they're NOT 4k. \n This is incorrect. A \"proper\" 4K film shown at DCI resolution is cropped by removing lines due to the combination of aspect ratio between film and projector. The trend in film photography, however, is towards the DCI standard; the RED EPIC shoots at DCI 4K while its predecessor, RED ONE, shoots more lines (I cannot recall off the top of my head, but it is definitely larger than DCI because it didn't fit in my Media Composer DCI workspace the first time I worked with it; I'm really reaching in long-term memory so I might be wrong about this). \n All of that, however, is in the cinema world. Since NHK demonstrated 4K TV a couple years ago, everybody in the consumer electronics world has understood 4K to mean 4x 1080p, arranged 2x2, and that is what ITU standardized in recommendation 2020. That's intentional. \n It's much easier to evolve 1080p equipment to 4K TV than cinema 4K; it's multiplicative and most of the same equipment can be overhauled. Other resolutions affect aspect ratio, and lenses are a significant portion of the expense of a television camera. You're going to have a hard time selling a standard that makes everybody buy lenses again. Don't forget that everybody just did to go HD. \n If a consumer is buying 4K equipment, its resolution is 3840x2160. This will also be the resolution at which 4K content targeting consumers should be encoded, so I'm not sure what cropping you are referring to. If a DP is buying 4K equipment, its resolution is higher. This isn't marketing droids winning, it's completely different industries having a different history of resolutions: DCI 4K builds upon DCI 2K as 4K builds upon 2K builds upon 1080p; cinema has always fought for 16:10 while consumer electronics stubbornly fight for 16:9, as well. \n Wikipedia doesn't help this situation by blurring the history of the two, leading to comments such as this one. Cinema 4K and consumer 4K are not in competition with each other, and there was never a chance of 4K content coming out of the camera at 4096x2560 and making it to a consumer display. They're for different purposes. It's also worth noting that ATSC v3 is still in early stages and is not finalized, which will dictate the broadcast of OTA 4K TV content and pull the industry accordingly. \n I am aware some 4K monitors have been released to market at cinema resolution. Those are targeted toward film editors and as monitors for shoot work. There's also some other crazy markets; an engineer I worked with in television installed a bunch of early 4K monitors, the ~$20k ones, in an air traffic control tower. They like the resolution because screens get busy, he said. I don't know if that's true, I merely remember the story.","Summary: Kids can grow up fast when the environment around them requires it. It's not that you are incapable because of your physical age, your emotional maturity is the result of your culture and how you were raised.\n\nPost: Age is only a vague indicator \n Playing devils advocate; \n Then why not criticize the guy who said \"cut him some slack because he's 18\"? For all you know, he could be as emotionally mature as an average 35 year old (seems that way from his actions in the post). Usage of that logic is not a one way street. It goes in both directions. \n But more to the heart of the problem; \n > then there are 40 year olds who haven't got a clue. \n This is really only a first world problem. Go to some country in Africa and find me a 40 year old momma's boy who's to afraid to talk to girls, or a 32 year old computer nerd in some downtrodden slum in eastern Europe who has never worked a day in their life, only living off their parents. How about the sweatshops in south east Asia?","Summary: why China's economy will collapse, I'd go back to the China trap. They're damned if they do something, they're damned if they do nothing. It's like building a skyscraper. Except instead of steel they're using wood because it's cheaper and quicker to reach the required height. Only, a wooden skyscraper will collapse. It's just a matter of time.\n\nPost: The question was what prevents China from cultivating it's domestic market. \n I sort of missed that, but I still also, sort of addressed that. For China to have a robust domestic market, they need consumers with a lot of buying power. To get consumers with buying power, you need a lot well-paying jobs. \n If the export market dries up, well, there go the jobs. It's a bit of a paradox. And those jobs didn't pay particularly well in the first place. Higher wages mean goods and services cost more. That only further aggravates the situation. It adds to the uncertainty substantially. \n It's the China Trap. To get out of their \"funk\" they need to do certain things. Doing those certain things will keep them in the trap, if not outright bursting their economic bubble all-together. That's why it's impossible to not see it as poised for a collapse. They're damned if they do, damned if they don't. \n > Ideological blinders lead to bad economic analysis. \n No ideology included in that particular point. Growing solely for the sake of growing isn't healthy for an economy. It's not that it's \"different\", it's that it is what history has shown us. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. \n > The level of government involvement offends my sensibilities therefore it must collapse. \n Not at all. I'd go so far as to say that the U.S government is more involved in their own economy than the Chinese. It's not the involvement that's going to lead to their economy's collapse, it's that they aren't doing it organically. And, well, the rampant corruption. As corrupt as many western countries are, they're still several orders of magnitude less corrupt than China. People fall into the trap of thinking corruption exists in the west, so the corruption in China is no different. That's faulty logic. It's the level and scope of the corruption that matters. In fact, it's the only thing that matters since corruption is inherent to human nature... Corruption exists everywhere in every government. \n I guess if I was","Summary: Mars and the other planets are a whole different beast.\n\nPost: A short jaunt (which was protected part of the way by Earth's magnetic field) to the moon is nothing like flying out to Mars. Solar radiation/flares and high energy cosmic rays can be life threatening. \n You would need some serious shielding for a trip to Mars, shielding which at this point in time, is incredibly heavy. It costs a fortunate to put things in orbit, and even more if you include the (also heavy) fuel to escape Earth's gravitational well to reach mars and come back. \n That's not including the costs involved with actually landing on mars. Mars also has gravity and would require significant fuel to launch back into space after landing.","Summary: Reaganomics is flawed much the same way communism is flawed. It's too easy to corrupt or ignore if your 'higher class'.\n\nPost: Can you honestly say that an application of the theory described above couldn't bring growth? \n Sure, the theory could work. So could communism. But as you said, people are dicks. We don't live in fantasy land. We never have and never will. An ideology is only as good as the people who can follow it. But there will always be people who will take advantage of it. \n That's why more pure theories that rely on 'the people' or 'others' to see they work (libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism, communism, dictatorships) will never work in the long run. Because face it, humans are corrupt and there needs to be a check and balance.","Summary: They could charge fees now (fairly easily I might add) without redesigning the payment system, I think the reason is more involved than that.\n\nPost: My worry is that they're doing this so they can start charging a transfer fee. \n I'm normally pretty cynical, but I don't think that's why they're doing it. I think it has everything to do with separating Mturk from Amazon Payments. \n If they're trying to make Amazon Payments the next paypal, there needs to be less complexity on the Amazon Payments side. People having their Amazon payments accounts suspended because of something that happened on Mturk is a huge headache for the payments team (and users). It also opens up the door for Mturk to put up alternative methods of payment. For example, instead of sending to amazon payments, you might be able to send to other places, like directly to your bank account or paypal. It also might be so that they can start allowing international forms of payment. It could also be because they may want to spin off mturk into its own entity, kind of like how reddit was spun off from conde nast.","Summary: The Yuan could never be the international currency standard because the Chinese don't play by the rules. Rules which exist specifically to lend credibility and trust to a country's currency and the system.\n\nPost: China's been showing off the Yuan every here and then for the past few years. \n The Yuan could never, and will never be the de facto international currency unit. Not in our lifetimes anyways. \n Why? Because China directly manipulates the value of their currency. A huge no-no. That alone virtually destroys any chances it has of replacing the dollar. A currency needs more than value if it wants to replace the dollar, it needs something more important .. trust. \n Showing the world that you can & will manipulate the value of your currency on a whim destroys all trust. People can trust the US dollar because their economy is a monster; even during the recession in 2008, the US economy was still growing. Probably the most important fact is that the US does not directly manipulate the currency. When they try to fight inflation or deflation, they do it through legit (and indirect) means, like raising/lowering interest rates etc... Another important fact is that China is absolutely rife with corruption, from the highest levels of government to the highest levels of business. A country will look at the risks involved with pegging their currency to theirs and they'll laugh. \n It would be like some average Joe attempting to invest with the mafia. Sure, there's a chance they'll payout when the time comes. There is also the chance they'll lie about how much they owe you, lie about the outcome of the investment, or even ignore you all together and keep your money. You just don't know what will happen. There's no trust and they have a history of fudging the numbers. On the other hand, the US is like investing with a completely legit and reliable firm. They play by the rules and everything is done by the book like clockwork.","Summary: Clinton took money from the left pocket and put it in the right.\n\nPost: We never had a tangible \"surplus\". The surplus not only was a 'projection', Clinton was borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. \n In the fiscal year 2000 (the claimed surplus), our national debt was $5.6741 trillion and our national debt was $17.91 billion. The lowest it has been, but still not in the black. \n The public debt went down but the intragovernmental holdings went up each year by a far greater amount - and in turn, the total national debt. \n What Clinton did was pay down the public debt and he did it by borrowing far more money in the form of intragovernmental holdings (mostly Social Security).","Summary: Skepticism only works when you can think critically.\n\nPost: Scientifically speaking it should be up for debate. \n If there wasn't mountains of evidence for the effectiveness of vaccination, sure. It should be up for debate. \n But there's as much evidence for vaccinations working exactly as claimed as there is for the earth being round, or gravity existing. \n Would you debate someone that claims gravity doesn't exist? Probably not, right? No matter what evidence you show them, they won't believe you because they're not critically thinking correctly. If they were, they would have accepted gravity long ago. Skepticism only works when one can think critically.","Summary: grow up and learn hold cizzash.\n\nPost: Not sure why you were downvoted, but cash is often an incentive to do business. It can even lower prices when haggling if you mention that you will be using cash. \n Some kids these days rely on credit cards/checks and parents to pay for things. These kids never had more than a few hundred dollars on their person which is a shame. You respect money more when/if you have to possess large amounts of your own money for an extended period of time. \n You libertarians and those wishing for a gold standard should embrace and welcome such a practice of using cash. Because that's how it has been done up until the 80's. Using a credit card or bank check to buy a $5000 car in the 70's? Good luck... People wanted Cash. \n Some modern cultures are unfriendly with credit cards. Like Japan. Much of their commerce is done with cash. Their ATM's literally turn off when banks do. Businesses you'd expect to accept credit/debt cards, don't. And if they do, also stop accepting credit cards when the banks close. They're one of the largest economies (duking it out with China for the #2 spot) in the world and they manage just fine.","Summary: If it's a competition, the U.S either doesn't care or doesn't want to care. They know how bad it is to grow for the sake of growing. They saw how it eventually destroyed the USSR and they're not falling into that trap.\n\nPost: The U.S hasn't been growing for the sake of growing though. China has had a \"grow at all costs, and we'll grow at this set rate no matter the consequences\" plan. That's not a particularly healthy thing to do for the long term stability of your country. Growth should and needs to be organic. \n If the U.S wanted to grow for the sake of growing, they could make China look like Amateur hour. In fact, they already have. See the industrialization and growth during WW2 when Japan \"woke the sleeping giant\". Now imagine that multiplied by orders of magnitude.","Summary: everything you said can be easily disproven with a 10 second google search so I wouldn't be surprised if you're just trolling.\n\nPost: There is no public harm to vaccinated children \n This is so wrong I'm a bit flabbergasted if I'm being honest. Some people can't get vaccinated due to weakened immune systems and other diseases. Those people rely on what's known as \"** herd immunity . \n Not only that, there are already cases of whooping cough outbreaks. Get this; the number of whooping cough cases in the United States back in 1991 was 2719. Do you know what it was in 2012? Nearly 50,000 . It's a direct result of the anti-vaccination surge that has occurred within this past decade or so. [Source.]( \n > I think the issue is with the poor and uninsured. \n The poor get their vaccinations at a significantly reduced cost thanks to obamacare and other other subsidies. In many states, they are free to the poor.","Summary: It's possible to make minimum wage turking, just don't expect to make minimum wage turking.\n\nPost: It's possible to make minimum wage on mturk, it's just not likely for the average turker. There are exceptions of course, and there are a rare few who make much more than minimum wage. But they are the exception, not the rule. \n Usually making minimum wage or more requires either doing transcriptions or writing articles. However, most people who are good enough to make more than minimum wage writing articles don't stick around too long at mturk because there are other places which focus specifically on writing and pay a lot better.","Summary: Definitely Balanced subtype.\n\nPost: I've talked about U&Y's mythology in a comment a couple months ago, and I believe there's virtually 0 chance he gets attacker type. U&Y's entire mythology is based on U&Y swapping weapons with each other. The \"sea\" swapping with \"mountain\" and vice versa (that's who U&Y are supposed to represent, one is the sea, the other mountain). \n It represents an attempt to \"balance\" their skill set. The whole story has an inherent balance aspect to it. That is unless they're completely ignoring the mythology. But that would be like ignoring stealing from the rich and giving to the poor in Robin Hood. \n But I think they're sticking to the mythology. Take a look at the new art. Their weapons are switched.","Summary: is \"Yes, they weren't nationalistic\".\n\nPost: I had not read one obscure study \n A Stanford university study is \"obscure\"? They're about as legit and mainstream as you get as far as academics are concerned. You can't get any less obscure. \n > Would those textbooks be as non-nationalistic in the 80's? 70's? 60's? \n They actually address this in the study. The","Summary: Moderation good.\n\nPost: 4) Encourage heavy moderation. While there are sentiments that Reddit should be utterly and totally without censorship, the idea that individual subreddits should be is markedly ludicrous. \n I completely agree with this. The entire post really. But I think #4 (moderation) is key when it comes to making a subreddit a better place. There is, and always will be a signal to noise ratio yet the only ones who can tune that dial are the moderators. Most of the large subreddits leave that dial untouched. Which is fine. There should be many subreddits that are relatively moderator free. I'm certainly not preaching censorship, but subreddits that are based on quality content like /r/truereddit and /r/depthhub (among others) should not be critiqued if they choose to moderate said content.","Summary: People take for granted that Superman strategizes too.\n\nPost: Your entire argument presumes that Batman plans but superman does not. I think that's a incorrect presumption. Superman can plan too, and does often. It's just not his sole superpower like it is Batman's so people take it for granted. \n If he puts his mind to it, and decides to take out Batman, Superman can and will anticipate Batman's uncanny ability to strategize. Superman has a genius level IQ himself; he can prepare for the preparations. Most (if not all) of the Batman vs Superman comics and canon stories always show it as Batman trying to reign Superman in or destroy him for turning evil, etc.. It's never a head-on straightforward battle with superman at his physical & mental peak. \n It's always shown as a classic David Vs Goliath story because it has to be. If Batman sent Superman a letter which said \"In one weeks time, we will fight to the death. Prepare yourself, I am coming\", and superman decided to take it seriously, in one weeks time, Batman would be dead.","Summary: My speculation/guess is that it's not about how much money we're spending when it comes to giving us content or prizes, but the average rank and advancement of the player base. I guess that's all the more reason to power rank.\n\nPost: Antonio addressed a few things people were complaining about during the stream but something he said really caught my ear. He said when considering giving away Piis and rewards and other content, they have to consider the maturity of the players/userbase. \n Now he's obviously not talking about our emotional and mental state, but the actual progression and 'maturity' of their North American player base relative to the JP market. It shouldn't be a shocker to learn that the JP side of things is incredibly mature. After all, the game has been out longer over there and they have orders of magnitude more people playing. I think they just celebrated 35 million downloads? And they just had someone hit max rank? \n Right now, NA has no one near hitting rank 999. It gets increasingly more difficult (exponentially difficult) the higher the rank you are to level up. Also, NA just hit 7 million downloads. So just by going by those objective factors, we're still more than half the distance to JP. We're less than half way there as far as maturity goes. We're slowly catching up, but we still have a ways to go. \n The reason why I bring this up is because I thought, and I know many people still do think this, that it's all about money. That \"we don't get certain content or content is brought over slow because we're just not spending as much as their JP side\". While true, we still spend a fortune. They still make millions of dollars from their overseas partners and NA is the largest after JP. If you were to eliminate the JP side entirely and just count NA and EU players/profits, PAD would still be considered a large, very successful mobile game. It would still be one of the top 50 in the world. I think we sometimes lose perspective because of how big the JP side is.","Summary: if you were like me and always cutting it close with your box space, clean up your box and/or buy more. It will directly impact how many +eggs you get per hour.\n\nPost: I run Starry View Lane every time it comes around. I don't have a speed farm team but I normally do pretty well with Athena. Normally I end up with between 40-50 +eggs. Not great, obviously, but good enough for me. \n Anyways, while I was contemplating doing the coin dungeon SVL a few days ago, I decided to free up as much box space as possible. Dumping things I was being a hoarder about (but never, ever used). I ended up freeing up ~60-70 box spaces. This was a game changer. \n Normally I have between 10-30 free box spaces (sometimes less) and I didn't realize how much time is spent fusing +eggs and selling monsters due to my box being full. Or rather, I did realize but I don't think I realized how much of an impact it actually has on my runs. \n After freeing up all that box space, my coin dungeon run netted me a whopping 65 +eggs. That's like 14 more than the best I ever did. That increase in box space (less time going into my box & cleaning things up) helped immensely . It had a measurable and significant impact. I got in nearly a full bar of stamina of runs more than usual."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Resist teams need 1500 autoheal or don't even bother trying, you'll just waste 40 stamina.\\n\\nPost: As everyone has already said, and I said it [here yesterday]( you need 1500 autoheal if you're going to be doing a resist team on hera. \\n Is it possible to do a resist team without 1500 autoheal? Sure, if you have 2 max skilled heart makers. But it's insanely difficult even with high damage. You have to balance your damage with the priority of matching hearts. Having a 1500 autoheal completely eliminates the need to worry about health once you hit Venus.\",\n \"Summary: It is by our consumer standard. Saying they're not 4k would also mean that your brand new 1080p HD TV set in your living room is also not 1080p because it uses the same consumer standards.\\n\\nPost: Disclaimer, most of this is cut & pasted from hackernews: \\n > they're NOT 4k. \\n This is incorrect. A \\\"proper\\\" 4K film shown at DCI resolution is cropped by removing lines due to the combination of aspect ratio between film and projector. The trend in film photography, however, is towards the DCI standard; the RED EPIC shoots at DCI 4K while its predecessor, RED ONE, shoots more lines (I cannot recall off the top of my head, but it is definitely larger than DCI because it didn't fit in my Media Composer DCI workspace the first time I worked with it; I'm really reaching in long-term memory so I might be wrong about this). \\n All of that, however, is in the cinema world. Since NHK demonstrated 4K TV a couple years ago, everybody in the consumer electronics world has understood 4K to mean 4x 1080p, arranged 2x2, and that is what ITU standardized in recommendation 2020. That's intentional. \\n It's much easier to evolve 1080p equipment to 4K TV than cinema 4K; it's multiplicative and most of the same equipment can be overhauled. Other resolutions affect aspect ratio, and lenses are a significant portion of the expense of a television camera. You're going to have a hard time selling a standard that makes everybody buy lenses again. Don't forget that everybody just did to go HD. \\n If a consumer is buying 4K equipment, its resolution is 3840x2160. This will also be the resolution at which 4K content targeting consumers should be encoded, so I'm not sure what cropping you are referring to. If a DP is buying 4K equipment, its resolution is higher. This isn't marketing droids winning, it's completely different industries having a different history of resolutions: DCI 4K builds upon DCI 2K as 4K builds upon 2K builds upon 1080p; cinema has always fought for 16:10 while consumer electronics stubbornly fight for 16:9, as well. \\n Wikipedia doesn't help this situation by blurring the history of the two, leading to comments such as this one. Cinema 4K and consumer 4K are not in competition with each other, and there was never a chance of 4K content coming out of the camera at 4096x2560 and making it to a consumer display. They're for different purposes. It's also worth noting that ATSC v3 is still in early stages and is not finalized, which will dictate the broadcast of OTA 4K TV content and pull the industry accordingly. \\n I am aware some 4K monitors have been released to market at cinema resolution. Those are targeted toward film editors and as monitors for shoot work. There's also some other crazy markets; an engineer I worked with in television installed a bunch of early 4K monitors, the ~$20k ones, in an air traffic control tower. They like the resolution because screens get busy, he said. I don't know if that's true, I merely remember the story.\",\n \"Summary: Kids can grow up fast when the environment around them requires it. It's not that you are incapable because of your physical age, your emotional maturity is the result of your culture and how you were raised.\\n\\nPost: Age is only a vague indicator \\n Playing devils advocate; \\n Then why not criticize the guy who said \\\"cut him some slack because he's 18\\\"? For all you know, he could be as emotionally mature as an average 35 year old (seems that way from his actions in the post). Usage of that logic is not a one way street. It goes in both directions. \\n But more to the heart of the problem; \\n > then there are 40 year olds who haven't got a clue. \\n This is really only a first world problem. Go to some country in Africa and find me a 40 year old momma's boy who's to afraid to talk to girls, or a 32 year old computer nerd in some downtrodden slum in eastern Europe who has never worked a day in their life, only living off their parents. How about the sweatshops in south east Asia?\",\n \"Summary: why China's economy will collapse, I'd go back to the China trap. They're damned if they do something, they're damned if they do nothing. It's like building a skyscraper. Except instead of steel they're using wood because it's cheaper and quicker to reach the required height. Only, a wooden skyscraper will collapse. It's just a matter of time.\\n\\nPost: The question was what prevents China from cultivating it's domestic market. \\n I sort of missed that, but I still also, sort of addressed that. For China to have a robust domestic market, they need consumers with a lot of buying power. To get consumers with buying power, you need a lot well-paying jobs. \\n If the export market dries up, well, there go the jobs. It's a bit of a paradox. And those jobs didn't pay particularly well in the first place. Higher wages mean goods and services cost more. That only further aggravates the situation. It adds to the uncertainty substantially. \\n It's the China Trap. To get out of their \\\"funk\\\" they need to do certain things. Doing those certain things will keep them in the trap, if not outright bursting their economic bubble all-together. That's why it's impossible to not see it as poised for a collapse. They're damned if they do, damned if they don't. \\n > Ideological blinders lead to bad economic analysis. \\n No ideology included in that particular point. Growing solely for the sake of growing isn't healthy for an economy. It's not that it's \\\"different\\\", it's that it is what history has shown us. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. \\n > The level of government involvement offends my sensibilities therefore it must collapse. \\n Not at all. I'd go so far as to say that the U.S government is more involved in their own economy than the Chinese. It's not the involvement that's going to lead to their economy's collapse, it's that they aren't doing it organically. And, well, the rampant corruption. As corrupt as many western countries are, they're still several orders of magnitude less corrupt than China. People fall into the trap of thinking corruption exists in the west, so the corruption in China is no different. That's faulty logic. It's the level and scope of the corruption that matters. In fact, it's the only thing that matters since corruption is inherent to human nature... Corruption exists everywhere in every government. \\n I guess if I was\",\n \"Summary: Mars and the other planets are a whole different beast.\\n\\nPost: A short jaunt (which was protected part of the way by Earth's magnetic field) to the moon is nothing like flying out to Mars. Solar radiation/flares and high energy cosmic rays can be life threatening. \\n You would need some serious shielding for a trip to Mars, shielding which at this point in time, is incredibly heavy. It costs a fortunate to put things in orbit, and even more if you include the (also heavy) fuel to escape Earth's gravitational well to reach mars and come back. \\n That's not including the costs involved with actually landing on mars. Mars also has gravity and would require significant fuel to launch back into space after landing.\",\n \"Summary: Reaganomics is flawed much the same way communism is flawed. It's too easy to corrupt or ignore if your 'higher class'.\\n\\nPost: Can you honestly say that an application of the theory described above couldn't bring growth? \\n Sure, the theory could work. So could communism. But as you said, people are dicks. We don't live in fantasy land. We never have and never will. An ideology is only as good as the people who can follow it. But there will always be people who will take advantage of it. \\n That's why more pure theories that rely on 'the people' or 'others' to see they work (libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism, communism, dictatorships) will never work in the long run. Because face it, humans are corrupt and there needs to be a check and balance.\",\n \"Summary: They could charge fees now (fairly easily I might add) without redesigning the payment system, I think the reason is more involved than that.\\n\\nPost: My worry is that they're doing this so they can start charging a transfer fee. \\n I'm normally pretty cynical, but I don't think that's why they're doing it. I think it has everything to do with separating Mturk from Amazon Payments. \\n If they're trying to make Amazon Payments the next paypal, there needs to be less complexity on the Amazon Payments side. People having their Amazon payments accounts suspended because of something that happened on Mturk is a huge headache for the payments team (and users). It also opens up the door for Mturk to put up alternative methods of payment. For example, instead of sending to amazon payments, you might be able to send to other places, like directly to your bank account or paypal. It also might be so that they can start allowing international forms of payment. It could also be because they may want to spin off mturk into its own entity, kind of like how reddit was spun off from conde nast.\",\n \"Summary: The Yuan could never be the international currency standard because the Chinese don't play by the rules. Rules which exist specifically to lend credibility and trust to a country's currency and the system.\\n\\nPost: China's been showing off the Yuan every here and then for the past few years. \\n The Yuan could never, and will never be the de facto international currency unit. Not in our lifetimes anyways. \\n Why? Because China directly manipulates the value of their currency. A huge no-no. That alone virtually destroys any chances it has of replacing the dollar. A currency needs more than value if it wants to replace the dollar, it needs something more important .. trust. \\n Showing the world that you can & will manipulate the value of your currency on a whim destroys all trust. People can trust the US dollar because their economy is a monster; even during the recession in 2008, the US economy was still growing. Probably the most important fact is that the US does not directly manipulate the currency. When they try to fight inflation or deflation, they do it through legit (and indirect) means, like raising/lowering interest rates etc... Another important fact is that China is absolutely rife with corruption, from the highest levels of government to the highest levels of business. A country will look at the risks involved with pegging their currency to theirs and they'll laugh. \\n It would be like some average Joe attempting to invest with the mafia. Sure, there's a chance they'll payout when the time comes. There is also the chance they'll lie about how much they owe you, lie about the outcome of the investment, or even ignore you all together and keep your money. You just don't know what will happen. There's no trust and they have a history of fudging the numbers. On the other hand, the US is like investing with a completely legit and reliable firm. They play by the rules and everything is done by the book like clockwork.\",\n \"Summary: Clinton took money from the left pocket and put it in the right.\\n\\nPost: We never had a tangible \\\"surplus\\\". The surplus not only was a 'projection', Clinton was borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. \\n In the fiscal year 2000 (the claimed surplus), our national debt was $5.6741 trillion and our national debt was $17.91 billion. The lowest it has been, but still not in the black. \\n The public debt went down but the intragovernmental holdings went up each year by a far greater amount - and in turn, the total national debt. \\n What Clinton did was pay down the public debt and he did it by borrowing far more money in the form of intragovernmental holdings (mostly Social Security).\",\n \"Summary: Skepticism only works when you can think critically.