temporary ban on refugees (with some exemptions) which is more lax than <PERSON>'s ban was an for a shorter period of time, and was only a continuation of the ban <PERSON> ordered the nations that were a danger. <PERSON> purged the military and replaced them with his leaders from top to bottom. He's done nothing shocking, but the media want you to be outraged because they are pissed they are getting caught in their lies AND called out publicly for them. The media is using their liberal viewers as a weapon, and make no mistake it's not in your best interest, it's in theirs and theirs only. They are fighting for the establishment that everyone on the left claims to hate... but they've made you hate <PERSON> more by vile vitriolic rhetoric and protests funded by <PERSON>. It's a collective delusion perpetrated by a mass media fueled delusion. It's scary because I'm watching the left act like fascists and nazis while they accuse the other side of being that... literally. \n\nI hope everyone comes to their senses soon and you don't create some sort of self fulfilling prophecy. Because if you start attacking innocent people, for their political beliefs, they will eventually push back in self defense. The left needs to be careful that they aren't creating a problem that doesn't exist yet.","827"],["He absolutely does not oppose gay marriage. He has said for decades that he didn't have a problem with it. There's an interview from like 20 years ago where he is asked and he plays neutral when <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and every other politician were saying they disagreed with it. He said that he wasn't sure because someone from a small town may feel differently about it than someone who has lived in Manhattan most of his life (where there has long been a renowned gay community even when it wasn't very socially acceptable like it is today). \n\n\nThere's a lot of things you could choose to criticize, but don't spread blatant lies.","418"],["Of course they do. The mistake you are making is thinking I'm talking in terms of partisan politics, when I'm not, I'm an independent that happens to support <PERSON> because I despise <PERSON>. I don't care what the heritage foundation says. Global free trade is a death sentence to our economy and our workers. You want higher wages? You want economic security? Well, unfortunately we can't compete with slave wages, and when companies can move overseas and pay kids 30 cents an hour in Bangladesh to make you some cheap shit to buy at WalMart, guess what... they will, because they are businesses. Businesses main goal is to make more money... period. It's not isolationist to look out for our citizens best interest. But, in the liberal mind, anything their masters say is good and anything the republicans say is bad, regardless of truth. Flooding our country with cheap labor? AKA illegal immigrants... is absurd and ridiculous. We have laws on that for a reason, it's called sovereignty. And even with tariffs on two countries, we'd be far from isolationist and we'd stop losing businesses overseas. I work with hundreds of vendors and the amount of businesses moving large segments of their business overseas and to mexico in the NAFTA free trade zone is staggering and sad. \n\nYou've made up imaginary problems, so I don't know how to address those made up problems that don't exist... it's like saying <PERSON> can't possibly deliver gifts to everyone... and I'm saying... well <PERSON> isn't real... and your reply is that I haven't come up with a solution for how he can do it. This conversation has become absurd.","745"],["Especially after that study proving a few things:\n\n* White folks are more likely to have lethal force used against them when any amount of force is used. \n\nDespite the fact that:\n\n* Force (in general) is used more often on Black folks.\n\nSo force is used more often on Blacks, but even when you correct for population differences and the number of instances of force, white folks still encounter more lethal use of force from police officers. \n\n\nThe media can go suck a fuck for spreading lies and dividing our country.","271"],["Well, we will have to agree to disagree on illegal immigration. I don't think you realize how much money illegal immigrants remove from our economy every year. It's a deficit, but most the media wants to support the narrative to bring in more democrat voters and cheap labor. You can say it's been positive, but that's a very distorted lie told through very cherry picked statistics that ignore many other facts... it simply isn't true. You are the one sticking your head in the sand. \n\nAlso, I would ask you, what limit would you place on illegal immigrants? What standards? Education? Do they need to learn our language? Do they need to prove who they are? Could we just let in millions of poor people from China who speak no english and have no ID? Where do you draw the line on our sovereignty? Because guess what, we have laws that regulate that... but you say we need more despite us taking in more LEGALLY than most every other country does legally combined. So what is your limit? 2 million a year? 3 million a year? At some point you lose sovereignty when you change the voting demographic to a bunch of people who don't share your values, don't know or respect your laws or constitution or rights, and historically come from shit holes where they bend over for dictator regimes and cartels. So where are your lines? Nobody can ever answer this. You don't like the laws, then change them, unless you are OK with republicans ignoring laws they don't like simply because they are in charge now....\n\nAnd globalization isn't an all or nothing type of deal. We can finesse where it's in our best interest. This carte blanche style of globalization you believe in will make us all peasants at the hand of an even more polarized corporate oligarchy than we already live in. The problem is we can't compete with slave wages, and the big companies create monopolies because they can sell cheap shit from China that the Mom and Pop store can't compete with. \n\nI seriously recommend taking an economics class, there are many free courses online. \n\n\nAlso, the issue with farming in Oregon isn't an issue. It's called pay people more and they will do the work. The price of food should go up. People in the US eat too much as it is. I'd be perfectly fine with that, and then it creates a market to compete with. The main problem is that in Oregon many people can grow their own food, so they don't really have the farming market to compete with the subsidized GMOs that can be transported further. Funny, you are ok with having to compete globally, but not locally. That's how the market corrects itself... you don't flood in cheap labor to keep prices and wages low, which ironically is what your solution is. So backwards and contradictory of you to say that it's quite baffling.","113"],["haha yes, it seems obvious to most people, but if I were the defense I would argue that the reason she did this was not because they didn't normally go by the book, but to remember to be extra prudent of procedural technicalities that could be used against them that aren't always paid attention to as closely in less serious cases because they were going up against a diabolical machine.\n\nOf course I'm just playing devils advocate, I have no doubt in my mind it was simply a dumb move to create plausible deniability.","646"],["Not only that but he did it while having overhead costs. He paid thousands of people to work, paid for insurance, construction rentals, materials, management, lawyers, and created billions of dollars of tax revenue for the places he built in. He turned a million dollar lot into a millions of dollars of tax revenue a year and wealth in perpetuity. \n\nSo it's always funny when the left, who hates wallstreet because it's \"passive income\" or \"capital gains\" use that argument. OMG what an idiot, he created jobs, created tax revenue and INCREASED it by increasing the value of any building or lot he created, and brought in tons of foreign buyers brining money into our country from outside of it. He was the one person the chinese government trusted to house their official bank in his building. And created unfathomable wealth all the while... but what a lucky idiot, right? The left is seriously mentally ill.","747"],["You should look through my history before you accuse me of being a share blue shill. I just don't think using pictures that are literally 2 women eating pizza with a child after they were freed from a place where that wasn't possible is proof of some conspiracy... there's plenty of other stuff. Like the pool email... the wet works email... playing dominos on cheese or pasta... all the trips to <PERSON>'s pedo island... the fact that all those pizza shops seem to be connected and using pedo symbolism... the tweets from <PERSON> and all his perverted deranged friends... etc.... I just don't see this out of context picture as anything proving anything.","504"],["It is possible to be tested...\n\n[_URL_0_](_URL_1_)\n\nI saw an ad when I searched it for a home test, but I'm always skeptical of those as they tend to be unreliable and require confirmation from an actual lab test involving a doctor in the end anyway. So best to talk to your doctor if you think you might be at risk, though most doctors will probably err on the side of NOT testing unless you are displaying any symptoms and are not a pregnant woman or woman planning to get pregnant. \n\nFun bonus fact: Martin Shkreli was the only manufacturer of the drug used to treat this in the US.","343"],["Nah, I hung out in that industry scene for a while and saw all the different subsets. Basically it's a very small club, and it's about WHO you know more than what you know, for the most part. The main thing driving it is compatible personality types... they want people they like working with and get along with. When you sit down with these industry types just about anything goes with few exceptions... and things that might be incredibly uncomfortable for more conservative people is talked about casually with these people. They swear like Australians, talk about casual drug use as if it's nothing, make perverted and crass jokes about the \"help\" worse than any locker room talk you've ever heard. It's fuck this and fuck that every other word. There is a cocky arrogance to them all, and they love to talk shit. To fit in here, you have to be able to laugh and act natural with them while they schmuck it up talking like the degenerates they are while criticizing and gossiping like school girls. \n\nSince they hire from within, and hollywood has been a safe space for gays for a very long time... the industry has embraced a large majority in their ranks. And, when the producer says they need someone for position X... the makeup guy, or personal assistant can now recommend his friends for first dibs to get those positions. The gay community can be incredibly close knit, similar to how Jews look out for each other and prefer to hire another jew rather than a gentile if they have the choice and it makes financial sense. \\(This is not knocking either community, in fact, I think it's perfectly normal for people of all cultures to do this, even subconsciously if not consciously\\) So it's no wonder that rich jewish men with kinks found solace and friendship in gay men, who tend to be very studious workers that are not going to judge your bad behaviors, especially towards women as many gay men simply do not respect women very much, at least not behind closed doors. So the gay men see the desperate starlets as trying to sleep their way to the top, which many of them absolutely were/are... and the producers see a bunch of hard working guys that turn a blind eye as long as their own dirty deeds have a blind eye turned as well. \n\nIt's kind of hard to really put into words, not sure how well I did... but Hollywood definitely attracts the weirdos, and you have to be fairly narcissistic and driven, and also willing to turn a blind eye and just accept crazy behaviors as \"eccentric\" to make it big in that industry long term. Which is why the hashtag metoo movement is so large. All these girls that saw how it worked, how they were manipulated into thinking they'd get ahead for indulging with some guy... then realizing they were passed up for the next young girl who came along, made them angry and when they spoke up they got cast aside and buried. Now they are exacting their revenge... and probably rightfully so.","139"],["Yeah exactly. Had similar experiences in the entertainment industry with hiring. Several jobs that I landed were because the interviewer though I was gay for similar reasons, also the fact I worked in a place previously that was pretty much the same ratio as you described so was really comfortable conversing around that personality type as many of my best friends at the time were very similar in nature.","979"],["I don't think nuclear war is their first option, but that's probably a back up option like the sampson option for israel. Those in power don't want to let go, and would rather burn it all to the ground rather than give up their power. More likely these sick fucks would use a plague... and right now a new ebola plague has sprung up in the congo and already killed 17 people. There was the pneumonic plague in madagascar a month or two ago, haven't heard much about that lately though... probably because the media doesn't want to publicize a legitimate excuse for new travel bans that they know <PERSON> would implement.","1014"],["In this video they are mostly lamenting that they are being forced back. One guy says he got deported because the US citizens were tired of the crime inflicted on innocent citizens and the harm they caused. Other gang members are lamenting having to come back to be possibly killed by the police while talking about how they kill people themselves just for wandering into their \"territory\". Meanwhile the guys that are \"laughing\" are in El Salvador in hiding, covering their faces, ducking away from cops, and living in the run down outskirts of town calling <PERSON> crazy. Nothing in this video supports the headline and I'm honestly embarrassed for Vice news because they used to have some really good segments, but they've fallen so far since then.","799"],["No, termination of the deal is horrible for the Iranian elite. Sanctions are coming back, they will be unable to do business with American companies and likely soon any of our allies that wish to remain allies. Unfortunately the deal already freed 100s of billions of dollars for them to use that was frozen before the deal. Then they got that nice ransom payment in unmarked bills delivered by the O admin and company as a bonus. It is bad for the globalist elites that wanted to rake in that money from purchases, and now the squeeze is coming unless they renegotiate a better deal. That's why they are so pissed, they know shit just got real for them again.","985"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"It's actually really interesting watching the press briefings. The reasons they are pulling ratings are because they are actually REAL now. Reporters are grilling <PERSON> and it's not the same old stale 5 talking points reporters asking generic soft balls with the one token Fox guy asking a few real questions. They have video questions, and letting smaller outlets show that they are relevant, and really, they are a real wild card in the future because they aren't the establishment and have nothing to lose and everything to gain from creating the new path as the others struggle to adapt. \\n\\nThe reporters look like they are enjoying their jobs for the first time in a decade and now there is actual competition starting to take place beyond just ratings, but integrity. They've added a new dimension and it's really fascinating to watch unfold a completely new dynamic. I think either side of the fence you sit on, you have to admit that at least.\",\n \"6\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is the one I understand the least. I can understand the rest of their talking points being based in a naive compassion like a child that you have to explain to why you can't afford to go feed every homeless person we see, but we help the ones we can, when we can. The child is being altruistic, there's no problem there, he/she just doesn't understand why we can't afford to. They offer their own toy, and convince their sibling to give up one of theirs too... we can all sacrifice. It's sweet, it's just not realistic. I love my liberal friends to death, I just wish we could have a rational conversation about it.\",\n \"974\"\n ],\n [\n \"Since he deleted his comment he said: \\n\\n\\n > Ok....Anyone that opposes <PERSON> ends up dead or in jail on bogus charges ruling them ineligible to oppose him. Sounds like a free democracy to me🙄SM\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nIt doesn't impact the United States any more than any past administration is dealing with. I mean, let's do that same thing with Saudi Arabia and Iran. Are they better or worse than <PERSON>? Everyone is cool with us being frenemies with them... so they must be better than Russia? Right? Those countries would never do anything worse? The left must be outraged! Right? (they're not)\",\n \"853\"\n ],\n [\n \"Not just reddit, it's the entirety of media. TV shows affect how people interact. It goes deep. 6-7 minute intervals of conversation. What people see on TV they think is \\\"normal\\\".. they are creating the norms and creating characters for people to relate to. Once a character is relatable they can shift the character through emotional series of interactions in time into a completely different person and get to control where they go. The psychological implications of this shouldn't be underestimated and I think any reasonable psychologist would agree that a popular move/show/book can heavily impact a person's psychology. This is why these things are historically popular, because they have a very heavy impact on humanity as a whole and shaping it. A very interesting phenomenon, and not one to look at through completely rose colored lenses.\",\n \"367\"\n ],\n [\n \"Seriously, they are violently attacking peaceful people that are simply trying to voice their opinions. The guy at the airport fled for his life and still got beat while some freaky man child is screaming like he just won the superbowl by taking a guy down in 20 on 1 mob violence. How much of a pussy do you have to be to cheer for that type of shit, to think that's some kind of accomplishment. It's getting really old really fast.\",\n \"669\"\n ],\n [\n \"Hilarious part is they can't take either position now without agreeing with someone on <PERSON>'s team. <PERSON> said he wouldn't use it, <PERSON> says he is with <PERSON> even though he thinks it works and <PERSON> claimed they used it on the guy they got the information from to carry out the <PERSON> raid... then he delivers this report to expose it all. This is going to have them chasing their own tail for a week.\",\n \"452\"\n ],\n [\n \"LOL what? The <PERSON> admin lied and covered up every scandal for everyone while they threw the underlings under the bus every step of the way. Executive privilege protections for fast and furious... <PERSON> taking the 5th... more executive privilege for Benghazi. The blatant lies about benghazi. Tell me you guys aren't completely blind to the fact that your own side is pretty corrupt itself... meanwhile you are contemplating \\\"what ifs\\\" because you have absolutely nothing else.\",\n \"693\"\n ],\n [\n \"It was a response to someone who was being interviewed that made the claim that <PERSON> was worse than <PERSON> on <PERSON> (if i remember correctly). This was a quick bullet point <PERSON> went through to illustrate how ridiculous it was to compare the two. And regardless of your beliefs, that type of vile hyperbolic rhetoric would be laughably absurd if the guy was joking, but he kept insisting he was serious. \\n\\n\\n<PERSON> destroyed any credibility that guy had left, tbh.\",\n \"182\"\n ],\n [\n \"But that gets into other issues on how to create a society. When murder happens, is it eye for an eye? With no state, naturally, some group will always try to attain control and power. That's a historical permanent that seems to be embedded in many humans, and there's billions. Who controls the borders? Or do we have no borders? Who protects the cities from invaders? Who protects you from foreign states that want to invade to take our resources and women? \\n\\n\\nI'm trying to figure out how anyone thinks anarchism is a viable system, and so far I just don't see it, though I'm open to understanding. Capitalism isn't perfect, but nothing is, and so far it's the best imperfect system we've found.\",\n \"101\"\n ],\n [\n \"If he does nothing other than take down the pedo network from top to bottom it will be worth everything else. People who harm children are the lowest of the low. Rational people instinctively want to protect children even when they don't have any of their own. These sick fucks are no longer human. I've no idea how they got to that point, and frankly I don't give a shit. They need to be stopped, and fortunately the ever growing list of raids is very encouraging. Drain the swamp!\",\n \"94\"\n ],\n [\n \"That's why they are celebrating so hard and take this as such a big win. The media knows that truth isn't on their side and all they have is brainwashing. They are celebrating \\\"winning\\\". They aren't celebrating exposing anything, because they haven't exposed anything. Their goal is to spin anything and everything to take down <PERSON> and anyone in his admin. They are celebrating a successful brain washing Psy Op. It's sedition if someone can find hard evidence of collusion, even though it seems obvious to anyone with a working brain.\",\n \"827\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's far beyond that. Twitter has extreme data metrics... you can look it up but they know a lot about you by cookies stored from ad sites and what you follow, like, and comment on. Seriously, when I saw extreme, I mean a vast volume. I believe you can even look at some of them yourself. But, I am guessing they have created algorithms that push up the \\\"verified\\\" accounts, especially those that carry higher data points in certain metrics... like left leaning/liberal/democrat. \\n\\n\\nHere's the latest on their censorship moves.\\n\\n_URL_0_\",\n \"106\"\n ],\n [\n \"Doesn't even matter either way. There's no way anyone could try to claim there's an expectation to privacy in a classroom. It's only illegal to record people unknowingly if there is an expectation to privacy, as far as I can tell, in most states anyways. I'm sure a few states have weird laws regarding this, but I think that's almost universally true, if not completely universally true.\",\n \"607\"\n ],\n [\n \"They could try, but any decent lawyer would pose the question... so if a person confesses to a misdemeanor in class and somebody recorded it, would it be legally admissible in court? Because it's illegal to record anyone where there is an expectation to privacy in california without their consent UNLESS they in the act of committing or conspiring to commit a felony. I don't know that any judge wouldn't want to blur the lines that much and it'd probably end up moving to higher courts on appeal if they did.\",\n \"260\"\n ],\n [\n \"Considering <PERSON> was the only other viable option after she colluded with MSM, the DNC, and dictatorships in 3rd world countries and all the big banks and wall street to *steal the election from <PERSON>*, it's a valid point as <PERSON> was the only other option lest we be left with her corrupt ass... it's a completely legitimate argument. Nothing would have been worse than <PERSON>. She belongs behind bars.\",\n \"557\"\n ],\n [\n \"See, but that's the thing. If the evidence is a paperclip vs a bowling ball it should speak for itself and you shouldn't fear people telling their side, because like you just said, it should be obvious the weight of evidence lies the majority to your favor. The fact of the matter is you think you are smarter than everyone else so if they disagree with you they are simply wrong in your mind. So you'd just prefer the other side doesn't get to speak because you are afraid they might end up disagreeing with you if the other side gets a voice. That's the problem. You aren't into real journalism. You are into activism. You want journalists to promote your ideology while silencing the other side... which if we use everything you just said here makes it apparent that you don't have as much evidence on your side, otherwise everyone would agree with you. Just admit that you prefer fascism as long as your party is the one in charge, that's at least honest, since you are promoting fascist biased and activist journalism. \\n\\n\\nYour assumption is that just because something is in the minority of beliefs that it's wrong... which if everyone in history thought like you, we'd simply have a global dictatorship with no journalism because any dissenting voices would be thrown out to never be heard and spread. I honestly can't believe you are advocating for silencing those you disagree with. If we did that, then gays and women would have never gained any rights. I don't think you've thought this through very well, as I don't think your intent is fascism, yet that's exactly what you are advocating for.\",\n \"112\"\n ],\n [\n \"Pre ACA would be awesome for everyone but those with preexisting conditions. It would be easier to figure out a charitable way to take care of those people than to simply redistribute wealth... this article says they are taxing the \\\"wealthy\\\".. well that's simply not true. The premiums are through the roof to pay for those that contribute nothing into taxes or the system... many of them contribute nothing by choice, not because they are unable. It's burdening small businesses and the middle class the most. The only people that aren't hurt by the bill are the very very poor and the very very wealthy, everyone in the middle is paying for these shitty plans that do nothing for more of the poor people they are paying for. The entire ACA was a con job that was written partially by a felon that was in jail for fraud, and people like <PERSON> who openly admit that they relied on the stupidity of the American people to ram it through because if they knew what was in it they would never be able to pass it. Literally subverting the will of the people and going against the very people they are supposed to represent. \\n\\n\\nHow can anybody still defend it? Even the dems aren't defending Obamacare anymore, they are just pissed the republicans aren't replacing it with anything that creates more entitlements for their rich friends and breaking the backs of the middle class. My fear is that it's too far and too gone to bring the prices back down to where they were pre ACA with was about 150-200 dollars for GOOD insurance for an individual. Now it's 500 a month for a young healthy adult for a decent plan and for a family of 5 it's 1600 a month for a decent basic plan. That's a mortgage payment on a decent condo or small house. Where before the ACA they would have payed about 450-600 for their entire family per month with better coverage.\\n\\n\\nComplete sham.\",\n \"56\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is a last ditch effort to delegitimize <PERSON> to save their grasp on the political establishment which gives them their media monopoly on truth. All they can do is try to call <PERSON> a liar or they know they are done. At this point, it's not even about turning profits, it about keeping their heads above water as they drown in a new media landscape where the dinosaurs are becoming extinct and <PERSON> is the meteor decimating them. They are out for blood because they know once they are done there's no coming back. They are almost ready to stick a fork in them. They don't care about professionalism, it was just a facade anyway. Look professional and act professional and people will believe you. They've been caught lying too many times so now they have to double down. Politifact put out a whole series of calling <PERSON> a liar when in every fact check they basically say that his numbers and what he said was accurate, they just didn't like the way he said it, so therefore it was \\\"mostly false\\\" or \\\"half true\\\" when they do the opposite for liberal politicians. I hope they all go under, we'll be better off without the fake news.\",\n \"988\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm betting that the real conspiracy is that <PERSON> and <PERSON> are the ones actually working with the Russians to delegitimize the <PERSON> administration. I wouldn't be surprised is the ambassador is a double or triple spy. We know <PERSON> set up the meeting between him and sessions and that he met at the white house with <PERSON> at least half a dozen to a dozen times on record and that many other democrats met with him and some even lied about it directly saying she had met with an ambassador but not that particular ambassador (<PERSON>) which turned out to be a lie as there is a photo of it.\\n\\n\\nMark my words, I'm betting the real story is that if anyone is in collusion with the Russians, it's <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and the dems.\",\n \"860\"\n ],\n [\n \"They are pushing this shit to kids via snapchat. I rarely use the app, but have some friends that are avid users and it's entertaining to see what they are up to without having to be on facebook. I noticed one day there were sponsored articles and blurbs and what are basically power pointesque type of article things. The amount of propaganda from CNN, VICE, VOX, Salon, etc... was mind boggling. Everything from polyamory to <PERSON> being a pussy grabbing liar and how much he's harming the country. The headlines will be \\\"How will the country recover after a <PERSON> presidency\\\" Then have a slideshow of lies presented as facts. Right now they have one titled \\\"which one is the real <PERSON>\\\" Then one of the mini videos has a graphic saying \\\"diplomacy, real handshakes\\\" and a few others and them dropping into a golden toilet with <PERSON>'s name on it while this guy goes around in these videos talking shit on <PERSON>. Calling him an autocrat and accidental president. Then continuing implying he's wrong about calling CNN and them fake news. It's disgusting that This is being pushed to kids and their parents likely don't even know the app has that function.\\n\\n\\nThe other one today is \\\"can you spot the fake news\\\" and to their credit they showed that fake <PERSON> quote about running as a republican was fake, but continued on mostly pushing mainstream news as being real as long as they don't use .co or some other shorter prefix in the url. \\n\\n\\nIt's a shame that they need these giant media companies to profit off of children.\",\n \"827\"\n ],\n [\n \"<PERSON> resigned for lying, his conversation was not illegal, and it's been thoroughly debunked that he even really intended to lie. His mistake was not being thorough enough in his briefing to <PERSON>. It's a big nothing burger. \\n\\n\\nThe Dossier has been floating around for more than half a year and nobody is trying to claim it's real, and they've shown the author was being paid by one of our agencies to create dirt on <PERSON>. \\n\\n\\nI am impressed at your ability to bookmark ridiculous fake news stories that take hearsay from anonymous sources and publish \\\"possibilities\\\" like a fun fantasy story for people like you to go attempt to connect dots where there are none. \\n\\n\\nThe reason we go back to <PERSON> is because that's who you guys prefer to be in office. Now go connect dots for her, where there is PROOF she was taking money from 3rd world dictators through her foundation and has ACTUAL ties to Russia and helped sign off on the Uranium One deal as money was flowing into her laundering foundation, er I mean \\\"charity\\\" that her own daughter hired laywers to investigate because she thought they were doing illegal things. Those lawyers said it was operating like a political operation, not a charity... and surprise! They shut down the charity right after she would have more time to dedicate to go around helping all those poor people they helped. \\n\\n\\n<PERSON> connections are all these imaginary things... <PERSON>'s were real and verifiable. Yet, you guys were pretty quiet on her throughout the election.\",\n \"860\"\n ],\n [\n \"Those were not really concentration camps in the way most people might think of the term concentration camp. It was horrible, but many of the Japanese that lived through it said they understood why it was done and held no grudge about it, and it was ultimately overturned and they even paid reparations to them and their families. It took a while until we did that, but we did. When you are hit by a surprise attack and lose a lot of people, tempers flare and people act irrationally.\",\n \"655\"\n ],\n [\n \"Actually, it's illegal to even collect all of that technically. They just dance around it making it sound like they weren't doing that by using spook speak that the general public doesn't recognize. <PERSON> flat out lied and you could tell he didn't want to but knew he had to. \\n\\n\\nHe had that same look again in the most recent TV interview saying \\\"I can deny\\\"... which looked like a knee jerk response to CYA.\",\n \"903\"\n ],\n [\n \"And you are missing the point that it's not a journalist's job to \\\"fact check\\\". Journalism has rules of ethics which is why \\\"bias\\\" is considered such a bad word in journalism. The point is that if the journalists are biased, then you have nobody to trust to simply inform the people of the facts since bias leads to skewed facts, slanted stories, and spin on top of spin, which is what we are seeing today in all forms of media. \\n\\n\\nJournalists are supposed to be skeptical and push back on both sides equally, and let the people defending those sides defend them for themselves and be an objective observer. Especially since the term \\\"facts\\\" are thrown around pretty loosely. Look at politifact.. professional fact checking site and they are extremely biased, which most liberals in this sub even often admit is the case. \\n\\n\\nJournalist's jobs are to ask questions, and report the answers, not to tell you the viewer what you should believe. I know it's tempting when your people are in control of the media to want them to just report your beliefs as infallible empirical truth, but that's how tyranny happens. Especially in a world where 6 people own 90% of the media. Go look up the <PERSON> segments on how the news all sounds the same. Even their little kitten stories are all scripted. Biased journalism is how we got to this point of so much fake news. Maybe the flat earther doesn't need as much time in front of the screen, but we shouldn't be afraid of him being on the screen at all. As soon as he can't defend his position thoroughly it all falls apart. It's not a journalists job to tell people... but to simply show them by asking questions. \\n\\n\\nI know this will be unpopular in this sub, but watch <PERSON>... he's pretty fair and questions people on both the right and left fairly equally. But his brilliance comes from simply asking questions and letting people try to defend what they said and watching it unravel as they can't even defend their stance outside of the catchy soundbytes and catch phrases. But then you turn on CNN or MSNBC and watch them call people liars and have a panel of 3 people supporting their side and 1 person on the other where they literally team up and bully people and call them names and talk over them. That's not journalism, it's activism, and I'm sure if conservatives owned most of the mainstream media you wouldn't agree with thinking they should be \\\"fact checking\\\" the people live on air because you know it will be just as biased favoring them as every lefty media company is these days. \\n\\n\\nAnd the people's whose job is to investigate often like to lie or mislead or omit things. So people have to do their own research. It's unfortunate but it's reality.\",\n \"840\"\n ],\n [\n \"Then you go and use fake news.\\n\\nThe \\\"muslim ban\\\" wasn't a muslim ban, it was an extension of a travel ban requiring more stringent vetting that was enacted by the <PERSON> administration and actually more lax and shorter in length than the <PERSON> administration. <PERSON> targeted those seven countries as terror threats after the bowling green incident where they arrested 2 men who were flying weapons to Al Qaeda, one of which had his finger prints found on an IED that killed American troops. But believe your fake news it's a \\\"muslim ban\\\" despite many citizens from most muslim countries having no trouble coming in. That's fake news you are watching telling you that.\\n\\n\\nDo nothing wall? The one <PERSON> and <PERSON> and <PERSON> all voted for? He's using the law that was already passed by them to do it. <PERSON> built over 700 miles of that wall while he was president using he same law.\\n\\n\\nHealthcare is a clusterfuck admittedly and Obamacare was a disaster, at the moment that's still up in the air but unlikely to get much better until some heads roll for obamacare.\\n\\ndenial of admittedly fabricated data? Show my exactly what percentage of climate change humans are attributed for... you can't, because that data doesn't exist. Nobody can say and most the data is adjusted and manipulated to fit the narrative. We don't even have enough hard data to actually make the case for anthropomorphic climate change.\\n\\nTwitter rage fits? <PERSON> just threw them on camera as did <PERSON>. <PERSON> came out and scolded the nation as some sort of higher moral authority when things didn't go his way... the ex coke head, bath house visiting stoner... yeah that's rich. <PERSON> \\\"why am I not drunkenly 50 points ahead\\\" <PERSON>. Seriously, they are all jokes.\\n\\n\\nEveryone in politics is a walking conflict of interest. <PERSON> at least made his money, while congress voted themselves raises and legalized insider trading... things Trump would have been arrested for if he had done them. But yeah... that evil <PERSON> calling people on their lies. Please.\",\n \"296\"\n ],\n [\n \"His ban was based on <PERSON>'s ban, but you didn't care when <PERSON> did it, right? \\n\\n\\nA bit hypocritical... but that seems to be the leftist platform these days. \\n\\n\\nTell me again how carbon taxes are saving the planet and not just concentrating the ability to pollute to the wealthiest big corps? And it's a known fact that dems are attacking the fossil fuel industry because it holds political power. <PERSON> went after the <PERSON> brothers despite the fact they hold less power than any of the major dem investors. And you say I'm sticking my head in the sand? The left is just bitter they lost and is throwing a collective temper tantrum. Saudi Arabia holds power through OPEC... I suggest you look into that if you want real answers about why not even trump can ban the Saudis... just like <PERSON> didn't.\",\n \"771\"\n ],\n [\n \"That's the thing. They don't care. They are projecting their own actions and biases onto <PERSON> supporters. <PERSON> has been in office for one month and they are already acting like the world is ending when all he's done is enforce the laws and implement a ban on travel from 7 countries <PERSON>'s admin picked as terror risk countries. The rest is hyperbolic manufactured outrage over hearsay from anonymous sources. When any of these people are willing to put their actual reputation on the line to make these claims about Trump, not just reporting what some anonymous person claims *might* be partially true... then it may warrant an investigation. When I hear democrats call for an investigation into pedogate or the clinton foundation now that they are shutting it down right after losing their pay to play ability, then I might start taking them seriously. But it's just a temper tantrum, a bunch of spoiled kids with daddy issues that are used to stomping their feet and getting their way, and the politicians coddle them and reassure them their tantrums are justified. It's pretty appalling. Most <PERSON> supporters are simply anti establishment, and <PERSON> is hated by both sides of the establishment, which to me means he's doing something right.\",\n \"249\"\n ],\n [\n \"It has a little to do with his celebrity, known as a tough shrewd businessman that went to one of the most in debt men in the country, to one of the wealthiest. Name recognition and reputation help... <PERSON>'s reputation was riding <PERSON>'s coattails and corruption and she seemed vapid, hollow, and in some videos like she was a drunk \\\"WHY AM I NOT 50 POINTS AHEAD YOU MIGHT ASK\\\". She is also the definition of establishment. \\n\\n\\nThe reason <PERSON> won isn't because of some imaginary racism or misogyny or the patriarchy, it's because people were sick of the political establishment whores lying to them while skirting the laws and changing them so they can profit and ignoring the laws they didn't like to the detriment of our own citizens. Welfare for illegals is outright theft, period. That was a big one. <PERSON>, quite frankly, was America's middle finger to the <PERSON> administration. The racism was coming from democrats blaming straight white males for all the problems in the black community and calling them racist and bigots if they disagreed with <PERSON> on anything. If the dems continue with their racism, then you may actually create number 2, but it doesn't exist and wasn't the reason <PERSON> won. Keep calling people racist, and xenophobic, and bigots that are good decent people and eventually they will push back... if simply defending themselves by saying you are wrong, then they may eventually feel they might as well become those things, because then there's at least a path other than simply putting their tail between their legs and retreating to the names you call them. \\n\\n\\nYou guys better wake up to your party's bullshit soon, or you will create the problem you imagine you have. And trust me, if you actually had that problem, of number 2, things would be very different and that's not a world you want to live in, nor continue to create. But this democrat hyperbolic rhetoric is pushing some people to their tipping point... you guys are creating the problem, not pointing it out.\",\n \"939\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'd have voted for literally anyone other than <PERSON>. <PERSON> was a corrupt <PERSON> and Global Bankster puppet using the Clinton Foundation in an incredibly shady way, selling out our country to line her and her family's coffers. I would have voted for <PERSON> or <PERSON> before I'd vote for that corrupt disgusting wench of a woman. Her arrogance was unparalleled with anything I've seen from anyone... her lies were constant to the point I doubt she even has any real opinions on anything anymore, just what her puppet masters command her to. And she's connected to that sick fuck <PERSON>.\\n\\n\\nSo you hit the nail on the head. <PERSON> was the middle finger to <PERSON> and the <PERSON> admin for playing identity politics and blaming a majority of the country (hard working white men) for all the problems in the world. The real racists and bigots were the dems, and they played that card one too many times.\",\n \"557\"\n ],\n [\n \"No, an emolument is a fee, salary, or profit from employment or office. \\n\\n\\nI know you want it to mean what you just said, but words have actual definitions and meanings, and what you just said is *factually incorrect* and is the further spreading of a falsehood. \\n\\n\\nLet's see what an actual *constitutional lawyer* has to say... through the washington post even...\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\n\\nYeah sorry, he's not breaking any laws. I know you all want it to be true so bad, but he isn't yet.\",\n \"712\"\n ],\n [\n \"Oh please. Didn't hurt <PERSON> or <PERSON> and they were lying straight through their teeth on a regular basis. They couldn't even keep a straight face through most of their lies and scolded the press when they pressed too hard... they set the precedent. \\n\\n\\nThis is the first time the press room has actually felt alive and not the same 7 people repeating the same questions over and over day after day for their scripted MSM agendas. People from all over are getting a chance to ask real questions for a change. He will be very loved by everyone in media, as everyone knows the job is to go be the president's voice whether he agrees with him or not.\",\n \"622\"\n ],\n [\n \"Because they didn't hold enough in the senate, and impeachment can't go anywhere without the senate votes. It's as simple as that. It's pretty clear he did... and while I don't agree with everything on this following list being a crime and the website is fairly sensational, it's a pretty decent starting point and some of these more than likely had to be crimes. The worst in my opinion were fast and furious and the failure to faithfully execute our immigration laws claiming prosecutorial discretion, which historically by the spirit and letter of the law was used in an individual case by case basis, not to be used as a blanket for an entire category of law, which led to the catch and release of murders, rapists, felons, child kidnappers and abusers, and more... and that's an indisputable fact.\\n\\n\\nBut here's a pretty decent list...\\n\\n_URL_0_\",\n \"554\"\n ],\n [\n \"But anybody that knows how budgets work know that money is fungible even when they try to act like it isn't. \\n\\nExample: Let's say you make 1000 dollars a month. Your current spending is 700 dollars on rent 200 on food and 100 dollars on house supplies. Now at the moment you can't afford to buy weed and I promise that as long as you don't spend it on weed I'll help you out with an extra 100 dollars a month. Now you could put that money into a special savings and show me you are only spending that on your house supplies... but now it has freed up 100 dollars from your old budget you can now go spend on weed.\\n\\n\\nSo basically, if they are getting government funding it could free money to be used for that purpose. However, my understanding is that PP charges for abortions and makes a significant amount of money from them, so I'm not sure how it is being claimed the money is being spent on abortions unless they are only charging partial costs from patients for the procedure.\",\n \"683\"\n ],\n [\n \"In Oregon? You mean the wildlife refuge where everyone charged was found not guilty, and the only casualty was a guy that knew they wanted to shoot him so he ran away from his car to make sure they didn't shoot the rest of his family? \\n\\n\\nAnd when governments start shooting on protesters that's when foreign governments come in and start arming them. See: Every single regime change and government overthrow the US has orchestrated through covert and overt methods... you know kind of like how <PERSON> and <PERSON> armed \\\"moderate\\\" rebels to overthrow <PERSON>. As soon as <PERSON> shot at his own citizens it was game over until the Russians stepped in to defend him. \\n\\n\\nYou should go read the federalist papers and then follow that up with some constitutional professor's writings from the top colleges and top military leaders of our country. You'd be really surprised.\",\n \"399\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is exactly right. I have worked in HR and their job, really, is to protect the company. They have to take certain things seriously and that's definitely one of them. Unfortunately, white straight males are not a protected class (at least not in my state). And, being a protected class is pretty much the only way you can win a lawsuit, which is what they are afraid of. \\n\\n\\nSo this may or may not work depending on your work environment, the size of the company, the level of diversity, the company culture, etc... \\n\\n\\nCould be a good strategy, I'm just not a huge fan of the sink to their level type of stuff, but I suppose sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.\",\n \"679\"\n ],\n [\n \"If you list their business on your social media, then any lawyer could make a pretty easy case that you are, in fact, representing their company, and they would have a right to fire you. In many states they don't even need to state a reason to fire someone, in which case, makes it smart to either not put stuff on your social media that makes the company look bad, or don't put the company name on your page and keep it private.\",\n \"402\"\n ],\n [\n \"It would be tough to be worse and more divisive than <PERSON> as he does everything to undermine the smooth transition of power and our democracy after saying the election can't be rigged and \\\"what does that even mean\\\" when he thought they had it rigged themselves, playing dumb, when that intel report was supposedly going around for months, and the emails had been out for months with the Russia claim. Pure dishonesty and quite the charlatan. Then he ends his term by signing off on allowing tons of raw Uranium to be sold to Iran and is talking about releasing a bunch of prisoners from Gitmo, and writing as many lame duck regulations as he can before he leaves. \\n\\n\\nIf <PERSON> does worse, I would almost be impressed. But I really don't think it's possible. The media is mostly left leaning though, so he could fix everything and they'll still say the sky is falling to keep you as their mental slaves on their plantation.\",\n \"533\"\n ],\n [\n \"I honestly don't think he's going to hurt social issues, that's not his goal. His goal is to enforce our laws and cut the fat and reign everything in back to a manageable size as per the constitution, returning many things to state's rights, where yes, some social issues may go back the other way. But that's how the state's were designed, so there could be a place for everybody to go, but are protected as a group of states despite our differences. \\n\\nIt gets confusing to me, because the main single social issue of the left seems to be gay marriage and abortion and raising minimum wage. Yet, at the same time, they are importing cheap uneducated labor that doesn't speak a lick of english that's willing to work for pennies on the dollar driving wages down instead of up and sapping up tax dollars that should go to our own citizens while they send money out of our economy back to Mexico. \\n\\nAnd importing ultra conservative refugees (muslim refugees) is going to hurt social issues more in the long run. They out breed the rest of the world and have very large families and are very anti gay and anti women having rights and anti any type of western type of having fun like drinking. To me, that's where the left really loses me completely on the logic. Why not have strict standards on who we let in, just as you would for letting guests into your own home? \\n\\n\\nIt just seems contradictory to me, and I genuinely do not understand. It seems like it comes from an altruistic place, but it seems overly altruistic to the point of ignoring reality hoping that flooding the country with religious fanatics isn't going to back fire. \\n\\nAnyway... I guess only time will tell. I don't think you have as much to worry about as the media would like to have you think. That's how they keep their viewers thinking the way they want (on both sides) sell you fear to keep you tuned in. Cheers.\",\n \"799\"\n ],\n [\n \"They can think, they choose not to, because it would mean they have to go against the social flow and ruffle feathers. Most liberals pride themselves on their social circles and being liked by the people that they want to like them. It's willful ignorance to not rock the boat of their friends. It's a culture of peer pressure, victim status (for more attention and credibility when addressing social issues), and how violently you speak out against the opposition. Once they are in that deep, it takes a lot to break them free of the conditioning.\",\n \"30\"\n ],\n [\n \"Not immunity, but white collar prisons I'd be ok with as long as it's substantial information exposing at least 5 routes that lead to other connections or 3 of the top heads of several smaller operations. Things like pie gate are difficult because infiltrating it requires allowing kids to be abused if they want to dig deeper and find more connections instead of just squashing it and rescuing the kids. The incredibly unfortunate reality is that if it's as big as it seems, you would have to let a lot of children go on being hurt for quite a while in hopes that you could eventually dig deep enough to stop it from the top. I don't envy the men and women that investigate this type of stuff, but I sure as hell respect them immensely. The hardest of jobs.\",\n \"279\"\n ],\n [\n \"Quite possibly. But, this isn't the first time he's requested this. He sees that now it's a real possibility, he doesn't have to give himself up to the US, seems like he's pushing because he sees a real chance it might happen and he wants to make it more enticing to do so, and the fact that in his recent interview he implied they were going after his family... he's been held captive for 5 years and had all kinds of fake charges brought against him. It's the next chapter and he still has insurance files. Cabin fever has to be getting to him at this point.\",\n \"140\"\n ],\n [\n \"Not even just rejected <PERSON>, but if the media was less corrupt they wouldn't have buried her corruption and we wouldn't have people who spend their lives in an echo chamber thinking the world is about to end and that they are all going to be put into camps. It's emotional terrorism for political gain on their own followers, and it's absolutely reprehensible because many of them are actually very altruistic people with good intentions. The media is taking advantage of their trust and notoriety. It's disgusting and I hope most of them awaken soon.\",\n \"759\"\n ],\n [\n \"> No matter political orientation, you have the right to be outraged by this incident. This is deeply wrong.\\n\\n\\nThe fact that a mod had to make that post and state this above shows what a shit show that sub is, clarifying that <PERSON> haters still have the right to be mad about it, because they are so crazy about their hate they need to be told it's ok to not cheer on a kidnapping and torture. Then they try to claim they were being \\\"brigaded\\\" and that it wasn't their actual users of that sub glorifying the attack, despite the fact it's a sub literally based around hate, so it's unsurprising. The media equating <PERSON> to a Nazi and bullshit social media echo chambers like that sub are the exact reason <PERSON> supporters are being attacked. \\\"<PERSON> is racist, a bigot, xenophobic, LITERALLY Hitler!!1!\\\" (etc, etc, etc...) This mentality sets the stage for slightly unstable people to feel in the right and justified, because after all we HATE the Nazis... so if <PERSON> is <PERSON> then his followers must be Nazis. That is an intentional function. Then the top comment is saying it wasn't racially motivated. Please. That sub is trash, I don't consider them the enemy, I consider them hateful fools that waste their lives spewing negativity instead of trying to make the world a more positive place. I feel sorry for them and how completely brainwashed they are. I hope they find some peace in their lives and break free of their conditioning eventually.\",\n \"743\"\n ],\n [\n \"I was out camping in the desert with a kid who grew up in Los Angeles and had never really been outside of the city or been camping. He didn't even think to look up, when I pointed it out, he was in awe and looked really confused. He just looked up staring and said \\\"What IS that?\\\". And I told him it was stars, and he looked at me even more confused and skeptical like I was pulling his leg. \\\"Those... are ALL stars... what is that thing going across?\\\" as he pointed at the milky way... and I told him it was the milky way. He must of stood there staring for a good 10-15 minutes in awe. There was no moon and perfectly clear that night so it was as good as it gets for that area, where the closest city larger than a couple blocks was probably 2 hours away in any direction.\",\n \"8\"\n ],\n [\n \"Actually, originally, and I wish I knew where the original article was as it was many years ago, but tasers were ruled that they should ONLY be used in a situation where a gun would be used to minimize the chances of death resulting. One of the largest creators of tasers recommends not shooting above the waste due to the possibility of cardiac arrest. I'm unaware if any of this actually changed in the 6 plus years ago I read about that in, but technically yes... they are supposed to engage in physical combat.\",\n \"1016\"\n ],\n [\n \"I have mixed feelings on it. I can see both sides of the argument. Non compliance can be extended pretty far and then becomes subjective. Is the lady drawing on the sidewalk with chalk disobeying the cop's orders, as he tells her to stop and she refuses, allowed to be tazed? Or just men of equal size or bigger or people that look twacked out? It's a tough situation, but in the past the rules of engagement of the old created a less tense atmosphere around cops than exists these days. Just watch the really old episodes of the TV show COPS. Interesting perspective.\",\n \"141\"\n ],\n [\n \"But from what I read <PERSON> replaced a lot of the top brass from top to bottom. And in a national emergency type of false flag situation, there'd be a lot of confusion and claims that it's Russia or something. I think it's pretty far fetched, but I used to think the global pedo ring and some of these people being lucipherians was far fetched too. So at this point, I'm not sure anything would surprise me with how desperate the establishment seems at the moment. Just look at this Russia bullshit and pissgate.\",\n \"629\"\n ],\n [\n \"Except BLM has defended horrible people. Sorry, bang a guy's head into concrete you get shot (<PERSON>). Nobody listened to the court case, they wanted to lynch his shooter because the media made him look whiter and edited his tape to sound racist. Then you have a kid walking in the street disobeying orders after just committing a strong arm theft of blunts which is technically robbery who then decides to attack a police officer in his car that outweighed the officer by a lot and had the upper hand in hand to hand. (<PERSON>) and they go out and made up the \\\"hands up don't shoot\\\" lie to make him look innocent and the white officer look like he decided to go make a sport of shooting a black \\\"kid\\\". \\n\\n\\nThe whole movement is racist against blacks, as it insists that they should hold no responsibility for their actions because they will be inherently violent and disobey authority and expect no consequences. So they want to be able to commit crimes, disobey authority, resist arrest, fight with people trying to enforce our laws and expect there to be no consequences. Either they are trying to create black supremacy by allowing them to commit crimes and fight police, or they think they are incapable of not committing crimes and fighting. Either way, BLM is racist against their own, and it's propagated and funded mostly by people like <PERSON> that are using these fools as pawns to push their own agendas. Hope they start waking up soon. It's a cultural problem, not a race problem.\",\n \"577\"\n ],\n [\n \"<PERSON> is an incredibly unfortunate situation and to my knowledge we do not have video of what led up to the shooting. He was (supposedly legally) carrying a weapon and went to reach for his license. The officer involved was clearly not taking any joy in that situation as he was nearly in tears. But if you tell an officer you are armed, you don't reach for anything, doesn't matter what color you are. This was a chinese officer, this man was not targeted because he was black, it was because he was armed and started reaching down. They are carrying weed with their daughter in the car, so their judgement clearly isn't the greatest in the world. He supposedly matched an description of an armed robbery suspect as well, though that was fairly weak from what I remember. Unfortunate, but you don't reach for ANYthing once an officer knows you are armed. We don't know if they were giving him attitude and being rude which will put an officer even more on edge when someone starts reaching for something. \\n\\n\\n<PERSON> is one of the few, along with <PERSON>. But again, you have a couple issues. Once <PERSON> tried to grab his taser, and fought and resisted, it became a felony. In many states it is legal to shoot a fleeing felon. I understand why the law exists, and in some cases it may be justified, though I don't believe this to be one of them. However, did he break the law? Not if they have the fleeing felon law. But he is one of the better cases they should be talking about. Not \\\"hands up don't shoot\\\". \\n\\n\\nThe best case they had I forget the name of the guy because BLM for some reason never ran with that one. It was a man that worked taking care of mentally handicapped adults, and was trying to protect one of the patients and they just opened fire for no apparent reason. Yet, they never pushed for it. Why? Because they couldn't make it about race because a white handicapped guy sparked the whole event. \\n\\n\\nSo, yeah most of these have a lot of circumstances surrounding them, long histories of crimes or active crimes, and combative behavior. \\n\\n\\nI think <PERSON>, from what I can see on the videos, should not have been shot. But if it wasn't illegal to do so because of the fleeing felon rule, then the law is the problem that needs to be addressed along with a culture of crime in poor neighborhoods. Hopefully <PERSON> makes some good strides there, and hopefully that community will stop thinking it's not cool to be smart and be educated and do homework and speak properly so they can get good jobs. As long as being a thug and hard and dealing drugs is \\\"cool\\\" and give you street red, unfortunately the culture will not change. It's deeply imbedded in most of their music as well, which is how most young kids are recruited into all types of shady scenes. The neo nazis used ska and punk bands as recruitment tools. I don't know how to fix it. But BLM is making things more tense, not creating peace or fixing anything.\",\n \"399\"\n ],\n [\n \"Close... they live in a different reality. Because, reality is what you perceive it to be... at least to you it is. Phenomenology. When you live in echo chambers, you end up believing the consensus is the same everywhere as it is inside your echo chamber. So to many of them, they truly live in a different reality in their own minds. The media plays on this. Go watch the news... they use fear constantly because fear is the most primal instinctual emotion beyond hunger and sex. And fear takes over both of those. Talk about something scary, make it sound more common and scarier and people listen closely trying to learn how to protect themselves from the danger. They end up in these feedback loops where they've decided what the threats are and solutions are... and anyone that disagrees is the thing they are afraid of. Which is why they try to shut down opposing speech... because they've convinced them that the \\\"danger\\\" they face is opposing ideas. It would be impressive if it wasn't so sad and kind of frightening that they are capable of painting 50 & #37; of the country as \\\"deplorable\\\" people that are beyond redemption by twisting <PERSON>'s words out of context to make him look \\\"racist\\\" and like a \\\"bigot\\\". They call everyone xenophobic, yet ironically are the people that shut themselves off from any ideas outside of their echo chambers. \\n\\nWe need a T. Gondii study badly... I'm convinced that liberals have impaired threat assessment capabilities, and ironically pharma bro sold the cure to that.\",\n \"30\"\n ],\n [\n \"You are missing the point that this just awakened another concept people weren't thinking about. If they win this case against <PERSON> they are declaring Twitter an official public forum. By doing so they may open themselves up to another law where company owned cities were unable to limit speech because they had a monopoly on the city. So it may stand that Twitter, by banning political speech, may be in violation of the same law they previously ruled on. You should read the link.\",\n \"106\"\n ],\n [\n \"I remember as soon as some departments started ordering cameras these stories started getting more press about civil rights violations. They know they are all mostly making shit up. Every single time someone goes to the media with something the footage always comes out and nearly always exonerates the cops... at least when it's THEIR body camera. Which means the body cameras are having the proper effect. And, when wrong doing is done, it is answered for, like when the kid was shot in the hall after the crazy cop made them play simon says and crawl on his knees against all training and proper procedures.\",\n \"141\"\n ],\n [\n \"Actually, all taxes are supposed to be voluntary. In fact, <PERSON> repeatedly in a veiled way kind of threatened the IRS with that fact during the weaponizing of the IRS. Basically reminding them that they are technically supposed to be \\\"voluntary\\\" and that people could stop trusting the IRS and stop paying if that trust is lost. Obviously he parsed his words carefully because everyone in government knows how important tax dollars are... but it was a good moment that he did a few times. Basically, we don't NEED the IRS in a voluntary system and the taxes are decided by the citizens. Obviously they will still arrest you if you don't pay your taxes... but technically they aren't supposed to be able to as per the constitution. Double taxation is also kind of ridiculous, and some states have gotten it right by not having income tax. It's almost triple taxation if you think about it, same with yearly housing taxes, which a few states don't have as well. You get feds taxing your income, the state taxing your income, then when you go to spend your money you are taxed again on the item by the state, in most states at least. You pay tax on your house, then you pay taxes again every year even when it is paid off.\",\n \"322\"\n ],\n [\n \"Eh, in an age where pensions don't exist as often anymore I have no problem with Social Security. You pay into it your whole life and get an amount back based on what you were paying in. I know WAY too many retirees who depend on social security to survive off of along with their meager savings after working hard their entire lives. The problem is that congress has looted the SS fund to give to other programs basically leaving an IOU in its place. Another reason why they want population growth through immigration, because they need new people to prop up those funds... rather than making cuts in spending and finding other ways to repay the funds. Government exists to sustain and expand itself, which is why it's important to have checks, balances, and extensive audits. Because if they don't use all their budget it gets cut the next year \\\\(as it should\\\\) so instead they end up wasting money on ridiculous luxuries at the end of the year. Oh we have 50k we didn't spend? Better go upgrade all the chairs in the office to 2k dollar designer chairs... better put some marbling in the entry way of the building... better get some 5 star catered lunches and a team building exercise at that 5 star resort.\",\n \"264\"\n ],\n [\n \"I am talking about both sides. However, I'd say if you look at statistics, one side has a better argument than the other. Liberals want you to fear ideas that are different than theirs. Conservatives want you to fear stupid policies that allow our country to be taken over by lawlessness. It's all a distraction from the shit they are actually doing behind the scenes. It's all theater. These guys are all buddies for the most part behind closed doors. They go put on a pretty show for their constituents in front of the cameras. Then go back and scheme how to push through legislation that benefits them and screws the tax payers. The media is part of the government now it seems as you never hear them report on bipartisan legislation that is passed... like when they legalized propaganda to be used on our own citizens here in America. Or when they repealed consumer protection laws. Or when they made it legal for them to do insider trading while keeping it illegal for citizens. Or when they looted social security. Or when they exempted themselves from Obamacare... etc etc\",\n \"348\"\n ],\n [\n \"Have you ever met someone that went into journalism? They almost ALL go into broadcast journalism because they want to be famous on TV but have no talent in acting and know they aren't that intelligent. So they think.. gee I can go listen to people, write stuff down and then read it just fine. They are not the sharpest tools in the shed and for the most part investigative journalism is dead... especially with the deaths of <PERSON> and <PERSON>. And guess who the target of <PERSON> next story was right before his car exploded after thinking it was tampered with? I'll give you a hit... he was high up in the intel community and looks like super villain and recently turned twitter troll.\",\n \"624\"\n ],\n [\n \"Also, we never saw those 33k emails... we saw <PERSON>'s emails.\\n\\nBut another point... since liberals are ok with all this \\\"not spying\\\" I'm sure they'd be ok if <PERSON>'s CIA and FBI planted \\\"informants\\\" in liberal campaigns this campaign season... you know for the good of the country to make sure they are conspiring with foreign governments or anything. Surely they won't mind.\",\n \"298\"\n ],\n [\n \"Separation between church and state doesn't have anything to do with banning all mention of God in courts and schools though. Has to do with mandating religious beliefs. They have no problem teaching kids about the quran in school... I say fine... lets teach kids about every religion and their beliefs. Teach them all, or teach none... or endorse charter school voucher program so people can choose the school that teaches the values that they want their kids to be taught.\",\n \"165\"\n ],\n [\n \"Or, maybe his brother knew <PERSON> was going to pass the emails to Wikileaks and maybe even had a hand in it, and now they are all afraid for that truth to come out because they don't want to lose their other son, or worse. There is a witch hunt for \\\"Russia\\\"... but what if you knew your own son or brother or yourself as the brother was in fact the \\\"Russia\\\" they have been hunting for. You might just want to keep it quiet... and the democrats want to distance themselves from <PERSON>, as it DOES seem politically motivated... and if it's proven that the <PERSON> brothers are the \\\"Russian hackers\\\" then their entire year long rants about Russia backfires spectacularly. That's the only thing that makes sense other than some kind of direct threat for them to keep their mouths shut, and it would make more sense to me at this point.\",\n \"169\"\n ],\n [\n \"She literally said that after she heard about <PERSON> rich she was afraid to stand in front of windows fearing snipers. She knows how dirty her side is... they all do. That's what keeps them all in line. It's like people in abusive relationships. They fear messing up, so they always do what will keep their abusers happy, and in return the abuser occasionally does really big acts of kindness and treats them very very well, until they \\\"mess up\\\" again. They are afraid to leave, knowing how dangerous they are and don't want to make them mad. Look at <PERSON>... look at <PERSON>... look what happens when you start thinking out of lockstep. Not even endorsing the other side inherently... just criticizing theirs and thinking differently. They instantly start to collectively attack like a bee hive that just got the chemical signal to all attack. Actual hive mind mentality.\",\n \"52\"\n ],\n [\n \"> We are organizing a synchronized mass meditation/prayer for the mass arrests of the DC pedophiles (see pizagate). This will happen on Saturday February 25th 11:11am - 11:33am (22 minutes) EST (16:11 UTC). Visualize the criminals being arrested leading to fair and public trials. The intention should not be for revenge but for saving the children and the healing of humanity.\\n > If you are unsure about what effect this can have please read about the science that proves the power of the mind:\\n > _URL_2_\\n > and especially the effect of mass meditations (also known as Maharishi effect):\\n > _URL_1_\\n > Please spread this message!\\n > If anybody knows <PERSON> or other \\\"well-connected\\\" people in this community, please tell them about this.\\n > Note: by bringing this issue to public attention (through public trials) the \\\"healing of humanity\\\" will occur.\\n > _URL_0_\\n\\n\\n\\nJust commenting to check out your links later. Good call and good intention pede.\",\n \"587\"\n ],\n [\n \"To be fair, there is a way he could have known. Other people come in and out of the dressing rooms. Simply asking one of the coaches or team assistants if everyone was dressed before walking in is a pretty common thing in the sports world for both men and women when someone from the opposite sex wants to come in and say a word or give a greeting. Lots of men coach women's teams and do exactly that.\",\n \"139\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's been a month... lol. So far he's increased vetting for immigrants (the ban wasn't stopped by the way, just one part of it had an injunction placed on it by the 9th circuit which is historically almost always overturned and has like 9 judges out of 24 appointed by <PERSON>), he's unleashed ICE and border agents to be able to actually do their jobs without fear of repercussions for doing so. He's called out the media for their lies and spin on everything for the last decade. He avoided WW3 with Russia (that <PERSON> clearly wanted). His pick got rid of the 7th floor \\\"Shadow government\\\" (that is the FBI report's description of them), he's increased the press pool where they are actually calling on smaller networks and getting real questions instead of the fluff they used to give <PERSON>. He's put a real General that is trusted by the military in charge of it. He's brought down the cost of the fighter jets. He's getting rid of the TPP. He's read to renegotiate NAFTA. He's signed the order to build the wall (that <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON> all voted for). He's weathered a storm of manufactured outrage and fake protesters. He appointed a real patriot as AG instead of some partisan hack like <PERSON> who *literally said we need to brainwash people to think about guns differently using hollywood*. \\n\\nHe signed an order to delay the fudiciary rules so they could review them or stop the train wreck <PERSON> tried to leave for him (which was smart even if you don't like it).\\n\\nSigned an order to create more concise regulations by having to eliminate two for every one created.\\n\\nThe lobbyist ban is long overdue and doesn't go far enough. And I think with as many regulations as we have on citizens, one for ex politicians addressing rampant corruption is not bad, but you can't bring yourself to agree with anything <PERSON> does, so you imagine that's bad some how... go figure...\\n\\nHe signed an order to devise a comprehensive plan to take out ISIS that we now have a new alliance with Russia to help us do.\\n\\nAn order to build back up the military, an order to end sanctuary cities encouraging people to break our laws and leach off the tax payers.\\n\\n\\nForcing the pipeline to be built with american made steel, and expediting the reviewal process for government approval of new construction projects and speeding up environmental reviews (that right now take incredibly long amounts of time). \\n\\nFederal hiring freeze, stopping the already over bloated government from bloating itself more.\\n\\n\\nEliminated the penalty for the ACA and working on rolling it back, which even democrats admit was a disaster and are secretly hoping he comes up with something better to save themselves from the disaster that comes at the end of the year when that finally starts to completely collapse, which it has already been doing the last several years on its own.\\n\\nEtc... only been a month.. pretty good, I'd say. What did <PERSON> do in 8 years again?\",\n \"825\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's supposed to be voluntary, which is funny since they use the threat of arrest to make people pay.\\n\\n\\nBut, if they want people to pay taxes and be happy about doing it, then they should allow us to allocate 50% of our taxes however we see fit. It would eliminate a lot of waste and show what people really care about. Then you allow any and all extra money to be also allocated wherever the citizen wants them to go. Then the people who really believe in paying for planned parenthood can do so, and those that don't will not have to. People might actually be a little more excited to pay taxes then.\",\n \"409\"\n ],\n [\n \"Look, I feel for refugees and poor people alike. But the absolute fact of the matter is that we have an American culture and we have to protect it and other 1st world nations or there will be nowhere for anyone to flee to. We have finite sources and cannot take just anyone and everyone that wants to come here in. Period. That's why immigration laws exist. It's not a hard concept to understand, and if these immigrants were all voting red you guys would be fighting tooth and nail against bringing them in. I'm tired of everyone pretending like that isn't the case. I know it, you know it, everyone knows it, and you guys aren't fooling anyone but maybe yourselves and the most politically ignorant among us.\",\n \"799\"\n ],\n [\n \"Actually the word was unsubstantiated. AKA there's nothing that suggests it's true, which in journalism means you don't report it. If you are reporting that other people are reporting it in a serious way, giving credulity to an entertainment site like Buzzfeed then you are *in fact* also reporting on it. That's reality. You can try to play word games with the semantics of it all, but you are only fooling yourself and people desperate to believe that because they live in an echo chamber of fear and vitriolic rhetoric telling them the world is going to end and that <PERSON> is literally <PERSON>. It's absurd, and the liberals are becoming the real fascists spreading propaganda trying to undermine our president and democracy. It's a collective temper tantrum and this is how spoiled children act when you take away their favorite toy. The behavior of these so called \\\"tolerant\\\" liberals is absolutely abhorrent and despicable.\",\n \"30\"\n ],\n [\n \"Calling to dismantle the state is pretty much bordering on domestic terrorism, especially since they are beating people unconscious and using violence and destroying property. Blowing up an empty trash can is terrorism even if nobody is around if it's to instill fear and intimidate people. So why isn't destroying stores, looting and rioting when it's for political intimidation.\",\n \"673\"\n ],\n [\n \"Just make your own pizza, it's way overpriced and it's easy and cheap to make it yourself! \\n\\nYou can do it in about 20 minutes. Flour, yeast, salt, water for the dough... then some sauce, cheese and whatever toppings you like. You can make about 10 pizzas for 20 dollars unless you get crazy with the toppings. Even then, it's so easy and tastes so much better and you can usually have it made and done before you could ever get it delivered.\",\n \"324\"\n ],\n [\n \"He's guilty of the same thing <PERSON> is (nothing that we know of)... which is saying that he didn't believe he was molested by the older person because he was attracted to him. It's a common response to child victims because they don't want to feel like they were a victim, and perhaps in their mind they weren't. But any adult, from outside objectively looking in, knows they were victims.\\n\\n\\nThe point here is showing their hypocrisy by putting pressure on a leftist icon. They will have to choose to sacrifice their own (which they probably will) or ease up on <PERSON> (don't hold your breath)\",\n \"219\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, they kept just vaguely saying stuff like \\\"nothing happened in Bowling Green, there was no massacre\\\" omitting the terrorists being caught there which led to the Iraq refugee ban. Now people try to justify it saying, well, they had a reason back then, but nothing has happened to warrant that now. Which is ridiculous because the vetting problems are even worse going into this new travel ban... and why the fuck should we wait until there is an actual massacre to actually do something. It seems like they won't be happy until people are actually dead first.\",\n \"296\"\n ],\n [\n \"Especially the way he tried to say that pulling the emails out that reference any word would have taken a team of hundreds of people to do... despite the fact they were in a key word searchable database. The guy is a dolt, and CIA officers don't usually go around bragging about their hacking exploits on comedy shows to try and push the \\\"DAE RUSSIA!!!\\\" agenda even more. Sad.\",\n \"629\"\n ],\n [\n \"To put it simply... if you are going to make that argument, there are a lot of safe spaces on reddit (almost every sub) that you can go state how you feel and people will pat you on the back and agree without putting any thought into it. \\n\\n\\nIf you want to disagree with <PERSON>, to people who agree with him, then you have to be ready to engage in a debate beyond your feelings and use facts and back them up with sources. Most of what <PERSON> says it absolutely undeniably true and fact. And even your example of transgenders being the victim of sexual assault... that may or may not be true, I don't know because I've never looked into it. But let's assume it is, the immediate thing that comes to my mind is the behaviors I've seen the transgender people I've known engaging in (I lived in LA for over a decade and worked in many facets of the entertainment industry so saw my fair share) and I start wondering if these people were victims to the underground scenes they were indulging in, or related to drug use, etc... I don't mean offense by stating this. But the reality is that even people who know a lot of transgender people see they are often (but not always) into some seedier scenes and lifestyles that raise some questions. \\n\\n\\nSo it's a complex thing that you are asking... but yes, sources and facts are the only thing that is going to work. Emotions aren't logical and will not be respected by themselves as an argument about anything beyond them. If I come to you and tell you that everything you believe is wrong because of how it makes me feel, I'm sure you won't really care what I have to say unless I use some facts to prove my point... right? It goes both ways.\",\n \"847\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Also, it is incredibly condescending to have you, a cis person, try to tell me what the fuck I should care about\\n\\n\\nSee, this is where you are going to lose every time. You are now arguing emotion, saying his opinion isn't valid. Unfortunately most of the world is not trans, and they have a certain view of it, whether you agree with them or not. The way you are arguing here, is never going to change someone's mind... it's framing yourself as a victim, and people are ridiculously sick of victim politics because the LGBT community has been acting like it's the victim olympics, where the more things you have wrong with you, the more right you have to speak. That will never win and is a big part of why <PERSON> and <PERSON> are as popular as they are. Just food for thought.\",\n \"847\"\n ],\n [\n \"Can you show me a couple examples of fast food employees going on to own franchises later? As you are implying this is a very common thing to have happen. This is simply mathematically impossible. There is no way this can be a very common thing... statistically with a 0% turn over rate and an average staff of 20 people for a small fast food business would mean there's a 5% chance at that ever happening even when we use magical non existent probabilities of an absolutely fairy tail best case scenario assuming no turn over and that eventually every franchise would be run by someone who started out at minimum wage. \\n\\nQuite frankly the story you just spouted is an absolute pipe dream. \\n\\nHowever, in mom and pop shops, where they often pay much better than franchises this is much more common. But you are talking about a very long time of working there until the owners retiring before you get that chance, and then hope it doesn't fall down the chain through nepotism instead of you. So even where it's more likely it still isn't likely, unfortunately.\",\n \"479\"\n ],\n [\n \"No, actually I've looked extensively into every economic model and every proposal that comes up for a vote. This isn't the first time this has come up. And, in places where the government has an actual resource to use to subsidize the program, you MIGHT have a chance of it working on a very small scale before it just causes inflation and just lands up devaluing your resources and landing back on the tax payers regardless, it'll just create a temporary buffer before you've screwed yourselves worse in that case. But in a place like the US on a large scale with our cultural problems and welfare queens, it's simply a pipe dream. It will never work. Cultures of laziness can't succeed while encouraging laziness. The government is horrible at managing resources because they have no competition and are made up of people with no experience running things efficiently, only figuring out how they can spend more and filter more into their own coffers... so it's no surprise that when they take over the means of production that it always leads to famine, genocide, and collapse.\",\n \"683\"\n ],\n [\n \"The burqa ban is stupid anyways... people think they are banning full face coverings. It's a hollow gesture even when it passes, because it will still make it legal to cover the whole face, the burqa covers the eyes with a mesh as well. That's the only difference. So it's all just bullshit political theater. It does nothing to change anything. Just gives them all something meaningless to argue about that everyone is too ignorant about to realize it. The niqab should go too.\\n\\n_URL_0_\",\n \"972\"\n ],\n [\n \"Wow, you know you lost the argument when you resort to <PERSON> is a Kenyan nonsense to make your point in an argument about economics. Nice try... but yes... I'm right, I thought it was common knowledge. According to MIT, the cost to produce the iphone in the US would cost an extra 30-40 dollars per phone... I used the 50% number so when you looked it up and saw that that it wasn't even 25% you'd realize how ridiculous you were being, but you didn't do any research, so I made the mistake of giving you more credit than do. \\n\\n_URL_1_\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\n\\nAnd the problem is that we've isolated ourselves from reality by living above our means with massive amounts of credit card debt and outsourcing jobs and manufacturing because Americans would rather have a bunch of cheap shit than a few quality items they actually take care of and use that were made here locally. They aren't smart enough to realize that by shopping walmart and supporting cheap chinese knock offs you are killing the mom and pop shops that paid actual wages people could live on, because they products were higher quality and made locally by other people paid actual living wages. \\n\\n\\nYou all want your cheap shit but you want someone else to pay for it, then complain when the adults want to help fix things for you. How many more partisan red herrings you want to bring up to avoid the fact you were wrong now?\",\n \"21\"\n ],\n [\n \"You guys are being pretty easily fooled by this. Do you think <PERSON> kept all of <PERSON>'s guys? And if he did keep any of them on for the transition, do you think he would have if <PERSON> went full blitz and tried to delegitimize him for weeks before taking office?\\n\\n\\nThose positions are always replaced when a new administration comes in, this is a bunch of hoopla about nothing, and a paranoid conspiracy theory. \\n\\n\\nThis type of rhetoric is getting dangerously close to sounding like <PERSON> tier conspiracies, actually, I think it's already gone just as far in that regard... the only difference is <PERSON> followers fought peacefully from behind the scenes... you all are getting the pitchforks out, calling everyone Nazis and many calling for harm to not just the admin but his supporters. That's collective fucking lunacy. This is fucking insane how brainwashed people are by media that is all controlled by a handful of people.\",\n \"906\"\n ],\n [\n \"He's watched the leftist media and politicians manipulate liberals for decades... and he's dealt with them himself for decades with professional PR people that know how to do so very well. Honestly manipulating the left isn't very difficult... it's more the media doing it right now trying to bash <PERSON> than <PERSON> himself. He's ordered to build the wall, shocking, <PERSON> built 700 miles during his presidency under the bill that <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON> all voted in favor for. He instituted a temporary ban on refugees (with some exemptions) which is more lax than <PERSON>'s ban was an for a shorter period of time, and was only a continuation of the ban <PERSON> ordered the nations that were a danger. <PERSON> purged the military and replaced them with his leaders from top to bottom. He's done nothing shocking, but the media want you to be outraged because they are pissed they are getting caught in their lies AND called out publicly for them. The media is using their liberal viewers as a weapon, and make no mistake it's not in your best interest, it's in theirs and theirs only. They are fighting for the establishment that everyone on the left claims to hate... but they've made you hate <PERSON> more by vile vitriolic rhetoric and protests funded by <PERSON>. It's a collective delusion perpetrated by a mass media fueled delusion. It's scary because I'm watching the left act like fascists and nazis while they accuse the other side of being that... literally. \\n\\nI hope everyone comes to their senses soon and you don't create some sort of self fulfilling prophecy. Because if you start attacking innocent people, for their political beliefs, they will eventually push back in self defense. The left needs to be careful that they aren't creating a problem that doesn't exist yet.\",\n \"827\"\n ],\n [\n \"He absolutely does not oppose gay marriage. He has said for decades that he didn't have a problem with it. There's an interview from like 20 years ago where he is asked and he plays neutral when <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and every other politician were saying they disagreed with it. He said that he wasn't sure because someone from a small town may feel differently about it than someone who has lived in Manhattan most of his life (where there has long been a renowned gay community even when it wasn't very socially acceptable like it is today). \\n\\n\\nThere's a lot of things you could choose to criticize, but don't spread blatant lies.\",\n \"418\"\n ],\n [\n \"Of course they do. The mistake you are making is thinking I'm talking in terms of partisan politics, when I'm not, I'm an independent that happens to support <PERSON> because I despise <PERSON>. I don't care what the heritage foundation says. Global free trade is a death sentence to our economy and our workers. You want higher wages? You want economic security? Well, unfortunately we can't compete with slave wages, and when companies can move overseas and pay kids 30 cents an hour in Bangladesh to make you some cheap shit to buy at WalMart, guess what... they will, because they are businesses. Businesses main goal is to make more money... period. It's not isolationist to look out for our citizens best interest. But, in the liberal mind, anything their masters say is good and anything the republicans say is bad, regardless of truth. Flooding our country with cheap labor? AKA illegal immigrants... is absurd and ridiculous. We have laws on that for a reason, it's called sovereignty. And even with tariffs on two countries, we'd be far from isolationist and we'd stop losing businesses overseas. I work with hundreds of vendors and the amount of businesses moving large segments of their business overseas and to mexico in the NAFTA free trade zone is staggering and sad. \\n\\nYou've made up imaginary problems, so I don't know how to address those made up problems that don't exist... it's like saying <PERSON> can't possibly deliver gifts to everyone... and I'm saying... well <PERSON> isn't real... and your reply is that I haven't come up with a solution for how he can do it. 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You can say it's been positive, but that's a very distorted lie told through very cherry picked statistics that ignore many other facts... it simply isn't true. You are the one sticking your head in the sand. \\n\\nAlso, I would ask you, what limit would you place on illegal immigrants? What standards? Education? Do they need to learn our language? Do they need to prove who they are? Could we just let in millions of poor people from China who speak no english and have no ID? Where do you draw the line on our sovereignty? Because guess what, we have laws that regulate that... but you say we need more despite us taking in more LEGALLY than most every other country does legally combined. So what is your limit? 2 million a year? 3 million a year? At some point you lose sovereignty when you change the voting demographic to a bunch of people who don't share your values, don't know or respect your laws or constitution or rights, and historically come from shit holes where they bend over for dictator regimes and cartels. So where are your lines? Nobody can ever answer this. You don't like the laws, then change them, unless you are OK with republicans ignoring laws they don't like simply because they are in charge now....\\n\\nAnd globalization isn't an all or nothing type of deal. We can finesse where it's in our best interest. This carte blanche style of globalization you believe in will make us all peasants at the hand of an even more polarized corporate oligarchy than we already live in. The problem is we can't compete with slave wages, and the big companies create monopolies because they can sell cheap shit from China that the Mom and Pop store can't compete with. \\n\\nI seriously recommend taking an economics class, there are many free courses online. \\n\\n\\nAlso, the issue with farming in Oregon isn't an issue. It's called pay people more and they will do the work. The price of food should go up. People in the US eat too much as it is. I'd be perfectly fine with that, and then it creates a market to compete with. The main problem is that in Oregon many people can grow their own food, so they don't really have the farming market to compete with the subsidized GMOs that can be transported further. Funny, you are ok with having to compete globally, but not locally. That's how the market corrects itself... you don't flood in cheap labor to keep prices and wages low, which ironically is what your solution is. So backwards and contradictory of you to say that it's quite baffling.\",\n \"113\"\n ],\n [\n \"haha yes, it seems obvious to most people, but if I were the defense I would argue that the reason she did this was not because they didn't normally go by the book, but to remember to be extra prudent of procedural technicalities that could be used against them that aren't always paid attention to as closely in less serious cases because they were going up against a diabolical machine.\\n\\nOf course I'm just playing devils advocate, I have no doubt in my mind it was simply a dumb move to create plausible deniability.\",\n \"646\"\n ],\n [\n \"Not only that but he did it while having overhead costs. He paid thousands of people to work, paid for insurance, construction rentals, materials, management, lawyers, and created billions of dollars of tax revenue for the places he built in. He turned a million dollar lot into a millions of dollars of tax revenue a year and wealth in perpetuity. \\n\\nSo it's always funny when the left, who hates wallstreet because it's \\\"passive income\\\" or \\\"capital gains\\\" use that argument. OMG what an idiot, he created jobs, created tax revenue and INCREASED it by increasing the value of any building or lot he created, and brought in tons of foreign buyers brining money into our country from outside of it. He was the one person the chinese government trusted to house their official bank in his building. And created unfathomable wealth all the while... but what a lucky idiot, right? The left is seriously mentally ill.\",\n \"747\"\n ],\n [\n \"You should look through my history before you accuse me of being a share blue shill. I just don't think using pictures that are literally 2 women eating pizza with a child after they were freed from a place where that wasn't possible is proof of some conspiracy... there's plenty of other stuff. Like the pool email... the wet works email... playing dominos on cheese or pasta... all the trips to <PERSON>'s pedo island... the fact that all those pizza shops seem to be connected and using pedo symbolism... the tweets from <PERSON> and all his perverted deranged friends... etc.... I just don't see this out of context picture as anything proving anything.\",\n \"504\"\n ],\n [\n \"It is possible to be tested...\\n\\n[_URL_0_](_URL_1_)\\n\\nI saw an ad when I searched it for a home test, but I'm always skeptical of those as they tend to be unreliable and require confirmation from an actual lab test involving a doctor in the end anyway. So best to talk to your doctor if you think you might be at risk, though most doctors will probably err on the side of NOT testing unless you are displaying any symptoms and are not a pregnant woman or woman planning to get pregnant. \\n\\nFun bonus fact: Martin Shkreli was the only manufacturer of the drug used to treat this in the US.\",\n \"343\"\n ],\n [\n \"Nah, I hung out in that industry scene for a while and saw all the different subsets. Basically it's a very small club, and it's about WHO you know more than what you know, for the most part. The main thing driving it is compatible personality types... they want people they like working with and get along with. When you sit down with these industry types just about anything goes with few exceptions... and things that might be incredibly uncomfortable for more conservative people is talked about casually with these people. They swear like Australians, talk about casual drug use as if it's nothing, make perverted and crass jokes about the \\\"help\\\" worse than any locker room talk you've ever heard. It's fuck this and fuck that every other word. There is a cocky arrogance to them all, and they love to talk shit. To fit in here, you have to be able to laugh and act natural with them while they schmuck it up talking like the degenerates they are while criticizing and gossiping like school girls. \\n\\nSince they hire from within, and hollywood has been a safe space for gays for a very long time... the industry has embraced a large majority in their ranks. And, when the producer says they need someone for position X... the makeup guy, or personal assistant can now recommend his friends for first dibs to get those positions. The gay community can be incredibly close knit, similar to how Jews look out for each other and prefer to hire another jew rather than a gentile if they have the choice and it makes financial sense. \\\\(This is not knocking either community, in fact, I think it's perfectly normal for people of all cultures to do this, even subconsciously if not consciously\\\\) So it's no wonder that rich jewish men with kinks found solace and friendship in gay men, who tend to be very studious workers that are not going to judge your bad behaviors, especially towards women as many gay men simply do not respect women very much, at least not behind closed doors. So the gay men see the desperate starlets as trying to sleep their way to the top, which many of them absolutely were/are... and the producers see a bunch of hard working guys that turn a blind eye as long as their own dirty deeds have a blind eye turned as well. \\n\\nIt's kind of hard to really put into words, not sure how well I did... but Hollywood definitely attracts the weirdos, and you have to be fairly narcissistic and driven, and also willing to turn a blind eye and just accept crazy behaviors as \\\"eccentric\\\" to make it big in that industry long term. Which is why the hashtag metoo movement is so large. All these girls that saw how it worked, how they were manipulated into thinking they'd get ahead for indulging with some guy... then realizing they were passed up for the next young girl who came along, made them angry and when they spoke up they got cast aside and buried. 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I was making two points. The first is that you were saying \"well it works like this somewhere else\", and I was trying to point out that just because it works like that elsewhere does not mean it works like that here.\n\nStill let us look into this further. How large was that bar? Did the band sell merchandise? How expensive were the drinks?","957"],["I am not getting \"defensive\". i am getting upset that you are basically saying \"Oh, they are not well known and therefore should work for free\". And just because other places do not have cover for bars with live bands does not mean you were not paying for the band there. They are getting paid one way or another. Higher drink prices/etc. \n\nStill we have an opportunity here. Call up your old bosses/coworkers/etc and ask how and what the bands were paid.","973"],["> Basically the bars here have pawned off paying for entertainment on you and you're ok with it. \n\nActually I am. Because I have no want or need to go to bars with loud music I can drink in peace. With drinks that have not had the prices inflated to cover the cost of a band. So I am NOT paying extra for the privilege of NOT being disturbed. Win-win. \n\nOn the other hand if I wanted to drink at any of those bars YOU apparently worked at? I would be paying for the bands. Even on the days they were not there as no bar owner is going to change prices around daily.","973"],["No I am not \"closed minded\". The fact that someone operating in any other way than the way YOU have done it in the past upset you? Pretty much the definition of \"closed minded\". \n\nWhat you are saying is that you had your services priced high enough to cover those additional costs. In other words you were charging customers who were there on nights with no live entertainment, and with no wish to see live entertainment, for that entertainment.\n\nIf I want live entertainment I will pay for it. And in the past I have. I gladly dropped well over $100 to see <PERSON> last week. But that was MY choice.","618"],["You already have a lighting circuit serving the room? You could use the same circuit if it is not heavily loaded. Find out where the nearest unswitched hot and neutral are (probably in one of the lights in the room) and extend it over to the new lights. Running the hot leg through the switch. It is hard to give exact advice as how your circuits are run, where the lights are located, how easy it is to run wiring above ceiling, etc. can vary.","333"],["What sort of lighting do you have in the room? And getting the circuit from the other switches may not be that easy as they probably only have the hot there. You would still need to pick up the neutral as well. Honestly ANY unswitched circuit with sufficient capacity would work. For instance how many receptacle circuits do you have in the area? Any lightly loaded ones? That is, circuits with receptacles that are either unused or only have small loads. \n\nNow this is the easy way. The proper way may be to run a new circuit. I expect all your existing circuits are not AFCI/GFCI protected as required under recent electrical codes across most (but not all) of the country.","1006"],["As others have pointed out, if you are concerned you can replace the plug. Not as easy as replacing a cordset, but not difficult. \n\nThat being said you would be surprised just how many \"grounded\" receptacles do not have a clear ground path. Personally I say if you are a little worried: Don't use it when wet (you or the laptop), don't use it on a well-grounded surface (metal table tops, wet floors, etc) and don't use it in unpolarized outlets. If you are *really* worried don't use it while charging. You should be fine.","1006"],["Both are commodities created from natural \"public\" resources. In this case BOTH are procured at the seller's expense. Processed at the seller's expense. Transported at the seller's expense. So how are they not equivalent? \n\n > Second, I specifically pointed to Nestlè's practice of literally bottling municipal tap as what I object to.\n\nI see. So you are upset at them HERE . . . because of something they did elsewhere? You object to them getting \"free\" water HERE . . . because they pay for tap water elsewhere? Can you \"clear\" this up a little more? Because they are not bottling tap water here. They are bottling there own well water. I mean it's right in the title! \"Outrage ensues as Michigan grants Nestlé permit to **extract** 200,000 gallons of water per day\"","31"],["Again you and others are getting upset over *something else entirely*. Let me ask you this. If a man went to trial and all evidence said he was innocent but some of the jurors decided to convict based on other deeds the person may have done in the past, is that justice? Or because they did not like the man? \n\nAnd it is not \"fish and **tap** water\". It is \"fish and **well** water\". Nestle is procuring, treating and shipping this water AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE. No government money, infrastructure, etc. is involved. You keep trying to make it out like the government is GIVING treated municipal water to Nestle. They are not. Nestle just requested to be allowed to increase pumping slightly at one of their well locations because the other is contaminated due to the rising water table hitting chemicals from MUNICIPAL FIREWORKS.","31"],["You are absolutely right. This is not a trial. it is an old-school lynching. Not just for the south anymore. Want to complain about Nestle? By all means go ahead. But why act like what they are doing here is either illegal or immoral? It is neither. \n\nIf the majority of people are so upset why not get the law changed? Just because there are a some vocal people out there does not mean they are the majority. Or even in the right. But I do love your logic. I suppose if Nestle wanted to open a home for orphaned kittens a lot of these people will still be foaming at the mouth and complaining. \"Why did Nestle ignore the puppies? Don't they care about all the bunnies? What's that, Nestle is killing puppies and bunnies? Burn down the building!\".","281"],["Sometime late last year I heard \"over one thousand\" residential have been replaced. Undoubtedly a lot more now. I am sure they have a timeline but there are always bottlenecks for such massive projects. Number of crews available, materials, timing of disruption to existing water, sewer, gas, electric, telecommunications systems, etc. You cannot just go in and dig all over the place and replace 30K lines all at the same time. Not unless you want to shut the entire city down for half a year!","69"],["Clickbait data. If you researched further you would find that they seized far more than that. That \"104k\" of guns were just the ones with serial numbers submitted to the US BATFE for tracing. In other words guns they thought MAY HAVE come from the US and therefore submitted to us for additional information. Definitely biased towards a false positive there. Nice try though. So no, Mexico has NOT been successful. And neither has any other country with a border like ours. \n\nSo before you start making such claims explain to me, with the BILLIONS we spend on drug interdiction, we still have THOUSANDS of tons coming into the US per year? Then explain why guns will be any different? \n\nFurthermore there was ONE legal gun store in Mexico. Hardly supportive of your comments regarding their rights to gun ownership!","356"],["I love how the headline makes the US sounds like monsters, when the BODY of the article has gems like this:\n\n\"Since the policy shift, more than 680 Cuban \"irregular migrants\" have been deported in total from various countries, <PERSON> wrote, including more than 400 from Mexico, 117 from the Bahamas and 39 from the Cayman Islands. \"\n\nBut of course Mexican immigration policy (and their abuse) cannot be discussed.","356"],["And is it not reasonable to make \"reasonable accommodations\" for vehicles? The Feds already mandates so many other features for automobiles, why not that? You are basically demanding that a company lose a LOT of profit, either by opening a walk-up window that very few would use (because if it was such an area they would have provided one in the first place) or close early.\n\nAnd I am pretty sure the reason your local McDs closes the drive-thru at that time is that experience has shown them they do not get enough customers to warrant the expense. Refer to comment above about that.","257"],["Still trying to change the subject? Well then. The pipeline is SAFER than the current alternative (rail cars) It is NOT on \"tribal\" lands. The tribe KNEW about it in advance. And these so-called \"activists\" BROKE the law and TRASHED the environment.\n\nSo explain to me what rights are \"of the people\" are an issue here. The right to misrepresent this as a tribal sovereign land issue? The right to demand we use less safe means to transport the oil we depend upon? Or the right for people to break the law, trespass and litter because they were supporting the \"cause of the month\"? And you are right, I do seem to be \"not very American\" because I refuse to allow people to do whatever they please just to be PC.","233"],["No. But requiring companies to incur massive losses in profit to accommodate the very few might. But some people are always willing to spend OTHER people's money. Now tell me, why not also require all new houses be handicap accessible? Because the next owner MIGHT be handicapped? Reasonable accommodation and all of that. How about requiring EXISTING houses? But that would be YOUR money, wouldn't it? What people seem to be missing is that they ARE providing equal access to all pedestrians.\n\nJust curious, do you realize that most drive-up ATM machines are not capable of being used by blind people? All the braille aside only the hardware for many ATMs are blind-ready. The voice prompts/software is not. Where is the outcry over that? Instead it is discrimination because they are not serving walk-up customers wanting a burger after lobby hours?","499"],["That's a laugh. \"Surplus value\"? It is a symbiotic relationship. By hurting their employer they are also hurting themselves.\n\nTake an economics course. Pay special attention to producer and consumer surplus and what it entails. In this case the companies (consumer) are paying what market forces make the workers (producer) accept as wages. Is there such as thing as consumer surplus? That can companies pay more? Of course. But there is the corresponding producer surplus as well. Reducing one reduces the other (usually through ill though out government taxes or minimum/maximum price floors). By your logic workers are also stealing from the companies by accepting higher wages than other workers would have accepted (producer surplus).","231"],["As unpopular as this will make me I will say this. As far as I am concerned there needs to be a limit to the number of times narcan should be used on an individual. Say, two times per year. At that point we must accept the individual is on a self-destructive path and admit that there is really nothing we can do. \n\nNow before everyone gets too upset I also believe that narcan use should also automatically initiate a one week \"hold for physical and mental evaluation\" period. This would eliminate the possibility of an immediate repeat of the overdose and allow people to get the help they need. After two cycles of this? Well see above.","615"],["Gets better, from Wikipedia:\n > The highest quality tea is made by boiling the tea leaves in water for half a day, achieving a dark brown color. It is then skimmed, and poured into a cylinder with fresh yak butter and salt which is then shaken. The result is a purplish liquid that is about the thickness of a stew or thick oil. It is then poured into clay tea-pots, or jars, that resemble Japanese teapots. > \n\nAs thick as stew? I mean, I like a strong cup every now and then but still that's a little too much for me.","1002"],["Sorry but the rot is coming from you. It is symbiotic because neither can survive without the other. However you seem to have the typical fixation \"all companies are evil\" mentality.\n\nAnd you totally missed my point regarding surplus. As I said, take an economics course (or at least look at the wikipedia page). You will look less like a complete fanatic and idiot. Still it is good you showed your \"true colors\" by your rant regarding capitalism. Care to show us a successful example of an alternative system?","101"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"Sorry, I made it confusing. I was making two points. 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That is, circuits with receptacles that are either unused or only have small loads. \\n\\nNow this is the easy way. The proper way may be to run a new circuit. I expect all your existing circuits are not AFCI/GFCI protected as required under recent electrical codes across most (but not all) of the country.\",\n \"1006\"\n ],\n [\n \"As others have pointed out, if you are concerned you can replace the plug. Not as easy as replacing a cordset, but not difficult. \\n\\nThat being said you would be surprised just how many \\\"grounded\\\" receptacles do not have a clear ground path. Personally I say if you are a little worried: Don't use it when wet (you or the laptop), don't use it on a well-grounded surface (metal table tops, wet floors, etc) and don't use it in unpolarized outlets. If you are *really* worried don't use it while charging. You should be fine.\",\n \"1006\"\n ],\n [\n \"Both are commodities created from natural \\\"public\\\" resources. 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Number of crews available, materials, timing of disruption to existing water, sewer, gas, electric, telecommunications systems, etc. You cannot just go in and dig all over the place and replace 30K lines all at the same time. Not unless you want to shut the entire city down for half a year!\",\n \"69\"\n ],\n [\n \"Clickbait data. If you researched further you would find that they seized far more than that. That \\\"104k\\\" of guns were just the ones with serial numbers submitted to the US BATFE for tracing. In other words guns they thought MAY HAVE come from the US and therefore submitted to us for additional information. Definitely biased towards a false positive there. Nice try though. So no, Mexico has NOT been successful. And neither has any other country with a border like ours. \\n\\nSo before you start making such claims explain to me, with the BILLIONS we spend on drug interdiction, we still have THOUSANDS of tons coming into the US per year? 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As far as I am concerned there needs to be a limit to the number of times narcan should be used on an individual. Say, two times per year. At that point we must accept the individual is on a self-destructive path and admit that there is really nothing we can do. \\n\\nNow before everyone gets too upset I also believe that narcan use should also automatically initiate a one week \\\"hold for physical and mental evaluation\\\" period. This would eliminate the possibility of an immediate repeat of the overdose and allow people to get the help they need. After two cycles of this? Well see above.\",\n \"615\"\n ],\n [\n \"Gets better, from Wikipedia:\\n > The highest quality tea is made by boiling the tea leaves in water for half a day, achieving a dark brown color. It is then skimmed, and poured into a cylinder with fresh yak butter and salt which is then shaken. The result is a purplish liquid that is about the thickness of a stew or thick oil. 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How would you categorise the following servants from SS to D if they are fighting at 100% of their power. \n\nFor example, <PERSON> takes his oponent seriously, <PERSON> stops sealing his powers (I heard he doesnt use his full power for some reason).\n\n<PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON> with <PERSON>, <PERSON> (using EA at full power), <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>.\n\nEDIT: Also <PERSON>.","456"],["I managed to max out my main roster using embers we got from the <PERSON> event. As for the rest, asfter I finished America, I have nowhere else to send my AP so I just do 40 ap exp dailies a couple of times each day.\n\nMy advice is to focus on one or two servants. I just finished maxing <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON> as they are event servants in the upcoming event.\n\nI still need to get enough mats to ascend <PERSON> and get him from 60 to _URL_0_ I save all archer embers and use the rest on <PERSON> as I managed to get her to NP2 recently.","395"],["I am currently using my own NP2 Fran. Fully buffed, she can deal around 500k-600k single target damage to each of the three enemies. \n\nThe rest of <PERSON>'s hp is taken before I NP as Fran can do around 70k damage per unbuffed buster card.\n\nI am using 1 MLB carp ,1 normal Carp and putting a MLB ushi ce on fran. The other 2 servants have gourd drop CE on along with the support I use.","913"],["IMO it goes like this\n\nEvent CE > Materials (rarest first) > Mana Prisms > Fou/Gold exp > Silver Exp > Monuments (or skip entirely and go straight to QP)\n\nIf you want to level the JttW servants ( <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, Medusa) then embers would be of a higher priority than fous. If you have no servants you want to level then fous are more important.\n\nAs for MP, we need 10k to MLB the two upcoming shop CEs. Add to that the price of the mana shop tickets and fous and you discover that having some mana prisms around is handy.","910"],["<PERSON> is known as the strongest boss-killer among all silver servants. His NP damage can even exceed alot of SSRs.\n\n<PERSON> fits in a quick crit team which is way weaker than a buster crit or arts spam-fest team. And <PERSON> is more of a support rather than a bosskiller.\n\nThey can be leveled later, but <PERSON> should be the first ST Archer anyone levels IMO.\n\nI have been playing for a long while now. I used <PERSON> once during the KnK event to dodge <PERSON>'s NP, and only finished leveling him yesterday as he is an event servants for the JttW event.\n\nEDIT:Also, with everyone on most support lists having a waver it is far more optimal to level a damage dealer instead of a support like <PERSON>.","456"],["~~Not really IMO, she got a crap-load of buff on her and still barely did 750k damage even though she has NP5.~~ As for spamming NP , a crit-arts servant like <PERSON> or <PERSON> are quite better at that.\n\nSo unless I am missing out on something, the only thing making <PERSON> stand out is her multi-hit NP. And even then , assuming you are not a whale, you wont be getting the same spam potential as seen in that video.\n\nBut that's just my opinion.\n\nEDIT: Scratch some of the things I said, I just noticed that he didnt use any event CEs.Still though, with that much buffing and NP5, that damage isnt that strange.","354"],["They are both archers, but the shop for purple currency unlocks by second week (Euryale gives bonus for purple lotus currency), meaning that the first week she wouldnt be that useful IMO.\n\nBut, the nodes you will be farming wont have sabers, meaning <PERSON> will either be doing Neutral or half damage to enemies.\n\nSo, if you dont have any decent damage dealers , go with <PERSON>. Otherwise , go for <PERSON> as he will help your damage dealer survive and do more damage.\n\n\nNote: Like <PERSON> and <PERSON> , <PERSON> and Euryale give bonus for the same currency. If you manage to get <PERSON> ,I suggest leveling her instead of Euryale to expand your roster.\n\nAlso, the node with best drops for Lotuses has three caster enemies in the final battle, meaning an AoE rider like <PERSON> will be quite helpful.","97"],["I disagree with /u/D13G00.\n\nIirc, the purple lotus shop only gets unlocked around the second week, meaning that Euryale wouldnt be that helpful for people who are farming. Add to that that there arent many saber enemies in any of the nodes, a damage dealer like <PERSON> will be ignored IMO in favour of a support servant like <PERSON>.\n\nThe node with the strongest saber enemy is for farming golden pills which means <PERSON> wont be giving any bonus to drops.People *might* still use her, but that's just because her niche and not because she is an event servant.I'd rather use an AoE like <PERSON> from the support list for that node myself.\n\nFor the second week, most people will use medusa as the node with best purple lotus drops has three casters in the final battle thus making an AoE rider more useful than a ST archer.\n\n_____________________________________________________________________________\n*Disclaimer: I respect the opinions of others and use my right to disagree in full belief that my conjunctures are true. If anything I say is false, please inform me so that I can retract any statements based on it.*","395"],["I know that, I played both BL1 and 2 on PC and BL:TPS on Xbox360 before.\n\nBut I never played with the intent of going to NG+ before. I only relied on luck and used whatever gear I got.\n\nLegendary loot midgets drop gear, do normal ones not drop any? I tried farming the Doc's orders quest , but it seems that method only works on TVHM and UVHM.","910"],["We still have some time before the next welfare servant event comes around. And those events usually tend to not be very hard.\n\nI started the KnK event with a handful of servants all lower than level 30, yet managed to NP5 <PERSON> and get all daggers.\n\nSo I think that ,as long as you play smart, you shouldnt have much problems. But try leveling some damage dealers during the time we have left.\n\nHere is the wiki page for the Rider Kintoki event:\n\n_URL_0_","668"],["> If you get into a sexual relationship, think of the problems it may cause. The girl may get pregnant, and you most likely would leave her. \n\nMost likely? Dude, any decent person would stick around and take responsibility. What kind of a holes do you think we are?\n\n > Imagine if your parents walks in on you and the girl. What will you do? \n\nMake it halal and force them to marry us.\n\n > Lower your gaze and avoid porn. \n\nYou know how hard that is for people not living in a place such as saudi arabia?\n\n > Don't talk to girls unless it's for work. \n\nI know a single girl from school, and I still have thoughts.","209"],["> I can see the wisdom in it.\n\nWould YOU see more wisdom than <PERSON> and the <PERSON>?\n\n > All lot of teens are REALLY imature. \n\nThat isnt an excuse. Dont western people have sex and relationships when still young? Are they smarter than muslims?\n\n > Plus, how are things going to work out financially? \n\nLike it works for couples, you move in together, rent, and both work part time while studying.","881"],["> It seems like every guy nowadays, no matter how normal from outside, indulges in following inappropriate Instagram accounts, watching porn and non-porn filthy movies. \n\nMaybe if society didnt force us to wait until we are in our mid/late twenties to get married like how the <PERSON> advised this wouldnt be an issue no?\n\nMen, unlike women, dont have the privilege of being able to marry younger.\n\nAs for \"red flags\", if he tries to discuss stuff like that, asks for severa pictures,etc. that might be super sus.","70"],["> Try living in Saudi Arabia. \n\nI did, for 10 years. If only they gave the nationality :/\n\nI plan on trying to go back there after college for a job.\n\n > A lot of my Pakistani and Indian friends have been attacked my the locals there. I know people from Bangladesh who were called \"dogs\" by their employers. \n\nAnd this doesnt happen in various parts of Europe? And America? Xenophobia is everywhere.\n\n > I prefer a democracy over a monarch. \n\nNot all Muslim majority countries are monarchies.\n\n > I want to be able to choose my leader\n\nGuess this shows your priorities huh, good luck raising your kids properly in such environment","680"],["Here is the deal, if I dont support killing homeless people, why would I support killing fetuses of poor people? \n\nLike, you might see a fetus as a parasite or whatever fucked up dehumanised version of life you guys use to justify termination, but to us a fetus is the same as a baby which is the same as a child which is the same as an adult in terms of human value.\n\nPeople dont accidentaly get pregnant, they have sex which makes them pregnant. Women dont just slip and fall on penises. Responsible sex INCLUDES preparing yourself to take care of a baby.\n\nIf we all stopped having kids until we find a cure to every disease, we would die off before that happened.\n\nAlso, \"you shouldve been all aborted\"? Why dont you take it a step further and go around shooting pro lifers? Since you care so little about life.","626"],["Dude, respect. This sub is sorta also against people trying to spread watered down versions of faith. We follow God on his terms, not ours.\n\n > but I notice there seems to be \"liberal\" Muslim mosques near me too. \n\nThere is a god forsaken reddit called progressive_islam. I go there every once in a while to hurt myself.\n\n > If I can't find any it's like I shouldn't even show up for Jumah salat at a mosque?\n\nFor prayer, if there is no proper mosque nearby, you can go to such mosques and try your best not to stand next to someone of the opposite sex (I heard some mosques have men and women in the same row touching shoulders). If you are talking about speeches, just listen but pay them no heed since you already know what agenda they are trying to push. Same as in certain Islamic countries (Saudi for example) the rulers might pay the imams to praise them in their speech. You know what is kind of sad? Back in the day in Egypt, the imam once tried to praise the king during his speech. The speaker of Al Azhar (most prestigious Islamic institute in the world) was there and got mad, he let the people pray, then after that he went up and ordered the people to start prayer again as the imam was declared a hypocrite. That imam was then prosecuted and lost his qualifications. That is how much respect people had for Islam at some point, not even the king was above it. Now imams are bootlickers to government (in the east) and to liberal agenda (in the west).\n\n\nDont take opinions from those people, go to websites such as islamqa and islamweb for your questions.","293"],["> homophobic \n\nExplain, exactly, how is that \"indecent\"? Is anything you dont agree with indecent?\n\n > and incredibly sexist, just like the Bible. \n\nMost definitely not.\n\n > The women have to be obedient to their husbands, \n\nAnd the husbands are responsible for serving their wives and their households. And the mother has a higher position and authority than the father.\n\n > their word is worth half of a man's word in court. \n\nIncorrect interpretation. If the trial is regarding a BUSINESS dealing, 2 women are needed, but only ONE testifies. Not both women.\n\n > how a woman on her period is sickly.\n\nAnyone who is bleeding is considered impure. If you are bleeding from a wound for example. Periods also are NOT just blood, but tissues as well. And the Quran exempts women from praying during that time to make things easy for them. Literally one of the very few exemptions from prayer. Someone who is fully paralyzed is still not exempt from prayer.\n\n > many Christians and Muslims don't do that \n\nThat is a very stupid statement. A good Muslim follows Islam, someone who doesnt is a bad Muslim. Someone who disagrees is an apostate. No longer a Muslim.","589"],["This is a strawman. No one thinks they will be forced to have their way with women. Physical contact with the opposite gender can definitely be inappropriate and tempt people. Doesnt mean it will make them rape them. Same as stopping by a shop to look at stuff I cant afford doesnt mean I will rob it. Some cultures avoid that by making clear distinct separations between genders. Literally how many people (men) reacted after the metoo wave.","454"],["Sooooo, you, hate hatred?\n\nSounds like indecency to me. \n\nPeople can hate lots of stuff. Are people who hate incest indecent? Some people are ok with 1st cousin marriage (which increases risk by only 1-2% fyi). Others are not. Are people who are not ok with incest indecent? What about sibling marriage? If they are infertile or gay? Am I indecent for hating that?\n\nJust want to see where you stand.","16"],["> Why does God give us free will if He doesn’t want us to use it?\n\nHe gave us a choice, and free will. We choose good, we earn our reward. We choose bad, we earn our punishment.\n\n > Why doesn’t the God of love want us to have sex with more than one person?\n\nSex is meant to be within the confines of marriage. We are not beasts to only think of lust, but of compassion and love and use sex to channel those within a bond of commitment, marriage.\n\n > sex (the ultimate form of love)\n\nSo motherly love can just take the back seat huh?\n\n > Why are we forced to suppress the sex drive we get at such a young age until we’re married?\n\nWell, this isnt purely religious. Simple, society views marriage as a bigger decision than sex. In a society where it is normal for people to marry younger, this wouldnt be an issue. But now it takes a certain level of maturity to take care of a family that we have to wait until latter to get married.\n\n > Why do we even have a sex drive at such a young age? Why do men produce 1500 sperm cells a second instead of it being in perfect harmony with the female body? \n\nBecause, throughout history, people lived in various conditions which made it useful to be able to have kids younger.\n\n > Why are females able to have children at an age where they’re not able to take care of it?\n\nIt hasnt always been the case that the mother took care of the kids. Neighbors, family, community used to help raise kids.","589"],["Third trimester should ONLY be performed if the chance of saving the mother is higher than saving the child. REGARDLESS of how common they are, they should not be allowed to be performed based on the request of the parents. ONLY in a situation where you either lose the baby or the mother AND the baby is more risky to save.\n\nMOST abortions done are ones of convenience. People not wanting kids or not thinking that they cant pay their bills. And if you think people would rather be dead than poor, you are subhuman.","674"],["> The muslims from childhood are taught that every muslim is their brother and non muslims are sub humans who need to convert or face death in worst possible way. \n\nYeeeeeeah, that isnt why. Non Muslims lived under Muslim rule for years. Bar some rulers, they were allowed to practice their religion and had a certain level of autonomy. They had to pay taxes cause they werent obliged to fight wars as such (if they chose to join the army they didnt need to as far as I remember).\n\n > The Jihad which is form of war against non believers is waged in France\n\nOooof, again. Jihad means struggle. Major jihad is fighting against the self, minor jihad is military struggle.\n\n > The radical muslims kill and do terrorist attacks while the non radical ones keep quite and feel good about it(praise the attacker). \n\nA hindu mouthpiece for the far right I see.\n\n > That's why muslim community isn't taking action. They are feeling proud of the attacker (but won't admit).\n\nSo Muslims are in the loving-terrorists closet?\n\n > Also muslim immigrants can't mix with secular European societies due to their mental conditioning of hating non muslims.\n\nOr maybe because all of the discrimination? But sure, go on\n\n > I KNOW I SOUND LIKE A BIGOT\n\nGood, you are self aware","293"],["> You didn't read or purposefully ignored their slaughter of non Islamic people.\n\nYet I said:\n\n > Bar some rulers\n\n > Modern day jihad is taken as war against west ( US and it's allies)\n\nThe opposite, modern day jihad for most Muslims is fight against temptation and sin\n\n > Tell me why Islamic French muslims haven't Criticized the attack.? Why are they silent.\n\nWho says they havent? And who says them saying anything will help? France has clearly shown that it doesnt care about whether or not you are an extremist, if you are a Muslim, you are an enemy.\n\n > Europe is least discriminating place on Earth. People are aware and educated there.\n\nHow many women in hijab get bricks thrown at them in other places? How many pregnant women are attacked in other places for wearing the hijab? Are you really saying Europe is the least discriminating place for Muslims?","293"],["> I think you can argue for third trimester being problematic, \n\nOh, so we deciding the value of life based on how much trouble getting rid of it is? How about we kill homeless people then huh? That would solve several problems.\n\n > Second? Not at all.\n\nBased on what exactly?\n\n > Generally at birth.\n\nSo, if a baby is about to be delivered, should the mother be allowed to abort it then? It hasnt been birthed yet, so it isnt human /s\n\n > Sapience \n\nWhich has been lacking in your reply and rational.\n\n > pragmatism\n\nWhich is a terrible approach to judge human life.","626"],["I am not a woman, but those can be answered by any Muslim.\n\n > What’s the different between a Muslim and a hijabi? I’ve seen the word in the media but I’m not sure what it means.\n\nA Muslim is someone who follows the religion of Islam. A hijabi is someone who wears the hijab (headscarf) which could be a muslim or no muslim\n\n > What does allahu akbar mean?\n\nIt is actually Allah Akbar, but it is pronounced Allahu Akbar.\n\nAllah = The God. Al = \"The\" in Arabic, \"Ilah\"=God in Arabic. Put together it is abbreviated to Allah. It is the name of God Muslims worship. He has several other names such as The Merciful, The Creator, etc.\n\nAkbar means greatest.\n\n > Are women you wear hijabs allowed to wear wigs? \n\nNo, wigs are banned in Islam. Perhaps bald women can wear them, but you would have to ask a scholar about that.\n\n > I couldn’t tell you why I’m wondering this, brain just wonders.\n\nProbably because jewish women can use wigs to cover their hair.\n\n > Would it be wrong of me to carry a headscarf and hair pins in my bag incase of anything? I see a lot of the news of hate crimes of people ripping your hijabs off and I’d never want anyone to have to deal with that.\n\nThank you for being understanding, that would not be a problem :)\n\n > Who is allowed to see your hair?\n\nBetween puberty and menopause, only people who the woman cant marry. So father, brothers, sons, uncles as well as husband of course.","972"],["> By orthodox I meant traditional Sunnis/Salafis\n\nSeveral shia groups are traditional Islam.\n\nSo let's break this up, you think the salaf, and the people for the past centuries, have been practicing Islam wrong?\n\nOr do you think you know better?\n\n > I personally consider myself as a progressive, non traditional Sunni who sometimes reject hadith.\n\n > Sunni\n\n > who sometimes reject hadith\n\nYeaaaah buddy, Islam isnt pick and choose lol.\n\nAnd I still stand by my previous reply, people like you as seen as heretics. And you have no legitimacy. Go follow whatever Islam dlc <PERSON> decided to install today.","447"],["> God wants us to use our intellect, which unfortunately orthodox Sunnis refuse to use. Orthodox Sunnis follow scholars blindly, which is wrong.\n\nGod sent us the Quran and the <PERSON>. That is what he wants us to follow. You are delusional if you think the vast majority of Muslims throughout history are practicing Islam wrong.\n\n > I'm a Quran centric Sunni..meaning, I accept hadith as long as it makes sense. \n\nAre you stupid? Sunni means following the sunnah. The entire sect is built around the sunnah and hadiths.\n\n > I reject hadith that sound ridiculous \n\nRidiculous based on WHAT? The Quran talks about angels and demons. It talks about a nation trapped behind a wall. To some people that would sound ridiculous. The <PERSON> was sent by God, what he did would of course be not within normal reason, but things that would astound the mind.\n\n > that are insulting to the prophet ( i.e there are hadiths in bukhari that portrays prophet <PERSON> as an womanizer.. astagfirullah.. \n\nWhich hadith?\n\n > The \"scholars\" and the sheep that follow them love these hadith but I reject them...if that makes me a heretic then I'm a proud of it)\n\nNo one with an atom's weight of arrogance will enter heaven, if you think know better than all those scholars, then you have MUCH more than an atom's weight.","447"],["> Dude I follow Sunnah, \n\nAnd how you know what is and isnt sunnah?\n\n > I do not follow Sunnah that contradicts the Quran. \n\nAnd who decides what does and doesn contradict the Quran? The are hadiths meant to show exceptions or expansion to rules in the Quran\n\n > Please be open minded and do some research on how accurate is bukhari. Orthodox Sunnis believe that bukhari is as pure as the Quran..<PERSON>\n\nNo one thinks that. Around 5% of it isnt strong hadiths, but scholars who make rulings already know that.\n\n > Remember bukhari was written 200 years after the death of the prophet..it is logical that this book will have errors in it. \n\nThat is a stupid comment. It doesnt matter when it was COLLECTED. Not only did it draw upon books that were already written before, people MEMORIZED things as a normal method to transfer information.\n\n > Again, no point in arguing with a close minded person who believes \"scholars\" can never be wrong.. all i can say to you is that do your own research\n\nIf believing 80+% percent of scholars over 14 centuries cant all be wrong makes me close minded, then I will happily wear that badge of honour.","447"],["> 12:106 And most of them believe not in Allah except while they associate others with Him.\n\nImagine being that much of a heretic to take the Quran out of context to push your agenda and compare Islamic scholars with kafirs.\n\n > Please show me in the Quran where Allah SWT authorizes scholars to collect Sunnah.\n\nThe several verses that talk about the <PERSON> explaining the Quran, and how we should obey him, and how we should do what he says and not do what he bans us from doing.\n\nAlso, the Quran never authorised <PERSON> (or <PERSON>) raa to burn the other ahruf, yet he did.\n\n > 6:114 \\[Say\\], \"Then is it other than Allah I should seek as judge while it is He who has revealed to you the Book \\[i.e., the Quran\\] explained in detail?\" And those to whom We \\[previously\\] gave the Scripture know that it is sent down from your Lord in truth, so never be among the doubters. \n\nAnd how exactly, did Allah explain the Quran? Who, amongst humans, did Allah speak to directly? Hmmmmmmmmmm?\n\n > 77:50 So in which ***hadith*** *after it* (Quran) do they believe?\n\nExcept that hadith in that context means message. The <PERSON> is the last messenger. So whatever he brought (Quran and hadith) is what we need to follow.\n\nWords in different places can mean different things, surprising I know.\n\n > 45:6 These are God's revelations (Quran) that We recite to you with truth, *so* *in which* ***hadith*** *other than God and His revelations* (Quran) do they believe?\n\nExcept that the hadiths are part of what was revealed to the <PERSON>. There are literal hadiths of the <PERSON> transmitting Allah's word to us.\n\n > Go ahead. **Argue with the Quran** while screaming kafirun at *me*. I'll wait.\n\nSay, ˹O Prophet,˺ “Obey Allah and <PERSON>.” If they still turn away, then truly Allah does not like the disbelievers.\n\n3:32\n\nObey Allah and the Messenger, so you may be shown mercy.\n\n3:132\n\nO believers! Obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you. Should you disagree on anything, then refer it to Allah and <PERSON>, if you ˹truly˺ believe in Allah and the Last Day. This is the best and fairest resolution.\n\n4:59\n\nObey Allah and obey the Messenger and beware! But if you turn away, then know that Our Messenger’s duty is only to deliver ˹the message˺ clearly.\n\n5:92\n\nO believers! Obey Allah and His Messenger and do not turn away from him while you hear ˹his call˺.\n\n8:20\n\nObey Allah and <PERSON> and do not dispute with one another, or you would be discouraged and weakened. Persevere! Surely Allah is with those who persevere.\n\n8:46\n\nO believers! Obey Allah and obey the Messenger, and do not let your deeds be in vain.\n\n47:33\n\n<PERSON> (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:\nOne day, Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) delivered a very effective speech, as a result, eyes shed tears and hearts became softened. A man said: \"O Prophet of Allah! It sounds as if this is a farewell speech, so advise us.\" He (ﷺ) said, \"I admonish you to fear Allah, and to listen and obey even if a black slave has been appointed as your leader. For whoever among you lives after me will see much discord. So hold fast to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs who will come after me. Adhere to them and hold fast to them. Beware of Bid'ah (in religion) because every Bid'ah is a misguidance.\"\n\nReference\t : <PERSON> 702\n\nI am going to leave it at this. If you still dont think we need the hadiths, there is no point in discussing further.","447"],["Except that he didnt say that \"marry your daughters to me otherwise you wont be saved\". He asked for her hand in marriage, and her father, who saw him like his brother, agreed to the proposal. That daughter, <PERSON>, was ALREADY engaged so she was going to get married either way but the father saw this as a better proposal from a better person.\n\nHe also didnt ask all people to marry their daughters to him, what you are doing right now is called a strawman and it is a logical fallacies.","83"],["> i dont know how wearing the hijab \"wrong\" is comparable to \n\nThey are both sins. End of discussion. Both people are in the wrong. A Muslim woman should not be affected by a hijab law enforcement because she is supposed to wear it regardless of whether she is in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UK, or US.\n\n > looking at her in the first place \n\nIf it is his job to police public decency, he is obliged to look\n\n > judging her attire in public\n\nIt is his job\n\n > as a stranger telling a women not related to his life how to dress.\n\nRepeating, it is his job to stop sin and encourage good deeds. Same as a cop can arrest a public nudist in cities where that is banned.\n\n > idk how much moral emphasis islam places on a headcovering to out balance public shaming and breach of privacy. \n\nThere is no privacy in public. Anything you do within the public sphere is subject to rules and regulations. Headscarfs are a religious obligation.\n\n > I personally think there is just culturally and politically always an urge in humans to control how women present them selves\n\nMen and women have decency laws, men have lower ones (for obvious reasons), but I assure you that if some man was walking around in a speedo, he would be chastised and punished as well.\n\n > dress modestly becomes a tug of war about mens attention \n\nMen are visual, so in any sphere were men and women interact, women need to adhere to modesty laws. Men and women should also try their best to avert their gaze.\n\n > / parts of the head you can / cant show / make up / eye shadow / color of the scarf / length of the scarf / embroidered scarf vs shiny scarf, I've heard arguments about this the whole 10 yards in islamic cultural events... its weird\n\nIt is pretty clear really. Minimum is to cover all body except face or hands. Some schools of thought say you need to cover those as well, but you can follow either (depending on where you live as well). Covering also means nothing that shows the shape of your body nor transparent. Any makeup put for the sake of adornment (like lipstick) is banned in front of un related men.","972"],["> aking of your hijab is a sin? I dont see how that is a morally sound stance. unless you have a source that explicitly states that the act of taking off a hijab (or wearing it incorrectly) is a sin.\n\nThe hijab (full body covering) is obligatory in front of unrelated men. That is a very well known fundamental Islamic ruling that has been known for over 14 centuries.\n\n > Do you think the almighty has some autobot algorithm set up that just goes \n\nThe Almighty knows everything that is happening or that will happen.\n\n > or do you think our lives and decisions are given contextual interpretation. \n\nWhat textual interpretation does that woman have for sinning and being indecent?\n\n > My mother was asked to stop wailing when my father passed away... .because there where men in the room and they were not to hear her voice.... \n\nWailing is a sin. It is also why women are banned from going to cemeteries as they might cause a scene.\n\n > strange rules we construct and police one another for.\n\nNarrated <PERSON>, <PERSON>\n\n<PERSON>, daughter of <PERSON>, entered upon the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) wearing thin clothes. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) turned his attention from her. He said: O <PERSON>', when a woman reaches the age of menstruation, it does not suit her that she displays her parts of body except this and this, and he pointed to his face and hands.\n\nReference: <PERSON> 4104\n\nGot any issues with what the Prophet PBUH said?","972"],["In general, the main things that are unIslamic and need to change in extremely conservative Islamic countries are:\n\n1) Removal of any restrictions for women to get education. Even if they have to build gender segregated colleges or introduce online lecture system.\n\n2) Forced marriages\n\n3) Honor killings\n\nIf you are a Muslim, rules related to headscarf should not bother you, as you should wear it either way. We look at the west and we see what has liberalism done to public decency. We would be fools to repeat their mistakes.\n\nAlso, please do mention what you disagree about.","972"],["> Yes I do have issues with the suppression of grief and not allowing a widow to visit her husbands grave or wailing since these have no inherent moral value and one can argue that the social and psychological suppression of such emotions if not healthy. \n\nIncorrect. Islam is against public wailing and such acts as they are seen as acts of the people of ignorance. We, as Muslims, must not object to the decree of Allah. We should instead say \"we belong to Allah and to him we will return\". By accepting that death is part of our fate, and that Allah wills ways who he wants, we need to move forward. We might miss them, but not do undignified acts likes wailing and hitting our cheeks.\n\n > not allowing a widow to visit her husbands grave\n\nShe is only banned if she will wail and do such acts. If she will only visit, then it is allowed.\n\n > Yes, I know that's what is says in the scripture, I choose to disagree and I guess that is a sin too, I'll take it up with him personally when my time comes.\n\nNope. It isnt just a sin. It literally means you are not a Muslim.\n \n > idk why you make moral stance sound like a threat like \"got any issues\" lol, my issues mean nothing, are we really in discussion of exploring morality or are you just scolding me for questioning scripture?\n\nI am confused, are you a non Muslim? In that case, the laws of Islam are those that stem from the Quran and hadiths. Islam means submission to Allah, we dont argue. As for morality, well, the hair is a part of the woman that has been used throughout history for attraction and adornment. Whether it is growing it, styling it, colouring it, etc, it isnt just a simple thing. Thus it does make sense why a religious modest attire would include covering the hair.","972"],["> My disagreements are abstracts and have to do with not seeing moral relevance in things like head coverings. \n\nBecause you base your moral compass on your own understanding. As Muslims we base it on the rules from God, so obviously some things we wont understand since some laws might have future implications or are related to some hidden social factor we arent aware of.\n\n > decency is completely subjective \n\nDecency is only subjective if we use humans to define it :) Islam has well defined laws because the reference for morality is God. So decency in Islam means what Allah has deemed decent. You might not know, but back in the day Muslims were seen as indecent by the west, now it is the opposite, see how humans change?\n\n > liberalism thing is too blanket of a statement, \n\nLiberalism is basically deciding what is moral immoral based on \"be free to to do whatever you want as long as you dont harm anyone\".\n\n > and their arguments have evidence because alot of people come here as refugees and runaways from conservative states to escape abuse or capital punishment.\n\nOur countries are run by dictators funded by the west. Most of african countries had their riches plundered by france and britain. Other middle eastern countries were basically collapsed by American military or sanctions.","230"],["> Teaching your daughter is a false equivalent to bullying, infantilising and abusing your wife\n\nA man is responsible for both his wife and children. Which is why he can physically chastise his wife if she has very ill conduct.\n\n > Also forcing your daughter to pray would make her hate religion too. You severely, severely underestimate how kids/teenagers work\n\nNope, parents force their kids to go to school, drink milk, and eat their vegetables.\n\nAlso:\n\nNarrated <PERSON>\n\nThe Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Command your children to pray when they become seven years old, and beat them for it (prayer) when they become ten years old; and arrange their beds (to sleep) separately.\n\nReference\t : Sunan Abi Dawud 495","335"],["I used to be a nationalist. It is drilled in my brain by media and family how my country is the best, how my people are the best, how I should fight and protect my country and be loyal to it. But then I read history, I got closer to God, I saw how politicians control the uneducated masses, and woke up. \n\nNow, my loyality is only to Allah. My nationality is nothing but paperwork that lets me travel and work. My blood only connects me to my family, not my country. The country of my parents is no different to the country I grew up in and no different to any other country.","227"],["They arent sects. They are schools of thought. Basically they have different methods of making rulings which result in different rulings about secondary issues. For example, the niqab is obligatory in some schools and optional in others. Hanafis dont consider lobsters as fish therefore they dont allow people to eat it.\n\nUsually you woud just follow your parents' madhab (school)","165"],["> I didn't lol, you're changing your narrative all of a sudden which makes no sense. \n\nI didnt change my narrative. I was talking about a specific issue then you generalized it as the ONLY thing that matters (it is crucial, but things like religion and personality are important as well)\n\n > You literally said above that you may as well stay single if someone won't cook for you.\n\nI did say that it isnt logical to marry if your lifestyle wont get any easier (still have to cook for yourself for men or work full time for women).\n\n > You literally equated the status of a woman as someone to cook and clean for you, \n\nYou did that by twisting my words since the conversation was specifically about cooking and chores.\n\n > and if a woman will not cook and clean for you, you should not marry her because there's nothing else going for her. \n\nAnd you talked about love, plenty of people in love get divorced because, guess what, long term relationships dont run on love but responsibility, commitment, and empathy.\n\n > You, not me. Don't twist this around because you realized how stupid you sounded, ffs. \n\nIf you are going to twist my words, take them out of context, and strawman then yeah anything would sound stupid.\n\n > How are you still not banned from this subreddit?\n\nSame reason someone like you isnt banned.","164"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"I am trying to get a general idea of power ranking in the overall fate universe. How would you categorise the following servants from SS to D if they are fighting at 100% of their power. \\n\\nFor example, <PERSON> takes his oponent seriously, <PERSON> stops sealing his powers (I heard he doesnt use his full power for some reason).\\n\\n<PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON> with <PERSON>, <PERSON> (using EA at full power), <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>.\\n\\nEDIT: Also <PERSON>.\",\n \"456\"\n ],\n [\n \"I managed to max out my main roster using embers we got from the <PERSON> event. As for the rest, asfter I finished America, I have nowhere else to send my AP so I just do 40 ap exp dailies a couple of times each day.\\n\\nMy advice is to focus on one or two servants. I just finished maxing <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON> as they are event servants in the upcoming event.\\n\\nI still need to get enough mats to ascend <PERSON> and get him from 60 to _URL_0_ I save all archer embers and use the rest on <PERSON> as I managed to get her to NP2 recently.\",\n \"395\"\n ],\n [\n \"I am currently using my own NP2 Fran. Fully buffed, she can deal around 500k-600k single target damage to each of the three enemies. \\n\\nThe rest of <PERSON>'s hp is taken before I NP as Fran can do around 70k damage per unbuffed buster card.\\n\\nI am using 1 MLB carp ,1 normal Carp and putting a MLB ushi ce on fran. The other 2 servants have gourd drop CE on along with the support I use.\",\n \"913\"\n ],\n [\n \"IMO it goes like this\\n\\nEvent CE > Materials (rarest first) > Mana Prisms > Fou/Gold exp > Silver Exp > Monuments (or skip entirely and go straight to QP)\\n\\nIf you want to level the JttW servants ( <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, Medusa) then embers would be of a higher priority than fous. If you have no servants you want to level then fous are more important.\\n\\nAs for MP, we need 10k to MLB the two upcoming shop CEs. Add to that the price of the mana shop tickets and fous and you discover that having some mana prisms around is handy.\",\n \"910\"\n ],\n [\n \"<PERSON> is known as the strongest boss-killer among all silver servants. His NP damage can even exceed alot of SSRs.\\n\\n<PERSON> fits in a quick crit team which is way weaker than a buster crit or arts spam-fest team. And <PERSON> is more of a support rather than a bosskiller.\\n\\nThey can be leveled later, but <PERSON> should be the first ST Archer anyone levels IMO.\\n\\nI have been playing for a long while now. I used <PERSON> once during the KnK event to dodge <PERSON>'s NP, and only finished leveling him yesterday as he is an event servants for the JttW event.\\n\\nEDIT:Also, with everyone on most support lists having a waver it is far more optimal to level a damage dealer instead of a support like <PERSON>.\",\n \"456\"\n ],\n [\n \"~~Not really IMO, she got a crap-load of buff on her and still barely did 750k damage even though she has NP5.~~ As for spamming NP , a crit-arts servant like <PERSON> or <PERSON> are quite better at that.\\n\\nSo unless I am missing out on something, the only thing making <PERSON> stand out is her multi-hit NP. And even then , assuming you are not a whale, you wont be getting the same spam potential as seen in that video.\\n\\nBut that's just my opinion.\\n\\nEDIT: Scratch some of the things I said, I just noticed that he didnt use any event CEs.Still though, with that much buffing and NP5, that damage isnt that strange.\",\n \"354\"\n ],\n [\n \"They are both archers, but the shop for purple currency unlocks by second week (Euryale gives bonus for purple lotus currency), meaning that the first week she wouldnt be that useful IMO.\\n\\nBut, the nodes you will be farming wont have sabers, meaning <PERSON> will either be doing Neutral or half damage to enemies.\\n\\nSo, if you dont have any decent damage dealers , go with <PERSON>. Otherwise , go for <PERSON> as he will help your damage dealer survive and do more damage.\\n\\n\\nNote: Like <PERSON> and <PERSON> , <PERSON> and Euryale give bonus for the same currency. If you manage to get <PERSON> ,I suggest leveling her instead of Euryale to expand your roster.\\n\\nAlso, the node with best drops for Lotuses has three caster enemies in the final battle, meaning an AoE rider like <PERSON> will be quite helpful.\",\n \"97\"\n ],\n [\n \"I disagree with /u/D13G00.\\n\\nIirc, the purple lotus shop only gets unlocked around the second week, meaning that Euryale wouldnt be that helpful for people who are farming. Add to that that there arent many saber enemies in any of the nodes, a damage dealer like <PERSON> will be ignored IMO in favour of a support servant like <PERSON>.\\n\\nThe node with the strongest saber enemy is for farming golden pills which means <PERSON> wont be giving any bonus to drops.People *might* still use her, but that's just because her niche and not because she is an event servant.I'd rather use an AoE like <PERSON> from the support list for that node myself.\\n\\nFor the second week, most people will use medusa as the node with best purple lotus drops has three casters in the final battle thus making an AoE rider more useful than a ST archer.\\n\\n_____________________________________________________________________________\\n*Disclaimer: I respect the opinions of others and use my right to disagree in full belief that my conjunctures are true. If anything I say is false, please inform me so that I can retract any statements based on it.*\",\n \"395\"\n ],\n [\n \"I know that, I played both BL1 and 2 on PC and BL:TPS on Xbox360 before.\\n\\nBut I never played with the intent of going to NG+ before. I only relied on luck and used whatever gear I got.\\n\\nLegendary loot midgets drop gear, do normal ones not drop any? I tried farming the Doc's orders quest , but it seems that method only works on TVHM and UVHM.\",\n \"910\"\n ],\n [\n \"We still have some time before the next welfare servant event comes around. And those events usually tend to not be very hard.\\n\\nI started the KnK event with a handful of servants all lower than level 30, yet managed to NP5 <PERSON> and get all daggers.\\n\\nSo I think that ,as long as you play smart, you shouldnt have much problems. But try leveling some damage dealers during the time we have left.\\n\\nHere is the wiki page for the Rider Kintoki event:\\n\\n_URL_0_\",\n \"668\"\n ],\n [\n \"> If you get into a sexual relationship, think of the problems it may cause. The girl may get pregnant, and you most likely would leave her. \\n\\nMost likely? Dude, any decent person would stick around and take responsibility. What kind of a holes do you think we are?\\n\\n > Imagine if your parents walks in on you and the girl. What will you do? \\n\\nMake it halal and force them to marry us.\\n\\n > Lower your gaze and avoid porn. \\n\\nYou know how hard that is for people not living in a place such as saudi arabia?\\n\\n > Don't talk to girls unless it's for work. \\n\\nI know a single girl from school, and I still have thoughts.\",\n \"209\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I can see the wisdom in it.\\n\\nWould YOU see more wisdom than <PERSON> and the <PERSON>?\\n\\n > All lot of teens are REALLY imature. \\n\\nThat isnt an excuse. Dont western people have sex and relationships when still young? Are they smarter than muslims?\\n\\n > Plus, how are things going to work out financially? \\n\\nLike it works for couples, you move in together, rent, and both work part time while studying.\",\n \"881\"\n ],\n [\n \"> It seems like every guy nowadays, no matter how normal from outside, indulges in following inappropriate Instagram accounts, watching porn and non-porn filthy movies. \\n\\nMaybe if society didnt force us to wait until we are in our mid/late twenties to get married like how the <PERSON> advised this wouldnt be an issue no?\\n\\nMen, unlike women, dont have the privilege of being able to marry younger.\\n\\nAs for \\\"red flags\\\", if he tries to discuss stuff like that, asks for severa pictures,etc. that might be super sus.\",\n \"70\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Try living in Saudi Arabia. \\n\\nI did, for 10 years. If only they gave the nationality :/\\n\\nI plan on trying to go back there after college for a job.\\n\\n > A lot of my Pakistani and Indian friends have been attacked my the locals there. I know people from Bangladesh who were called \\\"dogs\\\" by their employers. \\n\\nAnd this doesnt happen in various parts of Europe? And America? Xenophobia is everywhere.\\n\\n > I prefer a democracy over a monarch. \\n\\nNot all Muslim majority countries are monarchies.\\n\\n > I want to be able to choose my leader\\n\\nGuess this shows your priorities huh, good luck raising your kids properly in such environment\",\n \"680\"\n ],\n [\n \"Here is the deal, if I dont support killing homeless people, why would I support killing fetuses of poor people? \\n\\nLike, you might see a fetus as a parasite or whatever fucked up dehumanised version of life you guys use to justify termination, but to us a fetus is the same as a baby which is the same as a child which is the same as an adult in terms of human value.\\n\\nPeople dont accidentaly get pregnant, they have sex which makes them pregnant. Women dont just slip and fall on penises. Responsible sex INCLUDES preparing yourself to take care of a baby.\\n\\nIf we all stopped having kids until we find a cure to every disease, we would die off before that happened.\\n\\nAlso, \\\"you shouldve been all aborted\\\"? Why dont you take it a step further and go around shooting pro lifers? Since you care so little about life.\",\n \"626\"\n ],\n [\n \"Dude, respect. This sub is sorta also against people trying to spread watered down versions of faith. We follow God on his terms, not ours.\\n\\n > but I notice there seems to be \\\"liberal\\\" Muslim mosques near me too. \\n\\nThere is a god forsaken reddit called progressive_islam. I go there every once in a while to hurt myself.\\n\\n > If I can't find any it's like I shouldn't even show up for Jumah salat at a mosque?\\n\\nFor prayer, if there is no proper mosque nearby, you can go to such mosques and try your best not to stand next to someone of the opposite sex (I heard some mosques have men and women in the same row touching shoulders). If you are talking about speeches, just listen but pay them no heed since you already know what agenda they are trying to push. Same as in certain Islamic countries (Saudi for example) the rulers might pay the imams to praise them in their speech. You know what is kind of sad? Back in the day in Egypt, the imam once tried to praise the king during his speech. The speaker of Al Azhar (most prestigious Islamic institute in the world) was there and got mad, he let the people pray, then after that he went up and ordered the people to start prayer again as the imam was declared a hypocrite. That imam was then prosecuted and lost his qualifications. That is how much respect people had for Islam at some point, not even the king was above it. Now imams are bootlickers to government (in the east) and to liberal agenda (in the west).\\n\\n\\nDont take opinions from those people, go to websites such as islamqa and islamweb for your questions.\",\n \"293\"\n ],\n [\n \"> homophobic \\n\\nExplain, exactly, how is that \\\"indecent\\\"? Is anything you dont agree with indecent?\\n\\n > and incredibly sexist, just like the Bible. \\n\\nMost definitely not.\\n\\n > The women have to be obedient to their husbands, \\n\\nAnd the husbands are responsible for serving their wives and their households. And the mother has a higher position and authority than the father.\\n\\n > their word is worth half of a man's word in court. \\n\\nIncorrect interpretation. If the trial is regarding a BUSINESS dealing, 2 women are needed, but only ONE testifies. Not both women.\\n\\n > how a woman on her period is sickly.\\n\\nAnyone who is bleeding is considered impure. If you are bleeding from a wound for example. Periods also are NOT just blood, but tissues as well. And the Quran exempts women from praying during that time to make things easy for them. Literally one of the very few exemptions from prayer. Someone who is fully paralyzed is still not exempt from prayer.\\n\\n > many Christians and Muslims don't do that \\n\\nThat is a very stupid statement. A good Muslim follows Islam, someone who doesnt is a bad Muslim. Someone who disagrees is an apostate. No longer a Muslim.\",\n \"589\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is a strawman. No one thinks they will be forced to have their way with women. Physical contact with the opposite gender can definitely be inappropriate and tempt people. Doesnt mean it will make them rape them. Same as stopping by a shop to look at stuff I cant afford doesnt mean I will rob it. Some cultures avoid that by making clear distinct separations between genders. Literally how many people (men) reacted after the metoo wave.\",\n \"454\"\n ],\n [\n \"Sooooo, you, hate hatred?\\n\\nSounds like indecency to me. \\n\\nPeople can hate lots of stuff. Are people who hate incest indecent? Some people are ok with 1st cousin marriage (which increases risk by only 1-2% fyi). Others are not. Are people who are not ok with incest indecent? What about sibling marriage? If they are infertile or gay? Am I indecent for hating that?\\n\\nJust want to see where you stand.\",\n \"16\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Why does God give us free will if He doesn’t want us to use it?\\n\\nHe gave us a choice, and free will. We choose good, we earn our reward. We choose bad, we earn our punishment.\\n\\n > Why doesn’t the God of love want us to have sex with more than one person?\\n\\nSex is meant to be within the confines of marriage. We are not beasts to only think of lust, but of compassion and love and use sex to channel those within a bond of commitment, marriage.\\n\\n > sex (the ultimate form of love)\\n\\nSo motherly love can just take the back seat huh?\\n\\n > Why are we forced to suppress the sex drive we get at such a young age until we’re married?\\n\\nWell, this isnt purely religious. Simple, society views marriage as a bigger decision than sex. In a society where it is normal for people to marry younger, this wouldnt be an issue. But now it takes a certain level of maturity to take care of a family that we have to wait until latter to get married.\\n\\n > Why do we even have a sex drive at such a young age? Why do men produce 1500 sperm cells a second instead of it being in perfect harmony with the female body? \\n\\nBecause, throughout history, people lived in various conditions which made it useful to be able to have kids younger.\\n\\n > Why are females able to have children at an age where they’re not able to take care of it?\\n\\nIt hasnt always been the case that the mother took care of the kids. Neighbors, family, community used to help raise kids.\",\n \"589\"\n ],\n [\n \"Third trimester should ONLY be performed if the chance of saving the mother is higher than saving the child. REGARDLESS of how common they are, they should not be allowed to be performed based on the request of the parents. ONLY in a situation where you either lose the baby or the mother AND the baby is more risky to save.\\n\\nMOST abortions done are ones of convenience. People not wanting kids or not thinking that they cant pay their bills. And if you think people would rather be dead than poor, you are subhuman.\",\n \"674\"\n ],\n [\n \"> The muslims from childhood are taught that every muslim is their brother and non muslims are sub humans who need to convert or face death in worst possible way. \\n\\nYeeeeeeah, that isnt why. Non Muslims lived under Muslim rule for years. Bar some rulers, they were allowed to practice their religion and had a certain level of autonomy. They had to pay taxes cause they werent obliged to fight wars as such (if they chose to join the army they didnt need to as far as I remember).\\n\\n > The Jihad which is form of war against non believers is waged in France\\n\\nOooof, again. Jihad means struggle. Major jihad is fighting against the self, minor jihad is military struggle.\\n\\n > The radical muslims kill and do terrorist attacks while the non radical ones keep quite and feel good about it(praise the attacker). \\n\\nA hindu mouthpiece for the far right I see.\\n\\n > That's why muslim community isn't taking action. They are feeling proud of the attacker (but won't admit).\\n\\nSo Muslims are in the loving-terrorists closet?\\n\\n > Also muslim immigrants can't mix with secular European societies due to their mental conditioning of hating non muslims.\\n\\nOr maybe because all of the discrimination? But sure, go on\\n\\n > I KNOW I SOUND LIKE A BIGOT\\n\\nGood, you are self aware\",\n \"293\"\n ],\n [\n \"> You didn't read or purposefully ignored their slaughter of non Islamic people.\\n\\nYet I said:\\n\\n > Bar some rulers\\n\\n > Modern day jihad is taken as war against west ( US and it's allies)\\n\\nThe opposite, modern day jihad for most Muslims is fight against temptation and sin\\n\\n > Tell me why Islamic French muslims haven't Criticized the attack.? Why are they silent.\\n\\nWho says they havent? And who says them saying anything will help? France has clearly shown that it doesnt care about whether or not you are an extremist, if you are a Muslim, you are an enemy.\\n\\n > Europe is least discriminating place on Earth. People are aware and educated there.\\n\\nHow many women in hijab get bricks thrown at them in other places? How many pregnant women are attacked in other places for wearing the hijab? Are you really saying Europe is the least discriminating place for Muslims?\",\n \"293\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I think you can argue for third trimester being problematic, \\n\\nOh, so we deciding the value of life based on how much trouble getting rid of it is? How about we kill homeless people then huh? That would solve several problems.\\n\\n > Second? Not at all.\\n\\nBased on what exactly?\\n\\n > Generally at birth.\\n\\nSo, if a baby is about to be delivered, should the mother be allowed to abort it then? It hasnt been birthed yet, so it isnt human /s\\n\\n > Sapience \\n\\nWhich has been lacking in your reply and rational.\\n\\n > pragmatism\\n\\nWhich is a terrible approach to judge human life.\",\n \"626\"\n ],\n [\n \"I am not a woman, but those can be answered by any Muslim.\\n\\n > What’s the different between a Muslim and a hijabi? I’ve seen the word in the media but I’m not sure what it means.\\n\\nA Muslim is someone who follows the religion of Islam. A hijabi is someone who wears the hijab (headscarf) which could be a muslim or no muslim\\n\\n > What does allahu akbar mean?\\n\\nIt is actually Allah Akbar, but it is pronounced Allahu Akbar.\\n\\nAllah = The God. Al = \\\"The\\\" in Arabic, \\\"Ilah\\\"=God in Arabic. Put together it is abbreviated to Allah. It is the name of God Muslims worship. He has several other names such as The Merciful, The Creator, etc.\\n\\nAkbar means greatest.\\n\\n > Are women you wear hijabs allowed to wear wigs? \\n\\nNo, wigs are banned in Islam. Perhaps bald women can wear them, but you would have to ask a scholar about that.\\n\\n > I couldn’t tell you why I’m wondering this, brain just wonders.\\n\\nProbably because jewish women can use wigs to cover their hair.\\n\\n > Would it be wrong of me to carry a headscarf and hair pins in my bag incase of anything? I see a lot of the news of hate crimes of people ripping your hijabs off and I’d never want anyone to have to deal with that.\\n\\nThank you for being understanding, that would not be a problem :)\\n\\n > Who is allowed to see your hair?\\n\\nBetween puberty and menopause, only people who the woman cant marry. So father, brothers, sons, uncles as well as husband of course.\",\n \"972\"\n ],\n [\n \"> By orthodox I meant traditional Sunnis/Salafis\\n\\nSeveral shia groups are traditional Islam.\\n\\nSo let's break this up, you think the salaf, and the people for the past centuries, have been practicing Islam wrong?\\n\\nOr do you think you know better?\\n\\n > I personally consider myself as a progressive, non traditional Sunni who sometimes reject hadith.\\n\\n > Sunni\\n\\n > who sometimes reject hadith\\n\\nYeaaaah buddy, Islam isnt pick and choose lol.\\n\\nAnd I still stand by my previous reply, people like you as seen as heretics. And you have no legitimacy. Go follow whatever Islam dlc <PERSON> decided to install today.\",\n \"447\"\n ],\n [\n \"> God wants us to use our intellect, which unfortunately orthodox Sunnis refuse to use. Orthodox Sunnis follow scholars blindly, which is wrong.\\n\\nGod sent us the Quran and the <PERSON>. That is what he wants us to follow. You are delusional if you think the vast majority of Muslims throughout history are practicing Islam wrong.\\n\\n > I'm a Quran centric Sunni..meaning, I accept hadith as long as it makes sense. \\n\\nAre you stupid? Sunni means following the sunnah. The entire sect is built around the sunnah and hadiths.\\n\\n > I reject hadith that sound ridiculous \\n\\nRidiculous based on WHAT? The Quran talks about angels and demons. It talks about a nation trapped behind a wall. To some people that would sound ridiculous. The <PERSON> was sent by God, what he did would of course be not within normal reason, but things that would astound the mind.\\n\\n > that are insulting to the prophet ( i.e there are hadiths in bukhari that portrays prophet <PERSON> as an womanizer.. astagfirullah.. \\n\\nWhich hadith?\\n\\n > The \\\"scholars\\\" and the sheep that follow them love these hadith but I reject them...if that makes me a heretic then I'm a proud of it)\\n\\nNo one with an atom's weight of arrogance will enter heaven, if you think know better than all those scholars, then you have MUCH more than an atom's weight.\",\n \"447\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Dude I follow Sunnah, \\n\\nAnd how you know what is and isnt sunnah?\\n\\n > I do not follow Sunnah that contradicts the Quran. \\n\\nAnd who decides what does and doesn contradict the Quran? The are hadiths meant to show exceptions or expansion to rules in the Quran\\n\\n > Please be open minded and do some research on how accurate is bukhari. Orthodox Sunnis believe that bukhari is as pure as the Quran..<PERSON>\\n\\nNo one thinks that. Around 5% of it isnt strong hadiths, but scholars who make rulings already know that.\\n\\n > Remember bukhari was written 200 years after the death of the prophet..it is logical that this book will have errors in it. \\n\\nThat is a stupid comment. It doesnt matter when it was COLLECTED. Not only did it draw upon books that were already written before, people MEMORIZED things as a normal method to transfer information.\\n\\n > Again, no point in arguing with a close minded person who believes \\\"scholars\\\" can never be wrong.. all i can say to you is that do your own research\\n\\nIf believing 80+% percent of scholars over 14 centuries cant all be wrong makes me close minded, then I will happily wear that badge of honour.\",\n \"447\"\n ],\n [\n \"> 12:106 And most of them believe not in Allah except while they associate others with Him.\\n\\nImagine being that much of a heretic to take the Quran out of context to push your agenda and compare Islamic scholars with kafirs.\\n\\n > Please show me in the Quran where Allah SWT authorizes scholars to collect Sunnah.\\n\\nThe several verses that talk about the <PERSON> explaining the Quran, and how we should obey him, and how we should do what he says and not do what he bans us from doing.\\n\\nAlso, the Quran never authorised <PERSON> (or <PERSON>) raa to burn the other ahruf, yet he did.\\n\\n > 6:114 \\\\[Say\\\\], \\\"Then is it other than Allah I should seek as judge while it is He who has revealed to you the Book \\\\[i.e., the Quran\\\\] explained in detail?\\\" And those to whom We \\\\[previously\\\\] gave the Scripture know that it is sent down from your Lord in truth, so never be among the doubters. \\n\\nAnd how exactly, did Allah explain the Quran? Who, amongst humans, did Allah speak to directly? Hmmmmmmmmmm?\\n\\n > 77:50 So in which ***hadith*** *after it* (Quran) do they believe?\\n\\nExcept that hadith in that context means message. The <PERSON> is the last messenger. So whatever he brought (Quran and hadith) is what we need to follow.\\n\\nWords in different places can mean different things, surprising I know.\\n\\n > 45:6 These are God's revelations (Quran) that We recite to you with truth, *so* *in which* ***hadith*** *other than God and His revelations* (Quran) do they believe?\\n\\nExcept that the hadiths are part of what was revealed to the <PERSON>. There are literal hadiths of the <PERSON> transmitting Allah's word to us.\\n\\n > Go ahead. **Argue with the Quran** while screaming kafirun at *me*. I'll wait.\\n\\nSay, ˹O Prophet,˺ “Obey Allah and <PERSON>.” If they still turn away, then truly Allah does not like the disbelievers.\\n\\n3:32\\n\\nObey Allah and the Messenger, so you may be shown mercy.\\n\\n3:132\\n\\nO believers! Obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you. Should you disagree on anything, then refer it to Allah and <PERSON>, if you ˹truly˺ believe in Allah and the Last Day. This is the best and fairest resolution.\\n\\n4:59\\n\\nObey Allah and obey the Messenger and beware! But if you turn away, then know that Our Messenger’s duty is only to deliver ˹the message˺ clearly.\\n\\n5:92\\n\\nO believers! Obey Allah and His Messenger and do not turn away from him while you hear ˹his call˺.\\n\\n8:20\\n\\nObey Allah and <PERSON> and do not dispute with one another, or you would be discouraged and weakened. Persevere! Surely Allah is with those who persevere.\\n\\n8:46\\n\\nO believers! Obey Allah and obey the Messenger, and do not let your deeds be in vain.\\n\\n47:33\\n\\n<PERSON> (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:\\nOne day, Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) delivered a very effective speech, as a result, eyes shed tears and hearts became softened. A man said: \\\"O Prophet of Allah! It sounds as if this is a farewell speech, so advise us.\\\" He (ﷺ) said, \\\"I admonish you to fear Allah, and to listen and obey even if a black slave has been appointed as your leader. For whoever among you lives after me will see much discord. So hold fast to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs who will come after me. Adhere to them and hold fast to them. Beware of Bid'ah (in religion) because every Bid'ah is a misguidance.\\\"\\n\\nReference\\t : <PERSON> 702\\n\\nI am going to leave it at this. If you still dont think we need the hadiths, there is no point in discussing further.\",\n \"447\"\n ],\n [\n \"Except that he didnt say that \\\"marry your daughters to me otherwise you wont be saved\\\". He asked for her hand in marriage, and her father, who saw him like his brother, agreed to the proposal. That daughter, <PERSON>, was ALREADY engaged so she was going to get married either way but the father saw this as a better proposal from a better person.\\n\\nHe also didnt ask all people to marry their daughters to him, what you are doing right now is called a strawman and it is a logical fallacies.\",\n \"83\"\n ],\n [\n \"> i dont know how wearing the hijab \\\"wrong\\\" is comparable to \\n\\nThey are both sins. End of discussion. Both people are in the wrong. A Muslim woman should not be affected by a hijab law enforcement because she is supposed to wear it regardless of whether she is in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UK, or US.\\n\\n > looking at her in the first place \\n\\nIf it is his job to police public decency, he is obliged to look\\n\\n > judging her attire in public\\n\\nIt is his job\\n\\n > as a stranger telling a women not related to his life how to dress.\\n\\nRepeating, it is his job to stop sin and encourage good deeds. Same as a cop can arrest a public nudist in cities where that is banned.\\n\\n > idk how much moral emphasis islam places on a headcovering to out balance public shaming and breach of privacy. \\n\\nThere is no privacy in public. Anything you do within the public sphere is subject to rules and regulations. Headscarfs are a religious obligation.\\n\\n > I personally think there is just culturally and politically always an urge in humans to control how women present them selves\\n\\nMen and women have decency laws, men have lower ones (for obvious reasons), but I assure you that if some man was walking around in a speedo, he would be chastised and punished as well.\\n\\n > dress modestly becomes a tug of war about mens attention \\n\\nMen are visual, so in any sphere were men and women interact, women need to adhere to modesty laws. Men and women should also try their best to avert their gaze.\\n\\n > / parts of the head you can / cant show / make up / eye shadow / color of the scarf / length of the scarf / embroidered scarf vs shiny scarf, I've heard arguments about this the whole 10 yards in islamic cultural events... its weird\\n\\nIt is pretty clear really. Minimum is to cover all body except face or hands. Some schools of thought say you need to cover those as well, but you can follow either (depending on where you live as well). Covering also means nothing that shows the shape of your body nor transparent. Any makeup put for the sake of adornment (like lipstick) is banned in front of un related men.\",\n \"972\"\n ],\n [\n \"> aking of your hijab is a sin? I dont see how that is a morally sound stance. unless you have a source that explicitly states that the act of taking off a hijab (or wearing it incorrectly) is a sin.\\n\\nThe hijab (full body covering) is obligatory in front of unrelated men. That is a very well known fundamental Islamic ruling that has been known for over 14 centuries.\\n\\n > Do you think the almighty has some autobot algorithm set up that just goes \\n\\nThe Almighty knows everything that is happening or that will happen.\\n\\n > or do you think our lives and decisions are given contextual interpretation. \\n\\nWhat textual interpretation does that woman have for sinning and being indecent?\\n\\n > My mother was asked to stop wailing when my father passed away... .because there where men in the room and they were not to hear her voice.... \\n\\nWailing is a sin. It is also why women are banned from going to cemeteries as they might cause a scene.\\n\\n > strange rules we construct and police one another for.\\n\\nNarrated <PERSON>, <PERSON>\\n\\n<PERSON>, daughter of <PERSON>, entered upon the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) wearing thin clothes. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) turned his attention from her. He said: O <PERSON>', when a woman reaches the age of menstruation, it does not suit her that she displays her parts of body except this and this, and he pointed to his face and hands.\\n\\nReference: <PERSON> 4104\\n\\nGot any issues with what the Prophet PBUH said?\",\n \"972\"\n ],\n [\n \"In general, the main things that are unIslamic and need to change in extremely conservative Islamic countries are:\\n\\n1) Removal of any restrictions for women to get education. Even if they have to build gender segregated colleges or introduce online lecture system.\\n\\n2) Forced marriages\\n\\n3) Honor killings\\n\\nIf you are a Muslim, rules related to headscarf should not bother you, as you should wear it either way. We look at the west and we see what has liberalism done to public decency. We would be fools to repeat their mistakes.\\n\\nAlso, please do mention what you disagree about.\",\n \"972\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Yes I do have issues with the suppression of grief and not allowing a widow to visit her husbands grave or wailing since these have no inherent moral value and one can argue that the social and psychological suppression of such emotions if not healthy. \\n\\nIncorrect. Islam is against public wailing and such acts as they are seen as acts of the people of ignorance. We, as Muslims, must not object to the decree of Allah. We should instead say \\\"we belong to Allah and to him we will return\\\". By accepting that death is part of our fate, and that Allah wills ways who he wants, we need to move forward. We might miss them, but not do undignified acts likes wailing and hitting our cheeks.\\n\\n > not allowing a widow to visit her husbands grave\\n\\nShe is only banned if she will wail and do such acts. If she will only visit, then it is allowed.\\n\\n > Yes, I know that's what is says in the scripture, I choose to disagree and I guess that is a sin too, I'll take it up with him personally when my time comes.\\n\\nNope. It isnt just a sin. It literally means you are not a Muslim.\\n \\n > idk why you make moral stance sound like a threat like \\\"got any issues\\\" lol, my issues mean nothing, are we really in discussion of exploring morality or are you just scolding me for questioning scripture?\\n\\nI am confused, are you a non Muslim? In that case, the laws of Islam are those that stem from the Quran and hadiths. Islam means submission to Allah, we dont argue. As for morality, well, the hair is a part of the woman that has been used throughout history for attraction and adornment. Whether it is growing it, styling it, colouring it, etc, it isnt just a simple thing. Thus it does make sense why a religious modest attire would include covering the hair.\",\n \"972\"\n ],\n [\n \"> My disagreements are abstracts and have to do with not seeing moral relevance in things like head coverings. \\n\\nBecause you base your moral compass on your own understanding. As Muslims we base it on the rules from God, so obviously some things we wont understand since some laws might have future implications or are related to some hidden social factor we arent aware of.\\n\\n > decency is completely subjective \\n\\nDecency is only subjective if we use humans to define it :) Islam has well defined laws because the reference for morality is God. So decency in Islam means what Allah has deemed decent. You might not know, but back in the day Muslims were seen as indecent by the west, now it is the opposite, see how humans change?\\n\\n > liberalism thing is too blanket of a statement, \\n\\nLiberalism is basically deciding what is moral immoral based on \\\"be free to to do whatever you want as long as you dont harm anyone\\\".\\n\\n > and their arguments have evidence because alot of people come here as refugees and runaways from conservative states to escape abuse or capital punishment.\\n\\nOur countries are run by dictators funded by the west. Most of african countries had their riches plundered by france and britain. Other middle eastern countries were basically collapsed by American military or sanctions.\",\n \"230\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Teaching your daughter is a false equivalent to bullying, infantilising and abusing your wife\\n\\nA man is responsible for both his wife and children. Which is why he can physically chastise his wife if she has very ill conduct.\\n\\n > Also forcing your daughter to pray would make her hate religion too. You severely, severely underestimate how kids/teenagers work\\n\\nNope, parents force their kids to go to school, drink milk, and eat their vegetables.\\n\\nAlso:\\n\\nNarrated <PERSON>\\n\\nThe Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Command your children to pray when they become seven years old, and beat them for it (prayer) when they become ten years old; and arrange their beds (to sleep) separately.\\n\\nReference\\t : Sunan Abi Dawud 495\",\n \"335\"\n ],\n [\n \"I used to be a nationalist. It is drilled in my brain by media and family how my country is the best, how my people are the best, how I should fight and protect my country and be loyal to it. But then I read history, I got closer to God, I saw how politicians control the uneducated masses, and woke up. \\n\\nNow, my loyality is only to Allah. My nationality is nothing but paperwork that lets me travel and work. My blood only connects me to my family, not my country. The country of my parents is no different to the country I grew up in and no different to any other country.\",\n \"227\"\n ],\n [\n \"They arent sects. They are schools of thought. Basically they have different methods of making rulings which result in different rulings about secondary issues. For example, the niqab is obligatory in some schools and optional in others. Hanafis dont consider lobsters as fish therefore they dont allow people to eat it.\\n\\nUsually you woud just follow your parents' madhab (school)\",\n \"165\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I didn't lol, you're changing your narrative all of a sudden which makes no sense. \\n\\nI didnt change my narrative. I was talking about a specific issue then you generalized it as the ONLY thing that matters (it is crucial, but things like religion and personality are important as well)\\n\\n > You literally said above that you may as well stay single if someone won't cook for you.\\n\\nI did say that it isnt logical to marry if your lifestyle wont get any easier (still have to cook for yourself for men or work full time for women).\\n\\n > You literally equated the status of a woman as someone to cook and clean for you, \\n\\nYou did that by twisting my words since the conversation was specifically about cooking and chores.\\n\\n > and if a woman will not cook and clean for you, you should not marry her because there's nothing else going for her. \\n\\nAnd you talked about love, plenty of people in love get divorced because, guess what, long term relationships dont run on love but responsibility, commitment, and empathy.\\n\\n > You, not me. Don't twist this around because you realized how stupid you sounded, ffs. \\n\\nIf you are going to twist my words, take them out of context, and strawman then yeah anything would sound stupid.\\n\\n > How are you still not banned from this subreddit?\\n\\nSame reason someone like you isnt banned.\",\n \"164\"\n ]\n]","isConversational":false},"cluster":{"kind":"number","value":494,"string":"494"},"retrieval_idx":{"kind":"list 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It looks like PUBG put out a new snow level. The Asian with the sniper rifle is their staple look. The Stg 44 is the only thing that seems to have anything to do with WW2 in that photo, and its no surprise that its prominently displaced. However it doesn't necessarily help the marketing, because now you have to ask \"is this a German?\".\n\nReminds me of this scene _URL_0_","892"],["I'm not sure of what the phenomenon is, but I'm sure someone has a name to put to it, where there are successive \"dynasties\" of programmers and managers on a project over the years, and they begin working with the game as it is and with the population it has, rather than attempting to fulfill the vision of the original designers.\n\nBy adding luminance and increasing the grind further, they truly made the game impossible to get into. I put way too many hours into the game, I macro'd, I had a good guild that had luminance macroing spots and quested constantly for luminance, and I only had gotten halfway leveled up with my luminance.\n\nThen they had these olthoi as some emergency way to cope with the low populations. It wasn't even the worse idea in the world, but it was a bandaid solution and a refusal to face reality.\n\nAt the end of the day, maybe there was just no one around that truly cared or was able to work on it to the extent it needed to be worked on.\n\nRealistically, the game needed to be reset. Every single item in the game needed to be made decorative and useless.\n\nThe technology needed to save Asheron's Call might not have even existed in a feasible form. Asheron's Call needed DAG technology (Directed Acyclic Graph) which is basically like a \"horizontally scalable bitcoin\", a very fast bitcoin in other words, of premade coins.\n\nIn order to generate an item, the items GUID should need to be associated with a \"coin\", this way it cannot be duped, because computers hashed away to prove the authenticity of the item that is being generated, and there will be no way to duplicate it.\n\nBy the same measure, eventually all the items in the world should be dispensed, and the only way to get new items is by destroying old ones. You do this by not having muling, you just have your item slots and inventory. You'd still drop mana stones and robes etc to protect your armor.\n\nAC went far too item centric and it didn't have the technology to support the items to make sure they were authentic. You can't have an item centric economy when the technology is not there to support it. \n\nThey should have reset XP too, and increased the grind by a factor of 500 or something, so that most people would never ever get out of the low to mid levels. You might see a monarch get to that level max level and max luminance in 2030.\n\nLastly, these \"coins\" associated with GUIDs would be bought as part as the monthly subscription. \n\nMight sound like I am ranting here, but this is how you're gonna see the second golden era of MMORPGs, once we start seeing hardcore MMORPG's using crypto currency as their in game currency. And once the technology is protecting the items, and the grind increased to such an extent that you absolutely have to be part of a huge monarchy, so that you may be powerful only in the sum of all the small parts.","656"],["Whatever the case, it's clear that the modern day programmers have to rebuild the item engine from scratch. So perhaps they should figure out what you are talking about and integrate the atomic commit. I think AC could succeed again if it was shown to have a stellar record of integrity, along with scarcity. \n\nWhat I am talking about could only be done in a new MMORPG where the developer has all the rights. It will be the second golden era of MMORPGs though. The reason you would want the tech I am talking about is for the coins, as the transactions only take like 2 seconds. See the nano cryptocurrency on Youtube to see why it would make sense to replace pyreals, hypothetically. You can send like 0.00000005 of a whole coin. Plus a unique identifier is connected to each transaction.","831"],["Just buy a nice house for around 250 thousand dollars, use 50K to get you through university (no more, ideally only 20k), and use the rest to help you with the maintenance costs of the house until you can get on your own two feet in your career. Maintenance costs being like, a new roof, siding needs replacing because of a hurricane etc. Nothing else. Earn your own money to buy a fridge, couch, etc. You got all the time in the world.\n\nThis is the investment that would have trouble failing. You'd just have to be careful not to buy a property in a city, but snipe a nice house just outside of the city lines in a township that is known to have low taxes and low services, and isn't giving in to developers. Then your taxes will be low, you'd want to have a septic field etc ideally.\n\nYour costs would be so low at this point, you'd have an education that would at least make sure that you're employed, even if you're making minimum wage your job would be tolerable that you'd at least be able to keep a job. You'd have no rent, so plenty of money to save. If you saved half your money from your minimum wage job, you'd easily retire. The other half for food, stuff for your house, etc.\n\nInvesting in a stock is not going to literally be putting a roof over your head. Your house may appreciate in value. Either way if you are set up so that you could earn minimum wage, retire and live a respectable retired life in that house, which would be well maintained throughout your life, you are pretty well situation not to fail, materially speaking.\n\nThis plan just makes sure you cannot go wrong. You an only do better, if you get a job that pays double what minimum wage pays, all the better. You should not expect that, though. You are planning for the worse here. If things go well, you may have a lot more money in the future and could roughly sell the property for what you bought it for, and by then you'll have a lot more experience.\n\nLastly, our economy will probably crash by the time you get access to the money, so you could buy properties for far less than you can now, which makes this idea even better in the future than it is now.","488"],["You could try and dump it all into a retirement plan, not sure if there are limits on what you can put in. But I think that's gonna put you at a huge disadvantage, imaginably you will have to pay rent, and who knows what sort of financial crisises will occur in the world by the time you are 40. You need money for food, clothing and shelter. Clothing is very cheap these days. Food will be your main expense if you own a house. The rest of the money, well half of it can go to retirement (if you are making minimum wage), that is the rest of the money left over after you pay for food where you can do whatever you want, you can buy computers, you can buy investments, whatever. The stock market seems set up for a crash, look at the history of the s and p 500.