\\n\\nPost: Scientifically speaking it should be up for debate. \\n If there wasn't mountains of evidence for the effectiveness of vaccination, sure. It should be up for debate. \\n But there's as much evidence for vaccinations working exactly as claimed as there is for the earth being round, or gravity existing. \\n Would you debate someone that claims gravity doesn't exist? Probably not, right? No matter what evidence you show them, they won't believe you because they're not critically thinking correctly. If they were, they would have accepted gravity long ago. Skepticism only works when one can think critically.\",\n \"Summary: grow up and learn hold cizzash.\\n\\nPost: Not sure why you were downvoted, but cash is often an incentive to do business. It can even lower prices when haggling if you mention that you will be using cash. \\n Some kids these days rely on credit cards/checks and parents to pay for things. These kids never had more than a few hundred dollars on their person which is a shame. You respect money more when/if you have to possess large amounts of your own money for an extended period of time. \\n You libertarians and those wishing for a gold standard should embrace and welcome such a practice of using cash. Because that's how it has been done up until the 80's. Using a credit card or bank check to buy a $5000 car in the 70's? Good luck... People wanted Cash. \\n Some modern cultures are unfriendly with credit cards. Like Japan. Much of their commerce is done with cash. Their ATM's literally turn off when banks do. Businesses you'd expect to accept credit/debt cards, don't. And if they do, also stop accepting credit cards when the banks close. They're one of the largest economies (duking it out with China for the #2 spot) in the world and they manage just fine.\",\n \"Summary: If it's a competition, the U.S either doesn't care or doesn't want to care. They know how bad it is to grow for the sake of growing. They saw how it eventually destroyed the USSR and they're not falling into that trap.\\n\\nPost: The U.S hasn't been growing for the sake of growing though. China has had a \\\"grow at all costs, and we'll grow at this set rate no matter the consequences\\\" plan. That's not a particularly healthy thing to do for the long term stability of your country. Growth should and needs to be organic. \\n If the U.S wanted to grow for the sake of growing, they could make China look like Amateur hour. In fact, they already have. See the industrialization and growth during WW2 when Japan \\\"woke the sleeping giant\\\". Now imagine that multiplied by orders of magnitude.\",\n \"Summary: everything you said can be easily disproven with a 10 second google search so I wouldn't be surprised if you're just trolling.\\n\\nPost: There is no public harm to vaccinated children \\n This is so wrong I'm a bit flabbergasted if I'm being honest. Some people can't get vaccinated due to weakened immune systems and other diseases. Those people rely on what's known as \\\"** herd immunity . \\n Not only that, there are already cases of whooping cough outbreaks. Get this; the number of whooping cough cases in the United States back in 1991 was 2719. Do you know what it was in 2012? Nearly 50,000 . It's a direct result of the anti-vaccination surge that has occurred within this past decade or so. [Source.]( \\n > I think the issue is with the poor and uninsured. \\n The poor get their vaccinations at a significantly reduced cost thanks to obamacare and other other subsidies. In many states, they are free to the poor.\",\n \"Summary: It's possible to make minimum wage turking, just don't expect to make minimum wage turking.\\n\\nPost: It's possible to make minimum wage on mturk, it's just not likely for the average turker. There are exceptions of course, and there are a rare few who make much more than minimum wage. But they are the exception, not the rule. \\n Usually making minimum wage or more requires either doing transcriptions or writing articles. However, most people who are good enough to make more than minimum wage writing articles don't stick around too long at mturk because there are other places which focus specifically on writing and pay a lot better.\",\n \"Summary: Definitely Balanced subtype.\\n\\nPost: I've talked about U&Y's mythology in a comment a couple months ago, and I believe there's virtually 0 chance he gets attacker type. U&Y's entire mythology is based on U&Y swapping weapons with each other. The \\\"sea\\\" swapping with \\\"mountain\\\" and vice versa (that's who U&Y are supposed to represent, one is the sea, the other mountain). \\n It represents an attempt to \\\"balance\\\" their skill set. The whole story has an inherent balance aspect to it. That is unless they're completely ignoring the mythology. But that would be like ignoring stealing from the rich and giving to the poor in Robin Hood. \\n But I think they're sticking to the mythology. Take a look at the new art. Their weapons are switched.\",\n \"Summary: is \\\"Yes, they weren't nationalistic\\\".\\n\\nPost: I had not read one obscure study \\n A Stanford university study is \\\"obscure\\\"? They're about as legit and mainstream as you get as far as academics are concerned. You can't get any less obscure. \\n > Would those textbooks be as non-nationalistic in the 80's? 70's? 60's? \\n They actually address this in the study. The\",\n \"Summary: Moderation good.\\n\\nPost: 4) Encourage heavy moderation. While there are sentiments that Reddit should be utterly and totally without censorship, the idea that individual subreddits should be is markedly ludicrous. \\n I completely agree with this. The entire post really. But I think #4 (moderation) is key when it comes to making a subreddit a better place. There is, and always will be a signal to noise ratio yet the only ones who can tune that dial are the moderators. Most of the large subreddits leave that dial untouched. Which is fine. There should be many subreddits that are relatively moderator free. I'm certainly not preaching censorship, but subreddits that are based on quality content like /r/truereddit and /r/depthhub (among others) should not be critiqued if they choose to moderate said content.\",\n \"Summary: People take for granted that Superman strategizes too.\\n\\nPost: Your entire argument presumes that Batman plans but superman does not. I think that's a incorrect presumption. Superman can plan too, and does often. It's just not his sole superpower like it is Batman's so people take it for granted. \\n If he puts his mind to it, and decides to take out Batman, Superman can and will anticipate Batman's uncanny ability to strategize. Superman has a genius level IQ himself; he can prepare for the preparations. Most (if not all) of the Batman vs Superman comics and canon stories always show it as Batman trying to reign Superman in or destroy him for turning evil, etc.. It's never a head-on straightforward battle with superman at his physical & mental peak. \\n It's always shown as a classic David Vs Goliath story because it has to be. If Batman sent Superman a letter which said \\\"In one weeks time, we will fight to the death. Prepare yourself, I am coming\\\", and superman decided to take it seriously, in one weeks time, Batman would be dead.\",\n \"Summary: My speculation/guess is that it's not about how much money we're spending when it comes to giving us content or prizes, but the average rank and advancement of the player base. I guess that's all the more reason to power rank.\\n\\nPost: Antonio addressed a few things people were complaining about during the stream but something he said really caught my ear. He said when considering giving away Piis and rewards and other content, they have to consider the maturity of the players/userbase. \\n Now he's obviously not talking about our emotional and mental state, but the actual progression and 'maturity' of their North American player base relative to the JP market. It shouldn't be a shocker to learn that the JP side of things is incredibly mature. After all, the game has been out longer over there and they have orders of magnitude more people playing. I think they just celebrated 35 million downloads? And they just had someone hit max rank? \\n Right now, NA has no one near hitting rank 999. It gets increasingly more difficult (exponentially difficult) the higher the rank you are to level up. Also, NA just hit 7 million downloads. So just by going by those objective factors, we're still more than half the distance to JP. We're less than half way there as far as maturity goes. We're slowly catching up, but we still have a ways to go. \\n The reason why I bring this up is because I thought, and I know many people still do think this, that it's all about money. That \\\"we don't get certain content or content is brought over slow because we're just not spending as much as their JP side\\\". While true, we still spend a fortune. They still make millions of dollars from their overseas partners and NA is the largest after JP. If you were to eliminate the JP side entirely and just count NA and EU players/profits, PAD would still be considered a large, very successful mobile game. It would still be one of the top 50 in the world. I think we sometimes lose perspective because of how big the JP side is.\",\n \"Summary: if you were like me and always cutting it close with your box space, clean up your box and/or buy more. It will directly impact how many +eggs you get per hour.\\n\\nPost: I run Starry View Lane every time it comes around. I don't have a speed farm team but I normally do pretty well with Athena. Normally I end up with between 40-50 +eggs. Not great, obviously, but good enough for me. \\n Anyways, while I was contemplating doing the coin dungeon SVL a few days ago, I decided to free up as much box space as possible. Dumping things I was being a hoarder about (but never, ever used). I ended up freeing up ~60-70 box spaces. This was a game changer. \\n Normally I have between 10-30 free box spaces (sometimes less) and I didn't realize how much time is spent fusing +eggs and selling monsters due to my box being full. Or rather, I did realize but I don't think I realized how much of an impact it actually has on my runs. \\n After freeing up all that box space, my coin dungeon run netted me a whopping 65 +eggs. That's like 14 more than the best I ever did. That increase in box space (less time going into my box & cleaning things up) helped immensely . It had a measurable and significant impact. I got in nearly a full bar of stamina of runs more than usual.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":20,"string":"20"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":11295,"string":"11,295"}}},{"rowIdx":11296,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"Panaphobe"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Massachusetts drivers are fucking crazy. Like \"we don't give a shit about common sense or safety\" level of crazy."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"People don't drive, or apparently read, so well in Massachusetts. \n I just got back from a trip to Providence, and for reasons I won't get into I had to fly into Boston and drive down in a rental. \n HOLY SHIT, Massachusetts drivers are crazy. 5 minutes on the road and I'm coming up on one of those two-lane exits - you know the ones where the right lane is exit-only, and the 2nd-from-the-right lane has a choice to exit or stay on? I'm behind a 2 by 2 pack of cars entering this exit. At the last possible moment BOTH cars in the far right lane decide they don't want to actually get off and nearly cause an accident cutting off both cars on their left in order to get off the exit. \n But wait, there's more! \n 30 minutes into driving in Massachusetts and I'm on some interstate outside of the city - I don't remember which. I'm keeping up with the flow of traffic in the far right lane (out of three) because I just got on, and I just about shit my pants when unexpectedly a car whizzes by me on my right. I look at the road markings, and sure enough they just used the shoulder as a passing lane. Over the course of the next 15-20 minutes on this road I easily saw 50-100 cars using the shoulder as a 4th lane - the super-ultra-mega-fast passing lane. It's a wonder there wasn't an accident with people on exit or entrance ramps, who had to cross that line of terrible drivers to get onto the interstate proper. It's not like there was even any reason for those people to be using the shoulder that way - the rest of the road wasn't particularly packed and was moving along just fine. \n <"},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"People don't drive, or apparently read, so well in Massachusetts. \n I just got back from a trip to Providence, and for reasons I won't get into I had to fly into Boston and drive down in a rental. \n HOLY SHIT, Massachusetts drivers are crazy. 5 minutes on the road and I'm coming up on one of those two-lane exits - you know the ones where the right lane is exit-only, and the 2nd-from-the-right lane has a choice to exit or stay on? I'm behind a 2 by 2 pack of cars entering this exit. At the last possible moment BOTH cars in the far right lane decide they don't want to actually get off and nearly cause an accident cutting off both cars on their left in order to get off the exit. \n But wait, there's more! \n 30 minutes into driving in Massachusetts and I'm on some interstate outside of the city - I don't remember which. I'm keeping up with the flow of traffic in the far right lane (out of three) because I just got on, and I just about shit my pants when unexpectedly a car whizzes by me on my right. I look at the road markings, and sure enough they just used the shoulder as a passing lane. Over the course of the next 15-20 minutes on this road I easily saw 50-100 cars using the shoulder as a 4th lane - the super-ultra-mega-fast passing lane. It's a wonder there wasn't an accident with people on exit or entrance ramps, who had to cross that line of terrible drivers to get onto the interstate proper. It's not like there was even any reason for those people to be using the shoulder that way - the rest of the road wasn't particularly packed and was moving along just fine. \n <"},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: When you start to plug in realistic numbers and think about the difficulty of contacting another civilization in our galaxy even if we wanted to, it's no surprise at all that the stars are silent.\n\nPost: Honestly, most of this article is a moot point because it's being extremely over-generous with its Drake Equation estimate. [I've posted about this before]( in response to something that actually listed specific estimates for the individual parameters. The thing is, this article doesn't even list all of its parameters and doesn't cite any sources for how it arrived at \"100 ,000 intelligent civilizations in the galaxy\" other than the equation itself - which is an absolutely worthless citation without any information on what parameters were used. \n The [Drake Equation]( has seven parameters. Of those seven, only three were listed, cited, or hinted at in such a way that you could unambiguously determine the value used in this article. The author literally left out more than half of the math required to come to the stated conclusion. \n So let's go with the author's math, up to the point that the just hand-wave away the other 60% of the equation with no actual numbers given: \n Let's say there are 1 billion Earth-like planets in the galaxy, where we define Earth-like to mean \"potentially life-supporting\". There are still 4 more Drake variables to consider: \n \n What proportion of planets that can support life, actually do develop life? This one I would actually guess is pretty high, considering how quickly life got started on Earth after conditions became habitable. Let's say 95% of habitable planets end up developing life on their own. \n \n What proportion of life-bearing planets go on to have a species that develops the intelligence necessary to form an advanced society capable of interstellar communication? Well, we only have one model planet - Earth. Let's ignore things like bacteria that almost certainly couldn't ever become intelligent in the way we're looking for - there are almost 2 million cataloged species of plants and animals on earth, and good estimates for the total (including currently undiscovered species) go as high as 50 million. We currently know of one example species that has survived to develop human-like intelligence, and that would be us. There are millions upon millions of ways an organism can evolve to survive, and all the evidence points to extreme intelligence being a fluke - not some inevitable pinnacle that will eventually be achieved everywhere. Let's go with our model system but stay on the generous side and say 1 in a million planets with life will develop intelligent civilizations. Between these two estimates we've narrowed our number down to 950 potential intelligent civilizations in the galaxy (although not all of those would be able to contact us or even detect us). This is a far cry from the 100,000 posited by this author. \n \n What proportion of intelligent civilizations will develop the means to make their presence known on an interstellar scale? We haven't even really done that, much less have we developed a way to communicate across cosmic distances. While it's true that we've been making radio broadcasts for about 100 years now, two commonly-ignored aspects of potential interstellar communication are the immense distances and required signal strengths. The galaxy is about 50,000 light-years across - let's just pretend it's a perfectly flat disc for now. If our first signals were still detectable at their current distance of about 100 light-years away (and they're almost certainly not) then our signals so far would have covered 0.0004% of the galaxy. This hints at the last Drake variable which we'll return to in a moment, but for now it should suffice to say that civilizations need to be extremely long-lived to have any chance of actually contacting any other civilization while they're still alive. Now for the other problem that I mentioned - signal strength. It turns out that it would actually be extremely difficult for anybody to detect our un-directed broadcasts that we've been letting leak out into space for the last 100 years, because signal strength dies off exponentially with distance. Our best astronomy right now still struggles to detect entire planets when they pass in front of their stars - the difficulty of spotting the planets we do know is roughly equivalent to the difficulty of measuring the light from a lighthouse from across the Atlantic ocean, and trying to decipher when somebody standing on that lighthouse lights and extinguishes a candle. There have been studies done on just how far our our 'accidental' broadcasts are discernable from backround noise, and it's not very far at all. Any interstellar communication is going to require an extremely high-intensity, directed signal that is pointed at one particular place where we suspect life exists. So far even our civilization hasn't developed that capability so it's ludicrous to put a very high estimate on how many others would - especially considering the number of near-misses humanity has already had with nearly wiping ourselves out through methods such as nuclear war. Our estimate for the number of civilizations that will actually develop and use the technology to communicate with us across the galaxy should be extremely low - let's be generous and call it 1 in 1000. That leaves us with 9.5 (we'll round to an even 10) potential civilizations that might be out there right now trying to communicate with us. \n \n There's one final Drake Equation parameter, and that's to take into account that since signals take so long to cross such vast distances, that it might be possible for us to receive communications from civilizations that have long since died out. Our estimate of the number of civilizations that are out there right now (or at any arbitrary point in time) gets multiplied by the number of years that we would guess such civilizations might spend actually sending out signals. This is by far the toughest parameter to estimate - if we haven't even reached the point where we can reliably communicate across the stars with unknown aliens in unknown locations, how can we be at all certain about how long somebody else could do it after they've already advanced farther than us? Civilizations end. Even extremely long-lived civilizations might give up on sending a directed signal to this particular planet - maybe they waited a long while for a response and never got one, assumed our planet to be sterile, and stopped broadcasting in our direction. Maybe they gave up on interstellar communication at all. I honestly have no idea how long such a civilization would send out signals (and I doubt anyone really has a good idea), so I'm just going to guess that a civilization with the capability and desire for interstellar communication might send a powerful, directed signal towards Earth for a few thousand years. Let's say 3,000 years - about 50% longer than all of human recorded history. \n \n \n With all of these estimates, we arrive at a total estimate of a little less than 30,000 civilizations in the galaxy with which we could potentially communicate, at least one-way. Given our initial estimate of 1 billion habitable planets (which I also think is a bit generous but I won't challenge here because it's at least cited), that still gives very low odds of any of these civilizations being in our galactic neighborhood. Remember, interstellar communication (or even detection) is going to require directed signals. If we wanted to try to contact those 30,000 civilizations we wouldn't just need 30,000 giant radio dish arrays pointed at each of their homeworlds, broadcasting for millenia on end. We'd need billions of giant radio dish arrays pointed at all of the star systems that we think might have habitable planets. \n <","Summary: A long-winded rant about their terrible guides. Seriously though, they suck.\n\nPost: Noxxic is piece of crap and should be avoided like the plague. \n Understatement of the week, I think. \n They are terrible . I glanced at their blood DK guide the other day - what a joke: \n -It rates stamina as the highest mitigative stat (it has zero mitigative value whatsoever, it's only good for making spike damage less dangerous). \n -It rates regular armor above bonus armor. Bonus armor is literally one point of regular armor plus one point of attack power - it is always better. \n -All of its other stat weightings are completely out of whack. Strength is the strongest mitigative stat, it rates it 3/4 of the way down the list. For damage it rates crit strike (which is mathematically identical to multistrike except it doesn't benefit from our 5% attunement or class-specific multistrike mechanics) as the #1 DPSing stat. Literally every stat weighting is just flat-out wrong, and if they had bothered to read the in-game mouseovers and do a little math or just plug a character into a simulator - they'd know that. \n -They also give terrible talent and glyph advice. It's hard to believe it, but this advice is even worse than their stat weighting advice. Unholy Blight (which applies diseases and mitigates zero damage) is called the best mitigation talent in its tier, compared to another talent that actually gives free Death Strikes . They recommend the situational Anti-Magic Zone as a go-to over our \"get out of death free card\". They think post-nerf Conversion (which you will never have enough RP to use effectively) is a better option than Death Pact (which requires no resources and is an amazing 'oh-shit!' button). They also make idiotic recommendations like recommending a glyph that lets us burn our runic power to put tiny shields on other players, alongside their recommendation of a talent that forces us to burn our runic power for a tiny amount of self-heals. Which is it? Which ineffective use of resources should we be doing? \n ...I could probably go on about this all day. They are absolutely terrible, and under no circumstances should anybody take anything written there as informed advice. Their forums are a joke too, which is why I'm only bitching about it here on reddit. There is no name attached to any of the guides, probably because no prominent raiders or theorycrafters would be willing to stake their reputation on such garbage. \n <","Summary: As far as I can tell from testing: Saurfang doesn't actually do any damage, at all . There are many better choices to bring on an invasion - anyone with an ability that counters Minion Swarms and/or Timed Battle will help you much more.\n\nPost: So in all seriousness, I don't think he's actually a good choice to bring along to an invasion. I just tested him on my combat dummies, and he did - get this: zero damage. \n He stands there and doesn't do any attacks, and every 30-45 seconds or so he'll do a whirlwind that hits for \"normal damage plus 100\" according to the tooltip but doesn't actually seem to do any damage whatsoever. \n Compare that to a normal follower: \n My best invasion follower in Benjamin Gibb, mainly because of his mix of abilities (for me he has Death and Decay and Empower Rune Weapon). I brought him out to a dummy and he was doing 22k single-target DPS all by himself. When I bring him on invasions it's actually quite common for him to out-damage the real players - bringing a good follower with good DPSing abilities is basically like bringing a 4th (really good) player to your invasion. \n <","Summary: This guy relies way too much on tooltips instead of actual combat logs. Literally every piece of advice in that post is wrong. Switch tanks after 3 Inferno Slices on Gruul, not 2 (and if he goes to a Destructive Rampage after 2 slices, switch anyways). Use AMS on Inferno Slice, even as tank. AMS on Oregorger's Acid Torrent is a waste, it does not actually help the raid at all.\n\nPost: A lot of people have been claiming that AMS doesn't work because the damage done to the tank is Physical. However, if you'll read over the spell itself, ( ), you'll see that the damage to the raid is applied with respect to the tank's total mitigation at the time of cast, not the degree to which they mitigated the impact. Very important distinction. AMS + Rune Tap makes the damage barely tickle my raid, whereas Rune Tap alone makes it roughly similar damage out to when our monk takes it. \n Do you have logged numbers that support this? Last I checked there is no stat called \"total mitigation\", nor has there ever been such a stat. In order for it to work as you describe, Blizzard would have to be able to come up with a straight-up percentage for you at all times - because in order to reduce something's damage by a number they have to pick a value for that number. \n Think about what you're saying. How would you even calculate such a number? Would parry chance count towards it? Would block value? What if you have full combat take coverage, would that be 100% total mitigation or something less because even with 100% chance of mitigating not all mitigation types mitigate all damage? \n Quoting a tooltip with vague wording does not make you right. Hell, even the non- vaguely tooltips are often wrong. For example on Inferno Slice the tooltip unambiguously states that the tank receives physical damage and everybody except the tank receives fire damage. Check your logs and you'll find that the tank takes fire damage as well. It says that it splits between \"all additional targets\", but it actually splits between \" all targets\" in the cone (including the first target). \n This is an example of a clearly-worded tooltip from a boss just down the hall being completely wrong - so we clearly can't rely on Blizzard's tooltips here. Now you expect people to believe that because of this vague mention of \"total mitigation\", which is an ambiguous term not actually defined anywhere? \n Unless you can provide real evidence, I'm calling bullshit. Show a log that demonstrates unequivocally what you're saying, or show another Blizzard mechanic that uses \"total mitigation\". \n Edit: \n Also, your Gruul tactics advice is arguably crap too. Your method will result in an extremely-large stack of Overwhelming Blows on one tank, which is a common source of wipes. Outside of Destructive Rampage, Inferno Slice hits approximately every 18 seconds. This means that if you switch tanks every 2 slices, you're going to have about 40 seconds between tank switches. This means your first boss-tank will have to return to tanking the boss after tanking their 2 slices, and their stacks will not yet have fallen off . Destructive Rampage doesn't generally hit until after 6 slices (and never before 5 slices), so your first boss-tank is guaranteed to end up refreshing their stacks. Now, Destructive Rampage only lasts 30 seconds and my logs show him generally re-casting Overwhelming Blows within about 3 seconds of that ending - so the first boss-tank absolutely can't take the boss after Destructive Rampage because they'll have over 30 seconds left on their Overwhelming Blows. This means your tanks need to switch roles after the Rampage: a fact you neglected to mention and might be overlooked if he rampages after 5 slices instead of 6. Now your second boss-tank is forced to take the boss after Destructive Rampage, but even then they're going to be cutting it extremely close on their timer because it's a minute-long debuff and if it's been a 5-slice transition (as sometimes happens) they're going to have only been off the boss for about 50 seconds. \n Using this strategy you run a significant risk of having both tanks with unmanageably high stacks of Overwhelming Blows. This can all be avoided if you simply swap every 3 slices. E.g. - Tank 1 taunts the slice to Green, Blue, Green, then takes the boss. Tank 2 taunts the boss to Blue, Green, (Blue if there's a 6th). Boss does his rampage, then start again at the top. There is no chance of getting huge stack counts outside of your control using this method, as the shortest time between possibly tanking the boss again is 68 seconds. \n Also, I mentioned this above but now that I'm reading into detail your Gruul suggestion I see that you've made another error: Inferno Slice does not just do physical damage to the tanks, it does physical and fire. AMS does mitigate Inferno Slice. Seriously, check your logs. \n <","Summary: I made an illustration - [here's what probably happened](\n\nPost: I think you're on to something. In the X-ray you can see that the nail is bent about where it would be gripped by the hammer. \n What probably happened: \n He took a swing and instead of hitting square on he hit with some downward motion. The nail didn't hit the wood square, it got hit on the side of the tip - the impact bent the nail where the hammer held it, broke it free from the hammer and sent it flying backwards and up, spinning. \n <","Summary: A short answer to your question is that no, faster-than-light expansion does not imply violations of the cosmic 'speed limit', although it does result in objects that appear to break the 'speed limit' without actually doing so.\n\nPost: The speed limit is for objects travelling through space. The faster-than-light expansion is the space itself. \n Back to the balloon analogy: \n Take a balloon and a marker, and draw some dots on the balloon. Those dots have no velocity relative to each other, they're stationary on the balloon's surface. Now blow the balloon up some more - the dots appear to be farther away. They didn't move through space though. The balloon (which is our analogy for the space in between the dots, the universe itself) got bigger. \n We don't notice this on a small scale because the expansion of space is very small, and the forces between objects holds them together. A quick google search turns up the number 74.2 km / sec / MPc. This means that two objects that are 1 megaparsec away from each other now will be 1 megaparsec + 74.2 km away from each other 1 second from now. To put that in perspective, 1 megaparsec is 3 x 10^19 kilometers, so each second space only expands by a fraction of about 2.4 x 10^-18 (or 0.000000000000000024%). On an everyday scale, that's basically negligible. It's also slow enough that the forces that affect us (like gravity holding us to the Earth, the intermolecular forces affecting the proteins in our body and even the bonds holding the individual atoms together that we see) can easily hold things together against this expanding space. \n On a much larger scale, this isn't the case. It turns out that about 4000 megaparsecs away (about 13 billion light years away) that 0.000000000000000024% expansion per second works out to be the speed of light. There are galaxies at this distance, the edge of the observable universe, that are moving away from us at the speed of light just because of the expansion of the universe. These galaxies are so far away that we can barely feel their gravity at all, and it's not nearly strong enough to keep them close despite the expansion of the universe. Eventually, as they get farther away they move away from us faster than the speed of light and we can no longer observe them. Because of expansion, the observable portion of the universe is (probably irreversibly) shrinking all the time. This doesn't break relativity because it's not the objects moving through space faster than the speed of light, it's new space being created between us and the object faster than the speed of light. \n <","Summary: They were really fast for me.\n\nPost: I had an issue similar to this. I filed a petition with my information, and then found an official post listing what info to actually include. I immediately filed another one with the right info, and had a response to my first one (asking for more info) before I submitted the second one. I pasted the extra info into the reply to the first, and found the same GM had already responded to the second one.","Summary: What /u/LostxinthexMusic said. If you're on a boat swamping, capsizing and turtling are very different beasts - and the differences between them most certainly do matter if you're interested in having a boat and your life afterwards. If you don't know the functional differences between them (or have somebody with you who does) you probably shouldn't be on a boat in the first place.