\n\nGo to google and type in history of s and p 500 and set it to max. We seem due for a large crash. I am not sure if there is any magic with a figure like 350k honestly, you will need a house at some point, you don't want to be paying rent at age 65 if you screw up and the economy goes to hell.","258"],["If you are in the Philippines a wall with razor wire on the top should suffice, a couple of barking dogs doesn't hurt either. Well to do people live in suburbs with a fence around it and guard at the gate, the wealthier ones have their own private police. Ive never had any problems going out into the countryside, in the markets etc. I don't mess with Africa, you'd have to be an idiotic dickhead to go there for any other reason than mining gems or something, even then you'd want a white security detail.","765"],["how about the philippines. you guys are asses. they speak English and they call their parties \"discos\" because the last influence the US had on them was in the 70s and 80s. You literally nuked Japan. They burned your soldiers alive. They dont like you and they think they are superior, even now. The philippines GDP is also gonna be next to Chinas for the next 40 years. By no metric does your opinion make any sense. Japan was the boomers thing, its as big as its gonna get.","655"],["even if you get your all white little gang situated, you're all still very awful sinners. there is no golden age on the horizon. this is not to be black pilled, its just that we rely on all these people in society who are retarded. if they have failed us then our days are numbered. you cant just purge everyone and start fresh, especially in a world with nuclear weapons.","725"],["Yes sir, he is trying to do what Singapore did on a broader scale. Singapore is a city state so its a little more manageable. Obviously you're never gonna completely get the Philippines drug free when they can grow copious amounts of dope in the jungles. The meth in particular is not ideal. And he is doing much more for the Philippines than the politicians are doing in North America. Actually we're going backwards, we're legalizing weed, which has been shown to cause poorer economic outcomes, health outcomes in young adults.","382"],["The war stuff is a moot point, not sure why you even brought it up, just to introduce enough irrelevant points to distract your idiotic audience.\n\nYeah, it has a low GDP, that means much more room to grow. Learn the basics of economics. Japan has an aging population, which means a big social security net that will cost a lot to maintain. Their costs are way higher than both the Philippines and China. They lose big contracts all the time to China.\n\nIs Japan a safer investment? Sure. So that's the one point you get. Congratulations.","655"],["I'm not gonna continue retyping out the same thing over and over again, read what I've read. They are getting old, they have no kids, their costs are high, etc. They will likely drop in the rankings over the next few years. Am I saying the Philippines is doing better now, or did I say it will have the highest GDP next to China for the next 40 years?\n\nSo check back in 40 years faggot, please read correctly the first time.","79"],["Plenty of money are gonna start making money this way, that is the pattern. The idea is that money would be flowing into bitcoin the closer you get to Christmas after June, whereas money would be flowing out of the market as you go from Christmas to June. So this is the one final near death experience before the markets start showing a little more strength. People will realize this pattern and it might even have a quadripple bottom, but people realizing this pattern is gonna make the bottom even more solid, because there is profit in it. The cowardice is the money maker here.","1008"],["Complete waste of resources if nukes actually exist. China is not having this big buildup lol, they have one shitty aircraft carrier, maybe 2 max. If anything they are letting us just waste our money on nothing while they actually build high speed transit between their cities and other expenditures that actually make sense. Japan can go waste its money now too and sink its economy.","753"],["They dump a load of concrete in the sea that is right next to their country to protect it. Do you know how stupid you sound right now. Pretend America was dumping sand and concrete to make an island right outside of New York City. Its the same thing. They are pretty much on the defensive, let them have their little island. \n\nYes you are wasting a ton of money to maintain a huge military that will never really be used other than to fight for Israel. If you fight Russia it will be nukes. China would use nukes. They don't have a big enough military to handle you without using nukes. Nukes would be used to reduce the size of the army, then they would try to take you on head to head. They wouldn't use them against cities right away.","124"],["You need to get out more. Some of the Hapa dudes I have met have been incredibly smart, good with money, better than me at all the games I play with them. Being friends with a Hapa dude partially convinced me to go over there originally, also all the Filipino workers they were bringing over kind of gave me a crush on them. If I find out someone is a hapa, I open my ears because its learning time.","33"],["Everyone bitches and complains constantly these days, about themselves or others. Whites constantly complain about the Jews for example. Or they blame me for diluting the white race. Few work with what they have, or are grateful. While there are certain real problems in the world, there are more often than not imaginary ones in America. That is part of why I had trouble dealing with white women, I am very straightforward and say exactly what is on my mind, and most of the problems here are not real, and I would call it for what it is, which does not make me a popular guy. So its better to go to where the problems are real. Then I have a real reason to be stressed, and that I can deal with. Fake ass problems, no I don't have time for it. No problems are being solved here, we are not untangling the deep state here. Actually we're being set backwards here which is probably why they let us set up shop, people go no where in their career and learn no skills but they feel productive here at MDE. It's not a good thing.","941"],["You're on to it. Basically there are like \"two levels\" of microbes to process the inulin for example. First is the bifido which are the good ones, and the inulin offers them a competitive advantage in the zero sum game which is the battle over food in the gut. I mean the bacteria only have the food you put into the gut to eat, or I mean if you aren't eating well, they can eat the mucus lining of the gut, but there is nothing else to eat there so its a zero sum game.\n\nAnd once all the bifido bacteria are saturated and have eaten all the inulin they can eat, well plenty of bad bacteria simply cannot eat inulin, ever, which gives the bifido etc a competitive advantage, but here's the kicker, some so-so bacteria can, so you start seeing a bacterial explosion of these less than ideal bacteria which can process the inulin but generate a lot of gas byproducts and generally create a state of dysbiosis.\n\nThe bacteria may get better at eating inulin through epigenetic improvements in the guts (I speculate), but the real phenomenon is that there numbers improve due to this competitive advantage in a zero sum game. Then there are more around to eat the inulin. But if you eat too much inulin, you won't be doing yourself any favors.\n\nGOS generally helps avoid this dysbiosis problem. But I like all different kinds of prebiotics and I had FOS (Inulin) today.\n\nJust wanted to add that little bit there, not the most articulate explanation but hopefully it imparts the general notion. \n\nEdit: disclaimer, I was pretty tired when I typed this out and had no sleep the night before.","833"],["Yeah the funny thing is, that yeah I am sure you are worried about my Filipino wife because you are cucking in fear about the Chinese here, when all they are doing is basically stealing the sea from the Philippines. So Filipina wife indeed why do you care so much about the Flips losing their ocean? \n\nAnd do you have any idea of the size of the area you are talking about? They don't need a man made island in the middle of it. That would cut the flight time of an A320 from an hour and 50 minutes to maybe an hour, from that man made island to the Philippines. So a jet fighter is going even faster, why would it need to respond so quickly to something that it somehow merits billions of dollars investment in an airbase?\n\nIt's largely a cock measuring contest and a pristine waste of good money, like all war and military investments have been. Burning the taxpayer dollars on the fireplace. Look at (((who))) owns these companies. It's pissing away the future basically. \n\nSomehow you will justify this. That's what smart people do, they make man made islands. No its what corrupt people do, and they convince you that its a good idea, and you eat it up, because thats what dumb people do.\n\nLastly, at least these corrupt fageets who sell all the airports body scanners, at least that somewhat makes sense. Safe air travel in a 777 seems like a marvel of humanity, flying over the North pole, watching movies, yeah it seems like that is worth trying to protect. \n\nThat is way different than just bombing the children of goatherders Which is all those aircraft carriers have ever done in their lifespans. They break a bottle of wine on the bow of the carrier, it goes through its entire lifespan and then is retired, and all its done is bomb the children of goatherders. We never actually go to war with China or Russia you putz, unless you want to go back to the Korean war as some sort of justification for aircraft carriers, like a dumbie would.","775"],["Never masturbate. Your body doesn't need you to do it, it can process it by itself. No one asked you to do that, you are like a dude that goes into the forest and stomps on pretty flowers for the fun of it, get a life. There are microscopic brain cells in semen. Think about it. Your brain is connected to your spine. Your brain is your spine. Your spine is your brain. Your dick is connected to your spine. If you have a sexual thought and you get an erection, your entire body immediately tenses up. It's all connected. You all subscribe to \"absurd norms\", if you are truly sane, then you will seem insane to society, and all of society will seem insane to you. But people who jack off will turn into what I call \"jack off idiots\", they will have killed off so much of their brain from jacking off that their idiocy will be super evident when they are 50, and probably pretty evident through their 30s and 40s, especially when paired with drinking. They will be complete idiots in their 20s if they jack off, smoke weed and drink. Which is what the government wants you to do by the way. This is a public service message.","524"],["That's what <PERSON> thought. It would not be ideal to be stuck in a basement with him. You certainly would not want to say anything to upset him and possibly make your fate worse. However that is just a sick mind that is trying to find meaning in life through extreme deviance, he is trying to move the needle with his internal police man of his conscience, to try to get something to register. At the end of the day, he was just a lost child, very far from God both inside of himself and in the outside world. At the end of the day, such people would not put down their gun or weapon and fight like a man, they are the ones who are afraid of who they point their weapons at.","942"],["It looks good man, I have to say the only way the screen and raspberry pi etc makes sense is if its incorporated into a unit like that. Its a nice screen. I tried to avoid going the gaming route with a raspberry pi because I play too many games already. But this is one project that I could get into. I already have a blackberry with physical keyboard so thats somewhat close to this as far as gaming goes. But this would definitely be a better experience by a long shot. It looks like maybe this is the first time this has been done? Good work overall.","659"],["Yeah smoking weed is so bad ass now that many governments have legalized it. It's about as cool now as smoking, so hopefully we can stop trying to make it seem edgy (it isn't), and focus purely on the negative health aspects (for one, how about youth are expected to have poorer health and economic outcomes if they smoke weed). Yeah if you are into raspberry pi and you're young, you might have a bright future. What a waste if you used it on projects like he is suggesting. Don't smoke dope.","382"],["I've not been to Mexico but I would be more afraid of getting my head cut off in Mexico by some crazy drug gang. In the Philippines I would be more afraid of the police, but I think they would rip me off for like 1000 CAD and let me go. They wouldn't want it to be turning into some big news story. I wouldn't insult some drunk Filipinos that want me to buy them beer, either. Maybe I would buy it and leave quickly.","356"],["I've been there and stayed here many time my friend, both in Manila and the Visayas, and I will be back there again hopefully within the next 10 months. Not all Filipinos are good people, there are a lot of alcoholic scumbags and meth heads, but yeah the president is actually doing something about the meth which is what scared the shit out of me in 2014. I was in a taxi cab with a guy that looked like he was on meth, he was laughing at me as I got out of his cab after he cleared scammed me. They ended up charging me not much more than it would have costed to get a taxi in any other country but the dude was clearly high on drugs.\n\nThat is gonna be a ticket to a very high GDP for your country, they are making the right moves and I can rant and rave all days about all the improvements I've seen in your country just in the last 4 years. Manila airport is WAY better and thats a huge development. It was terrible back in 2014. I don't even mind it now vs never wanting to ever go back there again, so they did a good job.","1004"],["Yeah I hope they don't start going nuts one day or something, but they seemed to have been tame in comparison, at the end of the day they are still Filipino and not crackpot Indonesians. They seem loyal to the country despite being Muslim. They want to get ahead too and they see that the wealth is in the north with people who know English, etc, they know whitey don't go down there for a reason. I'll never go down there, I spend big bucks in the Philippines and I tip real good and help people out where I can.","79"],["well the thing is that 4K provides more pixels to work with and when you narrow the fov, well you just get more pixels of what is in front of you, which is generally a low pixel count bitmap texture. so by squeezing as much as visually possible into the image you get the max amount of unique pixels possible, the most amount of good looking information possible. \n\nits also not uncommon to play like this all the time on darktide, i always did, because someone can sneak up behind you and shoot you in the back with specialized sneak attack and war magic.","659"],["I am not out of my mind, you are gaslit to hell. You have to be out of your gourd to somehow legitimize spending trillions of dollars fighting over a worthless piece of desert. If it is worth so much then why aren't we developing all the vacant desert in Arizona? If we spent a trillion dollars over in Arizona we could have an entire new economic zone in the United States.\n\nHonestly I don't have to argue beyond this point, you will continue to validate spending trillions on Zionist cabal wars because they got you early when you were in school. Just because Britain etc fought over the Middle East doesn't really mean it's legitimate. It stopped being legitimate after the silk road and then became about religious fanaticism. It's not about oil anymore because America is now an exporter of oil.","677"],["OK, I know you want to just hate on <PERSON> supporters, but please understand that people like you are the problem. People who cannot think in shades of gray and have to make this blue vs red, when <PERSON> is violating his promise not to invade Syria.\n\nThat was the only way this could have worked because <PERSON> was the pro-Syrian war candidate. \n\nDo you not understand this simple point?","249"],["Well again that is the point, I was making fun of <PERSON> supports *after* <PERSON> has gotten into this Syria racket. Before that, he was doing better than the establishment government historically has done over the last 25 years or so. That's all out the window now though. \n\nIt's post irony as a form of humor, people in this sub must not be advanced enough in terms of brain size/humor to appreciate the fine hues and shades of gray contained within such humor.","339"],["Let me get this straight, <PERSON> gives like 40 billion to Israel at the end of his term, and we can't find 40 billion to build a border wall, and somehow they are the puppet state. Their borders are very secure and they want to send 40,000 African refugees back to Africa, not only is that not questioned at all by the west, but they decide they want to send those African refugees to western countries (they want to dump what they consider to be \"trash\" in our back yard), and again we have no problem with that. Are these people going to come and be doctors and lawyers etc? No. The taxpayer and citizen doesn't want it, but since they decided it, it's happening. It's like that with all of their decisions btw. They decide it, good as done. End of story. \n\nCan you explain what sort of logic you are following here to get it all so backwards? I can be convinced if you can lay out a rational argument.","677"],["Well if we load up on 3.50 nano and it goes up to 35 dollars, which it almost did before, then that's a 10x profit and a chance that it could happen this year. Even if it took 10 years, then that would be around the same amount of profit as the stock market.\n\nI mean if bitcoin can go to 20k, it seems like it would make more sense to bring it up to 20k and let it drop again, rather than shorting out 6.5k, so it seems to make more sense that a bull run would occur rather that bitcoin dropping to 1K, if whales do really have complete control over the market. It seems like if you dumped all your nano at whatever price it was at when bitcoin starts to climb above 20K, you'd make it out with a nice profit. \n\nSo overall, it seems like a bitcoin bullrun would occur soon, rich people don't want to see their money doing nothing for way too long, and if they can make it rise to 20k with little risk, it would be much more profitable than making it drop. Maybe whales are accumulating right now as well, like I don't see where they would be able to find all sorts of 1K bitcoin when the price is 6.5K on the open market, so where would they be getting this special opportunity to crash the market for a huge profit unless they are buying in now for around this price, then crashing it after it goes above 20K?","1008"],["imagine buying weed off someone in real life with 21 bitcoin. the dealer is just like. i dont know what to do with this man. ill just put it where i know i wont lose it (behind a picture frame or in a bible), then he comes back years later and sees you on the street corner. he is in his lambo. he asks you how that eighth was, and spins his tires until they are burning rubber and he peels off into the sunset","71"],["Just goes to show how smart they are. All that money goes right to their heads. They think that just because they can afford some huge wardrobe that all us common Joes are wasting all this time on our appearances. Meanwhile it takes <PERSON> about 20 seconds to put his clothes in the washer, another 10 seconds an hour later to put it in the dryer, a few minutes hanging up clothes, once a week, he just puts on whatever is clean and goes to work. A couple of minutes per week not to look like a psycho, and a billionaire cannot figure that out. <PERSON> was nuts like that too. Bug men think that these \"life pro tips\" are genius and key to the mindset of a millionaire. You can't make it up folks.","747"],["Do you know a book that basically says what you said here:\n\n > Gnostics believe that this reality was an accident. It was created by an imperfect and arrogant entity known as <PERSON> (the God from the old testament), and his archons (angels). This physical reality is just a copy of the real divine realms where this imperfect entity was born. The planet Earth is a living organism known as Gaia-Sophia. She's <PERSON> mother, and she is also our mother. <PERSON> and his archons created our bodies but they did not gave us our divinity.\n\nBut it also has lots of quotes to old Gnostic scriptures etc?","487"],["You can use your credit card to buy dope illegally, you can use it at the liquor store, you can do any number of stupid things with your credit card. The litecoin I bought for 100 dollars just as the bullrun was taking off was not super risky and I ended up nearly tripling my money on it. It can go well, unlike every time people buy muh weedz or booze on their CC. If the bank is going to start policing and micromanaging lives, they should start there. The problem is that it would make the credit card useless. See crypto is their kryptonite, its immutable and people will be able to buy whatever they want with it. Not even being able to use your debit card to buy crypto shows how mutable your fiat is. You literally have to put your money in an envelop and mail it if you are BMO customer, thats the freedom you have.","537"],["Of course they did. This whole proceeding was a big joke. He was never once worried about any sort of issue, the demise of Facebook is probably planned as well. They will come out with some new service that is even more intrusive, some how they will manage to film people crapping on their toilets. They will call it crapbook. It is very valueble to squash a rebelliion when you have pictures of people on the crapper","611"],["it depends. you have guys pissing their beds at age 16. you have abusive mothers that lead to men killing women prostitutes. the homosexual nuts were often sexually abused as kids or got erections from spankings, they might be sexually incapable of getting sexual pleasure unless violence is involved. <PERSON> had a normal childhood but had a taste for violent porn and alcohol. honestly a lot of good men could turn bad like <PERSON> if they fell into vices that are truly beneathe them. <PERSON> was a lawyer student","292"],["That seems extremely silly to me. The developer of nano has said repeatedly that it was designed to fit within a single UDP internet traffic packet. It is very easy to just say \"oh well nano is so simple, we can just get another crypto to do the same thing\". \n\nSure it may be very fast. Nano might be 2 seconds and EOS might be 6 seconds. Or hell maybe eos is even 3 seconds, lets give complete benefit of the doubt. So there is no difference when you are standing in line at the supermarket.\n\nBut big companies put entire fiberoptic cable lines across the ocean just so they have a couple extra milliseconds of latency to execute ultra fast automatic trades. \n\nOver time that little bit of difference, because it will not fit into a UDP packet, would cause EOS not to be competitive in the financial markets. Nano would gain enormous amounts of volume if it was being utilized as a major currency on exchanges because it would be faster.\n\nI mean it doesn't seem like its important but you are not this huge financial company and running automated trading. As far as I'm concerned it is uneducated FUD. Not that it won't have an effect on the current price, but in terms of actual value and merit based very long term value, I would like to see the actual technical evidence that it is competitive in high speed trading, which is where nano would dominate as a bitcoin replacement.","831"],["We can continue to get dumber, let's break this down into baby food for you served on an airplane spoon:\n\n > an interface\n\n\"vague statement\".\n\n > a compatible interface to one of our existing coin types \n\n\"a highly specific statement\".\n\nThe vague statement is very wrong, the highly specific statement is correct and clarifies the issue being discussed.\n\nDoes this elucidate the matter for you?","458"],["How about when a doctor is doing brain surgery. Does he need to be specific or can be be vague. Is vague wrong in that case?\n\nOr how about if you are drunk and trying to hammer a nail into the wall. Vague is like using a wrench instead of a hammer, makes no difference right?\n\nHmm so I guess since there are different meanings and everything is relative, we should be like this guy who gave this company 10,000 dollars without reading their terms of service.\n\nThanks I am walking away having learned something valuable here. \"Do not read and be very blunt and non-specific\". Thanks.","723"],["> Dude I think damn near everybody in Hong Kong is cunty. Not just the Chinese. What surprises a lot of people is that I found the Chinese in mainland China to be much more polite and accommodating to guests than HK. Yeah mainland do rude things but it’s because they literally don’t know it’s rude because it’s not rude in mainland. But in Hong Kong they’re rude as fuck, they know it, and they don’t give a shit. \n\nHaha well if you think about it, Hong Kong is bound to be the most arrogant place in the world. It's one of the few places where people who are too arrogant for New York City can go. America is not good enough for them so they head to China.\n\nThe sort of guys walking around the rich parts of Hong Kong look like they came out of a magazine. Designer glasses, business suit, fast walking, they are the embodiment of the anti-Christ.\n\nThe Filipinas are the most based people there. Not all of them would drop their pants for a white guy, I seen some hot Filipinas there that were more into Middle Eastern and Chinese guys.\n\nI am back in North America. I cannot afford to live over there all the time. I go there once a year, every year, this year I was in Manila and the Visayas of the Philippines. I like the Philippines a lot, I don't have much to compare it to as I've never been to all those other countries. But it's fairly common for people to have a house in both Thailand and the Philippines. I like the Philippines because they speak English. \n\nOh that is the worse, and then she will complain when I am in the mall and looking at things because I ignore the people in the stalls etc. She will begin to walk without me and act all embarrassed. I mean these people are retarded, capitalism is too new for them. Like I want to look at the shit but I may not want to buy it. I don't know because I haven't had a chance to look at it. But if you look at something the person in the store might get the expectations that you will buy something. So if you look at something you have to buy it, because if you don't then that is a social taboo. So the lesson is, don't look at anything and don't buy anything. The person will stay poor but at least they won't feel insulted. It's retarded. \n\nI have no problem ignoring them when they speak perfect English. It's just business, I don't have enough money to give everyone awesome business and raise the country out of poverty. I spend thousands per month when I am there.\n\nThey don't seem to tip in Asia though, right? I never tipped at all last time I was there.\n\nI'd love to get a house there and live there for a year. I'm going to set aside a certain amount of savings for that in case I lose my job to a computer or something, I'd just take an entire year off. \n\nI might like to buy some land over there and build a compound. If I could get the ball rolling and climb up the social ladder in the economy by leveraging my position here in North America that would be awesome. Winter is forever here.","79"],["Ah were you part of the mob that decided that? Maybe he did, maybe he didn't, but how do you like killing people in front of children with dogs running around (I watched the video, if you haven't, don't). Yeah yeah you're poor and everything but how do you think you are going to get ahead when you demonstrate mob justice to your children? Seriously a couple of grown men can't say let's take this guy out into a field somewhere and take care of this? It's 2018 not 1464, we can at least do our angry mob killings out of the site of children, please. <PERSON>.","486"],["Really, was it an act when I immediately had sex with my now wife, then girlfriend, 5 minutes after physically meeting her, in a hotel? All you losers with all your dating techniques etc etc for asexual white women who absolutely do not want to have sex with your loser degenerate virgin ass, if anyone at all. You need to go Asian my dude, then you can just spread out your ass for your girlfriend the first time you meet her or just take an upside down dump (it doesn't matter what you do on the first \"date\"), you can try to grow out that bug beard of yours and watch 1000 marvel films so you are \"cultured\", and all means of faggotry and timewasting.","1012"],["Did you really go that far back into my post history (bug man) to see me jokingly post some LICHEN (tree moss) and make a joke that said it looks like weed, and actually think that I currently inhale billions of burning atoms of plant material into my precious sacred lungs, to become intoxicated for the purposes of escaping reality?","406"],["Oh Israel's study eh, yeah that is super trustworthy. They couldn't possibly want all Americans stoned and too dumb to vote for the people who actually want to defend American interests. Let me guess the democratic party is going to unload a whole laundry list of gibmedats and legalized marijuana to win the next election. Because that is what is important, for your little toot to help you forget all the blood you spilled for Israeli interests. Hey dumbie, you don't exactly get my respect for that, pretty sure you could have flipped burgers in Amerika and ended up surviving somehow without having to unleash fury in Israel's enemies, that had nothing to do with Amerika and you should face the facts of your actions soberly, as your victims had to face the lead coming from your bullets soberly and afraid.","677"],["No, they are real if you planned on your investment producing returns in that quarter, which is generally a highly unreasonable expectation. I bought nano at 6 dollars on December 25, 2017, and I made a reasonably long investment period of a year. \n\nIf you bought nano 3 months ago, hoping that you would be up 200% within 3 months, and now you're down 50%, well you are gonna consider that a loss, but others would just consider you dumb. You are already breaking the laws of reality by expecting a 200% return over a year, let alone 3 months. An average return on the stock market is 10% over a year, you are seeking to do 20 times that. And then you can't even wait the whole year, you want it to perform 4 times faster on top of that.\n\nThis is borderline FUD to be perfectly honest. The one thing that the hold meme has going for it is that it allows your investment period to actually play out, crypto could be locked into a yearly cycle at this point.","1008"],["If you look at any rich person, they will say a big factor was luck. Now that being said most of us aren't investing enough to make us rich, but if nano got coinbase'd many of us would be able to get some nuisance bills out of the way at the very least. When you look at many stocks, it doesn't really seem like they have that big blow up potential.","580"],["The last time I bought was 9 dollars and I thought I was buying at the bottom. It had to hover around 5 dollars for a long time now for me to be comfortable buying again, but I always have a new nano goal in terms of my stack size and I am waiting to see what the price will be during the famous \"Sunday dip\", if it's down especially low, I will be happy to buy.","928"],["Don't say \"you people\", we aren't a bunch of identical niggers here.\n\nWhen I was around 23, my long term white girlfriend broke up with me (she ended up dating lesser men with less education, lesser looks etc etc), so I stayed single for 5 whole years before I met my wife.\n\nThat entire time there was not one girl I met that was worth marrying or dating. \n\nSo stick to banging your cat would be my suggestion, staying single and being able to deal with that misery is key to becoming a person with integrity. All of these pussies out there who go from relationship to relationship to fill a hole in their soul are weak people, and they marry out of necessity, since they are naked, pathetic people in their heart of hearts.","209"],["Yes, exactly. You save half your income for retirement, even if that means you rent an apartment during retirement because you can't afford a house, and if you can't afford Christmas presents because you wouldn't be able to save for retirement and buy presents at the same time, then you don't buy Christmas presents. And you be religious since materialism is empty. Exactly. \n\nAnything else is the Jews and society as a whole trying to destroy you, like a billion atomic gnomes trying to break through your magic seal and kill you.","482"],["Well he is arguably a far more effective force than all of these people against him because he did one little thing wrong that he didn't like. Honestly <PERSON> might be the ideal guy because he doesn't obsess over it but he's not afraid to talk about it even though he has more to lose.\n\nLike you can \"know\" of something and openly discuss it and assign some sort of mental priority to it without having to nitpick over every little thing someone does and then just call them a faggot and completely discount their opinion.\n\nHalf this sub ought to send a resume in to CNN honestly they are doing a better job than they are because they're hard at work here.","495"],["I don't know if I am the only person with an imagination here, but it actually seems like the perfect sort of thing you'd want to fend off a cougar, if you were completely calm.\n\n_URL_0_\n\nNow a key thing would be to get the wheels off, that's asking a lot but it says in the article that the cougar was spooked off for a bit. It doesn't seem unreasonable that you would take a moment to unscrew the wheels of your bike off with your hands.\n\nSo you got that sharp front wheel piece that you could jab into the cat with if it was getting close, then the rest of the bike (bike seat pointed towards your body) could be used to keep a distance between you and the cat. it would force the cat to swipe around the bike, but you'd be jabbing the metal towards the cats face.\n\nI realize that the cat is not just gonna stand there like a boxer and fight you, but you had two guys with bikes so they both could have done this, and they both could have stayed side by side.\n\nThe cat is not just gonna sit on top of a dude tearing him apart while another dude is jabbing the front metal piece of a bike into the cougars eye.\n\nLike to me this seems like a non argument but every single person is arguing here. If these guys didn't panic and were side by side and had the bikes like this, the cat is not just gonna run in and grab onto one dudes neck and kill him instantly before the other dude has a chance to start doing massive damage to the cougars face.\n\nThey are fast but they aren't like as fast as the speed of light with 18 inch long alien teeth made out of carbon nanotubes. \n\nI would say \"definitely\" these guys panicked and handled it the wrong way in order for one of them to get killed. It was the bad way to handle it. The story did not say \"they fought it valiantly together, until one friend was killed and the other was forced to break formation and run\", and that's how the story should have gone. \n\nThe story did not say that. I really can't be wrong here because the cougar is not gonna kill both of them, it's gonna kill one and drag it to its lair, no matter what, unless it is killed.","111"],["Most punks are liberals in favor of universal income and crap like that, they are the first to go begging for 15 dollar minimum gibs. It's a form of \"rebellion\" fed to them against the baby boomers, so they can agree with their parents and think their parents are \"cooler than they thought\", it is so pathetic. Yeah be rebellious, just dress in a leather jacket and get a tattoo and you need a mohawk there, perfect, now you're rebelling, you fit the image perfectly!","871"],["I'm hungry as hell right now, I fast 21 hours every single day. I think sugar has a massive impact on the senses, as far as deadening them. Like you won't be able to taste and smell nearly as well if you eat a lot of sugar. When taken to its extreme, if you eat enough sugar you won't be able to feel anything in your feet or hands when you have diabetes, so there must be some sort of scale here. With almost no sugar, you will be able to taste all the sugar in pizza sauce when you eat pizza. My sense of smell is highly amplified with keto and 21 hour fasts. It's not every day I'm hungry, some days I'm not even hungry after a 21 hour fast. If you work out a lot, you will be almost too hungry. But its not even that big of a deal, I think the way to do it is to do all your cooking on one day and have all your meals ready for the next 20 days, rinse repeat.","978"],["It's not even strict. You need to study <PERSON> and his Critique of Pure Reasoning. No one has ever written anything disproving what he wrote. It's a thick and complicated text so you might as well just study the \"a priori\" part:\n\n_URL_0_\n\nSo study that and understand what it is.\n\nThen ask yourself where your philosophy is coming from. When did it occur to you to start behaving as you do?\n\nYou certainly did not think about kissing a girl anywhere other than on the mouth as a child. The a priori way of dealing with a woman is that eyes connect with eyes, mouth connects with mouth, penis connects with vagina. \n\nThat's how the properly functioning human brain works.\n\nAnd, if you want to make anything decent out of your life, you have a husband and wife who have a household with rules, they may or may not have children, and they are to be raised properly etc.\n\nThis is basic stuff, just because you are making a mess out of your life doesn't mean that you're living an \"alternative lifestyle\". Your brain is just not working correctly.\n\nThere is no arguing some points, it's not some moral debate. If you are injecting heroin into your veins, don't start talking about how it's \"safe\" and you tested it to make sure it's pure. That's not the point. Likewise OK you want to stick your penis in a woman's filthy anus that can never totally be cleaned, that's no different than sticking it in a man's anus, then at that point there is no right or wrong.\n\nLike where is the god damn line. I'm telling you where it is, I'm not asking you I am telling you.","230"],["Well I think that many different models for the future would work if people took even a little personal responsibility. No one is told that they have an ego and that they are responsible for meditating on it and eliminating it. It's unheard of, no one has ever even heard of that before. But it's incredibly basic. \n\nLike where is the actual source of human life even coming from, what is it filtering through before it starts manifesting in physical existence? \n\nLike someone is CNN and charging themselves up with all sorts of retarded propaganda that they will be very enthusiastic about, but WHO or WHAT is watching that, what egos is that feeding into?\n\nLike there is zero interest on their behalf about that. If we are making errors and we can recognize that we are responsible for our own defects, then we can accommodate a lot. Really we are not gonna need any particular system to rely upon because we're just gonna be more efficient with our lot in life.\n\nPeople wouldn't start thinking about needing to kill other people if they realized that they could stop believing in that which wants to kill other people. Like some liberals are wanting to punch a \"nazi\", they are becoming so fortified in their beliefs. Or some people are so identified with being white, \"that is who they are\". They ARE their skin color, if they took a big dose of silver and turned blue like [this white man who turned blue](_URL_0_), then they would die. \n\nIt's just so absurd how superficial they are, since they base their entire philosophy in sensatory perception. That's all our systems are based on, looks.","142"],["You don't even need to eat like 5 times a day either, I recently realized that you can eat one big meal (keto, chicken and vegetables), and then go 21 hours without eating, you'll be maybe hungry for 3 hours but maybe hunger is something that is not bad to feel. You learn better with an empty stomach. And there is no way you won't lose weight like this, even if you fail at your diet and completely pig out on whatever once a week.\n\nSo honestly, they don't really know how to buy and eat, do they? They are doing that wrong too.","727"],["I got this down to a science. Have you ever heard of prebiotics? I run the subreddit prebiotics.\n\nSo probiotics feed the good bacteria in the small intestine and prebiotics feed the large intestine.\n\nI'm not gonna rewrite all of it here so read up on it.\n\nI recommend takin the niacin on an empty stomach. It upregulates BDNF, which is a good thing. They looked at the brain of people that committed suicide and found that BDNF was heavily downregulated, so basically taking niacin is doing the opposite of making you kill yourself.\n\nThe niacin* flush on an empty stomach can be intense though. Especially when you are fasting for 21 hours a day and only eating a strict keto diet like me, I get the chills and shivers and everything from it so I only do it a couple times a week.\n\nI take me fish oilies after I eat my keto food, along with some coconut oil.\n\nYou want to be doing all this stuff:\n\n_URL_0_\n\nMake sure your fish oil is decent, meaning high in DHA.\n\nZinc doesn't do anything making it worthwhile*.\n\nA lot of supplements don't do anything. I only take the supplements that do something.\n\nI take 2400 MG of SAM-e per day, which is a lot, and quite expensive, but it dramatically improves my mood and makes me a different person. Your mileage will vary depending on your genetics, guaranteed.\n\nVitamin D is amazing and I take 5000 UI once every couple of days but not every single day.\n\nI wouldn't bother with 5-htp.\n\nI would take 500 mg of magnesium before you sleep because your sleep will be better. Psyllium husk also seems to help with sleep. \n\nDeep sleep is very important and you could consider your deep sleep to be the most productive hours of your day.\n\nI would limit caffeine to under 400 mg per day, I take a 200mg caffeine pill after waking along with my SAM-e on an empty stomach and then another one a couple hours of later or a starbucks coffee a couple hours later, then I stop for the rest of the day. I might have some green tea but thats it.\n\nThat about covers most of it. I occasionally take cranberry extract etc and just different random supplements to shake things up. But that is most of what I do. I'll be a normal weight with this diet on the long term and incredibly smart. \n\nThere are some other things you need to succeed, I would look for that book on Amazon that suggest you need to work 10x harder to succeed, I forget the name by <PERSON> or something, and I would read the book called \"Deep work\" and understand how important it is not to get distracted when you are doing something.\n\nYou don't have to follow the 10x book to the letter, just kind of get the gist of the book, the deep work book though, that's more important.\n\nAnd if you do all of that stuff, you will be basically taking like 20 years of my hard work and experimentation and just putting it all into practice immediately, for free. It cost me a lot of time and energy and money to figure all this out. A lot of bottles of supplements that just went in the trash because they didn't actually do anything.\n\nThis is all stuff that seems to improve HDL cholesterol levels, interestingly enough, the SAM-e part might need to be tweeked because I did that in response to my genetics test.","727"],["Nano has been falling in price all throughout an economic boom. By your logic, nano will actually be entering into the negative territory, which means that anyone who bought nano will have to personally end up paying <PERSON> the negative balance left on their account.\n\nStocks have been going up in a way that doesn't make any sense. When news starts going around that people are being locked out of their account, they are gonna haul all their money out of their bank accounts and shove it in crypto. \n\nAt that point its going to moon insanely, and you could sell at the top of that and very quickly buy a house or something if you have enough nano.\n\nBy you saying what you are saying, you are just telling me that they can print money again and play around with interest rates and that will get us out of the next recession this time around. Sorry honey but it's not really quite that simple.\n\nNano is already down quite a lot. It's squeezing juice from a rock at this point. Meanwhile in the stock market:\n\n\"Dow hitting 50,000 by 2023? Market milestone is within reach, investor claims\"\n\nRemember when people were saying Bitcoin would hit a million dollars? What happened after that?\n\nWhere is all this bullishness coming from when there tends to be a financial crash every 7-8 years?\n\nAnd how are you going to just print more money and raise interest rates to correct that recession?\n\n > I love Nano but betting on this coin to get you through a recession is wishful thinking.\n\nYou applied literally no thought to this statement whatsoever. You literally just said it, you just spewed words into the air. That's nice and all but we're not actually in the recession right now and you don't actually have to think about your future right now. It would be a very scary time.","1008"],["> And if things get bad enough that fiat becomes worthless then you can assume that ISPs, CDNs, undersea cable companies and cellular providers will probably shut down too. \n\nThat is the opposite of what would happen. The US military would literally be out there protecting those cables.\n\nGuess what happens when things get really bad? Like in a World War? You send military to defend your oil refineries etc, because those are very important.\n\nYou are literally just saying things that run contrary to world history. It is not this huge massive expense to keep the internet running, the government could just take over operations of those companies in an emergency.\n\n > So few people get this. If fiat crashes, people are unlikely to throw what they have into crypto on the chance that it somehow becomes the primary worldwide currency. \n\nAre they gonna use it to buy bread? They are going to need a barrel full.\n\n > And finally, unless the new currency is accessible to all and equally shared, then it won’t be adopted. If the world is fucked and 5% hold all the wealth, then the 95% will find another measure of wealth.\n\nThat is wishful thinking because those 95% are sheep, they literally don't have the capacity to follow any sort of unique thinking. If someone with enough power says something is true, then it might as well be true.\n\nBitcoin, nano etc don't run contrary to such ideas which is what would make them useful. Nano can't really get much lower, it is going lower during an economic boom, so by any logic it should take off when things get tough. \n\n > This isn’t a nano argument. Even Bitcoin will die if things get that bad.\n\nNot everything is gonna die dude. Gold is gonna go up. Bitcoin is something that is new but just because we're not sure and it hasn't been tested doesn't mean it won't go up.\n\nI mean you want to literally bet against everything during a recession because things are gonna be bad. That's the safe bet because you have the highest chance of being right. In a recession, most things tend to go down, wow so few people get this.\n\nYou have yet to explain what a panicking family is gonna do when they hear their friend's bank has shut them out of their account and now they can only withdrawal 100 or 50 dollars a day.\n\nMeanwhile crypto is hypothetically mooning, he can put his money into that AND take it out whenever he wants, he will probably end up making a lot of money in the short term, it's risky but his friend who is locked out of his own bank account might have already hypothetically lost his money.\n\nOr, alternatively, in a carebear land scenario, this sort of thing can never happen, and stocks will continue to moon insanely for next couple of years, with no chance of ever coming down.\n\nYou can think what you wanna think dude.","1008"],["Part of the reason for the poor attitude is a) people who are constantly shitting themselves over the price, and b) close minded people who think they are \"very grounded\".\n\nThen there is I guess the third category of people who think that the conversation going on in this sub makes a huge difference in price.\n\nThe serious people have no choice but to mock all these groups, they will say its mooning and make all sorts of memes. We already know how this coin behaves during a bear market and we aren't buying for the bear market. \n\nWill there ever be a bull market? Who knows. Really investing in nano is a form of security, as bitcoin will not be the long term future in say, 30-40 years. No one wants to be a nocoiner who missed out on something and is telling their grandkids about what they could have been.\n\nWhen it is just the memers left in this sub, talking about how we're gonna moon when the coin is at 2.00, then I bet we will explode. At that point all the fools will have sold off and only the wise will be left.","1008"],["Nano used to be a number 18 coin. Verge is above it right now, it undergoes 51% attacks or whatever every other day. During a recession, things would make much more sense. Verge would not be above nano for example. That is when the practical value would be prioritized in peoples minds. In a way, its exactly what nano would need to get up in the top 5 spot.\n\nIt's hardly delusional, do you honestly think that this coin, even if it has wallets, is gonna just climb up in this environment, when it can't even get past verge, without some huge outside factors?\n\nThose outside factors could be a reality soon. Nano is very practical and its the people's coin. You can take your 10 grand out of your bank account and put it in nano and send it to people. \n\nIf it's lower that actually provides more stability, nano didn't stay at 30 dollars for long. So yeah thats another thing, if nano is only 25 cents, people would flock to it. It would have a huge value proposition and not any downside. \n\nSo yeah that's delusional. If nano was 25 cents each and you say, hmmm I feel my money is not safe in a bank, nano has no downside maybe it will be safe there, that's delusional. It's not, it's smart.","170"],["The price won't go to zero. Any time you're thinking of buying something when its that low it has tremendous upside.\n\nIt can't get past verge because it has no marketing. Verge has marketing. There is no point in marketing it if it can't even get its wallets on the Apple store.\n\nWe are going in circles here. \n\nNo, it doesn't need a big partnership, I think it will do well in a recession if it gets really bad. There would be an initial sell off.\n\nHave anything novel to say? I know you can type.","618"],["If there was a huge recession and some practical coins became popular (bitcoin, nano, etc) and all the banks were really screwed up and you could only withdrawal 50 or 100 dollars per day, and everyone lost their jobs but hauled a lot of money out of their banks and put it into crypto which is relatively stable due to the situation, and they are on their cellphones sending money to each other and maybe let's say the world is starting to really adopt crypto now, people are gonna start comparing it. \"Bitcoin took 4 hours, I lost a lot of money in late fees\" etc, they will be talking to their friends.\n\nLike everyone says that sounds ludicrous but no, I really insist it's not a matter as to if it will happen, but as to when.","1008"],["I got an entire subreddit dedicated to going into atomic depth about this stuff. Here is a picture of one of the food containers I eat per day:\n\n_URL_0_\n\nThen I have another one where I cut up red, orange and yellow peppers into thirds, and pick two colors (2/3 of a pepper) and cut it up Greek style, and then I cook like 18 chicken breasts and put 2 of each into one of those metal containers, and then the peppers on top of it. When I go to eat I put some chipolte tabasco sauce on the chicken breasts and some pamenara cheese on it and put it in the oven for an hour and a half at 200F. The vegetables same deal but they stay in the oven a bit longer.\n\nSo I cook all the food in one day and it lasts me about 20 days. I also cook turkey and beef burgers etc and put it in these containers because you need some variety.\n\nAlso this is kind of a pilot, while I am losing weight, I am losing it a bit slower cuz of the carrots that have sugar in them etc, I just have to get rid of all the vegetable packs in the freezer. So I'm gonna switch over to broccoli next time which is more ketogenic, as well as green beans etc. \n\nBut this is a great way to handle it, you can probably end up only having to cook once a month, and not having to do any dishes etc other than that one time per month (a lot of dishes at one time, a huge mess is made cooking in advance for 20-30 days).","967"],["Yeah it is stored in the gut and he's pretty smart to know that much, dude is an articulate smart dude, but honestly if you wanted to have a higher rate of serotonin you would do something like eat a ton of tyrosine and carbs, and the carbs reduce the competition for the tyrosine which gets converted into serotonin and all.\n\nWhich is nice but not really the point.\n\nIdeally you want to avoid a lot of carbs and not even really worry about your brain chemistry, I just load up on SAM-e and that helps produce a ton of neurotransmitters, and I just manually try to control my mood, like I notice I am going a bit off the deep end I try to manually scale that back.\n\nIts easier to do that then feel depressed and try to manually increase serotonin etc, at that point you are really screwed.\n\nGenerally when you run into problems its because you've been eating way too much beef, which causes a lot of anger, lust, inertia (laziness).\n\nOnce you get used to fish oil, SAM-e, vitamin D etc it becomes a lot more managable. It can be a little tough to manage in the beginning if you are prone to depression/bipolar.\n\nBut I'd say that stuff probably helps sort out your brain, the guys that have really bad bipolar are the guys jacking off and smoking weed and not eating right and not taking fish oil etc.\n\nIf you take care of yourself for long enough, you merely become to rambunctious at times and its evident. What is not evident is when you get angry or lustful etc because you become identified with that lust and anger and you go with it, then you can get in a lot of trouble with your spouse or do something stupid like watch porn.\n\nSet schedule for sleeping is key as <PERSON> has said. Anything you can get down to the minute is amazing. I have a specific time I go to sleep (not strict), time I eat (strict to the minute), etc. increased strictness of timing is a sign of increased \"having it together\". The body craves regularity. You are not a machine but your body is.","398"],["Yeah you've been very happy since that 30 dollars and you made sure that everyone that didn't sell at 30 dollars knows that. Yeah you are not the only person who knows about linear time but if you can read between the lines here I am offering two possible scenarios where nano does well: if there is another bull run, and if there is a big recession where banks get in trouble and people potentially run to crypto.\n\nI don't have a crystal ball to give you firm unreasonable guarantees like you are asking for from my theories its just a theory. \n\nYou are not the only person who made some profit, I bought litecoin at 100 and sold it when <PERSON> sold his. I bought vechain at 2.50 and sold it at like 8.50. All of that got reinvested into nano which was only ever bought for reasonable prices like 6 dollars, 9 dollars, etc.\n\nI am not going into the litecoin forums and shitting all over their coin as I have sold my position in it, for some reason people really feel a need to come back and shit all over nano. Is it because it is trying to be bigger and better than other coins out there? Can you tell me why you feel the need to do it?","928"],["> I agree with almost all your points. However, I dont concede with your argument on oral sex. As a child, I didnt think about kissing girls at all. I thought they were icky and that they had cooties. I thought a lot of things as a child that didn't pan out. That argument doesnt stand for me so far.\n\nI had walked with a girl holding her hand all the way to the bus, I didn't know about those nasty and unnecessary things. I obviously wasn't kissing girls because I was 5 but I disagree, the basic idea was there and it wasn't abnormal. I was not like \"girls have cooties\", that was also a social thing. Unless people started making fun of it then you start acting like you wouldn't normally act when you were with your friend who is a girl. Maybe you just didn't have a friend who was a girl when you were 5, I did.\n\n > I dont think there is an issue with stimulating someone you love in a way you both enjoy, so long as it does not perpetuate unhealthy thoughts, actions, or consequences. I think its your right to believe oral sex is illogical, but the grounds for your argument are anecdotal at best. \n\nOral sex fries the chakras of the throat and in the sex. You can't be a surgeon and open people up and find these chakras. \n\nNevertheless, the human is degenerating, we have gone from speaking beautiful languages like Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, to watching <PERSON> butcher the English language for half a billion views on YouTube.\n\nMoreover you will actually come to this forum complaining about it.\n\nWhere is the root of this problem? Bring forth your scientists if you have some better solution to this problem. You blame it on \"racial inbreeding\" in a pathetic attempt to explain it.\n\nIt's your degenerated sexuality causing this. When <PERSON> got to the point of banning degenerate art from homosexuals he was on to something. You engage in sodomy like the homosexuals.\n\n > I've never done anal, and dont care to. \n\nYeah it's almost literally sticking your ass in a diaper, instead of cloth you have skin backing the fecal matter. If they know how to clean themselves they can only clean themselves to an extent.\n\nNext up: cunnilingus. Why would you want to do that? Go to your fridge, find some roast beef, start licking that meat. You're nuts.\n\nLastly: Oral sex on the man: you would not do that with a woman you love. If you're incapable of loving, which is high, then you might call your lust love. But its just not something you would want with your real wife. You just wouldn't.\n\nMany people say \"this is my wife, I am in an open relationship\", I don't care what brand of insanity you subscribe to, there are a lot of nuts out there.\n\n > Its possible to be healthy and stable even if you occasionally sleep with a girl you trust and respect or give oral sex to a loved one. I know that likely goes against what you know and believe, and is unsettling.\n\nIt's not unsettling, it just makes you average. I know you are frying your subtle energetic systems which you aren't even aware of. You're a blind maggot in a pile of blind maggots, you're hooked up to the Matrix basically, your eyes are closed. You are a battery for the earth, your job is to procreate and then die so that nature can continue. That's all.\n\n > By your arguments, we should only have sex in missionary and not even touch our partners erogenous zones.\n\nYou sound like a faggot here. You sound like you can't even wipe your own ass without masturbating. You sound like an old 60 year old liberal sexual education teacher. Get your shit together.\n\n > I dont believe either of us has one, but I will concede this - you have lived life how you feel it is best lived, and that deserves commendation. Its too rare a thing, these days, to truly be healthy and stable \n\nYou don't say, maybe that's why I have to pay for so many mentally ill retards on welfare","524"],["I am not sure if you are baiting me to get off topic and banned or something, this is not on topic. But I will super briefly answer your question (my wife is another ethnicity btw), most people don't seem to care that trillions of dollars are being spent on Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc etc etc, or they are ineffectual, etc otherwise retarded to deal with. Meanwhile the left supports abortion which unfairly targets blacks, which is an actual eugenics program. There is no where else for a person with a brain to go at this point.","819"],["> Acknowledging that every single positive prediction for the last five months has been wrong is not “shitting all over nano”. It’s acknowledging that something is wrong, and that just burying our heads in the sand and making jokes is not going to fix things. \n\nYeah but at the same time bitcoin has not been performing great. Realistically it could be above 10k in maybe 4-5 weeks. The thing was that it has been slow going to break through that barrier, it did actually cross it at one point but that is actually the true trajectory for bitcoin which is still up.\n\nThe trajectory for bitcoin is not 6000 dollars in other words.\n\nAnd you always value nano in accordance with bitcoin and the shit always hits the fan with nano when bitcoin is having a tough time, irrationally so. It suffers due to being an alt coin, but people also irrationally sell off their nano at a higher rate than other alts when there is any bad news.\n\nBut you see, the general trajectory is still bullish for nano, because bitcoin is headed to 10,000 and just taking a long time to get there, it is not headed to 6000.\n\nSo do you see why people are persistently bullish? I need to repeat it one more time, its just taking a long time to get to 10k.\n\nIf you think that is delusional or not, thats another worthwhile discussion, but see you are still casting doom and gloom when we are merely tacking weeks onto the timeline here (assuming the 10k thing is true), while the prices are indicating that people think it will NEVER go back into a bull run, which means its oversold.\n\nBitcoin is oversold, even. After an enormous amount of FUD it still hit 10k, again. It will get to 10k again for sure, especially with the economy being on fire right now. Look at the S and P 500. Everything just keeps going up forever.","1008"],["My great grandfather built up his family an entire business. My grandfather lives in the house he was born in. His sons work in that business and their sons work in that business. You see the pattern here? It is parasitic to charge your children rent as long as they are working or trying to make major improvements to themselves. You are saying \"this all stops here, I am gonna greedily take everything for myself even the happiness this little bit of wealth provides me is providing far diminishing returns than it is worth\".\n\nYou don't care either though this is mostly for other people. I doubt you're even white by the way you type.","224"],["OK so I am willing to bet you don't have a degree etc and despite all of the bullshitting here from 30 year old people, you actually meet real people who actually live in society and they talk about how they wish they had just gone to university and studied to become a lawyer. \n\nSo wow you get your little job and you have your little apartment and you pay your own cable bill. Congratulations that is really hard. Now 30 years is gonna go by, and because you didn't live with mommy and daddy and go to university, guess where you still are?\n\nBut yeah it would be terrible if your kids had their own house or something nice in the future. It's better if they learn how to stay in an apartment and never save anything for retirement.","259"],["All alts go up when bitcoin goes up, its not that special. The more satoshis it loses, the more it gains, the more upside there is.\n\nAll I care about in a bear market is how low the price can go. Although nano has a terrible bear market reputation.\n\nIn a bull market everything changes and things are forgotten overnight. I'm buying for then, not now. I do stand by what I've said, nano dropped under 30 position so now it has a really bad reputation and forget about days of seeing nano up 20%, it will probably go way down now but I say bitcoin will crack 10k again in 5 weeks and that could trigger a bull run if it manages to plow through it. In which case nano will soar.","1008"],["That is actually BS. Nothing can really change your DNA, that's not how it works. Well maybe you can smoke cigars like <PERSON> does and it will mutate or damage your DNA, that's how it changes.\n\nEating a Mars bar can change your epigenetic regulation unfavorably, which is definitely bad. But its not permanent and yeah, if you are gonna sound smart at least try to be right. And yes its actually very productive to figure all this stuff out. Helps against alcoholism and many ailments.","833"],["600 dollar rent for a child is not cheap. It's very limiting. You definitely are in an area where higher paying job opportunities are more common and probably have a sweet deal on the rent. A ton of people go to trade school and basically get ripped off, as they are unable to advance to journeyman etc because no one will hire them, because they will be forced to pay a higher wage. You need an oil boom market to advance and that requires moving, at that point you won't need your own place because you'll be living and working on premises.\n\nBasically everything you are saying here is situational, so you are saying you got lucky in other words. Plus you needed this to work out, if you weren't the right fit for trade school (only a certain TYPE of person gets through that, not including me, as I was not the right fit), again if you were not the right fit for that and you were ultimately rejected from the professional, you would be totally screwed. \n\nIf you are smart you go to university, because you'll probably get through it regardless of what sort of personality you have, and you'll always be able to get at least a mediocre job because of that and cover rent.\n\nYou took a big risk and you're lucky it didn't backfire, congratulations. Two risks honestly, the housing market could have crashed and the value of apartment could have went to nihil.","932"],["Their brains are not finished developing until like 25, and your never was fully developed and I sincerely mean that. You have a stunted mental development and you serve as a prime example of why not to abuse your 22 year old CHILD like that. Its a tough pill to swallow but yeah you keep your kid until 25 in your house, in university, if that's what it takes, to protect your gene line and make sure its not all retarded. And if you did any good job raising your kids it will be a pleasure to do so, not this misery and burden of having a half retarded child such as yourself.","881"],["You sound like you are nuts to be honest. If you have to go into a paragraph because a woman stepped out of a strictly regimental societal code of egocentrism, then you are nuts. You are like one of these loners on YouTube that do vlogs because they haven't gotten laid and they are 33. Maybe you are a virgin.\n\nListen up tard-muffin: You are in a relaxed social environment, you just do something to jive and be cool and you don't read into it like an insane person. It doesn't mean you are a cuck, a black man didn't come over and have sex with your wife. What is wrong with people?","98"],["That dude was sayin 600 dollars. Now his mom was a single mom so that is a little bit different. But that's way above going market rate. Going market rate is like 400-500 dollars for a single room. Effectively maybe she charged 300 (he said she was saving 300 out of each 600 dollars), which is not far off market rate.\n\nAnd honestly if your parents are charging just under market rate, it might be better to actually just pay the market rate and get them out of your faces because you won't want to look at them.\n\nMeanwhile if they are charging you zero, yes everything should be going along swimmingly, because they have their pensions, they never retire, they had a 20% interest savings account growing up and working at your age, etc etc so they got their fair share and they are profiting off your future that was sold down the river.\n\n300-400-500 these are not negligible expenses. Baby boomer are fat as shit, they can't shop, they can't put dishes in the dishwasher correctly they put the spoons and forks facing down. With 300 dollars you could get entire keto groceries for a month and stop being a fat ass.\n\nBasically the summary of everyones argument here is, kick out your kids so they are retarded, have no degree, have no future. OK. Why? A lot of kids are in and out of the house for work, and just home for the weekends like 3 days a week. It's kind of like they are visiting for the weekend every week.","488"],["Blacks love yammering and jabbering and throwing their long limbs about, with their long weird ass fingers twiggling around like a praying mantis, their eyes beady like an insect, dancing and wogging along to jazz music while some Jew sits back in the corner of the theater, everything is going well. It's giving the black what it wants. It wants movement, it's like a T-rex, it can only see movement.","957"],["> Yes. <PERSON>. There was one of him, and nobody else was even remotely close to him, and nobody would be doing that now especially, considering anyone into AC is older and has a life. Pragmatically impossible. \n\nWell you are making assumptions here, they are older and have a life as programmers and would attempt to do it with automation. The way you solve that is by having only droppable armor, like you were saying, and it would not be a problem on the Darktide server (which is the utmost concern imo). We just need to reduce it down to 3 dungeons where you hunt when you are a high level, that was a big problem like housing wherein you could go to 10 different places to hunt high level XP.\n\nHonestly I think coral golems were a bigger problem than housing. These special places where people could set up macros. I made friends with an Asian girl, the sister of a core in GEN, a major early darktide guild, and she showed me this spot where you could jump, an invisible perch in the air, and macro vapor golems, their magic bolts couldn't even hit you. BSD on the other hand was simple, actual human players would come in and find you. \n\nIt needs to be like that where there is no place to escape from actual players, to allow the playerbase to police itself.\n\nSo that phenomenon was actually maybe worse than housing. Housing is basically a mule spot out in the middle of nowhere. It's not where you actually have to go to hunt. The fact that they spread out high level XP spots was a critical failure. Too many developers that didn't know how to play the game.\n\n60 was pretty high for the time period I was thinking of, of course you go beyond that then 80 or 100 is considered high. We are getting into the time of insane darktide XP chains where even I was getting to levels like 106. \n\nI was hacking into accounts and getting PPGSC and all this insane armor. I was one of the few to survive the early invoker quest runs, out of 300 people, I was one of 16 that made it. After I had gotten it, I become indomitable. \n\nSo that was the point in the S curve where the game became wildly unbalanced because I was 2 and 3 shotting everyone, I was having the time of my life getting revenge on all my old enemies. \n\nBut that is not something that is sustainable, and the population declined after that.\n\nAC prior to housing was basically perfect, but I feel too many people blame housing itself rather than the dozens of MAJOR changes that occurred right along with housing. The new higher XP dungeons, the new armor types, the new magic spells.\n\nCripple blow is something you put on monster dropped items to give like 2-3x crit damage or something. \n\nThey did do a decent job at rebalancing the game for all the luminance and all that stuff, but it just made the game into a Korean grindfest basically. Even when no lifers like me who had no job and no prospects, I was still unable to grind to the max levels.","656"],["I view diet for normal average people without disease to be cyclical, with \"bulking\" and \"cutting\" phases being somewhat natural. It's hard for average overweight people to find diets that maintain and sustain a low weight, if this was not the case then most people would not be gaining more and more weight year after year which is statistically the case; therefore there are times when it makes sense to exclude high carb potatoes in order to lose weight, other times when it might make more sense to include them. Sometimes putting on a bit of extra weight makes sense in order to deal with a stressful life. Other times people can have the focus on their health to get in pristine condition, in times like these I would personally cut potatoes due to the high number of carbs.","261"],["You seem a little sure of yourself, in general, I am a little skeptical when people think they can attribute blame all on one particular thing (histamines in this case). I would not be so sweeping and radical when trying to figure things like this out, I say this from much experience and by the fact that I went balls to the wall taking huge amounts of various kinds of fiber. Taking large amounts of resistant starch will probably induce dysbiosis and make you actually sick, at least passing enormous amounts of gas, having 5 bowel movements a day until you turn your bottom inside out, etc.\n\nAnd I think you would have considerable difficulty explaining to me how these three things relate to each other: caffeine, butyrate from resistant starch, and histamine.\n\nYou just seem sweeping in your actions in general. There are some times when this is useful and other times when it is not useful. When quitting tobacco it seemed to be useful for you. But now you are facing the sting of your actions. Caffeine is VERY hard to quit. \n\nA better way to quit caffeine would be buying a bottle of caffeine pills and just take one in the morning before you go to work and don't bring caffeine to work. After you get used to that for a couple of weeks, start taking half a caffeine pill. And then after a couple of weeks break it into quarters, or just quit at that point, taper yourself off it in other words.\n\nYou can buy raw green banana flour at a bulk food store, this is the powder that has the most resistant starch in it. You need to be careful with it because it makes this very fine dust that you could breathe in or get in your eyes and its really viscous. You can mix it in with a shake or some yogurt or something wet and get large amounts of resistant starch into your system that way.\n\nIf this does do something, you have to ask what your end game here is because you may very well end up with gas issues etc which is going to be a new problem you've created that didn't exist before, then how are you going to treat that, when it is solving the problem from caffeine?\n\nModeration is implied here, you see the maximum benefits from prebiotics when they are spread out, and skipped on somedays, sometimes you take a lot sometimes only a little, etc you get a feel for it and it falls into your lifestyle.\n\nI recommend ordering Bimuno off their website or Amazon, whatever is cheaper and easier for you, the little power sachets are very useful over the months and years... its not a big butyrate producer like resistant starch but noticable in keeping an active healthy lifestyle.","346"],["I take 2400 MG of SAM-e per day as a result of viewing my gene methylation information. Methylfolate makes me feel sick although it seems to be recommended for me, and it was frickin expensive for a bottle, like 60 bucks. All the special methyl supplements seem expensive.\n\nI recommend SAM-e because it has been the number one life altering supplement that I've ever taken. It makes me a different person, full of energy, focused, relatively consistent. Combats depression and other issues which people have, dramatically so. It overrides so many issues that average people run into. 2400 is 6 x 400MG, good quality 400MG is quite expensive, like 50 bucks for 60 400MG tablets, so 50 bucks every 10 days.\n\nAlmost no one would probably take that many though, the recommendation is 1 per day so I take like 6x the daily recommendation. So you start with the daily recommendation, and you take more to see if it improves things. For me I can get up to 6 before it starts getting to be too much and having adverse consequences.","711"],["> Bro, how many times can I say this? UAM/AUTOMATION SHOULD EQUAL AN INSTANT BAN\n > \n > Don't make me ever type that again, please. \n\nYou didn't even know what Crippling Blow was. You are very naive in how active Asheron's Call players actually behave. We do care about what someone who played the game 15 years ago might think, but we don't think you will actually play with us so on the other hand, we don't really care. You are like a baby boomer commenting on new technology, almost universally out of touch and clueless. No offense but this is the real observation.\n\nYou are not even reading what I am writing here, I specifically wrote out that I was wearing pre-patch greater shadow armor back in the day. If you aren't even reading what I am writing then I am wasting my time here. I recommend you play the Asheron's Call emulator and get to level 50 in modern AC, it's not as bad as you are making it out to be. Some of your recommendations are relevant and aligned with my thinking, much of it is unrealistic and naive.","439"],["> I am sure of myself except when I'm not. When I'm not sure of myself what I feel is an oppressive debilitating weight of society and all its institutions on me, so I survive better being self assured (that doesn't mean I know I'm right, far from it, I am in a constant state of knowing what I know may actually be wrong)\n\nWell this is how you learn things worthwhile, and you are in the right place, all I am saying is that many problems can be avoided by just slowly phasing in and out of things, particularly with caffeine and prebiotics, the gut and brain take some time to adjust and you want to take it easy on them.\n\n > In any case, just looking for methods of preparing whole foods for RS since ive hit ideal weight or very close to it and now I'm looking to improve my health in other ways.\n\nI would recommend hitting \"next page\" on the main prebiotics forum and go back where where I was making all the prebiotics shakes etc. Please note that they are pretty much for the normal gut to handle but you can get some idea of what I was engineering in order to get the stuff into the gut.\n\nHere is one example:\n\n_URL_0_\n\n > The butyrate is supposed to have a mast cell protective property and a leaky gut can apparently cause more histamine problems. I don't know\n\nYou are probably on to something here, I've read stuff like that and went ??? and went on in my reading,but it wasn't relevant to me at the time. It doesn't mean you aren't on the right track :)","327"],["duh anyone who can see the pattern of how bitcoin grows during the year and peaks during December could see this coming. Although there is room for <PERSON> or something to crash the market, that's what you gotta be on the lookout for since he said he was entering into this market and he is the man famous for shorting the British Pound. \n\nSo we want to ask how to avoid that, do we get out early or does anyone think he has the ability, or what price are we gonna get to if it does outdo next year? Thoughts?","1008"],["Also note that this is what causes bitcoin to drop and the market to crash and enter into a bear cycle. So, has the new tech (forget the name) made it so that bitcoin has 50 cent fees? Let's forget the 5 hour transaction time or whatever, assume that people do not care about that for a second.\n\nWhen bitcoin fees get up that high, sell all your crypto imo. buy again after the short dip, sell again in the bull trap, then wait until the bottom of the bear market to reinvest everything back in.","1008"],["I am not sure why everyone is so hard on Firano. There isn't even any evidence to point to him being a scammer. There was a problem with the code in his exchange and whilst he may be an idiot, he is not necessarily a scammer. The real scammers post here about withdrawing 3000 nano and getting 6000 nano. At worse people here would say \"you should do the right thing and give it back\". The legal proceedings will determine if the dude actually profited from the defects in the code. And yeah people will say \"he is responsible for the code and security of his exchange\", but this is after everyone buying Raiblocks abused another exchange until they were kicked off it, and there were only two exchanges that would put up with the shit and abuse of the Raiblocks crowd, perhaps because they couldn't understand what was being said to them in English. \n\nI appreciate wanting to put a face to the blame, and again he certainly was an idiot, but the real criminals are floating around here, they are the only ones who openly have said they have unethically profited. And for all of those wide-eyed about Firano's legitimate profits and large account, what is to stop him from converting it all to Monero and boarding a plane to Morocco?","831"],["Well you should Google the Gnostic Teachings site and figure it out there, I am not the best representative of this stuff and am blatantly violating a lot of their standards here. But that's where I learned about the oral sex thing, because your mouth handles a certain \"voltage\" for lack of a better word, and your sexual organs have a very high voltage. But they are both sexual. \n\nMouth hair only grows around the man's mouth because it's a feminine sexual organ, but the womans chest is the projective sexual organ. The man's penis is a sexual projective organ and the woman's vagina is a sexual receptive organ. \n\nSo you see its retarded to lick a woman's vagina because A) she doesn't care and doesn't need it and a woman who dumps you because you will not provide oral sex is 100% worth losing, and for that matter you don't truly really care b) Your feminine male mouth, which is a sexual organ that has hair growing around it, connects with the female sexual organ, and it's the same as when you connect the incorrect polarities when you are trying to charge someone elses car with your car battery:\n\n_URL_0_","524"],["Honestly I have no idea, some people that come into this subreddit are so wonky and crying about depression etc just because they took a little bit of inulin that I really have no idea what is wrong with some of you people. \n\nI realize that sounds insulting and I do not mean it to sound so, but I mean you took it before so obviously you do not have something like irritable bowel syndrome or something that would make sense to troubleshoot. \n\nSomething like a headache is a pretty serious side effect, but honestly it sounds like you just have the flu to me. Or else you are just part of that 1% of people that has some major weird problem and you should stop taking it. \n\nI mean I heard of a story of a school teacher that was sent to the hospital and near death the other day because her students threw a banana at her and she is majorly allergic to bananas. Like a banana touches her skin so she dies. Who am I to judge? That's just what happens. \n\nAll the bacteria die-off stuff is generally just hippy wierdo pseudoscience. Generally I think the microbiome completely changes back after 24 hours, maybe inulin can change it for a little longer depending on what you've eaten etc etc. But granted 5g of inulin is not that much, I take like 25g every 2 days (when I don't fall out of the habit, which I do for 3-4 days)... but yeah after 24-36 hours your gut biome just went back to normal and you still feel like this, which basically indicates that it's not inulin... maybe you are sleeping on a metal spoon or something.","711"],["The scientific literature does not necessarily all have to agree with each other, and science basically becomes religious dogma when people try to make it all agree with each other.\n\nSome of the literature I've read does mention the gel formation bit, but seemed to indicate that psyllium husk was not prebiotic in and of itself, rather it would just help ferment prebiotics.\n\nAlso, it is saying it has prebiotic potential. Rather than saying something like, psyllium has been demonstrated to be prebiotic.\n\nIt does matter if it's prebiotic or not, because then people with irritable bowel syndome can't take that fiber. I don't even know if they could take it now, but if someone with IBD came in, it's the only thing I could possibly think to suggest to them, under the understanding that its one of the few fibers that is not prebiotic. It would be ideal if people with IBD had enough wiggle room that they could tinker with the fibers over the very long term and perhaps miraculously reverse their condition through diet, rather than it just being some lifetime genetic jail sentence. \n\nOK and for the sake of argument, let's say it is a prebiotic. It's definitely not like inulin where it makes you super gassy etc. So even if it is prebiotic, it might definitely be much less prebiotic, and therefore much more useful in certain scenarios (not that it is not universally useful).\n\nThe only thing I can otherwise think to say is that, there are some things marketed out there as fiber, and some papers basically say that it's (Isomaltooligosaccharides) just sugar so don't bother. \n\nBasically I don't let any paper give me any sort of ultimate impression on these things, but its more like I have a 1-10 scale for each fiber and how it acts, a paper might change my assessment of any prebiotic, so in this case, psyllium prebiotic just went from 0 prebiotic (or gas producing) to 1 or 2 on a scale of 1-10.","642"],["I like <PERSON> but I doubt he was indicating to mess around with drugs. Drugs didn't really even exist where they are at today, I think his advice is timeless and applicable to all ages.\n\nDepakote is hardly some sort of \"brain hack\", it's an anti-psychotic medication that people stop taking because they can't think clearly. Still, if it operates in some very strange way and has some strange benefit, its nice to know that some of these fibers might give us that strange perk to some extent. There is a chance that it might not be the HDAC inhibition that is doing it, though. Such a medication operates on some very strange levers.\n\nI've taken Semax like substance before, it's the sort of thing that is useful once a year when you are moving all your furniture around. Whatever it does to the brain, it makes you an expert at calculating dimensions of objects etc on the fly. I mean they have been shown to increase math ability temporarily. But they also interfere with sleep. Based on my experience I think like once a year is the right number, I doubt you could trick your brain with it once a month.\n\nYou generally want to keep your brain chemistry very predictable anyways so you can be a good judge of what is authentic laziness, anger, etc, which can only be dealt with with actual willpower, patience, diligence etc, all that non chemical work that can be done, to which <PERSON> was really referring to for the most part.","664"],["Prebiotics are digested mostly in the last third of the large intestine, which is of course what comes right before the rectum and anus. But honestly there are other factors at work, maybe PH related or the body has some way of detected and reacting to fiber, because you can start having the urge to use the washroom like an hour after taking your fiber.\n\nSo that's all I can tell you really, watch out for the double whammy effect, you'll get an effect shortly after taking it, and then again the next day. And taking probiotics with prebiotics is definitely overwhelming, maybe take them on separate days or maybe like 6-12 hours after taking your prebiotics. But even the latter doesn't make sense, because this stuff can give you a lot of energy right after you take it and you have to ask yourself if you are gonna be able to sleep. So there is really no other easy answer other than to experiment and see what is actually working for you.\n\nI always took my MCT oil in my morning coffee when I was on keto. I'd say wait a half hour then take your prebiotics. You want to take the prebiotics in the morning or halfway through your day because they give you a ton of energy.\n\nSometimes prebiotics can make you crap everything that is in you out, which can make you get a really good sleep, but that's kind of playing the lottery, because other times you will just be able to run a marathon with all the energy you have, especially if you are taking other stuff like MCT oil and all that. So basically the answer is everything, in the morning, in whatever order which is most effective.... generally fiber comes in last... but you might want to mix the probiotics in with the prebiotics as that improves probiotic survivability through the stomach acid, there is that element to it as well...","346"],["Yeah that sounds good, watch out for the high PH levels in that, I crapped my guts out so loud at one of the last jobs I had, it was extremely embarrassing and the janitor guy could hear me and asked if I was alright, lol. It was like something out of a comedy movie it was so bad. Its the spirulina which has a super high PH in those super foods, it can cause seemingly dangerous stomach cramps etc if you are going nuts with it. \n\nI mean you can eventually ramp up the fiber levels pretty high through a taper, but due to the high PH of that green superfood stuff, you can never ramp up the amounts of that stuff, your body just has no way of dealing with the PH other than huge cramps and immediate bowel evacuation.","346"],["Yep its some legendary gas, but usually corresponds with a trip to the toilet, and you are kind of asking yourself \"what is normal\" because if the fiber is moving the crap along so quickly, are you really supposed to go around with crap in you all day and no gas?\n\nThen if its reducing anxiety, is that because you were going around nervous all day, constipated, and didn't even know it?\n\nMany questions... not a whole lot of answers...\n\nAll I know is that I don't want to be that weird little person who goes around all bent out of shape because of a lack of fiber... and ramping up to 25 grams really does make the difference (although its notably expensive considering how fast you blow through these bottles, and they run you 10-20 bucks a pop with the brand name stuff being better tasting and more expensive).\n\nBimunos nice but a whole sachet is a bit overwhelming for me, I tend to take half a sachet. I kind of also prefer inulin as the daily driver with bimuno being there once a week or so for variety. But it definitely has its place in the mix.","346"],["I answered it. 24 hours and all the prebiotics have cleared the system and the microbiome is back to normal.\n\nI'm not saying that nothing can happen, you could induce dysbiosis or something and have some flare up in your intestines kind of like temporary irritable bowel syndrome or something like that. But that would be gone in like 2-3 days unless you had officially diagnosed IBD. And that would not explain the headache, and honestly wouldn't explain the other two effects either. It would just be like an intestinal discomfort and maybe some toilet issues for a couple of days.\n\nHow could inulin cause a stomach ache? Prebiotics and probiotics are thought of as helpful against H. pylori which causes stomach ulcers.\n\nI'm tryin to be like a doctor here, a doctor is looking for the actual mechanics of the illness. Most headaches are due to neck tension and poor posture, or due to the way you were sleeping.","346"],["Pretty sure they have a good bit of non temperature related potato starch:\n\n_URL_0_\n\nThey generally have (the potential for) both. I have had the satiety index food charge up on my fridge for ages. But I mean a potato is a pretty simple food with not a whole lot of constituents, there are not a whole lot of explanations of why it would be filling other than the potato starch.\n\nI mean we can talk about optimum levels etc but the best way to test if this is actually working or not, is if someone who has no idea what they are doing, goes ahead and flukes into miraculous results. And I think that's what he's done here, he's gone and proven the case for normal, non temperature related potato starch.","559"],["> I’m not blaming the inulin, I’m not saying the inulin caused anything.\n > \n > What I’m asking is if stopping inulin is causing my biome damage because I’m no longer feeding it inulin and if that could be causing me to feel ill. \n\nDo these two statements not contradict each other?\n\nThe biome is not really delicate, it is also generally not all that genetically related, and it generally mostly has to do with what you eat. That is why it completely changes every 24 hours, and that's why its important to eat vegetables every day, since the microbiome changes every 24 hours it doesn't really matter so much what you did yesterday. \n\nAnyways other people will come along and give their take on it. I would also recommend seeing a real doctor. We are only really good at making people sick, we're not much good at making people better... tons of recommendations I have given in this forum, I abandoned myself because I was crapping out concrete and tearing my arse apart... but I didn't go back and remove those recommendations... this is very much trial and error wild west type of stuff","135"],["Android is not exactly a valid option anymore given the gross expansion of tech censorship. We need to start seeing Librem type phones, running Linux, with a physical keyboard. \n\nWith android, you have no security anyways, and since you can't root it, you can't really protect yourself from all the spying and censorship.\n\nLibrem offers potentially much better security compared to what we have now, and full control over the device. Now it just needs a physical keyboard and it'll be objectively better than Blackberry and every other phone for that matter.","781"],["It's a spybrick. Cellphone sales are down big time. People are getting sick of being spied on and harassed by the government and companies. You are delusional. Options are coming like the Librem 5. Or people can just go buy a Huawei device so it's the Chinese spying on them and not their own government.\n\nThe Americans can throw a pissy fit and try to ban every device that doesn't spy on you. But you are arguing that it's here to stay because the demand is high. No, it's here to stay because the government is forcing it down your throat. And you know that, too. Had Huawei been allowed a open free market like capitalists are supposed to be big fans of, they could introduce their own OS and destroy Android. I doubt they will be allowed to, but the numbers are there indicating that they were obtaining market dominance with their physical devices. Maybe they will continue to sell well with their own operating system, if they are allowed to sell them, and that will be the end of android.","781"],["as a side note, fill out the use of a representative form or else you and/or your spouse will not be able to talk on behalf of each other when interacting with CIC. you will need to use the webform to update them depending on how things go. My wife is not very tech savvy and its a pain forcing her to use the webform by herself seeing as we are far away. Yet they will not speak to anyone but her. Due to us not filling that form","546"],["They want everyone to go back to being TV drones, and people will go back to being stupid. It worked on the boomers. Take my advice and get out of dodge. Youtube is boring and I had no problem deleting my account the other day. I'd like to delete my actual gmail account too once I'm confident that I've moved all my important services off the address linked to it.\n\nDeleting your Google stuff feels good in the same way paying off a credit card does. Less mental burden to carry around with you, less spying etc. They only focus on big channels so yeah, no loss, its just like turning off the TV and they won't be able to read your private emails or look at your dick pics that you have on your google drive.","99"],["You are saying this after <PERSON>, you realize that, right? We have plenty of insight into what the government does. They could have sent blackberry a letter saying that there are only 2 games in town, two cucked companies that will cave to all security requests.\n\nThe entire world market can handle more than two platforms lol. I mean you have macs, PC and linux right, and that's just desktops. Huawei will come out with something, they won't respect copyright and they'll make a killing. People will be ordering it and trying to hide it from the post man, when they get their device it will be fricken sweet. No one will want to be stuck with a shitty Samsung or Apple device. Slow, walled garden, spies on you, expensive, inferior in every way. Capitalism wins kid. Learn it","370"],["I've had seagate external drives fail on me when I was using them as external drives. The best luck I've ever had was with WD internal drives, never had one fail on me. I also had cheap Chinese SSD fail on me and Samsung evo did not. You could have bad experiences with either company really, I think the evidence stacks slightly against Seagate, but I assume they try hard enough not to be considered the shit brand that no one wants. Still, they kind of are in a way, I think you'll see the public opinion here indicates that to a minor extent. But that also doesn't mean that every WD drive will not fail you, you could continue to have bad experiences. Cuz math n shieet","448"],["ah my headphones are AT-M40xs or something, good to hear that they are good... also yeah I had a good experience with antec that makes server cases, I had to send them a couple emails to nudge them and wake them up, someone finally got off their ass to send me some old ass plastic harddrive clips for cheap, like 10 dollars for a big handful of them.\n\nI guess people are people and they can be good occasionally","329"],["Well its just my opinion that you should learn this in a coherent, structured way. If that is a free 4 hour Youtube video, or 1 guy making 12 twenty minute videos, etc, it doesn't really matter. But it shouldn't be bits and pieces from different people for this particular topic. You are trying to learn how to structure your code here so that it's easier to work with. The way you learn that also should be structured.\n\nYes for inheritance you need all your classes to have at least one value in common that they can inherit from that class. This can be the one value of the counter.\n\nIts like you have mammals, then you have the equine class, then under that you have horses, donkeys, mules, etc. \n\nAll horses, donkeys, mules have tails, the same basic shape, etc. That shape cannot be inherited from the mammals class. But it can be inherited from the equine class.\n\nSo put the counter in the equine class. That is a variable that is common to all your horses, donkeys, and mules.\n\nThen you increase it for the equine class and it automatically increases across the board for all horses, all donkeys and all mules.\n\nDoes this help?\n\nI barely know this stuff, this was literally the point I got to before going back to do more exercises etc.","53"],["You have mammals, equines and horses, donkeys and mules.\n\nYou want to increase the counter by 2 for all creatures of the equine class.\n\nBut you want to increase donkeys by a factor of 2.0x, horses by 1.0x, mules by 0.5x.\n\nSo those are modifiers that you can put into each of those classes one time. \n\nYou are still increasing across the board by 2 for all of the equine class. They are inheriting that 2 from the equine class. But they modify it based on the modifiers you coded into each of the horse, donkey and mule class.","991"],["Huawei also was offering incremental upgrades but more substantial than Samsung or Apple, and at much less price. They were on fire with huge increase in sales. Samsung and Apple were commanding a premium that cannot exist without government intervention. \n\nIf they come out with their own operating system and they hire excellent coders in C, C++ etc to make lightning fast programs to operate camera, etc, it could gain a lot of attention.\n\nThe android environment has gotten fat with complacency, tons of apps are coded poorly.\n\nHuawei has the government of China behind them. China has tons and tons of people coming out of university with advance STEM technical skills like coding low level programming languages.\n\nHuawei will also have the same operating system running in the phone, car, desktop computer etc. All one operating system. Probably tied in with some sort of cryptocurrency as well.\n\nWhat will android have? Honest question. Its very boring. Heaven forbid you need to take a picture with your blackberry camera, takes like 30 seconds to open, just a black screen.\n\nYes people will start to care about privacy once the war with Iran starts up and they censor anti-war opinions. People are not slabs of meat to be bought and sold and your cavilier attitude towards all this is disheartening. BB10 was the right device at the wrong time. When your youtube account is suspended for using the N word, you are gonna want off android. Your whole phone might be banned off youtube for that, permanently. Who knows. Its gonna suck for people who who also like to be caviler, people love to leave rude comments when they are taking a shit and if you take that away, watch what happens...","781"],["> So basically I can use the simple rule of thumb of;\n\nUnfortunately things are not that simple because there are so many different bacterial types, and certain things can feed certain bacteria and those bacteria could be producing something bad, or there could be an over abundance of good bacteria which leads to negative effects, etc.\n\nGenerally the term as it was understood in the 80's was that Prebiotics means food that only the good bacteria can eat and the bad bacteria cannot eat, therefore you give the good bacteria a competitive advantage in a zero sum environment, which leads to more good bacteria and thereby you benefit from it.\n\nBut I mean <PERSON> who posts in these forums has offered some papers which seem to indicate that good prebiotic bacteria can have some negative effects.\n\nThen again he has IBD or something and those people should avoid prebiotics because it really upsets their gut.\n\nI personally tend to go with the high level, 80s perspective, that I just take a bunch of fiber and its good, but just keep on the lookout and be aware that there is that ultra low level autistic way of looking at these things, that you could be feeding Actinobacteria or something at some % that is higher than desired, leading to some sort of dysbiosis and resulting inflammation... etc etc you get the point.\n\nYou can't understand this whole thing at such a whole level, because so little is known about it, plus genetics are a big part. But in general its like trying to read machine code for a computer. No one person can learn enough to be able to understand it all, so you need to look at things from a high level and ignore the fine details.\n\n > So basically I can use the simple rule of thumb of;\n > \n > higher resistant starch content - > higher butyrate ?\n\nshort answer yes, long answer no\n\n > Interesting that you mention constipation, as that is something I have had the last 5 years or so, progressing to being almost completely the last 2. It wasn't until recently I started realising that fiber helped with that (psyllium*), and that my sleep became much deeper.\n\nYeah the fiber = sleep thing is something someone pointed out here and it stuck with me, never heard of it outside of this forum. It plus magnesium have been the only thing to really help me sleep. Everything else sucked and gave me months of insomnia.\n\n > Inulin gives me -massive- energy, in terms of cognitive flexibility, improved memory and cognition. Task-switching is really easy on it and I notice the effects almost instantly after I take it. A slightly higher degree of emotionality exists too when I take it.\n\nYeah I can go maybe 2 days without it before things start heading south fast, especially these days now that I've become more reliant on my fiber-self. My guts become upset without it and are basically talking to me telling me to take it. If I don't I return to even worse constipation, mental incompetence etc. at least for the short term.\n\n > Interestingly potato starch (and other starches that produces butyrate*) improves dopamine synthesis via upregulation of tyrosine hydroxylase through butyrate as an epigenetic mechanism.\n\nVery interesting, I have not messed with the resistant starches lately out of laziness, has just been easier to get to the grocery store as opposed to the bulk food store, but maybe I'll dip back into it. The problem is that they are a little more complex. You can't just put green banana flour in with your other flours, its a super fine dust that is super dangerous to inhale when you pour it into another container. And as for drinking it back after mixing with water, its too fine and course to drink back comfortably. You'll gag on it.\n\nSo you need to mix it with xantham gum, which is a water desurficant, which breaks up the surface area of the water or something, turns it into kind of like a gelly with even a very small amount. Then its easy to drink back.\n\nBut all of that is a huge pain compared to just mixing up inulin and psyllium husk, which easily mixes with water. The cups are easily cleaned. Etc.","346"],["Yeah but the thing was that you could spend 500-600 on a Huawei phone and it would be nicer than a 1000 dollar Apple phone. People drop their phones in the toilet and stuff like that, so when there were sales to be made, they were going to Huawei. Now that Huawei is gonna come out with their own operating system, they are gonna make the software just as slick as their hardware and people are gonna be curious and want to switch over. The government will literally have to ban the consumer from buying the product they want. Then people are gonna argue that Android is somehow better. Thats a joke...","781"],["in North America I was dealing with a company, they had not made a clear distinction between Canadian or American dollars on their site (problem has been since rectified since I complained about it), I was bitching that I was charged way more than I expected to be and was considering taking my business elsewhere, they basically said that they make too much money to care about it.\n\nI appreciated their brutal honesty but I would prefer that someone care about my money and call me honey. No money no honey.","618"],["That's dissapointing. How about Amazon affiliates? When I used to read marketing sites, they said that the reason Amazon gave decent commisions was because they were afraid of all the affiliates teaming together and forming serious competition. I have seen that they have chipped away at the program over the years. They used to offer 25$ for anyone who sold a computer, which was really generous and was incentive enough to get me working for them, and I did enjoy the commission from computer and xbox sales, but they have since done away with that.","598"],["Well this article is about methionine. From Wikipedia:\n\n > It is made from adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and methionine by methionine adenosyltransferase\n\n_URL_1_\n\nIt's taught in highschool biology that ATP is considered the energy molecule. So to supplement SAM-e maybe you conserve energy (ATP), and SAM-e itself is a potent energy molecule.\n\n > The principal methyl-donor S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) is synthesized from methionine and ATP, and participates in more cellular reactions than any other molecule except for ATP. \n\nSAM-e is a very potent antioxidant and \"well regarded\" as far as epigenetics go.\n\n > SAM is critical for the maintenance and transmission of epigenetic information. \n\n_URL_0_\n\nBut no one really knows what you are doing to your body when you supplement SAM-e in huge amounts like me as far as I am aware. \n\n > Furthermore, models have been developed that will allow me to address fundamental questions about epigenetic stability and the effect of dietary limitations on epigenetics. To assess epigenetic stability I will use yeast reporter strains modified to evade the SAM-checkpoint and monitor histone methylation of yeast cells in SAM limiting conditions. \n\nSo you kind of see here in this guys thesis statement, how it is working. SAM-e interacts with many different cells, methylation occurs a lot of times per second. According to this nerd it happens\n\n > methylation happens more than a billion times per second in our body\n\n_URL_2_\n\nHDAC inhibition is generally regarded as good when not taken to absurd extremes. Taking a ton of SAM-e is a miracle for my mood but who knows as far as what effects it could have. If something occurs a billion times per second and I am supplementing a ton more SAM-e in my body then it naturally produces, I guess I am creating a lot of variables right.","833"],["My keyone is pretty awesome but I grow very paranoid of all these different companies. I kind of want to just delete all my accounts and put all of my information on my own linux server, that way you know that you are in control of it and no hacker is poking around your data. I don't trust windows, Google, facebook, any longer and I seek to consolidate. Plus my phone is spying on me too. I do want a new phone, but its the Librem 5, so I know that I can get these snoops off my back once and for all. I'm just at a crisis where I love the physical keyboard so much, I love my chains here so to speak. This newer phone is worse in many ways but offers data privacy, the first phone to do so. So thats the only new thing that I could possibly want in a phone. It would be nice to have autonomy and hear on the news about all the data snooping, and know 100% that you are no longer liable to be exposed to that. You don't want to owe anyone anything or have any snoops on your back, its bad like credit card debt, and it must be a relief to put an end to it.","697"],["lol if you think voting does anything. Our country is entirely controlled by a certain group of people. <PERSON> and <PERSON> are simply the good cop bad cop routine that stupid people fall for. Its literally the same cycle of us going over in the middle east over and over again.\n\nThe difference here is that <PERSON> specifically said he was not gonna start a bunch of wars in the middle east, now if he starts in with Iran, that's a little thing called \"lying\". Meanwhile <PERSON> was quite open about her Iran ambitions.\n\nSo you know what that makes you? That makes you a warmonger.\n\nAnd given what happened with the democrats criticizing <PERSON>, being a warmonger makes you what is called, a hypocrite.","856"],["If our great grandparents could see what society turned into today, they would have turned around on the beaches of Normandy and went home. \n\n > I am not a <PERSON> supporter\n\nThey literally openly circumvented the democratic process by using super delegates to make sure <PERSON> didn't get the nomination. Even the \"super hateful\" daily stormer blog is pro-Bernie because he is anti-war. And they say that <PERSON> is just waiting for someone other than <PERSON> to win the democratic primaries because if he starts up with the war stuff now, <PERSON> would probably win. \n\nWatch now, they will start up after <PERSON> loses. Because it's not a real democracy when it is being gamed like that. This isn't our country, we are just a gun to be used in the middle east and its upsetting that you put false hope into it.","468"],["i use the search function a lot. I was trying to find a sad song by <PERSON> i think. For some reason I think it is called \"die another day\" or \"another day\" or something like that. All I can find is a <PERSON> remix of the 007 movie song, which is definitely not what I am looking for.\n\nAs an aside, few of the songs people were mentioning in that thread seemed sad. They just seemed dark, which trance is by nature.\n\nThis song I am thinking of is actually sad, the lyrics are something about a love one who has departed. I just thought of it this morning for some random reason and it will pester me all day unless I can figure out what it is I'm thinking of and listen to it.\n\nedit: found it: <PERSON> feat. <PERSON> - Yet Another Day","213"],["is buy and sell nano on binance, and buy and sell bitcoin on coinbase, still a valid option for a canadian? quadriga turned out to be a scam lol, those are the two other exchanges I used, bitgrail and quadriga. I dont want to get stuck with my dick in my ear during the ath. is there sell limits with coinbase? I know they have buy limits","509"],["That is quite the question. To be clear I recommend black seed oil for epigenetic reasons (there are only few substances really shown to have these properties, butyrate being one of those few substances). I am actually unsure if black seed oil itself is prebiotic, but I guess anything you consume has an effect on your gut microbiome and I'm guessing black seed oil is favorable, possibly even prebiotic.\n\nAs for actual comparisons, all I can find quickly is a study on broiler chickens. In this stuff, black seed faired just a little bit better than synbiotics, but both faired well:\n\n_URL_0_","346"],["Hooh boy, I will have to check that out. I used their backup services before I'm not sure if they were anywhere as nice when I was messin around with it. I gotta take a good look to see what I am dealing with here so I reserve the right to remain startled or even aghast.\n\nHonestly I am at a privacy crossroads here. I, like I said, want to use the Librem 5, but it has no physical keyboard and the virtual keyboard has aids, seems like they use an e-pen with it. Even typing here on reddit gives tons of information away that X Keyscore Evil Deepstate shit can utilize to detect my style of writing etc. \n\nWith what they already have, there is already not a whole lot most people can do. You can and should start becoming privacy focused starting today, but the options are pretty bad. \n\nAt some point the option is just to stop using it. I have a plan to delete facebook etc etc in the not too distant future. I've switched to protonmail which I pay for, some of my information is secured at least. But its a huge commitment and everyone is poor, the rich 1% \"illuminati\" took all the profits from this economic boom and most people haven't seen all this money to go out and dump it all into security etc... so the answer is to simply stop using the shit if they don't respect us... that's my takeaway","966"],["> I see your perspective! Proton mail is a really good service, but here is the problem; the email you send and receive is almost never encrypted, so even though Proton doesn’t read your email, you’re still wide open. The biggest problem with email is there is no good PGP solution that works for mortal men. _URL_0_ let’s your encrypt any outgoing mail - great. But to decrypt it, the recipient has to be using _URL_0_. That’s... pretty much useless. If Blackberry (or Microsoft) could develop a platform agnostic encryption solution that works for everyone, email would finally be ‘fixed’, but as it stands, it’s the most insecure form of communication by far.\n\nI don't really deal with people anyways, it is incomprehensible to me that people actually use their e-mail to talk with people. I was mostly uncomfortable with all my financial alerts etc from my bank coming into Gmail, thus giving Google a complete insight into my personal finances.\n\nI want all the alerts I can get on my finances obviously.\n\nAlso I am learning coding C# and I am considering interacting with the platform programmatically, learning how to send myself my own personal alerts securely would be a useful exercise. I can alert myself to local weather conditions for example, using entirely my own code and libraries I found online.\n\nSo from computer program, to my e-mail, the computer could use another protonmail account (I pay for it, so I have 5) so at that point, its a secure protonmail to protonmail message, right? What other layers of security are pertinent to makin that work?\n\n > I work for a fortune 100 company that does business almost entirely by email, which makes it impossible to secure valuable trade secrets. I really hope someone steps up to the plate. Microsoft has the most to gain, but if Blackberry did it, I believe they would be relevant again and it would be a huge buy signal.\n\nYeah things are getting to the point where it actually matters. I was thinkin last night, what if you were a small business owner. They could automatically fish information into your activities and sell it to the competition, as in advising them what sort of ad campaign would be fortunate for them to run against you. And they couldnt' really try to blackmail you with the info, so that stuff would kind of just happen. Especially with social media starting to die out a little bit and people getting paranoid, they will be even more eager to utilize the information they do have, more aggressively.\n\n > The problem? They would need to sponsor datacenter resources at a cloud provider like Azure or AWS, and they won’t be able to afford it.\n\nI doubt that all this security fiasco is a result of finances, rather I am sure that the 5 eyes or whatever has passed down a direct order that all security apparatuses must be shitty, so that they can see everything that is going on. If there is any success to be had, it will be made through the blockchain or something (the internet operating as a country) (but probably nothing will happen).","966"],["For those of us who were in a couple grand, it was a much better education than many university courses were and likely cheaper.\n\nI expected that there would be a little summer rush to shake things up (as opposed to the traditional Christmas rush), but I also expected that we're in a 3 year cycle. People are simply too depleted from that last rush to be able to finance what we saw before. Your average person is just now digging themselves out of the financial pit that they got into.\n\nIt will take that 3 year cycle for them to have the kind of money to be foolish with again in order to finance what we saw before. Foolish or smart. The REAL smart boys are the ones who accumulate, cuz there is no way that bitcoin is not going back up again. Mr <PERSON> coming out and banning crypto might work for a while, but could also serve as an embarassing demonstration of powerlessness since the boomer generation has never done our generation any favors, and we could in theory find a way around the cock blockage to get at our one financial opportunity.","1008"],["don't bother. there are 700 bots on each server, they even have it set to send messages to you and act like a real person. there is literally a bot that goes around and tries to recruit vassals, and it will actually form a fairly complex relationship with you, even as far as small talk goes and all that jazz. it will run you through newbie/mid quests and make comments on your progress.\n\nthe programmers of AC really carved out the heart and soul of the game. If you want a pure experience you have to become a programmer yourself and learn how to start up a server so you can play by yourself. or log into hightide. only 2 ways to play alone. my 2p. cheers\n\n- <PERSON>, the 3rd","109"],["BSO is very potent, just order a bottle and take it. Some days I take off because it can cause some pretty nasty acid reflux. That being said, they recommend that one takes it twice per day and I take what they recommend all at once.\n\nAlso brah you are mixing out on the prebiotics, again just buy it and take it, its like 5 bucks for the fiber. It makes me a different person. I have enormous learning difficulties when I'm off my fiber, the difference is night and day.\n\nI would not recommend those medications, they can be extremely powerful. I've read blogs where more eccentric people talk about taking them. I would not want to injure my liver or some crap, that would be a nightmare. If you are foolhardy to try it out though let me know if it turns out to be like a Limitless pill or something, that would be very intruiging to me.","711"],["Well I was doing Google/Google scholar searches too, I started this forum with a focus on black seed oil, sulforphane, butyrate (produced by prebiotics) etc. I reverse engineered and came to find what substances produce the results that I was seeking. \n\n_URL_0_\n\nStart off with maybe 1 teaspoon of inulin and scale it up very slowly. I'd take some sugar free metamucil (or psyllium husk fiber) along with it, maybe 2 parts inulin to 1 part psyllium. I'm now up to 8+ teaspoons of inulin every couple days but that's way too much for a beginner to handle. \n\nOnce you accustomed to it, scale it up. If you take it with a probiotic, be careful because you can get gassy. But it makes a world of difference, you will sleep like a champion. Don't forget that slow wave sleep is the most productive time in your day and will improve productivity during your waking day by 20%.","41"],["Is this possible to set up with not any knowledge of ESP8266? Like what do I need for this? Do I need to install a speaker on the thing or whatever?\n\nI like to come into these things, quickly set up something useful and practical and then stop learning about them after I made something useful. For example I made a digital security camera with my raspberry pi that turned out really nice (even shuts down by script when it goes above a certain temperature etc etc). I think it might be cool to have this thing read out text or something to spook my dog once in a while. But if I'm not gonna be able to figure it out then it would be nice to know. Also what do I need to buy, just esp, cord, what else? \n\nThanks","551"],["If ritalin didn't help you then you are kind of in a bad spot, lol. I wrote a lot of this stuff when I was high off my ass on ritalin in university. You can even get distracted on that stuff and its not particularly enjoyable, its kind of a miserable existence being on those meds. But you can learn. I'm not sure if it is worth it because it has such an emotional blunting effect, it takes years to recover, if you will ever be the same after it at all.\n\nI have a program called cold turkey pro that I start up when I am feeling way to distracted. It just automatically shuts of all distracting sites, games, etc for hours. I find that after a few hours I will have often gotten back into my work and started to enjoy my work. More than say 2 hours is brutal and a little too punishing however. That program cost like 20 dollars or something but its been very useful and worthwhile.\n\nWatch this guys entire video, its priceless for a university student: _URL_0_\n\nThis book is also useful: _URL_2_\n\nMy miracle pill was SAM-e. I take 2400 mg a day, its a huge difference when I'm not on it. Kind of sucks to have to be on something though especially since its so damn expensive. But I just can't get ramped up and motivated without it.\n\nSocial anxiety will ramp down over time as you age, your central nervous system slows down and you normalize. I had massive social anxiety as a teen and young man, it was nuts, but once you get into the later 20s, it stops being much of a thing. I'm still not very social but I am married etc. My wife can introduce me to people and facilitate a normal life. Part of social anxiety is just being a man, kind of like a wild dog, you are just anxious around strangers and protective over your own territory, I don't know what to tell <PERSON>\n\nAs for the supplements, I tried a ton of stuff and wasted a lot of money, but I truly believe that for a lot of people, if they keep testing out different stuff they will find something that works. If they don't give each thing an honest and wholehearted try then they won't be able to figure it out.\n\nHere is the mini book I wrote, its literally a shotgun blast of all the useful advice I could think to throw at a person, if that doesn't work then you're S. O. L., lol\n\n_URL_1_","398"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"It doesn't even look like Battlefield. It looks like PUBG put out a new snow level. The Asian with the sniper rifle is their staple look. The Stg 44 is the only thing that seems to have anything to do with WW2 in that photo, and its no surprise that its prominently displaced. However it doesn't necessarily help the marketing, because now you have to ask \\\"is this a German?\\\".\\n\\nReminds me of this scene _URL_0_\",\n \"892\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm not sure of what the phenomenon is, but I'm sure someone has a name to put to it, where there are successive \\\"dynasties\\\" of programmers and managers on a project over the years, and they begin working with the game as it is and with the population it has, rather than attempting to fulfill the vision of the original designers.\\n\\nBy adding luminance and increasing the grind further, they truly made the game impossible to get into. I put way too many hours into the game, I macro'd, I had a good guild that had luminance macroing spots and quested constantly for luminance, and I only had gotten halfway leveled up with my luminance.\\n\\nThen they had these olthoi as some emergency way to cope with the low populations. It wasn't even the worse idea in the world, but it was a bandaid solution and a refusal to face reality.\\n\\nAt the end of the day, maybe there was just no one around that truly cared or was able to work on it to the extent it needed to be worked on.\\n\\nRealistically, the game needed to be reset. Every single item in the game needed to be made decorative and useless.\\n\\nThe technology needed to save Asheron's Call might not have even existed in a feasible form. Asheron's Call needed DAG technology (Directed Acyclic Graph) which is basically like a \\\"horizontally scalable bitcoin\\\", a very fast bitcoin in other words, of premade coins.\\n\\nIn order to generate an item, the items GUID should need to be associated with a \\\"coin\\\", this way it cannot be duped, because computers hashed away to prove the authenticity of the item that is being generated, and there will be no way to duplicate it.\\n\\nBy the same measure, eventually all the items in the world should be dispensed, and the only way to get new items is by destroying old ones. You do this by not having muling, you just have your item slots and inventory. You'd still drop mana stones and robes etc to protect your armor.\\n\\nAC went far too item centric and it didn't have the technology to support the items to make sure they were authentic. You can't have an item centric economy when the technology is not there to support it. \\n\\nThey should have reset XP too, and increased the grind by a factor of 500 or something, so that most people would never ever get out of the low to mid levels. You might see a monarch get to that level max level and max luminance in 2030.\\n\\nLastly, these \\\"coins\\\" associated with GUIDs would be bought as part as the monthly subscription. \\n\\nMight sound like I am ranting here, but this is how you're gonna see the second golden era of MMORPGs, once we start seeing hardcore MMORPG's using crypto currency as their in game currency. And once the technology is protecting the items, and the grind increased to such an extent that you absolutely have to be part of a huge monarchy, so that you may be powerful only in the sum of all the small parts.\",\n \"656\"\n ],\n [\n \"Whatever the case, it's clear that the modern day programmers have to rebuild the item engine from scratch. So perhaps they should figure out what you are talking about and integrate the atomic commit. I think AC could succeed again if it was shown to have a stellar record of integrity, along with scarcity. \\n\\nWhat I am talking about could only be done in a new MMORPG where the developer has all the rights. It will be the second golden era of MMORPGs though. The reason you would want the tech I am talking about is for the coins, as the transactions only take like 2 seconds. See the nano cryptocurrency on Youtube to see why it would make sense to replace pyreals, hypothetically. You can send like 0.00000005 of a whole coin. Plus a unique identifier is connected to each transaction.\",\n \"831\"\n ],\n [\n \"Just buy a nice house for around 250 thousand dollars, use 50K to get you through university (no more, ideally only 20k), and use the rest to help you with the maintenance costs of the house until you can get on your own two feet in your career. Maintenance costs being like, a new roof, siding needs replacing because of a hurricane etc. Nothing else. Earn your own money to buy a fridge, couch, etc. You got all the time in the world.\\n\\nThis is the investment that would have trouble failing. You'd just have to be careful not to buy a property in a city, but snipe a nice house just outside of the city lines in a township that is known to have low taxes and low services, and isn't giving in to developers. Then your taxes will be low, you'd want to have a septic field etc ideally.\\n\\nYour costs would be so low at this point, you'd have an education that would at least make sure that you're employed, even if you're making minimum wage your job would be tolerable that you'd at least be able to keep a job. You'd have no rent, so plenty of money to save. If you saved half your money from your minimum wage job, you'd easily retire. The other half for food, stuff for your house, etc.\\n\\nInvesting in a stock is not going to literally be putting a roof over your head. Your house may appreciate in value. Either way if you are set up so that you could earn minimum wage, retire and live a respectable retired life in that house, which would be well maintained throughout your life, you are pretty well situation not to fail, materially speaking.\\n\\nThis plan just makes sure you cannot go wrong. You an only do better, if you get a job that pays double what minimum wage pays, all the better. You should not expect that, though. You are planning for the worse here. If things go well, you may have a lot more money in the future and could roughly sell the property for what you bought it for, and by then you'll have a lot more experience.\\n\\nLastly, our economy will probably crash by the time you get access to the money, so you could buy properties for far less than you can now, which makes this idea even better in the future than it is now.\",\n \"488\"\n ],\n [\n \"You could try and dump it all into a retirement plan, not sure if there are limits on what you can put in. But I think that's gonna put you at a huge disadvantage, imaginably you will have to pay rent, and who knows what sort of financial crisises will occur in the world by the time you are 40. You need money for food, clothing and shelter. Clothing is very cheap these days. Food will be your main expense if you own a house. The rest of the money, well half of it can go to retirement (if you are making minimum wage), that is the rest of the money left over after you pay for food where you can do whatever you want, you can buy computers, you can buy investments, whatever. The stock market seems set up for a crash, look at the history of the s and p 500.\\n\\nGo to google and type in history of s and p 500 and set it to max. We seem due for a large crash. I am not sure if there is any magic with a figure like 350k honestly, you will need a house at some point, you don't want to be paying rent at age 65 if you screw up and the economy goes to hell.\",\n \"258\"\n ],\n [\n \"If you are in the Philippines a wall with razor wire on the top should suffice, a couple of barking dogs doesn't hurt either. Well to do people live in suburbs with a fence around it and guard at the gate, the wealthier ones have their own private police. Ive never had any problems going out into the countryside, in the markets etc. I don't mess with Africa, you'd have to be an idiotic dickhead to go there for any other reason than mining gems or something, even then you'd want a white security detail.\",\n \"765\"\n ],\n [\n \"how about the philippines. you guys are asses. they speak English and they call their parties \\\"discos\\\" because the last influence the US had on them was in the 70s and 80s. You literally nuked Japan. They burned your soldiers alive. They dont like you and they think they are superior, even now. The philippines GDP is also gonna be next to Chinas for the next 40 years. By no metric does your opinion make any sense. Japan was the boomers thing, its as big as its gonna get.\",\n \"655\"\n ],\n [\n \"even if you get your all white little gang situated, you're all still very awful sinners. there is no golden age on the horizon. this is not to be black pilled, its just that we rely on all these people in society who are retarded. if they have failed us then our days are numbered. you cant just purge everyone and start fresh, especially in a world with nuclear weapons.\",\n \"725\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yes sir, he is trying to do what Singapore did on a broader scale. Singapore is a city state so its a little more manageable. Obviously you're never gonna completely get the Philippines drug free when they can grow copious amounts of dope in the jungles. The meth in particular is not ideal. And he is doing much more for the Philippines than the politicians are doing in North America. Actually we're going backwards, we're legalizing weed, which has been shown to cause poorer economic outcomes, health outcomes in young adults.\",\n \"382\"\n ],\n [\n \"The war stuff is a moot point, not sure why you even brought it up, just to introduce enough irrelevant points to distract your idiotic audience.\\n\\nYeah, it has a low GDP, that means much more room to grow. Learn the basics of economics. Japan has an aging population, which means a big social security net that will cost a lot to maintain. Their costs are way higher than both the Philippines and China. They lose big contracts all the time to China.\\n\\nIs Japan a safer investment? Sure. So that's the one point you get. Congratulations.\",\n \"655\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm not gonna continue retyping out the same thing over and over again, read what I've read. They are getting old, they have no kids, their costs are high, etc. They will likely drop in the rankings over the next few years. Am I saying the Philippines is doing better now, or did I say it will have the highest GDP next to China for the next 40 years?\\n\\nSo check back in 40 years faggot, please read correctly the first time.\",\n \"79\"\n ],\n [\n \"Plenty of money are gonna start making money this way, that is the pattern. The idea is that money would be flowing into bitcoin the closer you get to Christmas after June, whereas money would be flowing out of the market as you go from Christmas to June. So this is the one final near death experience before the markets start showing a little more strength. People will realize this pattern and it might even have a quadripple bottom, but people realizing this pattern is gonna make the bottom even more solid, because there is profit in it. The cowardice is the money maker here.\",\n \"1008\"\n ],\n [\n \"Complete waste of resources if nukes actually exist. China is not having this big buildup lol, they have one shitty aircraft carrier, maybe 2 max. If anything they are letting us just waste our money on nothing while they actually build high speed transit between their cities and other expenditures that actually make sense. Japan can go waste its money now too and sink its economy.\",\n \"753\"\n ],\n [\n \"They dump a load of concrete in the sea that is right next to their country to protect it. Do you know how stupid you sound right now. Pretend America was dumping sand and concrete to make an island right outside of New York City. Its the same thing. They are pretty much on the defensive, let them have their little island. \\n\\nYes you are wasting a ton of money to maintain a huge military that will never really be used other than to fight for Israel. If you fight Russia it will be nukes. China would use nukes. They don't have a big enough military to handle you without using nukes. Nukes would be used to reduce the size of the army, then they would try to take you on head to head. They wouldn't use them against cities right away.\",\n \"124\"\n ],\n [\n \"You need to get out more. Some of the Hapa dudes I have met have been incredibly smart, good with money, better than me at all the games I play with them. Being friends with a Hapa dude partially convinced me to go over there originally, also all the Filipino workers they were bringing over kind of gave me a crush on them. If I find out someone is a hapa, I open my ears because its learning time.\",\n \"33\"\n ],\n [\n \"Everyone bitches and complains constantly these days, about themselves or others. Whites constantly complain about the Jews for example. Or they blame me for diluting the white race. Few work with what they have, or are grateful. While there are certain real problems in the world, there are more often than not imaginary ones in America. That is part of why I had trouble dealing with white women, I am very straightforward and say exactly what is on my mind, and most of the problems here are not real, and I would call it for what it is, which does not make me a popular guy. So its better to go to where the problems are real. Then I have a real reason to be stressed, and that I can deal with. Fake ass problems, no I don't have time for it. No problems are being solved here, we are not untangling the deep state here. Actually we're being set backwards here which is probably why they let us set up shop, people go no where in their career and learn no skills but they feel productive here at MDE. It's not a good thing.\",\n \"941\"\n ],\n [\n \"You're on to it. Basically there are like \\\"two levels\\\" of microbes to process the inulin for example. First is the bifido which are the good ones, and the inulin offers them a competitive advantage in the zero sum game which is the battle over food in the gut. I mean the bacteria only have the food you put into the gut to eat, or I mean if you aren't eating well, they can eat the mucus lining of the gut, but there is nothing else to eat there so its a zero sum game.\\n\\nAnd once all the bifido bacteria are saturated and have eaten all the inulin they can eat, well plenty of bad bacteria simply cannot eat inulin, ever, which gives the bifido etc a competitive advantage, but here's the kicker, some so-so bacteria can, so you start seeing a bacterial explosion of these less than ideal bacteria which can process the inulin but generate a lot of gas byproducts and generally create a state of dysbiosis.\\n\\nThe bacteria may get better at eating inulin through epigenetic improvements in the guts (I speculate), but the real phenomenon is that there numbers improve due to this competitive advantage in a zero sum game. Then there are more around to eat the inulin. But if you eat too much inulin, you won't be doing yourself any favors.\\n\\nGOS generally helps avoid this dysbiosis problem. But I like all different kinds of prebiotics and I had FOS (Inulin) today.\\n\\nJust wanted to add that little bit there, not the most articulate explanation but hopefully it imparts the general notion. \\n\\nEdit: disclaimer, I was pretty tired when I typed this out and had no sleep the night before.\",\n \"833\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah the funny thing is, that yeah I am sure you are worried about my Filipino wife because you are cucking in fear about the Chinese here, when all they are doing is basically stealing the sea from the Philippines. So Filipina wife indeed why do you care so much about the Flips losing their ocean? \\n\\nAnd do you have any idea of the size of the area you are talking about? They don't need a man made island in the middle of it. That would cut the flight time of an A320 from an hour and 50 minutes to maybe an hour, from that man made island to the Philippines. So a jet fighter is going even faster, why would it need to respond so quickly to something that it somehow merits billions of dollars investment in an airbase?\\n\\nIt's largely a cock measuring contest and a pristine waste of good money, like all war and military investments have been. Burning the taxpayer dollars on the fireplace. Look at (((who))) owns these companies. It's pissing away the future basically. \\n\\nSomehow you will justify this. That's what smart people do, they make man made islands. No its what corrupt people do, and they convince you that its a good idea, and you eat it up, because thats what dumb people do.\\n\\nLastly, at least these corrupt fageets who sell all the airports body scanners, at least that somewhat makes sense. Safe air travel in a 777 seems like a marvel of humanity, flying over the North pole, watching movies, yeah it seems like that is worth trying to protect. \\n\\nThat is way different than just bombing the children of goatherders Which is all those aircraft carriers have ever done in their lifespans. They break a bottle of wine on the bow of the carrier, it goes through its entire lifespan and then is retired, and all its done is bomb the children of goatherders. We never actually go to war with China or Russia you putz, unless you want to go back to the Korean war as some sort of justification for aircraft carriers, like a dumbie would.\",\n \"775\"\n ],\n [\n \"Never masturbate. Your body doesn't need you to do it, it can process it by itself. No one asked you to do that, you are like a dude that goes into the forest and stomps on pretty flowers for the fun of it, get a life. There are microscopic brain cells in semen. Think about it. Your brain is connected to your spine. Your brain is your spine. Your spine is your brain. Your dick is connected to your spine. If you have a sexual thought and you get an erection, your entire body immediately tenses up. It's all connected. You all subscribe to \\\"absurd norms\\\", if you are truly sane, then you will seem insane to society, and all of society will seem insane to you. But people who jack off will turn into what I call \\\"jack off idiots\\\", they will have killed off so much of their brain from jacking off that their idiocy will be super evident when they are 50, and probably pretty evident through their 30s and 40s, especially when paired with drinking. They will be complete idiots in their 20s if they jack off, smoke weed and drink. Which is what the government wants you to do by the way. This is a public service message.\",\n \"524\"\n ],\n [\n \"That's what <PERSON> thought. It would not be ideal to be stuck in a basement with him. You certainly would not want to say anything to upset him and possibly make your fate worse. However that is just a sick mind that is trying to find meaning in life through extreme deviance, he is trying to move the needle with his internal police man of his conscience, to try to get something to register. At the end of the day, he was just a lost child, very far from God both inside of himself and in the outside world. At the end of the day, such people would not put down their gun or weapon and fight like a man, they are the ones who are afraid of who they point their weapons at.\",\n \"942\"\n ],\n [\n \"It looks good man, I have to say the only way the screen and raspberry pi etc makes sense is if its incorporated into a unit like that. Its a nice screen. I tried to avoid going the gaming route with a raspberry pi because I play too many games already. But this is one project that I could get into. I already have a blackberry with physical keyboard so thats somewhat close to this as far as gaming goes. But this would definitely be a better experience by a long shot. It looks like maybe this is the first time this has been done? Good work overall.\",\n \"659\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah smoking weed is so bad ass now that many governments have legalized it. It's about as cool now as smoking, so hopefully we can stop trying to make it seem edgy (it isn't), and focus purely on the negative health aspects (for one, how about youth are expected to have poorer health and economic outcomes if they smoke weed). Yeah if you are into raspberry pi and you're young, you might have a bright future. What a waste if you used it on projects like he is suggesting. Don't smoke dope.\",\n \"382\"\n ],\n [\n \"I've not been to Mexico but I would be more afraid of getting my head cut off in Mexico by some crazy drug gang. In the Philippines I would be more afraid of the police, but I think they would rip me off for like 1000 CAD and let me go. They wouldn't want it to be turning into some big news story. I wouldn't insult some drunk Filipinos that want me to buy them beer, either. Maybe I would buy it and leave quickly.\",\n \"356\"\n ],\n [\n \"I've been there and stayed here many time my friend, both in Manila and the Visayas, and I will be back there again hopefully within the next 10 months. Not all Filipinos are good people, there are a lot of alcoholic scumbags and meth heads, but yeah the president is actually doing something about the meth which is what scared the shit out of me in 2014. I was in a taxi cab with a guy that looked like he was on meth, he was laughing at me as I got out of his cab after he cleared scammed me. They ended up charging me not much more than it would have costed to get a taxi in any other country but the dude was clearly high on drugs.\\n\\nThat is gonna be a ticket to a very high GDP for your country, they are making the right moves and I can rant and rave all days about all the improvements I've seen in your country just in the last 4 years. Manila airport is WAY better and thats a huge development. It was terrible back in 2014. I don't even mind it now vs never wanting to ever go back there again, so they did a good job.\",\n \"1004\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah I hope they don't start going nuts one day or something, but they seemed to have been tame in comparison, at the end of the day they are still Filipino and not crackpot Indonesians. They seem loyal to the country despite being Muslim. They want to get ahead too and they see that the wealth is in the north with people who know English, etc, they know whitey don't go down there for a reason. I'll never go down there, I spend big bucks in the Philippines and I tip real good and help people out where I can.\",\n \"79\"\n ],\n [\n \"well the thing is that 4K provides more pixels to work with and when you narrow the fov, well you just get more pixels of what is in front of you, which is generally a low pixel count bitmap texture. so by squeezing as much as visually possible into the image you get the max amount of unique pixels possible, the most amount of good looking information possible. \\n\\nits also not uncommon to play like this all the time on darktide, i always did, because someone can sneak up behind you and shoot you in the back with specialized sneak attack and war magic.\",\n \"659\"\n ],\n [\n \"I am not out of my mind, you are gaslit to hell. You have to be out of your gourd to somehow legitimize spending trillions of dollars fighting over a worthless piece of desert. If it is worth so much then why aren't we developing all the vacant desert in Arizona? If we spent a trillion dollars over in Arizona we could have an entire new economic zone in the United States.\\n\\nHonestly I don't have to argue beyond this point, you will continue to validate spending trillions on Zionist cabal wars because they got you early when you were in school. Just because Britain etc fought over the Middle East doesn't really mean it's legitimate. It stopped being legitimate after the silk road and then became about religious fanaticism. It's not about oil anymore because America is now an exporter of oil.\",\n \"677\"\n ],\n [\n \"OK, I know you want to just hate on <PERSON> supporters, but please understand that people like you are the problem. People who cannot think in shades of gray and have to make this blue vs red, when <PERSON> is violating his promise not to invade Syria.\\n\\nThat was the only way this could have worked because <PERSON> was the pro-Syrian war candidate. \\n\\nDo you not understand this simple point?\",\n \"249\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well again that is the point, I was making fun of <PERSON> supports *after* <PERSON> has gotten into this Syria racket. Before that, he was doing better than the establishment government historically has done over the last 25 years or so. That's all out the window now though. \\n\\nIt's post irony as a form of humor, people in this sub must not be advanced enough in terms of brain size/humor to appreciate the fine hues and shades of gray contained within such humor.\",\n \"339\"\n ],\n [\n \"Let me get this straight, <PERSON> gives like 40 billion to Israel at the end of his term, and we can't find 40 billion to build a border wall, and somehow they are the puppet state. Their borders are very secure and they want to send 40,000 African refugees back to Africa, not only is that not questioned at all by the west, but they decide they want to send those African refugees to western countries (they want to dump what they consider to be \\\"trash\\\" in our back yard), and again we have no problem with that. Are these people going to come and be doctors and lawyers etc? No. The taxpayer and citizen doesn't want it, but since they decided it, it's happening. It's like that with all of their decisions btw. They decide it, good as done. End of story. \\n\\nCan you explain what sort of logic you are following here to get it all so backwards? I can be convinced if you can lay out a rational argument.\",\n \"677\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well if we load up on 3.50 nano and it goes up to 35 dollars, which it almost did before, then that's a 10x profit and a chance that it could happen this year. Even if it took 10 years, then that would be around the same amount of profit as the stock market.\\n\\nI mean if bitcoin can go to 20k, it seems like it would make more sense to bring it up to 20k and let it drop again, rather than shorting out 6.5k, so it seems to make more sense that a bull run would occur rather that bitcoin dropping to 1K, if whales do really have complete control over the market. It seems like if you dumped all your nano at whatever price it was at when bitcoin starts to climb above 20K, you'd make it out with a nice profit. \\n\\nSo overall, it seems like a bitcoin bullrun would occur soon, rich people don't want to see their money doing nothing for way too long, and if they can make it rise to 20k with little risk, it would be much more profitable than making it drop. Maybe whales are accumulating right now as well, like I don't see where they would be able to find all sorts of 1K bitcoin when the price is 6.5K on the open market, so where would they be getting this special opportunity to crash the market for a huge profit unless they are buying in now for around this price, then crashing it after it goes above 20K?\",\n \"1008\"\n ],\n [\n \"imagine buying weed off someone in real life with 21 bitcoin. the dealer is just like. i dont know what to do with this man. ill just put it where i know i wont lose it (behind a picture frame or in a bible), then he comes back years later and sees you on the street corner. he is in his lambo. he asks you how that eighth was, and spins his tires until they are burning rubber and he peels off into the sunset\",\n \"71\"\n ],\n [\n \"Just goes to show how smart they are. All that money goes right to their heads. They think that just because they can afford some huge wardrobe that all us common Joes are wasting all this time on our appearances. Meanwhile it takes <PERSON> about 20 seconds to put his clothes in the washer, another 10 seconds an hour later to put it in the dryer, a few minutes hanging up clothes, once a week, he just puts on whatever is clean and goes to work. A couple of minutes per week not to look like a psycho, and a billionaire cannot figure that out. <PERSON> was nuts like that too. Bug men think that these \\\"life pro tips\\\" are genius and key to the mindset of a millionaire. You can't make it up folks.\",\n \"747\"\n ],\n [\n \"Do you know a book that basically says what you said here:\\n\\n > Gnostics believe that this reality was an accident. It was created by an imperfect and arrogant entity known as <PERSON> (the God from the old testament), and his archons (angels). This physical reality is just a copy of the real divine realms where this imperfect entity was born. The planet Earth is a living organism known as Gaia-Sophia. She's <PERSON> mother, and she is also our mother. <PERSON> and his archons created our bodies but they did not gave us our divinity.\\n\\nBut it also has lots of quotes to old Gnostic scriptures etc?\",\n \"487\"\n ],\n [\n \"You can use your credit card to buy dope illegally, you can use it at the liquor store, you can do any number of stupid things with your credit card. The litecoin I bought for 100 dollars just as the bullrun was taking off was not super risky and I ended up nearly tripling my money on it. It can go well, unlike every time people buy muh weedz or booze on their CC. If the bank is going to start policing and micromanaging lives, they should start there. The problem is that it would make the credit card useless. See crypto is their kryptonite, its immutable and people will be able to buy whatever they want with it. Not even being able to use your debit card to buy crypto shows how mutable your fiat is. You literally have to put your money in an envelop and mail it if you are BMO customer, thats the freedom you have.\",\n \"537\"\n ],\n [\n \"Of course they did. This whole proceeding was a big joke. He was never once worried about any sort of issue, the demise of Facebook is probably planned as well. They will come out with some new service that is even more intrusive, some how they will manage to film people crapping on their toilets. They will call it crapbook. It is very valueble to squash a rebelliion when you have pictures of people on the crapper\",\n \"611\"\n ],\n [\n \"it depends. you have guys pissing their beds at age 16. you have abusive mothers that lead to men killing women prostitutes. the homosexual nuts were often sexually abused as kids or got erections from spankings, they might be sexually incapable of getting sexual pleasure unless violence is involved. <PERSON> had a normal childhood but had a taste for violent porn and alcohol. honestly a lot of good men could turn bad like <PERSON> if they fell into vices that are truly beneathe them. <PERSON> was a lawyer student\",\n \"292\"\n ],\n [\n \"That seems extremely silly to me. The developer of nano has said repeatedly that it was designed to fit within a single UDP internet traffic packet. It is very easy to just say \\\"oh well nano is so simple, we can just get another crypto to do the same thing\\\". \\n\\nSure it may be very fast. Nano might be 2 seconds and EOS might be 6 seconds. Or hell maybe eos is even 3 seconds, lets give complete benefit of the doubt. So there is no difference when you are standing in line at the supermarket.\\n\\nBut big companies put entire fiberoptic cable lines across the ocean just so they have a couple extra milliseconds of latency to execute ultra fast automatic trades. \\n\\nOver time that little bit of difference, because it will not fit into a UDP packet, would cause EOS not to be competitive in the financial markets. Nano would gain enormous amounts of volume if it was being utilized as a major currency on exchanges because it would be faster.\\n\\nI mean it doesn't seem like its important but you are not this huge financial company and running automated trading. As far as I'm concerned it is uneducated FUD. Not that it won't have an effect on the current price, but in terms of actual value and merit based very long term value, I would like to see the actual technical evidence that it is competitive in high speed trading, which is where nano would dominate as a bitcoin replacement.\",\n \"831\"\n ],\n [\n \"We can continue to get dumber, let's break this down into baby food for you served on an airplane spoon:\\n\\n > an interface\\n\\n\\\"vague statement\\\".\\n\\n > a compatible interface to one of our existing coin types \\n\\n\\\"a highly specific statement\\\".\\n\\nThe vague statement is very wrong, the highly specific statement is correct and clarifies the issue being discussed.\\n\\nDoes this elucidate the matter for you?\",\n \"458\"\n ],\n [\n \"How about when a doctor is doing brain surgery. Does he need to be specific or can be be vague. Is vague wrong in that case?\\n\\nOr how about if you are drunk and trying to hammer a nail into the wall. Vague is like using a wrench instead of a hammer, makes no difference right?\\n\\nHmm so I guess since there are different meanings and everything is relative, we should be like this guy who gave this company 10,000 dollars without reading their terms of service.\\n\\nThanks I am walking away having learned something valuable here. \\\"Do not read and be very blunt and non-specific\\\". Thanks.\",\n \"723\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Dude I think damn near everybody in Hong Kong is cunty. Not just the Chinese. What surprises a lot of people is that I found the Chinese in mainland China to be much more polite and accommodating to guests than HK. Yeah mainland do rude things but it’s because they literally don’t know it’s rude because it’s not rude in mainland. But in Hong Kong they’re rude as fuck, they know it, and they don’t give a shit. \\n\\nHaha well if you think about it, Hong Kong is bound to be the most arrogant place in the world. It's one of the few places where people who are too arrogant for New York City can go. America is not good enough for them so they head to China.\\n\\nThe sort of guys walking around the rich parts of Hong Kong look like they came out of a magazine. Designer glasses, business suit, fast walking, they are the embodiment of the anti-Christ.\\n\\nThe Filipinas are the most based people there. Not all of them would drop their pants for a white guy, I seen some hot Filipinas there that were more into Middle Eastern and Chinese guys.\\n\\nI am back in North America. I cannot afford to live over there all the time. I go there once a year, every year, this year I was in Manila and the Visayas of the Philippines. I like the Philippines a lot, I don't have much to compare it to as I've never been to all those other countries. But it's fairly common for people to have a house in both Thailand and the Philippines. I like the Philippines because they speak English. \\n\\nOh that is the worse, and then she will complain when I am in the mall and looking at things because I ignore the people in the stalls etc. She will begin to walk without me and act all embarrassed. I mean these people are retarded, capitalism is too new for them. Like I want to look at the shit but I may not want to buy it. I don't know because I haven't had a chance to look at it. But if you look at something the person in the store might get the expectations that you will buy something. So if you look at something you have to buy it, because if you don't then that is a social taboo. So the lesson is, don't look at anything and don't buy anything. The person will stay poor but at least they won't feel insulted. It's retarded. \\n\\nI have no problem ignoring them when they speak perfect English. It's just business, I don't have enough money to give everyone awesome business and raise the country out of poverty. I spend thousands per month when I am there.\\n\\nThey don't seem to tip in Asia though, right? I never tipped at all last time I was there.\\n\\nI'd love to get a house there and live there for a year. I'm going to set aside a certain amount of savings for that in case I lose my job to a computer or something, I'd just take an entire year off. \\n\\nI might like to buy some land over there and build a compound. If I could get the ball rolling and climb up the social ladder in the economy by leveraging my position here in North America that would be awesome. Winter is forever here.\",\n \"79\"\n ],\n [\n \"Ah were you part of the mob that decided that? Maybe he did, maybe he didn't, but how do you like killing people in front of children with dogs running around (I watched the video, if you haven't, don't). Yeah yeah you're poor and everything but how do you think you are going to get ahead when you demonstrate mob justice to your children? Seriously a couple of grown men can't say let's take this guy out into a field somewhere and take care of this? It's 2018 not 1464, we can at least do our angry mob killings out of the site of children, please. <PERSON>.\",\n \"486\"\n ],\n [\n \"Really, was it an act when I immediately had sex with my now wife, then girlfriend, 5 minutes after physically meeting her, in a hotel? All you losers with all your dating techniques etc etc for asexual white women who absolutely do not want to have sex with your loser degenerate virgin ass, if anyone at all. You need to go Asian my dude, then you can just spread out your ass for your girlfriend the first time you meet her or just take an upside down dump (it doesn't matter what you do on the first \\\"date\\\"), you can try to grow out that bug beard of yours and watch 1000 marvel films so you are \\\"cultured\\\", and all means of faggotry and timewasting.\",\n \"1012\"\n ],\n [\n \"Did you really go that far back into my post history (bug man) to see me jokingly post some LICHEN (tree moss) and make a joke that said it looks like weed, and actually think that I currently inhale billions of burning atoms of plant material into my precious sacred lungs, to become intoxicated for the purposes of escaping reality?\",\n \"406\"\n ],\n [\n \"Oh Israel's study eh, yeah that is super trustworthy. They couldn't possibly want all Americans stoned and too dumb to vote for the people who actually want to defend American interests. Let me guess the democratic party is going to unload a whole laundry list of gibmedats and legalized marijuana to win the next election. Because that is what is important, for your little toot to help you forget all the blood you spilled for Israeli interests. Hey dumbie, you don't exactly get my respect for that, pretty sure you could have flipped burgers in Amerika and ended up surviving somehow without having to unleash fury in Israel's enemies, that had nothing to do with Amerika and you should face the facts of your actions soberly, as your victims had to face the lead coming from your bullets soberly and afraid.\",\n \"677\"\n ],\n [\n \"No, they are real if you planned on your investment producing returns in that quarter, which is generally a highly unreasonable expectation. I bought nano at 6 dollars on December 25, 2017, and I made a reasonably long investment period of a year. \\n\\nIf you bought nano 3 months ago, hoping that you would be up 200% within 3 months, and now you're down 50%, well you are gonna consider that a loss, but others would just consider you dumb. You are already breaking the laws of reality by expecting a 200% return over a year, let alone 3 months. An average return on the stock market is 10% over a year, you are seeking to do 20 times that. And then you can't even wait the whole year, you want it to perform 4 times faster on top of that.\\n\\nThis is borderline FUD to be perfectly honest. The one thing that the hold meme has going for it is that it allows your investment period to actually play out, crypto could be locked into a yearly cycle at this point.\",\n \"1008\"\n ],\n [\n \"If you look at any rich person, they will say a big factor was luck. Now that being said most of us aren't investing enough to make us rich, but if nano got coinbase'd many of us would be able to get some nuisance bills out of the way at the very least. When you look at many stocks, it doesn't really seem like they have that big blow up potential.\",\n \"580\"\n ],\n [\n \"The last time I bought was 9 dollars and I thought I was buying at the bottom. It had to hover around 5 dollars for a long time now for me to be comfortable buying again, but I always have a new nano goal in terms of my stack size and I am waiting to see what the price will be during the famous \\\"Sunday dip\\\", if it's down especially low, I will be happy to buy.\",\n \"928\"\n ],\n [\n \"Don't say \\\"you people\\\", we aren't a bunch of identical niggers here.\\n\\nWhen I was around 23, my long term white girlfriend broke up with me (she ended up dating lesser men with less education, lesser looks etc etc), so I stayed single for 5 whole years before I met my wife.\\n\\nThat entire time there was not one girl I met that was worth marrying or dating. \\n\\nSo stick to banging your cat would be my suggestion, staying single and being able to deal with that misery is key to becoming a person with integrity. All of these pussies out there who go from relationship to relationship to fill a hole in their soul are weak people, and they marry out of necessity, since they are naked, pathetic people in their heart of hearts.\",\n \"209\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yes, exactly. You save half your income for retirement, even if that means you rent an apartment during retirement because you can't afford a house, and if you can't afford Christmas presents because you wouldn't be able to save for retirement and buy presents at the same time, then you don't buy Christmas presents. And you be religious since materialism is empty. Exactly. \\n\\nAnything else is the Jews and society as a whole trying to destroy you, like a billion atomic gnomes trying to break through your magic seal and kill you.\",\n \"482\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well he is arguably a far more effective force than all of these people against him because he did one little thing wrong that he didn't like. Honestly <PERSON> might be the ideal guy because he doesn't obsess over it but he's not afraid to talk about it even though he has more to lose.\\n\\nLike you can \\\"know\\\" of something and openly discuss it and assign some sort of mental priority to it without having to nitpick over every little thing someone does and then just call them a faggot and completely discount their opinion.\\n\\nHalf this sub ought to send a resume in to CNN honestly they are doing a better job than they are because they're hard at work here.\",\n \"495\"\n ],\n [\n \"I don't know if I am the only person with an imagination here, but it actually seems like the perfect sort of thing you'd want to fend off a cougar, if you were completely calm.\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\nNow a key thing would be to get the wheels off, that's asking a lot but it says in the article that the cougar was spooked off for a bit. It doesn't seem unreasonable that you would take a moment to unscrew the wheels of your bike off with your hands.\\n\\nSo you got that sharp front wheel piece that you could jab into the cat with if it was getting close, then the rest of the bike (bike seat pointed towards your body) could be used to keep a distance between you and the cat. it would force the cat to swipe around the bike, but you'd be jabbing the metal towards the cats face.\\n\\nI realize that the cat is not just gonna stand there like a boxer and fight you, but you had two guys with bikes so they both could have done this, and they both could have stayed side by side.\\n\\nThe cat is not just gonna sit on top of a dude tearing him apart while another dude is jabbing the front metal piece of a bike into the cougars eye.\\n\\nLike to me this seems like a non argument but every single person is arguing here. If these guys didn't panic and were side by side and had the bikes like this, the cat is not just gonna run in and grab onto one dudes neck and kill him instantly before the other dude has a chance to start doing massive damage to the cougars face.\\n\\nThey are fast but they aren't like as fast as the speed of light with 18 inch long alien teeth made out of carbon nanotubes. \\n\\nI would say \\\"definitely\\\" these guys panicked and handled it the wrong way in order for one of them to get killed. It was the bad way to handle it. The story did not say \\\"they fought it valiantly together, until one friend was killed and the other was forced to break formation and run\\\", and that's how the story should have gone. \\n\\nThe story did not say that. I really can't be wrong here because the cougar is not gonna kill both of them, it's gonna kill one and drag it to its lair, no matter what, unless it is killed.\",\n \"111\"\n ],\n [\n \"Most punks are liberals in favor of universal income and crap like that, they are the first to go begging for 15 dollar minimum gibs. It's a form of \\\"rebellion\\\" fed to them against the baby boomers, so they can agree with their parents and think their parents are \\\"cooler than they thought\\\", it is so pathetic. Yeah be rebellious, just dress in a leather jacket and get a tattoo and you need a mohawk there, perfect, now you're rebelling, you fit the image perfectly!\",\n \"871\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm hungry as hell right now, I fast 21 hours every single day. I think sugar has a massive impact on the senses, as far as deadening them. Like you won't be able to taste and smell nearly as well if you eat a lot of sugar. When taken to its extreme, if you eat enough sugar you won't be able to feel anything in your feet or hands when you have diabetes, so there must be some sort of scale here. With almost no sugar, you will be able to taste all the sugar in pizza sauce when you eat pizza. My sense of smell is highly amplified with keto and 21 hour fasts. It's not every day I'm hungry, some days I'm not even hungry after a 21 hour fast. If you work out a lot, you will be almost too hungry. But its not even that big of a deal, I think the way to do it is to do all your cooking on one day and have all your meals ready for the next 20 days, rinse repeat.\",\n \"978\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's not even strict. You need to study <PERSON> and his Critique of Pure Reasoning. No one has ever written anything disproving what he wrote. It's a thick and complicated text so you might as well just study the \\\"a priori\\\" part:\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\nSo study that and understand what it is.\\n\\nThen ask yourself where your philosophy is coming from. When did it occur to you to start behaving as you do?\\n\\nYou certainly did not think about kissing a girl anywhere other than on the mouth as a child. The a priori way of dealing with a woman is that eyes connect with eyes, mouth connects with mouth, penis connects with vagina. \\n\\nThat's how the properly functioning human brain works.\\n\\nAnd, if you want to make anything decent out of your life, you have a husband and wife who have a household with rules, they may or may not have children, and they are to be raised properly etc.\\n\\nThis is basic stuff, just because you are making a mess out of your life doesn't mean that you're living an \\\"alternative lifestyle\\\". Your brain is just not working correctly.\\n\\nThere is no arguing some points, it's not some moral debate. If you are injecting heroin into your veins, don't start talking about how it's \\\"safe\\\" and you tested it to make sure it's pure. That's not the point. Likewise OK you want to stick your penis in a woman's filthy anus that can never totally be cleaned, that's no different than sticking it in a man's anus, then at that point there is no right or wrong.\\n\\nLike where is the god damn line. I'm telling you where it is, I'm not asking you I am telling you.\",\n \"230\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well I think that many different models for the future would work if people took even a little personal responsibility. No one is told that they have an ego and that they are responsible for meditating on it and eliminating it. It's unheard of, no one has ever even heard of that before. But it's incredibly basic. \\n\\nLike where is the actual source of human life even coming from, what is it filtering through before it starts manifesting in physical existence? \\n\\nLike someone is CNN and charging themselves up with all sorts of retarded propaganda that they will be very enthusiastic about, but WHO or WHAT is watching that, what egos is that feeding into?\\n\\nLike there is zero interest on their behalf about that. If we are making errors and we can recognize that we are responsible for our own defects, then we can accommodate a lot. Really we are not gonna need any particular system to rely upon because we're just gonna be more efficient with our lot in life.\\n\\nPeople wouldn't start thinking about needing to kill other people if they realized that they could stop believing in that which wants to kill other people. Like some liberals are wanting to punch a \\\"nazi\\\", they are becoming so fortified in their beliefs. Or some people are so identified with being white, \\\"that is who they are\\\". They ARE their skin color, if they took a big dose of silver and turned blue like [this white man who turned blue](_URL_0_), then they would die. \\n\\nIt's just so absurd how superficial they are, since they base their entire philosophy in sensatory perception. That's all our systems are based on, looks.\",\n \"142\"\n ],\n [\n \"You don't even need to eat like 5 times a day either, I recently realized that you can eat one big meal (keto, chicken and vegetables), and then go 21 hours without eating, you'll be maybe hungry for 3 hours but maybe hunger is something that is not bad to feel. You learn better with an empty stomach. And there is no way you won't lose weight like this, even if you fail at your diet and completely pig out on whatever once a week.\\n\\nSo honestly, they don't really know how to buy and eat, do they? They are doing that wrong too.\",\n \"727\"\n ],\n [\n \"I got this down to a science. Have you ever heard of prebiotics? I run the subreddit prebiotics.\\n\\nSo probiotics feed the good bacteria in the small intestine and prebiotics feed the large intestine.\\n\\nI'm not gonna rewrite all of it here so read up on it.\\n\\nI recommend takin the niacin on an empty stomach. It upregulates BDNF, which is a good thing. They looked at the brain of people that committed suicide and found that BDNF was heavily downregulated, so basically taking niacin is doing the opposite of making you kill yourself.\\n\\nThe niacin* flush on an empty stomach can be intense though. Especially when you are fasting for 21 hours a day and only eating a strict keto diet like me, I get the chills and shivers and everything from it so I only do it a couple times a week.\\n\\nI take me fish oilies after I eat my keto food, along with some coconut oil.\\n\\nYou want to be doing all this stuff:\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\nMake sure your fish oil is decent, meaning high in DHA.\\n\\nZinc doesn't do anything making it worthwhile*.\\n\\nA lot of supplements don't do anything. I only take the supplements that do something.\\n\\nI take 2400 MG of SAM-e per day, which is a lot, and quite expensive, but it dramatically improves my mood and makes me a different person. Your mileage will vary depending on your genetics, guaranteed.\\n\\nVitamin D is amazing and I take 5000 UI once every couple of days but not every single day.\\n\\nI wouldn't bother with 5-htp.\\n\\nI would take 500 mg of magnesium before you sleep because your sleep will be better. Psyllium husk also seems to help with sleep. \\n\\nDeep sleep is very important and you could consider your deep sleep to be the most productive hours of your day.\\n\\nI would limit caffeine to under 400 mg per day, I take a 200mg caffeine pill after waking along with my SAM-e on an empty stomach and then another one a couple hours of later or a starbucks coffee a couple hours later, then I stop for the rest of the day. I might have some green tea but thats it.\\n\\nThat about covers most of it. I occasionally take cranberry extract etc and just different random supplements to shake things up. But that is most of what I do. I'll be a normal weight with this diet on the long term and incredibly smart. \\n\\nThere are some other things you need to succeed, I would look for that book on Amazon that suggest you need to work 10x harder to succeed, I forget the name by <PERSON> or something, and I would read the book called \\\"Deep work\\\" and understand how important it is not to get distracted when you are doing something.\\n\\nYou don't have to follow the 10x book to the letter, just kind of get the gist of the book, the deep work book though, that's more important.\\n\\nAnd if you do all of that stuff, you will be basically taking like 20 years of my hard work and experimentation and just putting it all into practice immediately, for free. It cost me a lot of time and energy and money to figure all this out. A lot of bottles of supplements that just went in the trash because they didn't actually do anything.\\n\\nThis is all stuff that seems to improve HDL cholesterol levels, interestingly enough, the SAM-e part might need to be tweeked because I did that in response to my genetics test.\",\n \"727\"\n ],\n [\n \"Nano has been falling in price all throughout an economic boom. By your logic, nano will actually be entering into the negative territory, which means that anyone who bought nano will have to personally end up paying <PERSON> the negative balance left on their account.\\n\\nStocks have been going up in a way that doesn't make any sense. When news starts going around that people are being locked out of their account, they are gonna haul all their money out of their bank accounts and shove it in crypto. \\n\\nAt that point its going to moon insanely, and you could sell at the top of that and very quickly buy a house or something if you have enough nano.\\n\\nBy you saying what you are saying, you are just telling me that they can print money again and play around with interest rates and that will get us out of the next recession this time around. Sorry honey but it's not really quite that simple.\\n\\nNano is already down quite a lot. It's squeezing juice from a rock at this point. Meanwhile in the stock market:\\n\\n\\\"Dow hitting 50,000 by 2023? Market milestone is within reach, investor claims\\\"\\n\\nRemember when people were saying Bitcoin would hit a million dollars? What happened after that?\\n\\nWhere is all this bullishness coming from when there tends to be a financial crash every 7-8 years?\\n\\nAnd how are you going to just print more money and raise interest rates to correct that recession?\\n\\n > I love Nano but betting on this coin to get you through a recession is wishful thinking.\\n\\nYou applied literally no thought to this statement whatsoever. You literally just said it, you just spewed words into the air. That's nice and all but we're not actually in the recession right now and you don't actually have to think about your future right now. It would be a very scary time.\",\n \"1008\"\n ],\n [\n \"> And if things get bad enough that fiat becomes worthless then you can assume that ISPs, CDNs, undersea cable companies and cellular providers will probably shut down too. \\n\\nThat is the opposite of what would happen. The US military would literally be out there protecting those cables.\\n\\nGuess what happens when things get really bad? Like in a World War? You send military to defend your oil refineries etc, because those are very important.\\n\\nYou are literally just saying things that run contrary to world history. It is not this huge massive expense to keep the internet running, the government could just take over operations of those companies in an emergency.\\n\\n > So few people get this. If fiat crashes, people are unlikely to throw what they have into crypto on the chance that it somehow becomes the primary worldwide currency. \\n\\nAre they gonna use it to buy bread? They are going to need a barrel full.\\n\\n > And finally, unless the new currency is accessible to all and equally shared, then it won’t be adopted. If the world is fucked and 5% hold all the wealth, then the 95% will find another measure of wealth.\\n\\nThat is wishful thinking because those 95% are sheep, they literally don't have the capacity to follow any sort of unique thinking. If someone with enough power says something is true, then it might as well be true.\\n\\nBitcoin, nano etc don't run contrary to such ideas which is what would make them useful. Nano can't really get much lower, it is going lower during an economic boom, so by any logic it should take off when things get tough. \\n\\n > This isn’t a nano argument. Even Bitcoin will die if things get that bad.\\n\\nNot everything is gonna die dude. Gold is gonna go up. Bitcoin is something that is new but just because we're not sure and it hasn't been tested doesn't mean it won't go up.\\n\\nI mean you want to literally bet against everything during a recession because things are gonna be bad. That's the safe bet because you have the highest chance of being right. In a recession, most things tend to go down, wow so few people get this.\\n\\nYou have yet to explain what a panicking family is gonna do when they hear their friend's bank has shut them out of their account and now they can only withdrawal 100 or 50 dollars a day.\\n\\nMeanwhile crypto is hypothetically mooning, he can put his money into that AND take it out whenever he wants, he will probably end up making a lot of money in the short term, it's risky but his friend who is locked out of his own bank account might have already hypothetically lost his money.\\n\\nOr, alternatively, in a carebear land scenario, this sort of thing can never happen, and stocks will continue to moon insanely for next couple of years, with no chance of ever coming down.\\n\\nYou can think what you wanna think dude.\",\n \"1008\"\n ],\n [\n \"Part of the reason for the poor attitude is a) people who are constantly shitting themselves over the price, and b) close minded people who think they are \\\"very grounded\\\".\\n\\nThen there is I guess the third category of people who think that the conversation going on in this sub makes a huge difference in price.\\n\\nThe serious people have no choice but to mock all these groups, they will say its mooning and make all sorts of memes. We already know how this coin behaves during a bear market and we aren't buying for the bear market. \\n\\nWill there ever be a bull market? Who knows. Really investing in nano is a form of security, as bitcoin will not be the long term future in say, 30-40 years. No one wants to be a nocoiner who missed out on something and is telling their grandkids about what they could have been.\\n\\nWhen it is just the memers left in this sub, talking about how we're gonna moon when the coin is at 2.00, then I bet we will explode. At that point all the fools will have sold off and only the wise will be left.\",\n \"1008\"\n ],\n [\n \"Nano used to be a number 18 coin. Verge is above it right now, it undergoes 51% attacks or whatever every other day. During a recession, things would make much more sense. Verge would not be above nano for example. That is when the practical value would be prioritized in peoples minds. In a way, its exactly what nano would need to get up in the top 5 spot.\\n\\nIt's hardly delusional, do you honestly think that this coin, even if it has wallets, is gonna just climb up in this environment, when it can't even get past verge, without some huge outside factors?\\n\\nThose outside factors could be a reality soon. Nano is very practical and its the people's coin. You can take your 10 grand out of your bank account and put it in nano and send it to people. \\n\\nIf it's lower that actually provides more stability, nano didn't stay at 30 dollars for long. So yeah thats another thing, if nano is only 25 cents, people would flock to it. It would have a huge value proposition and not any downside. \\n\\nSo yeah that's delusional. If nano was 25 cents each and you say, hmmm I feel my money is not safe in a bank, nano has no downside maybe it will be safe there, that's delusional. It's not, it's smart.\",\n \"170\"\n ],\n [\n \"The price won't go to zero. Any time you're thinking of buying something when its that low it has tremendous upside.\\n\\nIt can't get past verge because it has no marketing. Verge has marketing. There is no point in marketing it if it can't even get its wallets on the Apple store.\\n\\nWe are going in circles here. \\n\\nNo, it doesn't need a big partnership, I think it will do well in a recession if it gets really bad. There would be an initial sell off.\\n\\nHave anything novel to say? I know you can type.\",\n \"618\"\n ],\n [\n \"If there was a huge recession and some practical coins became popular (bitcoin, nano, etc) and all the banks were really screwed up and you could only withdrawal 50 or 100 dollars per day, and everyone lost their jobs but hauled a lot of money out of their banks and put it into crypto which is relatively stable due to the situation, and they are on their cellphones sending money to each other and maybe let's say the world is starting to really adopt crypto now, people are gonna start comparing it. \\\"Bitcoin took 4 hours, I lost a lot of money in late fees\\\" etc, they will be talking to their friends.\\n\\nLike everyone says that sounds ludicrous but no, I really insist it's not a matter as to if it will happen, but as to when.\",\n \"1008\"\n ],\n [\n \"I got an entire subreddit dedicated to going into atomic depth about this stuff. Here is a picture of one of the food containers I eat per day:\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\nThen I have another one where I cut up red, orange and yellow peppers into thirds, and pick two colors (2/3 of a pepper) and cut it up Greek style, and then I cook like 18 chicken breasts and put 2 of each into one of those metal containers, and then the peppers on top of it. When I go to eat I put some chipolte tabasco sauce on the chicken breasts and some pamenara cheese on it and put it in the oven for an hour and a half at 200F. The vegetables same deal but they stay in the oven a bit longer.\\n\\nSo I cook all the food in one day and it lasts me about 20 days. I also cook turkey and beef burgers etc and put it in these containers because you need some variety.\\n\\nAlso this is kind of a pilot, while I am losing weight, I am losing it a bit slower cuz of the carrots that have sugar in them etc, I just have to get rid of all the vegetable packs in the freezer. So I'm gonna switch over to broccoli next time which is more ketogenic, as well as green beans etc. \\n\\nBut this is a great way to handle it, you can probably end up only having to cook once a month, and not having to do any dishes etc other than that one time per month (a lot of dishes at one time, a huge mess is made cooking in advance for 20-30 days).\",\n \"967\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah it is stored in the gut and he's pretty smart to know that much, dude is an articulate smart dude, but honestly if you wanted to have a higher rate of serotonin you would do something like eat a ton of tyrosine and carbs, and the carbs reduce the competition for the tyrosine which gets converted into serotonin and all.\\n\\nWhich is nice but not really the point.\\n\\nIdeally you want to avoid a lot of carbs and not even really worry about your brain chemistry, I just load up on SAM-e and that helps produce a ton of neurotransmitters, and I just manually try to control my mood, like I notice I am going a bit off the deep end I try to manually scale that back.\\n\\nIts easier to do that then feel depressed and try to manually increase serotonin etc, at that point you are really screwed.\\n\\nGenerally when you run into problems its because you've been eating way too much beef, which causes a lot of anger, lust, inertia (laziness).\\n\\nOnce you get used to fish oil, SAM-e, vitamin D etc it becomes a lot more managable. It can be a little tough to manage in the beginning if you are prone to depression/bipolar.\\n\\nBut I'd say that stuff probably helps sort out your brain, the guys that have really bad bipolar are the guys jacking off and smoking weed and not eating right and not taking fish oil etc.\\n\\nIf you take care of yourself for long enough, you merely become to rambunctious at times and its evident. What is not evident is when you get angry or lustful etc because you become identified with that lust and anger and you go with it, then you can get in a lot of trouble with your spouse or do something stupid like watch porn.\\n\\nSet schedule for sleeping is key as <PERSON> has said. Anything you can get down to the minute is amazing. I have a specific time I go to sleep (not strict), time I eat (strict to the minute), etc. increased strictness of timing is a sign of increased \\\"having it together\\\". The body craves regularity. You are not a machine but your body is.\",\n \"398\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah you've been very happy since that 30 dollars and you made sure that everyone that didn't sell at 30 dollars knows that. Yeah you are not the only person who knows about linear time but if you can read between the lines here I am offering two possible scenarios where nano does well: if there is another bull run, and if there is a big recession where banks get in trouble and people potentially run to crypto.\\n\\nI don't have a crystal ball to give you firm unreasonable guarantees like you are asking for from my theories its just a theory. \\n\\nYou are not the only person who made some profit, I bought litecoin at 100 and sold it when <PERSON> sold his. I bought vechain at 2.50 and sold it at like 8.50. All of that got reinvested into nano which was only ever bought for reasonable prices like 6 dollars, 9 dollars, etc.\\n\\nI am not going into the litecoin forums and shitting all over their coin as I have sold my position in it, for some reason people really feel a need to come back and shit all over nano. Is it because it is trying to be bigger and better than other coins out there? Can you tell me why you feel the need to do it?\",\n \"928\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I agree with almost all your points. However, I dont concede with your argument on oral sex. As a child, I didnt think about kissing girls at all. I thought they were icky and that they had cooties. I thought a lot of things as a child that didn't pan out. That argument doesnt stand for me so far.\\n\\nI had walked with a girl holding her hand all the way to the bus, I didn't know about those nasty and unnecessary things. I obviously wasn't kissing girls because I was 5 but I disagree, the basic idea was there and it wasn't abnormal. I was not like \\\"girls have cooties\\\", that was also a social thing. Unless people started making fun of it then you start acting like you wouldn't normally act when you were with your friend who is a girl. Maybe you just didn't have a friend who was a girl when you were 5, I did.\\n\\n > I dont think there is an issue with stimulating someone you love in a way you both enjoy, so long as it does not perpetuate unhealthy thoughts, actions, or consequences. I think its your right to believe oral sex is illogical, but the grounds for your argument are anecdotal at best. \\n\\nOral sex fries the chakras of the throat and in the sex. You can't be a surgeon and open people up and find these chakras. \\n\\nNevertheless, the human is degenerating, we have gone from speaking beautiful languages like Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, to watching <PERSON> butcher the English language for half a billion views on YouTube.\\n\\nMoreover you will actually come to this forum complaining about it.\\n\\nWhere is the root of this problem? Bring forth your scientists if you have some better solution to this problem. You blame it on \\\"racial inbreeding\\\" in a pathetic attempt to explain it.\\n\\nIt's your degenerated sexuality causing this. When <PERSON> got to the point of banning degenerate art from homosexuals he was on to something. You engage in sodomy like the homosexuals.\\n\\n > I've never done anal, and dont care to. \\n\\nYeah it's almost literally sticking your ass in a diaper, instead of cloth you have skin backing the fecal matter. If they know how to clean themselves they can only clean themselves to an extent.\\n\\nNext up: cunnilingus. Why would you want to do that? Go to your fridge, find some roast beef, start licking that meat. You're nuts.\\n\\nLastly: Oral sex on the man: you would not do that with a woman you love. If you're incapable of loving, which is high, then you might call your lust love. But its just not something you would want with your real wife. You just wouldn't.\\n\\nMany people say \\\"this is my wife, I am in an open relationship\\\", I don't care what brand of insanity you subscribe to, there are a lot of nuts out there.\\n\\n > Its possible to be healthy and stable even if you occasionally sleep with a girl you trust and respect or give oral sex to a loved one. I know that likely goes against what you know and believe, and is unsettling.\\n\\nIt's not unsettling, it just makes you average. I know you are frying your subtle energetic systems which you aren't even aware of. You're a blind maggot in a pile of blind maggots, you're hooked up to the Matrix basically, your eyes are closed. You are a battery for the earth, your job is to procreate and then die so that nature can continue. That's all.\\n\\n > By your arguments, we should only have sex in missionary and not even touch our partners erogenous zones.\\n\\nYou sound like a faggot here. You sound like you can't even wipe your own ass without masturbating. You sound like an old 60 year old liberal sexual education teacher. Get your shit together.\\n\\n > I dont believe either of us has one, but I will concede this - you have lived life how you feel it is best lived, and that deserves commendation. Its too rare a thing, these days, to truly be healthy and stable \\n\\nYou don't say, maybe that's why I have to pay for so many mentally ill retards on welfare\",\n \"524\"\n ],\n [\n \"I am not sure if you are baiting me to get off topic and banned or something, this is not on topic. But I will super briefly answer your question (my wife is another ethnicity btw), most people don't seem to care that trillions of dollars are being spent on Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc etc etc, or they are ineffectual, etc otherwise retarded to deal with. Meanwhile the left supports abortion which unfairly targets blacks, which is an actual eugenics program. There is no where else for a person with a brain to go at this point.\",\n \"819\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Acknowledging that every single positive prediction for the last five months has been wrong is not “shitting all over nano”. It’s acknowledging that something is wrong, and that just burying our heads in the sand and making jokes is not going to fix things. \\n\\nYeah but at the same time bitcoin has not been performing great. Realistically it could be above 10k in maybe 4-5 weeks. The thing was that it has been slow going to break through that barrier, it did actually cross it at one point but that is actually the true trajectory for bitcoin which is still up.\\n\\nThe trajectory for bitcoin is not 6000 dollars in other words.\\n\\nAnd you always value nano in accordance with bitcoin and the shit always hits the fan with nano when bitcoin is having a tough time, irrationally so. It suffers due to being an alt coin, but people also irrationally sell off their nano at a higher rate than other alts when there is any bad news.\\n\\nBut you see, the general trajectory is still bullish for nano, because bitcoin is headed to 10,000 and just taking a long time to get there, it is not headed to 6000.\\n\\nSo do you see why people are persistently bullish? I need to repeat it one more time, its just taking a long time to get to 10k.\\n\\nIf you think that is delusional or not, thats another worthwhile discussion, but see you are still casting doom and gloom when we are merely tacking weeks onto the timeline here (assuming the 10k thing is true), while the prices are indicating that people think it will NEVER go back into a bull run, which means its oversold.\\n\\nBitcoin is oversold, even. After an enormous amount of FUD it still hit 10k, again. It will get to 10k again for sure, especially with the economy being on fire right now. Look at the S and P 500. Everything just keeps going up forever.\",\n \"1008\"\n ],\n [\n \"My great grandfather built up his family an entire business. My grandfather lives in the house he was born in. His sons work in that business and their sons work in that business. You see the pattern here? It is parasitic to charge your children rent as long as they are working or trying to make major improvements to themselves. You are saying \\\"this all stops here, I am gonna greedily take everything for myself even the happiness this little bit of wealth provides me is providing far diminishing returns than it is worth\\\".\\n\\nYou don't care either though this is mostly for other people. I doubt you're even white by the way you type.\",\n \"224\"\n ],\n [\n \"OK so I am willing to bet you don't have a degree etc and despite all of the bullshitting here from 30 year old people, you actually meet real people who actually live in society and they talk about how they wish they had just gone to university and studied to become a lawyer. \\n\\nSo wow you get your little job and you have your little apartment and you pay your own cable bill. Congratulations that is really hard. Now 30 years is gonna go by, and because you didn't live with mommy and daddy and go to university, guess where you still are?\\n\\nBut yeah it would be terrible if your kids had their own house or something nice in the future. It's better if they learn how to stay in an apartment and never save anything for retirement.\",\n \"259\"\n ],\n [\n \"All alts go up when bitcoin goes up, its not that special. The more satoshis it loses, the more it gains, the more upside there is.\\n\\nAll I care about in a bear market is how low the price can go. Although nano has a terrible bear market reputation.\\n\\nIn a bull market everything changes and things are forgotten overnight. I'm buying for then, not now. I do stand by what I've said, nano dropped under 30 position so now it has a really bad reputation and forget about days of seeing nano up 20%, it will probably go way down now but I say bitcoin will crack 10k again in 5 weeks and that could trigger a bull run if it manages to plow through it. In which case nano will soar.\",\n \"1008\"\n ],\n [\n \"That is actually BS. Nothing can really change your DNA, that's not how it works. Well maybe you can smoke cigars like <PERSON> does and it will mutate or damage your DNA, that's how it changes.\\n\\nEating a Mars bar can change your epigenetic regulation unfavorably, which is definitely bad. But its not permanent and yeah, if you are gonna sound smart at least try to be right. And yes its actually very productive to figure all this stuff out. Helps against alcoholism and many ailments.