\n\nPost: Almost all small sailboats will float if they are swamped, because they have bouyant hull sections that are sealed off so even if the entire cockpit is full of water, the boat won't sink. You need to bail out the water if you want to have a comfortable ride or get anywhere fast, but it's not the end of the world if a small boat gets swamped. \n If a small boat capsizes when you don't want it to, your situation just got a whole lot more dangerous. It will still float, but now it can only drift until you get it upright again. You have to get out of the boat, swim over to what would normally be the bottom (without getting tangled up in rope which will be everywhere ), climb up on the keel or daggerboard and hope you're heavy enough to flip the boat upright again. Once you do get it upright again, it'll probably be pretty swamped so you're going to have to get all of that water out if you want to be able to get anywhere - especially if you need to go upwind to get to land. Hopefully you had your bucket tied to the boat! The vast majority of small boats can be recovered from this position by one person. If done in a controlled manner on a suitable boat, being capsized is no big deal - I used to capsize my Laser all the time as a kid just so I could swim in the lake (it was illegal to swim off of a boat, but it wasn't illegal to be capsized). If done accidentally or on a boat that's not suited to easy recovery, capsizing is a major issue - even larger boats can still sometimes be recovered though. \n If a boat is turtled, it's like being capsized except a hundred times worse. Unlike with a capsized boat where you end up flung onto the surface of the water somewhere between the hull and the mast, when your boat turtles you may actually go under with it. Now you're underwater, wearing a flotation device, quite possibly trapped under the boat's hull (which may or may not have an air pocket you can breathe), and surrounded by all of the rigging which is just waiting to catch and tangle you up. If your boat has deep cockpit with steep walls you might even end up having to take off your flotation device to be able to swim down enough to get out from under the hull. In any case there will in all likelihood be a much more imminent threat of drowning, even for experienced swimmers.\nOnce you manage to get out from under the boat, you need to climb on top of it and hope you're heavy enough to generate enough torque on the keel / daggerboard to flip the boat. This is much more difficult than flipping a capsized boat because now you have to pull sideways instead of push down, and that means you can't put your whole weight into it. Many small boats are extremely difficult or impossible for a single person to flip. There are even some boats that can no longer be sailed (or even flipped upright) if turtled. Some boats secure their masts and daggerboards to the hull better than others - if either of those happens to drop out of the bottom of the boat while it's upside-down, you're basically screwed. \n <","Summary: Good idea, but you need to spell out the connection info for those of us who don't want to use the browser client.\n\nPost: For those of us who like the idea, but don't want to leave the browser client on all the time and maybe aren't used to using an IRC client very often, you really should just give us a server and port to connect to. Looking through the text I get from connecting it looks like I should be connecting to webchat.se.quakenet.org, but I don't see the port anywhere and the default (6667) does not work. \n <","Summary: There is sound in space. You wouldn't hear it because it's faint and at funny frequencies (and you wouldn't want to stick your head out in a vacuum), but it is there and there is a lot of literature on it.\n\nPost: There is no \"sound\" in space. \n Yes, there is. Space is not completely empty - it's just relatively sparse. The sounds in space are often faint (because there's not enough matter up there to effectively transmit most small vibrations) and are often outside of the frequency range of normal human hearing - but there are sounds in space. \n Supernovae can send out shockwaves that propagate through interstellar medium at the speed of sound. An even more common example is around stars, there are standing shock waves where the solar wind impacts the interstellar medium and slows to subsonic speeds , but the physics are pretty much the same. The fact that there's sound in space is even a key concept in [defining the boundary of the solar system]( \n Some redditors might even remember that in the last few years there have been several announcements of the Voyager probes 'officially' leaving the solar system. The reason there were so many is that some people were defining the boundaries of the solar system in different ways, and one of those ways is based on sound. \n <","Summary: Smokers are smokers because they choose to be, single parents are single parents (usually) because they have to be. The source linked does not support either statement about the health of single parents or of their children.\n\nPost: Smoking is in virtually all cases a personal choice. Yes, nicotine is addictive so some people have trouble quitting - but there are many tools and publicly-funded support for those wishing to quit. Yes, you can become addicted through no fault of your own by secondhand smoke - but the same tools are available no matter how you became addicted. If you smoke, in the vast majority of cases the deciding factor is your decision. \n This is not the case for being a single mother. There are a huge number of women who are single mothers for reasons outside of their control. Some are forced to leave by abuse, some have children by deadbeat fathers who have left or are in jail, some have been raped. \n Before we even get into the health concerns - we should get this straight: you cannot compare being a single mother to being a smoker on any reasonable level, because one is virtually always a willful decision and the other is not. \n Since you're ignoring the obvious though, let's go ahead and take a look at your source. First of all, your first statement (being a single parent can less the parent's quality of health) is not supported by your source. What you linked looks at children, and it looks at adults. Every statement made about the health of adults is strictly looking at marital history and has nothing to say about being a parent. \n Your second statement (being a single parent correlates to lower quality of health for the child), although related to something mentioned by your source, omits the biggest factor. Here's what your source said, with emphasis added on the part you ignored: \n >the highest rates of poor or fair health were among children in low income households headed by a single mother \n Single parents can't bring in as much money as a pair of parents, and family income money is a huge factor in the health of a child. Being a single parent does not in itself pose a risk to your children, it's being poor that's the real risk. Since your source is an advocacy organization for traditional marriage, you can be sure that if there actually were evidence contrary to this, that said that just being a single parent was enough to cause harm - that evidence would be represented here. Wealth is generally considered to be one of the most obvious examples of a variable that should be controlled in any social study, and without correlation controlled for it your second statement is also baseless. \n You really can't compare smokers and single parents like you are. Yes, they are both vilified - but for radically different reasons. \n <","Summary: To land using the smallest delta-v, come in as low as possible, kill your horizontal velocity at periapsis, and then watch your vertical velocity on the way straight down.\n\nPost: When you're landing on an object, you want to eventually bring your velocity relative to the landing zone to zero. You do this by burning to change your kinetic energy. In order to most efficiently land, you need to bring your kinetic energy (from your movement with respect to the landing zone) and your gravitational potential energy (from your distance from the landing zone) to zero. (Yes, I know you still have gravitational potential energy on the surface, this is a close enough approximation for a thought experiment.) \n Remember, you can't directly affect your potential energy. As you fall towards your periapsis your potential energy gets converted to kinetic energy - this is the part you can cancel out by burning your engines. So how do you do this most efficiently? You utilize the Oberth effect to get the most change in kinetic energy per change in velocity. That is, you want to burn when you are traveling fastest - when your orbit is lowest. \n Let's imagine a spacecraft with an infinite TWR (so it can stop on a dime), but still a limited delta-v so we want to be efficient. What would be the most energy-efficient landing? Falling straight down towards the surface, then killing all of your velocity (which is entirely vertical) at the last moment. This obviously is dangerous for a ship with limited TWR - you run a serious risk of lithobraking from any miscalculation in when to start your burn. \n In practice, to lessen this risk you put your periapsis somewhere above the surface. If you took the same super-rocket from before and did this method, the most efficient periapsis would be nearly grazing the surface. You'd wait until the periapsis and then kill all of your velocity (which would be entirely horizontal), and you'd be done. Again, though, there is room for disaster here on a real ship. The Mun isn't a perfect sphere, it's difficult to get your periapsis that precise, you can't usually apply perfectly-retrograde thrust, and you have a finite TWR. \n To avoid fiery death, you compromise. The lower your periapsis (and burn) the less delta-v your landing will require, but the greater the risk of impact will be as well. The trick with a real rocket is to do the burn at as low of an altitude as you can without smashing into the rocks before you can complete the burn. I've found 5 km or so to work fine for me for Munar landers - I do a lot more theorycrafting than actual flying though so you could probably cut it closer than me, with practice. \n After your horizontal velocity is killed your descent profile looks a lot like that first purely-vertical infinite TWR example from above, just starting at a lower altitude. You'll save fuel by free-falling and then burning to slow down at the last second, but just remember your TWR is limited so give yourself some leeway to avoid a crash. \n Sorry in advance for any autocorrect confusion - I'm posting from my phone and inevitably miss some of its ill-advised word replacements. \n <","Summary: The video shows us able to see more and more of the universe over time. This isn't true. Assuming a constant expansion (which may not be strictly true but is close enough for these purposes) we always see the same proportion of the universe and our ability to see that proportion of the universe gets worse over time until eventually we will not be able to detect any other objects.\n\nPost: There's a pretty major error in that movie, that first pops up around [2:30]( While it's correct that the maximum distance from which we can detect light is increasing all the time, we do not get to see more and more of the universe over time as depicted and later described. \n The video shows a static \"whole universe\" with a circular projection representing the observable universe, where the observable universe is constantly growing. This means we should be able to see more and more galaxies in the distance, if we could just sit and wait long enough for their signals to get here. It implies that eventually we'll be able to see the whole universe. \n This could not be farther from the truth. The opposite of this phenomenon is what actually happens. At the current rate of expansion of the universe, objects about 13 billion light years away from us are 'moving' away from us at the speed of light (really it's just that space between us is being created at the speed of light), and farther objects are 'moving' away faster than the speed of light (see my other recent ELI5 response . Even though super-far-away objects still give off light, the space in between us and that light is expanding faster than the light can ever cross it. All objects in the observable universe are moving out towards the edge of the observable universe, and once an object reaches the edge of the observable universe it will never enter the observable universe again (unless the universe stops expanding, which according to current models looks unlikely). \n Even though the 'current distance' of objects that we see can reach out to 46 billion light years like the movie says, we aren't seeing objects 46 billion light years away. We are seeing them as they were when they were much closer (about 13 billion light-years away). We will never see any object that was more than about 13 billion light years away when it emitted the light that we're actually seeing. It's true, like the video said, that the current distance of objects that we see increases with time. What's not true is that we're seeing more and more of the universe - proportionally, we're seeing the exact same amount. All objects move away and eventually reach a point of no return where we'll never see any new light from them again. We actually see objects worse over time because all of the light that they were emitting as they passed the point of no return gets stretched out over an infinite length of time. The farthest objects we can see have already emitted all the light we will ever detect from them - it's just getting to be fainter and fainter. \n For a quick-and-dirty intuitive explanation, let's say the edge of observable universe is 1 meter away, the edge of the whole universe is 100 meters away, and the universe is expanding by 10% of its size per second. \n \n \n Time (s) \n Observable Universe (m) \n Entire Universe (m) \n % We can see \n \n \n \n \n 0 \n 1 \n 100 \n 1% \n \n \n 1 \n 1.1 \n 110 \n 1% \n \n \n 2 \n 1.21 \n 121 \n 1% \n \n \n 3 \n 1.331 \n 133.1 \n 1% \n \n \n 4 \n 1.4641 \n 146.41 \n 1% \n \n \n 5 \n 1.61051 \n 161.051 \n 1% \n \n \n \n We can always see 1% of the total universe in this example. As I mentioned above, even though this proportion stays the same we actually get a worse vision of the universe over time because the total amount of photons reaching us from far-away objects decreases (there are a finite number of photons which will reach us over an infinite time in the future). \n <","Summary: Rockets are launched from the equator because of the sizable angular momentum imparted by launching from the fastest-rotating part of the planet, not because of the tiny differences in apparent gravity.\n\nPost: Yes, and interestingly space shuttles try to maximize centripetal force. There's a reason why US shuttles get launched from Florida and why the European Space Agency launches its shuttles from French territory in South America. Its closer to the equator, so more centripetal force. \n This is definitely not why they launch spacecraft from near the equator. For one thing let's dispel this notion of 'centripetal force'. There is no magical force acting on a body from the simple act of going around in a circle - bodies on Earth's surface are held to the surface by gravity, and they would be held to the surface by the exact same amount of gravity if Earth were to stop spinning. Rotation causes a slight difference in apparent gravity because the higher your velocity the more force it takes to change your trajectory, so more of the force gets 'used up' turning you and less is 'left over' to make you feel like you're getting pressed into the ground - but there are absolutely no new forces introduced simply by spinning (unless you have a charge, but let's not get into that). \n Anyhow, variations in apparent gravity across the surface of the Earth are very small, and they can actually vary quite a bit from factors completely unrelated to latitude and the Earth's rotation. The real reason that spacecraft are launched from as close to the equator as possible is because they already start with a higher proportion of the velocity needed to get into orbit: \n Let's say we launched a rocket at the North Pole (the rotational one, not the magnetic one), and want to put it into a polar orbit (the easiest kind of orbit to reach from that location). For our thought experiment we'll do a very inefficient launch - we're going to have our rocket go straight up until it's past the atmosphere, and then turn sideways and burn until it's going fast enough to orbit. When our North Pole Rocket reaches orbit altitude, it would have zero orbital velocity to begin with and would need to have enough fuel to achieve a Δv of about 7.8 km/s. \n Now let's imagine launching a rocket from the equator, into an equatorial orbit (which is the easiest kind of orbit to reach from that location). We'll launch it the same inefficient way for our thought process - up, then over. When the rocket is on the launchpad it will have an angular velocity that matches the Earth's - 360 degrees per day. Since it's at the equator where the circumference is about 40,000 km, it will actually be starting with a velocity of about 0.5 km / s. When our Equator Rocket reaches orbital altitudes, it will retain that velocity , so instead of needing to pack enough fuel for a Δv of 7.8 km / s (after reaching orbital altitude), it only needs to pack enough fuel for a Δv of 7.3 km / s. Since fuel mass requirements increase exponentially with respect to Δv requirements, this 7% or so decrease in required Δv translates to a lot less fuel required to get to orbit. \n <","Summary: The FoV values cited do not correspond to 90°, which is 1.57 radians. Even if you input 1.57 radians as your fovLeft, do not expect to have a 90° horizontal FoV because what you put into your config file is not what you actually see, and the relationship between what you input and what you see is complicated.\n\nPost: I know you didn't come up with them, but just so you know: those FoV values do not correspond to a 90° horizontal FoV. The values shown (1.76 through 1.83 radians) correspond to 101° through 105°. \n That said, the Arma II engine does not use the values entered as the FoV anyways. While trying to make a spreadsheet to account for how FoV settings affect mildot ranging I did extensive testing of all kinds of FoV-related issues. My default FoV was 3/4 radians vertical by 4/3 radians horizontal. This corresponds to my 16:9 monitor aspect ratio, and is noteworthy in that it does not match the FoV ratio one would expect for a 16:9 monitor using the formulas cited in the calculator used for your numbers. Anyways my testing basically involved setting up targets at known ranges in the editor, taking screenshots through various optics and without optics, and measuring exact character heights to the pixel from said screenshots. \n It got more and more complicated as I learned more and more things don't function as the community commonly seems to believe they do (for instance, character heights are not 1.8 meters). All of the numbers that in the end I settled on as being \"correct\" were based on the assumption that with default FoV settings, mildots work correctly. It turned out that with the default settings of 3/4 by 4/3 radian FoV, you actually see 1 radian vertical by 16/9 radians horizontal. Using the same editor missions and heights worked out from the default FoV with the working-mildot assumption, I tried to work out how the game takes the FoV you input and ends up at a specific FoV that is actually rendered. I tried a few different FoVs ranging from very narrow to very wide, and I ended up coming to the conclusion that the number that you input is never what you actually see, but the output FoV is not a constant multiplier or addition to the input FoV. I had plans to try to figure out exactly what the relationship was, but decided not to since I had already sunk way too much time into the testing, already had working values for my own FoV, and the relationship might not even be valid in standalone anyways. \n <","Summary: Caffeine is not a poison. It keeps you from sleeping because of its similarity to a neurotransmitter that makes you sleepy. \n Edit: Although I have some knowledge of human biochemical processes, I know little to nothing about human development. I have no idea what, if any, effects caffeine might have on a developing fetus. I am not trying to say in this post that it's OK to consume caffeine when pregnant. I just wanted to shed some light on why it keeps you awake, and say that for a normal, fully developed person it is not a poison.\n\nPost: Caffeine is literally poison... It keeps you from sleeping for a reason. \n Hi, I'm a chemist, and I believe I might be able to shed some light on this. I know you probably weren't looking for something like this, but I sometimes feel obligated to correct (what are to me) obvious scientific falsehoods. \n Caffeine keeps you from sleeping because of its chemical similarity to a biomolecule called adenosine to attach a phosphate group, and it releases energy (that you can use to do something else) to take off a phosphate group. \n Many biomolecules have complex interactions with many systems in which they play many roles, adenosine is no exception. An easy, albeit hand-wavy way to think about what adenosine does, is to remember that it's a side product you produce if you completely 'use up' a biological unit of energy currency, ATP. What happens when you use up a bunch of energy? You get tired. This is exactly what adenosine does in the brain, it makes you sleepy. \n How does this relate to caffeine? There are receptors in your brain that act as sensors for adenosine - when an adenosine molecule bumps into them in just the right way, it binds to the receptor and makes you sleepy. It turns out caffeine [\"looks\"]( enough like a part of adenosine that it can bind to these receptors, but it doesn't look enough like it that it actually activates the receptors to make you sleepy. The net effect is that blocks your body from detecting your 'sleepy signal' molecules, by getting in the way of your 'sleepy sensors'. \n As far as toxicity is concerned, caffeine is certainly not a poison for humans. Yes, it is possible to overdose on caffeine and die. This is true of [literally everything]( you could possibly ingest. It would take an obscene amount of caffeine to have any appreciable risk of bodily harm - way more than you would ever realistically consume in beverages. This is not to say you can't get caffeine poisoning - you can, but it would be from [taking caffeine pills]( and as I said before you can overdose on anything* if you set your mind to it. \n <","Summary: It's important to include crit in your calculations.\n\nPost: So firstly, my old numbers contained a small error. Comparing your formulas to mine I noticed that I was using the old 150% crit multiplier for healing. After fixing that though, the numbers still came out in favor of what I'd already said: it changed to Healing Touch to having about 22% more HPM, and Regrowth having about 40% more HPS. \n Your calculations are ignoring two things: \n The first, and biggest error, is you're completely ignoring crit. in your Healing Touch calculation. It's fine to not include everything (we can leave out Mastery for example because it applies to both spells evenly), but crit. chance has a non-negligible effect on Healing Touch's average heals. You need to take a weighted average of the healing amount for the times time you won't crit (1 (1 - Crit%)) and the time you will crit (2 Crit%). Add those together to get the overall multiplier to account for crit - it works out to (1 + Crit%). \n Using the numbers on my spreadsheet from way back when, I had 41946 SP and 22.45% crit chance. If you completely ignore that HT can crit then sure, they have equal HPM. If you actually put in a reasonable value for crit chance as opposed to just ignoring it, you'll find the crit chance will be the same as HT's HPM advantage to within about 0.1%. \n The other problem with your calculations is the scaling with SP. Your math shows the spells scaling approximately equally well with SP (1.86 vs 2*0.958), but since there aren't any real raiding druids with 0% spell crit it doesn't actually scale that way. After you factor in a reasonable critical hit value you'll find Healing Touch scales much better. If we take the ratio of the SP-dependent part of Healing Touch versus the SP-dependent part of gylyphed Regrowth we'll get a number that describes how well one scales with SP compared to the other: \n (1.86 SP (1+Crit%))/(0.958 SP 2) = (1.86/(0.958 2)) (1+Crit%) = 0.970*(1+Crit%) \n For my really old crit value that works out to Healing Touch scaling with SP 18% better than Glyphed Regrowth. If you do the math you'll find that they scale equally well with SP when the crit chance is 3% ((1-0.970)/0.970). Any druid with a spell crit over 3% (read: virtually all druids) will find that Healing Touch scales with SP better than glyphed Regrowth. \n So how does this come back to your 20k assumption? That is an absurdly low value. When I made my spreadsheet I was vastly outgeared by everyone else in my raid and was trying to refine my healing to do better than them. I raid in a casual group and we're only 10/14 on SoO normal - not exactly hardcore. I made the spreadsheet when we were just getting into SoO, so I don't think I had extremely high numbers. At this point in the game I think my gear is probably pretty representative of other casual raiders. Anecdotally, I seem to be in the middle of the pack for general-population raiders I encounter. My current relevant stats are 50023 SP and 27.91% crit. This works out to give glyphed Regrowth 34% better HPS (a little less than when I was lower-geared, the numbers are in the first paragraph) and give Healing Touch 27% better HPM (a little higher than when I was lower-geared). \n What conclusions can we draw from all of this? Glyphed Regrowth does significantly more HPS than Healing Touch, although the gap gets smaller as you gear up. Healing Touch has significantly better HMP than Glyphed Regrowth, and the gap gets larger as you gear up. Both of these statements are consistent with my initial statement. \n <","Summary: I've spent many, many hours running tests and figuring this stuff out and I am pretty confident you can't mod a G43 or M1 Garand down to a 1-hit-kill body-shot-from-full-health weapon. If somebody tells you otherwise without evidence that they've actually done it themselves , it's probably just anecdotes and confirmation bias based on mis-observed events.\n\nPost: There is no way a Gewehr is ever going to one shot anyone without a headshot , only a heavily modded sniper rifle can do that. \n This is mostly correct (there are non-sniper weapons which can do it, but not semi-auto rifles). I'm a bit of a theorycrafter - I make spreadsheets about everything. One of the things I've been doing in this game is running tests trying to work out exactly the stats and mechanics for different weapon mods. \n I've had to make some assumptions and guesses about how I think mechanics probably work, so of course my results are tentative and subject to error. I measure the stat bars on the weapon mods page and try to make predictions about measurable stat changes on the weapon itself, then I go and do tests to try and prove myself wrong. Some tests are easy (like measuring the rate of fire of my actual in-game weapon or counting bullets-to-kill on various body parts), and some tests are hard (like trying to figure out how stability or precision stats work). \n Some of the stat bars actually seem to have no discernible relationship to the in-game weapon's stats. For example Rate of Fire - a more-filled bar indicates a faster-firing weapon but the amount the bar is filed is not proportional to the actual rate of fire, and different-speed weapons are not even guaranteed to show different stats even if they perform measurably different in-game. \n That said, I'm fairly confident that I've worked out the damage mods pretty well. I don't have enough credits (or time) to test every weapon to make sure my predictions are always correct, but my model accurately predicts damage-mod-dependent bullets-to-kill changes for the weapons I cared to optimize - the MG42, K98, and MP40. \n I have not tested the G43 or Garand. I mostly play German and I do these tests for my own benefit and enjoyment and am not going to waste 200k credits running tests on the G43 which I consider to be the worst gun in the game, and my allied account doesn't even have that many credits to burn. I would be very surprised, however, if these guns didn't follow the exact same rules as the ones that I've tested. If they do, then it is not possible to mod a semi-auto rifle to 1-shot (body shot) kill a full-health infantryman. \n Take everything here with a grain of salt, as I could have errors in my work. I'm not going to release my data or work any time in the foreseeable future (for many reasons, mainly the amount of time it would take to get it fit for public review). If there's anyone seriously interested in replicating my experiments they're not that hard. Sorry in advance for any spelling errors, my phone doesn't usually take too well to drafting long posts like this. \n <","Summary: Sometimes absence of evidence is strong evidence of absence. Going through the math with some generous estimates, we find that our lack of evidence of a galactic civilization very significantly reduces our estimates of a galactic civilization existing, so it is in fact evidence of absence.\n\nPost: Whether or not absence of evidence can be interpreted as evidence of absence depends on the probabilities associated with the topic at hand. In many cases you cannot view absence of evidence as evidence of absence, but in some cases you definitely can. Luckily, there's simple math that can help us figure this out. Let's look at this through an old staple of probability, [Bayes' theorem]( \n P(A|B) = P(B|A) P(A) / ( P(B|A) P(A) + P(B|~A) * P(~A) \n In plain English: \n We proposition A, which in this case would be something along the lines of \"the galaxy is currently colonized by an alien civilization\". We also have evidence B, which in this case would be \"there has been no concrete evidence of the existence of aliens\". It turns out that the probability of A (aliens currently spread all over the galaxy) given B (that we have no sign of them) can be estimated from only a few other numbers: \n P(A) - The a priori probability that A is true. To get this number we'd have to follow something akin to the logic in /u/tamolimam's post above (the a priori probability that A is false) 1%. \n P(B|A) - The probability that we would see evidence B, given that event A is true. So for our scenario - if there were a spacefaring alien civilization that has colonized the galaxy, what would be the probability that we would see absolutely zero evidence from them? I would personally think that this number would be very small, although this is certainly debatable. A galactic civilization requires communication, and we should have been able to detect some stray communication signals at some point. A common response is that aliens may be using super-advanced communication techniques that don't give off any stray electromagnetic signals - maybe they don't use radios anymore. That's certainly possible, but unless we come up with good evidence that such communication is possible we should think of that as a very low probability - although we haven't nailed them all together yet, physicists have a very good idea of what forces exist in the universe so we shouldn't go postulating new ones for the the sake of this argument. Even if such communication were to exist, it'd have to be used to the exclusion of older techniques. For example, we still have plenty of HAM radio operators on Earth even though we have much better communication techniques for most purposes. I think that for our estimate it would be pretty generous to put P(B|A) at 1%. \n P(B|~A) - The probability that we would see evidence B, given that A is false . So in our case, assuming that there is not an alien civilization, what is the probability that we would see no evidence of an alien civilization? This should be very near 100%. Let's be generous again and put it at 99%, because there's a slight chance that we'd see something completely unrelated and misinterpret it as good evidence of aliens. \n So from these estimates of a few specific factors, we can estimate the overall probability that there is an alien civilization: \n P(A) = 0.99; P(~A) = 0.01; P(B|A) = 0.01; P(B|~A) = 0.99 \n Plug these into the formula and you will get:\nP(A|B) = 0.5 \n What this means is that using our three estimates of the individual constituent probabilities, we would estimate a 50% chance of the galaxy actually being inhabited by aliens given that we have no evidence of their existence. \n In this case, the absence of evidence (B) has drastically lowered our estimated probability that the galaxy is inhabited (A). It cut the probability in half from our a priori estimate. That's about as close to absence of evidence being evidence of absence as we can get.","Summary: That ribbon used to be useful, but due to game mechanic changes it is not anymore. It is pretty much never worth using nowadays.