\",\n \"833\"\n ],\n [\n \"600 dollar rent for a child is not cheap. It's very limiting. You definitely are in an area where higher paying job opportunities are more common and probably have a sweet deal on the rent. A ton of people go to trade school and basically get ripped off, as they are unable to advance to journeyman etc because no one will hire them, because they will be forced to pay a higher wage. You need an oil boom market to advance and that requires moving, at that point you won't need your own place because you'll be living and working on premises.\\n\\nBasically everything you are saying here is situational, so you are saying you got lucky in other words. Plus you needed this to work out, if you weren't the right fit for trade school (only a certain TYPE of person gets through that, not including me, as I was not the right fit), again if you were not the right fit for that and you were ultimately rejected from the professional, you would be totally screwed. \\n\\nIf you are smart you go to university, because you'll probably get through it regardless of what sort of personality you have, and you'll always be able to get at least a mediocre job because of that and cover rent.\\n\\nYou took a big risk and you're lucky it didn't backfire, congratulations. Two risks honestly, the housing market could have crashed and the value of apartment could have went to nihil.\",\n \"932\"\n ],\n [\n \"Their brains are not finished developing until like 25, and your never was fully developed and I sincerely mean that. You have a stunted mental development and you serve as a prime example of why not to abuse your 22 year old CHILD like that. Its a tough pill to swallow but yeah you keep your kid until 25 in your house, in university, if that's what it takes, to protect your gene line and make sure its not all retarded. And if you did any good job raising your kids it will be a pleasure to do so, not this misery and burden of having a half retarded child such as yourself.\",\n \"881\"\n ],\n [\n \"You sound like you are nuts to be honest. If you have to go into a paragraph because a woman stepped out of a strictly regimental societal code of egocentrism, then you are nuts. You are like one of these loners on YouTube that do vlogs because they haven't gotten laid and they are 33. Maybe you are a virgin.\\n\\nListen up tard-muffin: You are in a relaxed social environment, you just do something to jive and be cool and you don't read into it like an insane person. It doesn't mean you are a cuck, a black man didn't come over and have sex with your wife. What is wrong with people?\",\n \"98\"\n ],\n [\n \"That dude was sayin 600 dollars. Now his mom was a single mom so that is a little bit different. But that's way above going market rate. Going market rate is like 400-500 dollars for a single room. Effectively maybe she charged 300 (he said she was saving 300 out of each 600 dollars), which is not far off market rate.\\n\\nAnd honestly if your parents are charging just under market rate, it might be better to actually just pay the market rate and get them out of your faces because you won't want to look at them.\\n\\nMeanwhile if they are charging you zero, yes everything should be going along swimmingly, because they have their pensions, they never retire, they had a 20% interest savings account growing up and working at your age, etc etc so they got their fair share and they are profiting off your future that was sold down the river.\\n\\n300-400-500 these are not negligible expenses. Baby boomer are fat as shit, they can't shop, they can't put dishes in the dishwasher correctly they put the spoons and forks facing down. With 300 dollars you could get entire keto groceries for a month and stop being a fat ass.\\n\\nBasically the summary of everyones argument here is, kick out your kids so they are retarded, have no degree, have no future. OK. Why? A lot of kids are in and out of the house for work, and just home for the weekends like 3 days a week. It's kind of like they are visiting for the weekend every week.\",\n \"488\"\n ],\n [\n \"Blacks love yammering and jabbering and throwing their long limbs about, with their long weird ass fingers twiggling around like a praying mantis, their eyes beady like an insect, dancing and wogging along to jazz music while some Jew sits back in the corner of the theater, everything is going well. It's giving the black what it wants. It wants movement, it's like a T-rex, it can only see movement.\",\n \"957\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Yes. <PERSON>. There was one of him, and nobody else was even remotely close to him, and nobody would be doing that now especially, considering anyone into AC is older and has a life. Pragmatically impossible. \\n\\nWell you are making assumptions here, they are older and have a life as programmers and would attempt to do it with automation. The way you solve that is by having only droppable armor, like you were saying, and it would not be a problem on the Darktide server (which is the utmost concern imo). We just need to reduce it down to 3 dungeons where you hunt when you are a high level, that was a big problem like housing wherein you could go to 10 different places to hunt high level XP.\\n\\nHonestly I think coral golems were a bigger problem than housing. These special places where people could set up macros. I made friends with an Asian girl, the sister of a core in GEN, a major early darktide guild, and she showed me this spot where you could jump, an invisible perch in the air, and macro vapor golems, their magic bolts couldn't even hit you. BSD on the other hand was simple, actual human players would come in and find you. \\n\\nIt needs to be like that where there is no place to escape from actual players, to allow the playerbase to police itself.\\n\\nSo that phenomenon was actually maybe worse than housing. Housing is basically a mule spot out in the middle of nowhere. It's not where you actually have to go to hunt. The fact that they spread out high level XP spots was a critical failure. Too many developers that didn't know how to play the game.\\n\\n60 was pretty high for the time period I was thinking of, of course you go beyond that then 80 or 100 is considered high. We are getting into the time of insane darktide XP chains where even I was getting to levels like 106. \\n\\nI was hacking into accounts and getting PPGSC and all this insane armor. I was one of the few to survive the early invoker quest runs, out of 300 people, I was one of 16 that made it. After I had gotten it, I become indomitable. \\n\\nSo that was the point in the S curve where the game became wildly unbalanced because I was 2 and 3 shotting everyone, I was having the time of my life getting revenge on all my old enemies. \\n\\nBut that is not something that is sustainable, and the population declined after that.\\n\\nAC prior to housing was basically perfect, but I feel too many people blame housing itself rather than the dozens of MAJOR changes that occurred right along with housing. The new higher XP dungeons, the new armor types, the new magic spells.\\n\\nCripple blow is something you put on monster dropped items to give like 2-3x crit damage or something. \\n\\nThey did do a decent job at rebalancing the game for all the luminance and all that stuff, but it just made the game into a Korean grindfest basically. Even when no lifers like me who had no job and no prospects, I was still unable to grind to the max levels.\",\n \"656\"\n ],\n [\n \"I view diet for normal average people without disease to be cyclical, with \\\"bulking\\\" and \\\"cutting\\\" phases being somewhat natural. It's hard for average overweight people to find diets that maintain and sustain a low weight, if this was not the case then most people would not be gaining more and more weight year after year which is statistically the case; therefore there are times when it makes sense to exclude high carb potatoes in order to lose weight, other times when it might make more sense to include them. Sometimes putting on a bit of extra weight makes sense in order to deal with a stressful life. Other times people can have the focus on their health to get in pristine condition, in times like these I would personally cut potatoes due to the high number of carbs.\",\n \"261\"\n ],\n [\n \"You seem a little sure of yourself, in general, I am a little skeptical when people think they can attribute blame all on one particular thing (histamines in this case). I would not be so sweeping and radical when trying to figure things like this out, I say this from much experience and by the fact that I went balls to the wall taking huge amounts of various kinds of fiber. Taking large amounts of resistant starch will probably induce dysbiosis and make you actually sick, at least passing enormous amounts of gas, having 5 bowel movements a day until you turn your bottom inside out, etc.\\n\\nAnd I think you would have considerable difficulty explaining to me how these three things relate to each other: caffeine, butyrate from resistant starch, and histamine.\\n\\nYou just seem sweeping in your actions in general. There are some times when this is useful and other times when it is not useful. When quitting tobacco it seemed to be useful for you. But now you are facing the sting of your actions. Caffeine is VERY hard to quit. \\n\\nA better way to quit caffeine would be buying a bottle of caffeine pills and just take one in the morning before you go to work and don't bring caffeine to work. After you get used to that for a couple of weeks, start taking half a caffeine pill. And then after a couple of weeks break it into quarters, or just quit at that point, taper yourself off it in other words.\\n\\nYou can buy raw green banana flour at a bulk food store, this is the powder that has the most resistant starch in it. You need to be careful with it because it makes this very fine dust that you could breathe in or get in your eyes and its really viscous. You can mix it in with a shake or some yogurt or something wet and get large amounts of resistant starch into your system that way.\\n\\nIf this does do something, you have to ask what your end game here is because you may very well end up with gas issues etc which is going to be a new problem you've created that didn't exist before, then how are you going to treat that, when it is solving the problem from caffeine?\\n\\nModeration is implied here, you see the maximum benefits from prebiotics when they are spread out, and skipped on somedays, sometimes you take a lot sometimes only a little, etc you get a feel for it and it falls into your lifestyle.\\n\\nI recommend ordering Bimuno off their website or Amazon, whatever is cheaper and easier for you, the little power sachets are very useful over the months and years... its not a big butyrate producer like resistant starch but noticable in keeping an active healthy lifestyle.\",\n \"346\"\n ],\n [\n \"I take 2400 MG of SAM-e per day as a result of viewing my gene methylation information. Methylfolate makes me feel sick although it seems to be recommended for me, and it was frickin expensive for a bottle, like 60 bucks. All the special methyl supplements seem expensive.\\n\\nI recommend SAM-e because it has been the number one life altering supplement that I've ever taken. It makes me a different person, full of energy, focused, relatively consistent. Combats depression and other issues which people have, dramatically so. It overrides so many issues that average people run into. 2400 is 6 x 400MG, good quality 400MG is quite expensive, like 50 bucks for 60 400MG tablets, so 50 bucks every 10 days.\\n\\nAlmost no one would probably take that many though, the recommendation is 1 per day so I take like 6x the daily recommendation. So you start with the daily recommendation, and you take more to see if it improves things. For me I can get up to 6 before it starts getting to be too much and having adverse consequences.\",\n \"711\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Bro, how many times can I say this? UAM/AUTOMATION SHOULD EQUAL AN INSTANT BAN\\n > \\n > Don't make me ever type that again, please. \\n\\nYou didn't even know what Crippling Blow was. You are very naive in how active Asheron's Call players actually behave. We do care about what someone who played the game 15 years ago might think, but we don't think you will actually play with us so on the other hand, we don't really care. You are like a baby boomer commenting on new technology, almost universally out of touch and clueless. No offense but this is the real observation.\\n\\nYou are not even reading what I am writing here, I specifically wrote out that I was wearing pre-patch greater shadow armor back in the day. If you aren't even reading what I am writing then I am wasting my time here. I recommend you play the Asheron's Call emulator and get to level 50 in modern AC, it's not as bad as you are making it out to be. Some of your recommendations are relevant and aligned with my thinking, much of it is unrealistic and naive.\",\n \"439\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I am sure of myself except when I'm not. When I'm not sure of myself what I feel is an oppressive debilitating weight of society and all its institutions on me, so I survive better being self assured (that doesn't mean I know I'm right, far from it, I am in a constant state of knowing what I know may actually be wrong)\\n\\nWell this is how you learn things worthwhile, and you are in the right place, all I am saying is that many problems can be avoided by just slowly phasing in and out of things, particularly with caffeine and prebiotics, the gut and brain take some time to adjust and you want to take it easy on them.\\n\\n > In any case, just looking for methods of preparing whole foods for RS since ive hit ideal weight or very close to it and now I'm looking to improve my health in other ways.\\n\\nI would recommend hitting \\\"next page\\\" on the main prebiotics forum and go back where where I was making all the prebiotics shakes etc. Please note that they are pretty much for the normal gut to handle but you can get some idea of what I was engineering in order to get the stuff into the gut.\\n\\nHere is one example:\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\n > The butyrate is supposed to have a mast cell protective property and a leaky gut can apparently cause more histamine problems. I don't know\\n\\nYou are probably on to something here, I've read stuff like that and went ??? and went on in my reading,but it wasn't relevant to me at the time. It doesn't mean you aren't on the right track :)\",\n \"327\"\n ],\n [\n \"duh anyone who can see the pattern of how bitcoin grows during the year and peaks during December could see this coming. Although there is room for <PERSON> or something to crash the market, that's what you gotta be on the lookout for since he said he was entering into this market and he is the man famous for shorting the British Pound. \\n\\nSo we want to ask how to avoid that, do we get out early or does anyone think he has the ability, or what price are we gonna get to if it does outdo next year? Thoughts?\",\n \"1008\"\n ],\n [\n \"Also note that this is what causes bitcoin to drop and the market to crash and enter into a bear cycle. So, has the new tech (forget the name) made it so that bitcoin has 50 cent fees? Let's forget the 5 hour transaction time or whatever, assume that people do not care about that for a second.\\n\\nWhen bitcoin fees get up that high, sell all your crypto imo. buy again after the short dip, sell again in the bull trap, then wait until the bottom of the bear market to reinvest everything back in.\",\n \"1008\"\n ],\n [\n \"I am not sure why everyone is so hard on Firano. There isn't even any evidence to point to him being a scammer. There was a problem with the code in his exchange and whilst he may be an idiot, he is not necessarily a scammer. The real scammers post here about withdrawing 3000 nano and getting 6000 nano. At worse people here would say \\\"you should do the right thing and give it back\\\". The legal proceedings will determine if the dude actually profited from the defects in the code. And yeah people will say \\\"he is responsible for the code and security of his exchange\\\", but this is after everyone buying Raiblocks abused another exchange until they were kicked off it, and there were only two exchanges that would put up with the shit and abuse of the Raiblocks crowd, perhaps because they couldn't understand what was being said to them in English. \\n\\nI appreciate wanting to put a face to the blame, and again he certainly was an idiot, but the real criminals are floating around here, they are the only ones who openly have said they have unethically profited. And for all of those wide-eyed about Firano's legitimate profits and large account, what is to stop him from converting it all to Monero and boarding a plane to Morocco?\",\n \"831\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well you should Google the Gnostic Teachings site and figure it out there, I am not the best representative of this stuff and am blatantly violating a lot of their standards here. But that's where I learned about the oral sex thing, because your mouth handles a certain \\\"voltage\\\" for lack of a better word, and your sexual organs have a very high voltage. But they are both sexual. \\n\\nMouth hair only grows around the man's mouth because it's a feminine sexual organ, but the womans chest is the projective sexual organ. The man's penis is a sexual projective organ and the woman's vagina is a sexual receptive organ. \\n\\nSo you see its retarded to lick a woman's vagina because A) she doesn't care and doesn't need it and a woman who dumps you because you will not provide oral sex is 100% worth losing, and for that matter you don't truly really care b) Your feminine male mouth, which is a sexual organ that has hair growing around it, connects with the female sexual organ, and it's the same as when you connect the incorrect polarities when you are trying to charge someone elses car with your car battery:\\n\\n_URL_0_\",\n \"524\"\n ],\n [\n \"Honestly I have no idea, some people that come into this subreddit are so wonky and crying about depression etc just because they took a little bit of inulin that I really have no idea what is wrong with some of you people. \\n\\nI realize that sounds insulting and I do not mean it to sound so, but I mean you took it before so obviously you do not have something like irritable bowel syndrome or something that would make sense to troubleshoot. \\n\\nSomething like a headache is a pretty serious side effect, but honestly it sounds like you just have the flu to me. Or else you are just part of that 1% of people that has some major weird problem and you should stop taking it. \\n\\nI mean I heard of a story of a school teacher that was sent to the hospital and near death the other day because her students threw a banana at her and she is majorly allergic to bananas. Like a banana touches her skin so she dies. Who am I to judge? That's just what happens. \\n\\nAll the bacteria die-off stuff is generally just hippy wierdo pseudoscience. Generally I think the microbiome completely changes back after 24 hours, maybe inulin can change it for a little longer depending on what you've eaten etc etc. But granted 5g of inulin is not that much, I take like 25g every 2 days (when I don't fall out of the habit, which I do for 3-4 days)... but yeah after 24-36 hours your gut biome just went back to normal and you still feel like this, which basically indicates that it's not inulin... maybe you are sleeping on a metal spoon or something.\",\n \"711\"\n ],\n [\n \"The scientific literature does not necessarily all have to agree with each other, and science basically becomes religious dogma when people try to make it all agree with each other.\\n\\nSome of the literature I've read does mention the gel formation bit, but seemed to indicate that psyllium husk was not prebiotic in and of itself, rather it would just help ferment prebiotics.\\n\\nAlso, it is saying it has prebiotic potential. Rather than saying something like, psyllium has been demonstrated to be prebiotic.\\n\\nIt does matter if it's prebiotic or not, because then people with irritable bowel syndome can't take that fiber. I don't even know if they could take it now, but if someone with IBD came in, it's the only thing I could possibly think to suggest to them, under the understanding that its one of the few fibers that is not prebiotic. It would be ideal if people with IBD had enough wiggle room that they could tinker with the fibers over the very long term and perhaps miraculously reverse their condition through diet, rather than it just being some lifetime genetic jail sentence. \\n\\nOK and for the sake of argument, let's say it is a prebiotic. It's definitely not like inulin where it makes you super gassy etc. So even if it is prebiotic, it might definitely be much less prebiotic, and therefore much more useful in certain scenarios (not that it is not universally useful).\\n\\nThe only thing I can otherwise think to say is that, there are some things marketed out there as fiber, and some papers basically say that it's (Isomaltooligosaccharides) just sugar so don't bother. \\n\\nBasically I don't let any paper give me any sort of ultimate impression on these things, but its more like I have a 1-10 scale for each fiber and how it acts, a paper might change my assessment of any prebiotic, so in this case, psyllium prebiotic just went from 0 prebiotic (or gas producing) to 1 or 2 on a scale of 1-10.\",\n \"642\"\n ],\n [\n \"I like <PERSON> but I doubt he was indicating to mess around with drugs. Drugs didn't really even exist where they are at today, I think his advice is timeless and applicable to all ages.\\n\\nDepakote is hardly some sort of \\\"brain hack\\\", it's an anti-psychotic medication that people stop taking because they can't think clearly. Still, if it operates in some very strange way and has some strange benefit, its nice to know that some of these fibers might give us that strange perk to some extent. There is a chance that it might not be the HDAC inhibition that is doing it, though. Such a medication operates on some very strange levers.\\n\\nI've taken Semax like substance before, it's the sort of thing that is useful once a year when you are moving all your furniture around. Whatever it does to the brain, it makes you an expert at calculating dimensions of objects etc on the fly. I mean they have been shown to increase math ability temporarily. But they also interfere with sleep. Based on my experience I think like once a year is the right number, I doubt you could trick your brain with it once a month.\\n\\nYou generally want to keep your brain chemistry very predictable anyways so you can be a good judge of what is authentic laziness, anger, etc, which can only be dealt with with actual willpower, patience, diligence etc, all that non chemical work that can be done, to which <PERSON> was really referring to for the most part.\",\n \"664\"\n ],\n [\n \"Prebiotics are digested mostly in the last third of the large intestine, which is of course what comes right before the rectum and anus. But honestly there are other factors at work, maybe PH related or the body has some way of detected and reacting to fiber, because you can start having the urge to use the washroom like an hour after taking your fiber.\\n\\nSo that's all I can tell you really, watch out for the double whammy effect, you'll get an effect shortly after taking it, and then again the next day. And taking probiotics with prebiotics is definitely overwhelming, maybe take them on separate days or maybe like 6-12 hours after taking your prebiotics. But even the latter doesn't make sense, because this stuff can give you a lot of energy right after you take it and you have to ask yourself if you are gonna be able to sleep. So there is really no other easy answer other than to experiment and see what is actually working for you.\\n\\nI always took my MCT oil in my morning coffee when I was on keto. I'd say wait a half hour then take your prebiotics. You want to take the prebiotics in the morning or halfway through your day because they give you a ton of energy.\\n\\nSometimes prebiotics can make you crap everything that is in you out, which can make you get a really good sleep, but that's kind of playing the lottery, because other times you will just be able to run a marathon with all the energy you have, especially if you are taking other stuff like MCT oil and all that. So basically the answer is everything, in the morning, in whatever order which is most effective.... generally fiber comes in last... but you might want to mix the probiotics in with the prebiotics as that improves probiotic survivability through the stomach acid, there is that element to it as well...\",\n \"346\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah that sounds good, watch out for the high PH levels in that, I crapped my guts out so loud at one of the last jobs I had, it was extremely embarrassing and the janitor guy could hear me and asked if I was alright, lol. It was like something out of a comedy movie it was so bad. Its the spirulina which has a super high PH in those super foods, it can cause seemingly dangerous stomach cramps etc if you are going nuts with it. \\n\\nI mean you can eventually ramp up the fiber levels pretty high through a taper, but due to the high PH of that green superfood stuff, you can never ramp up the amounts of that stuff, your body just has no way of dealing with the PH other than huge cramps and immediate bowel evacuation.\",\n \"346\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yep its some legendary gas, but usually corresponds with a trip to the toilet, and you are kind of asking yourself \\\"what is normal\\\" because if the fiber is moving the crap along so quickly, are you really supposed to go around with crap in you all day and no gas?\\n\\nThen if its reducing anxiety, is that because you were going around nervous all day, constipated, and didn't even know it?\\n\\nMany questions... not a whole lot of answers...\\n\\nAll I know is that I don't want to be that weird little person who goes around all bent out of shape because of a lack of fiber... and ramping up to 25 grams really does make the difference (although its notably expensive considering how fast you blow through these bottles, and they run you 10-20 bucks a pop with the brand name stuff being better tasting and more expensive).\\n\\nBimunos nice but a whole sachet is a bit overwhelming for me, I tend to take half a sachet. I kind of also prefer inulin as the daily driver with bimuno being there once a week or so for variety. But it definitely has its place in the mix.\",\n \"346\"\n ],\n [\n \"I answered it. 24 hours and all the prebiotics have cleared the system and the microbiome is back to normal.\\n\\nI'm not saying that nothing can happen, you could induce dysbiosis or something and have some flare up in your intestines kind of like temporary irritable bowel syndrome or something like that. But that would be gone in like 2-3 days unless you had officially diagnosed IBD. And that would not explain the headache, and honestly wouldn't explain the other two effects either. It would just be like an intestinal discomfort and maybe some toilet issues for a couple of days.\\n\\nHow could inulin cause a stomach ache? Prebiotics and probiotics are thought of as helpful against H. pylori which causes stomach ulcers.\\n\\nI'm tryin to be like a doctor here, a doctor is looking for the actual mechanics of the illness. Most headaches are due to neck tension and poor posture, or due to the way you were sleeping.\",\n \"346\"\n ],\n [\n \"Pretty sure they have a good bit of non temperature related potato starch:\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\nThey generally have (the potential for) both. I have had the satiety index food charge up on my fridge for ages. But I mean a potato is a pretty simple food with not a whole lot of constituents, there are not a whole lot of explanations of why it would be filling other than the potato starch.\\n\\nI mean we can talk about optimum levels etc but the best way to test if this is actually working or not, is if someone who has no idea what they are doing, goes ahead and flukes into miraculous results. And I think that's what he's done here, he's gone and proven the case for normal, non temperature related potato starch.\",\n \"559\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I’m not blaming the inulin, I’m not saying the inulin caused anything.\\n > \\n > What I’m asking is if stopping inulin is causing my biome damage because I’m no longer feeding it inulin and if that could be causing me to feel ill. \\n\\nDo these two statements not contradict each other?\\n\\nThe biome is not really delicate, it is also generally not all that genetically related, and it generally mostly has to do with what you eat. That is why it completely changes every 24 hours, and that's why its important to eat vegetables every day, since the microbiome changes every 24 hours it doesn't really matter so much what you did yesterday. \\n\\nAnyways other people will come along and give their take on it. I would also recommend seeing a real doctor. We are only really good at making people sick, we're not much good at making people better... tons of recommendations I have given in this forum, I abandoned myself because I was crapping out concrete and tearing my arse apart... but I didn't go back and remove those recommendations... this is very much trial and error wild west type of stuff\",\n \"135\"\n ],\n [\n \"Android is not exactly a valid option anymore given the gross expansion of tech censorship. We need to start seeing Librem type phones, running Linux, with a physical keyboard. \\n\\nWith android, you have no security anyways, and since you can't root it, you can't really protect yourself from all the spying and censorship.\\n\\nLibrem offers potentially much better security compared to what we have now, and full control over the device. Now it just needs a physical keyboard and it'll be objectively better than Blackberry and every other phone for that matter.\",\n \"781\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's a spybrick. Cellphone sales are down big time. People are getting sick of being spied on and harassed by the government and companies. You are delusional. Options are coming like the Librem 5. Or people can just go buy a Huawei device so it's the Chinese spying on them and not their own government.\\n\\nThe Americans can throw a pissy fit and try to ban every device that doesn't spy on you. But you are arguing that it's here to stay because the demand is high. No, it's here to stay because the government is forcing it down your throat. And you know that, too. Had Huawei been allowed a open free market like capitalists are supposed to be big fans of, they could introduce their own OS and destroy Android. I doubt they will be allowed to, but the numbers are there indicating that they were obtaining market dominance with their physical devices. Maybe they will continue to sell well with their own operating system, if they are allowed to sell them, and that will be the end of android.\",\n \"781\"\n ],\n [\n \"as a side note, fill out the use of a representative form or else you and/or your spouse will not be able to talk on behalf of each other when interacting with CIC. you will need to use the webform to update them depending on how things go. My wife is not very tech savvy and its a pain forcing her to use the webform by herself seeing as we are far away. Yet they will not speak to anyone but her. Due to us not filling that form\",\n \"546\"\n ],\n [\n \"They want everyone to go back to being TV drones, and people will go back to being stupid. It worked on the boomers. Take my advice and get out of dodge. Youtube is boring and I had no problem deleting my account the other day. I'd like to delete my actual gmail account too once I'm confident that I've moved all my important services off the address linked to it.\\n\\nDeleting your Google stuff feels good in the same way paying off a credit card does. Less mental burden to carry around with you, less spying etc. They only focus on big channels so yeah, no loss, its just like turning off the TV and they won't be able to read your private emails or look at your dick pics that you have on your google drive.\",\n \"99\"\n ],\n [\n \"You are saying this after <PERSON>, you realize that, right? We have plenty of insight into what the government does. They could have sent blackberry a letter saying that there are only 2 games in town, two cucked companies that will cave to all security requests.\\n\\nThe entire world market can handle more than two platforms lol. I mean you have macs, PC and linux right, and that's just desktops. Huawei will come out with something, they won't respect copyright and they'll make a killing. People will be ordering it and trying to hide it from the post man, when they get their device it will be fricken sweet. No one will want to be stuck with a shitty Samsung or Apple device. Slow, walled garden, spies on you, expensive, inferior in every way. Capitalism wins kid. Learn it\",\n \"370\"\n ],\n [\n \"I've had seagate external drives fail on me when I was using them as external drives. The best luck I've ever had was with WD internal drives, never had one fail on me. I also had cheap Chinese SSD fail on me and Samsung evo did not. You could have bad experiences with either company really, I think the evidence stacks slightly against Seagate, but I assume they try hard enough not to be considered the shit brand that no one wants. Still, they kind of are in a way, I think you'll see the public opinion here indicates that to a minor extent. But that also doesn't mean that every WD drive will not fail you, you could continue to have bad experiences. Cuz math n shieet\",\n \"448\"\n ],\n [\n \"ah my headphones are AT-M40xs or something, good to hear that they are good... also yeah I had a good experience with antec that makes server cases, I had to send them a couple emails to nudge them and wake them up, someone finally got off their ass to send me some old ass plastic harddrive clips for cheap, like 10 dollars for a big handful of them.\\n\\nI guess people are people and they can be good occasionally\",\n \"329\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well its just my opinion that you should learn this in a coherent, structured way. If that is a free 4 hour Youtube video, or 1 guy making 12 twenty minute videos, etc, it doesn't really matter. But it shouldn't be bits and pieces from different people for this particular topic. You are trying to learn how to structure your code here so that it's easier to work with. The way you learn that also should be structured.\\n\\nYes for inheritance you need all your classes to have at least one value in common that they can inherit from that class. This can be the one value of the counter.\\n\\nIts like you have mammals, then you have the equine class, then under that you have horses, donkeys, mules, etc. \\n\\nAll horses, donkeys, mules have tails, the same basic shape, etc. That shape cannot be inherited from the mammals class. But it can be inherited from the equine class.\\n\\nSo put the counter in the equine class. That is a variable that is common to all your horses, donkeys, and mules.\\n\\nThen you increase it for the equine class and it automatically increases across the board for all horses, all donkeys and all mules.\\n\\nDoes this help?\\n\\nI barely know this stuff, this was literally the point I got to before going back to do more exercises etc.\",\n \"53\"\n ],\n [\n \"You have mammals, equines and horses, donkeys and mules.\\n\\nYou want to increase the counter by 2 for all creatures of the equine class.\\n\\nBut you want to increase donkeys by a factor of 2.0x, horses by 1.0x, mules by 0.5x.\\n\\nSo those are modifiers that you can put into each of those classes one time. \\n\\nYou are still increasing across the board by 2 for all of the equine class. They are inheriting that 2 from the equine class. But they modify it based on the modifiers you coded into each of the horse, donkey and mule class.\",\n \"991\"\n ],\n [\n \"Huawei also was offering incremental upgrades but more substantial than Samsung or Apple, and at much less price. They were on fire with huge increase in sales. Samsung and Apple were commanding a premium that cannot exist without government intervention. \\n\\nIf they come out with their own operating system and they hire excellent coders in C, C++ etc to make lightning fast programs to operate camera, etc, it could gain a lot of attention.\\n\\nThe android environment has gotten fat with complacency, tons of apps are coded poorly.\\n\\nHuawei has the government of China behind them. China has tons and tons of people coming out of university with advance STEM technical skills like coding low level programming languages.\\n\\nHuawei will also have the same operating system running in the phone, car, desktop computer etc. All one operating system. Probably tied in with some sort of cryptocurrency as well.\\n\\nWhat will android have? Honest question. Its very boring. Heaven forbid you need to take a picture with your blackberry camera, takes like 30 seconds to open, just a black screen.\\n\\nYes people will start to care about privacy once the war with Iran starts up and they censor anti-war opinions. People are not slabs of meat to be bought and sold and your cavilier attitude towards all this is disheartening. BB10 was the right device at the wrong time. When your youtube account is suspended for using the N word, you are gonna want off android. Your whole phone might be banned off youtube for that, permanently. Who knows. Its gonna suck for people who who also like to be caviler, people love to leave rude comments when they are taking a shit and if you take that away, watch what happens...\",\n \"781\"\n ],\n [\n \"> So basically I can use the simple rule of thumb of;\\n\\nUnfortunately things are not that simple because there are so many different bacterial types, and certain things can feed certain bacteria and those bacteria could be producing something bad, or there could be an over abundance of good bacteria which leads to negative effects, etc.\\n\\nGenerally the term as it was understood in the 80's was that Prebiotics means food that only the good bacteria can eat and the bad bacteria cannot eat, therefore you give the good bacteria a competitive advantage in a zero sum environment, which leads to more good bacteria and thereby you benefit from it.\\n\\nBut I mean <PERSON> who posts in these forums has offered some papers which seem to indicate that good prebiotic bacteria can have some negative effects.\\n\\nThen again he has IBD or something and those people should avoid prebiotics because it really upsets their gut.\\n\\nI personally tend to go with the high level, 80s perspective, that I just take a bunch of fiber and its good, but just keep on the lookout and be aware that there is that ultra low level autistic way of looking at these things, that you could be feeding Actinobacteria or something at some % that is higher than desired, leading to some sort of dysbiosis and resulting inflammation... etc etc you get the point.\\n\\nYou can't understand this whole thing at such a whole level, because so little is known about it, plus genetics are a big part. But in general its like trying to read machine code for a computer. No one person can learn enough to be able to understand it all, so you need to look at things from a high level and ignore the fine details.\\n\\n > So basically I can use the simple rule of thumb of;\\n > \\n > higher resistant starch content - > higher butyrate ?\\n\\nshort answer yes, long answer no\\n\\n > Interesting that you mention constipation, as that is something I have had the last 5 years or so, progressing to being almost completely the last 2. It wasn't until recently I started realising that fiber helped with that (psyllium*), and that my sleep became much deeper.\\n\\nYeah the fiber = sleep thing is something someone pointed out here and it stuck with me, never heard of it outside of this forum. It plus magnesium have been the only thing to really help me sleep. Everything else sucked and gave me months of insomnia.\\n\\n > Inulin gives me -massive- energy, in terms of cognitive flexibility, improved memory and cognition. Task-switching is really easy on it and I notice the effects almost instantly after I take it. A slightly higher degree of emotionality exists too when I take it.\\n\\nYeah I can go maybe 2 days without it before things start heading south fast, especially these days now that I've become more reliant on my fiber-self. My guts become upset without it and are basically talking to me telling me to take it. If I don't I return to even worse constipation, mental incompetence etc. at least for the short term.\\n\\n > Interestingly potato starch (and other starches that produces butyrate*) improves dopamine synthesis via upregulation of tyrosine hydroxylase through butyrate as an epigenetic mechanism.\\n\\nVery interesting, I have not messed with the resistant starches lately out of laziness, has just been easier to get to the grocery store as opposed to the bulk food store, but maybe I'll dip back into it. The problem is that they are a little more complex. You can't just put green banana flour in with your other flours, its a super fine dust that is super dangerous to inhale when you pour it into another container. And as for drinking it back after mixing with water, its too fine and course to drink back comfortably. You'll gag on it.\\n\\nSo you need to mix it with xantham gum, which is a water desurficant, which breaks up the surface area of the water or something, turns it into kind of like a gelly with even a very small amount. Then its easy to drink back.\\n\\nBut all of that is a huge pain compared to just mixing up inulin and psyllium husk, which easily mixes with water. The cups are easily cleaned. Etc.\",\n \"346\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah but the thing was that you could spend 500-600 on a Huawei phone and it would be nicer than a 1000 dollar Apple phone. People drop their phones in the toilet and stuff like that, so when there were sales to be made, they were going to Huawei. Now that Huawei is gonna come out with their own operating system, they are gonna make the software just as slick as their hardware and people are gonna be curious and want to switch over. The government will literally have to ban the consumer from buying the product they want. Then people are gonna argue that Android is somehow better. Thats a joke...\",\n \"781\"\n ],\n [\n \"in North America I was dealing with a company, they had not made a clear distinction between Canadian or American dollars on their site (problem has been since rectified since I complained about it), I was bitching that I was charged way more than I expected to be and was considering taking my business elsewhere, they basically said that they make too much money to care about it.\\n\\nI appreciated their brutal honesty but I would prefer that someone care about my money and call me honey. No money no honey.\",\n \"618\"\n ],\n [\n \"That's dissapointing. How about Amazon affiliates? When I used to read marketing sites, they said that the reason Amazon gave decent commisions was because they were afraid of all the affiliates teaming together and forming serious competition. I have seen that they have chipped away at the program over the years. They used to offer 25$ for anyone who sold a computer, which was really generous and was incentive enough to get me working for them, and I did enjoy the commission from computer and xbox sales, but they have since done away with that.\",\n \"598\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well this article is about methionine. From Wikipedia:\\n\\n > It is made from adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and methionine by methionine adenosyltransferase\\n\\n_URL_1_\\n\\nIt's taught in highschool biology that ATP is considered the energy molecule. So to supplement SAM-e maybe you conserve energy (ATP), and SAM-e itself is a potent energy molecule.\\n\\n > The principal methyl-donor S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) is synthesized from methionine and ATP, and participates in more cellular reactions than any other molecule except for ATP. \\n\\nSAM-e is a very potent antioxidant and \\\"well regarded\\\" as far as epigenetics go.\\n\\n > SAM is critical for the maintenance and transmission of epigenetic information. \\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\nBut no one really knows what you are doing to your body when you supplement SAM-e in huge amounts like me as far as I am aware. \\n\\n > Furthermore, models have been developed that will allow me to address fundamental questions about epigenetic stability and the effect of dietary limitations on epigenetics. To assess epigenetic stability I will use yeast reporter strains modified to evade the SAM-checkpoint and monitor histone methylation of yeast cells in SAM limiting conditions. \\n\\nSo you kind of see here in this guys thesis statement, how it is working. SAM-e interacts with many different cells, methylation occurs a lot of times per second. According to this nerd it happens\\n\\n > methylation happens more than a billion times per second in our body\\n\\n_URL_2_\\n\\nHDAC inhibition is generally regarded as good when not taken to absurd extremes. Taking a ton of SAM-e is a miracle for my mood but who knows as far as what effects it could have. If something occurs a billion times per second and I am supplementing a ton more SAM-e in my body then it naturally produces, I guess I am creating a lot of variables right.\",\n \"833\"\n ],\n [\n \"My keyone is pretty awesome but I grow very paranoid of all these different companies. I kind of want to just delete all my accounts and put all of my information on my own linux server, that way you know that you are in control of it and no hacker is poking around your data. I don't trust windows, Google, facebook, any longer and I seek to consolidate. Plus my phone is spying on me too. I do want a new phone, but its the Librem 5, so I know that I can get these snoops off my back once and for all. I'm just at a crisis where I love the physical keyboard so much, I love my chains here so to speak. This newer phone is worse in many ways but offers data privacy, the first phone to do so. So thats the only new thing that I could possibly want in a phone. It would be nice to have autonomy and hear on the news about all the data snooping, and know 100% that you are no longer liable to be exposed to that. You don't want to owe anyone anything or have any snoops on your back, its bad like credit card debt, and it must be a relief to put an end to it.\",\n \"697\"\n ],\n [\n \"lol if you think voting does anything. Our country is entirely controlled by a certain group of people. <PERSON> and <PERSON> are simply the good cop bad cop routine that stupid people fall for. Its literally the same cycle of us going over in the middle east over and over again.\\n\\nThe difference here is that <PERSON> specifically said he was not gonna start a bunch of wars in the middle east, now if he starts in with Iran, that's a little thing called \\\"lying\\\". Meanwhile <PERSON> was quite open about her Iran ambitions.\\n\\nSo you know what that makes you? That makes you a warmonger.\\n\\nAnd given what happened with the democrats criticizing <PERSON>, being a warmonger makes you what is called, a hypocrite.\",\n \"856\"\n ],\n [\n \"If our great grandparents could see what society turned into today, they would have turned around on the beaches of Normandy and went home. \\n\\n > I am not a <PERSON> supporter\\n\\nThey literally openly circumvented the democratic process by using super delegates to make sure <PERSON> didn't get the nomination. Even the \\\"super hateful\\\" daily stormer blog is pro-Bernie because he is anti-war. And they say that <PERSON> is just waiting for someone other than <PERSON> to win the democratic primaries because if he starts up with the war stuff now, <PERSON> would probably win. \\n\\nWatch now, they will start up after <PERSON> loses. Because it's not a real democracy when it is being gamed like that. This isn't our country, we are just a gun to be used in the middle east and its upsetting that you put false hope into it.\",\n \"468\"\n ],\n [\n \"i use the search function a lot. I was trying to find a sad song by <PERSON> i think. For some reason I think it is called \\\"die another day\\\" or \\\"another day\\\" or something like that. All I can find is a <PERSON> remix of the 007 movie song, which is definitely not what I am looking for.\\n\\nAs an aside, few of the songs people were mentioning in that thread seemed sad. They just seemed dark, which trance is by nature.\\n\\nThis song I am thinking of is actually sad, the lyrics are something about a love one who has departed. I just thought of it this morning for some random reason and it will pester me all day unless I can figure out what it is I'm thinking of and listen to it.\\n\\nedit: found it: <PERSON> feat. <PERSON> - Yet Another Day\",\n \"213\"\n ],\n [\n \"is buy and sell nano on binance, and buy and sell bitcoin on coinbase, still a valid option for a canadian? quadriga turned out to be a scam lol, those are the two other exchanges I used, bitgrail and quadriga. I dont want to get stuck with my dick in my ear during the ath. is there sell limits with coinbase? I know they have buy limits\",\n \"509\"\n ],\n [\n \"That is quite the question. To be clear I recommend black seed oil for epigenetic reasons (there are only few substances really shown to have these properties, butyrate being one of those few substances). I am actually unsure if black seed oil itself is prebiotic, but I guess anything you consume has an effect on your gut microbiome and I'm guessing black seed oil is favorable, possibly even prebiotic.\\n\\nAs for actual comparisons, all I can find quickly is a study on broiler chickens. In this stuff, black seed faired just a little bit better than synbiotics, but both faired well:\\n\\n_URL_0_\",\n \"346\"\n ],\n [\n \"Hooh boy, I will have to check that out. I used their backup services before I'm not sure if they were anywhere as nice when I was messin around with it. I gotta take a good look to see what I am dealing with here so I reserve the right to remain startled or even aghast.\\n\\nHonestly I am at a privacy crossroads here. I, like I said, want to use the Librem 5, but it has no physical keyboard and the virtual keyboard has aids, seems like they use an e-pen with it. Even typing here on reddit gives tons of information away that X Keyscore Evil Deepstate shit can utilize to detect my style of writing etc. \\n\\nWith what they already have, there is already not a whole lot most people can do. You can and should start becoming privacy focused starting today, but the options are pretty bad. \\n\\nAt some point the option is just to stop using it. I have a plan to delete facebook etc etc in the not too distant future. I've switched to protonmail which I pay for, some of my information is secured at least. But its a huge commitment and everyone is poor, the rich 1% \\\"illuminati\\\" took all the profits from this economic boom and most people haven't seen all this money to go out and dump it all into security etc... so the answer is to simply stop using the shit if they don't respect us... that's my takeaway\",\n \"966\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I see your perspective! Proton mail is a really good service, but here is the problem; the email you send and receive is almost never encrypted, so even though Proton doesn’t read your email, you’re still wide open. The biggest problem with email is there is no good PGP solution that works for mortal men. _URL_0_ let’s your encrypt any outgoing mail - great. But to decrypt it, the recipient has to be using _URL_0_. That’s... pretty much useless. If Blackberry (or Microsoft) could develop a platform agnostic encryption solution that works for everyone, email would finally be ‘fixed’, but as it stands, it’s the most insecure form of communication by far.\\n\\nI don't really deal with people anyways, it is incomprehensible to me that people actually use their e-mail to talk with people. I was mostly uncomfortable with all my financial alerts etc from my bank coming into Gmail, thus giving Google a complete insight into my personal finances.\\n\\nI want all the alerts I can get on my finances obviously.\\n\\nAlso I am learning coding C# and I am considering interacting with the platform programmatically, learning how to send myself my own personal alerts securely would be a useful exercise. I can alert myself to local weather conditions for example, using entirely my own code and libraries I found online.\\n\\nSo from computer program, to my e-mail, the computer could use another protonmail account (I pay for it, so I have 5) so at that point, its a secure protonmail to protonmail message, right? What other layers of security are pertinent to makin that work?\\n\\n > I work for a fortune 100 company that does business almost entirely by email, which makes it impossible to secure valuable trade secrets. I really hope someone steps up to the plate. Microsoft has the most to gain, but if Blackberry did it, I believe they would be relevant again and it would be a huge buy signal.\\n\\nYeah things are getting to the point where it actually matters. I was thinkin last night, what if you were a small business owner. They could automatically fish information into your activities and sell it to the competition, as in advising them what sort of ad campaign would be fortunate for them to run against you. And they couldnt' really try to blackmail you with the info, so that stuff would kind of just happen. Especially with social media starting to die out a little bit and people getting paranoid, they will be even more eager to utilize the information they do have, more aggressively.\\n\\n > The problem? They would need to sponsor datacenter resources at a cloud provider like Azure or AWS, and they won’t be able to afford it.\\n\\nI doubt that all this security fiasco is a result of finances, rather I am sure that the 5 eyes or whatever has passed down a direct order that all security apparatuses must be shitty, so that they can see everything that is going on. If there is any success to be had, it will be made through the blockchain or something (the internet operating as a country) (but probably nothing will happen).\",\n \"966\"\n ],\n [\n \"For those of us who were in a couple grand, it was a much better education than many university courses were and likely cheaper.\\n\\nI expected that there would be a little summer rush to shake things up (as opposed to the traditional Christmas rush), but I also expected that we're in a 3 year cycle. People are simply too depleted from that last rush to be able to finance what we saw before. Your average person is just now digging themselves out of the financial pit that they got into.\\n\\nIt will take that 3 year cycle for them to have the kind of money to be foolish with again in order to finance what we saw before. Foolish or smart. The REAL smart boys are the ones who accumulate, cuz there is no way that bitcoin is not going back up again. Mr <PERSON> coming out and banning crypto might work for a while, but could also serve as an embarassing demonstration of powerlessness since the boomer generation has never done our generation any favors, and we could in theory find a way around the cock blockage to get at our one financial opportunity.\",\n \"1008\"\n ],\n [\n \"don't bother. there are 700 bots on each server, they even have it set to send messages to you and act like a real person. there is literally a bot that goes around and tries to recruit vassals, and it will actually form a fairly complex relationship with you, even as far as small talk goes and all that jazz. it will run you through newbie/mid quests and make comments on your progress.\\n\\nthe programmers of AC really carved out the heart and soul of the game. If you want a pure experience you have to become a programmer yourself and learn how to start up a server so you can play by yourself. or log into hightide. only 2 ways to play alone. my 2p. cheers\\n\\n- <PERSON>, the 3rd\",\n \"109\"\n ],\n [\n \"BSO is very potent, just order a bottle and take it. Some days I take off because it can cause some pretty nasty acid reflux. That being said, they recommend that one takes it twice per day and I take what they recommend all at once.\\n\\nAlso brah you are mixing out on the prebiotics, again just buy it and take it, its like 5 bucks for the fiber. It makes me a different person. I have enormous learning difficulties when I'm off my fiber, the difference is night and day.\\n\\nI would not recommend those medications, they can be extremely powerful. I've read blogs where more eccentric people talk about taking them. I would not want to injure my liver or some crap, that would be a nightmare. If you are foolhardy to try it out though let me know if it turns out to be like a Limitless pill or something, that would be very intruiging to me.\",\n \"711\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well I was doing Google/Google scholar searches too, I started this forum with a focus on black seed oil, sulforphane, butyrate (produced by prebiotics) etc. I reverse engineered and came to find what substances produce the results that I was seeking. \\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\nStart off with maybe 1 teaspoon of inulin and scale it up very slowly. I'd take some sugar free metamucil (or psyllium husk fiber) along with it, maybe 2 parts inulin to 1 part psyllium. I'm now up to 8+ teaspoons of inulin every couple days but that's way too much for a beginner to handle. \\n\\nOnce you accustomed to it, scale it up. If you take it with a probiotic, be careful because you can get gassy. But it makes a world of difference, you will sleep like a champion. Don't forget that slow wave sleep is the most productive time in your day and will improve productivity during your waking day by 20%.\",\n \"41\"\n ],\n [\n \"Is this possible to set up with not any knowledge of ESP8266? Like what do I need for this? Do I need to install a speaker on the thing or whatever?\\n\\nI like to come into these things, quickly set up something useful and practical and then stop learning about them after I made something useful. For example I made a digital security camera with my raspberry pi that turned out really nice (even shuts down by script when it goes above a certain temperature etc etc). I think it might be cool to have this thing read out text or something to spook my dog once in a while. But if I'm not gonna be able to figure it out then it would be nice to know. Also what do I need to buy, just esp, cord, what else? \\n\\nThanks\",\n \"551\"\n ],\n [\n \"If ritalin didn't help you then you are kind of in a bad spot, lol. I wrote a lot of this stuff when I was high off my ass on ritalin in university. You can even get distracted on that stuff and its not particularly enjoyable, its kind of a miserable existence being on those meds. But you can learn. I'm not sure if it is worth it because it has such an emotional blunting effect, it takes years to recover, if you will ever be the same after it at all.\\n\\nI have a program called cold turkey pro that I start up when I am feeling way to distracted. It just automatically shuts of all distracting sites, games, etc for hours. I find that after a few hours I will have often gotten back into my work and started to enjoy my work. More than say 2 hours is brutal and a little too punishing however. That program cost like 20 dollars or something but its been very useful and worthwhile.\\n\\nWatch this guys entire video, its priceless for a university student: _URL_0_\\n\\nThis book is also useful: _URL_2_\\n\\nMy miracle pill was SAM-e. I take 2400 mg a day, its a huge difference when I'm not on it. Kind of sucks to have to be on something though especially since its so damn expensive. But I just can't get ramped up and motivated without it.\\n\\nSocial anxiety will ramp down over time as you age, your central nervous system slows down and you normalize. I had massive social anxiety as a teen and young man, it was nuts, but once you get into the later 20s, it stops being much of a thing. I'm still not very social but I am married etc. My wife can introduce me to people and facilitate a normal life. Part of social anxiety is just being a man, kind of like a wild dog, you are just anxious around strangers and protective over your own territory, I don't know what to tell <PERSON>\\n\\nAs for the supplements, I tried a ton of stuff and wasted a lot of money, but I truly believe that for a lot of people, if they keep testing out different stuff they will find something that works. If they don't give each thing an honest and wholehearted try then they won't be able to figure it out.\\n\\nHere is the mini book I wrote, its literally a shotgun blast of all the useful advice I could think to throw at a person, if that doesn't work then you're S. O. 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If all _____ s are beautiful, that means that all ____ s are beautiful, not that \"everything is beautiful.\" And it doesn't lose significance as a word, because it's perfectly valid to think that all things within a certain category are beautiful, since you're comparing to the set of all things rather than just what's in that category.\n\nAlso, it's not necessarily subjective to think that all things in a certain category are beautiful, as standards of beauty are based on human psychology which is physiologically based and potentially has significant common features between people.\n\nAlso, perfection can be defined as \"fulfills all criteria\" rather than being based on a relative comparison. For instance, if I'm looking for a perfect paper weight, there's an entire category of otherwise dissimilar objects within the suitable range of chemical and physical properties that will function equally and maximally well as a paper weight.\n\nPerhaps your brain is cramped in there?","378"],["If you're referring to things like \"Play Store\" those are not part of the operating system. The operating system itself has a GPL license. Phones are usually packaged with proprietary google software and won't work very well as a phone without that software (or a replacement for that software).\n\nSome people run entirely open source android phones. No Play store. No Google Maps. No google Now launcher. Etc.","781"],["Google's practices aren't particularly anti consumer with respect to Android phones. The rest of the companies you mentioned are heavily anti-consumer.\n\nThe fact is that google could be anti-consumer in the same ways but has opted to maintain an open source operating system kernel (with enough modularity that you can replace the proprietary parts completely) and sells their own phones unlocked, unlike almost everyone else.\n\nNot saying they're perfect, but since you pretty much have to have a phone in first world society, you should support the company whose practices are the least unethical.","781"],["There's no reason to think it's impossible to accomplish. The safeguard against those things is being an educated and functional democracy prior to and during the transition to communism. \n\nNone of the historically communist countries had that going for them. They started out of peasant revolts, and the illiterate peasants who barely knew what communism was, had no experience with democracy, and had no mechanism to organize and voice their complaints understandably fell under the rule of demagogues.\n\nSaying that the failure of communist states *proves* communism is inherently unsuccessful is seriously overstepping the natural conclusion from the evidence which is that \"communism probably won't work under the conditions in which it was tried.\"","778"],["ideals =/= brand. You seem to be conflating terms.\n\nEdit:\nIt might be worth considering the possibility that you're not a very cautious thinker. Jumping to conclusions about the cause of anonymous downvotes is evidence in that direction, as you have no means of knowing which part of your statement set people off. Personally, I downvoted you for your inability to discern the difference between ideals and the states that (allegedly) held those ideals; poorly thought out comments have no business being anywhere but the bottom. I understand that this sort of abstraction doesn't come naturally to everyone, but since you're on this subreddit, I'm assuming you're at least capable of some abstraction when thinking about computers, and I count this as another piece of evidence that you're the \"leap before you look\" type intellectually. I'd recommend a more tempered approach if you actually have any interest in intellectual honesty.","263"],["You do have a very distinct transition point. It's called the [ionization energy](_URL_0_) and is relatively well defined. However, in any sample, at any temperature, all you know is the [probability distribution](_URL_1_) of the kinetic energies of the particles in the sample, and it is statistically guaranteed that they will equilibrate to have nonuniform kinetic energy, even if they started with uniform kinetic energy. So there will always be less than 100% ionization of something, and the only randomness we're dealing with in the matter is the type that occurs when you have large numbers of things and incomplete information ([statistical mechanics](_URL_2_)).","700"],["Boiling is sharply mathematically defined to occur at the point where vapor pressure equals atmospheric pressure. Some molecules do exist in a transition layer outside of the liquid, and some of it does escape and become part of the surrounding gasses, but that does not mean the liquid is boiling.\n\nMelting is thought to be the temperature at which the average thermal vibration is greater in amplitude than interatomic distances. Again, some particles do not conform perfectly to the crystal lattice, as their kinetic energy is sufficiently high, but these solids have not melted.\n\nIn both cases, these definitions pertain to natural binary transitions of the *entire state of the system.* Ionization, while it's a binary transition, is a binary transition of *one particle.*","982"],["The internet is a game changer if we can keep it free. That's not a battle that's anywhere near decided. Plenty of people don't understand and don't care about the relationship between freedom of information and privacy on the internet and are instead easily swayed by security-centric arguments like \"encryption helps criminals\" without the complementary understanding that \"encryption prevents surveillance from everyone and this guarantees freedom of information.\"","779"],["Agreed. I think about all the time wasted in school doing useless crap instead, and it's infuriating. I remember in 4th grade I had an hour long daily class where we learned about \"Colorado History,\" and another year in elementary school we had an hour long section where learned how to do academic research projects (incorrectly and about 6 years too early). And they were still drilling us on basic arithmetic until the end of elementary school, as though memorizing tables of arithmetic has some value after you learn the basic procedure.... ugh. \n\nYeah, more than enough room for epistemology and ethics in there.","832"],["Fuck everything you just said. A **third party** claimed sexual assault. That deserves every measure of scrutiny that can be leveled at it.\n\nEdit: And, speaking in general, people should be defended against unfair accusations. It being a sexual assault charge does not change that the accusation is based on flawed premises. The fact that people are emotional about an issue does not mean we should regress to pre-enlightenment concepts of justice where we destroy people's lives and reputations the moment a finger gets pointed.","878"],["The emails are the primary topic of this whole fiasco. If you aren't even willing to look those up for yourself and read them, you really shouldn't be talking either way. Plenty of people in this thread have linked to them, and you can find them easily online.\n\nSorry I don't feel like reposting the material that everyone should have found and read as a prerequisite for responsibly talking about this subject..","452"],["> what’s the difference between saying sexist things because you’re sexist and saying sexist things because you “don’t understand gender politics very well”\n\nAh. Clever word trap you've devised. I'll just sidestep that.\n\n**None of these examples involve him saying sexist things for any reason**. Happy? Problem solved? I'm going to guess not, since you ignored what I was saying in that last post about none of those things being sexist. I'm going to guess it was too long for you or something silly like that.\n\n**Some things that make women uncomfortable or bother feminists are sexist. Not all things that make women uncomfortable or bother feminists are sexist.**","181"],["Posting the rest since they actually define the term aggregate. Apparently that's the wrong term. The open source definition says absolutely nothing about a single program with proprietary and non-proprietary components, whereas it's expressly forbidden by the GPL.\n\n > An “aggregate” consists of a number of separate programs, distributed together on the same CD-ROM or other media. The GPL permits you to create and distribute an aggregate, even when the licenses of the other software are nonfree or GPL-incompatible. The only condition is that you cannot release the aggregate under a license that prohibits users from exercising rights that each program's individual license would grant them.\n\n > Where's the line between two separate programs, and one program with two parts? This is a legal question, which ultimately judges will decide. We believe that a proper criterion depends both on the mechanism of communication (exec, pipes, rpc, function calls within a shared address space, etc.) and the semantics of the communication (what kinds of information are interchanged).\n\n > If the modules are included in the same executable file, they are definitely combined in one program. If modules are designed to run linked together in a shared address space, that almost surely means combining them into one program.\n\n > By contrast, pipes, sockets and command-line arguments are communication mechanisms normally used between two separate programs. So when they are used for communication, the modules normally are separate programs. But if the semantics of the communication are intimate enough, exchanging complex internal data structures, that too could be a basis to consider the two parts as combined into a larger program.\n\nYou probably shouldn't bother responding to this: It's more for other people to see than you. In any case, I won't be notified that you responded.","440"],["> Subscribe to Csail-related by filling out the following form. You will be sent email requesting confirmation, to prevent others from gratuitously subscribing you. Once confirmation is received, your request will be held for approval by the list moderator. You will be notified of the moderator's decision by email. **This is also a private list**, which means that the list of members is not available to non-members.\n\nDo they?","546"],["> Assuming she was being coerced by <PERSON>, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.\n\nYou should take your own advice. Because this sentence is a direct followup to that sentence. It's his justification for that previous sentence. And his justification is that <PERSON>, the man we're assuming is coercing her, would have told her to conceal his coercion.\n\nIt's really funny how you tell me to look at the whole letter and then send the part that you like in isolation from the part that makes your interpretation wrong.\n\nI'm done talking to you, btw. I have no interest in people who simply can not understand nuanced English.","603"],["Could not disagree more with this rhetoric:\n\n > RMS treated the problem as being “let’s make sure we don’t criticize <PERSON> unfairly”, when the problem was actually, “how can we come to terms with a history of MIT’s institutional neglect of its responsibilities toward women and its apparent complicity with <PERSON>’s crimes”.\n\nRMS addressing the first issue in no way minimizes the second. That's a line of bullshit. By that logic, he should have been ousted a long time ago for not coming out and pledging his condemation of MIT's institutional neglect. It's a completely different subject from the specific one he was addressing with <PERSON>, and neither subject is exclusive of the other.\n\nIt's also dishonest to portray events as being the result of that. This fiasco is the direct result of dishonest media coverage and subsequent mob behavior.","859"],["It's amazing that you're a moderator here, yet I've seen you support pretty much every mischaracterization of the issue. And I've seen a suspicious number of your replies attached to [removed] posts. I suspect this will become one of them. You behave extremely irresponsibly given your position.\n\nBut to clarify, a witness claims that <PERSON> turned her down, and <PERSON> was not known to traffic sex workers in 2001, given that the first allegations came out in 2005.","504"],["It does make it so much better that he didn't say they consented.\n\nThink about if you were running a criminal enterprise, coercing your workers. Would you want your workers to be telling as many people as possible about your criminal dealings that might land you in prison? No. You'd threaten them to keep their mouths shut and act normal. That is what <PERSON> is saying, and it's a fine and reasonable thing to say.","402"],["> We do already live in that world - this is nothing new. Excluding some specific examples of protected speech, your employer can fire you for pretty much anything you say. At-will employment laws have only made that more the case.\n\nWhy is it concerning to make complaints against the current state of affairs? This isn't some fundamental truth of the world; it's just where we are right now, and it should be changed.\n\n > I'm not 100% sure this is an example of that anyway. Certainly his position at the FSF was a position of representing the organisation. I can't figure out what exactly he did for CSAIL at this point though, so I can't speak for that.\n\nI'm 100% sure that he's being removed from organizations for expressing some fairly harmless views in what is normally a low-visibility medium because the public was riled up by headlines that were lies and interpretations that were extremely slanted. I don't want to live my whole life in a world where this kind of thing happens every day to people. It's a bad situation.","402"],["> Would you prefer that employers be forced to hire someone who hurts their business?\n\nYes. If everyone had to do it, it wouldn't be significant. And I'm not really all that inclined to force people to hire someone they don't like. I am inclined to prevent them from firing people who are functional employees but express beliefs that the company doesn't endorse. Obviously your example about schools is different, since they're directly acting against their critical job functions.","402"],["> There is always an inherent power imbalance that cannot be ignored.\n\nThere are conceivable situations where this could be false. The power imbalance is typically inherent to it being a relative in a family power structure. A particularly capable child could be much more aware of the situation than a typical adult as well as situated in a position of higher power due to circumstance. And they could also be unrelated to the power structures that govern eachother's lives. Also, these concerns about power imbalance apply no less to adults than to children.\n\n > A child cannot consent because a child does not even know what they are consenting to and is easily manipulated by an adult (and not just by their relatives).\n\nSome children are very smart. Certainly that understanding comes with experience and intelligence and not magically with age.\n\n > There is no \"scientific study\" that supports that idea. There is just bullshit from people trying to justify taking advantage of a child.\n\nYour opinion on whether the peer-reviewed study in question is scientific is of no consequence. I somehow doubt you've even looked it up. You seem to be speaking almost entirely from a place of emotion.\n\nRegardless of your opinion, <PERSON> ackowledged the consent concerns and provided what he believed was a scientific study. You can assert what you want though, and I'll take it as what is is, an assertion.","292"],["> Under pressure or not, that's not the same as being fired\n\nIt's the same problem if the conversation went like this: \"You can go quietly or we can fire you\"\n\n > So if we want to fight against being able to fire people for stupid reasons, let's do that rather than getting bogged down in a specific case that doesn't even involve someone getting fired.\n\nI am not bogged down here. I have numerous issues with how this is playing out. The next time someone is fired and it strikes me as unjust, I'll be sure to voice my opinion then as well. Same for if it comes up in discussion.","402"],["Your characterization has some flaws. Let me fix that for you:\n\n > If a well known, ~~sleazy trafficker~~ well respected billionaire ~~offers me~~ hosts a conference at which ~~a 17 year old girl~~ a young, plausibly adult, woman of indeterminate age propositions me for sex\n\nThat's what he's saying happened. This was in 2001, and <PERSON> had not been accused by anyone at this point. And he's not saying <PERSON> directly offered anything to anyone.","504"],["> Are you suggesting that <PERSON> went their as a kind of researcher in disguise?\n\nNo one is saying that \n\n > Because as far as I know he went their because he wanted to have a good time with a group of rather creepy people, many of which were rapists.\n\nNo, he went there to host a conference with other prominent researchers, sci-fi authors, and other interested parties. <PERSON> brought the underage girls. Do you actually have any evidence \"many\" of those people were rapists? You're just irresponsibly throwing out accusations because that's the kind of careless person you are.","504"],["> If your turning up and staying at a conference where there are underage sex slaves something is wrong with you.\n\nYou mean *you're*, btw.\n\nGotcha, so if you show up at a venue where there happen to be underage sex slaves, even if there's no way for you to know that there are underage sex slaves, there's something wrong with you.\n\nGlad you clarified that.\n\nI'll go and waste my words on some slightly more sane people.","894"],["Correcting your grammar was incidental. My points stand on their own. Interesting how you latched onto that small extraneous part rather than the meat of what I was saying.\n\n > How many ordinary people just happen to hang around the kind of people who own sex slaves?\n\nImpossible to know. For all you and I know you hang around the kind of people who own sex slaves.\n\n > Hanging around that kind of person is a clear sign that your not a great guy.\n\nGuilt by association is silly enough. Guilt by association when you're ignorant of your associate's crimes is utterly baseless. I think that throwing out accusations without a shred of evidence makes you a pretty terrible person, but I'm not going to get on your case for all of those pedophilic sex slavers you may or may not be associating with without your knowledge.","219"],["> They seem to think they have to worship everything about <PERSON> to support some of the ideas he had or started. you don't.\n\nI've seen mostly the opposite perspective. \"You have to hate everything about <PERSON> and condemn him because he's a toe-cheese eating neck beard who unsettles women and smells bad and has wrong opinions. And he's ruining the free software movement by association, and that's why you should ignore that people have destroyed his reputation on the basis of blatant lies.\"","249"],["> You honestly think that it’s a vaguely common thing for people to have underage sex slaves?\n\nNo, I don't, and that wasn't my point. Too subtle, I suppose. I was pointing out that you don't know if you know any sex slavers, so you don't actually have any idea if you're also a weirdo monster who's guilty by association. I find that to be hilarious that you, by your own standard, could be just as guilty as the people you're criticizing.\n\n > Normal people don’t go to parties where there are underage sex slaves.\n\nI don't really give a shit if people are *normal*. I actually pity people who are overly concerned with normalizing themselves, so you have my sympathies for your condition.\n\nI care if people are *ethical*. If you don't know a crime is happening, you shouldn't be held accountable for being near it.\n\nI really have to be moving on. Courtesy notice that I've blocked you.","544"],["> The report calls for the public to be consulted “early and often” about the ethical issues that neural implants throw up\n\nAsking \"the public\" this early on about what they think about normal, healthy people walking around with surgically implanted brain chips sounds like a great way to get a good thing crippled or banned.","772"],["I've asked some people if they would replace one of their body parts with a hypothetical synthetic version that looks and feels like a normal body part but is better in every parameter, and quite a few have given responses like \"There's no way you could improve on what God gave you\" or \"But it wouldn't be me anymore.\" I'm by no means capable of providing a representative scientific sample of people's opinions, but I found these to be common enough that I worry about how those types of people might stifle the development of technologies that could transform all of human existence for the better.\n\nIf those opinions are common enough, or if a coalition of such oppositional opinions is large enough, they could create a legal climate early on that stifles body modification like this in the developmental phase, thwarting it before it can even get a significant population of human testers to showcase its potential.","772"],["Poisoning the well indeed. How about you back up your positions with logic rather than **guesses** that generalize the group affiliation of your opponents without evidence.\n\nYou're also wrong. It's extremely easy to spot alt-right types, because they're either suspiciously new accounts or they post on alt-right boards. And this is extremely visible, given that there exist extensions and user scripts that search for exactly these patterns. They constitute a very small number of the people posting here.\n\nThis sort of speculation is reprehensible.","965"],["> they always attack the free software movement whenever they have the chance.\n\nI agree with your observation. It's certainly convenient, and I dislike their influence on open source projects and the community at large. This is one of the reasons I dislike the <PERSON> approach to open source; I'd rather the community be smaller and have solidarity in the values of free software than to make compromises for resources at the price of slowly undermining our interests.","370"],["> However, there's also right wing people here trying to drive a wedge between the people who like diversity and more general free software types\n\nThe right wing people are unnecessary for the creation of this wedge. I would argue that few right wing people have been involved at all. The wedge is created by the differences between those who are careful not to destroy a man based on false assertions and those who are so morally outraged they don't care about the lies and will dig as far back as they feel into his past for more dirt to justify their outrage. And then they stretch the truth of what dirt they found anyway to make it seem worse than it is. Like his statements about pedophilia which included peer reviewed research and were qualified with a disclaimer explaining a range of cases in which a child's consent would be invalid, which should have established that he's open to logical explanations of why a child's consent might not be valid, but instead were interpreted flatly as \"<PERSON> is pro pedophilia.\" Saying there's no witch hunt when people are trying this hard to stretch the truth is laughable.\n\nAnd that email you quoted is largely irrelevant to how we should feel about this issue. It's pure opinion. And it was posted by someone who remains anonymous. Also it was one person's opinion, so characterizing it as \"<PERSON>'s own colleagues\" is another misrepresentation.","965"],["Granted.\n\nThis is big news. Governments around the world quickly implement systems to help shoppers reclaim their possessions. Millions of individuals worldwide are now employed doing previously unnecessary bureaucratic work to operate these new government programs. \n\nHomeless shelters become heavily regulated and licensed as governments seek to ensure proper accounting of people's property and minimize the financial burden of tracking and relocating people's property across so many locations. many smaller shelters close their doors, unable to meet the newly imposed regulatory demands.\n\nAs a minor side effect, having shopping carts in parking lots becomes illegal in many places, being seen as a convenience not worth all of the trouble. The same people who were once leaving shopping carts in their parking spots are now inconveniencing everyone by pulling their vehicles directly up to the storefront and putting on their emergency lights when they check out. Parking lots become significantly less navigable, as the queue for parking at the storefront backs up into the rest of the lot.","681"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"No.. If all _____ s are beautiful, that means that all ____ s are beautiful, not that \\\"everything is beautiful.\\\" And it doesn't lose significance as a word, because it's perfectly valid to think that all things within a certain category are beautiful, since you're comparing to the set of all things rather than just what's in that category.\\n\\nAlso, it's not necessarily subjective to think that all things in a certain category are beautiful, as standards of beauty are based on human psychology which is physiologically based and potentially has significant common features between people.\\n\\nAlso, perfection can be defined as \\\"fulfills all criteria\\\" rather than being based on a relative comparison. For instance, if I'm looking for a perfect paper weight, there's an entire category of otherwise dissimilar objects within the suitable range of chemical and physical properties that will function equally and maximally well as a paper weight.\\n\\nPerhaps your brain is cramped in there?\",\n \"378\"\n ],\n [\n \"If you're referring to things like \\\"Play Store\\\" those are not part of the operating system. The operating system itself has a GPL license. Phones are usually packaged with proprietary google software and won't work very well as a phone without that software (or a replacement for that software).\\n\\nSome people run entirely open source android phones. No Play store. No Google Maps. No google Now launcher. Etc.\",\n \"781\"\n ],\n [\n \"Google's practices aren't particularly anti consumer with respect to Android phones. The rest of the companies you mentioned are heavily anti-consumer.\\n\\nThe fact is that google could be anti-consumer in the same ways but has opted to maintain an open source operating system kernel (with enough modularity that you can replace the proprietary parts completely) and sells their own phones unlocked, unlike almost everyone else.\\n\\nNot saying they're perfect, but since you pretty much have to have a phone in first world society, you should support the company whose practices are the least unethical.\",\n \"781\"\n ],\n [\n \"There's no reason to think it's impossible to accomplish. The safeguard against those things is being an educated and functional democracy prior to and during the transition to communism. \\n\\nNone of the historically communist countries had that going for them. They started out of peasant revolts, and the illiterate peasants who barely knew what communism was, had no experience with democracy, and had no mechanism to organize and voice their complaints understandably fell under the rule of demagogues.\\n\\nSaying that the failure of communist states *proves* communism is inherently unsuccessful is seriously overstepping the natural conclusion from the evidence which is that \\\"communism probably won't work under the conditions in which it was tried.\\\"\",\n \"778\"\n ],\n [\n \"ideals =/= brand. You seem to be conflating terms.\\n\\nEdit:\\nIt might be worth considering the possibility that you're not a very cautious thinker. Jumping to conclusions about the cause of anonymous downvotes is evidence in that direction, as you have no means of knowing which part of your statement set people off. Personally, I downvoted you for your inability to discern the difference between ideals and the states that (allegedly) held those ideals; poorly thought out comments have no business being anywhere but the bottom. I understand that this sort of abstraction doesn't come naturally to everyone, but since you're on this subreddit, I'm assuming you're at least capable of some abstraction when thinking about computers, and I count this as another piece of evidence that you're the \\\"leap before you look\\\" type intellectually. I'd recommend a more tempered approach if you actually have any interest in intellectual honesty.\",\n \"263\"\n ],\n [\n \"You do have a very distinct transition point. It's called the [ionization energy](_URL_0_) and is relatively well defined. However, in any sample, at any temperature, all you know is the [probability distribution](_URL_1_) of the kinetic energies of the particles in the sample, and it is statistically guaranteed that they will equilibrate to have nonuniform kinetic energy, even if they started with uniform kinetic energy. So there will always be less than 100% ionization of something, and the only randomness we're dealing with in the matter is the type that occurs when you have large numbers of things and incomplete information ([statistical mechanics](_URL_2_)).\",\n \"700\"\n ],\n [\n \"Boiling is sharply mathematically defined to occur at the point where vapor pressure equals atmospheric pressure. Some molecules do exist in a transition layer outside of the liquid, and some of it does escape and become part of the surrounding gasses, but that does not mean the liquid is boiling.\\n\\nMelting is thought to be the temperature at which the average thermal vibration is greater in amplitude than interatomic distances. Again, some particles do not conform perfectly to the crystal lattice, as their kinetic energy is sufficiently high, but these solids have not melted.\\n\\nIn both cases, these definitions pertain to natural binary transitions of the *entire state of the system.* Ionization, while it's a binary transition, is a binary transition of *one particle.*\",\n \"982\"\n ],\n [\n \"The internet is a game changer if we can keep it free. That's not a battle that's anywhere near decided. Plenty of people don't understand and don't care about the relationship between freedom of information and privacy on the internet and are instead easily swayed by security-centric arguments like \\\"encryption helps criminals\\\" without the complementary understanding that \\\"encryption prevents surveillance from everyone and this guarantees freedom of information.\\\"\",\n \"779\"\n ],\n [\n \"Agreed. I think about all the time wasted in school doing useless crap instead, and it's infuriating. I remember in 4th grade I had an hour long daily class where we learned about \\\"Colorado History,\\\" and another year in elementary school we had an hour long section where learned how to do academic research projects (incorrectly and about 6 years too early). And they were still drilling us on basic arithmetic until the end of elementary school, as though memorizing tables of arithmetic has some value after you learn the basic procedure.... ugh. \\n\\nYeah, more than enough room for epistemology and ethics in there.\",\n \"832\"\n ],\n [\n \"Fuck everything you just said. A **third party** claimed sexual assault. That deserves every measure of scrutiny that can be leveled at it.\\n\\nEdit: And, speaking in general, people should be defended against unfair accusations. It being a sexual assault charge does not change that the accusation is based on flawed premises. The fact that people are emotional about an issue does not mean we should regress to pre-enlightenment concepts of justice where we destroy people's lives and reputations the moment a finger gets pointed.\",\n \"878\"\n ],\n [\n \"The emails are the primary topic of this whole fiasco. If you aren't even willing to look those up for yourself and read them, you really shouldn't be talking either way. Plenty of people in this thread have linked to them, and you can find them easily online.\\n\\nSorry I don't feel like reposting the material that everyone should have found and read as a prerequisite for responsibly talking about this subject..\",\n \"452\"\n ],\n [\n \"> what’s the difference between saying sexist things because you’re sexist and saying sexist things because you “don’t understand gender politics very well”\\n\\nAh. Clever word trap you've devised. I'll just sidestep that.\\n\\n**None of these examples involve him saying sexist things for any reason**. Happy? Problem solved? I'm going to guess not, since you ignored what I was saying in that last post about none of those things being sexist. I'm going to guess it was too long for you or something silly like that.\\n\\n**Some things that make women uncomfortable or bother feminists are sexist. Not all things that make women uncomfortable or bother feminists are sexist.**\",\n \"181\"\n ],\n [\n \"Posting the rest since they actually define the term aggregate. Apparently that's the wrong term. The open source definition says absolutely nothing about a single program with proprietary and non-proprietary components, whereas it's expressly forbidden by the GPL.\\n\\n > An “aggregate” consists of a number of separate programs, distributed together on the same CD-ROM or other media. The GPL permits you to create and distribute an aggregate, even when the licenses of the other software are nonfree or GPL-incompatible. The only condition is that you cannot release the aggregate under a license that prohibits users from exercising rights that each program's individual license would grant them.\\n\\n > Where's the line between two separate programs, and one program with two parts? This is a legal question, which ultimately judges will decide. We believe that a proper criterion depends both on the mechanism of communication (exec, pipes, rpc, function calls within a shared address space, etc.) and the semantics of the communication (what kinds of information are interchanged).\\n\\n > If the modules are included in the same executable file, they are definitely combined in one program. If modules are designed to run linked together in a shared address space, that almost surely means combining them into one program.\\n\\n > By contrast, pipes, sockets and command-line arguments are communication mechanisms normally used between two separate programs. So when they are used for communication, the modules normally are separate programs. But if the semantics of the communication are intimate enough, exchanging complex internal data structures, that too could be a basis to consider the two parts as combined into a larger program.\\n\\nYou probably shouldn't bother responding to this: It's more for other people to see than you. In any case, I won't be notified that you responded.\",\n \"440\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Subscribe to Csail-related by filling out the following form. You will be sent email requesting confirmation, to prevent others from gratuitously subscribing you. Once confirmation is received, your request will be held for approval by the list moderator. You will be notified of the moderator's decision by email. **This is also a private list**, which means that the list of members is not available to non-members.\\n\\nDo they?\",\n \"546\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Assuming she was being coerced by <PERSON>, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.\\n\\nYou should take your own advice. Because this sentence is a direct followup to that sentence. It's his justification for that previous sentence. And his justification is that <PERSON>, the man we're assuming is coercing her, would have told her to conceal his coercion.\\n\\nIt's really funny how you tell me to look at the whole letter and then send the part that you like in isolation from the part that makes your interpretation wrong.\\n\\nI'm done talking to you, btw. I have no interest in people who simply can not understand nuanced English.\",\n \"603\"\n ],\n [\n \"Could not disagree more with this rhetoric:\\n\\n > RMS treated the problem as being “let’s make sure we don’t criticize <PERSON> unfairly”, when the problem was actually, “how can we come to terms with a history of MIT’s institutional neglect of its responsibilities toward women and its apparent complicity with <PERSON>’s crimes”.\\n\\nRMS addressing the first issue in no way minimizes the second. That's a line of bullshit. By that logic, he should have been ousted a long time ago for not coming out and pledging his condemation of MIT's institutional neglect. It's a completely different subject from the specific one he was addressing with <PERSON>, and neither subject is exclusive of the other.\\n\\nIt's also dishonest to portray events as being the result of that. This fiasco is the direct result of dishonest media coverage and subsequent mob behavior.\",\n \"859\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's amazing that you're a moderator here, yet I've seen you support pretty much every mischaracterization of the issue. And I've seen a suspicious number of your replies attached to [removed] posts. I suspect this will become one of them. You behave extremely irresponsibly given your position.\\n\\nBut to clarify, a witness claims that <PERSON> turned her down, and <PERSON> was not known to traffic sex workers in 2001, given that the first allegations came out in 2005.\",\n \"504\"\n ],\n [\n \"It does make it so much better that he didn't say they consented.\\n\\nThink about if you were running a criminal enterprise, coercing your workers. Would you want your workers to be telling as many people as possible about your criminal dealings that might land you in prison? No. You'd threaten them to keep their mouths shut and act normal. That is what <PERSON> is saying, and it's a fine and reasonable thing to say.\",\n \"402\"\n ],\n [\n \"> We do already live in that world - this is nothing new. Excluding some specific examples of protected speech, your employer can fire you for pretty much anything you say. At-will employment laws have only made that more the case.\\n\\nWhy is it concerning to make complaints against the current state of affairs? This isn't some fundamental truth of the world; it's just where we are right now, and it should be changed.