\n\nPost: It's a remnant of an old game mechanic, pretty much worthless now. \n It used to be that planes would have to land at a specific location to reload after dropping their munitions. This led to a tactic of trying to shoot them out of the cockpit while they reload, and stealing their planes. That doesn't happen anymore, planes just reload in the air with a timer (just like tanks and other vehicles). \n They also recently changed how planes handle when they're shot down, and I can you from experience that it is exceedingly unlikely that a plane whose pilot you've shot out will land intact. The only time that you might have a decent shot at being able to steal a plane is when you're attacking the airfield. Defending pilots at the airfield must spawn on the ground (unlike the attackers on the airfield, or both sides on any other map - normally planes spawn in the air). \n If you are in the right place at the right time you can shoot a pilot out of his plane while it's landed, steal the plane, and get airborne. Even so, this is still incredibly unlikely to happen for several reasons: \n \n The pilot spends very little time on the ground. It only takes about 10 seconds to get airborne, so if you're not in exactly the right place at the right time you won't even get a chance. \n \n There are 3 runways the pilots can spawn at, if they control the whole airfield. Again - right place right time. \n \n You have to shoot the pilot out of the plane while it's still moving slowly. If it's moving quickly, it'll likely just crash into something on the ground when the pilot loses control and blow up anyways. This lowers your chance to shoot them down to about 3-4 seconds. \n \n Even if the stars align to get you the perfect opportunity to steal a plane - it's probably just going to get taken out by a tank. Tanks love shooting planes on the runway, and it's going to be sitting out in the open for a good long while - even if you have the fast hacking ribbon. \n \n \n <","Summary: There are absolutely no resources gained simply by holding more control points. Warfunds are the only resource that can be earned in-game to deploy and reinforce armies. /u/wisdum has no clue what he's talking about.\n\nPost: Clearly you have no idea how the actual game mechanics work. There is no measurable advantage to holding more factories or \"farms\". \n Side note: there aren't even any \"farms\" in the game. There are Towns, Mountain Towns, Factories, Airfields, and two skirmish maps known as Hill Skirmish and Forest Skirmish. This is an exhaustive list of every node type in the game. \n Anyways yes, it's better to have more points for strategic reasons (because it's generally better to be able to attack places from multiple assault lines at once and to be able to protect yourself from such multi-pronged attacks). However holding more non-capital points has absolutely zero direct influence on your ability to raise or reinforce armies. There is only one mechanic related to that, and it's gold/warfunds. Gold is purchased for real money so there's not much to say about that, but warfunds can be earned in-game by one of only two methods: \n \n Play the FPS game. You'll generally make some warfunds each game. \n In the RTS game, gets your assault into a battle. You are paid warfunds on a per-kill basis, according to the actual in-game kills of the FPS players who are playing in your assault team. \n \n These are the only ways to get warfunds in the current game. There are detailed posts by Reto about this that you can find if you look.","Summary: Make the can easier to use by placing it opposite the hinges (so the door doesn't block the can when opened) and you won't see this anymore. \n Edit: To the nitwits who think I am condoning this behavior, I am not. Get off your high horse. If someone had an issue with people stealing items from their car and a redditor suggested they lock the doors and keep any valuables out of sight, would you take that as condoning theft? Understanding a potential motivation that causes a problem, and proposing a solution to reduce the frequency of that problem, is not the same as condoning the actions of people who choose to engage in the problem.\n\nPost: If you open the door too far, it will actually hit the can. \n Well there's your problem - it's on the wrong side of the door. A by-the-door trashcan should be on the opposite side of the door as the hinges. \n Here's the thing: \n When people use a paper towel to open the door, they're going to have that paper towel in hand until they can step through the doorway. If it's a slowly-closing door people will just open it wide and quickly step through - if it's not, they may have to prop it open with their foot while they throw out the towel. Either way, they're going to be about halfway through and the door is going to be pretty widely open by the time they're ready to get rid of the paper towel. If the can is in a position where the door will hit it if opened too widely, then it is also in a position where the door is physically blocking access to it from the doorway when opened. This forces people to do an awkward little dance where they have to lean back around the door to dispose of their towels, and is almost certainly the reason you're still seeing towels left in inappropriate places. \n <","Summary: This is a recording of a recording. OP recorded in-game using FRAPS, and then while watching the video in VLC (or whatever other playback software) recorded the playback using a different recording software. OP forgot to turn off FRAPS while doing that though, so the overlay displaying the video playback's FPS was captured in the gif.\n\nPost: That FPS counter is from FRAPS, and it actually isn't OP's in-game FPS. It is just an artifact of shitty recording. \n Here's the thing: FRAPS doesn't save its FPS counter to recorded video. It displays it onscreen so you know you FPS and you can know whether or not you are getting decent video recording, but when you open up the file after the recording it will not have the FPS ticker. \n Here's the other thing: FRAPS displays its FPS counter overlay on many types of rendered objects, including most video playback software . So you can record an in-game video at say, 30 FPS. Then when you open that video up in your viewer of choice you will see an overlay that says 60 FPS - because that's the FPS of your video recorder and playing back a video isn't exactly stressful for your computer. \n If you see the FRAPS FPS ticker in a video, it means it's a recording of a recording, and the second recording was performed using some program other than FRAPS.","Summary: Ozone most certainly does burn on its own and is prone to explosive decomposition. We don't see this behavior in the atmosphere because ozone is very dilute, and unreactive towards the two major components of air.\n\nPost: A reation need atleast two reactants. O3 would not just react on its own because there is nothing to react with. \n This is patently false. While it's true that many reactions require the collision of multiple molecules, there are plenty of decomposition reactions that occur spontaneously solely by virtue of a particular structure being chemically unstable. In fact even for this particular example - ozone in the upper atmosphere is constantly decomposing to molecular and atomic oxygen because of its exposure to solar radiation , it wouldn't matter because this same reaction still occurs in the absence of light - just slower. That's a reason why concentrated ozone is prone to explosive decomposition . Heating the system and producing reactive atomic oxygen both serve to increase the rate of decomposition, and you end up with positive feedback that results in an explosion. \n The real reason that the ozone in the atmosphere doesn't explode or burn up is that there just isn't enough of it - the concentrations are too low for that to happen. The two main components of the atmosphere are molecular nitrogen (N 2 ) and molecular oxygen(O 2 ). If a collision of ozone with either of those molecules would produce an explosive reaction than the ozone will burn up - everything else (including other ozone molecules) is in low enough concentrations that it's pretty uncommon for an ozone molecule to bump into them. So, what happens when the two main components of air bump into ozone? Ozone is relatively inert towards molecular nitrogen, so nothing much happens there. It will react with molecular oxygen, but they often end up just swapping an oxygen atom so that one oxygen molecule and one ozone molecule go in, and another oxygen molecule and ozone molecule come out. This produces no reactive side products or change in enthalpy, so it doesn't lead to any change in the reactivity of the ozone layer. \n <","Summary: Subway has strict corporate rules about that sort of thing that every franchise has to follow and they are frequently tested to make sure they follow the rules. It almost certainly wasn't just a fluke about how yours was managed.\n\nPost: Obviously this is not the scenario for every subway but it is how many of them run \n I worked at a Subway about a decade ago, and that sounds pretty close to what the corporate-level policy was. We'd get a corporate inspector through one a month or so to make sure we were making the sandwiches correctly - we had to use specific numbers of individual slices of cucumber, tomatoes, olives, you name it. I don't remember a rule about adding half then adding a quarter (totaling 175% topping maximum in this case) but the amount of extra toppings we could put on was strictly controlled, and I think it was a little less than 2x what we started with. \n <","Summary: It's not uncommon for cell service to be virtually non-existent during emergency situations, even in areas that are normally well-covered and haven't sustained any physical damage.\n\nPost: The damage would likely depend on the type of seismic waves encountered. Some make the ground move side to side, some make it move back and forth, others do weirder motions - and they affect different types of structures differently. It's conceivable that a tall tower could topple while buried lines remain intact. \n This is all moot though, because you can lose cell coverage pretty easy in an emergency, without the towers going down. When there is a major emergency virtually everyone gets on their cell phone, and it's really common for networks to become swamped (even if they're physically fine) because the towers just aren't built for that much cell traffic at once. \n If you've ever lived near a sports stadium for a popular team, you might know what I'm talking about. During local university football games there are so many people on their phones in my city that you basically can't count on your cell phone for anything. You're lucky to send or receive texts with an hour long delay, and you can forget about making a phone call. \n <","Summary: Basically everything you're complaining about is an issue of skill. Practice more.\n\nPost: the thing is impossible to control and doesn't turn like the axis plane \n There are varying opinions on this out there, but the overwhelmingly dominant one up until planes got revamped a few patches ago was that there is no difference between the handling characteristics for the axis and allied planes. After spending many hours in a Bf 109 and several in the P-38, I am inclined to say that this is still the case. The easiest test is to get yourself into a turning battle using the keyboard steering, with another pilot who is also using the keyboard steering. The thing about keyboard steering is that it locks your throttle to full and also maxes out your turning rate. You'll find that a P-38 and Bf 109 both steering by keyboard will both turn at the exact same rate. This is the only objective, measurable test of turning ability that exists in the game because every other method requires pilot skill to max out turning rate - this just requires you to push a button. \n I've had games where I play against another keyboard-turner where we were both locked in a death spiral for literally upwards of 10 minutes - both of us separated by 180 degrees so that if either one of us pulls out of the spiral the other one will be on his tail. When I play my P-38 I never find a Bf 109 that can out-maneuver me - only ones that can match my maneuverability. The inverse is true when I play my Bf 109, I never find P-38's that can out-maneuver me, but it is common to find pilots who can exactly match my turning radius. \n If you're having trouble maneuvering, that's a problem that exists between the keyboard and the chair. Practice more, and maybe try using the keyboard controls for sharp turns (which are hidden behind an option called 'debug controls' or 'invert controls' or something, I forget the name. I think the default keybind is shift). \n >How the hell you can bomb something when there is no indicator of where the bomb will go I don't know. \n You practice. Nearly every single pilot that you see dropping laser-precision bombs has dropped hundreds of bombs to get where they are. Are you using free-look to actually look at where your bombs land when you drop them? Do you have friends on the ground letting you know if you're over-shooting or under-shooting your targets? You need some sort of feedback mechanism to let you know when you're getting better. Try to make all of your bombing runs as similar as possible to start - try to always come in nice and even with the same angle of attack, with the same throttle settings. If you have controlled conditions then you do have a point of reference - your plane. For me, I learned that I could get my bombs in the right ballpark under my controlled practice-attack conditions if I released my bomb just as the target was no longer visible under the nose of my aircraft. Your attack pattern will likely be different than mine so your mileage may vary, but try that for starters. Once you can hit reliably from one angle of attack / throttle combo, you can try mixing it up. Eventually you'll get a feel for it, but there's absolutely no difference in how the bombs fall between factions and every accurate pilot that you see got that way by lots of practice. \n >Axis tanks can hide in the woods, snipe when they see allied tanks. Allied tanks can't. \n Yes, you can. Especially as the Chaffee. People do it all the time, and are often hugely successful at it. \n >We don't have that option as planes are everywhere and always know where you are and kill you. \n I have spent many hours flying in this game, and I can tell you that ground targets (including tanks) are virtually invisible if they hide in shadows. If it seems as if the axis planes always know where you are then you are doing one of three things wrong: \n \n You are shooting from a position that's not actually hidden from the air. You need to use shadows to hide, and you should ideally have some big pines blocking your view of the air from directions enemy planes are likely to come from (ie, sitting on the edge of a forest does you no good because the planes can see into the edge of the treeline easily). \n \n You are shooting too often from the same place while planes look for you. All rounds in this game have tracers, including tank rounds. If you're firing off a constant barrage while a plane looks for you, it will be quite easy for them to zero in on your location (although still difficult if you use trees and shadows correctly). If you're doing the typical Allied-tanker \"shell everything with HE until hell freezes over\" tactic, that could be why you're getting killed by planes often. Only fire when you actually have a target. \n \n The most likely answer is that you're not effectively hiding from other ground units. Most tankers seem to forget a simple idea that we pick up when we're about two years old - if you can see them, they can see you. Tankers like to have a commanding view of a large swathe so that they can use their superior firepower to dominate the map. That's the fastest way to get spotted from the ground that there is. You should remember that as a tanker, getting spotted means death. You should try to find narrow views of key areas so that anything that can see you dies in short order. Hide in a ravine, or behind a building or rock, or do whatever you need to do to hide - and then slowly inch forwards and expose yourself. Check that the entire area you're exposing yourself to is free of targets, and then inch forwards some more. If you limit your field of view to a small enough area that you can completely control everything you see, then you limit the enemy's ability to spot you. This method will make you a little more vulnerable to infantry sneaking up behind you so you'll have to check your six a lot more often and/or get some good infantry support, but it's a hell of a lot better than most tankers' tactics of sitting out where every infantry on the map can spot you from a mile away. \n \n \n >The lack of anti air (the static anti-air doesn't even seem to hurt them) ruins the game. \n I would agree that the Axis anti-air isn't much good. It spends about 40% of its time reloading, its projectiles are fired in groups of two instead of individually (making the tracer stream less continuous and much harder to zero in with), the seat is exposed to enemy small-arms fire (making it a deathtrap to use compared to the extremely well-armored allied gun), and worst of all the guns are positioned low enough that they will hit the gun emplacement's own sandbags or walls unless firing at a target directly overhead. \n I agree wholeheartedly, the axis AA guns absolutely suck. The allied AA guns do not. My archnemesis when I play my pilot, is anyone who knows how to actually use the quad gun. Especially on maps like the city or airfield those guns can ping you from across the map, and they will kill you in about 10 seconds if you let them. If it doesn't seem effective you're probably not using the tracers to lead the target, or you're taking shots at planes that are too far for you to hit at your skill level. \n The Quad AA is really good at controlling the planes' behavior. When you use it (if you can aim) you force the enemy pilot to do one of two things - fly low and far away to avoid your bullets, or try to bomb you. Those are pretty much the only two things you can do against somebody in an AA gun. If they fly low and far away - great! You're keeping them from being effective. If they try to bomb you they will have to approach you head-on, and you should have an easy time shooting them out of their cockpit. If none of these situations is happening you probably need to practice your aim - /u/MadBotanist has some good tips as far as that is concerned. \n Another thing to try for anti-air is a Jeep. The Axis Kubelwagen is terrible for anti-air (are you sensing a pattern yet?) because its gun can only turn about 30 degrees off of forward. The Allied Jeep is actually pretty decent for anti-air, because its gun can go about 60 degrees off from forward. I've had plenty of times in the air where I've had an enemy in a Jeep that's been just as threatening as an enemy in an AA gun. Park your jeep someplace that has a good view of the area the enemy planes are patrolling (and remember those tips I mentioned before about using shadows and cover for your tank, it'll help here too), and use your Jeep as a mobile AA position. It's only got 1/4 the guns of the Quad AA, but you can control the enemy plane's behavior just the same.","Summary: Ritz chips are actually crackers, and just marketed as chips for PR reasons so that Ritz can say their product is healthier than 'other chips', and in this way they can try to poach some of the chip-buying market.\n\nPost: I would argue that they are definitely crackers, not chips. Ignoring the fact that one is always baked and the other usually fried, a major difference is what they're made of. Chips are usually cooked slices of some otherwise relatively-unprocessed material - potato, apple, banana, whatever. As far as I know, crackers are always made with dough. I can only think of one kind of chip that's made with dough, tortilla chips, and that's not a cracker because it's fried. \n Really, there's very little difference in the way the old Ritz crackers were made, and the way the new \"chips\" are made. They're made of similar doughs, cooked the same way, and both have docking holes (another hallmark of a cracker). The \"chips\" are slightly crisper than the old crackers, but there are plenty of other similarly-crispy crackers. \n The reason Ritz is calling their new product chips is not because they are actually chips, it's because they want consumers to notice their favourable nutritional qualities compared to fried potato chips. This is no secret - it says to do this right on the front of the bag! \n <","Summary: The problem is your object detail is too low, beware of FPS-tweaking guides that have you set it extra low in the config file.\n\nPost: The problem you are describing is not a view distance issue, but an object detail issue. Changing the object detail in the advanced video settings changes the number of objects (like gates, fences, small walls, scenery car wrecks and barricades, players, zombies, animals, loot...) that will be rendered at once. The game renders the closest things first and doesn't render any more once the limit (which IIRC is in terms of polygons, not actual objects) is reached. Since DayZ has a lot more objects than your average Arma II mission (zombies and loot) the object culling effect is much more noticeable, especially near cities. \n If you want to alleviate this, adjust your object detail. Also a quick warning, there is a config file setting that most DayZ FPS-tweaking guides recommend setting to 150k or something thereabouts. I forget the name of this setting, but it is the object detail setting, and the number suggested is actually lower than you can get it with the default pulldown in game. \n <","Summary: Object detail is the only direct way you can change how far players get rendered ingame, and you need it higher to see people from farther away, not lower as OP implies.\n\nPost: objects and terrain don't render until you are close, so you can see players and vehicles a lot easier and from further away \n This isn't how rendering in Arma II works. The relevant settings here are view distance, terrain detail and object detail. Of those three, view distance and terrain detail are both locked on a per-server basis so that everybody sees the same thing. View distance is just the distance of the fog in the distance, but terrain detail controls how far the grass is and how detailed mountains are in the backround. You will find servers with no grass, and servers with a ton of grass, and you cannot change this by changing your personal settings. \n The only variable affecting player and vehicle rendering that you can actually change is object detail. This controls how many objects your game will render at once. This includes loot, players, zombies, vehicles, trees, small walls, fences, gates, doors, downed trees, stumps, shrubs... pretty much everything that you would not think of as 'part of the map', and many other things that you would. The game renders the closest objects and continues rendering objects out by distance until it reaches a polygon limit defined by your object detail setting. Once the limit is reached, no further objects are rendered. So you can render players from farther away, but you have to turn your object detail up to do it, not down. \n <","Summary: A lot of projectiles fired at a thin target isn't all that different from a single projectile fired through the entire Earth. There'd still be a ton of collisions.\n\nPost: The first gold-foil experiment used radon-210 as its source of alpha particles. I don't have the paper in front of me so I'm going to take a wild guess at how much they used - let's say they used one gram of radon and captured every alpha particle emitted. That [works out]( to 2x10^17 particles per second. Different sources are giving the thickness of the gold as between [8.6x10^-6]( and [4x10^-5 cm]( thick. This was a really thin sheet of gold - apparently Rutherford himself estimated his foil to be only [2-4 atoms thick]( \n Let's use the largest of those (4 atoms thick, so each alpha particle gets 4 chances to interact), and also imagine the apparatus uses a ridiculously large quantity of radon - 10 grams (and still uses every alpha particle - which it definitely didn't do). That'd put the total rate of possible interactions at about 9x10^18 interactions per second. \n Now let's compare that to our hypothetical experiment where we have one particle passing through the entire Earth. I'm going to ignore that the Earth isn't made of gold for the sake of ease of calculation - some parts of the Earth won't be all that different in terms of atoms encountered / cross-sectional length, some may be - but we're probably going to accurate to within a couple of orders of magnitude. How many particles would our single projectile encounter on its trip through earth? Well, our gold foil had about 4 atoms in 4x10^-8 m. The diameter of the Earth is about 1.2x10^8 m. That means that the single projectile is going to encounter somewhere in the ballpark of 10^16 atoms on its way through Earth. \n It's true that there would be many fewer interactions than for Rutherford's experiments (if the apparatus is left running for awhile), but 10^16 interactions is still a lot considering it was observed that about 1 in every 20,000 or so alpha particles actually hit a gold nucleus. That still gives us our single projectile colliding with roughly 10^9 atomic nuclei on its trip through Earth. \n <","Summary: OP is either an Australian / New Zealander who couldn't be bothered to wait another hour to take a picture of the total eclipse when it would have been visible then, or OP is an American / Canadian who slept in about an hour too late and wanted to whore some karma from it. Either way, the total eclipse would definitely have been visible from OP's location.\n\nPost: Unlike solar eclipses which cast a relatively small shadow on the relatively large Earth, lunar eclipses are equally visible everywhere on the Earth - if the Moon is in the sky for you and not obscured, you will see the exact same exlipse as everyone else in the world who is viewing it at the same time. It can be oriented differently (as in rotated around) depending on your longitude and latitude, but otherwise it will be identical. \n That said, you can get a pretty good estimate of the location and time of somebody's lunar eclipse viewing based on their picture of it. Your longitude will affect how high the moon is above the horizon at the time of eclipse, while your longitude and latitude will work together to determine the rotation of the moon in the sky (which determines the apparent track of the shadow that you see). For example at my location, the eclipse was visible before dawn (that's purely from my longitude). That put the moon in the western sky (since all lunar eclipses occur on full moons and a full moon is always opposite of the Sun's apparent location). \n Since the Earth's shadow is always in the ecliptic plane, the shadow on the Moon will follow along that plane as visible from your location. The ecliptic plane meets the horizon in the East and West, and is highest in the sky in the South (if you're in the northern hemisphere) or the North (if you're in the southern hemisphere). This determines the track of the shadow across the moon. For example in my location in North America, the shadow appeared to move from the top-left corner of the moon across to the bottom-right. You can see what the Eclipse would have looked like for you [here]( by inputting a major city near you. \n Although the eclipse was visible from a wide range of locations, the fact that the bright patch is on the top edge narrows it down a lot. The only two regions that would have seen a bright patch at the top of the moon would have been Australia and surrounding countries in the southern hemisphere, or North America. If the picture was taken in North America then we're actually looking at a left/right mirror image of what you saw, because everywhere in North America (except way up by Alaska) would have had the light at the trailing edge of the shadow appearing on the top/top-right of the moon, not the top-left. \n So what happened here? Since you apparently missed the total eclipse, that means one of three things: \n \n The total eclipse wasn't visible from your location. We've already established that you're either somewhere in the neighborhood of Australia (with an unaltered photo) or the United States (with a left/right mirror image photo), and it turns out that this case isn't actually possible from either of those two regions. If you are in Australia then the moon was actually rising in the sky at the time of the eclipse (so if you were able to see a partial eclipse you would have been able to see a total eclipse had you waited for it), and if you were in America then we're looking at a left/right mirror image of moon after the total eclipse, meaning the total eclipse would have been higher in the sky and visible from your location. Given the details of your picture, the total eclipse was definitely visible from your location. \n \n You are located someplace near Australia, and you took your picture before the total eclipse and didn't bother to wait for the total eclipse. This pretty unlikely as most people who are interested in this sort of thing and awake to see it start, would stay awake to see the total eclipse. This is reddit though, and it's possible that you're just karma-whoring. \n \n You are located somewhere in North America, you woke up too late to see the total eclipse, and the photo is a left/right mirror image of what you actually saw. \n \n \n So which is it? It's hard to say for sure. The fact that you wrote \"arse\" makes #2 look more likely, but the fact that the photo was apparently taken with your left hand makes #3 look more likely (because most people take phone pictures with their right hand and would get a picture like this if the picture were left/right inverted). It definitely wasn't #1 though. \n <","Summary: It sucks that you got kicked for one mistake, but because tanks can't really be carried and it wastes so much time for so many people if they are inadequate, you really should make sure you can confidently tank an LFR before you queue for one. \n Edit: Grammar. \n Edit 2: More grammar. Also, gold! Thank you, anonymous benefactor!\n\nPost: I think tank is the only position that you should not play until you're very confident in your abilities to adequately perform the job. It sounds like you maybe got unfairly punished for one error: almost nobody can get through an entire raid, even an easy one, with no errors. \n That attitude towards tanks exists with good reason, though. If somebody comes to the raid and can't adequately DPS, that's usually OK - the raid is designed that some people can suck and be carried by the rest. If somebody comes to the raid and can't adequately heal, that's also usually OK - there are 5 other healers who will keep the raid up just fine if 2-3 of them are competent in their role. If you show up as a tank though, and are vastly undergeared in your role or are still learning the fights or even still learning the spec - there's nobody to carry you. There are only 2 tanks, and most fights (even in LFR) require two adequately competent tanks. \n When you queue as a tank for LFR, most of the time you get a very short, nearly instant queue. It's really not fair to the other 23 people in the raid, most of whom will have been waiting somewhere in the ballpark of 10-40 minutes, for you to queue for a role you're not fully capable in. If you queue tank and don't pass muster, you've wasted a lot of people's time, and a lot more time than you had to input. \n If your tank doesn't have the gear to reliably tank an LFR yet, then you can queue as another role and set your loot specialization to tank. \n If you as a player don't know the fights in a specific LFR well enough that you can tank them adequately, then you can queue as another role and watch the fights. You can pay attention to what successful tanks do. You can spend 5 minutes watching a youtube video or 30 seconds reading a \"bosses in 5 seconds\" type guide. \n If you as a player aren't familiar with your spec, you can learn your spec in a lower-tier medium where you aren't wasting so much of so many people's time if you fail. Say you just got to 90 and finally made a tank spec, and you don't yet have the muscle memory (or regular memory) to hit the right buttons at exactly the right time. You can run 5-man dungeons or heroics. You can do scenarios or heroic scenarios. These have short queues and less people, and you're also more likely to still succeed if you aren't playing at 100% capacity. \n Again, I'm not advocating crucifying a tank for making a single mistake. Everybody makes mistakes, nobody's perfect. However when I'm in a group with 22 other people who have all sat through a half-hour queue to do an LFR and several wipes in it becomes apparent that we have a tank who is incapable of completing the LFR, I think it's OK to kick the tank and get a new one - and I think it's the tank who is the asshole in that situation, not the group that kicked him. The tank will have wasted at most a few minutes of his own time waiting in the queue, and after the kick the group will likely fall apart forcing everybody else to have to endure a long queue again, and even if it doesn't fall apart they still end up sitting around with their thumbs up their butts (unable to do dailies or other quests they might normally be doing because they're in a raid group) for another 10-40 minutes while they wait for the queue to assign them a new tank. \n <","Summary: Your mistweaver is performing fine, all things considered. Your discipline priest and restoration shaman are having inflated numbers because you have too few healers for your raid size and because your raid is absolutely terrible at avoiding damage. Your mistweaver isn't the worst at their role in their raid, and you have much bigger fish to fry as far as raid improvement goes. Get another healer, get your raid to stop standing in the stupid, and then come back if your mistweaver is still vastly underperforming.\n\nPost: As a rule of thumb, healers should almost never be evaluated by their percentile score. It's not like for a DPSer where the amount of DPS depends solely on their own skill - for a healer the amount of HPS depends on a great many factors such as personal skill, raid composition, how much self-healing the tanks have, class mechanics' interactions with situational particulars, and everyone else's performance . More on this in #4. \n \n \"OMG this guy is only performing above-average, somebody help me!