\\n\\n > I'm not 100% sure this is an example of that anyway. Certainly his position at the FSF was a position of representing the organisation. I can't figure out what exactly he did for CSAIL at this point though, so I can't speak for that.\\n\\nI'm 100% sure that he's being removed from organizations for expressing some fairly harmless views in what is normally a low-visibility medium because the public was riled up by headlines that were lies and interpretations that were extremely slanted. I don't want to live my whole life in a world where this kind of thing happens every day to people. It's a bad situation.\",\n \"402\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Would you prefer that employers be forced to hire someone who hurts their business?\\n\\nYes. If everyone had to do it, it wouldn't be significant. And I'm not really all that inclined to force people to hire someone they don't like. I am inclined to prevent them from firing people who are functional employees but express beliefs that the company doesn't endorse. Obviously your example about schools is different, since they're directly acting against their critical job functions.\",\n \"402\"\n ],\n [\n \"> There is always an inherent power imbalance that cannot be ignored.\\n\\nThere are conceivable situations where this could be false. The power imbalance is typically inherent to it being a relative in a family power structure. A particularly capable child could be much more aware of the situation than a typical adult as well as situated in a position of higher power due to circumstance. And they could also be unrelated to the power structures that govern eachother's lives. Also, these concerns about power imbalance apply no less to adults than to children.\\n\\n > A child cannot consent because a child does not even know what they are consenting to and is easily manipulated by an adult (and not just by their relatives).\\n\\nSome children are very smart. Certainly that understanding comes with experience and intelligence and not magically with age.\\n\\n > There is no \\\"scientific study\\\" that supports that idea. There is just bullshit from people trying to justify taking advantage of a child.\\n\\nYour opinion on whether the peer-reviewed study in question is scientific is of no consequence. I somehow doubt you've even looked it up. You seem to be speaking almost entirely from a place of emotion.\\n\\nRegardless of your opinion, <PERSON> ackowledged the consent concerns and provided what he believed was a scientific study. You can assert what you want though, and I'll take it as what is is, an assertion.\",\n \"292\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Under pressure or not, that's not the same as being fired\\n\\nIt's the same problem if the conversation went like this: \\\"You can go quietly or we can fire you\\\"\\n\\n > So if we want to fight against being able to fire people for stupid reasons, let's do that rather than getting bogged down in a specific case that doesn't even involve someone getting fired.\\n\\nI am not bogged down here. I have numerous issues with how this is playing out. The next time someone is fired and it strikes me as unjust, I'll be sure to voice my opinion then as well. Same for if it comes up in discussion.\",\n \"402\"\n ],\n [\n \"Your characterization has some flaws. Let me fix that for you:\\n\\n > If a well known, ~~sleazy trafficker~~ well respected billionaire ~~offers me~~ hosts a conference at which ~~a 17 year old girl~~ a young, plausibly adult, woman of indeterminate age propositions me for sex\\n\\nThat's what he's saying happened. This was in 2001, and <PERSON> had not been accused by anyone at this point. And he's not saying <PERSON> directly offered anything to anyone.\",\n \"504\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Are you suggesting that <PERSON> went their as a kind of researcher in disguise?\\n\\nNo one is saying that \\n\\n > Because as far as I know he went their because he wanted to have a good time with a group of rather creepy people, many of which were rapists.\\n\\nNo, he went there to host a conference with other prominent researchers, sci-fi authors, and other interested parties. <PERSON> brought the underage girls. Do you actually have any evidence \\\"many\\\" of those people were rapists? You're just irresponsibly throwing out accusations because that's the kind of careless person you are.\",\n \"504\"\n ],\n [\n \"> If your turning up and staying at a conference where there are underage sex slaves something is wrong with you.\\n\\nYou mean *you're*, btw.\\n\\nGotcha, so if you show up at a venue where there happen to be underage sex slaves, even if there's no way for you to know that there are underage sex slaves, there's something wrong with you.\\n\\nGlad you clarified that.\\n\\nI'll go and waste my words on some slightly more sane people.\",\n \"894\"\n ],\n [\n \"Correcting your grammar was incidental. My points stand on their own. Interesting how you latched onto that small extraneous part rather than the meat of what I was saying.\\n\\n > How many ordinary people just happen to hang around the kind of people who own sex slaves?\\n\\nImpossible to know. For all you and I know you hang around the kind of people who own sex slaves.\\n\\n > Hanging around that kind of person is a clear sign that your not a great guy.\\n\\nGuilt by association is silly enough. Guilt by association when you're ignorant of your associate's crimes is utterly baseless. I think that throwing out accusations without a shred of evidence makes you a pretty terrible person, but I'm not going to get on your case for all of those pedophilic sex slavers you may or may not be associating with without your knowledge.\",\n \"219\"\n ],\n [\n \"> They seem to think they have to worship everything about <PERSON> to support some of the ideas he had or started. you don't.\\n\\nI've seen mostly the opposite perspective. \\\"You have to hate everything about <PERSON> and condemn him because he's a toe-cheese eating neck beard who unsettles women and smells bad and has wrong opinions. And he's ruining the free software movement by association, and that's why you should ignore that people have destroyed his reputation on the basis of blatant lies.\\\"\",\n \"249\"\n ],\n [\n \"> You honestly think that it’s a vaguely common thing for people to have underage sex slaves?\\n\\nNo, I don't, and that wasn't my point. Too subtle, I suppose. I was pointing out that you don't know if you know any sex slavers, so you don't actually have any idea if you're also a weirdo monster who's guilty by association. I find that to be hilarious that you, by your own standard, could be just as guilty as the people you're criticizing.\\n\\n > Normal people don’t go to parties where there are underage sex slaves.\\n\\nI don't really give a shit if people are *normal*. I actually pity people who are overly concerned with normalizing themselves, so you have my sympathies for your condition.\\n\\nI care if people are *ethical*. If you don't know a crime is happening, you shouldn't be held accountable for being near it.\\n\\nI really have to be moving on. Courtesy notice that I've blocked you.\",\n \"544\"\n ],\n [\n \"> The report calls for the public to be consulted “early and often” about the ethical issues that neural implants throw up\\n\\nAsking \\\"the public\\\" this early on about what they think about normal, healthy people walking around with surgically implanted brain chips sounds like a great way to get a good thing crippled or banned.\",\n \"772\"\n ],\n [\n \"I've asked some people if they would replace one of their body parts with a hypothetical synthetic version that looks and feels like a normal body part but is better in every parameter, and quite a few have given responses like \\\"There's no way you could improve on what God gave you\\\" or \\\"But it wouldn't be me anymore.\\\" I'm by no means capable of providing a representative scientific sample of people's opinions, but I found these to be common enough that I worry about how those types of people might stifle the development of technologies that could transform all of human existence for the better.\\n\\nIf those opinions are common enough, or if a coalition of such oppositional opinions is large enough, they could create a legal climate early on that stifles body modification like this in the developmental phase, thwarting it before it can even get a significant population of human testers to showcase its potential.\",\n \"772\"\n ],\n [\n \"Poisoning the well indeed. How about you back up your positions with logic rather than **guesses** that generalize the group affiliation of your opponents without evidence.\\n\\nYou're also wrong. It's extremely easy to spot alt-right types, because they're either suspiciously new accounts or they post on alt-right boards. And this is extremely visible, given that there exist extensions and user scripts that search for exactly these patterns. They constitute a very small number of the people posting here.\\n\\nThis sort of speculation is reprehensible.\",\n \"965\"\n ],\n [\n \"> they always attack the free software movement whenever they have the chance.\\n\\nI agree with your observation. It's certainly convenient, and I dislike their influence on open source projects and the community at large. This is one of the reasons I dislike the <PERSON> approach to open source; I'd rather the community be smaller and have solidarity in the values of free software than to make compromises for resources at the price of slowly undermining our interests.\",\n \"370\"\n ],\n [\n \"> However, there's also right wing people here trying to drive a wedge between the people who like diversity and more general free software types\\n\\nThe right wing people are unnecessary for the creation of this wedge. I would argue that few right wing people have been involved at all. The wedge is created by the differences between those who are careful not to destroy a man based on false assertions and those who are so morally outraged they don't care about the lies and will dig as far back as they feel into his past for more dirt to justify their outrage. And then they stretch the truth of what dirt they found anyway to make it seem worse than it is. Like his statements about pedophilia which included peer reviewed research and were qualified with a disclaimer explaining a range of cases in which a child's consent would be invalid, which should have established that he's open to logical explanations of why a child's consent might not be valid, but instead were interpreted flatly as \\\"<PERSON> is pro pedophilia.\\\" Saying there's no witch hunt when people are trying this hard to stretch the truth is laughable.\\n\\nAnd that email you quoted is largely irrelevant to how we should feel about this issue. It's pure opinion. And it was posted by someone who remains anonymous. Also it was one person's opinion, so characterizing it as \\\"<PERSON>'s own colleagues\\\" is another misrepresentation.\",\n \"965\"\n ],\n [\n \"Granted.\\n\\nThis is big news. Governments around the world quickly implement systems to help shoppers reclaim their possessions. Millions of individuals worldwide are now employed doing previously unnecessary bureaucratic work to operate these new government programs. \\n\\nHomeless shelters become heavily regulated and licensed as governments seek to ensure proper accounting of people's property and minimize the financial burden of tracking and relocating people's property across so many locations. many smaller shelters close their doors, unable to meet the newly imposed regulatory demands.\\n\\nAs a minor side effect, having shopping carts in parking lots becomes illegal in many places, being seen as a convenience not worth all of the trouble. The same people who were once leaving shopping carts in their parking spots are now inconveniencing everyone by pulling their vehicles directly up to the storefront and putting on their emergency lights when they check out. 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As a driver, it's extremely, very annoying when people are hesitating at an intersection, you stop to let them cross, and they still spend two or three seconds seemingly just making sure that you are *really* stopped, as if you are just fucking with them and could launch for the Moon at any moment. I often have to wave people through, they are so indecisive.\n\nHere is what I do. Make eye contact with the driver, so you know they have acknowledged your existence; this is important. Make to cross. They will start slowing down, now you can really cross. I'm am not sure if it would work in America, but where I live, I never had a problem. Just don't be so indecisive. If people have already started slowing down, you gain nothing by wasting their time and yours too.","523"],["> And there's no legal requirement that Twitch not do that - in fact, they have no obligation to host any content whatsoever.\n\nWhich is fucking stupid, IMO. They are providing a service to you and they make money out of it. You are also a content creator of theirs, without whom the platform could literally not function. At that point, it should be their legal responsibility to provide a reasonable service and to treat you with respect and in good faith. This wild west thing on the internet isn't cutting it anymore, it's just making giant firms tons of money while letting individuals suffer and even lose their income. It's bullshit.","138"],["Look, once I am stopped, as in, not moving, not even an inch, what gain is there for someone to just stand and stare at me like a cow at a fence post they haven't seen before. There is literally no reason. \nI have already decided 5 seconds ago that I will stop for you. You most likely watched me come to a dead stop. I am looking at you. There is no reason on god's green earth no to get a move on. It has *nothing* to do with safety. Zero. 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What I'm saying is, it's objectively wrong because it leads to a great power imbalance and abuse. \nThe content provider has no recourse against Twitch and Youtube, and they can kill their business or *just* their hobby channel that they spent a thousand hours making content for, and from which Youtube likely profited, for no wrongdoing whatsoever. Or, as an Android developer, Google could ban me for life and make me hardly employable because I used the word 'windows' in one of my app descriptions and their stupid bot \"thought\" I was impersonating MS - and yes, this shit happens regularly.\n\nRight now, the law does not provide any real protections for the little guys. What I'm saying is, this should urgently change.","138"],["Oh yeah, that definitely happens. I always understood that study as taking into account natural deaths, like such that feral cats have more stressful lives, no access to vets, regular food, etc, so they're not gonna live that long. But if it takes into account all causes of death, then it's definitely true for outdoor cats as well, but that way it seems way less insightful to me.","287"],["It's about power. When you are poor and stressed out about feeding your kids or paying rent or your student loan interests going up month-to-month, you don't have time to think about the big questions like how an equitable society would be like and how it could be achieved.\n\nWhen you can be fired from your $10/hour job for breaking your leg or your kid getting sick and not being able to make it to work, you won't be able to afford to protest or join an organized labour movement.\n\nIt's not even about the yachts and the jets and the stocks. It's about keeping the pesky lower classes out of the businesses of the aristocracy.","246"],["> The US hasn’t fought a just war since WWII\n\nI'm not American, but I think that the intervention in Kosovo and probably the first Gulf War were justified. I don't know enough about Korea to say, but that might have been too?\n\nNot all wars are strictly evil, sometimes you need a top dog like the US or the NATO to make sure everyone keeps playing fair or to put down an aggressorr, etc. The problem is when you start wars based on lies or pure ideology. That's my worldview of it, anyway.","1014"],["Hey dude! Sweet setup! Check out /r/simracing if you haven't yet, I'm pretty sure they'd be happy to help you get more out of the hobby! A few things I'd change, purely based on the pictures are the FOV (field of view) to be more realistic, ditch or lock the in-game steering wheel (so you don't see two wheels rotating in your periphery), and if your TV doesn't have a special low latency mode, you'd probably be better off with a gaming monitor closer to your eyes (if you have access to it, of course, this can be an expensive hobby if you really get into it).\n\nAlso, I see you're running Asseto Corsa, and you might already know this, but it has some fantastic mods that basically transform the game, namely Content Manager, Sol and Shaders Patch, and almost countless great track and car mods!\n\nHave fun!","659"],["Oh yeah, I forgot about those when making my argument! But they're not in every state, right?\n\nAlso, you are right in your second point, sex *might* be okay for a 14yo, marriage definitely is **not**, in virtually any cases. Forcing or even letting children to marry that young is in my opinion child abuse and should be outlawed in every civilized state. \nI am from Romania, and (many) Gypsies (think Borat, that was a real Gypsy village in the movies) here regularly make their children marry at around that age. Is your girl a 14-year-old in 8th grade and is doing good in school despite her medieval and probably abusive home environment and absolutely horrible socio-economic circumstances? Doesn't matter, into forced marriage and baby-making with her! A friend of mine was the class teacher of one of these young girls (probably more), and she could do nothing to persuade the parents to not make their child marry against her will. Of course, it's a *traditional practice*, so the state doesn't want to intervene in these cases. It's fucking horrible.","70"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"When they have started to slow down visibly, you can start to walk. As a driver, it's extremely, very annoying when people are hesitating at an intersection, you stop to let them cross, and they still spend two or three seconds seemingly just making sure that you are *really* stopped, as if you are just fucking with them and could launch for the Moon at any moment. I often have to wave people through, they are so indecisive.\\n\\nHere is what I do. Make eye contact with the driver, so you know they have acknowledged your existence; this is important. Make to cross. They will start slowing down, now you can really cross. I'm am not sure if it would work in America, but where I live, I never had a problem. Just don't be so indecisive. If people have already started slowing down, you gain nothing by wasting their time and yours too.\",\n \"523\"\n ],\n [\n \"> And there's no legal requirement that Twitch not do that - in fact, they have no obligation to host any content whatsoever.\\n\\nWhich is fucking stupid, IMO. 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Nada.\",\n \"248\"\n ],\n [\n \"Look, two consenting 14-year-olds madly in love having sex is one thing, as long as they know all the basics, I don't see any real harm. Even an 18yo and a 15yo. Sex is natural and it's what your body wants to do at that age. \\nThe wrongdoing starts when one of the parties is significantly older or has power or authority over the other. A 30yo seducing a teen or straight-up \\\"buying their services\\\" from a pimp is much, much worse than the above and it's what these laws are supposed to stop.\\n\\nIn most European countries, the law makes a distinction between these very different cases. In the US, afaik, you've just got your back-ass puritanical shit that can be selectively applied when you want to punish kids for not living by your 17th century standards.\",\n \"70\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yes, that is the state of the current law. What I'm saying is, it's objectively wrong because it leads to a great power imbalance and abuse. \\nThe content provider has no recourse against Twitch and Youtube, and they can kill their business or *just* their hobby channel that they spent a thousand hours making content for, and from which Youtube likely profited, for no wrongdoing whatsoever. Or, as an Android developer, Google could ban me for life and make me hardly employable because I used the word 'windows' in one of my app descriptions and their stupid bot \\\"thought\\\" I was impersonating MS - and yes, this shit happens regularly.\\n\\nRight now, the law does not provide any real protections for the little guys. What I'm saying is, this should urgently change.\",\n \"138\"\n ],\n [\n \"Oh yeah, that definitely happens. I always understood that study as taking into account natural deaths, like such that feral cats have more stressful lives, no access to vets, regular food, etc, so they're not gonna live that long. But if it takes into account all causes of death, then it's definitely true for outdoor cats as well, but that way it seems way less insightful to me.\",\n \"287\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's about power. When you are poor and stressed out about feeding your kids or paying rent or your student loan interests going up month-to-month, you don't have time to think about the big questions like how an equitable society would be like and how it could be achieved.\\n\\nWhen you can be fired from your $10/hour job for breaking your leg or your kid getting sick and not being able to make it to work, you won't be able to afford to protest or join an organized labour movement.\\n\\nIt's not even about the yachts and the jets and the stocks. It's about keeping the pesky lower classes out of the businesses of the aristocracy.\",\n \"246\"\n ],\n [\n \"> The US hasn’t fought a just war since WWII\\n\\nI'm not American, but I think that the intervention in Kosovo and probably the first Gulf War were justified. I don't know enough about Korea to say, but that might have been too?\\n\\nNot all wars are strictly evil, sometimes you need a top dog like the US or the NATO to make sure everyone keeps playing fair or to put down an aggressorr, etc. The problem is when you start wars based on lies or pure ideology. That's my worldview of it, anyway.\",\n \"1014\"\n ],\n [\n \"Hey dude! Sweet setup! Check out /r/simracing if you haven't yet, I'm pretty sure they'd be happy to help you get more out of the hobby! A few things I'd change, purely based on the pictures are the FOV (field of view) to be more realistic, ditch or lock the in-game steering wheel (so you don't see two wheels rotating in your periphery), and if your TV doesn't have a special low latency mode, you'd probably be better off with a gaming monitor closer to your eyes (if you have access to it, of course, this can be an expensive hobby if you really get into it).\\n\\nAlso, I see you're running Asseto Corsa, and you might already know this, but it has some fantastic mods that basically transform the game, namely Content Manager, Sol and Shaders Patch, and almost countless great track and car mods!\\n\\nHave fun!\",\n \"659\"\n ],\n [\n \"Oh yeah, I forgot about those when making my argument! But they're not in every state, right?\\n\\nAlso, you are right in your second point, sex *might* be okay for a 14yo, marriage definitely is **not**, in virtually any cases. 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Their president ( the one that mocked <PERSON> for wearing the mask all the times ) forced a security guy to ride with him maskless inside a car right when he was covid positive just for a photo op, and they did give zero shit. now <PERSON> takes the mask off 1 minute ( after having been vaccinated ) during the inauguration and it's kinda like he decided to shit on the flag. Here we go again.","6"],["i dont give a fuck about him personally he can throw himself in a river for all i care. i give a fuck about the people around him. Unless he is alone in the world he will now turn to his relatives for some moneys. what you do if your <PERSON> calls you and tells you \"hey, <PERSON> has given all our moneys to <PERSON> cause our pastor told him so, now we are broke and if you don't give us a couple of grands we'll be sleeping under a bridge in a week\"","974"],["isn't it better to take a little time to collect enough evidences to throw at <PERSON>? We don't know what the FBI can find in two weeks, maybe you'll discover one of those traitors had a meeting with one of <PERSON>'s kids or <PERSON>, it gets more interesting if the accusation moves from \"your words have inspired these people to attack the senate\" to \"we have evidences you directly told some of these people to attack the senate\"","776"],["I felt like this a year ago when covid appeared. I was following news from Wuhan when most people were ignoring them. I started for the first time in my life too stockpile and make preparations when no news in my country was picking up yet anything about the virus.\n I started to think I was gone crazy cause I was waiting for the apocalypse and nothing was happening. A month later I was the only one with masks, hand sanitizer, not making queues at the supermarket and with an idea of what was happening. But those few days when I was waiting for a sign and nothing was happening really made me question my sanity. It's not a fun place to be mentally","110"],["Imagine being world class smart, top class in your field, smart to the point that smart people around the world look at you thinking wish I was that smart, and instead of helping the country your concern becomes not to piss a manbaby as dumb as a rock that thinks he knows best and needs to be kept at bay or he starts suggesting people to inject bleach in their veins","438"],["Funny thing is that even if <PERSON> manages to catch one streamer the result will be:. \n- he is not American so not subjected to American laws.\n- good luck getting him deported to the u.s. for this kind of lawsuit\n- even if he manages to sue him and deport him this dude will open a go fund me and the internet will make him a rich man just to piss off the guy who believed he could kill piracy.","138"],["This is spot on. I've said it from the beginning, America dodged a bullet only because he was a lazy incompetent man. If the country falls under the delusion that this is the proof American democracy is invulnerable and will be here forever, next time we all have a rude awakening. And my fear is that <PERSON> is too old and of too good nature to be the man we need to face this situation, I hope he proves me wrong, this is the moment when you need to have the nerves to kill baby <PERSON> in the cradle barehanded whatever it takes","725"],["i bet in the next years the number of mass shootings will increase. <PERSON> and <PERSON> have left behind a mass of rebels without a cause. Rejected by society, they are now more angry than before, without leaders that legitimize their rage, unable to reflect on themselves and armed. \n\nWhat do you think it's more probable that a guy like this does next? Starts to work on himself, looks himself in the mirror and becomes a better person? or thinks all his misery is because of blacks, gays and liberals who have stolen his election and his dream to become someone in a white christian ( nazi ) america and attacks with a rifle the first LGBT parade that pass next to his town?","1016"],["of course they do but they will hide behind the protection free speech gives them, just like in tribunals they hide behind the fact that they are not an actual news channel so they are allowed to tell lies. So in the end they risk nothing cause they are not as stupid as their viewer and they know how to save their own ass.\n\nin the end if i tell you \"go and kill your friend <PERSON>\" and you do it, i'm legally responsible.\n\nbut if i spend ten years telling you how your friend <PERSON> is a piece of shit and he's trying to steal everything you have, and one day you decide to go and kill him on your own they can't touch me.","624"],["> The network could potentially face consequences for publishing outright false information, such as the lies that prompted a voting machine software company to take legal action over libelous/slanderous claims in civil lawsuits. \n\ni never watch fox so i don't know. When they talk for example of \"rigged voting machine\" do they say \"we have proof voting machines were rigged\" or they say \"<PERSON> say he has proof voting machines were rigged\" and then talks only about that? these people usually know how to dance around words in a way that they can tell you what they want to tell you without actually telling it to you so that they can never been found accountable.","6"],["The only hope for Britain is that <PERSON> is ok with what the EU is offering and is just playing along to look tough with the public opinion and in the hope to just get as much as he can from this, and if nothing new is put on the table at the last hour he will go \"ok we take it\". If that's the case it could be even considered a good move, if it works. But he would be literally gambling his country on the goodwill of the EU","631"],["question: so far the deaths data is produced mainly by hospitals.\n\nwhen people won't be able to find a bed anymore and they'll die at home, how will it be dealt? I mean, you get counted as covid death? you get counted as dead but not with covid? what i'm saying is, are we at risk that will come a point when you'll see number of deaths stabilizing only because hospitals are at capacity and you'll have a death surge that will be uncounted in the stats? If you die at home they test you for covid or they'll just bury you and that's it and we will be able only years later to get the full picture?","912"],["i've checked out [OP posting history](_URL_0_) he is either a low quality troll or just too stupid to be worth an aswer. I mean, don't take my word, go check it out yourself.\n\nthe fact that he is at the same time a brexit supporter and one of those thinking the american election was rigged by the democrats and <PERSON>'s laptop story was true tells everything there's to know. let's just call a spade a spade","988"],["hard to find depends on where you live. You're in new york? probably they will offer three or four times the regular nurse wage and people will move from all over the country to help. So new yorkers are good.\n\nnow, if you're living in a rural community in alabama or mississipi, one of those who are coincidentally both the most anti masks and offering the lowest wages, you'll be in for a nasty christmas surprise.","237"],["Meaning your book is full of lies and you allow yourself to pick and choose what you want to be historical fact and what you want to consider just a metaphor. If the flood is just a tale, how do I know <PERSON> talking with god or the whole life of <PERSON> aren't aswell. I mean it's not that a guy walking on water and resurrecting dead people makes much more sense than the flood. So much for a godly inspired perfect book","487"],["as i said you are proving that you're arbitrarely deciding what is <PERSON> and what is not, moving the goalpost as you please. That's definitely not being honest. Nowhere in the bible there's written that the flood is a metaphor and you should read it as such. But since science and historians have proven beyond any reasonable doubt that it could have never happened, then \"hey that story is just a mith, but all the others in my special book are true believe me. Well of course apart from genesis. and apart from the guy that was living in a fish, and sodom and gomorrah. Oh yes and all the patriarchs living 500 years old, of course it doesn't make sense. But the rest is all true believe me. sort of. But still...\".\n\nAlso it's important to notice that there's **not a single historical or archeological evidence for the existence of <PERSON>**. And believe me they've looked for it.","487"],["the talmud doesn't provide historical evidence. And if you wanna make us the courtesy of quoting the way <PERSON> and <PERSON> mention <PERSON> it will be clear to everybody that aswell is not historical evidence.\n\nlittle detail: <PERSON> was born after <PERSON> was dead even if we assume he existed. meaning what he wrote was possibly at least 20 years after his supposed death. How could he provide historical evidence, i really don't know.\n\n<PERSON> was born 20 years after <PERSON>.\n\nif you wanna be taken seriously don't just copy/paste tidbits from christian site without even really knowing what you're quoting.\n\nby the way if you ask me, my opinion is the same of almost all historians, much probably a guy named <PERSON> lived in palestine around 2000 years ago and lived as a preacher, simply because it wasn't uncommon at all. He lived Just as like <PERSON> or <PERSON> or <PERSON> existed for real. Just like them he became very popular. It's just that None of them was a prophet, god sent or the son of god even if religions have been made around them making such claims.","487"],["very hard to follow indeed. In fact I guess when you watch star wars or Lord of the Rings on tv you don't think <PERSON> and <PERSON> are evil assholes cause they are just a fictional caracter. please try harder next time.\n\n\\[edit\\] the point made by the user that cowardly deleted his post ( shows you how strong his knowledge of his own faith is ) was that since i don't think God exists it doesn't make sense for me to call him evil.","754"],["I think buddhism is no more a suicide cult than christianity or islam, where your goal is not live your life, but live your life in a way that will grant you heaven, wich usually comes true sacrificy and suffering.\n\nNirvana is a methapisical place/state that you reach when you disentangle your self from the cicle of life and death. in a sense Nirvana is something close to defeating death like embracing god is in christianity. \n\ntherefore even if i don't embrace the buddisth view anymore that i embrace any other religion i think you've got it mostly wrong. You came to wrong conclusions cause you started from a wrong understanding of it","943"],["and how do you know his account is reliable? we know about <PERSON> even less than we know about <PERSON>.\n\nBut apart from that, the actual important fact is that <PERSON>'s gospel is aligned with <PERSON> and <PERSON> and all three are believed ( and i'm not talking about internet conspiracy, i'm talking about academics and theologians speaking ) to be derived from a common source, guess you've heard about the Q source if you have done your homeworks. In that sense <PERSON>'s gospel is really nothing special compared to the other two synoptic ones.\n\nby the way, i hope you realize the so called gospels of <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON> and <PERSON> were not really written by them and it's just a tradition to attribute the gospels to them.","487"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"you got to love Fox double standards. Their president ( the one that mocked <PERSON> for wearing the mask all the times ) forced a security guy to ride with him maskless inside a car right when he was covid positive just for a photo op, and they did give zero shit. now <PERSON> takes the mask off 1 minute ( after having been vaccinated ) during the inauguration and it's kinda like he decided to shit on the flag. Here we go again.\",\n \"6\"\n ],\n [\n \"i dont give a fuck about him personally he can throw himself in a river for all i care. i give a fuck about the people around him. Unless he is alone in the world he will now turn to his relatives for some moneys. what you do if your <PERSON> calls you and tells you \\\"hey, <PERSON> has given all our moneys to <PERSON> cause our pastor told him so, now we are broke and if you don't give us a couple of grands we'll be sleeping under a bridge in a week\\\"\",\n \"974\"\n ],\n [\n \"isn't it better to take a little time to collect enough evidences to throw at <PERSON>? We don't know what the FBI can find in two weeks, maybe you'll discover one of those traitors had a meeting with one of <PERSON>'s kids or <PERSON>, it gets more interesting if the accusation moves from \\\"your words have inspired these people to attack the senate\\\" to \\\"we have evidences you directly told some of these people to attack the senate\\\"\",\n \"776\"\n ],\n [\n \"I felt like this a year ago when covid appeared. I was following news from Wuhan when most people were ignoring them. I started for the first time in my life too stockpile and make preparations when no news in my country was picking up yet anything about the virus.\\n I started to think I was gone crazy cause I was waiting for the apocalypse and nothing was happening. A month later I was the only one with masks, hand sanitizer, not making queues at the supermarket and with an idea of what was happening. But those few days when I was waiting for a sign and nothing was happening really made me question my sanity. It's not a fun place to be mentally\",\n \"110\"\n ],\n [\n \"Imagine being world class smart, top class in your field, smart to the point that smart people around the world look at you thinking wish I was that smart, and instead of helping the country your concern becomes not to piss a manbaby as dumb as a rock that thinks he knows best and needs to be kept at bay or he starts suggesting people to inject bleach in their veins\",\n \"438\"\n ],\n [\n \"Funny thing is that even if <PERSON> manages to catch one streamer the result will be:. \\n- he is not American so not subjected to American laws.\\n- good luck getting him deported to the u.s. for this kind of lawsuit\\n- even if he manages to sue him and deport him this dude will open a go fund me and the internet will make him a rich man just to piss off the guy who believed he could kill piracy.\",\n \"138\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is spot on. I've said it from the beginning, America dodged a bullet only because he was a lazy incompetent man. If the country falls under the delusion that this is the proof American democracy is invulnerable and will be here forever, next time we all have a rude awakening. And my fear is that <PERSON> is too old and of too good nature to be the man we need to face this situation, I hope he proves me wrong, this is the moment when you need to have the nerves to kill baby <PERSON> in the cradle barehanded whatever it takes\",\n \"725\"\n ],\n [\n \"i bet in the next years the number of mass shootings will increase. <PERSON> and <PERSON> have left behind a mass of rebels without a cause. Rejected by society, they are now more angry than before, without leaders that legitimize their rage, unable to reflect on themselves and armed. \\n\\nWhat do you think it's more probable that a guy like this does next? Starts to work on himself, looks himself in the mirror and becomes a better person? or thinks all his misery is because of blacks, gays and liberals who have stolen his election and his dream to become someone in a white christian ( nazi ) america and attacks with a rifle the first LGBT parade that pass next to his town?\",\n \"1016\"\n ],\n [\n \"of course they do but they will hide behind the protection free speech gives them, just like in tribunals they hide behind the fact that they are not an actual news channel so they are allowed to tell lies. So in the end they risk nothing cause they are not as stupid as their viewer and they know how to save their own ass.\\n\\nin the end if i tell you \\\"go and kill your friend <PERSON>\\\" and you do it, i'm legally responsible.\\n\\nbut if i spend ten years telling you how your friend <PERSON> is a piece of shit and he's trying to steal everything you have, and one day you decide to go and kill him on your own they can't touch me.\",\n \"624\"\n ],\n [\n \"> The network could potentially face consequences for publishing outright false information, such as the lies that prompted a voting machine software company to take legal action over libelous/slanderous claims in civil lawsuits. \\n\\ni never watch fox so i don't know. When they talk for example of \\\"rigged voting machine\\\" do they say \\\"we have proof voting machines were rigged\\\" or they say \\\"<PERSON> say he has proof voting machines were rigged\\\" and then talks only about that? these people usually know how to dance around words in a way that they can tell you what they want to tell you without actually telling it to you so that they can never been found accountable.\",\n \"6\"\n ],\n [\n \"The only hope for Britain is that <PERSON> is ok with what the EU is offering and is just playing along to look tough with the public opinion and in the hope to just get as much as he can from this, and if nothing new is put on the table at the last hour he will go \\\"ok we take it\\\". If that's the case it could be even considered a good move, if it works. 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I mean, don't take my word, go check it out yourself.\\n\\nthe fact that he is at the same time a brexit supporter and one of those thinking the american election was rigged by the democrats and <PERSON>'s laptop story was true tells everything there's to know. let's just call a spade a spade\",\n \"988\"\n ],\n [\n \"hard to find depends on where you live. You're in new york? probably they will offer three or four times the regular nurse wage and people will move from all over the country to help. So new yorkers are good.\\n\\nnow, if you're living in a rural community in alabama or mississipi, one of those who are coincidentally both the most anti masks and offering the lowest wages, you'll be in for a nasty christmas surprise.\",\n \"237\"\n ],\n [\n \"Meaning your book is full of lies and you allow yourself to pick and choose what you want to be historical fact and what you want to consider just a metaphor. If the flood is just a tale, how do I know <PERSON> talking with god or the whole life of <PERSON> aren't aswell. I mean it's not that a guy walking on water and resurrecting dead people makes much more sense than the flood. So much for a godly inspired perfect book\",\n \"487\"\n ],\n [\n \"as i said you are proving that you're arbitrarely deciding what is <PERSON> and what is not, moving the goalpost as you please. That's definitely not being honest. Nowhere in the bible there's written that the flood is a metaphor and you should read it as such. But since science and historians have proven beyond any reasonable doubt that it could have never happened, then \\\"hey that story is just a mith, but all the others in my special book are true believe me. Well of course apart from genesis. and apart from the guy that was living in a fish, and sodom and gomorrah. Oh yes and all the patriarchs living 500 years old, of course it doesn't make sense. But the rest is all true believe me. sort of. But still...\\\".\\n\\nAlso it's important to notice that there's **not a single historical or archeological evidence for the existence of <PERSON>**. And believe me they've looked for it.\",\n \"487\"\n ],\n [\n \"the talmud doesn't provide historical evidence. And if you wanna make us the courtesy of quoting the way <PERSON> and <PERSON> mention <PERSON> it will be clear to everybody that aswell is not historical evidence.\\n\\nlittle detail: <PERSON> was born after <PERSON> was dead even if we assume he existed. meaning what he wrote was possibly at least 20 years after his supposed death. How could he provide historical evidence, i really don't know.\\n\\n<PERSON> was born 20 years after <PERSON>.\\n\\nif you wanna be taken seriously don't just copy/paste tidbits from christian site without even really knowing what you're quoting.\\n\\nby the way if you ask me, my opinion is the same of almost all historians, much probably a guy named <PERSON> lived in palestine around 2000 years ago and lived as a preacher, simply because it wasn't uncommon at all. He lived Just as like <PERSON> or <PERSON> or <PERSON> existed for real. Just like them he became very popular. It's just that None of them was a prophet, god sent or the son of god even if religions have been made around them making such claims.\",\n \"487\"\n ],\n [\n \"very hard to follow indeed. In fact I guess when you watch star wars or Lord of the Rings on tv you don't think <PERSON> and <PERSON> are evil assholes cause they are just a fictional caracter. please try harder next time.\\n\\n\\\\[edit\\\\] the point made by the user that cowardly deleted his post ( shows you how strong his knowledge of his own faith is ) was that since i don't think God exists it doesn't make sense for me to call him evil.\",\n \"754\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think buddhism is no more a suicide cult than christianity or islam, where your goal is not live your life, but live your life in a way that will grant you heaven, wich usually comes true sacrificy and suffering.\\n\\nNirvana is a methapisical place/state that you reach when you disentangle your self from the cicle of life and death. in a sense Nirvana is something close to defeating death like embracing god is in christianity. \\n\\ntherefore even if i don't embrace the buddisth view anymore that i embrace any other religion i think you've got it mostly wrong. You came to wrong conclusions cause you started from a wrong understanding of it\",\n \"943\"\n ],\n [\n \"and how do you know his account is reliable? we know about <PERSON> even less than we know about <PERSON>.\\n\\nBut apart from that, the actual important fact is that <PERSON>'s gospel is aligned with <PERSON> and <PERSON> and all three are believed ( and i'm not talking about internet conspiracy, i'm talking about academics and theologians speaking ) to be derived from a common source, guess you've heard about the Q source if you have done your homeworks. 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decay\n\n - the wealth, strength and confidence of our country has dissipated over the horizon\n\nIs that not bashing America?","27"],["Three of the 4 women in the squad are Americans from birth. They are as American as many people’s parents whose grandparents came here from another country. <PERSON> came here at age 10. She became a citizen at age 17. Her father encouraged her to understand and appreciate democracy and she went with him to caucuses to have that experience. She served as his interpreter, so she was actively engaged and not just standing in a corner on her phone like kids today. Is she not exactly the type of immigrant we want here?","5"],["Heard it said that a portion of every nation is susceptible to messages of xenophobia and demagoguery. We are immune to it only by ensuring those who stoke those flames do not get into power.\n\nWhat we have across the globe right now is a push for nationalism the likes of which gave rise to some of the worst leaders and greatest atrocities the world has ever known. While we can never stamp out hatred entirely, we must call it what it is, strip those who inspire hatred of their power, and demand civility and cooperation from those who represent us.","725"],["The GOP is the party of feelings and opinions over facts. When pressed, I find that the GOP, particularly <PERSON> supporters, don't know why they think what they think. They just do. \n\nThis is not the way to decide who to vote for. Would you buy a house because you liked how it made you feel without knowing anything about it? Would you attend a college you knew nothing about but you got a good feeling when you saw pictures of the campus?\n\nThis is where we are. People deciding the fate of our nation because of feelings and opinions.","800"],["Yes, it is. They have no facts to back up their opinions. Here's an example from reddit. It's a conversation from AskTrumpSupporters sub about healthcare regulations. I've included the source for full disclosure.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n**Me:** What government regulations on healthcare would you do away with?\n\n & #x200B;\n\n**Trump Supporter:** I'd go with all of them, but I'm a bit nutty like that. ;)\n\n & #x200B;\n\n**Me:** Can you name one?\n\n & #x200B;\n\n**Trump Supporter:** Yes.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n**Me:** Would you please name that regulation?\n\n & #x200B;\n\n**Trump Supporter:** Obamacare, for starters.\n\n & #x200B;\n\nAs you can see, this guy is trying to evade all real conversation even though the sub is for the purpose of asking <PERSON> supporters questions. \n\n & #x200B;\n\nSource: [_URL_0_](_URL_1_)","30"],["How much of the budget is spent on standardized testing? From what I’ve found online, it ranges from about $50 to $150 per student. I have to think there are bigger budget items to go after.\n\nAnd would poor kids even go to school? The cheapest private school in my area is $6000/year per student. I think about 40% of American children would just not get an education.","610"],["He already had these opinions. This was just adding fuel to the fire of his existing hatred and disgusting nature. The fact that he can't see how disgusting his comments are, particularly the chant at the NC rally, mean he's blind to his own racism. He's like a slave owner who says \"I'm not racist! Hell, I let those people into my home! I eat the food they cook! I let them serve it, too!\"","614"],["This interview makes me want to vomit. <PERSON> literally says that Republicans want to lean into the constitution, into the rule of law.\n\nReally? Is that why <PERSON> uses executive orders and emergency declarations to get his way? Our constitution says that Congress writes the bills that become law. Can you guys name the last time in the <PERSON> administration that this happened? How much has happened that bypassed ALL of our Constitutional checks and balances? How many times has <PERSON> acted in ways that are in direct opposition to what the American people want? \n\nIf you think he has, you are fooling yourself. A recent poll found that 63% of Americans think the country is on the wrong track.","800"],["It’s really weird to me since every other Indian person I know is proud of their heritage. Women don’t take the last names of their husband. They don’t have American sounding nick names and they don’t give up their religion.\n\nThat’s what is so awful to me about the Republican idea of assimilation. In their mind she did what you are supposed to do. They don’t want to embrace other cultures; they expect you to reject yours.","255"],["The Democrats last pick for President was a moral man, a loving father, a faithful husband, an eloquent orator, and a calm leader.\n\nThe Republicans last pick for President is an amoral man, an absent father, a cheating husband, a rambling buffoon, and a derisive coward. \n\nI think we can clearly see how far apart the parties are now. It’s clear which party has sense, compassion, and morals.","313"],["Your narrative is false. If your economy is built on debt, it’s not a strong economy.\n\nRepublicans have increased the national debt more than Democrats. _URL_0_\n\nYou think we are crippling the economy? Between the tariffs and strong arming companies to onshore jobs, we will all be paying the price. \n\nRepublicans support a social safety net that benefits them. They like socialized healthcare, but only Medicare since old people vote (R) more often.\n\nAs for education, colleges are liberal. I will grant you that. But young people won’t turn toward a racist president. Young people are much more liberal on social issues and <PERSON>’s current rhetoric is going to backfire.\n\n_URL_1_","612"],["What does the KKK of today stand for?\n\nThe White Race\nThe irreplaceable hub of our Nation, our Christian faith, and the high levels of Western culture and technology.\n\nAmerica First\nFirst before any foreign or alien influence or interest, and a foreign policy of military non-intervention.\n\nThe Constitution\nAs originally written and intended. The finest system of government ever conceived by man, which is based on the Holy Bible and Christian Common Law.\n\nFree Enterprise\nPrivate property and ownership of business, but an end to high-finance exploitation. We advocate economic nationalism and we oppose the Federal Reserve bank and so-called \"free trade\".\n\nPositive Christianity\nThe right of the American people to practice their Christian faith - including prayer in schools. Many Klan members and supporters are involved with the growing Christian Identity religion, which continues to unite the Christian Patriot Movement in the United States.\n\nSource: _URL_0_","1020"],["Let me out this another way. If the Republican Party was for raising taxes on the rich to help even out the huge wealth disparity in America, help the poor, and combat climate change, you would switch parties. \n\nParties court large blocks of ideologically similar voters in an attempt to gain numbers. A party with no members has no power. This is how political switches happen. \n\nThe sad thing is that <PERSON> doesn’t realize he is alienating more people than he’s attracting. And god help us all if he does gain more support because we don’t need an authoritarian in the White House.","313"],["Lol! Mental slavery? How about actual racism which goes on to this day. “They sure got a lot of them over in that county” I heard said not too long ago. “Them” means blacks. Who said it? A Republican and a <PERSON> voter who switched parties 20 years ago. \n\nWelcome to the reality of the rural South, where you are sure to see a Confederate flag every few miles. Knock on their door and ask them who they vote for.","1020"],["I'm going to be a supportive woman and call you out on this. Specifically, how harsh you are on women in this post. Yes, people lie. Yes, some women may be wrong about some things.\n\nBut if you think \"calling women out on their bullshit\" is supportive, you are mistaken. If you come hard at someone, they will just come back hard at you. They won't want to listen because who really wants to listen to someone who thinks they know it all and feels entitled to call you out from up on their high horse.\n\nFunny thing is that I do believe supportive women should be able to tell each other when one of them is making a bad choice. You know a woman who is cheating on her husband? That's an example. A good friend would try to talk her friend about it.\n\nAnyway, I think you need to find a better way to talk to your friends. Of course, maybe I just don't know your friends and you are fine with this, but I can't imagine talking to my friends the way you phrased anything in your post.","971"],["I see. I guess I try to be more civil than you even when I'm online. I can state my opinions clearly without getting upset, which I believe I did.\n\nAs to your friend in her abusive situation, it is likely she is afraid to leave. I helped someone in this situation before, so I'll give you the same advice. Of course she needs to go if she's being abused. She probably doesn't see how. She sees some end point where she's not in her current situation, but not how to get there. What she needs to see is the next step. It needs to be clearly laid out in front of her. And it needs to be simple enough to get to that she's safe when she takes that step.\n\nHope your friend turns out ok.","119"],["He said it wouldn’t stop until it’s clear what the rules are. That’s bullshit for exactly your point; this is a complex issue. This is like putting up a speed limit sign. But we can all agree on some basics, except <PERSON> says we can’t because we don’t know what the rules are. That’s simply not true.","462"],["The power of individuals?\n\nThe Trump administration has announced a new \"expedited removal\" policy that makes deportation faster and easier for immigration enforcement agents. It empowers the agency to stop any person, anywhere in the U.S., and for any reason, and demand they prove either they're a citizen or have lived in the U.S. for at least two years. If they can't do either, they're deported without seeing a judge.\n\n_URL_1_\n\n_URL_0_","796"],["From her follow up tweet:\n\n“I heard from Jewish orgs. that my use of the word ‘hypnotize’ and the ugly sentiment it holds was offensive. I spent ... little energy [in] disavowing the anti-Semitic trope I unknowingly used, which is unfortunate and offensive.”\n\nShe’s already apologized more than <PERSON> ever has and acknowledged she said something inappropriate.\n\nShe’s stronger and more of a leader than <PERSON> ever will be, just by those two things.\n\nThe height of hypocrisy for <PERSON> to call her out when he has NEVER apologized for the hundreds of disgusting things he’s said and done since 2015.","759"],["Because she didn't offer strong enough words. Interesting. I find the actions of Republicans much lower, including giving Republican polling data to Russians, mocking disabled people, locking up children in cages, etc., etc.\n\nThose are direct actions, not opinions given about events. <PERSON> had nothing to do with the events of 9/11, so I find it pretty low that somehow her choice of words matters more than what people actually do.","557"],["You expect a woman to speak about a particular topic in a particular way because she shares a religion with those who carried out attacks. \n\nIf that is your expectation due to such a weak association, do you not expect the president to speak out against the actions of the people he hired for his campaign and against the Border Agents who are acting on his orders? After all, that's not a weak association. It's either a direct association or direct orders.","308"],["Well, how about this one. This is why <PERSON> doesn’t speak out, because he actually authorizes abuses:\n\nThe Trump administration has announced a new \"expedited removal\" policy that makes deportation faster and easier for immigration enforcement agents. It empowers the agency to stop any person, anywhere in the U.S., and for any reason, and demand they prove either they're a citizen or have lived in the U.S. for at least two years. If they can't do either, they're deported without seeing a judge.\n\nSo, any border agents can stop anyone they want, demand papers, and if you can’t provide them they can jail and deport you without due process. \n\nIf I were Hispanic, I’d sure as hell not support <PERSON> just on this item alone.","796"],["From our Constitution \n\nSection 9\n1: The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.\n\n2: The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.\n\nNote the second item. These people have the right to have their case heard before a judge. And public safety is not an issue, although right-wing news outlets want you to think that. But the facts show that American citizens commit more crimes than illegal immigrants.","796"],["To deny fear of men is to be stupid. If I’m walking down the street alone at night and I see I’m being followed by someone, if it’s a man I am concerned and take steps to protect myself. If it’s a woman, I am not really worried. Why? Because women don’t rape women and rarely commit crimes against another person except their partner.\n\nHow many women are arrested for breaking into someone’s home, stealing things, etc.?\n\nMen can be dangerous to women. We all know this.","878"],["The media needs views. One person can be outraged and vocal and it will make the news if it supports a mindset that will drive votes and divide people. \n\nThe thing is, I don’t see this on MSM. I see daily on right wing media. Here’s an example from Fox News:\n\nMen fined for eating raw squirrels at vegan event, causing 'significant distress' to attendees\n\nReally? One nut job at a vegan event. \n\n_URL_0_\n\nDid I mention this happened in the UK? Why is that on Fox News under Food and Entertainment? Why?","6"],["\"I asked him very nicely to look into my political opponent. Look, we are even appearing on TV together! Look how much we like one another and smile at the camera!\"\n\nJesus, is this real?! It's insane! \n\n\"I can't be doing anything underhanded because I am happy to appear on TV with the guy who I held up funding in exchange for dirt on <PERSON>! Happy day!\"","481"],["The end of Mueller's summary of Part 1 is shown below. <PERSON> talks about people pleading the 5th, of deleting evidence, of claiming immunity when they did NOT have grounds to do so, of documents overseas they could not obtain, of evidence that they could not use in court, and the final sentence of the summary ends as follows:\n\n\"the Office cannot rule out the possibility that the unavailable information would shed additional light on (or cast in a new light) the events described in the report.\"\n\nThe investigation did not always yield admissible information or testimony, or a complete picture of the activities undertaken by subjects of the investigation. Some individuals invoked their Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination and were not, in the Office's judgment, appropriate candidates for grants of immunity. The Office limited its pursuit of other witnesses and information—such as information known to attorneys or individuals claiming to be members of the media—in light of internal Department of Justice policies. See, e.g., Justice Manual §§ 9-13.400, 13.410. Some of the information obtained via court process, moreover, was presumptively covered by legal privilege and was screened from investigators by a filter (or \"taint\") team. Even when individuals testified or agreed to be interviewed, they sometimes provided information that was false or incomplete, leading to some of the false-statements charges described above. And the Office faced practical limits on its ability to access relevant evidence as well-numerous witnesses and subjects lived abroad, and documents were held outside the United States.\n\nFurther, the Office learned that some of the individuals we interviewed or whose conduct we investigated—including some associated with the Trump Campaign—deleted relevant communications or communicated during the relevant period using applications that feature encryption or that do not provide for long-term retention of data or communications records. In such cases, the Office was not able to corroborate witness statements through comparison to contemporaneous communications or fully question witnesses about statements that appeared inconsistent with other known facts.\n\nAccordingly, while this report embodies factual and legal determinations that the Office believes to be accurate and complete to the greatest extent possible, given these identified gaps, the Office cannot rule out the possibility that the unavailable information would shed additional light on (or cast in a new light) the events described in the report.","776"],["Why was the aid frozen? <PERSON> and the Republicans have told no less than 5 versions of why:\n\n1. Senate Republicans said it had been held while the White House assessed whether the newly elected Ukrainian President <PERSON> was aligned with the US and NATO or with Russia.\n2. <PERSON> said <PERSON> wanted the money held because he had “concerns” about the aid’s necessity. \n3. The State Department and Pentagon were instructed to inform members of Congress with questions about the delay that the money was coming but that its disbursement had been held up by “interagency process.” \n4. <PERSON> said it was to ensure that the country’s new government was doing everything possible to root out corruption. \n5. Then <PERSON> said it was to push other European countries into contributing to foreign aid. \n\nWhen your reasons shift like this, then it's pretty clear NONE of them are the actual truth.","755"],["<PERSON> holds no position in the US government, has taken no oath to our country, and yet he has been in communication with Ukraine for over a year now. On whose behalf? On behalf of our country? But he doesn't represent our country. He was neither elected nor appointed. He has no security clearance. He has no role in our government OTHER THAN he is <PERSON>'s PERSONAL attorney.\n\nTHAT is the key here. These conversations were not had between peers or ambassadors. <PERSON> was pushing for info to help <PERSON>.\n\nAnd let's not forget that by <PERSON> having attorneys do this, he can hide behind both executive and attorney-client privilege.","755"],["<PERSON>:\n\npacked the Supreme Court\n\nexerts executive privilege for conversations with people who have no part in our administration\n\ncommanded administration officials to ignore subpoenas\n\nsends his personal attorney to negotiate with foreign leaders\n\ndeclares a national emergency to take money lawfully allocated by congress for one purposes to use it for another\n\nput both his daughter and son-in-law in positions within his administration for which they were unqualified and could not obtain the necessary security clearance\n\ntook the side of <PERSON> over our intelligence community\n\nhas undermined freedom of the press\n\ntweets out policy changes with zero review, consultation, or review of their legality\n\ngives way national secrets that jeopardized years of work inside foreign countries and caused our insiders to have to flee for their own safety\n\nShould I go on?","693"],["<PERSON> holds no position in the US government, has taken no oath to our country, and yet he has been in communication with Ukraine for over a year now. On whose behalf? On behalf of our country? But he doesn't represent our country. He was neither elected nor appointed. He has no security clearance. He has no role in our government OTHER THAN he is <PERSON>'s PERSONAL attorney (which allows him to hide behind attorney-client privilege.)\n\nSince <PERSON> has no official role, his conversations with officials in Ukraine were not peer to peer in any way. He can't represent our country nor our interests. Those conversations had one purpose: <PERSON> was to pressure Ukraine for info on behalf of and to help <PERSON>.","755"],["I have no doubt that the <PERSON> investigation would have gone very differently had executive privilege not been claimed on every communication between <PERSON> and <PERSON>. \n\nThe end of <PERSON>’s Executive summary of Part 1:\n\nThe investigation did not always yield admissible information or testimony, or a complete picture of the activities undertaken by subjects of the investigation. Some individuals invoked their Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination and were not, in the Office's judgment, appropriate candidates for grants of immunity. The Office limited its pursuit of other witnesses and information—such as information known to attorneys or individuals claiming to be members of the media—in light of internal Department of Justice policies. See, e.g., Justice Manual §§ 9-13.400, 13.410. Some of the information obtained via court process, moreover, was presumptively covered by legal privilege and was screened from investigators by a filter (or \"taint\") team. Even when individuals testified or agreed to be interviewed, they sometimes provided information that was false or incomplete, leading to some of the false-statements charges described above. And the Office faced practical limits on its ability to access relevant evidence as well-numerous witnesses and subjects lived abroad, and documents were held outside the United States.\n\nFurther, the Office learned that some of the individuals we interviewed or whose conduct we investigated—including some associated with the Trump Campaign—deleted relevant communications or communicated during the relevant period using applications that feature encryption or that do not provide for long-term retention of data or communications records. In such cases, the Office was not able to corroborate witness statements through comparison to contemporaneous communications or fully question witnesses about statements that appeared inconsistent with other known facts.\n\nAccordingly, while this report embodies factual and legal determinations that the Office believes to be accurate and complete to the greatest extent possible, given these identified gaps, the Office cannot rule out the possibility that the unavailable information would shed additional light on (or cast in a new light) the events described in the report.","776"],["He authorized the release of the conversation because he simply thought, “this guy was so nice to me! It was a lovely conversation! What could be wrong here?!”\n\nNever mind the fact he unilaterally held up nearly $400 million in aid that was earmarked by congress and mandated by statute to be delivered to Ukraine. He doesn’t understand that he can’t just do what the hell he wants to “make a deal” because that deal was already made. And it’s not his fucking money anyway!! He just doesn’t understand that at all.","755"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"What does the slogan “Make America Great Again” mean if not a criticism of the current state of the country?\\n\\nIn <PERSON>’s inauguration speech, he called out the following:\\n\\n- Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities\\n\\n- rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation.\\n\\n- An education system that leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge\\n\\n- crime and gangs and drugs which deprive people of so much unrealised potential\\n\\n- America’s infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay\\n\\n - the wealth, strength and confidence of our country has dissipated over the horizon\\n\\nIs that not bashing America?\",\n \"27\"\n ],\n [\n \"Three of the 4 women in the squad are Americans from birth. They are as American as many people’s parents whose grandparents came here from another country. <PERSON> came here at age 10. She became a citizen at age 17. Her father encouraged her to understand and appreciate democracy and she went with him to caucuses to have that experience. She served as his interpreter, so she was actively engaged and not just standing in a corner on her phone like kids today. Is she not exactly the type of immigrant we want here?\",\n \"5\"\n ],\n [\n \"Heard it said that a portion of every nation is susceptible to messages of xenophobia and demagoguery. We are immune to it only by ensuring those who stoke those flames do not get into power.\\n\\nWhat we have across the globe right now is a push for nationalism the likes of which gave rise to some of the worst leaders and greatest atrocities the world has ever known. While we can never stamp out hatred entirely, we must call it what it is, strip those who inspire hatred of their power, and demand civility and cooperation from those who represent us.\",\n \"725\"\n ],\n [\n \"The GOP is the party of feelings and opinions over facts. When pressed, I find that the GOP, particularly <PERSON> supporters, don't know why they think what they think. They just do. \\n\\nThis is not the way to decide who to vote for. Would you buy a house because you liked how it made you feel without knowing anything about it? Would you attend a college you knew nothing about but you got a good feeling when you saw pictures of the campus?\\n\\nThis is where we are. People deciding the fate of our nation because of feelings and opinions.\",\n \"800\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yes, it is. They have no facts to back up their opinions. Here's an example from reddit. It's a conversation from AskTrumpSupporters sub about healthcare regulations. I've included the source for full disclosure.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n**Me:** What government regulations on healthcare would you do away with?\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n**Trump Supporter:** I'd go with all of them, but I'm a bit nutty like that. ;)\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n**Me:** Can you name one?\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n**Trump Supporter:** Yes.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n**Me:** Would you please name that regulation?\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n**Trump Supporter:** Obamacare, for starters.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\nAs you can see, this guy is trying to evade all real conversation even though the sub is for the purpose of asking <PERSON> supporters questions. \\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\nSource: [_URL_0_](_URL_1_)\",\n \"30\"\n ],\n [\n \"How much of the budget is spent on standardized testing? From what I’ve found online, it ranges from about $50 to $150 per student. I have to think there are bigger budget items to go after.\\n\\nAnd would poor kids even go to school? The cheapest private school in my area is $6000/year per student. I think about 40% of American children would just not get an education.\",\n \"610\"\n ],\n [\n \"He already had these opinions. This was just adding fuel to the fire of his existing hatred and disgusting nature. The fact that he can't see how disgusting his comments are, particularly the chant at the NC rally, mean he's blind to his own racism. He's like a slave owner who says \\\"I'm not racist! Hell, I let those people into my home! I eat the food they cook! I let them serve it, too!\\\"\",\n \"614\"\n ],\n [\n \"This interview makes me want to vomit. <PERSON> literally says that Republicans want to lean into the constitution, into the rule of law.\\n\\nReally? Is that why <PERSON> uses executive orders and emergency declarations to get his way? Our constitution says that Congress writes the bills that become law. Can you guys name the last time in the <PERSON> administration that this happened? How much has happened that bypassed ALL of our Constitutional checks and balances? How many times has <PERSON> acted in ways that are in direct opposition to what the American people want? \\n\\nIf you think he has, you are fooling yourself. A recent poll found that 63% of Americans think the country is on the wrong track.\",\n \"800\"\n ],\n [\n \"It’s really weird to me since every other Indian person I know is proud of their heritage. Women don’t take the last names of their husband. They don’t have American sounding nick names and they don’t give up their religion.\\n\\nThat’s what is so awful to me about the Republican idea of assimilation. In their mind she did what you are supposed to do. They don’t want to embrace other cultures; they expect you to reject yours.\",\n \"255\"\n ],\n [\n \"The Democrats last pick for President was a moral man, a loving father, a faithful husband, an eloquent orator, and a calm leader.\\n\\nThe Republicans last pick for President is an amoral man, an absent father, a cheating husband, a rambling buffoon, and a derisive coward. \\n\\nI think we can clearly see how far apart the parties are now. It’s clear which party has sense, compassion, and morals.\",\n \"313\"\n ],\n [\n \"Your narrative is false. If your economy is built on debt, it’s not a strong economy.\\n\\nRepublicans have increased the national debt more than Democrats. _URL_0_\\n\\nYou think we are crippling the economy? Between the tariffs and strong arming companies to onshore jobs, we will all be paying the price. \\n\\nRepublicans support a social safety net that benefits them. They like socialized healthcare, but only Medicare since old people vote (R) more often.\\n\\nAs for education, colleges are liberal. I will grant you that. But young people won’t turn toward a racist president. Young people are much more liberal on social issues and <PERSON>’s current rhetoric is going to backfire.\\n\\n_URL_1_\",\n \"612\"\n ],\n [\n \"What does the KKK of today stand for?\\n\\nThe White Race\\nThe irreplaceable hub of our Nation, our Christian faith, and the high levels of Western culture and technology.\\n\\nAmerica First\\nFirst before any foreign or alien influence or interest, and a foreign policy of military non-intervention.\\n\\nThe Constitution\\nAs originally written and intended. The finest system of government ever conceived by man, which is based on the Holy Bible and Christian Common Law.\\n\\nFree Enterprise\\nPrivate property and ownership of business, but an end to high-finance exploitation. We advocate economic nationalism and we oppose the Federal Reserve bank and so-called \\\"free trade\\\".\\n\\nPositive Christianity\\nThe right of the American people to practice their Christian faith - including prayer in schools. Many Klan members and supporters are involved with the growing Christian Identity religion, which continues to unite the Christian Patriot Movement in the United States.\\n\\nSource: _URL_0_\",\n \"1020\"\n ],\n [\n \"Let me out this another way. If the Republican Party was for raising taxes on the rich to help even out the huge wealth disparity in America, help the poor, and combat climate change, you would switch parties. \\n\\nParties court large blocks of ideologically similar voters in an attempt to gain numbers. A party with no members has no power. This is how political switches happen. \\n\\nThe sad thing is that <PERSON> doesn’t realize he is alienating more people than he’s attracting. And god help us all if he does gain more support because we don’t need an authoritarian in the White House.\",\n \"313\"\n ],\n [\n \"Lol! Mental slavery? How about actual racism which goes on to this day. “They sure got a lot of them over in that county” I heard said not too long ago. “Them” means blacks. Who said it? A Republican and a <PERSON> voter who switched parties 20 years ago. \\n\\nWelcome to the reality of the rural South, where you are sure to see a Confederate flag every few miles. Knock on their door and ask them who they vote for.\",\n \"1020\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm going to be a supportive woman and call you out on this. Specifically, how harsh you are on women in this post. Yes, people lie. Yes, some women may be wrong about some things.\\n\\nBut if you think \\\"calling women out on their bullshit\\\" is supportive, you are mistaken. If you come hard at someone, they will just come back hard at you. They won't want to listen because who really wants to listen to someone who thinks they know it all and feels entitled to call you out from up on their high horse.\\n\\nFunny thing is that I do believe supportive women should be able to tell each other when one of them is making a bad choice. You know a woman who is cheating on her husband? That's an example. A good friend would try to talk her friend about it.\\n\\nAnyway, I think you need to find a better way to talk to your friends. Of course, maybe I just don't know your friends and you are fine with this, but I can't imagine talking to my friends the way you phrased anything in your post.\",\n \"971\"\n ],\n [\n \"I see. I guess I try to be more civil than you even when I'm online. I can state my opinions clearly without getting upset, which I believe I did.\\n\\nAs to your friend in her abusive situation, it is likely she is afraid to leave. I helped someone in this situation before, so I'll give you the same advice. Of course she needs to go if she's being abused. She probably doesn't see how. She sees some end point where she's not in her current situation, but not how to get there. What she needs to see is the next step. It needs to be clearly laid out in front of her. And it needs to be simple enough to get to that she's safe when she takes that step.\\n\\nHope your friend turns out ok.\",\n \"119\"\n ],\n [\n \"He said it wouldn’t stop until it’s clear what the rules are. That’s bullshit for exactly your point; this is a complex issue. This is like putting up a speed limit sign. But we can all agree on some basics, except <PERSON> says we can’t because we don’t know what the rules are. That’s simply not true.\",\n \"462\"\n ],\n [\n \"The power of individuals?\\n\\nThe Trump administration has announced a new \\\"expedited removal\\\" policy that makes deportation faster and easier for immigration enforcement agents. It empowers the agency to stop any person, anywhere in the U.S., and for any reason, and demand they prove either they're a citizen or have lived in the U.S. for at least two years. If they can't do either, they're deported without seeing a judge.\\n\\n_URL_1_\\n\\n_URL_0_\",\n \"796\"\n ],\n [\n \"From her follow up tweet:\\n\\n“I heard from Jewish orgs. that my use of the word ‘hypnotize’ and the ugly sentiment it holds was offensive. I spent ... little energy [in] disavowing the anti-Semitic trope I unknowingly used, which is unfortunate and offensive.”\\n\\nShe’s already apologized more than <PERSON> ever has and acknowledged she said something inappropriate.\\n\\nShe’s stronger and more of a leader than <PERSON> ever will be, just by those two things.\\n\\nThe height of hypocrisy for <PERSON> to call her out when he has NEVER apologized for the hundreds of disgusting things he’s said and done since 2015.\",\n \"759\"\n ],\n [\n \"Because she didn't offer strong enough words. Interesting. I find the actions of Republicans much lower, including giving Republican polling data to Russians, mocking disabled people, locking up children in cages, etc., etc.\\n\\nThose are direct actions, not opinions given about events. <PERSON> had nothing to do with the events of 9/11, so I find it pretty low that somehow her choice of words matters more than what people actually do.\",\n \"557\"\n ],\n [\n \"You expect a woman to speak about a particular topic in a particular way because she shares a religion with those who carried out attacks. \\n\\nIf that is your expectation due to such a weak association, do you not expect the president to speak out against the actions of the people he hired for his campaign and against the Border Agents who are acting on his orders? After all, that's not a weak association. It's either a direct association or direct orders.\",\n \"308\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well, how about this one. This is why <PERSON> doesn’t speak out, because he actually authorizes abuses:\\n\\nThe Trump administration has announced a new \\\"expedited removal\\\" policy that makes deportation faster and easier for immigration enforcement agents. It empowers the agency to stop any person, anywhere in the U.S., and for any reason, and demand they prove either they're a citizen or have lived in the U.S. for at least two years. If they can't do either, they're deported without seeing a judge.\\n\\nSo, any border agents can stop anyone they want, demand papers, and if you can’t provide them they can jail and deport you without due process. \\n\\nIf I were Hispanic, I’d sure as hell not support <PERSON> just on this item alone.\",\n \"796\"\n ],\n [\n \"From our Constitution \\n\\nSection 9\\n1: The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.\\n\\n2: The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.\\n\\nNote the second item. These people have the right to have their case heard before a judge. And public safety is not an issue, although right-wing news outlets want you to think that. But the facts show that American citizens commit more crimes than illegal immigrants.\",\n \"796\"\n ],\n [\n \"To deny fear of men is to be stupid. If I’m walking down the street alone at night and I see I’m being followed by someone, if it’s a man I am concerned and take steps to protect myself. If it’s a woman, I am not really worried. Why? Because women don’t rape women and rarely commit crimes against another person except their partner.\\n\\nHow many women are arrested for breaking into someone’s home, stealing things, etc.?\\n\\nMen can be dangerous to women. We all know this.\",\n \"878\"\n ],\n [\n \"The media needs views. One person can be outraged and vocal and it will make the news if it supports a mindset that will drive votes and divide people. \\n\\nThe thing is, I don’t see this on MSM. I see daily on right wing media. Here’s an example from Fox News:\\n\\nMen fined for eating raw squirrels at vegan event, causing 'significant distress' to attendees\\n\\nReally? One nut job at a vegan event. \\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\nDid I mention this happened in the UK? Why is that on Fox News under Food and Entertainment? Why?\",\n \"6\"\n ],\n [\n \"\\\"I asked him very nicely to look into my political opponent. Look, we are even appearing on TV together! Look how much we like one another and smile at the camera!\\\"\\n\\nJesus, is this real?! It's insane! \\n\\n\\\"I can't be doing anything underhanded because I am happy to appear on TV with the guy who I held up funding in exchange for dirt on <PERSON>! Happy day!\\\"\",\n \"481\"\n ],\n [\n \"The end of Mueller's summary of Part 1 is shown below. <PERSON> talks about people pleading the 5th, of deleting evidence, of claiming immunity when they did NOT have grounds to do so, of documents overseas they could not obtain, of evidence that they could not use in court, and the final sentence of the summary ends as follows:\\n\\n\\\"the Office cannot rule out the possibility that the unavailable information would shed additional light on (or cast in a new light) the events described in the report.\\\"\\n\\nThe investigation did not always yield admissible information or testimony, or a complete picture of the activities undertaken by subjects of the investigation. Some individuals invoked their Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination and were not, in the Office's judgment, appropriate candidates for grants of immunity. The Office limited its pursuit of other witnesses and information—such as information known to attorneys or individuals claiming to be members of the media—in light of internal Department of Justice policies. See, e.g., Justice Manual §§ 9-13.400, 13.410. Some of the information obtained via court process, moreover, was presumptively covered by legal privilege and was screened from investigators by a filter (or \\\"taint\\\") team. Even when individuals testified or agreed to be interviewed, they sometimes provided information that was false or incomplete, leading to some of the false-statements charges described above. And the Office faced practical limits on its ability to access relevant evidence as well-numerous witnesses and subjects lived abroad, and documents were held outside the United States.\\n\\nFurther, the Office learned that some of the individuals we interviewed or whose conduct we investigated—including some associated with the Trump Campaign—deleted relevant communications or communicated during the relevant period using applications that feature encryption or that do not provide for long-term retention of data or communications records. In such cases, the Office was not able to corroborate witness statements through comparison to contemporaneous communications or fully question witnesses about statements that appeared inconsistent with other known facts.\\n\\nAccordingly, while this report embodies factual and legal determinations that the Office believes to be accurate and complete to the greatest extent possible, given these identified gaps, the Office cannot rule out the possibility that the unavailable information would shed additional light on (or cast in a new light) the events described in the report.\",\n \"776\"\n ],\n [\n \"Why was the aid frozen? <PERSON> and the Republicans have told no less than 5 versions of why:\\n\\n1. Senate Republicans said it had been held while the White House assessed whether the newly elected Ukrainian President <PERSON> was aligned with the US and NATO or with Russia.\\n2. <PERSON> said <PERSON> wanted the money held because he had “concerns” about the aid’s necessity. \\n3. 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These conversations were not had between peers or ambassadors. <PERSON> was pushing for info to help <PERSON>.\\n\\nAnd let's not forget that by <PERSON> having attorneys do this, he can hide behind both executive and attorney-client privilege.\",\n \"755\"\n ],\n [\n \"<PERSON>:\\n\\npacked the Supreme Court\\n\\nexerts executive privilege for conversations with people who have no part in our administration\\n\\ncommanded administration officials to ignore subpoenas\\n\\nsends his personal attorney to negotiate with foreign leaders\\n\\ndeclares a national emergency to take money lawfully allocated by congress for one purposes to use it for another\\n\\nput both his daughter and son-in-law in positions within his administration for which they were unqualified and could not obtain the necessary security clearance\\n\\ntook the side of <PERSON> over our intelligence community\\n\\nhas undermined freedom of the press\\n\\ntweets out policy changes with zero review, consultation, or review of their legality\\n\\ngives way national secrets that jeopardized years of work inside foreign countries and caused our insiders to have to flee for their own safety\\n\\nShould I go on?\",\n \"693\"\n ],\n [\n \"<PERSON> holds no position in the US government, has taken no oath to our country, and yet he has been in communication with Ukraine for over a year now. On whose behalf? On behalf of our country? But he doesn't represent our country. He was neither elected nor appointed. He has no security clearance. He has no role in our government OTHER THAN he is <PERSON>'s PERSONAL attorney (which allows him to hide behind attorney-client privilege.)\\n\\nSince <PERSON> has no official role, his conversations with officials in Ukraine were not peer to peer in any way. He can't represent our country nor our interests. Those conversations had one purpose: <PERSON> was to pressure Ukraine for info on behalf of and to help <PERSON>.\",\n \"755\"\n ],\n [\n \"I have no doubt that the <PERSON> investigation would have gone very differently had executive privilege not been claimed on every communication between <PERSON> and <PERSON>. \\n\\nThe end of <PERSON>’s Executive summary of Part 1:\\n\\nThe investigation did not always yield admissible information or testimony, or a complete picture of the activities undertaken by subjects of the investigation. 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He doesn’t understand that he can’t just do what the hell he wants to “make a deal” because that deal was already made. And it’s not his fucking money anyway!! 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You don’t throw your toys out the pram because they don’t fit the idea of what you want or share your lifestyle choices.\n\nLots of people will talk about patience and giving him time etc, but frankly having grown up with a father who from the sound of it rather resembles your husband, I can tell you all the patience in the world won’t work. And now I have no relationship with him as why would I want to.\n\nSo it’s down to him, entirely, if he wants that to be the case for him and his son or if he wants to get over himself and love his son for who he is.","732"],["Having come from a similar home with a dominating father my mum has never understood that she was enabling him and as the other adult it was up to her to confront him and stop it happening.\n\nI find it hard to blame her though as she wanted to avoid conflict at all costs and so was in constant deescalation mode.\n\nIt’s much safer for everyone to confront a crying child than enrage someone who starts shouting and screaming at everyone. So I do feel for the lady and I think it’s worth bearing in mind the context it may be happening in.\n\nAlso she is trying to do the right thing now and it sounds like she has a lot of love for her son.","900"],["People have a weird understanding of what a job description is or means. You can absolutely give people work and responsibilities outside of their job description as long as it can reasonably be seen to fit under their title (which is a broad scope) and is not being done in a malicious way. The intent is important.\n\nI’ve had to explain this to employees on more than one occasion that if it needs doing and you are best placed in the business to do it, then I will assign it to you.\n\nAs a small business you couldn’t operate without flexibility and if the business can’t operate then no one has a job. So if it is best for the business and reasonable to do so, you’ll be asked to do it.","641"],["Some used dealers are great, others are shite. Due to the increasing forecourt fees only the really well established guys are still around so the amount of crappy ones has diminished a lot in recent years.\n\nDealership is often a better route for lots of people as you can get a warranty and if you don’t what your doing or not mechanically minded this might be the best route for you.\n\nI buy private usually because I have a bit of experience and know what to look for. I wouldn’t advise that route for everyone. And now I’m planning a more expensive purchase I’m specifically looking at dealership over private.\n\nNo offensive but your advise sounds a lot like you haven’t got much experience in the matter. If you had you’d know there is no one size fits all approach and neither are outright better or worse, it’s very much dependant on the circumstances.","565"],["Well it depends as what you define as paying g a premium to be. If you want to pay less buy private but if you want more legal protections and a warranty, which a reputable dealer will absolutely honour, then pay the extra for a dealership.\n\nPeople also don’t want to sell their cars themselves and dealers offer a trade in. You get maybe 2/3 of what you would selling privately but people are OK with that for the convenience.\n\nYes some dealers end up in court over warranties, but they are the vast minority of instances which you are representing as the norm.\n\nBuying private has a lot more risk and not everyone wants to spend time learning about cars. They want to pay the money and drive away. That’s how society works, we don’t all have to be plumbers or electricians or doctors. We employ other people’s expertise.","565"],["Yeah. Except that’s total bollocks and this has been an issue for fucking years. Just because you’re ignorant of it, surprise surprise, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.\n\nBeing gay isn’t a choice or preference. Your comparison is like saying not chewing a mouthful of bees is a preference. Like yeah you have a mouth and bees fit in it so it’s anatomically possible.\n\nAnd yeah, having sex with someone against your sexuality is as psychologically damaging as a mouthful of bees may well be physically.\n\nIf you don’t think that’s true why don’t you show everyone that being straight is just your preference and have sex with a couple of guys.","640"],["Preference literally means the selection of something or ability to chose.\n\nGay people don’t choose to be gay. It’s not like people are picking their sexuality as what they prefer. It’s innate.\n\nEdit : If you’re downvoting this I guess the dictionary is wrong then...\n\nDefinition of preference\n\na : the act of preferring : the state of being preferred\n\nb : the power or opportunity of choosing\n\n_URL_0_","640"],["I’d eat the fish pie ASAP and the chicken I would cook then freeze. You can then use it in curries or stews or whatever straight out the freezer.\n\nFreezing stuff that’s about to go off is a bad idea as either you have to defrost it which may well send it over the edge or it’s really easily to undercook the middle of meat if you’re cooking from frozen.","967"],["I’m seriously considering getting a pair of rabbits and keeping them indoors. I hear they chew pretty much anything which I’m not too worried about as I can easily tidy cables etc out the way. But I’m wondering about stopping them from going upstairs? Will they go up the stairs of their own volition meaning I’ll need a stair gate to stop them.","173"],["This broke my brain for ages until I realised it’s just hanging off the centre chain.\n\nThe reason it looks impossible is the point of suspension has just been moved to below the table rather than where you expect it, above the table.\n\nThe outer chains are just there to stop it tipping over.\n\nIt’s totally baffling until it clicks but when it does it’s so much less impressive!","742"],["Ignore the outer chains for a moment. Just look at the centre chain. You can see it’s just suspended from the centre chain to a stand on the ground. So instead of suspending it from above they have moved the suspension point to below. That’s what makes it look so impossible.\n\nSo that carries the weight of the table and all the side chains do is stop it tipping over as if they are taught each side then it cannot tip in either direction.","473"],["Yeah but the repairman will know what appliances he fixes.\n\nIf he starts seeing lots more new Samsung’s over any other brand then he can reasonably assume that Samsung have dropped in reliability to below that of other brands.\n\nIt may also be the case they have suddenly increased in popularity, but I would have thought someone who specialises in the repair of appliances would have a feel for the market.\n\nPeople are able to think for themselves and draw conclusions over than ‘fridge broken, Samsung bad’.","923"],["Thanks for the link, that’s closer to what I am looking for.\n\nAnd no, forecasts are not just estimates. They are taking existing data and using it to project out into the future. It should follow a mathematical model.\n\nWhat I’m interested in is how they have achieved this, the pdf doesn’t go into detail about how they weight the different values and have come to this conclusion.\n\nDo they provide any back testing or can we see past estimates they have made against what actually happened?","185"],["Your brain is a physical thing. Memories are stored in some form of physical capacity, be it a particular chemical composition or pattern of synapses. If the healing factor works to rebuild the brain exactly as it was at the point of destruction then it would rebuild those memories.\n\nHealing factors do differentiate between natural and unnatural cell and body changes. For example wolverines hair still grows if he were to shave it, it comes back. So it makes sense memories are allowed to form without the brain being ‘healed’ back to its original state.\n\nIt’s only when unnaturally altered does the healing factor kick in. I expect ageing is slowed because the healing factor ensures perfect copies of cells are made rather than the slightly degraded ones which cause us to grow older.","147"],["This is not offensive to me, I don't think he crossed 'the' line at all. But he clearly crossed 'your' line.\n\nIt wasn't offensive by design and nor was it said with ill intention. He's apologised as well. At this point what more do you want from them? I feel like your actions are bordering into unfair by freezing them out. Effectively punishing them by making them feel worse about it. It's not exactly how friends should treat each other, even if they have made a mistake.\n\nYou're allowed to be offended, but if it wasn't said with the intention of being offensive you say 'hey I found that offensive' and explain why, they say 'sorry' then that's the matter closed. If it happens again then it's different, but you have to accept that different people have different types of humour and many people wouldn't be offended by this and he was reasonable to assume you wouldn't be either.\n\nIf you want to carry on being friends you need to act like one, be forgiving and help them understand and improve.","219"],["This feels like ultimately a catch 22 situation. Trans women are on grindr for a reason, I would assume as it's lgbt friendly.\n\nSo guys who like trans women go on there and say they are only interested in women. Trans women I assume don't have a problem with this as they are on grindr and I would assume like men who like women. As they are on Grindr which is specifically for the LGBT community then therefor it is unlikely those men will be looking for cis women. So the two parties are in a kind of tacit agreement. Trans women are there for men who like women and are also into trans women. Men who like women are on there as they are into trans women as well. All makes sense so far.