\" is what we're hearing. Your mistweaver is at 61% in their bracket, which is not 'bad' by any stretch of the imagination. You've got several players who are performing below that in their bracket for their role, and more importantly many players who are failing to move out of the stupid in order to inflate their numbers. Ask them to not stand in the stupid and I bet you their percentile scores are going to go down. \n \n On Kromog the primary reason your Mistweaver is \"underperforming\" is because of your composition choice, not their skill. You have a very low number of healers for the Kromog fight, especially given the size of your raid. This will tend to inflate the numbers for discipline priests because they're able to make better use of their shields (which get used up before heals can possibly ever land giving them an advantage on the meters). This will also tend to inflate the numbers for shamans (because their mastery gives them tons of heals when people are low, and with too few healers lots of people tend to have low health). \n \n On Gruul the same composition statement generally applies - Gruul isn't a fight that typically requires \"extra\" healers, but you still have too few healers in general for your raid size. This will tend to favor the disc priest and resto shaman on the meters. You know what else tends to favor them on the meters? All of the other members of your raid who are apparently blind and are eating so many overhead smashes and cave-ins . Seriously, I can't emphasize this enough. Not only does this give an extreme advantage to your discipline priest (who can guarantee his full shield gets used on all those idiot players every time there's a cone) and the resto shaman (who can guarantee to get huge mastery bonuses every time they drop to low health from standing in a cone) - it makes you look really shallow and incompetent to be coming onto reddit to ask people to look at your above-average Mistweaver so you can give him tips on improving when your raid as a whole is in the 0-10th fucking percentile for avoiding those cone attacks (and the player in question only got hit once). I look at logs all the time and I've never seen a Gruul log this bad - before you have a talk with your mistweaver about anything you need to have a talk with your whole raid about not standing in the stupid. \n \n \n <","Summary: You have no idea what you're talking about.\n\nPost: It says in that Harvard article some nutrients break down when exposed to heat. \n That's true of every cooking method. No matter what method you cook it, certain things will break down at certain temperatures - that's just the way it is. \n >Did you read it? \n Yes. Did you? The specific nutrient it mentions is Vitamin C, and it also mentions that \"cooking with a microwave probably does a better job of preserving the nutrient content of foods\". Care to take your foot out of your mouth now? \n I'm a chemist, so I actually happen to know quite a lot about stuff like this. I know exactly how microwaves work to heat up your food, and what kinds of changes are likely to result from their use. \n Did you know that microwaving actually results in one of the (if not the absolute) least amount of chemical change in the food? Unlike frying, roasting, baking, or pretty much any other cooking method - microwaving does not typically produce any kind of caramelized crust on the food being cooked. Why not? Because it's so incredibly even. Is it perfectly even? No, nothing is or can be. But it's damn close - and much more even than anything else where the heat has to work its way in from the outside of the food (as opposed to in a microwave the heat appears inside the food when the microwave photons interact with the polar molecules). \n Like the article said - microwaving most definitely does not diminish the nutrients of food compared to any other method of cooking. It doesn't leach nutrients away in the water or oil like boiling or frying will, and any nutrients that would break down by microwaving would also break down from any other heat source. \n <","Summary: Although it breaks down Vitamin C and alters some other nutrients (but mostly in ways that don't render them inactive like cooked vitamin C), cooking (including microwaving) actually increases the nutritional content of food by multiple mechanisms, making it inaccurate to say that it \"diminishes the nutrients of food\". \n I don't know why I'm even bothering to write this for you, as you clearly didn't read the original article that you asked me to read - or my first response to your original excuse for a post. You're taking a nuanced discussion and beating it with a sledgehammer.\n\nPost: Well as I said in my original post, I've never heard the rumor. \n One would assume that the rumor is that microwaving diminishes the nutrients of foods compared to other methods of cooking . It sounds like a rumor made by people who are afraid to use microwaves, because they don't understand how they work. It sounds designed to get people to cook their food by other methods. \n Am I way off base? Even if the rumor was specifically the one you seem to be advocating that is much more limited in scope, it's still not even strictly true. Yes, some nutrients will be destroyed by heating (although we've already established it will happen less than other methods of cooking). \n There are other nutrients that are actually effectively increased by cooking. Humans don't have the necessary enzymes to break down cellulose, which is what the cell walls of plants are made of. It's the fiber in plants that helps you poop - it passes right through your gut undigested. It turns out that cooking vegetables helps destroy those cell walls, and there are multiple benefits of this: \n Lots of nutrients are tied up inside individual cells, and destroying the cell walls lets them escape. A good example is [lycopene in tomatoes]( - if you cook tomatoes you are able to get more of the lycopene out than if you eat them raw, because many of the cell walls get destroyed and it's easier for you to extract all of the nutrients. \n Another benefit is that the cell walls themselves are nutritional content, that we just can't normally digest. Cellulose is a [polysaccharide]( - it is literally just a big long chain of lots of sugar molecules together. Since we don't have the right enzyme to break it down, we can't get any of that nutritional content from eating cellulose. By cooking we cause hydrolysis of some of those bonds connecting the individual sugars, releasing sugar into the food. This is extra nutritional content that we would not have had, if the food were consumed raw. \n Both of these benefits most certainly do occur no matter how the food is cooked, including by microwave. So while it's true that some nutrients get destroyed (and really it's pretty much mostly just Vitamin C), there are also other nutrients that actually get increased by cooking (and in most cases probably in greater amounts) - so you can't just make a flat blanket statement that \"cooking diminishes the nutrients\". \n <","Summary: Maybe this article's other numbers are accurate, but take them with a grain of salt because whoever came up with the numbers clearly doesn't understand the units they're working with, and also is making the claim that we use 105% of the planet Earth's annual energy output on producing toilet paper.\n\nPost: He adds that manufacturing requires about 17.3 terawatts of electricity annually \n Really? 17.3 terawatts of electricity anually? Suddenly I distrust every number in this article. Somebody definitely screwed something up, because: \n \n A [watt]( is a unit of power, not energy. That statement is about as nonsensical as saying \"my car uses 200 horsepower per year\". The only way it could make sense is if it's meant to mean 17.3 terawatt-years. \n \n Even if we were to assume that somebody just omitted the \"times years\" part of that unit, it's still a ridiculous number because it is greater than the total power output of the entire world . As of 2008, the total annual energy output of the entire planet was 143,841 terawatt-hours that we are using 105% of the planet's 2008-level energy output to produce toilet paper.","Summary: Sensationalism by any party is silly, and your math needs work. \n I am a chemist by education and trade - I work at a major research university doing chemistry research. One thing that practicing a career in science does, is it trains you to always be able to back up what you say with evidence. It trains you to admit when the evidence doesn't fit your hypothesis so you can move on and get close to the truth. In this very thread I [made a mathematical error]( and [was happy to have it corrected]( I promise, I am not just saying this to try to make myself look better in front of a bunch of strangers on the internet, or to be mean to you, or for any other reason other than the fact that I know this to be true: \n You are dead wrong in your calculations about this. You clearly are grossly misinformed about units of power and energy, and your math on this needs some serious work.\n\nPost: Saying 17.3 Terawatts annually means Terawatt-year. Not sure what you're fussing about, it's completely clear what was meant from the snippet posted. \n I'd agree that terawatt-year is a reasonable interpretation of 'annual terawatts', but it is not completely clear from the context. Seeing as it is much more common for people to measure energy in terms of watt-hours (or whatever order of magnitude of watt-hours is most convenient), it's ambiguous at best whether the number is referring to terawatt-years or terawatt-hours. Units are equally as important as the numbers that they're attached to, it's important to get them correct. Leaving off half of the unit here leads to an ambiguity of almost 4 orders of magnitude. \n >Terawatt-hours is per hour. You would be doing the equivalent of dividing, so it would be 17.3 (Terawatt/year) * 1/8765.81 (year/hour) or 0.002 Terawatt-hours for toilet paper. This is well within the global values you provided. \n What? That's not how this works. [Power]( is in units of energy per unit or time. That means energy divided by time. In order to equate that to an amount of energy, the time unit in the denominator needs to be cancelled out by multiplication. Hence we have a common unit, the [kilowatt-hour]( This is wattage multiplied by time, not wattage divided by time. Our terawatt-year is the same thing, with a different power of ten out front and a different unit of time at the end - but still the same idea. One terawatt multiplied by one year is a terawatt-year. \n >I haven't looked into the actual numbers to see how reasonable things are in terms of scale, but you seem to have a gross misunderstanding of things. \n You, sir, are the one with a gross misunderstanding of things. According to your math one terawatt-year is equivalent to 0.0001 terawatt-hours. Your username says you're an overcritical engineer but I doubt both of those qualifiers as you should have been taught in the course of your engineering degree to do a ballpark check on any math you do before relying on it. In what world does it make sense that one terawatt applied over the course of a year amounts to less energy than one terawatt applied over the course of an hour? \n >On-topic, of course blowing water at your ass alone (maybe with an airjet too because why not, fancy) will be more efficient than cutting down trees, transporting said trees, cutting again said trees, processing trees for paper, packaging, and then transporting so that it can be purchased commercially by someone else who most likely has to be transported mechanically to and from said point of commerce. \n If you look carefully you'll notice that I never contested whether bidets are actually more energy-efficient than toilet paper. They probably are. I just don't trust these specific numbers, for the reasons I listed. \n >","Summary: Dissolved gasses are held in place by weak interactions with liquid solutes, which can be overcome by thermal motion. Adding heat makes it easier for the gasses to escape these interactions, and once they overcome these interactions they tend to stay in a gaseous state because nature tends towards chaotic states. Non-dissolved solids are held in place by strong interactions, and they will only dissolve into a liquid if the relatively weakly-interacting liquids can overcome the strong solid-solid interactions. Increasing the temperature increases the amount of interaction between the liquid and solid, allowing more solid to be dissolved.\n\nPost: To really understand this you need to understand the general differences between physical states, what makes substances assume those states, and what it really means to dissolve something: \n So the first thing we need is to get a picture of the typical state of a molecule in different states of matter. On a molecular scale you can think of a gas as a bunch of molecules flying all over the place, bumping into everything. This is why gasses fill their volume, and why they flow - because the molecules are shooting in every direction ridiculously fast, going everywhere . Liquids are like gasses in that the molecules are still moving around a lot, but they're not quite as crazy - they're not so much shooting past each other as sliding past each other, because they stick together. This is why a liquid flows, but doesn't necessarily fill the volume of its container. In solids the molecules don't appreciably move at all - they're more or less locked in place. This is why solids don't flow, and don't fill the volume of their container. \n So why do substances occur in a given state? It has to do with how well the molecules of that substance interact with each other. These interactions are attractive, and serve to bind the molecules together. If they're extremely weak you get molecules that are barely held together at all and fly willy-nilly all over the place - a gas. If they're strong they make the molecules stick together, but still allow them to slide around - you have a liquid. If they're really strong they make the molecules stick together so strongly that they can't move around - that's a solid. These attractive forces compete against the natural thermal motion of molecules, which is why things tend to melt and eventually boil as you heat them - the forces are only so strong and can only constrain movement so much before the increased thermal motion 'wins'. \n So now let's look at what it means to be dissolved: \n If you have a solid sitting in a liquid, that means you have something that has relatively strong intramolecular forces sitting in something that has relatively weak intramolecular forces. It will often turn out that the liquid's interaction with the solid is more favorable than the liquid's interaction with itself, but it also often turns out that the liquid's interaction with the solid is less favorable than the solid's interaction with the solid. How soluble the solid is then, depends on the relative strengths of the interactions. You can think of it as the solids 'wanting' to be a part of the solid, but occasionally getting pulled away by the solvating liquid. Increasing the temperature makes the liquid molecules move faster, and all the extra moving and jostling around gives them more opportunities to occasionally peel a bit of solid off of the bulk mass. This shifts the equilibrium more towards a dissolved mixture. \n For a gas dissolved in a liquid, the situation isn't quite the same. Although solvated gasses are typically slightly energetically stabilized by their interactions with the liquid solvent, there is a preference towards more chaotic arrangements. If a dissolved gas molecule can escape from its solution - it will. Just like always, there are two competing factors here. The interactions with the liquid keep the dissolved gas molecules held relatively tightly, and keep them in solution. The natural thermal motion of the dissolved gas works against those forces. If you heat the mixture the gas molecules have a more energetic movement which is more likely to 'break free' from the liquid - and then since chaotic arrangements are preferred and a gaseous state is much more chaotic than a dissolved liquid state, if a gas molecule manages to 'break free' it tends not to come back. So heating a dissolved gas helps that gas escape the mixture, and lowers its solubility. \n Why don't dissolved solids 'escape' when the temperature rises? Because there's nowhere to 'escape' to. A substance that would otherwise be solid isn't going to escape as individual gas molecules - when the occasional dissolved molecule changes state it's going to go back to its highly-ordered solid state, where it will sit around waiting for more liquid molecules to bump into it in the right way to whisk it away again. \n <","Summary: Gaming the system to get 6 Death Runes as an Unholy DK is highly situational and not something that is worth messing with. The 6 Death Rune Blood DK rotation that was intended to be nerfed with this hotfix is arguably not overpowered either - by doing that rotation you're gaining about 10% single-target DPS and losing the vast majority of your AoE DPS. From a survivability perspective it's vastly superior without any set bonuses (25% more self-healing under perfect conditions) but once you get a 2-piece set bonus you only end up with about 10% more self-healing at a cost of about 10% less healing received from your healers. The rotation is not significantly overpowered, and it would be best to just revert the changes. \n Edit: Although I didn't do the math on it, you can also be assured that including the tier-5 talents and Scent of Blood procs would serve to decrease the advantage of the 6 Death rune rotation because the effects would apply equally to both rotations and make them more equal.\n\nPost: Honestly though how bad even was the 6-rune gaming? \n As Unholy I need enough Unholy runes on most fights that I don't even bother going for 6 Death runes except on a couple fights, like Beastlord or Operator. Even on those fights though you really need bursts of AoE instead of sustained AoE which makes it hard to justify gaming to 6 runes (as maintaining 6 death runes is pretty difficult to do unless you're just spamming blood boil or carefully timing your Unholy-rune-using abilities to only use your Death_Blood runes). For Unholy it doesn't seem like it's that big of a deal because it's only useful in niche situations. \n Then for Blood (which I play way more), it still doesn't seem that good to do 6 Death runes (especially in light of the current 2-piece set bonus). If you don't game for 6 Death runes then every recharge cycle is giving you 2 Death Strikes and 2 Blood Boils. 2 Blood Boils gives 2 stacks of Scent of Blood (+20% D.S. equivalent each), so ignoring T5 talents and procs that comes out to 2.4 effective Death Strikes per rune recharge cycle. If you do game for 6 Death runes then (again ignoring T5 talents and procs) you get 3 effective Death Strikes per rune recharge cycle. \n This is a sizeable difference (25% more) but not overwhelmingly huge. You're potentially gaining 25% more self-heals and (using Simulationcraft's 680 ilvl damage per execution for this example) gaining 10% more single-target DPS, but you're losing all of your non-disease non-proc AoE DPS. \n Then if you try to include the 2-piece set bonus, the advantage gets even smaller. Vampric Blood can have a 17% uptime without the bonus. Ignoring Crimson Scourge procs (because they're relatively infrequent on the timescale of a typical rune recharge cycle and I don't feel like calcluating the Blood Boils per second from this right now) a standard rotation without 6 Death Runes would decrease the cooldown by 10 seconds per rune rotation cycle. I am personally not spectacularly geared but my full rune regeneration cycle is 16.5 seconds long - so after 2 cycles (33 seconds) I'd have a guaranteed 20-second cooldown reduction on Vampric Blood, bringing it down to 40 seconds. Throw in an occasional Crimson Scourge and you'll probably end up with an average Vampiric Blood cooldown of around 30-35 seconds. We'll go with 35 to be conservative - that brings the Vampric Blood uptime to about 29%, which is about a 70% increase in Vampiric Blood uptime versus the 6 Death Rune rotation. So all-in-all a non-glyphed but 2-piece-bonused Vampiric Blood used on cooldown gives about 20% overall extra healing in the 6 Death Rune rotation, and about 30% overall extra healing when used with the 'normal' rotation. \n What are the effects of Vampiric Blood on the effecting Death Strikes per rune recharge cycle above? With the 2-piece set bonus those 2.4 Death Strikes per cycle on the 'normal' rotation go up to about 3.2 death-strike-equivalents worth of self-healing, and the 3 actual Death Strikes per cycle from the 6-Death-rune rotation go to about 3.5 Death-Strike-equivalents worth of self-healing. Now we're looking at about a 10% difference in self-healing potential between the two rotations, but the one with the self-healing advantage also has an approximately 10% healing disadvantage from all other sources . Honestly - I think it's in many situations slightly better to do the 6 Death Rune rotation but it's certainly not overpowered and there are many situations were it's not even the optimal rotation to run (like any time that you need to do AoE damage, or any time you have a 2-piece set bonus and are receiving more healing from the healers than you are doing to yourself). \n <","Summary: Actions can be legal under an 'unconstitutional' law. If the law makes it before a judge and is officially declared unconstitutional, only then do the actions become illegal (because the law is invalidated). IANAL, fact check me if this seems fishy.\n\nPost: Illegal and unconstitutional do not mean the same thing, FYI. If the acts bring committed are allowed under laws such as the Patriot Act (and don't break any other legislation - I think it's possible for there go be contradictions between different laws), then they are not illegal. The law is what can be unconstitutional, but even if it's very clearly in violation of the Constitution, it's not actually considered officially unconstitutional until it's been ruled on by a court.. First somebody has to challenge the law, and get it in front of a judge. IANAL so if you know better than anything I am saying, feel free to set be straight. \n <","Summary: I fixed my car, have no idea how, and am trying to figure out what happened. \n Thanks! \n Edit: Screwed up a sentence.\n\nPost: So this morning my car wouldn't start. About the only prior experience I have with a non-starting car is from a dead battery, and I knew it wasn't that. I started following this flow chart . To my surprise, the car started! I put it back together, and it seems to be working fine again. \n Does anyone have any ideas for likely problems that could cause this? I'm not used to mechanical problems solving themselves, so I was very surprised that the car started from disconnecting a spark plug, and kept working when I put it back together. If this is something that is likely to happen again, I would like to try to find a more permanent solution so I don't end up stranded far from home with a dead car.","Summary: In patch 6.1, DK abilities that convert runes to Death runes finally worked as their tooltips said they should. This was a minor change for Unholy DKs who could now through the use of various talents and tactics use Unholy runes in their AoE rotation, and for Blood DKs who could now use Blood runes differently in their survival rotation. The effect on Unholy was unquestionably slightly positive, and the effect on Blood was arguably about the same. The March 11 hotfix was intended to revert the changes for Blood, which was apparently seen as too overpowered - but had the undocumented side effects of completely changing the way Death runes work for Unholy DKs and severely gimping the Unholy AoE DPS rotation. \n There is lots of discussion of this change on [the battle.net forums]( on [twitter]( and on relevant [DK blogs](\n\nPost: Edit: The change to the rune system from that hotfix [has been reverted]( \n Some backround on Death Runes for the unfamiliar: \n There are some DK abilities that have the following text in their tooltips: \n >Runes spent on this ability will become death runes \n This is an extremely major mechanic for Blood and Unholy Death Knights. For Blood DKs the only ability that does this is [Death Strike]( for Unholy DKs the abilities that do this are [Blood Boil]( [Festering Strike]( and [Icy Touch]( \n So as an Unholy DK for instance, if you were to use a Blood rune on Blood Boil, the rune that would recharge in its place would be a Death rune which can be used as any type of rune. In this case it would be a Death_Blood to be specific, Blizzard names runes according to the 'slot' they go in as well as whether or not they're death runes. If there is a Death rune where there would normally be a Frost rune it is a Death_Frost rune, and a Death rune where there is normally an Unholy rune is Death_Unholy rune. All of these types of Death runes can be spent in the same way - as a Blood, Frost, or Unholy rune. From every tooltip description in the game these extra descriptions should not even be necessary (as all Death runes should behave the same), but unfortunately not all Death runes behave the same so they need to be differentiated. \n So since a death rune could count as any type of rune, the typical Unholy AoE rotation would involve converting Frost runes to Death_Frost runes by using Icy Touch, Festering Strike, or Blood Tap. Any of these three abilities would convert a Frost rune to a Death rune that could then be used to do AoE damage with Blood Boil. Blood Boil, when used on a Death_Frost rune, would then recharge another Death_Frost rune - exactly as one would expect from the tooltip. \n Pre-6.1 Behavior: \n Runes recharging as death runes were bugged pre-6.1. The gist of the bug was that specific Death runes would not rechage properly as Death runes when they are used on abilities that say \"runes spent on this ability will recharge as Death runes\". For Unholy spec, the problem was only Death_Unholy runes, and for Blood spec the problem was only Death_Blood runes. \n For example for Unholy spec: if you used a Blood Boil (or Festering Strike or Icy Touch) on a Death_Frost rune it would recharge as a Death_Frost rune, if you used it on a Death_Blood rune it would recharge as a Death_Blood rune. If you used either of these abilities on an Death_Unholy rune, it would lose its' Death-rune status and recharge as a regular old Unholy rune. \n For Blood spec you'd get something similar: If you used Death Strike on an Death_Unholy or Death_Frost rune, you would get back Death_Unholy and/or Death_Frost runes after recharging. If you used Death Strike on a Death_Blood rune, it would recharge as a regular old Blood rune. \n It was generally understood that this behavior was bugged, or at the very least in contradiction to the tooltips. \n What changed in 6.1: \n The behavior of all abilites was changed to match the tooltip, so that any rune of any type that was spent on the abilities in question would recharge as a Death rune. So the specific cases that were changed were (for Unholy Spec) that Death_Unholy runes would properly recharge as Death_Unholy if the rune was used for Blood Boil, Festering Strike or Icy Touch and (for Blood Spec) that Death_Blood runes would properly recharge as Death_Blood runes if the rune was used for a Death Strike. \n So the implications of this change were as follows: \n Unholy Death Knights could now with a lot of planning get a slight advantage in their AoE rotation by using Blood Tap or Plague Leech to convert Unholy runes to Death_Unholy runes, and then using Blood Boil (their only spammable cleave ability) on those Death_Unholy runes would cause them to regenerate as Death_Unholy. This was not something that could be accomplished on the fly - it would require planning ahead about 30-60 seconds (depending on which talent you use to accomplish it) in order to get the Death_Unholy runes converted when you need them for AoE (and would require you to do a sub-optimal rotation for any single-target damage in the meantime to avoid converting your Death_Unholy runes back to Unholy runes with your normal single-target rotation). \n Blood Death Knights could now trade off a large amount of cleaving damage for a significant advantage in their useable number of Death Strikes by using Blood Tap or Plague Leech to convert a Blood rune to Death_Blood, and then using Death Strike on the Death_Blood runes to keep them recharging as Death_Blood. This would allow Blood DKs to use all 6 runes in a recharge cycle towards Death Strikes - which sounds like a major DPS / survivability boost but really is not because it sacrifices all AoE DPS from Blood Boil and all extra healing from Scent of Blood (and also doesn't allow the DK to make use of current-tier set bonuses). In any case, note that the Death_Blood runes were not permanent . They would only recharge as Death runes so long as they were used only on Death Strike, which states in its tooltip that runes spent will recharge as Death runes. If a Death_Blood rune was spent on any other ability , it would recharge as a normal Blood rune as would be expected. \n What Blizzard claimed to change in the March 11 Hotfix: \n Here's the text from the patch notes: \n >[Fixed an situation where Blood Tap (Talent) and Death Strike could interact incorrectly and allow Death Runes to become permanent.]( \n So this seems to be a nerf intended specifically for Blood DKs, because Blood DKs are the only spec where Death Strike causes runes to regenerate as Blood Runes. This is unquestionably in conflict with the tooltip text, but there are certainly valid arguments that this would be a reasonable nerf. Note however that Death_Blood runes were never actually permanent. They would only recharge as Death runes if they were used on Death Strike, and any other ability would convert them back to normal Blood Runes. I know I'm being redundant here, but that's a very important issue - the behavior the Blizzard is claiming to fix never actually existed. \n At any rate, from what the patch notes say - Unholy DKs shouldn't have been affected at all. \n What actually changed in the March 11 Hotfix: \n \n In Blood Spec: Death Strike no longer functions as its tooltip suggests. Death runes spent on Death Strike do not recharge as Death Runes - only if they are Death_Frost or Death_Unholy. (This is the apparent intended change, and is identical to the pre-6.1 rune behavior.) \n \n In Unholy Spec: Icy Touch, Festering Strike, and Blood Boil no longer function as their tooltips suggest. Death Runes spent on any of these abilities do not recharge as Death RUnes unless they are a specific type of Death Rune. Icy Touch will only recharge Death_Frost runes as Death runes, Blood Boil will only recharge Death_Blood runes as Death runes, and Festering Strike will only recharge Death_Frost or Death_Blood runes as Death runes. This means that Unholy DKs have taken an approximately 25% loss to cleave attack potential as they can no longer convert their Frost runes to Death_Frost and AoE reliably. Instead their Death_Frost runes spent on AoE abilities will recharge as regular Frost runes which are nearly useless in the Unholy AoE rotation. There is no way around it - this hotfix was a MASSIVE nerf for Unholy DKs. This is a major departure from how Unholy DKs have always functioned, and is completely undocumented. \n \n \n This could be summed up concisely as follows: abilities that are supposed to recharge spent runes as Death runes only do so if the runes spent were the normally-required non-Death runes or Death runes derived from the normally-required non-Death runes. \n But wait - there's more! \n These actually aren't the only changes brought on by the March 11 hotfix - it gets weird! \n Not only did Blizzard fix a bug that did not exist , not only did they change mechanics that were for the first time in WoW's history actually matching up with the tooltips, not only did they make a massive undocumented nerf to Unholy DKs, they did more than all of this: \n They messed this up so badly that literally all of these mechanics vary by what zone you are in . Go try these mechanics in your Garrison - you'll find them working as described in the post-hotfix section of this post. Go try these mechanics in Blackrock Foundry - you'll find them working as described in the post-hotfix section of this post. Go try them in the wilds of Gorgrond? They'll function as they did in 6.1. Go try them in Nagrand? They'll function as they did in 6.1. I haven't gotten around to testing every possible zone, but it's clear that these mechanics now function extremely differently depending on where your character is located in the game world. \n So what should Blizzard do? \n There are three obvious ways to fix this: \n \n Revert this mechanic to pre-hotfix status. In 6.1 before this hotfix all of the Death Knight abilities were functioning as their tooltip suggested they should (for the first time ever). The 6.1 changes that brought the abilities in-line with the tooltips gave interesting choices to Blood DKs where they could make meaningful tradeoffs between their AoE DPS and Single-target / survival abilities. It also made it so that Unholy DPSers could gain a slight AoE DPS advantage by sacrificing single-target DPS in the short-term and planning ahead to convert their runes to AoE-able runes at an appropriate time. Both of these specs were positively changed by 6.1 - made to be more dynamic and interesting, with the players able to make meaningful decisions about how to play their class. \n \n Revert this mechanic to pre-6.1 status. The clearly intended change that this hotfix was supposed to address was Blood DKs being able to output too many Death Strikes. Reverting to pre-6.1 status would fix this, but would avoid completely screwing over Unholy DKs in the process. \n \n Do something wildly different, like adjust Icy Touch to not be nearly worthless in the Unholy AoE DPS rotation. As it stands Unholy DPS is in a terrible state as a result of this change that (from the patch notes) was clearly intended for Blood DKs. \n \n \n <"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: When you start to plug in realistic numbers and think about the difficulty of contacting another civilization in our galaxy even if we wanted to, it's no surprise at all that the stars are silent.\\n\\nPost: Honestly, most of this article is a moot point because it's being extremely over-generous with its Drake Equation estimate. [I've posted about this before]( in response to something that actually listed specific estimates for the individual parameters. The thing is, this article doesn't even list all of its parameters and doesn't cite any sources for how it arrived at \\\"100 ,000 intelligent civilizations in the galaxy\\\" other than the equation itself - which is an absolutely worthless citation without any information on what parameters were used. \\n The [Drake Equation]( has seven parameters. Of those seven, only three were listed, cited, or hinted at in such a way that you could unambiguously determine the value used in this article. The author literally left out more than half of the math required to come to the stated conclusion. \\n So let's go with the author's math, up to the point that the just hand-wave away the other 60% of the equation with no actual numbers given: \\n Let's say there are 1 billion Earth-like planets in the galaxy, where we define Earth-like to mean \\\"potentially life-supporting\\\". There are still 4 more Drake variables to consider: \\n \\n What proportion of planets that can support life, actually do develop life? This one I would actually guess is pretty high, considering how quickly life got started on Earth after conditions became habitable. Let's say 95% of habitable planets end up developing life on their own. \\n \\n What proportion of life-bearing planets go on to have a species that develops the intelligence necessary to form an advanced society capable of interstellar communication? Well, we only have one model planet - Earth. Let's ignore things like bacteria that almost certainly couldn't ever become intelligent in the way we're looking for - there are almost 2 million cataloged species of plants and animals on earth, and good estimates for the total (including currently undiscovered species) go as high as 50 million. We currently know of one example species that has survived to develop human-like intelligence, and that would be us. There are millions upon millions of ways an organism can evolve to survive, and all the evidence points to extreme intelligence being a fluke - not some inevitable pinnacle that will eventually be achieved everywhere. Let's go with our model system but stay on the generous side and say 1 in a million planets with life will develop intelligent civilizations. Between these two estimates we've narrowed our number down to 950 potential intelligent civilizations in the galaxy (although not all of those would be able to contact us or even detect us). This is a far cry from the 100,000 posited by this author. \\n \\n What proportion of intelligent civilizations will develop the means to make their presence known on an interstellar scale? We haven't even really done that, much less have we developed a way to communicate across cosmic distances. While it's true that we've been making radio broadcasts for about 100 years now, two commonly-ignored aspects of potential interstellar communication are the immense distances and required signal strengths. The galaxy is about 50,000 light-years across - let's just pretend it's a perfectly flat disc for now. If our first signals were still detectable at their current distance of about 100 light-years away (and they're almost certainly not) then our signals so far would have covered 0.0004% of the galaxy. This hints at the last Drake variable which we'll return to in a moment, but for now it should suffice to say that civilizations need to be extremely long-lived to have any chance of actually contacting any other civilization while they're still alive. Now for the other problem that I mentioned - signal strength. It turns out that it would actually be extremely difficult for anybody to detect our un-directed broadcasts that we've been letting leak out into space for the last 100 years, because signal strength dies off exponentially with distance. Our best astronomy right now still struggles to detect entire planets when they pass in front of their stars - the difficulty of spotting the planets we do know is roughly equivalent to the difficulty of measuring the light from a lighthouse from across the Atlantic ocean, and trying to decipher when somebody standing on that lighthouse lights and extinguishes a candle. There have been studies done on just how far our our 'accidental' broadcasts are discernable from backround noise, and it's not very far at all. Any interstellar communication is going to require an extremely high-intensity, directed signal that is pointed at one particular place where we suspect life exists. So far even our civilization hasn't developed that capability so it's ludicrous to put a very high estimate on how many others would - especially considering the number of near-misses humanity has already had with nearly wiping ourselves out through methods such as nuclear war. Our estimate for the number of civilizations that will actually develop and use the technology to communicate with us across the galaxy should be extremely low - let's be generous and call it 1 in 1000. That leaves us with 9.5 (we'll round to an even 10) potential civilizations that might be out there right now trying to communicate with us. \\n \\n There's one final Drake Equation parameter, and that's to take into account that since signals take so long to cross such vast distances, that it might be possible for us to receive communications from civilizations that have long since died out. Our estimate of the number of civilizations that are out there right now (or at any arbitrary point in time) gets multiplied by the number of years that we would guess such civilizations might spend actually sending out signals. This is by far the toughest parameter to estimate - if we haven't even reached the point where we can reliably communicate across the stars with unknown aliens in unknown locations, how can we be at all certain about how long somebody else could do it after they've already advanced farther than us? Civilizations end. Even extremely long-lived civilizations might give up on sending a directed signal to this particular planet - maybe they waited a long while for a response and never got one, assumed our planet to be sterile, and stopped broadcasting in our direction. Maybe they gave up on interstellar communication at all. I honestly have no idea how long such a civilization would send out signals (and I doubt anyone really has a good idea), so I'm just going to guess that a civilization with the capability and desire for interstellar communication might send a powerful, directed signal towards Earth for a few thousand years. Let's say 3,000 years - about 50% longer than all of human recorded history. \\n \\n \\n With all of these estimates, we arrive at a total estimate of a little less than 30,000 civilizations in the galaxy with which we could potentially communicate, at least one-way. Given our initial estimate of 1 billion habitable planets (which I also think is a bit generous but I won't challenge here because it's at least cited), that still gives very low odds of any of these civilizations being in our galactic neighborhood. Remember, interstellar communication (or even detection) is going to require directed signals. If we wanted to try to contact those 30,000 civilizations we wouldn't just need 30,000 giant radio dish arrays pointed at each of their homeworlds, broadcasting for millenia on end. We'd need billions of giant radio dish arrays pointed at all of the star systems that we think might have habitable planets. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: A long-winded rant about their terrible guides. Seriously though, they suck.\\n\\nPost: Noxxic is piece of crap and should be avoided like the plague. \\n Understatement of the week, I think. \\n They are terrible . I glanced at their blood DK guide the other day - what a joke: \\n -It rates stamina as the highest mitigative stat (it has zero mitigative value whatsoever, it's only good for making spike damage less dangerous). \\n -It rates regular armor above bonus armor. Bonus armor is literally one point of regular armor plus one point of attack power - it is always better. \\n -All of its other stat weightings are completely out of whack. Strength is the strongest mitigative stat, it rates it 3/4 of the way down the list. For damage it rates crit strike (which is mathematically identical to multistrike except it doesn't benefit from our 5% attunement or class-specific multistrike mechanics) as the #1 DPSing stat. Literally every stat weighting is just flat-out wrong, and if they had bothered to read the in-game mouseovers and do a little math or just plug a character into a simulator - they'd know that. \\n -They also give terrible talent and glyph advice. It's hard to believe it, but this advice is even worse than their stat weighting advice. Unholy Blight (which applies diseases and mitigates zero damage) is called the best mitigation talent in its tier, compared to another talent that actually gives free Death Strikes . They recommend the situational Anti-Magic Zone as a go-to over our \\\"get out of death free card\\\". They think post-nerf Conversion (which you will never have enough RP to use effectively) is a better option than Death Pact (which requires no resources and is an amazing 'oh-shit!' button). They also make idiotic recommendations like recommending a glyph that lets us burn our runic power to put tiny shields on other players, alongside their recommendation of a talent that forces us to burn our runic power for a tiny amount of self-heals. Which is it? Which ineffective use of resources should we be doing? \\n ...I could probably go on about this all day. They are absolutely terrible, and under no circumstances should anybody take anything written there as informed advice. Their forums are a joke too, which is why I'm only bitching about it here on reddit. There is no name attached to any of the guides, probably because no prominent raiders or theorycrafters would be willing to stake their reputation on such garbage. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: As far as I can tell from testing: Saurfang doesn't actually do any damage, at all . There are many better choices to bring on an invasion - anyone with an ability that counters Minion Swarms and/or Timed Battle will help you much more.\\n\\nPost: So in all seriousness, I don't think he's actually a good choice to bring along to an invasion. I just tested him on my combat dummies, and he did - get this: zero damage. \\n He stands there and doesn't do any attacks, and every 30-45 seconds or so he'll do a whirlwind that hits for \\\"normal damage plus 100\\\" according to the tooltip but doesn't actually seem to do any damage whatsoever. \\n Compare that to a normal follower: \\n My best invasion follower in Benjamin Gibb, mainly because of his mix of abilities (for me he has Death and Decay and Empower Rune Weapon). I brought him out to a dummy and he was doing 22k single-target DPS all by himself. When I bring him on invasions it's actually quite common for him to out-damage the real players - bringing a good follower with good DPSing abilities is basically like bringing a 4th (really good) player to your invasion. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: This guy relies way too much on tooltips instead of actual combat logs. Literally every piece of advice in that post is wrong. Switch tanks after 3 Inferno Slices on Gruul, not 2 (and if he goes to a Destructive Rampage after 2 slices, switch anyways). Use AMS on Inferno Slice, even as tank. AMS on Oregorger's Acid Torrent is a waste, it does not actually help the raid at all.\\n\\nPost: A lot of people have been claiming that AMS doesn't work because the damage done to the tank is Physical. However, if you'll read over the spell itself, ( ), you'll see that the damage to the raid is applied with respect to the tank's total mitigation at the time of cast, not the degree to which they mitigated the impact. Very important distinction. AMS + Rune Tap makes the damage barely tickle my raid, whereas Rune Tap alone makes it roughly similar damage out to when our monk takes it. \\n Do you have logged numbers that support this? Last I checked there is no stat called \\\"total mitigation\\\", nor has there ever been such a stat. In order for it to work as you describe, Blizzard would have to be able to come up with a straight-up percentage for you at all times - because in order to reduce something's damage by a number they have to pick a value for that number. \\n Think about what you're saying. How would you even calculate such a number? Would parry chance count towards it? Would block value? What if you have full combat take coverage, would that be 100% total mitigation or something less because even with 100% chance of mitigating not all mitigation types mitigate all damage? \\n Quoting a tooltip with vague wording does not make you right. Hell, even the non- vaguely tooltips are often wrong. For example on Inferno Slice the tooltip unambiguously states that the tank receives physical damage and everybody except the tank receives fire damage. Check your logs and you'll find that the tank takes fire damage as well. It says that it splits between \\\"all additional targets\\\", but it actually splits between \\\" all targets\\\" in the cone (including the first target). \\n This is an example of a clearly-worded tooltip from a boss just down the hall being completely wrong - so we clearly can't rely on Blizzard's tooltips here. Now you expect people to believe that because of this vague mention of \\\"total mitigation\\\", which is an ambiguous term not actually defined anywhere? \\n Unless you can provide real evidence, I'm calling bullshit. Show a log that demonstrates unequivocally what you're saying, or show another Blizzard mechanic that uses \\\"total mitigation\\\". \\n Edit: \\n Also, your Gruul tactics advice is arguably crap too. Your method will result in an extremely-large stack of Overwhelming Blows on one tank, which is a common source of wipes. Outside of Destructive Rampage, Inferno Slice hits approximately every 18 seconds. This means that if you switch tanks every 2 slices, you're going to have about 40 seconds between tank switches. This means your first boss-tank will have to return to tanking the boss after tanking their 2 slices, and their stacks will not yet have fallen off . Destructive Rampage doesn't generally hit until after 6 slices (and never before 5 slices), so your first boss-tank is guaranteed to end up refreshing their stacks. Now, Destructive Rampage only lasts 30 seconds and my logs show him generally re-casting Overwhelming Blows within about 3 seconds of that ending - so the first boss-tank absolutely can't take the boss after Destructive Rampage because they'll have over 30 seconds left on their Overwhelming Blows. This means your tanks need to switch roles after the Rampage: a fact you neglected to mention and might be overlooked if he rampages after 5 slices instead of 6. Now your second boss-tank is forced to take the boss after Destructive Rampage, but even then they're going to be cutting it extremely close on their timer because it's a minute-long debuff and if it's been a 5-slice transition (as sometimes happens) they're going to have only been off the boss for about 50 seconds. \\n Using this strategy you run a significant risk of having both tanks with unmanageably high stacks of Overwhelming Blows. This can all be avoided if you simply swap every 3 slices. E.g. - Tank 1 taunts the slice to Green, Blue, Green, then takes the boss. Tank 2 taunts the boss to Blue, Green, (Blue if there's a 6th). Boss does his rampage, then start again at the top. There is no chance of getting huge stack counts outside of your control using this method, as the shortest time between possibly tanking the boss again is 68 seconds. \\n Also, I mentioned this above but now that I'm reading into detail your Gruul suggestion I see that you've made another error: Inferno Slice does not just do physical damage to the tanks, it does physical and fire. AMS does mitigate Inferno Slice. Seriously, check your logs. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: I made an illustration - [here's what probably happened](\\n\\nPost: I think you're on to something. In the X-ray you can see that the nail is bent about where it would be gripped by the hammer. \\n What probably happened: \\n He took a swing and instead of hitting square on he hit with some downward motion. The nail didn't hit the wood square, it got hit on the side of the tip - the impact bent the nail where the hammer held it, broke it free from the hammer and sent it flying backwards and up, spinning. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: A short answer to your question is that no, faster-than-light expansion does not imply violations of the cosmic 'speed limit', although it does result in objects that appear to break the 'speed limit' without actually doing so.\\n\\nPost: The speed limit is for objects travelling through space. The faster-than-light expansion is the space itself. \\n Back to the balloon analogy: \\n Take a balloon and a marker, and draw some dots on the balloon. Those dots have no velocity relative to each other, they're stationary on the balloon's surface. Now blow the balloon up some more - the dots appear to be farther away. They didn't move through space though. The balloon (which is our analogy for the space in between the dots, the universe itself) got bigger. \\n We don't notice this on a small scale because the expansion of space is very small, and the forces between objects holds them together. A quick google search turns up the number 74.2 km / sec / MPc. This means that two objects that are 1 megaparsec away from each other now will be 1 megaparsec + 74.2 km away from each other 1 second from now. To put that in perspective, 1 megaparsec is 3 x 10^19 kilometers, so each second space only expands by a fraction of about 2.4 x 10^-18 (or 0.000000000000000024%). On an everyday scale, that's basically negligible. It's also slow enough that the forces that affect us (like gravity holding us to the Earth, the intermolecular forces affecting the proteins in our body and even the bonds holding the individual atoms together that we see) can easily hold things together against this expanding space. \\n On a much larger scale, this isn't the case. It turns out that about 4000 megaparsecs away (about 13 billion light years away) that 0.000000000000000024% expansion per second works out to be the speed of light. There are galaxies at this distance, the edge of the observable universe, that are moving away from us at the speed of light just because of the expansion of the universe. These galaxies are so far away that we can barely feel their gravity at all, and it's not nearly strong enough to keep them close despite the expansion of the universe. Eventually, as they get farther away they move away from us faster than the speed of light and we can no longer observe them. Because of expansion, the observable portion of the universe is (probably irreversibly) shrinking all the time. This doesn't break relativity because it's not the objects moving through space faster than the speed of light, it's new space being created between us and the object faster than the speed of light. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: They were really fast for me.\\n\\nPost: I had an issue similar to this. I filed a petition with my information, and then found an official post listing what info to actually include. I immediately filed another one with the right info, and had a response to my first one (asking for more info) before I submitted the second one. I pasted the extra info into the reply to the first, and found the same GM had already responded to the second one.\",\n \"Summary: What /u/LostxinthexMusic said. If you're on a boat swamping, capsizing and turtling are very different beasts - and the differences between them most certainly do matter if you're interested in having a boat and your life afterwards. If you don't know the functional differences between them (or have somebody with you who does) you probably shouldn't be on a boat in the first place.\\n\\nPost: Almost all small sailboats will float if they are swamped, because they have bouyant hull sections that are sealed off so even if the entire cockpit is full of water, the boat won't sink. You need to bail out the water if you want to have a comfortable ride or get anywhere fast, but it's not the end of the world if a small boat gets swamped. \\n If a small boat capsizes when you don't want it to, your situation just got a whole lot more dangerous. It will still float, but now it can only drift until you get it upright again. You have to get out of the boat, swim over to what would normally be the bottom (without getting tangled up in rope which will be everywhere ), climb up on the keel or daggerboard and hope you're heavy enough to flip the boat upright again. Once you do get it upright again, it'll probably be pretty swamped so you're going to have to get all of that water out if you want to be able to get anywhere - especially if you need to go upwind to get to land. Hopefully you had your bucket tied to the boat! The vast majority of small boats can be recovered from this position by one person. If done in a controlled manner on a suitable boat, being capsized is no big deal - I used to capsize my Laser all the time as a kid just so I could swim in the lake (it was illegal to swim off of a boat, but it wasn't illegal to be capsized). If done accidentally or on a boat that's not suited to easy recovery, capsizing is a major issue - even larger boats can still sometimes be recovered though. \\n If a boat is turtled, it's like being capsized except a hundred times worse. Unlike with a capsized boat where you end up flung onto the surface of the water somewhere between the hull and the mast, when your boat turtles you may actually go under with it. Now you're underwater, wearing a flotation device, quite possibly trapped under the boat's hull (which may or may not have an air pocket you can breathe), and surrounded by all of the rigging which is just waiting to catch and tangle you up. If your boat has deep cockpit with steep walls you might even end up having to take off your flotation device to be able to swim down enough to get out from under the hull. In any case there will in all likelihood be a much more imminent threat of drowning, even for experienced swimmers.\\nOnce you manage to get out from under the boat, you need to climb on top of it and hope you're heavy enough to generate enough torque on the keel / daggerboard to flip the boat. This is much more difficult than flipping a capsized boat because now you have to pull sideways instead of push down, and that means you can't put your whole weight into it. Many small boats are extremely difficult or impossible for a single person to flip. There are even some boats that can no longer be sailed (or even flipped upright) if turtled. Some boats secure their masts and daggerboards to the hull better than others - if either of those happens to drop out of the bottom of the boat while it's upside-down, you're basically screwed. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: Good idea, but you need to spell out the connection info for those of us who don't want to use the browser client.\\n\\nPost: For those of us who like the idea, but don't want to leave the browser client on all the time and maybe aren't used to using an IRC client very often, you really should just give us a server and port to connect to. Looking through the text I get from connecting it looks like I should be connecting to webchat.se.quakenet.org, but I don't see the port anywhere and the default (6667) does not work. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: There is sound in space. You wouldn't hear it because it's faint and at funny frequencies (and you wouldn't want to stick your head out in a vacuum), but it is there and there is a lot of literature on it.\\n\\nPost: There is no \\\"sound\\\" in space. \\n Yes, there is. Space is not completely empty - it's just relatively sparse. The sounds in space are often faint (because there's not enough matter up there to effectively transmit most small vibrations) and are often outside of the frequency range of normal human hearing - but there are sounds in space. \\n Supernovae can send out shockwaves that propagate through interstellar medium at the speed of sound. An even more common example is around stars, there are standing shock waves where the solar wind impacts the interstellar medium and slows to subsonic speeds , but the physics are pretty much the same. The fact that there's sound in space is even a key concept in [defining the boundary of the solar system]( \\n Some redditors might even remember that in the last few years there have been several announcements of the Voyager probes 'officially' leaving the solar system. The reason there were so many is that some people were defining the boundaries of the solar system in different ways, and one of those ways is based on sound. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: Smokers are smokers because they choose to be, single parents are single parents (usually) because they have to be. The source linked does not support either statement about the health of single parents or of their children.\\n\\nPost: Smoking is in virtually all cases a personal choice. Yes, nicotine is addictive so some people have trouble quitting - but there are many tools and publicly-funded support for those wishing to quit. Yes, you can become addicted through no fault of your own by secondhand smoke - but the same tools are available no matter how you became addicted. If you smoke, in the vast majority of cases the deciding factor is your decision. \\n This is not the case for being a single mother. There are a huge number of women who are single mothers for reasons outside of their control. Some are forced to leave by abuse, some have children by deadbeat fathers who have left or are in jail, some have been raped. \\n Before we even get into the health concerns - we should get this straight: you cannot compare being a single mother to being a smoker on any reasonable level, because one is virtually always a willful decision and the other is not. \\n Since you're ignoring the obvious though, let's go ahead and take a look at your source. First of all, your first statement (being a single parent can less the parent's quality of health) is not supported by your source. What you linked looks at children, and it looks at adults. Every statement made about the health of adults is strictly looking at marital history and has nothing to say about being a parent. \\n Your second statement (being a single parent correlates to lower quality of health for the child), although related to something mentioned by your source, omits the biggest factor. Here's what your source said, with emphasis added on the part you ignored: \\n >the highest rates of poor or fair health were among children in low income households headed by a single mother \\n Single parents can't bring in as much money as a pair of parents, and family income money is a huge factor in the health of a child. Being a single parent does not in itself pose a risk to your children, it's being poor that's the real risk. Since your source is an advocacy organization for traditional marriage, you can be sure that if there actually were evidence contrary to this, that said that just being a single parent was enough to cause harm - that evidence would be represented here. Wealth is generally considered to be one of the most obvious examples of a variable that should be controlled in any social study, and without correlation controlled for it your second statement is also baseless. \\n You really can't compare smokers and single parents like you are. Yes, they are both vilified - but for radically different reasons. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: To land using the smallest delta-v, come in as low as possible, kill your horizontal velocity at periapsis, and then watch your vertical velocity on the way straight down.\\n\\nPost: When you're landing on an object, you want to eventually bring your velocity relative to the landing zone to zero. You do this by burning to change your kinetic energy. In order to most efficiently land, you need to bring your kinetic energy (from your movement with respect to the landing zone) and your gravitational potential energy (from your distance from the landing zone) to zero. (Yes, I know you still have gravitational potential energy on the surface, this is a close enough approximation for a thought experiment.) \\n Remember, you can't directly affect your potential energy. As you fall towards your periapsis your potential energy gets converted to kinetic energy - this is the part you can cancel out by burning your engines. So how do you do this most efficiently? You utilize the Oberth effect to get the most change in kinetic energy per change in velocity. That is, you want to burn when you are traveling fastest - when your orbit is lowest. \\n Let's imagine a spacecraft with an infinite TWR (so it can stop on a dime), but still a limited delta-v so we want to be efficient. What would be the most energy-efficient landing? Falling straight down towards the surface, then killing all of your velocity (which is entirely vertical) at the last moment. This obviously is dangerous for a ship with limited TWR - you run a serious risk of lithobraking from any miscalculation in when to start your burn. \\n In practice, to lessen this risk you put your periapsis somewhere above the surface. If you took the same super-rocket from before and did this method, the most efficient periapsis would be nearly grazing the surface. You'd wait until the periapsis and then kill all of your velocity (which would be entirely horizontal), and you'd be done. Again, though, there is room for disaster here on a real ship. The Mun isn't a perfect sphere, it's difficult to get your periapsis that precise, you can't usually apply perfectly-retrograde thrust, and you have a finite TWR. \\n To avoid fiery death, you compromise. The lower your periapsis (and burn) the less delta-v your landing will require, but the greater the risk of impact will be as well. The trick with a real rocket is to do the burn at as low of an altitude as you can without smashing into the rocks before you can complete the burn. I've found 5 km or so to work fine for me for Munar landers - I do a lot more theorycrafting than actual flying though so you could probably cut it closer than me, with practice. \\n After your horizontal velocity is killed your descent profile looks a lot like that first purely-vertical infinite TWR example from above, just starting at a lower altitude. You'll save fuel by free-falling and then burning to slow down at the last second, but just remember your TWR is limited so give yourself some leeway to avoid a crash. \\n Sorry in advance for any autocorrect confusion - I'm posting from my phone and inevitably miss some of its ill-advised word replacements. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: The video shows us able to see more and more of the universe over time. This isn't true. Assuming a constant expansion (which may not be strictly true but is close enough for these purposes) we always see the same proportion of the universe and our ability to see that proportion of the universe gets worse over time until eventually we will not be able to detect any other objects.\\n\\nPost: There's a pretty major error in that movie, that first pops up around [2:30]( While it's correct that the maximum distance from which we can detect light is increasing all the time, we do not get to see more and more of the universe over time as depicted and later described. \\n The video shows a static \\\"whole universe\\\" with a circular projection representing the observable universe, where the observable universe is constantly growing. This means we should be able to see more and more galaxies in the distance, if we could just sit and wait long enough for their signals to get here. It implies that eventually we'll be able to see the whole universe. \\n This could not be farther from the truth. The opposite of this phenomenon is what actually happens. At the current rate of expansion of the universe, objects about 13 billion light years away from us are 'moving' away from us at the speed of light (really it's just that space between us is being created at the speed of light), and farther objects are 'moving' away faster than the speed of light (see my other recent ELI5 response . Even though super-far-away objects still give off light, the space in between us and that light is expanding faster than the light can ever cross it. All objects in the observable universe are moving out towards the edge of the observable universe, and once an object reaches the edge of the observable universe it will never enter the observable universe again (unless the universe stops expanding, which according to current models looks unlikely). \\n Even though the 'current distance' of objects that we see can reach out to 46 billion light years like the movie says, we aren't seeing objects 46 billion light years away. We are seeing them as they were when they were much closer (about 13 billion light-years away). We will never see any object that was more than about 13 billion light years away when it emitted the light that we're actually seeing. It's true, like the video said, that the current distance of objects that we see increases with time. What's not true is that we're seeing more and more of the universe - proportionally, we're seeing the exact same amount. All objects move away and eventually reach a point of no return where we'll never see any new light from them again. We actually see objects worse over time because all of the light that they were emitting as they passed the point of no return gets stretched out over an infinite length of time. The farthest objects we can see have already emitted all the light we will ever detect from them - it's just getting to be fainter and fainter. \\n For a quick-and-dirty intuitive explanation, let's say the edge of observable universe is 1 meter away, the edge of the whole universe is 100 meters away, and the universe is expanding by 10% of its size per second. \\n \\n \\n Time (s) \\n Observable Universe (m) \\n Entire Universe (m) \\n % We can see \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n 0 \\n 1 \\n 100 \\n 1% \\n \\n \\n 1 \\n 1.1 \\n 110 \\n 1% \\n \\n \\n 2 \\n 1.21 \\n 121 \\n 1% \\n \\n \\n 3 \\n 1.331 \\n 133.1 \\n 1% \\n \\n \\n 4 \\n 1.4641 \\n 146.41 \\n 1% \\n \\n \\n 5 \\n 1.61051 \\n 161.051 \\n 1% \\n \\n \\n \\n We can always see 1% of the total universe in this example. As I mentioned above, even though this proportion stays the same we actually get a worse vision of the universe over time because the total amount of photons reaching us from far-away objects decreases (there are a finite number of photons which will reach us over an infinite time in the future). \\n <\",\n \"Summary: Rockets are launched from the equator because of the sizable angular momentum imparted by launching from the fastest-rotating part of the planet, not because of the tiny differences in apparent gravity.