\n\nBut then people stand on the sidelines and get angry about it and call them chasers and act like they shouldn't be there?\n\nCan someone explain this logic to me or is it just good old fashioned prejudice and shaming part of the community because they don't like it?","847"],["> People including me are making fun of his style\n\n > the comment actually saying something about his physical appearance has been downvoted the most\n\nYou can't even help but contradict yourself in your own comment, it's clear you're making fun of them because of the way they look. His 'style' is still his appearance, clearly. Don't give me any of this it's fine to bully someone because they 'chose' to look like that bullshit. And no, calling it 'busting his balls' instead of bullying doesn't make it OK either.\n\nTaking someone else's profile to post anonymously and make fun of on the internet is bullying. From the very community that should understand better than most what it means to have their appearance and sexual preference publicly questioned and shamed.\n\nBe better.","837"],["I don't feel like I am overacting. I am putting myself in this guys place and thinking about how it would feel to find this content.\n\nI was bullied a lot as a kid because of how I looked and my sexuality. Both by peers and my own (adult) family.\n\nThe absolute worst of it was finding out about the stuff that took place behind my back, just like this.\n\nI point it out whenever I see it, I have no time for it. It's not on. Frankly I couldn't give it shit if you call me woke or not. I've been doing it for a lot longer than woke was ever a word and I'll still be doing it a long time after.","331"],["I'm not inflating every situation. It's your opinion I'm inflating this situation, fine. But to then stretch that into I do in every situation and therefore you have no time for me? Now who's inflating things?\n\nNext, you're inferring all of this...\n\n > I see this post as calling the guy out for his way of thinking. As in \"I'm straight but I'll settle for you guys to help me get sexual gratification and validation. I won't suck your dick or be accommodating because I'm A tOp!\" And proceeds to cover 80% of his face so that he can still call us slurs in public.\n\nYou don't know any of that. You're just making it up to justify your behaviour towards them.","730"],["Yes there are multiple ways, neither of us has a magic ball that allows us to see inside this guys head or know anything about them. Hence it not being on to publicly shame them based on their appearance and sexual preference. I don't know why this needs pointing out?\n\nI guess in your view it's OK to shame people because they choose to dress in a style you dislike. This entire post is literally titled in a way that does so. All I'm doing is pointing out that we can't pick and choose which people we apply those standards to, we need to include in them people who might look different from how we would choose to dress or do so in a way we dislike as long as it's not overtly offensive by design.\n\nThe only thing a tolerable society cannot tolerate is intolerance. That's what this is, like it or not. It's pointing at someone and saying they shouldn't look or act in that way based on nothing more than your dislike of it.\n\nThe rest of it, your analysis of internalised homophobia, that's pure conjecture. You are projecting an unfounded accusation on someone then justifying your own mistreatment of them based on that. That's not fair either.","16"],["Controversial as it may be, the death penalty is no longer used in the majority of the developed world with good reason. We seem to forget why when we see what we think is a good reason for it.\n\nThe death penalty is always wrong, even when it might feel like the right thing to do. We cannot pick and choose based on the emotiveness of one crime over the other. The reasons for it being wrong remain so whatever the crime committed.\n\nThis is doubly so when welded by deeply corrupt theocratic governments with highly prejudiced court systems. There is a reason why the Daily Mail, a right wing UK newspaper, would choose to report on this particular crime and punishment and not the countless other number of hangings and court sanctioned murders which take place in Iran, such as those against members of the LGBT community, atheists or those who simply speak up against the government.\n\nThey are seeking to glorify its use, make people more receptive to harsher punishments and worse treatment of criminals. Moving the system here in the UK towards punishment over rehabilitation.\n\nThis is not a story published in a vacuum and it is not done so without bias and agenda.","178"],["Not sure that’s relevant. It the guy was bisexual then his sexuality wouldn’t be the issue here. If he was being unfaithful then that’s a different matter. Bi guys can have lifelong relationships with people of either sex without any sort of denial.\n\nTo be honest this is the kind of thinking that made my ex jealous when I dressed a certain way if she thought it was ‘too gay’. Which I found really fucking offensive.","640"],["OK well there was the line and you just sailed across it.\n\nYou’ve come here asking for help, stop and think for a second how it feels to all the people whose community you are happily trashing.\n\nIt’s fine not to like certain things but to be so negative and dismissive of other people’s lifestyle is deeply unfair.\n\n‘Gay culture’ is as diverse as you make it. Gay men are just people, we come in all shapes and sizes and enjoy a broad range of things.\n\nJust be a bit nicer about it, think about how your words might affect others. Just because something isn’t for you doesn’t make it wrong. There is no need to shame others for living a lifestyle you just happen to not want to.","418"],["> It seems as tho although Bi, it’s not enough for him and the gay side is winning\n\nFYI as someone who is Bi this is as incredibly outdated way of thinking and bordering on offensive.\n\nBeing Bi doesn't mean you have a 'gay side' and a 'straight side' you have one sexuality just like everyone else. Usually that's influenced by the PERSON you are attracted to, not their gender.\n\nIf this guy is lusting after guys it's because he's unhappy with his marriage, wanting other sexual partners is an outcome of that. You've got it completely backwards in your thinking.\n\nYou can be Bi and live very happily with a single partner your whole life. Bi people are not incapable of long term relationships as the 'other side' also needs fulfilling. It's just not a healthy or accurate way of looking at sexuality.","640"],["Yeah Grindr is a weird place. I have previously got messages from male profiles who have turned out to be Cis women who find it a turn on to pretend to be guys on there and get fucked by bi guys. It's pretty much anything goes to be honest.\n\nI think just like every other community there are many different opinions and some people appear to want to label every 'straight' man attracted to them on grindr a 'chaser'. Which seems a little odd to me. I don't really get the logic in that when those men are saying they view trans women as women and are also attracted to them. Which seems OK to me?\n\nYour explanation makes far more sense to me, there is a difference between those who are attracted to Trans people and those who fetishise them as sexual objects. It's about the distinction between the two.\n\nIt's also worth bearing in mind there are plenty of guys on grindr who enjoy dressing up as women and being fetishised, they do it purely as a sexual activity and are only fem in bed. That's also totally fine, it's distinct from trans people and it's not the same. However there is no such distinction in the 'tribes' categorisation within Grindr. All of these groups appear under the 'trans' tribe.\n\nSo all these different groups are mixed together under one broad label and I think that's also causing issues.","847"],["No it’s really not, this is the ‘<PERSON> was a vegetarian’ argument. It’s just total bollocks. You can’t just say ‘well this sounds like X and X was bad so this means this is bad’.\n\nIt’s just a non starter. Don’t make comparisons to what it ‘sounds’ like. It’s not needed, let’s just talk about what it is.","909"],["Where did services come into this?\n\nI’ve reiterated the same point so many times I really can’t be bothered to type it out on mobile again. Just go back and read my first comment.\n\nI think it says a lot that no one can actually respond to the points I made. Every single comment sidesteps them. Go and look at them all.\n\nIt’s like people can’t actually admit that yes this is a complex and difficult issue that needs nuance so instead they sort of just dance around it to make there morally absolute point instead.","809"],["This is my original comment:\n\n > Women should feel safe and part of that for some women is having a women only environment. If like OP is saying they present male and are also physically male, that may in itself mean that women no longer feel safe in certain spaces with them.\n\n > This isn’t a case of what’s ‘fair’ or how things should or shouldn’t be. But instead is just how it currently is. We have to respect that and women’s feelings about these spaces and not simply ride roughshod over them with out morality.\n\n > It’s not an easy one to accept, but the women who feel uncomfortable having op in their space, well we need to respect that. We don’t get to say OPs need is greater than theirs.\n\nYes, you can read that 'she should have less access to spaces because of the way she looks' but clearly that's a gross mischaracterisation of the point I am trying to make.\n\nAt the same time you're saying we need to consider how TERFs use this argument whilst simultaneously saying that that means we shouldn't discuss it. That's a fucking odd point to make. Because TERFs have capitalised on this issue we shouldn't address it?","497"],["> So what are you saying? Because right now it really comes across as you trying to say that things behind her control make her \"male\".\n\nThere's not much I can do if your ability to read and interpret information is that poor.\n\n > I'm saying that be careful with that rhetoric, because your argument seems to flip flop between comments, and that may not be intentional on your part\n\nShow me any example of this. I have made the same point in each comment and not deviated in any way.\n\n > TERF arguments are worth exploring, but not for the reason you're thinking. The intent behind those arguments should be analyzed so that well-meaning people aren't sucked into those spaces or pushed out of trans-positive ones and into TERF ones for repeating them with no context of the underlying, toxic nature.\n\n...or they should be explored because as they rely on leveraging real problems and fears. If we deal with those then they can no longer be used in this way.\n\nAlso it's not like there's no context here. There is shit tons, so your whole point seems a little silly. Also why does it matter so much if you are agreeing it's worth discussing? Just feels like an attempt at point scoring that has fallen a little flat.","181"],["OK, I don't really have an answer to when you just take my comment and infer whatever bullshit you want into it's perceived meaning.\n\nI mean hey, maybe I'm really saying that we're all lizard people and the world is a spoon.\n\nReally what's the point in even trying to discuss something when someone does this? It's just silly.\n\nBy the way, I interpret your comment as meaning that you agree with everything I said and that I completely right. So thank you :)","837"],["> The crux of the matter that you keep dancing around is whether women’s feelings of unsafeness that stem from bigotry deserve to be respected.\n\nNope, no dancing around this at all. To be really absolutely clear we sometimes need to make additional considerations for vulnerable people. Those people are not acting out of hatred, there is no bigotry involved, they are instead acting out of fear born of their own personal experience.\n\nI hope that clears up that point for you. Anything else you think I am dancing around then please do just ask.\n\n > Cis women may genuinely feel unsafe around trans women. But if that feeling stems from the fact that those women are trans, then it absolutely doesn’t deserve to be respected or accommodated.\n\nBingo.\n\n'But'. So what happens when that feeling unsafe DOES NOT stem from being trans but from them being genetically male and looking so? What do you do then? Because it sounds a lot like you are agreement with me.\n\n > It’s the same way that many white people feel unsafe around black people because they’re black. That’s a shitty stance and it doesn’t deserve to be respected.\n\nNo. It's not. It would be the same as having a support group for white victims of violent crime committed by black people (don't blame me for how distasteful this sounds, you're the one who has weirdly dragged race into it and constructed this rather awkward premise) and then insist that a black person who identifies as white should be able to join that group. Even when for some members of that group even being alone in a room with a black person is enough to trigger a severe episode of PTSD.\n\nAs I said, it's a pretty distasteful analogy, but you are the one so determined to drag race into it.","847"],["> Bigotry doesn’t require hatred and can be borne out of personal experience.\n\nYes it can. But you do realise this doesn't deal with or address my point in any way whatsoever. The sky is blue.\n\n > Conflating being transgender - a real, observed phenomenon - with being transracial - not, to say the least - is gross, but unsurprising from a TERF.\n\nYou set up the construct yourself!!! Which I took great pains to point out was somewhat distasteful. How fucking dare you then turn that round on me and say that it's my doing.\n\nFrankly fuck you. I'm done with this bad faith rhetoric.\n\n'oh what if it was race instead of gender'\n\nI provide example whilst stating how distasteful that is\n\n'oh you're disgusting what a terf'\n\nYou know what, fuck you. You're flat out acting in bad faith and I'm done with talking to you.","847"],["But it’s not though is it. Segregation is the unnecessary separation of people and restriction of the their freedoms based on arbitrary values. That’s like calling a disabled only access to a building ‘segregation’. It’s utterly helpful, irrelevant and used in bad faith only to evoke connotations of racial segregation.\n\nYou are continually mischaracterising my point and then arguing against that mischaracterisation rather than my actual point.\n\nAs you seem unable to respond on the actual point at hand we’re not going to get anywhere.\n\nEvery comment I make you respond by drawing a false parallel thatI then reject, reiterate my point, then you respond by drawing another false parallel.\n\nStop this ‘it’s like X bad thing and so therefore as X is bad it’s also bad’ bullshit and deal with the point at hand. You continually evade any attempt to deal with the bulk of the issue in this way and it’s utterly pointless going round in circles debunking your bullshit.","16"],["No. You’re drawing the parallel with race not me.\n\nThis is the most blatant example of what you keep doing. Represent my argument as something it is not, then argue against that misrepresentation.\n\nI honestly think at this point you are either incapable of understanding the matter at hand or you genuinely don’t care about it.\n\nThe own thing that you care about is getting to ‘own’ a terf. It really doesn’t matter to you I’m not a terf you’ll just repeatedly say I am. And as you can’t actually engage with my point because I’m guess it’s just too complex for you to grasp, you instead over simplify it as something you can engage with and ‘own’ that instead.\n\nIn fact now I’ve typed this out it’s cringingly obvious this is exactly what’s happening. Oh dear!\n\nThis is a pointless conversation as you don’t want to engage and I genuinely think you’re not capable.\n\nWelp.","248"],["> The NIS informed South Korean officials that those executed include a well-known money changer in Pyongyang. <PERSON> reportedly blamed the person for North Korea's falling exchange rate. \n\n > The other is a key official who in August was found to be in violation of restrictions placed on goods coming from outside the country amid the pandemic.\n\n\nTo be honest looking at my own governments disastrous and corrupt response I think a few executions wouldn’t go amiss here.","959"],["> So uhhhhh when you're done excluding all of the trans women from women's rape and domestic abuse support groups and shelters because they don't look enough like \"women\" \n\nExcept I'm not doing that. I think you need to go back and re read my comment. As what I am doing is saying there maybe circumstances where it is not appropriate. We're not dealing in absolutes here. We're dealing with tricky sensitive issues and vulnerable people. So this absolutism is damaging to all parties, that absolutism by the way is very obvious when you look at your response. I'm clearly saying there may be exceptional circumstances and you respond talking about 'all'.\n\nThere is a real disconnect between my point and your response. You completely misinterpret my point and then based on that misinterpretation call me a TERF. It's reductive, but more than that it's completely unhelpful. You gain no understanding of the issue and I just get bored dealing yet another comment which entirely misinterprets the point in the rush to label me a TERF.\n\n > i rreeeeeeaaally like how you juxtapose \"trans women\" against \"women\". It kinda gives the whole TERF game away\n\nI think people are a little confused on this. Not all women are the same. Trans women and cis women are different. Black women and white women are different. Disabled and able bodied women are different. This is not the same as saying that some women are 'less' than other women, but you need to recognise that 'women' is not a homogeneous group that should all be treated the same in all circumstances.","847"],["I have the small instant pot as it's just me and I fucking LOVE it! I got it about a month ago because of this sub and I have been cooking in it every day! I barely use my stove top any more!\n\nSo what I do is make a lot of dahl based veggie curries. In fact as I work from home I'll often cook one in the morning and just eat it throughout the day!\n\nI use a lot of frozen veg as you get maximum nutrients that way, I just bung a load in and add a portion of lentils, veggie stock cube, curry spice, garam masala, oat milk and of course a couple of chillis.\n\nThen I set it to pressure cook for 5 minutes and get on with my day. It's always delicious, super cheap and really healthy.\n\nIf I need something extra filling I will add a portion of brown rice and increase the cook time to 10 minutes. Yes I am super lazy when making food if I'm working from home! I just bung it all in there and wander off and it works out :)","967"],["> I read your post. Answer the question: who is going to pay for the support group to be run for me to go to get support for my sexual assault? Answer. The. Question.\n\nWhy? This isn't a conversation about funding support groups. Trying to pin my point to it is frankly a bit silly. Besides that you are still talking in absolutes. As if you would have access to no group rather than as I am saying in certain circumstances certain people may need to be directed to alternatives based on the needs of the existing members.\n\n > Yeah, but you didn't say \"trans women\" and \"cis women\". You said \"trans women\" and \"women\". Kinda gives up the game, yknow. Since I am a woman. A normal, every day, run of the mill woman. Not a new third gender.\n\nIf you're idea of engaging with someone is waiting for them to use the wrong terminology and then jump on that rather than in any way try and engage with the content of what they are saying then you absolutely in the wrong.\n\nI strongly get the sense your only aim here is to 'prove' I am some secret terf / transphobe and will continue to try and misrepresent my comments in order to do so rather than actually engaging with them. That's up to you I guess! I certainly have better things to do with my time that try and misinterpret other peoples comments so I can get mad at them!","847"],["You do seem to be a fan of these false parallels where you say ‘it’s either THIS thing or THAT thing choose’. Clearly that’s bullshit. As I keep saying you seem to consistently fall back on this sort of absolutism and refuse to even engage with the notion that in some circumstances some nuance may need to be applied.\n\nI don’t think it’s really possible to engage with you in good faith on this topic as you just flat out refuse to actually talk about the issue and rather every single time immediately begin your response with these false parallels.\n\nI won’t be responding to you other comments either as you are just spamming the thread with the same technique. It doesn’t achieve anything and as much as I enjoy talking to people with differing viewpoints to my own, there is nothing to be gained from someone who acts like yourself in these circumstances.","248"],["Yeah as soon as I saw it I thought bullshit on the mobile phone claim. It’s high power, small surface area, heat sensitive and spends most its time in your pocket.\n\nIt’s a pretty piss poor candidate for solar and not sure why the article would want to link the two, apart from sheer click bait.","927"],["Ah that’s annoying. My insurance did my windscreen via auto glass for £100 excess up front and that was it. I wouldn’t have driven round with it broken for 6 months had I realised how cheap and easy it was.\n\nI’ve not done a side window myself but I imagine getting the door card off without scuffing anything or breaking any of the plastic clips is going to be the hardest part.\n\nI’m no expert but I’d probably give the window motor and mechanism a good spray with some silicon based lube whilst you’re in there.","400"],["Hey dude, so I have just bought my kid his first laptop for Christmas. I spent about ~£250 on a chromebook and it’s a great little machine.\n\nFrom your other comments she’s just going to be using the web, zoom etc and for your budget a chromebook is a no brainier. They are absolutely fantastic little machines with battery life in the 10 hour range.\n\nI have a MacBook Pro from work and I was lucky enough to be given a chromebook in a promotion a couple of years ago and it’s been my travel and home browsing device ever since I got it. It’s fantastic and although my one is just a base model it’s been fine to work on in a pinch as well. So even in comparison to my work machine, it still performs well.\n\nFor your budget something like this is a great option...\n\n_URL_0_\n\nThen just get a cheap external drive :\n\n_URL_1_\n\nIf you get a laptop case she’ll be able to fit the laptop and drive in there so it won’t be extra hassle to carry round.\n\nIf you are fixed on getting a windows laptop with an integrated drive you’ll probably have to either chance an eBay Chinese special or go second hand.","127"],["HP are a massive brand, one hp laptop can be awful and another fantastic. I had a look at the listing for yours and it looks pretty solid.\n\nI take it’s running windows? 4gb ram on windows 10 ‘should’ run fine, my old media pc is on windows 10 with only 3 gb of ram and a worse processor and can handle zoom, but it’s at its limit.\n\nI strongly suspect there is a lot of bloatware and background stuff running which is killing performance on your laptop.\n\nYou can either spend some time clearing out all the crap on there and what is running in the background, anti virus is often a culprit so have a look at what’s on there and how it’s scheduled, as well as anything else you don’t strictly need. Or look at installing Linux on it.\n\nPersonally I would probably try and clear it out and get it running properly on windows first, then fall back on putting Ubuntu on it if not.","127"],["Have you looked at what is it that’s running and eating up the cpu?\n\nIt may well be chrome at fault, running that with more than a handful of tabs can be surprisingly intensive.\n\nYou should be able to get it running properly and handle zoom without issue. It’s got the hardware. As I said before, if you really run out of options shoving Ubuntu or even xubuntu on it might be a good idea.","545"],["Ouch, I’m wincing at the thought. Maybe this guy has some weird pain fetish as it’s pretty well know shampoo is really painful if it gets in your ass. Stings like fuck.\n\nIf it was the smell I’m not sure why he wouldn’t just ask you to wash your hair in it for him then he can smell it whilst fucking you.","670"],["There are multiple vaccines working with different methodologies. A new variant so different none of the vaccines work on it but also still infectious and lethal, I think the odds are very low.\n\nCovid and Coronaviruses are going to be with us for a long time yet. But just like h1n1 we’ll get it under control and learn to live with it.\n\nSociety will find an acceptable balance between deaths and disruption and life will go on.","235"],["Vote leave campaign was about immigration. It was sold on that and people voted on that issue.\n\nLet’s not start pretending it was about anything different.\n\nThat’s why they didn’t think about the impact on trade, that was very obviously going to be. People voted against their own interests across sectors because they didn’t care, they just wanted less immigrants.\n\nI personally don’t blame a lot of people for this, I don’t think they are racist to be concerned about immigration. We’re a densely populated country with serious problems with our public services.\n\nHowever I do blame people for ignoring all the obvious evidence and voting to leave at any cost. Because it was never going to achieve what they thought it would, it was always going to be limited upside and massive downside.","845"],["Wow, talk about a logical fallacy.\n\nNo, not buying this breed is not letting the dogs live an awful life. It’s stopping the perpetuation of the breed. It’s cruel.\n\nYour viewpoint is rather twisted. You can both home existing dogs whilst the general public stop buying them.\n\nThe reality is it’s not going to happen overnight. Demand for the breed will fade and breeders will react by choosing other breeds.\n\nThere is no reason to support a cruel practice like breeds which have so many health problems.","911"],["You’re the one who wants to continue a breed that is a obviously cruel because, well I’m assuming because it looks cute? I’m not really sure what the argument here is.\n\nYou’re pathetic whatever it is. People like you are the reason why we have so much animal cruelty in the world. You don’t give a flying fuck as long as you can have your latest accessory.","766"],["If people keep buying them breeders will keep breeding them.\n\nDissuading people to buy them will slowly reduce demand, it’s not going to just stop everyone overnight, with reduced demand breeders will move on to other breeds.\n\nYou’re creating a completely false idea that everyone will stop buying them at once and so therefore existing unsold puppies would not be purchased. That’s utter bullshit.","911"],["You’re just talking bullshit now. I’m saying people shouldn’t buy them and dissuading them from doing so will reduce demand. You’re going off into euthanising them and all other kinds of insane.\n\nalso don’t call people retarded. That’s a disgusting word and frankly punching down on societies most vulnerable to make a cheap insult is pathetic.","98"],["It’s just boring. I tried watching the first episode but got bored and ended up skimming through the last half. Same with the second episode as well. I gave up after that.\n\nI don’t like watching cheesy American canned laughter sit coms and watching a pastiche of them isn’t any more appealing.\n\nIt’s too similar to the source material which I have no interest in.","522"],["What is it with drunk twats on the underground? Usually with three day old stubble, bald, middle aged and wearing their white shirt straight from the office. This may be me projecting though!\n\nAnyway, sorry you had to go through that. They are the loud exception. Fuck that guy. Have you reported it? It is an offence and they should be prosecuted for it. Easier said than done obviously.","145"],["I really don’t get what point you’re trying to make. Are you saying we should ignore that the sad twats who go round behaving like this are only doing so as they’re angry little people lashing out at the lack of control they have other their own lives?\n\nShould we just be ignoring this? Not sure what flames I’m fanning either? The racists are bad flames?","272"],["I’m genuinely stunned this is getting upvoted. What bizarre nonsense is this?\n\nWe can both understand why people are utter bags of shite as well as despising them for it. The two are not mutually exclusive.\n\nI’m going to carry on hating racist, bigoted pieces of shit thanks. Maybe next time you’re getting the shit kicked out of you by one you won’t have quite the same attitude.\n\nBut no actually you never will because your ‘tolerance’ reeks of the privilege of never being being at the receiving end of these scum bags.\n\nOh well excuse me while I wipe my blood off your boot kind sir, for I understand you are only attempting to deny my very right to exist because you are angry with your socio economic status and so fucking thick you think me living an alternative lifestyle to yourself is somehow at fault. Well excuse me, I do apologise.\n\nHonestly you can fuck right off.","16"],["Who says I'm not for educating them? But I'm not going to fucking like them. I'm not at any point trying to make an argument for how to 'cure' them. At no point have I posited anything like that. I've stated why they behave like that and reinforced it's not an excuse.\n\nEveryone is responding like I'm saying I think that calling them names will somehow fix the issue. Of course it won't. Doesn't mean they don't deserve to be called out for being the utter cunts that they are. And I'll happily keep doing that all day long cheers.\n\nI'll leave the holding their hands and making them feel good about taking out how pathetic their lives our on those more vulnerable than themselves to people like yourself.","331"],["Yeah, like I remember being in this bank and these people were just quietly robbing it. No one was getting hurt and they were all just going about their business until the police arrived that is! It was all really quiet until then, but as soon as they did fights broke out and people were running around all over the place!\n\nI mean if the police just let them get on with it, none of those bank robbers would have made a fuss at all.\n\nWhy can't the police just let them get on with it?","695"],["I was! :) I'll dig out the comment if you like. I mean I got downvoted to fuck, but they went there against the wishes of the family, broke the law then got upset when being at a protest police treated them like protesters.\n\nSorry lady, being <PERSON> from Clapham doesn't mean the police give a flying fuck and yeah they will happily drag you off into the van as it's a fucking protest you muppet.","669"],["Ah yeah you see once you go beyond white to orange in America you go from less likely to be imprisoned to impossible. Not many people realise but that’s actually the key to <PERSON> unimprisonability. Much like a peacocks feathers it’s not just there for show but serves a distinct societal purpose.\n\nThe good news is that <PERSON> will not be here in 2024 to be re-elected. He will soon be recalled by the deep state and placed into a storage facility in the Nevada mountains until it’s time for him to be reskinned and run again as a new candidate. If <PERSON> goes on a long holiday before returning to an inexplicable rise in popularity we’ll all know why.","140"],["Sorry, you're going to have to explain this one.\n\nWhat has the murder of <PERSON> got to do with human rights exactly? I mean I'm pretty sure we were all down with the right not to be murdered already. So guessing it's not that.\n\nSo I'm assuming you're talking about the protest / vigil which happened? So what you mean is it took the police handling a protest with a load of middle class white women like any other protest for this country to recognise what exactly... because to me this looks a lot like privilege rather than human rights to me.\n\nI don't see the papers complaining about the policing of the lockdown protest or the head of the met making an apology for it. In fact I don't see anyone giving much of a flying fuck about the police of legitimate protests NOT held during a pandemic. Until suddenly it involves a lot a young white women and then all of sudden it's on the cover of the daily mail.\n\n<PERSON> has got fuck all to do with the right to protest. It's a an utter shame for her family the way her name is now been used. The manipulation of tragedy is something the press love to do and the papers that want the lockdown eased so their wealthy owners can go back to making money are using it to their full advantage.\n\nYet I'm no doubt the one you think is the 'sheep' for thinking lockdown is a good idea. All I'll say on that is there is a reason why the scientists are saying one thing and yet certain papers are pushing in the other direction.","281"],["Don’t forget it’s *child* slave labour as well.\n\nBut also excellent maths work :) I did actually look for profit originally but couldn’t find it published for last year. Maybe something to do with the whole we can’t afford not to use slaves thing.\n\nI mean personally I’m on the whole, if we can’t make chocolate without using child slaves maybe we should just make chocolate side!","231"],["The thing is, people just don’t care. As long as they can have their products that they like. I mean it’s not like we are talking about something anyone even needs. It’s a pure luxury good and people still don’t care.\n\nIf we can’t have it without enslaving children in order to get it, we shouldn’t have it. That applies to even the basics like electricity or running water. But chocolate, fucking chocolate? And people still don’t give a shit. I honestly just don’t get it.","618"],["I did my sons hair the other day. I have never cut hair since I was about 6 and took a chunk out my fringe. Which my parents still fucking talk about. I mean I think my kid cut his hair at some point, but I’d forgotten about it a week later. Why do my parents think this sort of stuff is so fucking important? Anyway, I did my kids, clippers and all.\n\nHe currently looks a lot like <PERSON> in the first series.","90"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"You need to support your son and frankly your husband needs to grow the fuck up.\\n\\nHe had a child and part of that is the commitment to love and support that person. You don’t throw your toys out the pram because they don’t fit the idea of what you want or share your lifestyle choices.\\n\\nLots of people will talk about patience and giving him time etc, but frankly having grown up with a father who from the sound of it rather resembles your husband, I can tell you all the patience in the world won’t work. And now I have no relationship with him as why would I want to.\\n\\nSo it’s down to him, entirely, if he wants that to be the case for him and his son or if he wants to get over himself and love his son for who he is.\",\n \"732\"\n ],\n [\n \"Having come from a similar home with a dominating father my mum has never understood that she was enabling him and as the other adult it was up to her to confront him and stop it happening.\\n\\nI find it hard to blame her though as she wanted to avoid conflict at all costs and so was in constant deescalation mode.\\n\\nIt’s much safer for everyone to confront a crying child than enrage someone who starts shouting and screaming at everyone. So I do feel for the lady and I think it’s worth bearing in mind the context it may be happening in.\\n\\nAlso she is trying to do the right thing now and it sounds like she has a lot of love for her son.\",\n \"900\"\n ],\n [\n \"People have a weird understanding of what a job description is or means. You can absolutely give people work and responsibilities outside of their job description as long as it can reasonably be seen to fit under their title (which is a broad scope) and is not being done in a malicious way. The intent is important.\\n\\nI’ve had to explain this to employees on more than one occasion that if it needs doing and you are best placed in the business to do it, then I will assign it to you.\\n\\nAs a small business you couldn’t operate without flexibility and if the business can’t operate then no one has a job. So if it is best for the business and reasonable to do so, you’ll be asked to do it.\",\n \"641\"\n ],\n [\n \"Some used dealers are great, others are shite. Due to the increasing forecourt fees only the really well established guys are still around so the amount of crappy ones has diminished a lot in recent years.\\n\\nDealership is often a better route for lots of people as you can get a warranty and if you don’t what your doing or not mechanically minded this might be the best route for you.\\n\\nI buy private usually because I have a bit of experience and know what to look for. I wouldn’t advise that route for everyone. And now I’m planning a more expensive purchase I’m specifically looking at dealership over private.\\n\\nNo offensive but your advise sounds a lot like you haven’t got much experience in the matter. If you had you’d know there is no one size fits all approach and neither are outright better or worse, it’s very much dependant on the circumstances.\",\n \"565\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well it depends as what you define as paying g a premium to be. If you want to pay less buy private but if you want more legal protections and a warranty, which a reputable dealer will absolutely honour, then pay the extra for a dealership.\\n\\nPeople also don’t want to sell their cars themselves and dealers offer a trade in. You get maybe 2/3 of what you would selling privately but people are OK with that for the convenience.\\n\\nYes some dealers end up in court over warranties, but they are the vast minority of instances which you are representing as the norm.\\n\\nBuying private has a lot more risk and not everyone wants to spend time learning about cars. They want to pay the money and drive away. That’s how society works, we don’t all have to be plumbers or electricians or doctors. We employ other people’s expertise.\",\n \"565\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah. Except that’s total bollocks and this has been an issue for fucking years. Just because you’re ignorant of it, surprise surprise, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.\\n\\nBeing gay isn’t a choice or preference. Your comparison is like saying not chewing a mouthful of bees is a preference. Like yeah you have a mouth and bees fit in it so it’s anatomically possible.\\n\\nAnd yeah, having sex with someone against your sexuality is as psychologically damaging as a mouthful of bees may well be physically.\\n\\nIf you don’t think that’s true why don’t you show everyone that being straight is just your preference and have sex with a couple of guys.\",\n \"640\"\n ],\n [\n \"Preference literally means the selection of something or ability to chose.\\n\\nGay people don’t choose to be gay. It’s not like people are picking their sexuality as what they prefer. It’s innate.\\n\\nEdit : If you’re downvoting this I guess the dictionary is wrong then...\\n\\nDefinition of preference\\n\\na : the act of preferring : the state of being preferred\\n\\nb : the power or opportunity of choosing\\n\\n_URL_0_\",\n \"640\"\n ],\n [\n \"I’d eat the fish pie ASAP and the chicken I would cook then freeze. You can then use it in curries or stews or whatever straight out the freezer.\\n\\nFreezing stuff that’s about to go off is a bad idea as either you have to defrost it which may well send it over the edge or it’s really easily to undercook the middle of meat if you’re cooking from frozen.\",\n \"967\"\n ],\n [\n \"I’m seriously considering getting a pair of rabbits and keeping them indoors. I hear they chew pretty much anything which I’m not too worried about as I can easily tidy cables etc out the way. But I’m wondering about stopping them from going upstairs? Will they go up the stairs of their own volition meaning I’ll need a stair gate to stop them.\",\n \"173\"\n ],\n [\n \"This broke my brain for ages until I realised it’s just hanging off the centre chain.\\n\\nThe reason it looks impossible is the point of suspension has just been moved to below the table rather than where you expect it, above the table.\\n\\nThe outer chains are just there to stop it tipping over.\\n\\nIt’s totally baffling until it clicks but when it does it’s so much less impressive!\",\n \"742\"\n ],\n [\n \"Ignore the outer chains for a moment. Just look at the centre chain. You can see it’s just suspended from the centre chain to a stand on the ground. So instead of suspending it from above they have moved the suspension point to below. That’s what makes it look so impossible.\\n\\nSo that carries the weight of the table and all the side chains do is stop it tipping over as if they are taught each side then it cannot tip in either direction.\",\n \"473\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah but the repairman will know what appliances he fixes.\\n\\nIf he starts seeing lots more new Samsung’s over any other brand then he can reasonably assume that Samsung have dropped in reliability to below that of other brands.\\n\\nIt may also be the case they have suddenly increased in popularity, but I would have thought someone who specialises in the repair of appliances would have a feel for the market.\\n\\nPeople are able to think for themselves and draw conclusions over than ‘fridge broken, Samsung bad’.\",\n \"923\"\n ],\n [\n \"Thanks for the link, that’s closer to what I am looking for.\\n\\nAnd no, forecasts are not just estimates. They are taking existing data and using it to project out into the future. It should follow a mathematical model.\\n\\nWhat I’m interested in is how they have achieved this, the pdf doesn’t go into detail about how they weight the different values and have come to this conclusion.\\n\\nDo they provide any back testing or can we see past estimates they have made against what actually happened?\",\n \"185\"\n ],\n [\n \"Your brain is a physical thing. Memories are stored in some form of physical capacity, be it a particular chemical composition or pattern of synapses. If the healing factor works to rebuild the brain exactly as it was at the point of destruction then it would rebuild those memories.\\n\\nHealing factors do differentiate between natural and unnatural cell and body changes. For example wolverines hair still grows if he were to shave it, it comes back. So it makes sense memories are allowed to form without the brain being ‘healed’ back to its original state.\\n\\nIt’s only when unnaturally altered does the healing factor kick in. I expect ageing is slowed because the healing factor ensures perfect copies of cells are made rather than the slightly degraded ones which cause us to grow older.\",\n \"147\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is not offensive to me, I don't think he crossed 'the' line at all. But he clearly crossed 'your' line.\\n\\nIt wasn't offensive by design and nor was it said with ill intention. He's apologised as well. At this point what more do you want from them? I feel like your actions are bordering into unfair by freezing them out. Effectively punishing them by making them feel worse about it. It's not exactly how friends should treat each other, even if they have made a mistake.\\n\\nYou're allowed to be offended, but if it wasn't said with the intention of being offensive you say 'hey I found that offensive' and explain why, they say 'sorry' then that's the matter closed. If it happens again then it's different, but you have to accept that different people have different types of humour and many people wouldn't be offended by this and he was reasonable to assume you wouldn't be either.\\n\\nIf you want to carry on being friends you need to act like one, be forgiving and help them understand and improve.\",\n \"219\"\n ],\n [\n \"This feels like ultimately a catch 22 situation. Trans women are on grindr for a reason, I would assume as it's lgbt friendly.\\n\\nSo guys who like trans women go on there and say they are only interested in women. Trans women I assume don't have a problem with this as they are on grindr and I would assume like men who like women. As they are on Grindr which is specifically for the LGBT community then therefor it is unlikely those men will be looking for cis women. So the two parties are in a kind of tacit agreement. Trans women are there for men who like women and are also into trans women. Men who like women are on there as they are into trans women as well. All makes sense so far.\\n\\nBut then people stand on the sidelines and get angry about it and call them chasers and act like they shouldn't be there?\\n\\nCan someone explain this logic to me or is it just good old fashioned prejudice and shaming part of the community because they don't like it?\",\n \"847\"\n ],\n [\n \"> People including me are making fun of his style\\n\\n > the comment actually saying something about his physical appearance has been downvoted the most\\n\\nYou can't even help but contradict yourself in your own comment, it's clear you're making fun of them because of the way they look. His 'style' is still his appearance, clearly. Don't give me any of this it's fine to bully someone because they 'chose' to look like that bullshit. And no, calling it 'busting his balls' instead of bullying doesn't make it OK either.\\n\\nTaking someone else's profile to post anonymously and make fun of on the internet is bullying. From the very community that should understand better than most what it means to have their appearance and sexual preference publicly questioned and shamed.\\n\\nBe better.\",\n \"837\"\n ],\n [\n \"I don't feel like I am overacting. I am putting myself in this guys place and thinking about how it would feel to find this content.\\n\\nI was bullied a lot as a kid because of how I looked and my sexuality. Both by peers and my own (adult) family.\\n\\nThe absolute worst of it was finding out about the stuff that took place behind my back, just like this.\\n\\nI point it out whenever I see it, I have no time for it. It's not on. Frankly I couldn't give it shit if you call me woke or not. I've been doing it for a lot longer than woke was ever a word and I'll still be doing it a long time after.\",\n \"331\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm not inflating every situation. It's your opinion I'm inflating this situation, fine. But to then stretch that into I do in every situation and therefore you have no time for me? Now who's inflating things?\\n\\nNext, you're inferring all of this...\\n\\n > I see this post as calling the guy out for his way of thinking. As in \\\"I'm straight but I'll settle for you guys to help me get sexual gratification and validation. I won't suck your dick or be accommodating because I'm A tOp!\\\" And proceeds to cover 80% of his face so that he can still call us slurs in public.\\n\\nYou don't know any of that. You're just making it up to justify your behaviour towards them.\",\n \"730\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yes there are multiple ways, neither of us has a magic ball that allows us to see inside this guys head or know anything about them. Hence it not being on to publicly shame them based on their appearance and sexual preference. I don't know why this needs pointing out?\\n\\nI guess in your view it's OK to shame people because they choose to dress in a style you dislike. This entire post is literally titled in a way that does so. All I'm doing is pointing out that we can't pick and choose which people we apply those standards to, we need to include in them people who might look different from how we would choose to dress or do so in a way we dislike as long as it's not overtly offensive by design.\\n\\nThe only thing a tolerable society cannot tolerate is intolerance. That's what this is, like it or not. It's pointing at someone and saying they shouldn't look or act in that way based on nothing more than your dislike of it.\\n\\nThe rest of it, your analysis of internalised homophobia, that's pure conjecture. You are projecting an unfounded accusation on someone then justifying your own mistreatment of them based on that. That's not fair either.\",\n \"16\"\n ],\n [\n \"Controversial as it may be, the death penalty is no longer used in the majority of the developed world with good reason. We seem to forget why when we see what we think is a good reason for it.\\n\\nThe death penalty is always wrong, even when it might feel like the right thing to do. We cannot pick and choose based on the emotiveness of one crime over the other. The reasons for it being wrong remain so whatever the crime committed.\\n\\nThis is doubly so when welded by deeply corrupt theocratic governments with highly prejudiced court systems. There is a reason why the Daily Mail, a right wing UK newspaper, would choose to report on this particular crime and punishment and not the countless other number of hangings and court sanctioned murders which take place in Iran, such as those against members of the LGBT community, atheists or those who simply speak up against the government.\\n\\nThey are seeking to glorify its use, make people more receptive to harsher punishments and worse treatment of criminals. Moving the system here in the UK towards punishment over rehabilitation.\\n\\nThis is not a story published in a vacuum and it is not done so without bias and agenda.\",\n \"178\"\n ],\n [\n \"Not sure that’s relevant. It the guy was bisexual then his sexuality wouldn’t be the issue here. If he was being unfaithful then that’s a different matter. Bi guys can have lifelong relationships with people of either sex without any sort of denial.\\n\\nTo be honest this is the kind of thinking that made my ex jealous when I dressed a certain way if she thought it was ‘too gay’. Which I found really fucking offensive.\",\n \"640\"\n ],\n [\n \"OK well there was the line and you just sailed across it.\\n\\nYou’ve come here asking for help, stop and think for a second how it feels to all the people whose community you are happily trashing.\\n\\nIt’s fine not to like certain things but to be so negative and dismissive of other people’s lifestyle is deeply unfair.\\n\\n‘Gay culture’ is as diverse as you make it. Gay men are just people, we come in all shapes and sizes and enjoy a broad range of things.\\n\\nJust be a bit nicer about it, think about how your words might affect others. Just because something isn’t for you doesn’t make it wrong. There is no need to shame others for living a lifestyle you just happen to not want to.\",\n \"418\"\n ],\n [\n \"> It seems as tho although Bi, it’s not enough for him and the gay side is winning\\n\\nFYI as someone who is Bi this is as incredibly outdated way of thinking and bordering on offensive.\\n\\nBeing Bi doesn't mean you have a 'gay side' and a 'straight side' you have one sexuality just like everyone else. Usually that's influenced by the PERSON you are attracted to, not their gender.\\n\\nIf this guy is lusting after guys it's because he's unhappy with his marriage, wanting other sexual partners is an outcome of that. You've got it completely backwards in your thinking.\\n\\nYou can be Bi and live very happily with a single partner your whole life. Bi people are not incapable of long term relationships as the 'other side' also needs fulfilling. It's just not a healthy or accurate way of looking at sexuality.\",\n \"640\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah Grindr is a weird place. I have previously got messages from male profiles who have turned out to be Cis women who find it a turn on to pretend to be guys on there and get fucked by bi guys. It's pretty much anything goes to be honest.\\n\\nI think just like every other community there are many different opinions and some people appear to want to label every 'straight' man attracted to them on grindr a 'chaser'. Which seems a little odd to me. I don't really get the logic in that when those men are saying they view trans women as women and are also attracted to them. Which seems OK to me?\\n\\nYour explanation makes far more sense to me, there is a difference between those who are attracted to Trans people and those who fetishise them as sexual objects. It's about the distinction between the two.\\n\\nIt's also worth bearing in mind there are plenty of guys on grindr who enjoy dressing up as women and being fetishised, they do it purely as a sexual activity and are only fem in bed. That's also totally fine, it's distinct from trans people and it's not the same. However there is no such distinction in the 'tribes' categorisation within Grindr. All of these groups appear under the 'trans' tribe.\\n\\nSo all these different groups are mixed together under one broad label and I think that's also causing issues.\",\n \"847\"\n ],\n [\n \"No it’s really not, this is the ‘<PERSON> was a vegetarian’ argument. It’s just total bollocks. You can’t just say ‘well this sounds like X and X was bad so this means this is bad’.\\n\\nIt’s just a non starter. Don’t make comparisons to what it ‘sounds’ like. It’s not needed, let’s just talk about what it is.\",\n \"909\"\n ],\n [\n \"Where did services come into this?\\n\\nI’ve reiterated the same point so many times I really can’t be bothered to type it out on mobile again. Just go back and read my first comment.\\n\\nI think it says a lot that no one can actually respond to the points I made. Every single comment sidesteps them. Go and look at them all.\\n\\nIt’s like people can’t actually admit that yes this is a complex and difficult issue that needs nuance so instead they sort of just dance around it to make there morally absolute point instead.\",\n \"809\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is my original comment:\\n\\n > Women should feel safe and part of that for some women is having a women only environment. If like OP is saying they present male and are also physically male, that may in itself mean that women no longer feel safe in certain spaces with them.\\n\\n > This isn’t a case of what’s ‘fair’ or how things should or shouldn’t be. But instead is just how it currently is. We have to respect that and women’s feelings about these spaces and not simply ride roughshod over them with out morality.\\n\\n > It’s not an easy one to accept, but the women who feel uncomfortable having op in their space, well we need to respect that. We don’t get to say OPs need is greater than theirs.\\n\\nYes, you can read that 'she should have less access to spaces because of the way she looks' but clearly that's a gross mischaracterisation of the point I am trying to make.\\n\\nAt the same time you're saying we need to consider how TERFs use this argument whilst simultaneously saying that that means we shouldn't discuss it. That's a fucking odd point to make. Because TERFs have capitalised on this issue we shouldn't address it?\",\n \"497\"\n ],\n [\n \"> So what are you saying? Because right now it really comes across as you trying to say that things behind her control make her \\\"male\\\".\\n\\nThere's not much I can do if your ability to read and interpret information is that poor.\\n\\n > I'm saying that be careful with that rhetoric, because your argument seems to flip flop between comments, and that may not be intentional on your part\\n\\nShow me any example of this. I have made the same point in each comment and not deviated in any way.\\n\\n > TERF arguments are worth exploring, but not for the reason you're thinking. The intent behind those arguments should be analyzed so that well-meaning people aren't sucked into those spaces or pushed out of trans-positive ones and into TERF ones for repeating them with no context of the underlying, toxic nature.\\n\\n...or they should be explored because as they rely on leveraging real problems and fears. If we deal with those then they can no longer be used in this way.\\n\\nAlso it's not like there's no context here. There is shit tons, so your whole point seems a little silly. Also why does it matter so much if you are agreeing it's worth discussing? Just feels like an attempt at point scoring that has fallen a little flat.\",\n \"181\"\n ],\n [\n \"OK, I don't really have an answer to when you just take my comment and infer whatever bullshit you want into it's perceived meaning.\\n\\nI mean hey, maybe I'm really saying that we're all lizard people and the world is a spoon.\\n\\nReally what's the point in even trying to discuss something when someone does this? It's just silly.\\n\\nBy the way, I interpret your comment as meaning that you agree with everything I said and that I completely right. So thank you :)\",\n \"837\"\n ],\n [\n \"> The crux of the matter that you keep dancing around is whether women’s feelings of unsafeness that stem from bigotry deserve to be respected.\\n\\nNope, no dancing around this at all. To be really absolutely clear we sometimes need to make additional considerations for vulnerable people. Those people are not acting out of hatred, there is no bigotry involved, they are instead acting out of fear born of their own personal experience.\\n\\nI hope that clears up that point for you. Anything else you think I am dancing around then please do just ask.\\n\\n > Cis women may genuinely feel unsafe around trans women. But if that feeling stems from the fact that those women are trans, then it absolutely doesn’t deserve to be respected or accommodated.\\n\\nBingo.\\n\\n'But'. So what happens when that feeling unsafe DOES NOT stem from being trans but from them being genetically male and looking so? What do you do then? Because it sounds a lot like you are agreement with me.\\n\\n > It’s the same way that many white people feel unsafe around black people because they’re black. That’s a shitty stance and it doesn’t deserve to be respected.\\n\\nNo. It's not. It would be the same as having a support group for white victims of violent crime committed by black people (don't blame me for how distasteful this sounds, you're the one who has weirdly dragged race into it and constructed this rather awkward premise) and then insist that a black person who identifies as white should be able to join that group. Even when for some members of that group even being alone in a room with a black person is enough to trigger a severe episode of PTSD.\\n\\nAs I said, it's a pretty distasteful analogy, but you are the one so determined to drag race into it.\",\n \"847\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Bigotry doesn’t require hatred and can be borne out of personal experience.\\n\\nYes it can. But you do realise this doesn't deal with or address my point in any way whatsoever. The sky is blue.\\n\\n > Conflating being transgender - a real, observed phenomenon - with being transracial - not, to say the least - is gross, but unsurprising from a TERF.\\n\\nYou set up the construct yourself!!! Which I took great pains to point out was somewhat distasteful. How fucking dare you then turn that round on me and say that it's my doing.\\n\\nFrankly fuck you. I'm done with this bad faith rhetoric.\\n\\n'oh what if it was race instead of gender'\\n\\nI provide example whilst stating how distasteful that is\\n\\n'oh you're disgusting what a terf'\\n\\nYou know what, fuck you. You're flat out acting in bad faith and I'm done with talking to you.\",\n \"847\"\n ],\n [\n \"But it’s not though is it. Segregation is the unnecessary separation of people and restriction of the their freedoms based on arbitrary values. That’s like calling a disabled only access to a building ‘segregation’. It’s utterly helpful, irrelevant and used in bad faith only to evoke connotations of racial segregation.\\n\\nYou are continually mischaracterising my point and then arguing against that mischaracterisation rather than my actual point.\\n\\nAs you seem unable to respond on the actual point at hand we’re not going to get anywhere.\\n\\nEvery comment I make you respond by drawing a false parallel thatI then reject, reiterate my point, then you respond by drawing another false parallel.\\n\\nStop this ‘it’s like X bad thing and so therefore as X is bad it’s also bad’ bullshit and deal with the point at hand. You continually evade any attempt to deal with the bulk of the issue in this way and it’s utterly pointless going round in circles debunking your bullshit.\",\n \"16\"\n ],\n [\n \"No. You’re drawing the parallel with race not me.\\n\\nThis is the most blatant example of what you keep doing. Represent my argument as something it is not, then argue against that misrepresentation.\\n\\nI honestly think at this point you are either incapable of understanding the matter at hand or you genuinely don’t care about it.\\n\\nThe own thing that you care about is getting to ‘own’ a terf. It really doesn’t matter to you I’m not a terf you’ll just repeatedly say I am. And as you can’t actually engage with my point because I’m guess it’s just too complex for you to grasp, you instead over simplify it as something you can engage with and ‘own’ that instead.\\n\\nIn fact now I’ve typed this out it’s cringingly obvious this is exactly what’s happening. Oh dear!\\n\\nThis is a pointless conversation as you don’t want to engage and I genuinely think you’re not capable.\\n\\nWelp.\",\n \"248\"\n ],\n [\n \"> The NIS informed South Korean officials that those executed include a well-known money changer in Pyongyang. <PERSON> reportedly blamed the person for North Korea's falling exchange rate. \\n\\n > The other is a key official who in August was found to be in violation of restrictions placed on goods coming from outside the country amid the pandemic.\\n\\n\\nTo be honest looking at my own governments disastrous and corrupt response I think a few executions wouldn’t go amiss here.\",\n \"959\"\n ],\n [\n \"> So uhhhhh when you're done excluding all of the trans women from women's rape and domestic abuse support groups and shelters because they don't look enough like \\\"women\\\" \\n\\nExcept I'm not doing that. I think you need to go back and re read my comment. As what I am doing is saying there maybe circumstances where it is not appropriate. We're not dealing in absolutes here. We're dealing with tricky sensitive issues and vulnerable people. So this absolutism is damaging to all parties, that absolutism by the way is very obvious when you look at your response. I'm clearly saying there may be exceptional circumstances and you respond talking about 'all'.\\n\\nThere is a real disconnect between my point and your response. You completely misinterpret my point and then based on that misinterpretation call me a TERF. It's reductive, but more than that it's completely unhelpful. You gain no understanding of the issue and I just get bored dealing yet another comment which entirely misinterprets the point in the rush to label me a TERF.\\n\\n > i rreeeeeeaaally like how you juxtapose \\\"trans women\\\" against \\\"women\\\". It kinda gives the whole TERF game away\\n\\nI think people are a little confused on this. Not all women are the same. Trans women and cis women are different. Black women and white women are different. Disabled and able bodied women are different. This is not the same as saying that some women are 'less' than other women, but you need to recognise that 'women' is not a homogeneous group that should all be treated the same in all circumstances.\",\n \"847\"\n ],\n [\n \"I have the small instant pot as it's just me and I fucking LOVE it! I got it about a month ago because of this sub and I have been cooking in it every day! I barely use my stove top any more!\\n\\nSo what I do is make a lot of dahl based veggie curries. In fact as I work from home I'll often cook one in the morning and just eat it throughout the day!\\n\\nI use a lot of frozen veg as you get maximum nutrients that way, I just bung a load in and add a portion of lentils, veggie stock cube, curry spice, garam masala, oat milk and of course a couple of chillis.\\n\\nThen I set it to pressure cook for 5 minutes and get on with my day. It's always delicious, super cheap and really healthy.\\n\\nIf I need something extra filling I will add a portion of brown rice and increase the cook time to 10 minutes. Yes I am super lazy when making food if I'm working from home! I just bung it all in there and wander off and it works out :)\",\n \"967\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I read your post. Answer the question: who is going to pay for the support group to be run for me to go to get support for my sexual assault? Answer. The. Question.\\n\\nWhy? This isn't a conversation about funding support groups. Trying to pin my point to it is frankly a bit silly. Besides that you are still talking in absolutes. As if you would have access to no group rather than as I am saying in certain circumstances certain people may need to be directed to alternatives based on the needs of the existing members.\\n\\n > Yeah, but you didn't say \\\"trans women\\\" and \\\"cis women\\\". You said \\\"trans women\\\" and \\\"women\\\". Kinda gives up the game, yknow. Since I am a woman. A normal, every day, run of the mill woman. Not a new third gender.\\n\\nIf you're idea of engaging with someone is waiting for them to use the wrong terminology and then jump on that rather than in any way try and engage with the content of what they are saying then you absolutely in the wrong.\\n\\nI strongly get the sense your only aim here is to 'prove' I am some secret terf / transphobe and will continue to try and misrepresent my comments in order to do so rather than actually engaging with them. That's up to you I guess! I certainly have better things to do with my time that try and misinterpret other peoples comments so I can get mad at them!\",\n \"847\"\n ],\n [\n \"You do seem to be a fan of these false parallels where you say ‘it’s either THIS thing or THAT thing choose’. Clearly that’s bullshit. As I keep saying you seem to consistently fall back on this sort of absolutism and refuse to even engage with the notion that in some circumstances some nuance may need to be applied.\\n\\nI don’t think it’s really possible to engage with you in good faith on this topic as you just flat out refuse to actually talk about the issue and rather every single time immediately begin your response with these false parallels.\\n\\nI won’t be responding to you other comments either as you are just spamming the thread with the same technique. It doesn’t achieve anything and as much as I enjoy talking to people with differing viewpoints to my own, there is nothing to be gained from someone who acts like yourself in these circumstances.\",\n \"248\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah as soon as I saw it I thought bullshit on the mobile phone claim. It’s high power, small surface area, heat sensitive and spends most its time in your pocket.\\n\\nIt’s a pretty piss poor candidate for solar and not sure why the article would want to link the two, apart from sheer click bait.\",\n \"927\"\n ],\n [\n \"Ah that’s annoying. My insurance did my windscreen via auto glass for £100 excess up front and that was it. I wouldn’t have driven round with it broken for 6 months had I realised how cheap and easy it was.\\n\\nI’ve not done a side window myself but I imagine getting the door card off without scuffing anything or breaking any of the plastic clips is going to be the hardest part.\\n\\nI’m no expert but I’d probably give the window motor and mechanism a good spray with some silicon based lube whilst you’re in there.\",\n \"400\"\n ],\n [\n \"Hey dude, so I have just bought my kid his first laptop for Christmas. I spent about ~£250 on a chromebook and it’s a great little machine.\\n\\nFrom your other comments she’s just going to be using the web, zoom etc and for your budget a chromebook is a no brainier. They are absolutely fantastic little machines with battery life in the 10 hour range.\\n\\nI have a MacBook Pro from work and I was lucky enough to be given a chromebook in a promotion a couple of years ago and it’s been my travel and home browsing device ever since I got it. It’s fantastic and although my one is just a base model it’s been fine to work on in a pinch as well. So even in comparison to my work machine, it still performs well.\\n\\nFor your budget something like this is a great option...\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\nThen just get a cheap external drive :\\n\\n_URL_1_\\n\\nIf you get a laptop case she’ll be able to fit the laptop and drive in there so it won’t be extra hassle to carry round.\\n\\nIf you are fixed on getting a windows laptop with an integrated drive you’ll probably have to either chance an eBay Chinese special or go second hand.\",\n \"127\"\n ],\n [\n \"HP are a massive brand, one hp laptop can be awful and another fantastic. 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Maybe next time you’re getting the shit kicked out of you by one you won’t have quite the same attitude.\\n\\nBut no actually you never will because your ‘tolerance’ reeks of the privilege of never being being at the receiving end of these scum bags.\\n\\nOh well excuse me while I wipe my blood off your boot kind sir, for I understand you are only attempting to deny my very right to exist because you are angry with your socio economic status and so fucking thick you think me living an alternative lifestyle to yourself is somehow at fault. Well excuse me, I do apologise.\\n\\nHonestly you can fuck right off.\",\n \"16\"\n ],\n [\n \"Who says I'm not for educating them? But I'm not going to fucking like them. I'm not at any point trying to make an argument for how to 'cure' them. At no point have I posited anything like that. 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(U.K.), 29-30 Vict., c. 67.\n\nThe Lieutenant-Governor in Council of British Columbia referred to the British Columbia Court of Appeal the following constitutional question:\n\nAre the lands or any part or parts thereof including the mineral and other natural resources of the seabed and subsoil, covered by the waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the Strait of Georgia… Johnstone Strait and Queen Charlotte Strait… the property of\n\n[Page 389]\n\nthe Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia?\n\nThe majority of the Court of Appeal concluded that the land and waters between Vancouver Island and the mainland were, at Confederation, within the province and answered the question in the affirmative. The Attorney General of Canada appealed from the decision. The provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Alberta and Newfoundland intervened in support of the Attorney General of British Columbia. \n\n_URL_1_","773"],["They can get it across land. However a SCOC ruling on constitutional law in the 80s over ownership of coastal waters Canada or BC could have an impact. SCOC ruled BCs owned its coastal waters since Confederation and was backed by AB in the ruling.\n\nEven if the BC govt approved the pipeline still the native land rights case before the courts. The majority of BC first Nations have no such treaties with the Crown to give up land rights.","307"],["Comments in hear are brutal.\n\nAlmost every post is resorting to playground level name calling to argue a point. Hell some are evening wishing death and violence on others. \n\nIn a democratic nation you'll always have different view points. If you wanna strong arm your way by violence and death to get your wants you probably belong in a third world dictatorship.","272"],["The federal NDP have aligned closer with the BC NDP couple months back already as well. I don't expect <PERSON> to do anything other than continue to virtue signal it will be built.\n\nThe nail in this coffin was him not living up to his campaign promise of fixing the NEB and resubmitting the project. Yet he told BC after being elected project approved but that NEB still needs a fixin.","578"],["Spills on land are water have different regulations.\n\n Taxpayers will pay for the cleanup and recovery while a trial plays out and payment would come years down the road from the corporation if its on land. \n\nWhat happens when the shipping company goes bankrupt because its been set up as a shell corporation strictly to limit financial responsibility? Things like this haven't been answered. BC currently has a trial going through provincial courts relating to a bunker fuel spill and the owner of the ship is denying responsibility and didn't show up for the court case.","291"],["You mention ABs economy and workers a whole lot. Now try and think about BCs economy and workers as well. Tourism, fishing, real estate, and so on. All things that would be effect in the case of spill. These are real concerns as well and its not BCs job to threaten its own economy and workers for the expense of AB. \n\nTry not looking at it from soley the position of AB.","866"],["I'm pointing out to the former bc liberals had been running BC from corporate boardrooms in AB. One of the reasons BC has a new government it wasn't representing its people. Now they are just like <PERSON> is representing ABs interest.\n\nAll the focus is on the BC govt and everyone is overlooking the bigger threat to the pipeline native land rights which is before the courts. Most of BCs first Nations have no such treaties with the Crown. That is the biggest obstacle to this project and has precedent setting cases from the SCOC. Also don't forget <PERSON> signed onto the UN declaration for Indigenous rights. \n\nBC ndp could approve this tomorrow and it won't change a thing relating to that case.","866"],["More n more stuff keeps coming out how the BC libs had been playing a shell game and raped n pillaged the province while in power. Suppressing reports, shutting down money laundering teams when brought lots of evidence, running up huge debt at BC hydro and icbc, having oil companies write legislation in AB.\n\nThey've been exposed and have the same players/strategy that got us here.","578"],["Could you answer why with the existing pipeline and tankers it still goes to the US?\n\nI haven't seen a business case that new markets will suddenly open up because of the expansion. They have oil and tankers currently and its still selling for a discount. It will always sell for a discount due to costing more to extract and refine. That gets over looked to much.","745"],["Corporate welfare.\n\nSadly you attract new business with taxpayers money. It's stupid and shouldn't be done however when the majority offer it. \n\nPresent Sask as a business friendly province: cheap housing, educated workforce, and so on.\n\nNeed to complete work to make the province business friendly and worker friendly. What's <PERSON> doing to complete this?","866"],["They already in court.\n\nThe native land rights Court case isn't being talked about either. <PERSON> can approve this tomorrow but you still have the native land rights case going forward. \n\nBC first Nations are unique as the majority haven't signed treaties with the Crown. This doesn't magically go away with the BC govt approving. \n\n_URL_0_\n\n\"In what legal observers called the most important Supreme Court ruling on aboriginal rights in Canadian history – a culmination of all previous rulings – the court determined that native Canadians still own their ancestral lands, unless they signed away their ownership in treaties with government.\"","699"],["Try to express your thoughts in clearer sentences and not resort to swearing and name calling. Most people will just push your opinion aside because it brings nothing of value when you start to swear n name call.\n\n''highway protectors\" - really that's what you gonna with? BC is well within its right to protect its coastal waters as they own them not Canada. Here's a SCOC ruling relating to ownership of BCs coastal waters. Ironically enough AB agreed with BC in the case regarding ownership. Highway protectors lmao thanks for the laugh guy. \n\nConstitutional law—Ownership of the bed of the Juan de Fuca, Georgia, Johnstone and Queen Charlotte Straits—Whether federal or provincial property—Territorial Waters Jurisdiction Act, 1878 (U.K.), 41-42 Vict., c. 73—An Act for the Union of the Colony of Vancouver Island with the Colony of British Columbia, 1866 (U.K.), 29-30 Vict., c. 67.\n\nThe Lieutenant-Governor in Council of British Columbia referred to the British Columbia Court of Appeal the following constitutional question:\n\nAre the lands or any part or parts thereof including the mineral and other natural resources of the seabed and subsoil, covered by the waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the Strait of Georgia… Johnstone Strait and Queen Charlotte Strait… the property of the Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia?\n\nThe majority of the Court of Appeal concluded that the land and waters between Vancouver Island and the mainland were, at Confederation, within the province and answered the question in the affirmative. The Attorney General of Canada appealed from the decision. The provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Alberta and Newfoundland intervened in support of the Attorney General of British Columbia.\n\n_URL_0_","307"],["I forgot about the BC rail scandal as well. Guilty pleas and for some reason BC libs shell out 6-7 million dollars for the defendents lawyers.\n\nMost BCers fall for \"balanced budgets\" but don't realize its a balanced operational budget and massive debt is still being added. Balanced budget doesn't mean billions aren't being added to the debt <PERSON> doubled our debt in such a short time.","264"],["Isn't he planning to cancel the carbon tax regardless... We have already said goodbye to our climate targets. The Feds control and have power over interprovincial pipelines. The SCOC has ruled in BCs favour on constitutional law regarding ownership of Coastal waters.\n\nWe are all a country and Canadians which I don't understand why ramming through a pipeline while not listening to any concerns makes us more Canadian.","866"],["Wrong on both claims..\n\nConstitutional law—Ownership of the bed of the Juan de Fuca, Georgia, Johnstone and Queen Charlotte Straits—Whether federal or provincial property—Territorial Waters Jurisdiction Act, 1878 (U.K.), 41-42 Vict., c. 73—An Act for the Union of the Colony of Vancouver Island with the Colony of British Columbia, 1866 (U.K.), 29-30 Vict., c. 67.\n\nThe Lieutenant-Governor in Council of British Columbia referred to the British Columbia Court of Appeal the following constitutional question:\n\nAre the lands or any part or parts thereof including the mineral and other natural resources of the seabed and subsoil, covered by the waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the Strait of Georgia… Johnstone Strait and Queen Charlotte Strait… the property of the Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia?\n\nThe majority of the Court of Appeal concluded that the land and waters between Vancouver Island and the mainland were, at Confederation, within the province and answered the question in the affirmative. The Attorney General of Canada appealed from the decision. The provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Alberta and Newfoundland intervened in support of the Attorney General of British Columbia.\n\n_URL_1_\n\nWash St has also denied half dozen oil terminals in the last couple years. You should really research what you claim. \n\n_URL_0_\n\nAs of a few years ago, more than a half-dozen crude-by-rail projects were seeking approval in just the western part of Washington, at ports along the Pacific Coast and Columbia River.\n\nTo date, none have succeeded.","307"],["Shipping originates in coastal straights for one. Yes the federal government can build a railway bridge over a river but what your lashing out at as not true which the courts has established the province is legally allowed to take measures designed to protect its economy, culture, social and environmental interests.\n\nIf you have a fucking problem with that than talk to the courts not people on reddit reporting that.","307"],["I didn't say first Nations equal province buddy. \n\n\"I’m very clear on what provinces have jurisdiction over and economic development projects are not one of them, and where there is a disagreement, feds win out.\" \n\nThe courts stated:\n\"As long as that regulation is territorially limited within British Columbia to protect B.C. land, waters and the coast … the B.C. Supreme Court set out very clearly in its 2016 Coastal First Nations decision about the Northern Gateway that B.C. not only has the right but the responsibility to take measures designed to protect its economy, culture, social and environmental interests.\"\n\nThank you for displaying your vast knowledge over provincial jurisdiction.","307"],["Ok can you cite said people what you've claimed. You talked down the article and myself but didn't answer my question nor cite anything.\n\nIf so many are saying what your claiming you should be readily available to provide what your claiming?\n\nI was just asking for sources on what you claimed and you went on a rant about other things...\n\nEdit from article Tripinblls linked:\n\n \"<PERSON>, an economist with the University of Calgary, also said he isn't sure if the laws proposed by Alberta and Saskatchewan could be implemented because the constitution says that export restrictions cannot be levied in a way that is discriminatory across provinces within Canada\"\n\nSo again please cite your sources what your claiming many have stated. It shouldnt be hard if so many are id think","866"],["<PERSON>, an economist with the University of Calgary, also said he isn't sure if the laws proposed by Alberta and Saskatchewan could be implemented because the constitution says that export restrictions cannot be levied in a way that is discriminatory across provinces within Canada, in terms of the prices charged or supplies delivered.\n\n_URL_0_\n\nWill somebody from the U of Calgary be sufficient for you or will you claim something about him as well?","866"],["Guessing cause it's not what you wanted to hear? \n\nI was simply providing somebody to counter the UofBC argument with somebody from UofCalgary. \n\nI'm not assuming anything but I'm starting to find it laughable on a daily basis reddit users without providing any credentials are discounting experts as non experts or even uneducated in a field they work in or have a background in.","859"],["I oppose it because of the lack of oil spill resources and inadequate science on clean up's. \n\nWhich a big spill would wipe out any benefits of this project and more than likely leave taxpayers with clean up costs. \n\nAlmost like I'm capable of looking at more than one issue at time. It must suck being only able to handle one issue at a time.\n\nIf you can handle more than one issue at a time why don't you watch MLA <PERSON> speech on the emergency debate about KM and the lack of leadership <PERSON> and <PERSON> have shown on this file. \n\nEdit spelling","771"],["Lol\n\nWas interesting to see after China announced these <PERSON> suddenly wanting back into TPP11. \n\nWhen those soybeans among other goods are more expensive to import due to tarrifs on the US importers will find another market to source goods from without tarrifs that high. \n\nIf you don't think retaliatory tarrifs placed on the US by China or the EU specifically targeting trumps base won't hurt I dno what to tell you.","745"],["The funny thing is when he walked away the first time countries dropped what the US wanted. Him walking away wasn't in the best interest of the US as he lost any control he had in getting a good deal for the US.\n\nCountries said when they modified it and signed a better deal that if the US wants back in its a take it or leave it deal. Even now they've come out and said the exact samething negotiations aren't going to be opened to please the US take it or leave it. \n\nWalking away was just as stupid as it now trying to come back after the deals been signed and governments are ratifying it in their countries.","308"],["I've seen two different analysts way lower than <PERSON> who gets coverage due to spitting out such high numbers that grab peoples attention. He fails to mention Wash St can receive large quantities of fuel imports. The price will rise but its not gonna be the apocalypse he's making it out to be. \n\n_URL_0_","96"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"A Supreme Court of Canada decision in 1984 (the Strait of Georgia Reference) held that, when British Columbia entered Confederation in 1871, the province consisted of all British territories, including dry land, coastal straits and submerged lands.\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\nConstitutional law—Ownership of the bed of the Juan de Fuca, Georgia, Johnstone and Queen Charlotte Straits—Whether federal or provincial property—Territorial Waters Jurisdiction Act, 1878 (U.K.), 41-42 Vict., c. 73—An Act for the Union of the Colony of Vancouver Island with the Colony of British Columbia, 1866 (U.K.), 29-30 Vict., c. 67.\\n\\nThe Lieutenant-Governor in Council of British Columbia referred to the British Columbia Court of Appeal the following constitutional question:\\n\\nAre the lands or any part or parts thereof including the mineral and other natural resources of the seabed and subsoil, covered by the waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the Strait of Georgia… Johnstone Strait and Queen Charlotte Strait… the property of\\n\\n[Page 389]\\n\\nthe Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia?\\n\\nThe majority of the Court of Appeal concluded that the land and waters between Vancouver Island and the mainland were, at Confederation, within the province and answered the question in the affirmative. The Attorney General of Canada appealed from the decision. The provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Alberta and Newfoundland intervened in support of the Attorney General of British Columbia. \\n\\n_URL_1_\",\n \"773\"\n ],\n [\n \"They can get it across land. However a SCOC ruling on constitutional law in the 80s over ownership of coastal waters Canada or BC could have an impact. SCOC ruled BCs owned its coastal waters since Confederation and was backed by AB in the ruling.\\n\\nEven if the BC govt approved the pipeline still the native land rights case before the courts. The majority of BC first Nations have no such treaties with the Crown to give up land rights.\",\n \"307\"\n ],\n [\n \"Comments in hear are brutal.\\n\\nAlmost every post is resorting to playground level name calling to argue a point. Hell some are evening wishing death and violence on others. \\n\\nIn a democratic nation you'll always have different view points. If you wanna strong arm your way by violence and death to get your wants you probably belong in a third world dictatorship.\",\n \"272\"\n ],\n [\n \"The federal NDP have aligned closer with the BC NDP couple months back already as well. I don't expect <PERSON> to do anything other than continue to virtue signal it will be built.\\n\\nThe nail in this coffin was him not living up to his campaign promise of fixing the NEB and resubmitting the project. Yet he told BC after being elected project approved but that NEB still needs a fixin.\",\n \"578\"\n ],\n [\n \"Spills on land are water have different regulations.\\n\\n Taxpayers will pay for the cleanup and recovery while a trial plays out and payment would come years down the road from the corporation if its on land. \\n\\nWhat happens when the shipping company goes bankrupt because its been set up as a shell corporation strictly to limit financial responsibility? Things like this haven't been answered. BC currently has a trial going through provincial courts relating to a bunker fuel spill and the owner of the ship is denying responsibility and didn't show up for the court case.\",\n \"291\"\n ],\n [\n \"You mention ABs economy and workers a whole lot. Now try and think about BCs economy and workers as well. Tourism, fishing, real estate, and so on. All things that would be effect in the case of spill. These are real concerns as well and its not BCs job to threaten its own economy and workers for the expense of AB. \\n\\nTry not looking at it from soley the position of AB.\",\n \"866\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm pointing out to the former bc liberals had been running BC from corporate boardrooms in AB. One of the reasons BC has a new government it wasn't representing its people. Now they are just like <PERSON> is representing ABs interest.\\n\\nAll the focus is on the BC govt and everyone is overlooking the bigger threat to the pipeline native land rights which is before the courts. Most of BCs first Nations have no such treaties with the Crown. That is the biggest obstacle to this project and has precedent setting cases from the SCOC. Also don't forget <PERSON> signed onto the UN declaration for Indigenous rights. \\n\\nBC ndp could approve this tomorrow and it won't change a thing relating to that case.\",\n \"866\"\n ],\n [\n \"More n more stuff keeps coming out how the BC libs had been playing a shell game and raped n pillaged the province while in power. Suppressing reports, shutting down money laundering teams when brought lots of evidence, running up huge debt at BC hydro and icbc, having oil companies write legislation in AB.\\n\\nThey've been exposed and have the same players/strategy that got us here.\",\n \"578\"\n ],\n [\n \"Could you answer why with the existing pipeline and tankers it still goes to the US?\\n\\nI haven't seen a business case that new markets will suddenly open up because of the expansion. They have oil and tankers currently and its still selling for a discount. It will always sell for a discount due to costing more to extract and refine. That gets over looked to much.\",\n \"745\"\n ],\n [\n \"Corporate welfare.\\n\\nSadly you attract new business with taxpayers money. It's stupid and shouldn't be done however when the majority offer it. \\n\\nPresent Sask as a business friendly province: cheap housing, educated workforce, and so on.\\n\\nNeed to complete work to make the province business friendly and worker friendly. What's <PERSON> doing to complete this?\",\n \"866\"\n ],\n [\n \"They already in court.\\n\\nThe native land rights Court case isn't being talked about either. <PERSON> can approve this tomorrow but you still have the native land rights case going forward. \\n\\nBC first Nations are unique as the majority haven't signed treaties with the Crown. This doesn't magically go away with the BC govt approving. \\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\n\\\"In what legal observers called the most important Supreme Court ruling on aboriginal rights in Canadian history – a culmination of all previous rulings – the court determined that native Canadians still own their ancestral lands, unless they signed away their ownership in treaties with government.\\\"\",\n \"699\"\n ],\n [\n \"Try to express your thoughts in clearer sentences and not resort to swearing and name calling. Most people will just push your opinion aside because it brings nothing of value when you start to swear n name call.\\n\\n''highway protectors\\\" - really that's what you gonna with? BC is well within its right to protect its coastal waters as they own them not Canada. Here's a SCOC ruling relating to ownership of BCs coastal waters. Ironically enough AB agreed with BC in the case regarding ownership. Highway protectors lmao thanks for the laugh guy. \\n\\nConstitutional law—Ownership of the bed of the Juan de Fuca, Georgia, Johnstone and Queen Charlotte Straits—Whether federal or provincial property—Territorial Waters Jurisdiction Act, 1878 (U.K.), 41-42 Vict., c. 73—An Act for the Union of the Colony of Vancouver Island with the Colony of British Columbia, 1866 (U.K.), 29-30 Vict., c. 67.\\n\\nThe Lieutenant-Governor in Council of British Columbia referred to the British Columbia Court of Appeal the following constitutional question:\\n\\nAre the lands or any part or parts thereof including the mineral and other natural resources of the seabed and subsoil, covered by the waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the Strait of Georgia… Johnstone Strait and Queen Charlotte Strait… the property of the Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia?\\n\\nThe majority of the Court of Appeal concluded that the land and waters between Vancouver Island and the mainland were, at Confederation, within the province and answered the question in the affirmative. The Attorney General of Canada appealed from the decision. The provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Alberta and Newfoundland intervened in support of the Attorney General of British Columbia.\\n\\n_URL_0_\",\n \"307\"\n ],\n [\n \"I forgot about the BC rail scandal as well. Guilty pleas and for some reason BC libs shell out 6-7 million dollars for the defendents lawyers.\\n\\nMost BCers fall for \\\"balanced budgets\\\" but don't realize its a balanced operational budget and massive debt is still being added. Balanced budget doesn't mean billions aren't being added to the debt <PERSON> doubled our debt in such a short time.\",\n \"264\"\n ],\n [\n \"Isn't he planning to cancel the carbon tax regardless... We have already said goodbye to our climate targets. The Feds control and have power over interprovincial pipelines. The SCOC has ruled in BCs favour on constitutional law regarding ownership of Coastal waters.\\n\\nWe are all a country and Canadians which I don't understand why ramming through a pipeline while not listening to any concerns makes us more Canadian.\",\n \"866\"\n ],\n [\n \"Wrong on both claims..\\n\\nConstitutional law—Ownership of the bed of the Juan de Fuca, Georgia, Johnstone and Queen Charlotte Straits—Whether federal or provincial property—Territorial Waters Jurisdiction Act, 1878 (U.K.), 41-42 Vict., c. 73—An Act for the Union of the Colony of Vancouver Island with the Colony of British Columbia, 1866 (U.K.), 29-30 Vict., c. 67.\\n\\nThe Lieutenant-Governor in Council of British Columbia referred to the British Columbia Court of Appeal the following constitutional question:\\n\\nAre the lands or any part or parts thereof including the mineral and other natural resources of the seabed and subsoil, covered by the waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the Strait of Georgia… Johnstone Strait and Queen Charlotte Strait… the property of the Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia?\\n\\nThe majority of the Court of Appeal concluded that the land and waters between Vancouver Island and the mainland were, at Confederation, within the province and answered the question in the affirmative. The Attorney General of Canada appealed from the decision. The provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Alberta and Newfoundland intervened in support of the Attorney General of British Columbia.\\n\\n_URL_1_\\n\\nWash St has also denied half dozen oil terminals in the last couple years. You should really research what you claim. \\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\nAs of a few years ago, more than a half-dozen crude-by-rail projects were seeking approval in just the western part of Washington, at ports along the Pacific Coast and Columbia River.\\n\\nTo date, none have succeeded.\",\n \"307\"\n ],\n [\n \"Shipping originates in coastal straights for one. Yes the federal government can build a railway bridge over a river but what your lashing out at as not true which the courts has established the province is legally allowed to take measures designed to protect its economy, culture, social and environmental interests.\\n\\nIf you have a fucking problem with that than talk to the courts not people on reddit reporting that.\",\n \"307\"\n ],\n [\n \"I didn't say first Nations equal province buddy. \\n\\n\\\"I’m very clear on what provinces have jurisdiction over and economic development projects are not one of them, and where there is a disagreement, feds win out.\\\" \\n\\nThe courts stated:\\n\\\"As long as that regulation is territorially limited within British Columbia to protect B.C. land, waters and the coast … the B.C. Supreme Court set out very clearly in its 2016 Coastal First Nations decision about the Northern Gateway that B.C. not only has the right but the responsibility to take measures designed to protect its economy, culture, social and environmental interests.\\\"\\n\\nThank you for displaying your vast knowledge over provincial jurisdiction.\",\n \"307\"\n ],\n [\n \"Ok can you cite said people what you've claimed. You talked down the article and myself but didn't answer my question nor cite anything.\\n\\nIf so many are saying what your claiming you should be readily available to provide what your claiming?\\n\\nI was just asking for sources on what you claimed and you went on a rant about other things...\\n\\nEdit from article Tripinblls linked:\\n\\n \\\"<PERSON>, an economist with the University of Calgary, also said he isn't sure if the laws proposed by Alberta and Saskatchewan could be implemented because the constitution says that export restrictions cannot be levied in a way that is discriminatory across provinces within Canada\\\"\\n\\nSo again please cite your sources what your claiming many have stated. It shouldnt be hard if so many are id think\",\n \"866\"\n ],\n [\n \"<PERSON>, an economist with the University of Calgary, also said he isn't sure if the laws proposed by Alberta and Saskatchewan could be implemented because the constitution says that export restrictions cannot be levied in a way that is discriminatory across provinces within Canada, in terms of the prices charged or supplies delivered.\\n\\n_URL_0_\\n\\nWill somebody from the U of Calgary be sufficient for you or will you claim something about him as well?\",\n \"866\"\n ],\n [\n \"Guessing cause it's not what you wanted to hear? \\n\\nI was simply providing somebody to counter the UofBC argument with somebody from UofCalgary. \\n\\nI'm not assuming anything but I'm starting to find it laughable on a daily basis reddit users without providing any credentials are discounting experts as non experts or even uneducated in a field they work in or have a background in.\",\n \"859\"\n ],\n [\n \"I oppose it because of the lack of oil spill resources and inadequate science on clean up's. \\n\\nWhich a big spill would wipe out any benefits of this project and more than likely leave taxpayers with clean up costs. \\n\\nAlmost like I'm capable of looking at more than one issue at time. It must suck being only able to handle one issue at a time.\\n\\nIf you can handle more than one issue at a time why don't you watch MLA <PERSON> speech on the emergency debate about KM and the lack of leadership <PERSON> and <PERSON> have shown on this file. \\n\\nEdit spelling\",\n \"771\"\n ],\n [\n \"Lol\\n\\nWas interesting to see after China announced these <PERSON> suddenly wanting back into TPP11. \\n\\nWhen those soybeans among other goods are more expensive to import due to tarrifs on the US importers will find another market to source goods from without tarrifs that high. \\n\\nIf you don't think retaliatory tarrifs placed on the US by China or the EU specifically targeting trumps base won't hurt I dno what to tell you.\",\n \"745\"\n ],\n [\n \"The funny thing is when he walked away the first time countries dropped what the US wanted. 