\\n\\nPost: Yes, and interestingly space shuttles try to maximize centripetal force. There's a reason why US shuttles get launched from Florida and why the European Space Agency launches its shuttles from French territory in South America. Its closer to the equator, so more centripetal force. \\n This is definitely not why they launch spacecraft from near the equator. For one thing let's dispel this notion of 'centripetal force'. There is no magical force acting on a body from the simple act of going around in a circle - bodies on Earth's surface are held to the surface by gravity, and they would be held to the surface by the exact same amount of gravity if Earth were to stop spinning. Rotation causes a slight difference in apparent gravity because the higher your velocity the more force it takes to change your trajectory, so more of the force gets 'used up' turning you and less is 'left over' to make you feel like you're getting pressed into the ground - but there are absolutely no new forces introduced simply by spinning (unless you have a charge, but let's not get into that). \\n Anyhow, variations in apparent gravity across the surface of the Earth are very small, and they can actually vary quite a bit from factors completely unrelated to latitude and the Earth's rotation. The real reason that spacecraft are launched from as close to the equator as possible is because they already start with a higher proportion of the velocity needed to get into orbit: \\n Let's say we launched a rocket at the North Pole (the rotational one, not the magnetic one), and want to put it into a polar orbit (the easiest kind of orbit to reach from that location). For our thought experiment we'll do a very inefficient launch - we're going to have our rocket go straight up until it's past the atmosphere, and then turn sideways and burn until it's going fast enough to orbit. When our North Pole Rocket reaches orbit altitude, it would have zero orbital velocity to begin with and would need to have enough fuel to achieve a Δv of about 7.8 km/s. \\n Now let's imagine launching a rocket from the equator, into an equatorial orbit (which is the easiest kind of orbit to reach from that location). We'll launch it the same inefficient way for our thought process - up, then over. When the rocket is on the launchpad it will have an angular velocity that matches the Earth's - 360 degrees per day. Since it's at the equator where the circumference is about 40,000 km, it will actually be starting with a velocity of about 0.5 km / s. When our Equator Rocket reaches orbital altitudes, it will retain that velocity , so instead of needing to pack enough fuel for a Δv of 7.8 km / s (after reaching orbital altitude), it only needs to pack enough fuel for a Δv of 7.3 km / s. Since fuel mass requirements increase exponentially with respect to Δv requirements, this 7% or so decrease in required Δv translates to a lot less fuel required to get to orbit. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: The FoV values cited do not correspond to 90°, which is 1.57 radians. Even if you input 1.57 radians as your fovLeft, do not expect to have a 90° horizontal FoV because what you put into your config file is not what you actually see, and the relationship between what you input and what you see is complicated.\\n\\nPost: I know you didn't come up with them, but just so you know: those FoV values do not correspond to a 90° horizontal FoV. The values shown (1.76 through 1.83 radians) correspond to 101° through 105°. \\n That said, the Arma II engine does not use the values entered as the FoV anyways. While trying to make a spreadsheet to account for how FoV settings affect mildot ranging I did extensive testing of all kinds of FoV-related issues. My default FoV was 3/4 radians vertical by 4/3 radians horizontal. This corresponds to my 16:9 monitor aspect ratio, and is noteworthy in that it does not match the FoV ratio one would expect for a 16:9 monitor using the formulas cited in the calculator used for your numbers. Anyways my testing basically involved setting up targets at known ranges in the editor, taking screenshots through various optics and without optics, and measuring exact character heights to the pixel from said screenshots. \\n It got more and more complicated as I learned more and more things don't function as the community commonly seems to believe they do (for instance, character heights are not 1.8 meters). All of the numbers that in the end I settled on as being \\\"correct\\\" were based on the assumption that with default FoV settings, mildots work correctly. It turned out that with the default settings of 3/4 by 4/3 radian FoV, you actually see 1 radian vertical by 16/9 radians horizontal. Using the same editor missions and heights worked out from the default FoV with the working-mildot assumption, I tried to work out how the game takes the FoV you input and ends up at a specific FoV that is actually rendered. I tried a few different FoVs ranging from very narrow to very wide, and I ended up coming to the conclusion that the number that you input is never what you actually see, but the output FoV is not a constant multiplier or addition to the input FoV. I had plans to try to figure out exactly what the relationship was, but decided not to since I had already sunk way too much time into the testing, already had working values for my own FoV, and the relationship might not even be valid in standalone anyways. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: Caffeine is not a poison. It keeps you from sleeping because of its similarity to a neurotransmitter that makes you sleepy. \\n Edit: Although I have some knowledge of human biochemical processes, I know little to nothing about human development. I have no idea what, if any, effects caffeine might have on a developing fetus. I am not trying to say in this post that it's OK to consume caffeine when pregnant. I just wanted to shed some light on why it keeps you awake, and say that for a normal, fully developed person it is not a poison.\\n\\nPost: Caffeine is literally poison... It keeps you from sleeping for a reason. \\n Hi, I'm a chemist, and I believe I might be able to shed some light on this. I know you probably weren't looking for something like this, but I sometimes feel obligated to correct (what are to me) obvious scientific falsehoods. \\n Caffeine keeps you from sleeping because of its chemical similarity to a biomolecule called adenosine to attach a phosphate group, and it releases energy (that you can use to do something else) to take off a phosphate group. \\n Many biomolecules have complex interactions with many systems in which they play many roles, adenosine is no exception. An easy, albeit hand-wavy way to think about what adenosine does, is to remember that it's a side product you produce if you completely 'use up' a biological unit of energy currency, ATP. What happens when you use up a bunch of energy? You get tired. This is exactly what adenosine does in the brain, it makes you sleepy. \\n How does this relate to caffeine? There are receptors in your brain that act as sensors for adenosine - when an adenosine molecule bumps into them in just the right way, it binds to the receptor and makes you sleepy. It turns out caffeine [\\\"looks\\\"]( enough like a part of adenosine that it can bind to these receptors, but it doesn't look enough like it that it actually activates the receptors to make you sleepy. The net effect is that blocks your body from detecting your 'sleepy signal' molecules, by getting in the way of your 'sleepy sensors'. \\n As far as toxicity is concerned, caffeine is certainly not a poison for humans. Yes, it is possible to overdose on caffeine and die. This is true of [literally everything]( you could possibly ingest. It would take an obscene amount of caffeine to have any appreciable risk of bodily harm - way more than you would ever realistically consume in beverages. This is not to say you can't get caffeine poisoning - you can, but it would be from [taking caffeine pills]( and as I said before you can overdose on anything* if you set your mind to it. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: It's important to include crit in your calculations.\\n\\nPost: So firstly, my old numbers contained a small error. Comparing your formulas to mine I noticed that I was using the old 150% crit multiplier for healing. After fixing that though, the numbers still came out in favor of what I'd already said: it changed to Healing Touch to having about 22% more HPM, and Regrowth having about 40% more HPS. \\n Your calculations are ignoring two things: \\n The first, and biggest error, is you're completely ignoring crit. in your Healing Touch calculation. It's fine to not include everything (we can leave out Mastery for example because it applies to both spells evenly), but crit. chance has a non-negligible effect on Healing Touch's average heals. You need to take a weighted average of the healing amount for the times time you won't crit (1 (1 - Crit%)) and the time you will crit (2 Crit%). Add those together to get the overall multiplier to account for crit - it works out to (1 + Crit%). \\n Using the numbers on my spreadsheet from way back when, I had 41946 SP and 22.45% crit chance. If you completely ignore that HT can crit then sure, they have equal HPM. If you actually put in a reasonable value for crit chance as opposed to just ignoring it, you'll find the crit chance will be the same as HT's HPM advantage to within about 0.1%. \\n The other problem with your calculations is the scaling with SP. Your math shows the spells scaling approximately equally well with SP (1.86 vs 2*0.958), but since there aren't any real raiding druids with 0% spell crit it doesn't actually scale that way. After you factor in a reasonable critical hit value you'll find Healing Touch scales much better. If we take the ratio of the SP-dependent part of Healing Touch versus the SP-dependent part of gylyphed Regrowth we'll get a number that describes how well one scales with SP compared to the other: \\n (1.86 SP (1+Crit%))/(0.958 SP 2) = (1.86/(0.958 2)) (1+Crit%) = 0.970*(1+Crit%) \\n For my really old crit value that works out to Healing Touch scaling with SP 18% better than Glyphed Regrowth. If you do the math you'll find that they scale equally well with SP when the crit chance is 3% ((1-0.970)/0.970). Any druid with a spell crit over 3% (read: virtually all druids) will find that Healing Touch scales with SP better than glyphed Regrowth. \\n So how does this come back to your 20k assumption? That is an absurdly low value. When I made my spreadsheet I was vastly outgeared by everyone else in my raid and was trying to refine my healing to do better than them. I raid in a casual group and we're only 10/14 on SoO normal - not exactly hardcore. I made the spreadsheet when we were just getting into SoO, so I don't think I had extremely high numbers. At this point in the game I think my gear is probably pretty representative of other casual raiders. Anecdotally, I seem to be in the middle of the pack for general-population raiders I encounter. My current relevant stats are 50023 SP and 27.91% crit. This works out to give glyphed Regrowth 34% better HPS (a little less than when I was lower-geared, the numbers are in the first paragraph) and give Healing Touch 27% better HPM (a little higher than when I was lower-geared). \\n What conclusions can we draw from all of this? Glyphed Regrowth does significantly more HPS than Healing Touch, although the gap gets smaller as you gear up. Healing Touch has significantly better HMP than Glyphed Regrowth, and the gap gets larger as you gear up. Both of these statements are consistent with my initial statement. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: I've spent many, many hours running tests and figuring this stuff out and I am pretty confident you can't mod a G43 or M1 Garand down to a 1-hit-kill body-shot-from-full-health weapon. If somebody tells you otherwise without evidence that they've actually done it themselves , it's probably just anecdotes and confirmation bias based on mis-observed events.\\n\\nPost: There is no way a Gewehr is ever going to one shot anyone without a headshot , only a heavily modded sniper rifle can do that. \\n This is mostly correct (there are non-sniper weapons which can do it, but not semi-auto rifles). I'm a bit of a theorycrafter - I make spreadsheets about everything. One of the things I've been doing in this game is running tests trying to work out exactly the stats and mechanics for different weapon mods. \\n I've had to make some assumptions and guesses about how I think mechanics probably work, so of course my results are tentative and subject to error. I measure the stat bars on the weapon mods page and try to make predictions about measurable stat changes on the weapon itself, then I go and do tests to try and prove myself wrong. Some tests are easy (like measuring the rate of fire of my actual in-game weapon or counting bullets-to-kill on various body parts), and some tests are hard (like trying to figure out how stability or precision stats work). \\n Some of the stat bars actually seem to have no discernible relationship to the in-game weapon's stats. For example Rate of Fire - a more-filled bar indicates a faster-firing weapon but the amount the bar is filed is not proportional to the actual rate of fire, and different-speed weapons are not even guaranteed to show different stats even if they perform measurably different in-game. \\n That said, I'm fairly confident that I've worked out the damage mods pretty well. I don't have enough credits (or time) to test every weapon to make sure my predictions are always correct, but my model accurately predicts damage-mod-dependent bullets-to-kill changes for the weapons I cared to optimize - the MG42, K98, and MP40. \\n I have not tested the G43 or Garand. I mostly play German and I do these tests for my own benefit and enjoyment and am not going to waste 200k credits running tests on the G43 which I consider to be the worst gun in the game, and my allied account doesn't even have that many credits to burn. I would be very surprised, however, if these guns didn't follow the exact same rules as the ones that I've tested. If they do, then it is not possible to mod a semi-auto rifle to 1-shot (body shot) kill a full-health infantryman. \\n Take everything here with a grain of salt, as I could have errors in my work. I'm not going to release my data or work any time in the foreseeable future (for many reasons, mainly the amount of time it would take to get it fit for public review). If there's anyone seriously interested in replicating my experiments they're not that hard. Sorry in advance for any spelling errors, my phone doesn't usually take too well to drafting long posts like this. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: Sometimes absence of evidence is strong evidence of absence. Going through the math with some generous estimates, we find that our lack of evidence of a galactic civilization very significantly reduces our estimates of a galactic civilization existing, so it is in fact evidence of absence.\\n\\nPost: Whether or not absence of evidence can be interpreted as evidence of absence depends on the probabilities associated with the topic at hand. In many cases you cannot view absence of evidence as evidence of absence, but in some cases you definitely can. Luckily, there's simple math that can help us figure this out. Let's look at this through an old staple of probability, [Bayes' theorem]( \\n P(A|B) = P(B|A) P(A) / ( P(B|A) P(A) + P(B|~A) * P(~A) \\n In plain English: \\n We proposition A, which in this case would be something along the lines of \\\"the galaxy is currently colonized by an alien civilization\\\". We also have evidence B, which in this case would be \\\"there has been no concrete evidence of the existence of aliens\\\". It turns out that the probability of A (aliens currently spread all over the galaxy) given B (that we have no sign of them) can be estimated from only a few other numbers: \\n P(A) - The a priori probability that A is true. To get this number we'd have to follow something akin to the logic in /u/tamolimam's post above (the a priori probability that A is false) 1%. \\n P(B|A) - The probability that we would see evidence B, given that event A is true. So for our scenario - if there were a spacefaring alien civilization that has colonized the galaxy, what would be the probability that we would see absolutely zero evidence from them? I would personally think that this number would be very small, although this is certainly debatable. A galactic civilization requires communication, and we should have been able to detect some stray communication signals at some point. A common response is that aliens may be using super-advanced communication techniques that don't give off any stray electromagnetic signals - maybe they don't use radios anymore. That's certainly possible, but unless we come up with good evidence that such communication is possible we should think of that as a very low probability - although we haven't nailed them all together yet, physicists have a very good idea of what forces exist in the universe so we shouldn't go postulating new ones for the the sake of this argument. Even if such communication were to exist, it'd have to be used to the exclusion of older techniques. For example, we still have plenty of HAM radio operators on Earth even though we have much better communication techniques for most purposes. I think that for our estimate it would be pretty generous to put P(B|A) at 1%. \\n P(B|~A) - The probability that we would see evidence B, given that A is false . So in our case, assuming that there is not an alien civilization, what is the probability that we would see no evidence of an alien civilization? This should be very near 100%. Let's be generous again and put it at 99%, because there's a slight chance that we'd see something completely unrelated and misinterpret it as good evidence of aliens. \\n So from these estimates of a few specific factors, we can estimate the overall probability that there is an alien civilization: \\n P(A) = 0.99; P(~A) = 0.01; P(B|A) = 0.01; P(B|~A) = 0.99 \\n Plug these into the formula and you will get:\\nP(A|B) = 0.5 \\n What this means is that using our three estimates of the individual constituent probabilities, we would estimate a 50% chance of the galaxy actually being inhabited by aliens given that we have no evidence of their existence. \\n In this case, the absence of evidence (B) has drastically lowered our estimated probability that the galaxy is inhabited (A). It cut the probability in half from our a priori estimate. That's about as close to absence of evidence being evidence of absence as we can get.\",\n \"Summary: That ribbon used to be useful, but due to game mechanic changes it is not anymore. It is pretty much never worth using nowadays.\\n\\nPost: It's a remnant of an old game mechanic, pretty much worthless now. \\n It used to be that planes would have to land at a specific location to reload after dropping their munitions. This led to a tactic of trying to shoot them out of the cockpit while they reload, and stealing their planes. That doesn't happen anymore, planes just reload in the air with a timer (just like tanks and other vehicles). \\n They also recently changed how planes handle when they're shot down, and I can you from experience that it is exceedingly unlikely that a plane whose pilot you've shot out will land intact. The only time that you might have a decent shot at being able to steal a plane is when you're attacking the airfield. Defending pilots at the airfield must spawn on the ground (unlike the attackers on the airfield, or both sides on any other map - normally planes spawn in the air). \\n If you are in the right place at the right time you can shoot a pilot out of his plane while it's landed, steal the plane, and get airborne. Even so, this is still incredibly unlikely to happen for several reasons: \\n \\n The pilot spends very little time on the ground. It only takes about 10 seconds to get airborne, so if you're not in exactly the right place at the right time you won't even get a chance. \\n \\n There are 3 runways the pilots can spawn at, if they control the whole airfield. Again - right place right time. \\n \\n You have to shoot the pilot out of the plane while it's still moving slowly. If it's moving quickly, it'll likely just crash into something on the ground when the pilot loses control and blow up anyways. This lowers your chance to shoot them down to about 3-4 seconds. \\n \\n Even if the stars align to get you the perfect opportunity to steal a plane - it's probably just going to get taken out by a tank. Tanks love shooting planes on the runway, and it's going to be sitting out in the open for a good long while - even if you have the fast hacking ribbon. \\n \\n \\n <\",\n \"Summary: There are absolutely no resources gained simply by holding more control points. Warfunds are the only resource that can be earned in-game to deploy and reinforce armies. /u/wisdum has no clue what he's talking about.\\n\\nPost: Clearly you have no idea how the actual game mechanics work. There is no measurable advantage to holding more factories or \\\"farms\\\". \\n Side note: there aren't even any \\\"farms\\\" in the game. There are Towns, Mountain Towns, Factories, Airfields, and two skirmish maps known as Hill Skirmish and Forest Skirmish. This is an exhaustive list of every node type in the game. \\n Anyways yes, it's better to have more points for strategic reasons (because it's generally better to be able to attack places from multiple assault lines at once and to be able to protect yourself from such multi-pronged attacks). However holding more non-capital points has absolutely zero direct influence on your ability to raise or reinforce armies. There is only one mechanic related to that, and it's gold/warfunds. Gold is purchased for real money so there's not much to say about that, but warfunds can be earned in-game by one of only two methods: \\n \\n Play the FPS game. You'll generally make some warfunds each game. \\n In the RTS game, gets your assault into a battle. You are paid warfunds on a per-kill basis, according to the actual in-game kills of the FPS players who are playing in your assault team. \\n \\n These are the only ways to get warfunds in the current game. There are detailed posts by Reto about this that you can find if you look.\",\n \"Summary: Make the can easier to use by placing it opposite the hinges (so the door doesn't block the can when opened) and you won't see this anymore. \\n Edit: To the nitwits who think I am condoning this behavior, I am not. Get off your high horse. If someone had an issue with people stealing items from their car and a redditor suggested they lock the doors and keep any valuables out of sight, would you take that as condoning theft? Understanding a potential motivation that causes a problem, and proposing a solution to reduce the frequency of that problem, is not the same as condoning the actions of people who choose to engage in the problem.\\n\\nPost: If you open the door too far, it will actually hit the can. \\n Well there's your problem - it's on the wrong side of the door. A by-the-door trashcan should be on the opposite side of the door as the hinges. \\n Here's the thing: \\n When people use a paper towel to open the door, they're going to have that paper towel in hand until they can step through the doorway. If it's a slowly-closing door people will just open it wide and quickly step through - if it's not, they may have to prop it open with their foot while they throw out the towel. Either way, they're going to be about halfway through and the door is going to be pretty widely open by the time they're ready to get rid of the paper towel. If the can is in a position where the door will hit it if opened too widely, then it is also in a position where the door is physically blocking access to it from the doorway when opened. This forces people to do an awkward little dance where they have to lean back around the door to dispose of their towels, and is almost certainly the reason you're still seeing towels left in inappropriate places. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: This is a recording of a recording. OP recorded in-game using FRAPS, and then while watching the video in VLC (or whatever other playback software) recorded the playback using a different recording software. OP forgot to turn off FRAPS while doing that though, so the overlay displaying the video playback's FPS was captured in the gif.\\n\\nPost: That FPS counter is from FRAPS, and it actually isn't OP's in-game FPS. It is just an artifact of shitty recording. \\n Here's the thing: FRAPS doesn't save its FPS counter to recorded video. It displays it onscreen so you know you FPS and you can know whether or not you are getting decent video recording, but when you open up the file after the recording it will not have the FPS ticker. \\n Here's the other thing: FRAPS displays its FPS counter overlay on many types of rendered objects, including most video playback software . So you can record an in-game video at say, 30 FPS. Then when you open that video up in your viewer of choice you will see an overlay that says 60 FPS - because that's the FPS of your video recorder and playing back a video isn't exactly stressful for your computer. \\n If you see the FRAPS FPS ticker in a video, it means it's a recording of a recording, and the second recording was performed using some program other than FRAPS.\",\n \"Summary: Ozone most certainly does burn on its own and is prone to explosive decomposition. We don't see this behavior in the atmosphere because ozone is very dilute, and unreactive towards the two major components of air.\\n\\nPost: A reation need atleast two reactants. O3 would not just react on its own because there is nothing to react with. \\n This is patently false. While it's true that many reactions require the collision of multiple molecules, there are plenty of decomposition reactions that occur spontaneously solely by virtue of a particular structure being chemically unstable. In fact even for this particular example - ozone in the upper atmosphere is constantly decomposing to molecular and atomic oxygen because of its exposure to solar radiation , it wouldn't matter because this same reaction still occurs in the absence of light - just slower. That's a reason why concentrated ozone is prone to explosive decomposition . Heating the system and producing reactive atomic oxygen both serve to increase the rate of decomposition, and you end up with positive feedback that results in an explosion. \\n The real reason that the ozone in the atmosphere doesn't explode or burn up is that there just isn't enough of it - the concentrations are too low for that to happen. The two main components of the atmosphere are molecular nitrogen (N 2 ) and molecular oxygen(O 2 ). If a collision of ozone with either of those molecules would produce an explosive reaction than the ozone will burn up - everything else (including other ozone molecules) is in low enough concentrations that it's pretty uncommon for an ozone molecule to bump into them. So, what happens when the two main components of air bump into ozone? Ozone is relatively inert towards molecular nitrogen, so nothing much happens there. It will react with molecular oxygen, but they often end up just swapping an oxygen atom so that one oxygen molecule and one ozone molecule go in, and another oxygen molecule and ozone molecule come out. This produces no reactive side products or change in enthalpy, so it doesn't lead to any change in the reactivity of the ozone layer. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: Subway has strict corporate rules about that sort of thing that every franchise has to follow and they are frequently tested to make sure they follow the rules. It almost certainly wasn't just a fluke about how yours was managed.\\n\\nPost: Obviously this is not the scenario for every subway but it is how many of them run \\n I worked at a Subway about a decade ago, and that sounds pretty close to what the corporate-level policy was. We'd get a corporate inspector through one a month or so to make sure we were making the sandwiches correctly - we had to use specific numbers of individual slices of cucumber, tomatoes, olives, you name it. I don't remember a rule about adding half then adding a quarter (totaling 175% topping maximum in this case) but the amount of extra toppings we could put on was strictly controlled, and I think it was a little less than 2x what we started with. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: It's not uncommon for cell service to be virtually non-existent during emergency situations, even in areas that are normally well-covered and haven't sustained any physical damage.\\n\\nPost: The damage would likely depend on the type of seismic waves encountered. Some make the ground move side to side, some make it move back and forth, others do weirder motions - and they affect different types of structures differently. It's conceivable that a tall tower could topple while buried lines remain intact. \\n This is all moot though, because you can lose cell coverage pretty easy in an emergency, without the towers going down. When there is a major emergency virtually everyone gets on their cell phone, and it's really common for networks to become swamped (even if they're physically fine) because the towers just aren't built for that much cell traffic at once. \\n If you've ever lived near a sports stadium for a popular team, you might know what I'm talking about. During local university football games there are so many people on their phones in my city that you basically can't count on your cell phone for anything. You're lucky to send or receive texts with an hour long delay, and you can forget about making a phone call. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: Basically everything you're complaining about is an issue of skill. Practice more.