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I’ve spent a very long time to grow intentional objectivity. But I think it’s easier for some reason from the left. I see tons of liberals decrying fires and looting. But it’s rare to see a Republican who honestly favors an election winner being called an election winner. \n\nI thought when <PERSON> named his Cabinet, at least the educated people on the right who understand the political compass would come around. And in a way, that has happened as evidenced by the stock market. \n\nBut the people who get it are very afraid to say so in the workplace and on social media. So what we tend to hear is the fringe right, with everyone else hiding for the moment.","886"],["This is really interesting. Your mom is misinformed as to the position that is most predominant in the Q movement. I’ll do my best to explain.\n\nThis fable revolves around something called NESARA/GESARA. It stands for National/Global Economic Security and Reformation Act. At least up until now, the Qult did not see a “financial reset” as a commie plot at all. Rather, it is a very key component within their greater myth of the “Thousand Year Reign”. \n\nBasically they believe <PERSON> and <PERSON> are ushering in a literal perfect world. (Once they execute all the people like us who don’t agree with giving <PERSON> total power over everything on earth.) This perfect world will last a thousand years. \n\nNesara was either an actual thing that never got any traction, or some larpers made the whole thing up. At very very best, it was supposedly a House bill that never made it out of committee. And it absolutely never will make it out of a committee, nor would any sane legislator even admit to knowing about it. \n\nWithout going into much detail, what it boils down to in Qult minds, is forgiveness of all their debts. Is it communism? Sure it is. But it’s the *good kind* apparently. \n\nWe’ve made fun of them for years about this and how it’s socialism/communism. So I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them have turned it around now and made it the work of <PERSON> and the supervillains. And maybe that’s the narrative your mom heard. But I can assure you, the majority of Qultists are dreaming big on getting all their debts canceled. Any day now, of course. \n\n[Here’s a post I did with some background on the story several months ago.](_URL_0_) The story actually originated from another cult that predates the Q movement. \n\nI think it’s important to note, this partly explains many of the people who are showing life and death devotion to <PERSON>. I have no doubt there are thousands of people in dire financial circumstances, and they have come to believe this fable is true. So it’s no wonder, with <PERSON> losing they see this dream of being debt free going away with him. \n\nThere are also stories of Qultists claiming online that they’ve borrowed the max amount of money they possibly can, since they had this “inside information”. I’ve never seen any confirmation of that actually happening, and I hope it hasn’t. \n\nThis is just one part of the underbelly of the new Qanon religion, but it’s one of the most tragic in its level of meanness and its consequences.","811"],["On one hand it’s getting worse, I agree. But more and more people are moving on. <PERSON> included. He swore in Senator <PERSON> yesterday. Can’t do that if he believes <PERSON>’s election wasn’t valid. \n\n<PERSON> today said “more than several” Republicans have called him privately to say congrats. Unless we see 48 Senators come out in the next 24 hours and say “*by <PERSON> that ain’t true fer me. I’m gone hep <PERSON> overturn this lection!*”...then <PERSON> is telling the truth. \n\nAlso the <PERSON>-Powell group is in a war with the Trump Campaign. And <PERSON> is trying to tweet herself into innocence over <PERSON>’s inauguration enrichment. \n\nThis clown show is just not the kinda thing that’s going to impress honest Americans. If you’ll notice, only the people deluded enough to believe they’re going to inherit the <PERSON> cult are backing <PERSON>. <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>...like that. Opportunists.\n\nBut many more I think are seeing the hero status that <PERSON> and the Georgia Republicans have achieved by speaking up for what is right. Most of them won’t speak up until December 14th, because they are cowards. But most will acknowledge <PERSON> that day I hope.","220"],["Yeah I definitely haven’t seen much evidence they’re moving to bargaining yet. I keep thinking one of their leaders will come up with a useable story that will start making them look past all this. \n\nBut for me this is pure denial still. The Qultists on Twitter are completely flummoxed at the majority asking for evidence of fraud. Why would we need that, they ask? They just totally don’t understand why every American, except for a few thousand baby-eaters, won’t just admit we all voted for <PERSON>. \n\nI’m not even kidding. They honestly believe he “won in a landslide”. It could be the most ridiculous collective belief ever held by so many in modern American history. I figure 20-25% in total see it this way.","210"],["That’s great. I can definitely see <PERSON> doing something like that, and then <PERSON> screaming into the phone on Inauguration Day that he’s not seeing any parachutes. \n\nI do think <PERSON> will be a very central character in the eventual mini-series. It’s impossible to believe that <PERSON> hasn’t at least hinted at whether the General is willing to be <PERSON>’s <PERSON>.\n\nIt’s also impossible to believe that even <PERSON> would’ve agreed to be <PERSON>’s <PERSON>. Just today he reminded everyone yet again that he eventually turns on everybody, with his attack on <PERSON>. Put the Executioner in his control, and one bad comment at breakfast could be the end of anybody. \n\nWho’s going to help make a guy like that a dictator besides totally powerless losers? The <PERSON> boys and <PERSON>/Scavino et al may be that, and maybe even <PERSON> in a <PERSON> world. But not the generals. Nope.","1007"],["At some point they have to face that the most ridiculous things never happened and never will. <PERSON> told them just after *the Storm* that “95% of the people will be in the hospital”. \n\nLet’s set aside for a second that there are less than a million hospital beds in the whole country. \n\nLet’s set aside how <PERSON> is going to exempt doctors and nurses from The Big Sickening so the hospitalized can be cared for. \n\nBut there’s got to be a day, when Crazy <PERSON> is golfing and tweeting deranged things from the comfort of Mar-a-Lago, that it will eventually dawn that there ain’t no *Storm*.","270"],["Thanks for posting these. We need to the reminders every day. \n\nI’ve got to look a quote before next time to add to the comments. It was an article about why these people are so fired up about trans people in bathrooms when it doesn’t affect them one iota. \n\nThat reminds me of what I’m seeing out of these people, who are so damn scared and probably live in an 80% <PERSON> rural area.","847"],["I would just add, for absolute proof of this, one only needs to read their constant whining and complaining on Twitter after every recount and lost court case. \n\n“Republicans should do the recounts.”\n\n“We didn’t see those signatures on the envelopes.”\n\n“It wasn’t a *real* audit!”\n\n“The watchers were six feet away but should’ve been three feet away.”\n\nAnd if it had been three feet, they would’ve wanted *one foot*. Nothing is ever good enough for them, exactly like every 9/11 or <PERSON> conspiracy theorist. When some shard of their “evidence” is clearly explained in detail by a scientist, they move the goal posts and want something else.\n\nIt’s rarely about the truth, because they are starting with *belief* and hunting for specks of dust to prove that *belief*. It’s about being right, getting their way, winning. And specifically in this case, it’s about keeping <PERSON> in power, with zero regard for who the voters in these states chose.","210"],["Absolutely. I don’t remember how much I said in that old post, but I’ve mentioned the consequences before. \n\nDebt cancelation would result in the immediate loss of short and long term financing necessary to even feed the population. Unless of course you continue to take the communism angle to more severe steps and have the government distribute food to everyone. \n\nMany other consequences too numerous to mention would follow. War, mob rule (which is part of the <PERSON> dream also, because they’re so stupid), worthless equities and retirement plans overnight, and the end of banking. \n\nI certainly understand why people who don’t understand capital think it would be a breeze to just “forgive debt”. So that’s really the only valid outcome of this particular myth...we get to see just how ignorant so many people are about economics.","499"],["From the Pee-Body and Bulshitzer Prize winning journos at “Creative Destruction Media”. \n\nWe should all do a circular firing squad for not starting one of these larp outlets years ago. Especially once we saw how many subscribers could be generated by convincing people the Jade Helmses were invading. \n\nWe would’ve sold five million magic salt tablets by now. “Our Giddy-Gulp is *good to grow!*...When you need more heart, honeys, hair and hard-on’s.”","434"],["Yep. And in just a few short years we’ve gone from them saying this stuff on anonymous sites to now openly cheering for it on Facebook. \n\nAnd the biggest problem all the rest of us have is the 45+ Republican Senators waiting in the wings trying to decide if they’re willing to agree to <PERSON>. \n\nWhich is completely stunning to me. A fella who’s never been loyal to a soul in life. He’s the last person you’d give a blank check on mass murder. But I suppose he’s also the first person who’s been unAmerican and sociopathic enough to try it. \n\nCase in point, <PERSON>, who had to hear <PERSON> call his wife ugly and his father a murderer. He’s not even waiting in the wings, he’s big time on board. People can say it’s because he wants the <PERSON> vote in four years. \n\nBut I don’t believe it. There are too many moderate Republicans who are going to punish this drive for fascism. Either he’s compromised, or he stupidly thinks he’s gonna get to share the power.","800"],["Tell him you picked up the latest Nephilim manual on telepathy and it’s taught you so much, you just can’t put it down. \n\nThen, “To protect secrecy, there’s only one way to access the book. I’m transmitting the ordering info with my mind. If you’re chosen to receive, you’ll know it.”\n\nBy tomorrow he’ll be asking you for a second chance.","206"],["I soaked em good up until the day after the election. All the good markets were gone, so I thought “<PERSON> concedes by X date” was a good buy at 7 cents. I stupidly figured he would move on with a shred of dignity and do his TV network grift. I guessed at least there would be news along the way that would make it a volatile mover. Nada. I got killed.\n\nI should’ve stuck with the sure investments at 85-90 cents. But I just thought 15/1 odds on a yes-no play was worth the gamble with my winnings.\n\nEdit to add: and the <PERSON> gymnastics in all the comment sections are worth it even when you lose.","834"],["Gotta think <PERSON> is laughing from the grave and thinking if he didn’t try this “strategy” it doesn’t exist. \n\nHappened to read up on him lately and saw this on wiki. Amazing how prescient history is, and now we know what happens when the system doesn’t expel self-serving rats. If only “disinterested politics” was a virtue again, and “self-serving nature” was a disqualifier:\n\n > <PERSON>, a leading scholar of the revolutionary period, holds that it was <PERSON>'s character that put him at odds with the rest of the \"founding fathers,\" especially <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON>. He believed that this led to his personal and political defeats and, ultimately, to his place outside the golden circle of revered revolutionary figures. Because of <PERSON>'s habit of placing self-interest above the good of the whole, those men thought that <PERSON> represented a serious threat to the ideals for which they had fought the revolution. Their ideal, as particularly embodied in Washington and <PERSON>, was that of \"disinterested politics,\" a government led by educated gentlemen. They would fulfill their duties in a spirit of public virtue and without regard to personal interests or pursuits. This was the core of an Enlightenment gentleman, and <PERSON>'s political enemies thought that he lacked that essential core. <PERSON> thought that <PERSON>'s self-serving nature made him unfit to hold office, especially the presidency.","533"],["What is “pretty close to the truth”? <PERSON> contains 11 letters, doesn’t it? I’m not sure that qualifies as all that close in the realm of letter-counting spooky connections. \n\nAlso not sure why your alleged employer has any bearing on it. You can either provide solid evidence that <PERSON> and <PERSON> are manufacturing microscopic bioweapons or you can’t.","452"],["I saw some of this last night, and they fully believe it. It reminds me of the mole children ordeal. There was a day after the hospital ships arrived, and the Qult all just went, “They got em. Pack it up, boys.”\n\nIt was the only way to cope with a ridiculous story that had to have an end game. Because there were no mole kiddies ever gonna surface out of Central Park. \n\nSame thing last night. “Whew, dodged a bullet with those Chinese in Canada. We bombed em, every last one, evaporated. Too bad all the evidence is burned up so clean there’s not even any smoke.”\n\nSet aside that bombing doesn’t work that way for 50,000 “troops”. The real head scratcher here is whether this belief is an unconscious defense mechanism. Or, if even these Qultists absolutely know it’s bullshit, so they help along the plot holes, because they can’t stand the thought of the game ending.","226"],["You are right to be concerned, and I’m sorry for your past losses of loved one and what you’re going through today. I don’t want to downplay the Q situation, but I do think the bigger risk factor is the family history and no so much the Q environment.\n\nI see no indication they won’t continue to be entirely future-focused. There’s always something to be either happy about, hopeful about, or terrified of. But the fact that none of it ever pans out is the key. This has shown us that the drug is the “information”...that thing-of-the-moment they desire or fear. It’s not the actual events they happen to actually be living through. \n\nRight now it’s the whole Chinese army camped out across the Maine border. Every sentient being with a lick of sense knows that is fiction. And there’s no way around it, she’s eventually going to see nothing ever happens and move on to something else. Again, the something else is the drug. \n\n<PERSON> as a source for intrigue and excitement is going to be like watching paint dry. The terror of Communism or death camps or a tax on microwave food are going to have to come from the people who invent Q fiction, because <PERSON>’s aim is going to be to give Americans a break from thinking about the Presidency 40 times a day. \n\nWhile there may be some real instances of self-harm, I don’t think it will be widespread. And most importantly, I think it will come from *withdrawal of the drug* if it comes from anything. In other words, if the sources they’re going to for intrigue can’t keep it interesting and terrifying for them (due to a boring <PERSON> Admin), then some deep depression could occur. \n\nThing is, there’s now a whole industry around building Patreon content for this new movement. I think there will be plenty of conspiracy and rumor and decodes to keep them busy. \n\nIt would be awesome if she could redirect that need to a better energy. That’s what we all hope for among the Q faithful that are in way too deep. I’m wishing that for you and for her. All the best.","827"],["The fact that Republicans hate the sliver of objectivity <PERSON> exercised in office is unsurprising. What’s shocking is this sudden need for Republicans in podunk backwaters to publicly signal their radical devotion to <PERSON>. \n\nThese resolutions are purity tests to prove membership in the Fringe Lunatics Society. I predict very soon they’re going to create a uniform or a scarf or a burqa or a patch, and it must be worn at all times to keep from getting primaried. \n\nI’m entirely serious. Outward genuflecting is the requirement of the day, and the toadies who require it will surely make identification easier for each other. \n\n2021 is going to be a 24/7 purity test on the right. It’s going to be pure misery for Repub legislators who wouldn’t be caught dead in these Qultists’ presence if they didn’t need their votes. It’s going to be Heaven for the true believers like <PERSON> and <PERSON>. \n\nMainstream Republicans better get off their ass today and take the party back, because they’re eventually gonna get eaten either way. Look at Little <PERSON>. He has fringe-signaled so hard his rotator cuffs are shot. But he’s gonna get primaried by <PERSON> or <PERSON> or whomever Daddy chooses. They better band together right now, today, and say this is our party, if you want a new one you need to build it.","800"],["As to civil trials, I suspect everyone has sovereign immunity inside the government. But lots of very wealthy individuals and orgs may certainly be named in suits. \n\nCriminally, it’s a good question whether “just incompetence” rises to provable criminal negligence. But it’s very hard to imagine this person decided on his own to not protect the US Capitol. \n\nI’m betting the interview with the CapPol chief is the most sought after in DC this week. It’s doubtful his attorneys will allow that though, unless it helps his case by shifting the attention upwards a notch or two. \n\nI think police leadership will be charged in some instances and do a plea deal, but that’s just spitballing.","693"],["Yes, it’s at very least Q-adjacent. Since the Capitol I’m seeing an effort to erase Q from the language of the latest Apocalypse promises. But by any other name, it’s all Q. I think there are multiple tentacles of grifters looking to win the crowd at the moment, so what we’re seeing is largely a Q rebranding. \n\nWho will win is anyone’s guess.","609"],["I learned today that some of them are getting their info from a guy named <PERSON>. You won’t like what you find when you find his bio. But from what I’ve gathered, he was promoted by <PERSON> this weekend, and he’s the one giving them hour by hour lies about the President’s speech (which didn’t even happen tonight)\n\nPlus he’s doing the usual 10 days of darkness softball, where they all become convinced <PERSON> has one of those <PERSON> switches from Acme that shut the whole world down. \n\nI can’t guarantee that’s where it’s coming from today, but you might check to see if that rings a bell.","452"],["I heard <PERSON> from God last night for the first time in at least a year, maybe even two. See if you can find any indication of the name <PERSON>. He’s a British reptilian believer who claims he has sex with an alien in his mother’s womb. \n\nI may work up a post on it tomorrow, but I’d be interested if this RoG stuff is related, because all the *It’s Happening* hysteria I’ve seen since Saturday came from that guy and <PERSON> (who promoted that guy at Parler).","25"],["Thanks, I got to see it! The lawyer just said he made a mistake in the press conference. Then used language like, “The picture *appeared to show* him holding a lectern.”\n\nEdit to add- Lawyers claim there have been death threats against his family who weren’t in Washington. \nIf true, that’s not right or fair either. I told someone today, I tend to get more upset at people on the left who are void of principles, since I’ve voted for Dem candidates since 2004. \n\nI don’t even know how people who spit at due process and constitutional rights can get mad at the people on the other side who tried to take the country by force. Are they just mad the other side thought of it first? Get some principles and stick to them.","614"],["> I’ve never been so worried about our national security in my life. We always had to be concerned about outsiders attacking us, but when it’s our own - our mothers and fathers, grandparents, children, who will turn on us and hurt us if they feel threatened...well it’s just a totally new monster like we’ve never encountered before.\n\nSame. I can’t even fathom that <PERSON> is getting to fly to Texas and make another hate speech, surrounded by the border patrol that he has incited so much. \n\nFor the record, I think the odds are virtually 100% that <PERSON> is gonna leave office in disgrace and <PERSON> will be sworn in next week. \n\nHowever. And there a however. I’m not at all happy that <PERSON> and <PERSON> and other Cabinet member resigned, which would keep them from voting <PERSON> unfit to serve in an emergency even bigger than the one we’re in. \n\nThey’ve left him with the slugs who were absolutely fine with a <PERSON> presidency, so they can keep the permanent use of their jet and tax-funded staff for the rest of their lives. \n\nWe could still be in for more instability. And just the simple fact that millions upon millions of Americans are openly in favor of a coup is devastating to me. \n\nThe very same people who swooned when <PERSON> kissed the flag, and used to talk about how they luuuv the constitution. They’re done that crap now. They want their messiah. It’s sickening. And there’s no way to shame them for it, because they have none.","134"],["Love how it’s gone from “<PERSON>’s laptop” to “20+ laptops with hard drives”. I guess since the original claim wasn’t true, might as well embellish it. \n\nIt’s the <PERSON> school of insider information. This shit is maddening. So stupid for any thinking person, but so dangerous because that’s not what we’re dealing with.","127"],["I’m not quite so optimistic. You said it right, they’re totally split down the middle affording to post-Wednesday polling. But the Trumplicans (and their Russian allies) are far better at propaganda than educated Repubs. \n\nWhat they’ll do is primary all the educated ones. They’ll win those primaries by making abortion a Satanic ritual “issue”. And then those same educated Republicans who lost their principled Congresspeople will vote with the Trumplicans, because muh aborshun and muh soshulizm.\n\nEven worse news, the educated faction will only be able to fight back with old faithful, tax breaks. Which will kill our tax base, as if it’s not already about dead. \n\nThis is not gonna be the win for Dems that it looks like on paper. Dems already get millions and millions more votes than Rs. But they can’t win in 26-28 states where the people are too easy to scare with the propaganda. \n\nIt’s going to serve to divide the country even further into urban vs rural. Our best, and maybe only chance, is for the corporations to recognize they’ve gone too far, and gotten more than their fair share of benefits these past years. \n\nThey can starve the Trumplicans and Russians, if they will just do it. But we need a healthy Republican Party again. We need a <PERSON> or a <PERSON> or even a <PERSON> in the lead instead of <PERSON> too.","313"],["If it’s a <PERSON> thing, the best thing to do is hit his credibility hard (he has absolutely none). [Here’s just one article about him from HuffPo.](_URL_0_)\n\nA few excerpts, because others are about to be hearing his name. **Honesty folks, if this guy isn’t a bridge too far for the people in your life, then I’m out of advice:**\n\n > A Labour councillor has claimed he has **fathered a child with an alien and that the regular sex he has with the extra terrestrial** is causing tension in his human marriage.\n\n > <PERSON>, who represents Stakesby on Whitby Town Council, told the Northern Echo he has **had a child called <PERSON> with an alien he refers to as the Cat Queen.**\n\n > The driving instructor, who has three children with his human wife, said **the intercourse with the alien happens about four times a year.**\n\n > ”What will happen is that we will hold hands and I will say ‘I’m ready’ and then the technology I don’t understand **will take us up to a craft orbiting the earth**,\" he said.\n\n > The Labour politician has also claimed he was abducted by extra-terrestrials as a child and that **his “real mother” is a 9ft tall alien with eight fingers.**\n\n > He speaks of his first encounter which occurred while he in the womb, then tells of a being which appeared by his cot when he was six-months-old and reached out to him with “these two green ‘stick things, like beanpoles’.”\n\n > He continued: “I thought, ‘they’re not mummy’s hands, mummy’s hands are pink’, and mummy has thumbs. These are green and pointed and there’s four of them.’\n\n > ”I was looking straight into its face. **It enters my mind through my eyes and it sends a message down my optic nerve into my brain, saying 'I am your real mother, I am your more important mother'.”**\n\n > The 53-year-old recounted his experiences in a YouTube clip. He describes the extra-terrestrial as having “human features” with a kite-shaped face, huge eyes, two tiny holes for a nose and a thin mouth.\n\n > He said: “I’m only telling you what I’ve seen, they could be lying to me. The reason why extra-terrestrials are interested in me is not because of my physical body but what’s inside – my soul.\n\n > ”These reptiles are guilty as hell. They have apologised several times to me. They have said they are sorry for what they have done to your people.”\n\n > <PERSON>, who was a councillor in Hackney during the 1990s, said his experiences have not hindered his work.\n\n > He said: “It’s a personal matter and it doesn’t affect my work. I’m more interested in fixing someone’s leaking roof or potholes. People don’t want me to talk about aliens. “I get more common sense out of the aliens than out of Scarborough Town Hall.”","797"],["There is a lot of speculation about why this guy is going first, and about why some of these cases have been sealed and others haven’t. Today <PERSON> and <PERSON> have the first briefing by FBI & Justice. It’s the first conference that has happened at all, as far as we know. \n\nWhat I think is this, but maybe it’s just hope: This has the look of a slapdash approach with zero forethought or strategy. But I think there is something afoot. I think <PERSON> is going to fake the leaders out of their jocks and end up with more evidence and more people turning states evidence.","776"],["A quick suggestion, as I’ve already offered this to others, including an irl friend. If you have a data plan on your phone, you can get internet service with or without electricity. \n\nWhen the power goes off, just go to Twitter. Go to the Search feature and input “power outage”, and sort by latest. Unless you see millions of tweets in the last five seconds, there are no widespread outages. \n\nNext, enter your town/area and “power outage” in the search, and sort by Latest. What you’ll usually see are several mentions of the power being out from your area. You may have to adjust the terms. Communities all have unique ways of expressing themselves by name. \n\nWhen you see that all or most the latest tweets about power outages are coming from your area, you can be assured the rest of the world is up and running.","270"],["CNN just ran this and sourced the owner of the video. So I searched them on Twitter and found the post. Somehow it has almost no RT or comment activity. \n\nThe people in the vid are obviously unhinged as they go after the Congressman. But interestingly, it also appears to be yet another example of some of the most vocal Trumplicans being Russian or of Russian descent.\n\nEdit to add- Thanks for asking for more context to this event. [Found this very detailed account at the *Orange County Register*](_URL_0_)","337"],["A quote from <PERSON> of Reuters which I think is extremely important:\n\n > Intentional or not, the acting attorney general's absence at the Capitol siege briefing does send a message.\n\nIt would appear...and I hope it’s true, because some observers on Twitter have not been kind to <PERSON> previous to this...these guys may have just decided to step up and take back their autonomy.","906"],["I’m dying to ask these folks this: “Why wouldn’t the DOJ just begin a three-year process of stacking super secret sealed indictments in the PACER system? Why were they brave enough to stand in front of Americans and call these crimes and these criminals out?”\n\nI mean, is it possible that super secret 3 year-old PACER indictments by the hundreds of thousands aren’t an actual thing?","776"],["This letter should unquestionably emit two separate emotions. It’s absolutely tragic that the Trump Presidency has necessitated our military being forced to say they won’t back a coup. \n\nBut this letter should invoke a wonderful feeling of pride and confidence also. Think of the temptations and the promises of having the run of “the entire kingdom” that so many have succumbed to across history. These leaders weren’t moved. These leaders learned their civics. And *their pride in American law and principles were real.*\n\nTragically, followers of Qanon lost their way, and in the process, most of them are still at this moment praying for a <PERSON> coup, leading to a <PERSON> dynasty. How can we get them back from this? I don’t have the answer. \n\nBut maybe now they will at least face that there is no “secret special unit” that can take over America. The Joint Chiefs will put down any and all aggression against the United States, most assuredly and most violently. \n\n[Here’s NPR’s story on the JCOS letter.](_URL_2_)\n\nRelevant parts here:\n\n > The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff reminded American forces Tuesday of their oath to defend the Constitution following the attacks on the Capitol building last week.\nThe letter was addressed to The Joint Force, which is made up of about 1.3 million active duty service members and more than 811,000 National Guard and reservists — all of whom swore an oath to \"Support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.\" The oath has stood since America's founding nearly 250 years ago.\n\n > ”The violent riot in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, was a direct assault on the U.S. Congress, the Capitol building, and our Constitutional process,\" the memorandum said. \"We witnessed actions inside the Capitol building that were inconsistent with the rule of law. The rights of freedom of speech and assembly do not give anyone the right to resort to violence, sedition and insurrection.\"\n\n > The Joint Chiefs emphasized in the letter that President-elect <PERSON> will be inaugurated on Jan. 20, becoming the 46th Commander in Chief, and any acts to disrupt the constitutional process not only violate military values, but the law.\n\nEdit- Added the corrected link for the NPR story.\nThanks for the awards everyone, much appreciated and so glad to see how well this was received. It’s all credit to our military leaders.\n\nEdit 2- People are asking for even more proof that this *really* came from the JCOS. Here’s more sauce:\n\n[The official website at _URL_1_](_URL_0_)\n\n[A tweet from the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade.](_URL_3_) I would surmise those folks are getting tired of hearing that the foolishness of Qanon has anything whatsoever to do with Military Intelligence.","609"],["I honestly believe if five or ten million people would post this on Facebook, it would open lots of eyes. No commentary, just the letter. \n\nThe importance of this letter can’t be overstated. These guys just publicly told Q people, “Nope, we are not in on it. If there’s a conspiracy against America, it’s not with the military.”\n\nPlus, the Joint Chiefs are telling all active military and all retired that can still lose their pensions that they better stay out of this.","920"],["That’s incredible, I just don’t know what’s it’s going to take. I feel like what we’re going to see in the 20th are claims of <PERSON> being “inaugurated” at an undisclosed location, and now all the generals know he’s still in office, they can begin to slaughter everyone Qanon doesn’t like. \n\nSomething like that is surely coming, because the people leading these people around by their fee-fees can’t possibly stop the grift.","906"],["Well, let’s be clear. Q isn’t claiming anything, and hasn’t for weeks. And even when Q was doing a little posting over 2020, the great prophet had nothing of consequence to say. \n\nQ “drops” since sometime in 2019 have been largely links to tweets and EpochRealTrue BreeebartTreehouse or some such. \n\nThe Q movement has left Qanon behind. They now follow various and sundry grifters, usually lighting on whichever one is telling the most outrageous stories for the moment.\n\nBut yep, what you said is exactly what the Q followers will say.","977"],["I agree with the first commenter that all substantial explanations of the <PERSON> come back to <PERSON>. \n\nThis is not a reframing based on hindsight. We were saying some version of this at TMOR in November of 2017. And frankly, you can probably find plenty saying this in 2016 about the Pizzagate myth that gave birth to the.Q movement. \n\n(Some believe <PERSON> was invented to confuse the public due to fear of some past <PERSON> crime being released. The pee tape is the obvious first guess. There’s no way to know if this is the case, or if it just organically arose from the larp world of 4ch.)\n\n<PERSON>’s story may ultimately be told apart from Pizzagate, but that would be a mistake, whether they shared common larpers (or foreign governments or campaign staff) or not. (Likely not, those reportedly there is evidence of Russian promotion that played a part in the growth of both of these.)\n\nI think the difference between the two is purely down to the successful mainstreaming of Qanon. Early on, this was done at Reddit and Infowars, among other sites. \n\nThis was a very intentional expansion beyond the usual <PERSON> conspiranauts. Most people who follow this know who the three people are that combined to promote Q, whether they actually started it or not. \n\nBut all that aside, without the Cult of Trump, the Qult of Q never happens. Literal worship at MAGA rallies, the accompanying merchandise sales, the *lock her up* chants, these were already a reality. Qanon was just a way to capture the most rabid of them. \n\nOne analogy might be Star Wars figurines. The company that sold those didn’t write or produce the movie. But it was an offshoot that guaranteed a new buying audience that the toy company didn’t have previously. And in return, there are dividends for the filmmaker, both monetary and in solidifying the fan base. \n\n<PERSON> and the <PERSON> campaign would be the filmmaker in the analogy. And the outcome is what we see in Georgia...<PERSON> has transcended the Party. Without the base of Qult members that worship him, no way he’s able to be a raving lunatic and not get swatted down by Republican leadership.","220"],["Yeah, all these things listed are consistent with one or other of the Q sects. Others, like the politico sect, pretend the New Age people don’t exist, and only talk about FISA warrants and how many votes <PERSON> got in Georgia. \n\nThese sects don’t speak to each other, and constantly fight on <PERSON> and <PERSON>, but they are all faithful to drive cross country to a MAGA rally. \n\nWe generally call the Qanon movement “The Unified Conspiracy Theory”. The only ones they haven’t hijacked are the non-supernatural ones involving the current President. (Because there was a perfectly good explanation for <PERSON> taking all that money from foreign governments.)\n\nThe best way to think about the UTC is the “Q map”. Do a search of that term at r/Qult_Headquarters and you should find multiple versions of the “map”. It’s basically an amalgamated collection of Coast-to-Coast Radio terms with a few lines randomly drawn between them. \n\nIt serves as a nice spectrum of multiple choice hysteria, and allows the Q follower to pick all the ones they like. From the modern earthly, like <PERSON> and 9/11, to the ancient, like the Illuminat and Knights Templar, to the otherworldly, like the Nephilium and the child’s blood fountain of youth. \n\nGood times.","827"],["I’ve seen them describe it in multiple ways. I’d say the most common isn’t so much getting rich as canceling their debts, ending the Fed and returning to the gold standard. I haven’t seen a lot of talk about getting income, because <PERSON>, a Democrat, was known for that. So that would by definition make it bad. \n\nFor me the most important learning point is that they seems to see the truth is in the middle when it comes to economics. Capitalism has a very important place, but so do collective efforts.\n\nBut they wouldn’t admit the latter for the world, so instead they have to frame it as Earthly Daddy in a <PERSON> role stealing from the pedovores and giving to the Qultists.","580"],["Suspended at *Parler*? Is that even a thing, even for a bloviating bloodlusty bloke like <PERSON>?\n\nI don’t know about a pivot, unless you mean moving to a focus on the governors. For a central message, he’s one of many begging the minions to start some form of violence for weeks. And I don’t read this latest central theme in all caps any differently.","140"],["> Yes in psycohistory this is all covered in the math.\n\nI would comment on this sentence, but I couldn’t even begin to guess what the <PERSON> thinks he’s trying to say. \n\n > They think they can use media social inertia to over whelm 75%+ of the populations voice....\n\nThis is my current leader in the clubhouse for the never-ending Cognitive Dissonance Sweepstakes.\n\nThese people are convinced Georgia doesn’t know the vote count after they’ve *actually counted* the votes three times now. But they’re convinced they have a perfect handle on <PERSON>’s vote percentage through pure cult-level invention. \n\nIf it was me, I would’ve at least made myself look fair-minded and given my God Emperor like 55%. I’d love to the ask this guy to tell us the last two-candidate Presidential race in America where the winner got 75% of the vote. \n\nAnd the last one who got 50% after a quarter million extra people died on his watch and tens of millions turned to unemployment lines.","92"],["> MSM refuses to show the hearings\n\nI’m gonna have me a hearing at the Best Western tomorrow, and I can’t get the damn networks to cover it either. \n\nMy neighbor signed a swored After <PERSON> that my other neighbor heard from her aunt’s hairdresser’s gardener’s girlfriend that <PERSON> broke into my house and replaced everything in it with an exact replica.","765"],["It’s not just that it “won’t work”. Slicing out the few falsifiable things that <PERSON> has said still leaves 4500 other posts in which he said absolutely nothing. \n\nAll the falsifiable predictions that weren’t already widely reported in the media have been, guess what? False. \n\nBut a <PERSON> somehow believes the other 4500 meaningless links and lists of buzzwords contains major groundbreaking “truth”. Qanon is cold reading that requires hindsight to work. \n\nSo I could list basically every name in <PERSON>’s new Cabinet, add some big names in business, sports and media, plus a dozens of numbers. And before long, stories will come out in the actual news, sufficient to which, a stupid person could be convinced that I was a genius. \n\nYou can find some of <PERSON>’s worst falsifiable blunders [on this Twitter thread by @PokerPolitics.](_URL_0_) But the reason it rarely works to convince them is because of the cold reading principle. They are absolutely convinced Q is omniscient, so every time stamp and capitalization must surely “mean something”.","969"],["That’s 50,000 sub members, not 5000. And 1400 new members this week alone. \n\nAgree with the other commenter that it can’t be quantified. All we can do is monitor the particular things they’re caring about at any given time and raise awareness at the more dangerous ones. \n\nThe ones who focus on “lizard people”, well that’s nothing new and no harm, no foul. But the ones who want to kill other Americans, or who get online every day trying to talk their most vulnerable and disturbed followers to do so...those need constant monitoring and exposing.","633"],["Yep, we have definitely not nearly reached the critical mass of crazy yet. Not from <PERSON>, not from the sycophant politicians trying to inherit his cult, and not from *THE Qult*.\n\nThere has been a tiny reason for hope lately, as even a couple of the Qultists on my FB are already starting in with <PERSON> fear-mongering. People who wouldn’t have been able to name three Cabinet positions five years ago are suddenly <PERSON> in their own mind. \n\nBut that’s still a positive, because it exposes their pretense that “<PERSON> won”. I figure if they really thought <PERSON> was gonna stay in office, they wouldn’t be so hysterical about who <PERSON> might name to head the Commission on Tennis Shoes for the Aged.","140"],["One more question, just curious. Was she watching on streaming or network? Just wondering if someone purposely put that ep on tv or if it was just pure coincidence. \n\nGlad to hear she’s not into Q. I’d like to see this little clip posted at Twitter and other places and have Q’s see it so they’ll know <PERSON> and <PERSON> or whoever didn’t suddenly get some great revelation. Whoever is putting it out there totally stole it.","759"],["Very well said. I mentioned to someone last night that the PB message to Q people right now is very simple: “Don’t you feel silly now for Trusting the Plan”? Haven’t you figured out now that you need to be *part of our plan*?”\n\nThey are gigging these folks into action by shaming them about one of Q’s most popular refrains. Anybody who can’t see the disturbing potential for this tactic, as they dismiss and insult and name call, is part of the problem right now.","98"],["> Nobody's Q parents are going to be talked out of it by their own children, ever. Parents don't view their children as peers, they view them as children.\n\nI assume you are meaning to say *small or very young* children here? Otherwise this is the very kind of overgeneralized comment the OP is warning against. \n\nIn many many families, once a child reaches an age that they can communicate maturely, almost nobody has more influence on a parent than their children. And this continues all the way, from the child’s high school and college years, and continues through the parent’s very senior years. \n\n(And frankly, even at very young ages, how many films have as a plot device a child’s opinion of their single parent’s dates? Children have enormous influence in many, if not the vast majority, of households. I’m sad for those who don’t enjoy that dynamic.)","405"],["> There really are hardly any families where it works like that.\n\nYou made my point that the comment is an overgeneralization, so there’s no reason to further debate what the percentage is. I can only add that I’m thankful to have an entire extended family where the kids are where you go if the parent needs convincing of something. \n\nIn families where this isn’t the case, I always wonder who exactly takes the car keys from an aging person who doesn’t need to drive anymore. Almost every instance of this I’ve ever known of this difficult conversation, it fell to the child or the grandchild. \n\nThe other few instances came from an insurance agent. Which is quite sad.","405"],["Be very intentional. Start by writing down everything you want out of life. When you’ve filled up a page, go through them all again, dividing each into three categories:\n\nHigh Priority: The fewer the better, because these are the ones you will pursue until your last day. \n\nMedium and Low Priority: Delete the lowest that are just “would be nice” if they will get in the way of the High Priorities. \n\nThen, draw a matrix. An X-axis and a Y-axis. Vertical line is labeled Easy to Achieve at the top, Hard at the bottom. The Y axis is Expensive on the left and Inexpensive on the right. \n\nNow plot each of the high and medium priorities. If there are things that fit in Easy and Inexpensive, do one of them tomorrow. You’ll enjoy the success of it. Then get to work on the rest of the list.","306"],["The main issue is the word “believe”. The conspiracy community always starts with factual, unconnected stories, and guess where they get those stories? The *mainstream media* they hate so much. \n\nThen they develop a *belief*, then they start stringing unrelated stories and fables and grainy photos together to match that preconceived *belief*.\n\n<PERSON> is a good example. <PERSON> of the *Miami Herald* is the reason people know about <PERSON>. He was long convicted before Qanon decided the story could be built into the Pizzagate myth, and it worked like a charm. \n\nHere’s the scoop on Qanon:\n\nQanon never once successfully predicted a single thing in any falsifiable comment they ever “dropped”. And Qanon never shared a single piece of information that wasn’t already available in the public realm. Namely government websites and the *mainstream media*.","969"],["I see antivax comments, as well as claims of autism and requests for dating advice to get girls. I don’t see any mention of being trans. This post is contrary to your claims enough, and your post is low effort enough, that I’m removing it. If I’ve missed comments where you’ve been speaking up against the Qult since 2019, reply with it here and we’ll reconsider.","847"],["And we 100% support you and anyone who gets out. But you also need to understand we’re a sub that is very susceptible to trolling. \n\nI would suggest you get to know u/d-_-bored-_-b our moderator and a notable ex-Q who has been the subject of articles and TV interviews on at least three continents. \n\nHe hosts a discord for XQ people, and I’m certain you will be welcome. Once you get to know each other, all Bored has to do is say the word, and we will happily host your AMA in a few weeks time.","883"],["We’re growing very fast. I see you found us from a Twitter comment. We’re also on the Q wiki page and many media outlets. That’s both good and bad, as we’re not only getting many more people here for the right reasons, but also the opposite. \n\nWe’re working to keep out the trolling, and soon enough they’ll lose interest. But honestly the people hurting for real, in real life, will be finding us for a long time to come. Even if all mention of Q ended today, and it’s definitely not going to, we’ll be seeing the fallout for years from this thing.","633"],["That’s pretty much the large and small of it. <PERSON> of NBC interviewed two of the early larpers. You can probably search for that story from around 2019.\n\nBut it’s really unimportant who all was in on it early. The small group who moved it to 8ch and then promoted the heck out of it on their platforms are the ones that made it break out. \n\nEverybody else at 4ch ridiculed them out of the building. And <PERSON> could see the potential to drive clicks to his site for something other than porn. So a partnership was born. \n\nThe thing most people don’t really understand is that 4ch Q was nothing. It arguably got less discussion than FBIAnon. It was post-move to 8ch when everything happened, other than the first few famously failed arrests and police state posts.","452"],["One interesting thing about the Q movement of early 2021 is that the “big players” have changed completely. \n\nMost all the people we’ve been talking about for over three years have either walked off or been forgotten, and the new wave of Qultists are following people like <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON>. People who probably know less about Q than they do. \n\nQultists had never heard of <PERSON> before November, and he’d probably never heard of them. Of course that didn’t stop him from taking over the leadership role when deplatforming caused a gaping gulf in celebrity Q Whisperers.","419"],["<PERSON> is a fun story. I don’t think anybody in the states had ever heard of him. Suddenly when everyone started getting banned and it was rumored <PERSON> would go dark, <PERSON> posted <PERSON>’ website and said something like “This guy knows what happening”.\n\nSo what “this guy” did was give a play-by-play of literal tanks crossing the bridges in DC and saying the “war” had begun...for three or four *straight nights*.\n\nQultists were amazed nobody else knew about this war. Of course a quick search of Twitter for Newest Comments would tell you whether there’s a war in under two minutes. \n\nAnyway, the <PERSON> was thrilled. Then somebody did a single Google search. Turns out <PERSON> was semi-famous for being a former elected official in the UK who believed he had sex with an alien in his mother’s womb. \n\nHe’s also known for a bunch of other alien nonsense. But some Qultists are still watching his YT every day.","25"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"Great point about tolerating the fringe one leans to. I’ve spent a very long time to grow intentional objectivity. But I think it’s easier for some reason from the left. I see tons of liberals decrying fires and looting. But it’s rare to see a Republican who honestly favors an election winner being called an election winner. \\n\\nI thought when <PERSON> named his Cabinet, at least the educated people on the right who understand the political compass would come around. And in a way, that has happened as evidenced by the stock market. \\n\\nBut the people who get it are very afraid to say so in the workplace and on social media. So what we tend to hear is the fringe right, with everyone else hiding for the moment.\",\n \"886\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is really interesting. Your mom is misinformed as to the position that is most predominant in the Q movement. I’ll do my best to explain.\\n\\nThis fable revolves around something called NESARA/GESARA. It stands for National/Global Economic Security and Reformation Act. At least up until now, the Qult did not see a “financial reset” as a commie plot at all. Rather, it is a very key component within their greater myth of the “Thousand Year Reign”. \\n\\nBasically they believe <PERSON> and <PERSON> are ushering in a literal perfect world. (Once they execute all the people like us who don’t agree with giving <PERSON> total power over everything on earth.) This perfect world will last a thousand years. \\n\\nNesara was either an actual thing that never got any traction, or some larpers made the whole thing up. At very very best, it was supposedly a House bill that never made it out of committee. And it absolutely never will make it out of a committee, nor would any sane legislator even admit to knowing about it. \\n\\nWithout going into much detail, what it boils down to in Qult minds, is forgiveness of all their debts. Is it communism? Sure it is. But it’s the *good kind* apparently. \\n\\nWe’ve made fun of them for years about this and how it’s socialism/communism. So I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them have turned it around now and made it the work of <PERSON> and the supervillains. And maybe that’s the narrative your mom heard. But I can assure you, the majority of Qultists are dreaming big on getting all their debts canceled. Any day now, of course. \\n\\n[Here’s a post I did with some background on the story several months ago.](_URL_0_) The story actually originated from another cult that predates the Q movement. \\n\\nI think it’s important to note, this partly explains many of the people who are showing life and death devotion to <PERSON>. I have no doubt there are thousands of people in dire financial circumstances, and they have come to believe this fable is true. So it’s no wonder, with <PERSON> losing they see this dream of being debt free going away with him. \\n\\nThere are also stories of Qultists claiming online that they’ve borrowed the max amount of money they possibly can, since they had this “inside information”. I’ve never seen any confirmation of that actually happening, and I hope it hasn’t. \\n\\nThis is just one part of the underbelly of the new Qanon religion, but it’s one of the most tragic in its level of meanness and its consequences.\",\n \"811\"\n ],\n [\n \"On one hand it’s getting worse, I agree. But more and more people are moving on. <PERSON> included. He swore in Senator <PERSON> yesterday. Can’t do that if he believes <PERSON>’s election wasn’t valid. \\n\\n<PERSON> today said “more than several” Republicans have called him privately to say congrats. Unless we see 48 Senators come out in the next 24 hours and say “*by <PERSON> that ain’t true fer me. I’m gone hep <PERSON> overturn this lection!*”...then <PERSON> is telling the truth. \\n\\nAlso the <PERSON>-Powell group is in a war with the Trump Campaign. And <PERSON> is trying to tweet herself into innocence over <PERSON>’s inauguration enrichment. \\n\\nThis clown show is just not the kinda thing that’s going to impress honest Americans. If you’ll notice, only the people deluded enough to believe they’re going to inherit the <PERSON> cult are backing <PERSON>. <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>...like that. Opportunists.\\n\\nBut many more I think are seeing the hero status that <PERSON> and the Georgia Republicans have achieved by speaking up for what is right. Most of them won’t speak up until December 14th, because they are cowards. But most will acknowledge <PERSON> that day I hope.\",\n \"220\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah I definitely haven’t seen much evidence they’re moving to bargaining yet. I keep thinking one of their leaders will come up with a useable story that will start making them look past all this. \\n\\nBut for me this is pure denial still. The Qultists on Twitter are completely flummoxed at the majority asking for evidence of fraud. Why would we need that, they ask? They just totally don’t understand why every American, except for a few thousand baby-eaters, won’t just admit we all voted for <PERSON>. \\n\\nI’m not even kidding. They honestly believe he “won in a landslide”. It could be the most ridiculous collective belief ever held by so many in modern American history. I figure 20-25% in total see it this way.\",\n \"210\"\n ],\n [\n \"That’s great. I can definitely see <PERSON> doing something like that, and then <PERSON> screaming into the phone on Inauguration Day that he’s not seeing any parachutes. \\n\\nI do think <PERSON> will be a very central character in the eventual mini-series. It’s impossible to believe that <PERSON> hasn’t at least hinted at whether the General is willing to be <PERSON>’s <PERSON>.\\n\\nIt’s also impossible to believe that even <PERSON> would’ve agreed to be <PERSON>’s <PERSON>. Just today he reminded everyone yet again that he eventually turns on everybody, with his attack on <PERSON>. Put the Executioner in his control, and one bad comment at breakfast could be the end of anybody. \\n\\nWho’s going to help make a guy like that a dictator besides totally powerless losers? The <PERSON> boys and <PERSON>/Scavino et al may be that, and maybe even <PERSON> in a <PERSON> world. But not the generals. Nope.\",\n \"1007\"\n ],\n [\n \"At some point they have to face that the most ridiculous things never happened and never will. <PERSON> told them just after *the Storm* that “95% of the people will be in the hospital”. \\n\\nLet’s set aside for a second that there are less than a million hospital beds in the whole country. \\n\\nLet’s set aside how <PERSON> is going to exempt doctors and nurses from The Big Sickening so the hospitalized can be cared for. \\n\\nBut there’s got to be a day, when Crazy <PERSON> is golfing and tweeting deranged things from the comfort of Mar-a-Lago, that it will eventually dawn that there ain’t no *Storm*.\",\n \"270\"\n ],\n [\n \"Thanks for posting these. We need to the reminders every day. \\n\\nI’ve got to look a quote before next time to add to the comments. It was an article about why these people are so fired up about trans people in bathrooms when it doesn’t affect them one iota. \\n\\nThat reminds me of what I’m seeing out of these people, who are so damn scared and probably live in an 80% <PERSON> rural area.\",\n \"847\"\n ],\n [\n \"I would just add, for absolute proof of this, one only needs to read their constant whining and complaining on Twitter after every recount and lost court case. \\n\\n“Republicans should do the recounts.”\\n\\n“We didn’t see those signatures on the envelopes.”\\n\\n“It wasn’t a *real* audit!”\\n\\n“The watchers were six feet away but should’ve been three feet away.”\\n\\nAnd if it had been three feet, they would’ve wanted *one foot*. Nothing is ever good enough for them, exactly like every 9/11 or <PERSON> conspiracy theorist. When some shard of their “evidence” is clearly explained in detail by a scientist, they move the goal posts and want something else.\\n\\nIt’s rarely about the truth, because they are starting with *belief* and hunting for specks of dust to prove that *belief*. It’s about being right, getting their way, winning. And specifically in this case, it’s about keeping <PERSON> in power, with zero regard for who the voters in these states chose.\",\n \"210\"\n ],\n [\n \"Absolutely. I don’t remember how much I said in that old post, but I’ve mentioned the consequences before. \\n\\nDebt cancelation would result in the immediate loss of short and long term financing necessary to even feed the population. Unless of course you continue to take the communism angle to more severe steps and have the government distribute food to everyone. \\n\\nMany other consequences too numerous to mention would follow. War, mob rule (which is part of the <PERSON> dream also, because they’re so stupid), worthless equities and retirement plans overnight, and the end of banking. \\n\\nI certainly understand why people who don’t understand capital think it would be a breeze to just “forgive debt”. So that’s really the only valid outcome of this particular myth...we get to see just how ignorant so many people are about economics.\",\n \"499\"\n ],\n [\n \"From the Pee-Body and Bulshitzer Prize winning journos at “Creative Destruction Media”. \\n\\nWe should all do a circular firing squad for not starting one of these larp outlets years ago. Especially once we saw how many subscribers could be generated by convincing people the Jade Helmses were invading. \\n\\nWe would’ve sold five million magic salt tablets by now. “Our Giddy-Gulp is *good to grow!*...When you need more heart, honeys, hair and hard-on’s.”\",\n \"434\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yep. And in just a few short years we’ve gone from them saying this stuff on anonymous sites to now openly cheering for it on Facebook. \\n\\nAnd the biggest problem all the rest of us have is the 45+ Republican Senators waiting in the wings trying to decide if they’re willing to agree to <PERSON>. \\n\\nWhich is completely stunning to me. A fella who’s never been loyal to a soul in life. He’s the last person you’d give a blank check on mass murder. But I suppose he’s also the first person who’s been unAmerican and sociopathic enough to try it. \\n\\nCase in point, <PERSON>, who had to hear <PERSON> call his wife ugly and his father a murderer. He’s not even waiting in the wings, he’s big time on board. People can say it’s because he wants the <PERSON> vote in four years. \\n\\nBut I don’t believe it. There are too many moderate Republicans who are going to punish this drive for fascism. Either he’s compromised, or he stupidly thinks he’s gonna get to share the power.\",\n \"800\"\n ],\n [\n \"Tell him you picked up the latest Nephilim manual on telepathy and it’s taught you so much, you just can’t put it down. \\n\\nThen, “To protect secrecy, there’s only one way to access the book. I’m transmitting the ordering info with my mind. If you’re chosen to receive, you’ll know it.”\\n\\nBy tomorrow he’ll be asking you for a second chance.\",\n \"206\"\n ],\n [\n \"I soaked em good up until the day after the election. All the good markets were gone, so I thought “<PERSON> concedes by X date” was a good buy at 7 cents. I stupidly figured he would move on with a shred of dignity and do his TV network grift. I guessed at least there would be news along the way that would make it a volatile mover. Nada. I got killed.\\n\\nI should’ve stuck with the sure investments at 85-90 cents. But I just thought 15/1 odds on a yes-no play was worth the gamble with my winnings.\\n\\nEdit to add: and the <PERSON> gymnastics in all the comment sections are worth it even when you lose.\",\n \"834\"\n ],\n [\n \"Gotta think <PERSON> is laughing from the grave and thinking if he didn’t try this “strategy” it doesn’t exist. \\n\\nHappened to read up on him lately and saw this on wiki. Amazing how prescient history is, and now we know what happens when the system doesn’t expel self-serving rats. If only “disinterested politics” was a virtue again, and “self-serving nature” was a disqualifier:\\n\\n > <PERSON>, a leading scholar of the revolutionary period, holds that it was <PERSON>'s character that put him at odds with the rest of the \\\"founding fathers,\\\" especially <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON>. He believed that this led to his personal and political defeats and, ultimately, to his place outside the golden circle of revered revolutionary figures. Because of <PERSON>'s habit of placing self-interest above the good of the whole, those men thought that <PERSON> represented a serious threat to the ideals for which they had fought the revolution. Their ideal, as particularly embodied in Washington and <PERSON>, was that of \\\"disinterested politics,\\\" a government led by educated gentlemen. They would fulfill their duties in a spirit of public virtue and without regard to personal interests or pursuits. This was the core of an Enlightenment gentleman, and <PERSON>'s political enemies thought that he lacked that essential core. <PERSON> thought that <PERSON>'s self-serving nature made him unfit to hold office, especially the presidency.\",\n \"533\"\n ],\n [\n \"What is “pretty close to the truth”? <PERSON> contains 11 letters, doesn’t it? I’m not sure that qualifies as all that close in the realm of letter-counting spooky connections. \\n\\nAlso not sure why your alleged employer has any bearing on it. You can either provide solid evidence that <PERSON> and <PERSON> are manufacturing microscopic bioweapons or you can’t.\",\n \"452\"\n ],\n [\n \"I saw some of this last night, and they fully believe it. It reminds me of the mole children ordeal. There was a day after the hospital ships arrived, and the Qult all just went, “They got em. Pack it up, boys.”\\n\\nIt was the only way to cope with a ridiculous story that had to have an end game. Because there were no mole kiddies ever gonna surface out of Central Park. \\n\\nSame thing last night. “Whew, dodged a bullet with those Chinese in Canada. We bombed em, every last one, evaporated. Too bad all the evidence is burned up so clean there’s not even any smoke.”\\n\\nSet aside that bombing doesn’t work that way for 50,000 “troops”. The real head scratcher here is whether this belief is an unconscious defense mechanism. Or, if even these Qultists absolutely know it’s bullshit, so they help along the plot holes, because they can’t stand the thought of the game ending.\",\n \"226\"\n ],\n [\n \"You are right to be concerned, and I’m sorry for your past losses of loved one and what you’re going through today. I don’t want to downplay the Q situation, but I do think the bigger risk factor is the family history and no so much the Q environment.\\n\\nI see no indication they won’t continue to be entirely future-focused. There’s always something to be either happy about, hopeful about, or terrified of. But the fact that none of it ever pans out is the key. This has shown us that the drug is the “information”...that thing-of-the-moment they desire or fear. It’s not the actual events they happen to actually be living through. \\n\\nRight now it’s the whole Chinese army camped out across the Maine border. Every sentient being with a lick of sense knows that is fiction. And there’s no way around it, she’s eventually going to see nothing ever happens and move on to something else. Again, the something else is the drug. \\n\\n<PERSON> as a source for intrigue and excitement is going to be like watching paint dry. The terror of Communism or death camps or a tax on microwave food are going to have to come from the people who invent Q fiction, because <PERSON>’s aim is going to be to give Americans a break from thinking about the Presidency 40 times a day. \\n\\nWhile there may be some real instances of self-harm, I don’t think it will be widespread. And most importantly, I think it will come from *withdrawal of the drug* if it comes from anything. In other words, if the sources they’re going to for intrigue can’t keep it interesting and terrifying for them (due to a boring <PERSON> Admin), then some deep depression could occur. \\n\\nThing is, there’s now a whole industry around building Patreon content for this new movement. I think there will be plenty of conspiracy and rumor and decodes to keep them busy. \\n\\nIt would be awesome if she could redirect that need to a better energy. That’s what we all hope for among the Q faithful that are in way too deep. I’m wishing that for you and for her. All the best.\",\n \"827\"\n ],\n [\n \"The fact that Republicans hate the sliver of objectivity <PERSON> exercised in office is unsurprising. What’s shocking is this sudden need for Republicans in podunk backwaters to publicly signal their radical devotion to <PERSON>. \\n\\nThese resolutions are purity tests to prove membership in the Fringe Lunatics Society. I predict very soon they’re going to create a uniform or a scarf or a burqa or a patch, and it must be worn at all times to keep from getting primaried. \\n\\nI’m entirely serious. Outward genuflecting is the requirement of the day, and the toadies who require it will surely make identification easier for each other. \\n\\n2021 is going to be a 24/7 purity test on the right. It’s going to be pure misery for Repub legislators who wouldn’t be caught dead in these Qultists’ presence if they didn’t need their votes. It’s going to be Heaven for the true believers like <PERSON> and <PERSON>. \\n\\nMainstream Republicans better get off their ass today and take the party back, because they’re eventually gonna get eaten either way. Look at Little <PERSON>. He has fringe-signaled so hard his rotator cuffs are shot. But he’s gonna get primaried by <PERSON> or <PERSON> or whomever Daddy chooses. They better band together right now, today, and say this is our party, if you want a new one you need to build it.\",\n \"800\"\n ],\n [\n \"As to civil trials, I suspect everyone has sovereign immunity inside the government. But lots of very wealthy individuals and orgs may certainly be named in suits. \\n\\nCriminally, it’s a good question whether “just incompetence” rises to provable criminal negligence. But it’s very hard to imagine this person decided on his own to not protect the US Capitol. \\n\\nI’m betting the interview with the CapPol chief is the most sought after in DC this week. It’s doubtful his attorneys will allow that though, unless it helps his case by shifting the attention upwards a notch or two. \\n\\nI think police leadership will be charged in some instances and do a plea deal, but that’s just spitballing.\",\n \"693\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yes, it’s at very least Q-adjacent. Since the Capitol I’m seeing an effort to erase Q from the language of the latest Apocalypse promises. But by any other name, it’s all Q. I think there are multiple tentacles of grifters looking to win the crowd at the moment, so what we’re seeing is largely a Q rebranding. \\n\\nWho will win is anyone’s guess.\",\n \"609\"\n ],\n [\n \"I learned today that some of them are getting their info from a guy named <PERSON>. You won’t like what you find when you find his bio. But from what I’ve gathered, he was promoted by <PERSON> this weekend, and he’s the one giving them hour by hour lies about the President’s speech (which didn’t even happen tonight)\\n\\nPlus he’s doing the usual 10 days of darkness softball, where they all become convinced <PERSON> has one of those <PERSON> switches from Acme that shut the whole world down. \\n\\nI can’t guarantee that’s where it’s coming from today, but you might check to see if that rings a bell.\",\n \"452\"\n ],\n [\n \"I heard <PERSON> from God last night for the first time in at least a year, maybe even two. See if you can find any indication of the name <PERSON>. He’s a British reptilian believer who claims he has sex with an alien in his mother’s womb. \\n\\nI may work up a post on it tomorrow, but I’d be interested if this RoG stuff is related, because all the *It’s Happening* hysteria I’ve seen since Saturday came from that guy and <PERSON> (who promoted that guy at Parler).\",\n \"25\"\n ],\n [\n \"Thanks, I got to see it! The lawyer just said he made a mistake in the press conference. Then used language like, “The picture *appeared to show* him holding a lectern.”\\n\\nEdit to add- Lawyers claim there have been death threats against his family who weren’t in Washington. \\nIf true, that’s not right or fair either. I told someone today, I tend to get more upset at people on the left who are void of principles, since I’ve voted for Dem candidates since 2004. \\n\\nI don’t even know how people who spit at due process and constitutional rights can get mad at the people on the other side who tried to take the country by force. Are they just mad the other side thought of it first? Get some principles and stick to them.\",\n \"614\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I’ve never been so worried about our national security in my life. We always had to be concerned about outsiders attacking us, but when it’s our own - our mothers and fathers, grandparents, children, who will turn on us and hurt us if they feel threatened...well it’s just a totally new monster like we’ve never encountered before.\\n\\nSame. I can’t even fathom that <PERSON> is getting to fly to Texas and make another hate speech, surrounded by the border patrol that he has incited so much. \\n\\nFor the record, I think the odds are virtually 100% that <PERSON> is gonna leave office in disgrace and <PERSON> will be sworn in next week. \\n\\nHowever. And there a however. I’m not at all happy that <PERSON> and <PERSON> and other Cabinet member resigned, which would keep them from voting <PERSON> unfit to serve in an emergency even bigger than the one we’re in. \\n\\nThey’ve left him with the slugs who were absolutely fine with a <PERSON> presidency, so they can keep the permanent use of their jet and tax-funded staff for the rest of their lives. \\n\\nWe could still be in for more instability. And just the simple fact that millions upon millions of Americans are openly in favor of a coup is devastating to me. \\n\\nThe very same people who swooned when <PERSON> kissed the flag, and used to talk about how they luuuv the constitution. They’re done that crap now. They want their messiah. It’s sickening. And there’s no way to shame them for it, because they have none.\",\n \"134\"\n ],\n [\n \"Love how it’s gone from “<PERSON>’s laptop” to “20+ laptops with hard drives”. I guess since the original claim wasn’t true, might as well embellish it. \\n\\nIt’s the <PERSON> school of insider information. This shit is maddening. So stupid for any thinking person, but so dangerous because that’s not what we’re dealing with.\",\n \"127\"\n ],\n [\n \"I’m not quite so optimistic. You said it right, they’re totally split down the middle affording to post-Wednesday polling. But the Trumplicans (and their Russian allies) are far better at propaganda than educated Repubs. \\n\\nWhat they’ll do is primary all the educated ones. They’ll win those primaries by making abortion a Satanic ritual “issue”. And then those same educated Republicans who lost their principled Congresspeople will vote with the Trumplicans, because muh aborshun and muh soshulizm.\\n\\nEven worse news, the educated faction will only be able to fight back with old faithful, tax breaks. Which will kill our tax base, as if it’s not already about dead. \\n\\nThis is not gonna be the win for Dems that it looks like on paper. Dems already get millions and millions more votes than Rs. But they can’t win in 26-28 states where the people are too easy to scare with the propaganda. \\n\\nIt’s going to serve to divide the country even further into urban vs rural. Our best, and maybe only chance, is for the corporations to recognize they’ve gone too far, and gotten more than their fair share of benefits these past years. \\n\\nThey can starve the Trumplicans and Russians, if they will just do it. But we need a healthy Republican Party again. We need a <PERSON> or a <PERSON> or even a <PERSON> in the lead instead of <PERSON> too.\",\n \"313\"\n ],\n [\n \"If it’s a <PERSON> thing, the best thing to do is hit his credibility hard (he has absolutely none). [Here’s just one article about him from HuffPo.](_URL_0_)\\n\\nA few excerpts, because others are about to be hearing his name. **Honesty folks, if this guy isn’t a bridge too far for the people in your life, then I’m out of advice:**\\n\\n > A Labour councillor has claimed he has **fathered a child with an alien and that the regular sex he has with the extra terrestrial** is causing tension in his human marriage.\\n\\n > <PERSON>, who represents Stakesby on Whitby Town Council, told the Northern Echo he has **had a child called <PERSON> with an alien he refers to as the Cat Queen.**\\n\\n > The driving instructor, who has three children with his human wife, said **the intercourse with the alien happens about four times a year.**\\n\\n > ”What will happen is that we will hold hands and I will say ‘I’m ready’ and then the technology I don’t understand **will take us up to a craft orbiting the earth**,\\\" he said.\\n\\n > The Labour politician has also claimed he was abducted by extra-terrestrials as a child and that **his “real mother” is a 9ft tall alien with eight fingers.**\\n\\n > He speaks of his first encounter which occurred while he in the womb, then tells of a being which appeared by his cot when he was six-months-old and reached out to him with “these two green ‘stick things, like beanpoles’.”\\n\\n > He continued: “I thought, ‘they’re not mummy’s hands, mummy’s hands are pink’, and mummy has thumbs. These are green and pointed and there’s four of them.’\\n\\n > ”I was looking straight into its face. **It enters my mind through my eyes and it sends a message down my optic nerve into my brain, saying 'I am your real mother, I am your more important mother'.”**\\n\\n > The 53-year-old recounted his experiences in a YouTube clip. He describes the extra-terrestrial as having “human features” with a kite-shaped face, huge eyes, two tiny holes for a nose and a thin mouth.\\n\\n > He said: “I’m only telling you what I’ve seen, they could be lying to me. The reason why extra-terrestrials are interested in me is not because of my physical body but what’s inside – my soul.\\n\\n > ”These reptiles are guilty as hell. They have apologised several times to me. They have said they are sorry for what they have done to your people.”\\n\\n > <PERSON>, who was a councillor in Hackney during the 1990s, said his experiences have not hindered his work.\\n\\n > He said: “It’s a personal matter and it doesn’t affect my work. I’m more interested in fixing someone’s leaking roof or potholes. People don’t want me to talk about aliens. “I get more common sense out of the aliens than out of Scarborough Town Hall.”\",\n \"797\"\n ],\n [\n \"There is a lot of speculation about why this guy is going first, and about why some of these cases have been sealed and others haven’t. Today <PERSON> and <PERSON> have the first briefing by FBI & Justice. It’s the first conference that has happened at all, as far as we know. \\n\\nWhat I think is this, but maybe it’s just hope: This has the look of a slapdash approach with zero forethought or strategy. But I think there is something afoot. I think <PERSON> is going to fake the leaders out of their jocks and end up with more evidence and more people turning states evidence.\",\n \"776\"\n ],\n [\n \"A quick suggestion, as I’ve already offered this to others, including an irl friend. If you have a data plan on your phone, you can get internet service with or without electricity. \\n\\nWhen the power goes off, just go to Twitter. Go to the Search feature and input “power outage”, and sort by latest. Unless you see millions of tweets in the last five seconds, there are no widespread outages. \\n\\nNext, enter your town/area and “power outage” in the search, and sort by Latest. What you’ll usually see are several mentions of the power being out from your area. You may have to adjust the terms. Communities all have unique ways of expressing themselves by name. \\n\\nWhen you see that all or most the latest tweets about power outages are coming from your area, you can be assured the rest of the world is up and running.\",\n \"270\"\n ],\n [\n \"CNN just ran this and sourced the owner of the video. So I searched them on Twitter and found the post. Somehow it has almost no RT or comment activity. \\n\\nThe people in the vid are obviously unhinged as they go after the Congressman. But interestingly, it also appears to be yet another example of some of the most vocal Trumplicans being Russian or of Russian descent.\\n\\nEdit to add- Thanks for asking for more context to this event. [Found this very detailed account at the *Orange County Register*](_URL_0_)\",\n \"337\"\n ],\n [\n \"A quote from <PERSON> of Reuters which I think is extremely important:\\n\\n > Intentional or not, the acting attorney general's absence at the Capitol siege briefing does send a message.\\n\\nIt would appear...and I hope it’s true, because some observers on Twitter have not been kind to <PERSON> previous to this...these guys may have just decided to step up and take back their autonomy.\",\n \"906\"\n ],\n [\n \"I’m dying to ask these folks this: “Why wouldn’t the DOJ just begin a three-year process of stacking super secret sealed indictments in the PACER system? Why were they brave enough to stand in front of Americans and call these crimes and these criminals out?”\\n\\nI mean, is it possible that super secret 3 year-old PACER indictments by the hundreds of thousands aren’t an actual thing?\",\n \"776\"\n ],\n [\n \"This letter should unquestionably emit two separate emotions. It’s absolutely tragic that the Trump Presidency has necessitated our military being forced to say they won’t back a coup. \\n\\nBut this letter should invoke a wonderful feeling of pride and confidence also. Think of the temptations and the promises of having the run of “the entire kingdom” that so many have succumbed to across history. These leaders weren’t moved. These leaders learned their civics. And *their pride in American law and principles were real.*\\n\\nTragically, followers of Qanon lost their way, and in the process, most of them are still at this moment praying for a <PERSON> coup, leading to a <PERSON> dynasty. How can we get them back from this? I don’t have the answer. \\n\\nBut maybe now they will at least face that there is no “secret special unit” that can take over America. The Joint Chiefs will put down any and all aggression against the United States, most assuredly and most violently. \\n\\n[Here’s NPR’s story on the JCOS letter.](_URL_2_)\\n\\nRelevant parts here:\\n\\n > The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff reminded American forces Tuesday of their oath to defend the Constitution following the attacks on the Capitol building last week.\\nThe letter was addressed to The Joint Force, which is made up of about 1.3 million active duty service members and more than 811,000 National Guard and reservists — all of whom swore an oath to \\\"Support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.\\\" The oath has stood since America's founding nearly 250 years ago.\\n\\n > ”The violent riot in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, was a direct assault on the U.S. Congress, the Capitol building, and our Constitutional process,\\\" the memorandum said. \\\"We witnessed actions inside the Capitol building that were inconsistent with the rule of law. The rights of freedom of speech and assembly do not give anyone the right to resort to violence, sedition and insurrection.\\\"\\n\\n > The Joint Chiefs emphasized in the letter that President-elect <PERSON> will be inaugurated on Jan. 20, becoming the 46th Commander in Chief, and any acts to disrupt the constitutional process not only violate military values, but the law.\\n\\nEdit- Added the corrected link for the NPR story.\\nThanks for the awards everyone, much appreciated and so glad to see how well this was received. It’s all credit to our military leaders.\\n\\nEdit 2- People are asking for even more proof that this *really* came from the JCOS. Here’s more sauce:\\n\\n[The official website at _URL_1_](_URL_0_)\\n\\n[A tweet from the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade.](_URL_3_) I would surmise those folks are getting tired of hearing that the foolishness of Qanon has anything whatsoever to do with Military Intelligence.\",\n \"609\"\n ],\n [\n \"I honestly believe if five or ten million people would post this on Facebook, it would open lots of eyes. No commentary, just the letter. \\n\\nThe importance of this letter can’t be overstated. These guys just publicly told Q people, “Nope, we are not in on it. If there’s a conspiracy against America, it’s not with the military.”\\n\\nPlus, the Joint Chiefs are telling all active military and all retired that can still lose their pensions that they better stay out of this.\",\n \"920\"\n ],\n [\n \"That’s incredible, I just don’t know what’s it’s going to take. I feel like what we’re going to see in the 20th are claims of <PERSON> being “inaugurated” at an undisclosed location, and now all the generals know he’s still in office, they can begin to slaughter everyone Qanon doesn’t like. \\n\\nSomething like that is surely coming, because the people leading these people around by their fee-fees can’t possibly stop the grift.\",\n \"906\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well, let’s be clear. Q isn’t claiming anything, and hasn’t for weeks. And even when Q was doing a little posting over 2020, the great prophet had nothing of consequence to say. \\n\\nQ “drops” since sometime in 2019 have been largely links to tweets and EpochRealTrue BreeebartTreehouse or some such. \\n\\nThe Q movement has left Qanon behind. They now follow various and sundry grifters, usually lighting on whichever one is telling the most outrageous stories for the moment.\\n\\nBut yep, what you said is exactly what the Q followers will say.\",\n \"977\"\n ],\n [\n \"I agree with the first commenter that all substantial explanations of the <PERSON> come back to <PERSON>. \\n\\nThis is not a reframing based on hindsight. We were saying some version of this at TMOR in November of 2017. And frankly, you can probably find plenty saying this in 2016 about the Pizzagate myth that gave birth to the.Q movement. \\n\\n(Some believe <PERSON> was invented to confuse the public due to fear of some past <PERSON> crime being released. The pee tape is the obvious first guess. There’s no way to know if this is the case, or if it just organically arose from the larp world of 4ch.)\\n\\n<PERSON>’s story may ultimately be told apart from Pizzagate, but that would be a mistake, whether they shared common larpers (or foreign governments or campaign staff) or not. (Likely not, those reportedly there is evidence of Russian promotion that played a part in the growth of both of these.)\\n\\nI think the difference between the two is purely down to the successful mainstreaming of Qanon. Early on, this was done at Reddit and Infowars, among other sites. \\n\\nThis was a very intentional expansion beyond the usual <PERSON> conspiranauts. Most people who follow this know who the three people are that combined to promote Q, whether they actually started it or not. \\n\\nBut all that aside, without the Cult of Trump, the Qult of Q never happens. Literal worship at MAGA rallies, the accompanying merchandise sales, the *lock her up* chants, these were already a reality. Qanon was just a way to capture the most rabid of them. \\n\\nOne analogy might be Star Wars figurines. The company that sold those didn’t write or produce the movie. But it was an offshoot that guaranteed a new buying audience that the toy company didn’t have previously. And in return, there are dividends for the filmmaker, both monetary and in solidifying the fan base. \\n\\n<PERSON> and the <PERSON> campaign would be the filmmaker in the analogy. And the outcome is what we see in Georgia...<PERSON> has transcended the Party. Without the base of Qult members that worship him, no way he’s able to be a raving lunatic and not get swatted down by Republican leadership.\",\n \"220\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, all these things listed are consistent with one or other of the Q sects. Others, like the politico sect, pretend the New Age people don’t exist, and only talk about FISA warrants and how many votes <PERSON> got in Georgia. \\n\\nThese sects don’t speak to each other, and constantly fight on <PERSON> and <PERSON>, but they are all faithful to drive cross country to a MAGA rally. \\n\\nWe generally call the Qanon movement “The Unified Conspiracy Theory”. The only ones they haven’t hijacked are the non-supernatural ones involving the current President. (Because there was a perfectly good explanation for <PERSON> taking all that money from foreign governments.)\\n\\nThe best way to think about the UTC is the “Q map”. Do a search of that term at r/Qult_Headquarters and you should find multiple versions of the “map”. It’s basically an amalgamated collection of Coast-to-Coast Radio terms with a few lines randomly drawn between them. \\n\\nIt serves as a nice spectrum of multiple choice hysteria, and allows the Q follower to pick all the ones they like. From the modern earthly, like <PERSON> and 9/11, to the ancient, like the Illuminat and Knights Templar, to the otherworldly, like the Nephilium and the child’s blood fountain of youth. \\n\\nGood times.\",\n \"827\"\n ],\n [\n \"I’ve seen them describe it in multiple ways. I’d say the most common isn’t so much getting rich as canceling their debts, ending the Fed and returning to the gold standard. I haven’t seen a lot of talk about getting income, because <PERSON>, a Democrat, was known for that. So that would by definition make it bad. \\n\\nFor me the most important learning point is that they seems to see the truth is in the middle when it comes to economics. Capitalism has a very important place, but so do collective efforts.\\n\\nBut they wouldn’t admit the latter for the world, so instead they have to frame it as Earthly Daddy in a <PERSON> role stealing from the pedovores and giving to the Qultists.\",\n \"580\"\n ],\n [\n \"Suspended at *Parler*? Is that even a thing, even for a bloviating bloodlusty bloke like <PERSON>?\\n\\nI don’t know about a pivot, unless you mean moving to a focus on the governors. For a central message, he’s one of many begging the minions to start some form of violence for weeks. And I don’t read this latest central theme in all caps any differently.\",\n \"140\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Yes in psycohistory this is all covered in the math.\\n\\nI would comment on this sentence, but I couldn’t even begin to guess what the <PERSON> thinks he’s trying to say. \\n\\n > They think they can use media social inertia to over whelm 75%+ of the populations voice....\\n\\nThis is my current leader in the clubhouse for the never-ending Cognitive Dissonance Sweepstakes.\\n\\nThese people are convinced Georgia doesn’t know the vote count after they’ve *actually counted* the votes three times now. But they’re convinced they have a perfect handle on <PERSON>’s vote percentage through pure cult-level invention. \\n\\nIf it was me, I would’ve at least made myself look fair-minded and given my God Emperor like 55%. I’d love to the ask this guy to tell us the last two-candidate Presidential race in America where the winner got 75% of the vote. \\n\\nAnd the last one who got 50% after a quarter million extra people died on his watch and tens of millions turned to unemployment lines.\",\n \"92\"\n ],\n [\n \"> MSM refuses to show the hearings\\n\\nI’m gonna have me a hearing at the Best Western tomorrow, and I can’t get the damn networks to cover it either. \\n\\nMy neighbor signed a swored After <PERSON> that my other neighbor heard from her aunt’s hairdresser’s gardener’s girlfriend that <PERSON> broke into my house and replaced everything in it with an exact replica.\",\n \"765\"\n ],\n [\n \"It’s not just that it “won’t work”. Slicing out the few falsifiable things that <PERSON> has said still leaves 4500 other posts in which he said absolutely nothing. \\n\\nAll the falsifiable predictions that weren’t already widely reported in the media have been, guess what? False. \\n\\nBut a <PERSON> somehow believes the other 4500 meaningless links and lists of buzzwords contains major groundbreaking “truth”. Qanon is cold reading that requires hindsight to work. \\n\\nSo I could list basically every name in <PERSON>’s new Cabinet, add some big names in business, sports and media, plus a dozens of numbers. And before long, stories will come out in the actual news, sufficient to which, a stupid person could be convinced that I was a genius. \\n\\nYou can find some of <PERSON>’s worst falsifiable blunders [on this Twitter thread by @PokerPolitics.](_URL_0_) But the reason it rarely works to convince them is because of the cold reading principle. They are absolutely convinced Q is omniscient, so every time stamp and capitalization must surely “mean something”.\",\n \"969\"\n ],\n [\n \"That’s 50,000 sub members, not 5000. And 1400 new members this week alone. \\n\\nAgree with the other commenter that it can’t be quantified. All we can do is monitor the particular things they’re caring about at any given time and raise awareness at the more dangerous ones. \\n\\nThe ones who focus on “lizard people”, well that’s nothing new and no harm, no foul. But the ones who want to kill other Americans, or who get online every day trying to talk their most vulnerable and disturbed followers to do so...those need constant monitoring and exposing.\",\n \"633\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yep, we have definitely not nearly reached the critical mass of crazy yet. Not from <PERSON>, not from the sycophant politicians trying to inherit his cult, and not from *THE Qult*.\\n\\nThere has been a tiny reason for hope lately, as even a couple of the Qultists on my FB are already starting in with <PERSON> fear-mongering. People who wouldn’t have been able to name three Cabinet positions five years ago are suddenly <PERSON> in their own mind. \\n\\nBut that’s still a positive, because it exposes their pretense that “<PERSON> won”. I figure if they really thought <PERSON> was gonna stay in office, they wouldn’t be so hysterical about who <PERSON> might name to head the Commission on Tennis Shoes for the Aged.\",\n \"140\"\n ],\n [\n \"One more question, just curious. Was she watching on streaming or network? Just wondering if someone purposely put that ep on tv or if it was just pure coincidence. \\n\\nGlad to hear she’s not into Q. I’d like to see this little clip posted at Twitter and other places and have Q’s see it so they’ll know <PERSON> and <PERSON> or whoever didn’t suddenly get some great revelation. Whoever is putting it out there totally stole it.\",\n \"759\"\n ],\n [\n \"Very well said. I mentioned to someone last night that the PB message to Q people right now is very simple: “Don’t you feel silly now for Trusting the Plan”? Haven’t you figured out now that you need to be *part of our plan*?”\\n\\nThey are gigging these folks into action by shaming them about one of Q’s most popular refrains. Anybody who can’t see the disturbing potential for this tactic, as they dismiss and insult and name call, is part of the problem right now.\",\n \"98\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Nobody's Q parents are going to be talked out of it by their own children, ever. Parents don't view their children as peers, they view them as children.\\n\\nI assume you are meaning to say *small or very young* children here? Otherwise this is the very kind of overgeneralized comment the OP is warning against. \\n\\nIn many many families, once a child reaches an age that they can communicate maturely, almost nobody has more influence on a parent than their children. And this continues all the way, from the child’s high school and college years, and continues through the parent’s very senior years. \\n\\n(And frankly, even at very young ages, how many films have as a plot device a child’s opinion of their single parent’s dates? Children have enormous influence in many, if not the vast majority, of households. I’m sad for those who don’t enjoy that dynamic.)\",\n \"405\"\n ],\n [\n \"> There really are hardly any families where it works like that.\\n\\nYou made my point that the comment is an overgeneralization, so there’s no reason to further debate what the percentage is. I can only add that I’m thankful to have an entire extended family where the kids are where you go if the parent needs convincing of something. \\n\\nIn families where this isn’t the case, I always wonder who exactly takes the car keys from an aging person who doesn’t need to drive anymore. Almost every instance of this I’ve ever known of this difficult conversation, it fell to the child or the grandchild. \\n\\nThe other few instances came from an insurance agent. Which is quite sad.\",\n \"405\"\n ],\n [\n \"Be very intentional. Start by writing down everything you want out of life. When you’ve filled up a page, go through them all again, dividing each into three categories:\\n\\nHigh Priority: The fewer the better, because these are the ones you will pursue until your last day. \\n\\nMedium and Low Priority: Delete the lowest that are just “would be nice” if they will get in the way of the High Priorities. \\n\\nThen, draw a matrix. An X-axis and a Y-axis. Vertical line is labeled Easy to Achieve at the top, Hard at the bottom. The Y axis is Expensive on the left and Inexpensive on the right. \\n\\nNow plot each of the high and medium priorities. If there are things that fit in Easy and Inexpensive, do one of them tomorrow. You’ll enjoy the success of it. Then get to work on the rest of the list.\",\n \"306\"\n ],\n [\n \"The main issue is the word “believe”. The conspiracy community always starts with factual, unconnected stories, and guess where they get those stories? The *mainstream media* they hate so much. \\n\\nThen they develop a *belief*, then they start stringing unrelated stories and fables and grainy photos together to match that preconceived *belief*.\\n\\n<PERSON> is a good example. <PERSON> of the *Miami Herald* is the reason people know about <PERSON>. He was long convicted before Qanon decided the story could be built into the Pizzagate myth, and it worked like a charm. \\n\\nHere’s the scoop on Qanon:\\n\\nQanon never once successfully predicted a single thing in any falsifiable comment they ever “dropped”. And Qanon never shared a single piece of information that wasn’t already available in the public realm. Namely government websites and the *mainstream media*.\",\n \"969\"\n ],\n [\n \"I see antivax comments, as well as claims of autism and requests for dating advice to get girls. I don’t see any mention of being trans. This post is contrary to your claims enough, and your post is low effort enough, that I’m removing it. If I’ve missed comments where you’ve been speaking up against the Qult since 2019, reply with it here and we’ll reconsider.\",\n \"847\"\n ],\n [\n \"And we 100% support you and anyone who gets out. But you also need to understand we’re a sub that is very susceptible to trolling. \\n\\nI would suggest you get to know u/d-_-bored-_-b our moderator and a notable ex-Q who has been the subject of articles and TV interviews on at least three continents. \\n\\nHe hosts a discord for XQ people, and I’m certain you will be welcome. Once you get to know each other, all Bored has to do is say the word, and we will happily host your AMA in a few weeks time.\",\n \"883\"\n ],\n [\n \"We’re growing very fast. I see you found us from a Twitter comment. We’re also on the Q wiki page and many media outlets. That’s both good and bad, as we’re not only getting many more people here for the right reasons, but also the opposite. \\n\\nWe’re working to keep out the trolling, and soon enough they’ll lose interest. But honestly the people hurting for real, in real life, will be finding us for a long time to come. Even if all mention of Q ended today, and it’s definitely not going to, we’ll be seeing the fallout for years from this thing.\",\n \"633\"\n ],\n [\n \"That’s pretty much the large and small of it. <PERSON> of NBC interviewed two of the early larpers. You can probably search for that story from around 2019.\\n\\nBut it’s really unimportant who all was in on it early. The small group who moved it to 8ch and then promoted the heck out of it on their platforms are the ones that made it break out. \\n\\nEverybody else at 4ch ridiculed them out of the building. And <PERSON> could see the potential to drive clicks to his site for something other than porn. So a partnership was born. \\n\\nThe thing most people don’t really understand is that 4ch Q was nothing. It arguably got less discussion than FBIAnon. It was post-move to 8ch when everything happened, other than the first few famously failed arrests and police state posts.\",\n \"452\"\n ],\n [\n \"One interesting thing about the Q movement of early 2021 is that the “big players” have changed completely. \\n\\nMost all the people we’ve been talking about for over three years have either walked off or been forgotten, and the new wave of Qultists are following people like <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON>. People who probably know less about Q than they do. \\n\\nQultists had never heard of <PERSON> before November, and he’d probably never heard of them. Of course that didn’t stop him from taking over the leadership role when deplatforming caused a gaping gulf in celebrity Q Whisperers.\",\n \"419\"\n ],\n [\n \"<PERSON> is a fun story. I don’t think anybody in the states had ever heard of him. Suddenly when everyone started getting banned and it was rumored <PERSON> would go dark, <PERSON> posted <PERSON>’ website and said something like “This guy knows what happening”.\\n\\nSo what “this guy” did was give a play-by-play of literal tanks crossing the bridges in DC and saying the “war” had begun...for three or four *straight nights*.\\n\\nQultists were amazed nobody else knew about this war. Of course a quick search of Twitter for Newest Comments would tell you whether there’s a war in under two minutes. \\n\\nAnyway, the <PERSON> was thrilled. Then somebody did a single Google search. Turns out <PERSON> was semi-famous for being a former elected official in the UK who believed he had sex with an alien in his mother’s womb. \\n\\nHe’s also known for a bunch of other alien nonsense. 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reddit_dump_-Mez- | [
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reddit_dump_-music_maker- | [
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