\\n\\nPost: the thing is impossible to control and doesn't turn like the axis plane \\n There are varying opinions on this out there, but the overwhelmingly dominant one up until planes got revamped a few patches ago was that there is no difference between the handling characteristics for the axis and allied planes. After spending many hours in a Bf 109 and several in the P-38, I am inclined to say that this is still the case. The easiest test is to get yourself into a turning battle using the keyboard steering, with another pilot who is also using the keyboard steering. The thing about keyboard steering is that it locks your throttle to full and also maxes out your turning rate. You'll find that a P-38 and Bf 109 both steering by keyboard will both turn at the exact same rate. This is the only objective, measurable test of turning ability that exists in the game because every other method requires pilot skill to max out turning rate - this just requires you to push a button. \\n I've had games where I play against another keyboard-turner where we were both locked in a death spiral for literally upwards of 10 minutes - both of us separated by 180 degrees so that if either one of us pulls out of the spiral the other one will be on his tail. When I play my P-38 I never find a Bf 109 that can out-maneuver me - only ones that can match my maneuverability. The inverse is true when I play my Bf 109, I never find P-38's that can out-maneuver me, but it is common to find pilots who can exactly match my turning radius. \\n If you're having trouble maneuvering, that's a problem that exists between the keyboard and the chair. Practice more, and maybe try using the keyboard controls for sharp turns (which are hidden behind an option called 'debug controls' or 'invert controls' or something, I forget the name. I think the default keybind is shift). \\n >How the hell you can bomb something when there is no indicator of where the bomb will go I don't know. \\n You practice. Nearly every single pilot that you see dropping laser-precision bombs has dropped hundreds of bombs to get where they are. Are you using free-look to actually look at where your bombs land when you drop them? Do you have friends on the ground letting you know if you're over-shooting or under-shooting your targets? You need some sort of feedback mechanism to let you know when you're getting better. Try to make all of your bombing runs as similar as possible to start - try to always come in nice and even with the same angle of attack, with the same throttle settings. If you have controlled conditions then you do have a point of reference - your plane. For me, I learned that I could get my bombs in the right ballpark under my controlled practice-attack conditions if I released my bomb just as the target was no longer visible under the nose of my aircraft. Your attack pattern will likely be different than mine so your mileage may vary, but try that for starters. Once you can hit reliably from one angle of attack / throttle combo, you can try mixing it up. Eventually you'll get a feel for it, but there's absolutely no difference in how the bombs fall between factions and every accurate pilot that you see got that way by lots of practice. \\n >Axis tanks can hide in the woods, snipe when they see allied tanks. Allied tanks can't. \\n Yes, you can. Especially as the Chaffee. People do it all the time, and are often hugely successful at it. \\n >We don't have that option as planes are everywhere and always know where you are and kill you. \\n I have spent many hours flying in this game, and I can tell you that ground targets (including tanks) are virtually invisible if they hide in shadows. If it seems as if the axis planes always know where you are then you are doing one of three things wrong: \\n \\n You are shooting from a position that's not actually hidden from the air. You need to use shadows to hide, and you should ideally have some big pines blocking your view of the air from directions enemy planes are likely to come from (ie, sitting on the edge of a forest does you no good because the planes can see into the edge of the treeline easily). \\n \\n You are shooting too often from the same place while planes look for you. All rounds in this game have tracers, including tank rounds. If you're firing off a constant barrage while a plane looks for you, it will be quite easy for them to zero in on your location (although still difficult if you use trees and shadows correctly). If you're doing the typical Allied-tanker \\\"shell everything with HE until hell freezes over\\\" tactic, that could be why you're getting killed by planes often. Only fire when you actually have a target. \\n \\n The most likely answer is that you're not effectively hiding from other ground units. Most tankers seem to forget a simple idea that we pick up when we're about two years old - if you can see them, they can see you. Tankers like to have a commanding view of a large swathe so that they can use their superior firepower to dominate the map. That's the fastest way to get spotted from the ground that there is. You should remember that as a tanker, getting spotted means death. You should try to find narrow views of key areas so that anything that can see you dies in short order. Hide in a ravine, or behind a building or rock, or do whatever you need to do to hide - and then slowly inch forwards and expose yourself. Check that the entire area you're exposing yourself to is free of targets, and then inch forwards some more. If you limit your field of view to a small enough area that you can completely control everything you see, then you limit the enemy's ability to spot you. This method will make you a little more vulnerable to infantry sneaking up behind you so you'll have to check your six a lot more often and/or get some good infantry support, but it's a hell of a lot better than most tankers' tactics of sitting out where every infantry on the map can spot you from a mile away. \\n \\n \\n >The lack of anti air (the static anti-air doesn't even seem to hurt them) ruins the game. \\n I would agree that the Axis anti-air isn't much good. It spends about 40% of its time reloading, its projectiles are fired in groups of two instead of individually (making the tracer stream less continuous and much harder to zero in with), the seat is exposed to enemy small-arms fire (making it a deathtrap to use compared to the extremely well-armored allied gun), and worst of all the guns are positioned low enough that they will hit the gun emplacement's own sandbags or walls unless firing at a target directly overhead. \\n I agree wholeheartedly, the axis AA guns absolutely suck. The allied AA guns do not. My archnemesis when I play my pilot, is anyone who knows how to actually use the quad gun. Especially on maps like the city or airfield those guns can ping you from across the map, and they will kill you in about 10 seconds if you let them. If it doesn't seem effective you're probably not using the tracers to lead the target, or you're taking shots at planes that are too far for you to hit at your skill level. \\n The Quad AA is really good at controlling the planes' behavior. When you use it (if you can aim) you force the enemy pilot to do one of two things - fly low and far away to avoid your bullets, or try to bomb you. Those are pretty much the only two things you can do against somebody in an AA gun. If they fly low and far away - great! You're keeping them from being effective. If they try to bomb you they will have to approach you head-on, and you should have an easy time shooting them out of their cockpit. If none of these situations is happening you probably need to practice your aim - /u/MadBotanist has some good tips as far as that is concerned. \\n Another thing to try for anti-air is a Jeep. The Axis Kubelwagen is terrible for anti-air (are you sensing a pattern yet?) because its gun can only turn about 30 degrees off of forward. The Allied Jeep is actually pretty decent for anti-air, because its gun can go about 60 degrees off from forward. I've had plenty of times in the air where I've had an enemy in a Jeep that's been just as threatening as an enemy in an AA gun. Park your jeep someplace that has a good view of the area the enemy planes are patrolling (and remember those tips I mentioned before about using shadows and cover for your tank, it'll help here too), and use your Jeep as a mobile AA position. It's only got 1/4 the guns of the Quad AA, but you can control the enemy plane's behavior just the same.\",\n \"Summary: Ritz chips are actually crackers, and just marketed as chips for PR reasons so that Ritz can say their product is healthier than 'other chips', and in this way they can try to poach some of the chip-buying market.\\n\\nPost: I would argue that they are definitely crackers, not chips. Ignoring the fact that one is always baked and the other usually fried, a major difference is what they're made of. Chips are usually cooked slices of some otherwise relatively-unprocessed material - potato, apple, banana, whatever. As far as I know, crackers are always made with dough. I can only think of one kind of chip that's made with dough, tortilla chips, and that's not a cracker because it's fried. \\n Really, there's very little difference in the way the old Ritz crackers were made, and the way the new \\\"chips\\\" are made. They're made of similar doughs, cooked the same way, and both have docking holes (another hallmark of a cracker). The \\\"chips\\\" are slightly crisper than the old crackers, but there are plenty of other similarly-crispy crackers. \\n The reason Ritz is calling their new product chips is not because they are actually chips, it's because they want consumers to notice their favourable nutritional qualities compared to fried potato chips. This is no secret - it says to do this right on the front of the bag! \\n <\",\n \"Summary: The problem is your object detail is too low, beware of FPS-tweaking guides that have you set it extra low in the config file.\\n\\nPost: The problem you are describing is not a view distance issue, but an object detail issue. Changing the object detail in the advanced video settings changes the number of objects (like gates, fences, small walls, scenery car wrecks and barricades, players, zombies, animals, loot...) that will be rendered at once. The game renders the closest things first and doesn't render any more once the limit (which IIRC is in terms of polygons, not actual objects) is reached. Since DayZ has a lot more objects than your average Arma II mission (zombies and loot) the object culling effect is much more noticeable, especially near cities. \\n If you want to alleviate this, adjust your object detail. Also a quick warning, there is a config file setting that most DayZ FPS-tweaking guides recommend setting to 150k or something thereabouts. I forget the name of this setting, but it is the object detail setting, and the number suggested is actually lower than you can get it with the default pulldown in game. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: Object detail is the only direct way you can change how far players get rendered ingame, and you need it higher to see people from farther away, not lower as OP implies.\\n\\nPost: objects and terrain don't render until you are close, so you can see players and vehicles a lot easier and from further away \\n This isn't how rendering in Arma II works. The relevant settings here are view distance, terrain detail and object detail. Of those three, view distance and terrain detail are both locked on a per-server basis so that everybody sees the same thing. View distance is just the distance of the fog in the distance, but terrain detail controls how far the grass is and how detailed mountains are in the backround. You will find servers with no grass, and servers with a ton of grass, and you cannot change this by changing your personal settings. \\n The only variable affecting player and vehicle rendering that you can actually change is object detail. This controls how many objects your game will render at once. This includes loot, players, zombies, vehicles, trees, small walls, fences, gates, doors, downed trees, stumps, shrubs... pretty much everything that you would not think of as 'part of the map', and many other things that you would. The game renders the closest objects and continues rendering objects out by distance until it reaches a polygon limit defined by your object detail setting. Once the limit is reached, no further objects are rendered. So you can render players from farther away, but you have to turn your object detail up to do it, not down. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: A lot of projectiles fired at a thin target isn't all that different from a single projectile fired through the entire Earth. There'd still be a ton of collisions.\\n\\nPost: The first gold-foil experiment used radon-210 as its source of alpha particles. I don't have the paper in front of me so I'm going to take a wild guess at how much they used - let's say they used one gram of radon and captured every alpha particle emitted. That [works out]( to 2x10^17 particles per second. Different sources are giving the thickness of the gold as between [8.6x10^-6]( and [4x10^-5 cm]( thick. This was a really thin sheet of gold - apparently Rutherford himself estimated his foil to be only [2-4 atoms thick]( \\n Let's use the largest of those (4 atoms thick, so each alpha particle gets 4 chances to interact), and also imagine the apparatus uses a ridiculously large quantity of radon - 10 grams (and still uses every alpha particle - which it definitely didn't do). That'd put the total rate of possible interactions at about 9x10^18 interactions per second. \\n Now let's compare that to our hypothetical experiment where we have one particle passing through the entire Earth. I'm going to ignore that the Earth isn't made of gold for the sake of ease of calculation - some parts of the Earth won't be all that different in terms of atoms encountered / cross-sectional length, some may be - but we're probably going to accurate to within a couple of orders of magnitude. How many particles would our single projectile encounter on its trip through earth? Well, our gold foil had about 4 atoms in 4x10^-8 m. The diameter of the Earth is about 1.2x10^8 m. That means that the single projectile is going to encounter somewhere in the ballpark of 10^16 atoms on its way through Earth. \\n It's true that there would be many fewer interactions than for Rutherford's experiments (if the apparatus is left running for awhile), but 10^16 interactions is still a lot considering it was observed that about 1 in every 20,000 or so alpha particles actually hit a gold nucleus. That still gives us our single projectile colliding with roughly 10^9 atomic nuclei on its trip through Earth. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: OP is either an Australian / New Zealander who couldn't be bothered to wait another hour to take a picture of the total eclipse when it would have been visible then, or OP is an American / Canadian who slept in about an hour too late and wanted to whore some karma from it. Either way, the total eclipse would definitely have been visible from OP's location.\\n\\nPost: Unlike solar eclipses which cast a relatively small shadow on the relatively large Earth, lunar eclipses are equally visible everywhere on the Earth - if the Moon is in the sky for you and not obscured, you will see the exact same exlipse as everyone else in the world who is viewing it at the same time. It can be oriented differently (as in rotated around) depending on your longitude and latitude, but otherwise it will be identical. \\n That said, you can get a pretty good estimate of the location and time of somebody's lunar eclipse viewing based on their picture of it. Your longitude will affect how high the moon is above the horizon at the time of eclipse, while your longitude and latitude will work together to determine the rotation of the moon in the sky (which determines the apparent track of the shadow that you see). For example at my location, the eclipse was visible before dawn (that's purely from my longitude). That put the moon in the western sky (since all lunar eclipses occur on full moons and a full moon is always opposite of the Sun's apparent location). \\n Since the Earth's shadow is always in the ecliptic plane, the shadow on the Moon will follow along that plane as visible from your location. The ecliptic plane meets the horizon in the East and West, and is highest in the sky in the South (if you're in the northern hemisphere) or the North (if you're in the southern hemisphere). This determines the track of the shadow across the moon. For example in my location in North America, the shadow appeared to move from the top-left corner of the moon across to the bottom-right. You can see what the Eclipse would have looked like for you [here]( by inputting a major city near you. \\n Although the eclipse was visible from a wide range of locations, the fact that the bright patch is on the top edge narrows it down a lot. The only two regions that would have seen a bright patch at the top of the moon would have been Australia and surrounding countries in the southern hemisphere, or North America. If the picture was taken in North America then we're actually looking at a left/right mirror image of what you saw, because everywhere in North America (except way up by Alaska) would have had the light at the trailing edge of the shadow appearing on the top/top-right of the moon, not the top-left. \\n So what happened here? Since you apparently missed the total eclipse, that means one of three things: \\n \\n The total eclipse wasn't visible from your location. We've already established that you're either somewhere in the neighborhood of Australia (with an unaltered photo) or the United States (with a left/right mirror image photo), and it turns out that this case isn't actually possible from either of those two regions. If you are in Australia then the moon was actually rising in the sky at the time of the eclipse (so if you were able to see a partial eclipse you would have been able to see a total eclipse had you waited for it), and if you were in America then we're looking at a left/right mirror image of moon after the total eclipse, meaning the total eclipse would have been higher in the sky and visible from your location. Given the details of your picture, the total eclipse was definitely visible from your location. \\n \\n You are located someplace near Australia, and you took your picture before the total eclipse and didn't bother to wait for the total eclipse. This pretty unlikely as most people who are interested in this sort of thing and awake to see it start, would stay awake to see the total eclipse. This is reddit though, and it's possible that you're just karma-whoring. \\n \\n You are located somewhere in North America, you woke up too late to see the total eclipse, and the photo is a left/right mirror image of what you actually saw. \\n \\n \\n So which is it? It's hard to say for sure. The fact that you wrote \\\"arse\\\" makes #2 look more likely, but the fact that the photo was apparently taken with your left hand makes #3 look more likely (because most people take phone pictures with their right hand and would get a picture like this if the picture were left/right inverted). It definitely wasn't #1 though. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: It sucks that you got kicked for one mistake, but because tanks can't really be carried and it wastes so much time for so many people if they are inadequate, you really should make sure you can confidently tank an LFR before you queue for one. \\n Edit: Grammar. \\n Edit 2: More grammar. Also, gold! Thank you, anonymous benefactor!\\n\\nPost: I think tank is the only position that you should not play until you're very confident in your abilities to adequately perform the job. It sounds like you maybe got unfairly punished for one error: almost nobody can get through an entire raid, even an easy one, with no errors. \\n That attitude towards tanks exists with good reason, though. If somebody comes to the raid and can't adequately DPS, that's usually OK - the raid is designed that some people can suck and be carried by the rest. If somebody comes to the raid and can't adequately heal, that's also usually OK - there are 5 other healers who will keep the raid up just fine if 2-3 of them are competent in their role. If you show up as a tank though, and are vastly undergeared in your role or are still learning the fights or even still learning the spec - there's nobody to carry you. There are only 2 tanks, and most fights (even in LFR) require two adequately competent tanks. \\n When you queue as a tank for LFR, most of the time you get a very short, nearly instant queue. It's really not fair to the other 23 people in the raid, most of whom will have been waiting somewhere in the ballpark of 10-40 minutes, for you to queue for a role you're not fully capable in. If you queue tank and don't pass muster, you've wasted a lot of people's time, and a lot more time than you had to input. \\n If your tank doesn't have the gear to reliably tank an LFR yet, then you can queue as another role and set your loot specialization to tank. \\n If you as a player don't know the fights in a specific LFR well enough that you can tank them adequately, then you can queue as another role and watch the fights. You can pay attention to what successful tanks do. You can spend 5 minutes watching a youtube video or 30 seconds reading a \\\"bosses in 5 seconds\\\" type guide. \\n If you as a player aren't familiar with your spec, you can learn your spec in a lower-tier medium where you aren't wasting so much of so many people's time if you fail. Say you just got to 90 and finally made a tank spec, and you don't yet have the muscle memory (or regular memory) to hit the right buttons at exactly the right time. You can run 5-man dungeons or heroics. You can do scenarios or heroic scenarios. These have short queues and less people, and you're also more likely to still succeed if you aren't playing at 100% capacity. \\n Again, I'm not advocating crucifying a tank for making a single mistake. Everybody makes mistakes, nobody's perfect. However when I'm in a group with 22 other people who have all sat through a half-hour queue to do an LFR and several wipes in it becomes apparent that we have a tank who is incapable of completing the LFR, I think it's OK to kick the tank and get a new one - and I think it's the tank who is the asshole in that situation, not the group that kicked him. The tank will have wasted at most a few minutes of his own time waiting in the queue, and after the kick the group will likely fall apart forcing everybody else to have to endure a long queue again, and even if it doesn't fall apart they still end up sitting around with their thumbs up their butts (unable to do dailies or other quests they might normally be doing because they're in a raid group) for another 10-40 minutes while they wait for the queue to assign them a new tank. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: Your mistweaver is performing fine, all things considered. Your discipline priest and restoration shaman are having inflated numbers because you have too few healers for your raid size and because your raid is absolutely terrible at avoiding damage. Your mistweaver isn't the worst at their role in their raid, and you have much bigger fish to fry as far as raid improvement goes. Get another healer, get your raid to stop standing in the stupid, and then come back if your mistweaver is still vastly underperforming.\\n\\nPost: As a rule of thumb, healers should almost never be evaluated by their percentile score. It's not like for a DPSer where the amount of DPS depends solely on their own skill - for a healer the amount of HPS depends on a great many factors such as personal skill, raid composition, how much self-healing the tanks have, class mechanics' interactions with situational particulars, and everyone else's performance . More on this in #4. \\n \\n \\\"OMG this guy is only performing above-average, somebody help me!\\\" is what we're hearing. Your mistweaver is at 61% in their bracket, which is not 'bad' by any stretch of the imagination. You've got several players who are performing below that in their bracket for their role, and more importantly many players who are failing to move out of the stupid in order to inflate their numbers. Ask them to not stand in the stupid and I bet you their percentile scores are going to go down. \\n \\n On Kromog the primary reason your Mistweaver is \\\"underperforming\\\" is because of your composition choice, not their skill. You have a very low number of healers for the Kromog fight, especially given the size of your raid. This will tend to inflate the numbers for discipline priests because they're able to make better use of their shields (which get used up before heals can possibly ever land giving them an advantage on the meters). This will also tend to inflate the numbers for shamans (because their mastery gives them tons of heals when people are low, and with too few healers lots of people tend to have low health). \\n \\n On Gruul the same composition statement generally applies - Gruul isn't a fight that typically requires \\\"extra\\\" healers, but you still have too few healers in general for your raid size. This will tend to favor the disc priest and resto shaman on the meters. You know what else tends to favor them on the meters? All of the other members of your raid who are apparently blind and are eating so many overhead smashes and cave-ins . Seriously, I can't emphasize this enough. Not only does this give an extreme advantage to your discipline priest (who can guarantee his full shield gets used on all those idiot players every time there's a cone) and the resto shaman (who can guarantee to get huge mastery bonuses every time they drop to low health from standing in a cone) - it makes you look really shallow and incompetent to be coming onto reddit to ask people to look at your above-average Mistweaver so you can give him tips on improving when your raid as a whole is in the 0-10th fucking percentile for avoiding those cone attacks (and the player in question only got hit once). I look at logs all the time and I've never seen a Gruul log this bad - before you have a talk with your mistweaver about anything you need to have a talk with your whole raid about not standing in the stupid. \\n \\n \\n <\",\n \"Summary: You have no idea what you're talking about.\\n\\nPost: It says in that Harvard article some nutrients break down when exposed to heat. \\n That's true of every cooking method. No matter what method you cook it, certain things will break down at certain temperatures - that's just the way it is. \\n >Did you read it? \\n Yes. Did you? The specific nutrient it mentions is Vitamin C, and it also mentions that \\\"cooking with a microwave probably does a better job of preserving the nutrient content of foods\\\". Care to take your foot out of your mouth now? \\n I'm a chemist, so I actually happen to know quite a lot about stuff like this. I know exactly how microwaves work to heat up your food, and what kinds of changes are likely to result from their use. \\n Did you know that microwaving actually results in one of the (if not the absolute) least amount of chemical change in the food? Unlike frying, roasting, baking, or pretty much any other cooking method - microwaving does not typically produce any kind of caramelized crust on the food being cooked. Why not? Because it's so incredibly even. Is it perfectly even? No, nothing is or can be. But it's damn close - and much more even than anything else where the heat has to work its way in from the outside of the food (as opposed to in a microwave the heat appears inside the food when the microwave photons interact with the polar molecules). \\n Like the article said - microwaving most definitely does not diminish the nutrients of food compared to any other method of cooking. It doesn't leach nutrients away in the water or oil like boiling or frying will, and any nutrients that would break down by microwaving would also break down from any other heat source. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: Although it breaks down Vitamin C and alters some other nutrients (but mostly in ways that don't render them inactive like cooked vitamin C), cooking (including microwaving) actually increases the nutritional content of food by multiple mechanisms, making it inaccurate to say that it \\\"diminishes the nutrients of food\\\". \\n I don't know why I'm even bothering to write this for you, as you clearly didn't read the original article that you asked me to read - or my first response to your original excuse for a post. You're taking a nuanced discussion and beating it with a sledgehammer.\\n\\nPost: Well as I said in my original post, I've never heard the rumor. \\n One would assume that the rumor is that microwaving diminishes the nutrients of foods compared to other methods of cooking . It sounds like a rumor made by people who are afraid to use microwaves, because they don't understand how they work. It sounds designed to get people to cook their food by other methods. \\n Am I way off base? Even if the rumor was specifically the one you seem to be advocating that is much more limited in scope, it's still not even strictly true. Yes, some nutrients will be destroyed by heating (although we've already established it will happen less than other methods of cooking). \\n There are other nutrients that are actually effectively increased by cooking. Humans don't have the necessary enzymes to break down cellulose, which is what the cell walls of plants are made of. It's the fiber in plants that helps you poop - it passes right through your gut undigested. It turns out that cooking vegetables helps destroy those cell walls, and there are multiple benefits of this: \\n Lots of nutrients are tied up inside individual cells, and destroying the cell walls lets them escape. A good example is [lycopene in tomatoes]( - if you cook tomatoes you are able to get more of the lycopene out than if you eat them raw, because many of the cell walls get destroyed and it's easier for you to extract all of the nutrients. \\n Another benefit is that the cell walls themselves are nutritional content, that we just can't normally digest. Cellulose is a [polysaccharide]( - it is literally just a big long chain of lots of sugar molecules together. Since we don't have the right enzyme to break it down, we can't get any of that nutritional content from eating cellulose. By cooking we cause hydrolysis of some of those bonds connecting the individual sugars, releasing sugar into the food. This is extra nutritional content that we would not have had, if the food were consumed raw. \\n Both of these benefits most certainly do occur no matter how the food is cooked, including by microwave. So while it's true that some nutrients get destroyed (and really it's pretty much mostly just Vitamin C), there are also other nutrients that actually get increased by cooking (and in most cases probably in greater amounts) - so you can't just make a flat blanket statement that \\\"cooking diminishes the nutrients\\\". \\n <\",\n \"Summary: Maybe this article's other numbers are accurate, but take them with a grain of salt because whoever came up with the numbers clearly doesn't understand the units they're working with, and also is making the claim that we use 105% of the planet Earth's annual energy output on producing toilet paper.\\n\\nPost: He adds that manufacturing requires about 17.3 terawatts of electricity annually \\n Really? 17.3 terawatts of electricity anually? Suddenly I distrust every number in this article. Somebody definitely screwed something up, because: \\n \\n A [watt]( is a unit of power, not energy. That statement is about as nonsensical as saying \\\"my car uses 200 horsepower per year\\\". The only way it could make sense is if it's meant to mean 17.3 terawatt-years. \\n \\n Even if we were to assume that somebody just omitted the \\\"times years\\\" part of that unit, it's still a ridiculous number because it is greater than the total power output of the entire world . As of 2008, the total annual energy output of the entire planet was 143,841 terawatt-hours that we are using 105% of the planet's 2008-level energy output to produce toilet paper.\",\n \"Summary: Sensationalism by any party is silly, and your math needs work. \\n I am a chemist by education and trade - I work at a major research university doing chemistry research. One thing that practicing a career in science does, is it trains you to always be able to back up what you say with evidence. It trains you to admit when the evidence doesn't fit your hypothesis so you can move on and get close to the truth. In this very thread I [made a mathematical error]( and [was happy to have it corrected]( I promise, I am not just saying this to try to make myself look better in front of a bunch of strangers on the internet, or to be mean to you, or for any other reason other than the fact that I know this to be true: \\n You are dead wrong in your calculations about this. You clearly are grossly misinformed about units of power and energy, and your math on this needs some serious work.\\n\\nPost: Saying 17.3 Terawatts annually means Terawatt-year. Not sure what you're fussing about, it's completely clear what was meant from the snippet posted. \\n I'd agree that terawatt-year is a reasonable interpretation of 'annual terawatts', but it is not completely clear from the context. Seeing as it is much more common for people to measure energy in terms of watt-hours (or whatever order of magnitude of watt-hours is most convenient), it's ambiguous at best whether the number is referring to terawatt-years or terawatt-hours. Units are equally as important as the numbers that they're attached to, it's important to get them correct. Leaving off half of the unit here leads to an ambiguity of almost 4 orders of magnitude. \\n >Terawatt-hours is per hour. You would be doing the equivalent of dividing, so it would be 17.3 (Terawatt/year) * 1/8765.81 (year/hour) or 0.002 Terawatt-hours for toilet paper. This is well within the global values you provided. \\n What? That's not how this works. [Power]( is in units of energy per unit or time. That means energy divided by time. In order to equate that to an amount of energy, the time unit in the denominator needs to be cancelled out by multiplication. Hence we have a common unit, the [kilowatt-hour]( This is wattage multiplied by time, not wattage divided by time. Our terawatt-year is the same thing, with a different power of ten out front and a different unit of time at the end - but still the same idea. One terawatt multiplied by one year is a terawatt-year. \\n >I haven't looked into the actual numbers to see how reasonable things are in terms of scale, but you seem to have a gross misunderstanding of things. \\n You, sir, are the one with a gross misunderstanding of things. According to your math one terawatt-year is equivalent to 0.0001 terawatt-hours. Your username says you're an overcritical engineer but I doubt both of those qualifiers as you should have been taught in the course of your engineering degree to do a ballpark check on any math you do before relying on it. In what world does it make sense that one terawatt applied over the course of a year amounts to less energy than one terawatt applied over the course of an hour? \\n >On-topic, of course blowing water at your ass alone (maybe with an airjet too because why not, fancy) will be more efficient than cutting down trees, transporting said trees, cutting again said trees, processing trees for paper, packaging, and then transporting so that it can be purchased commercially by someone else who most likely has to be transported mechanically to and from said point of commerce. \\n If you look carefully you'll notice that I never contested whether bidets are actually more energy-efficient than toilet paper. They probably are. I just don't trust these specific numbers, for the reasons I listed. \\n >\",\n \"Summary: Dissolved gasses are held in place by weak interactions with liquid solutes, which can be overcome by thermal motion. Adding heat makes it easier for the gasses to escape these interactions, and once they overcome these interactions they tend to stay in a gaseous state because nature tends towards chaotic states. Non-dissolved solids are held in place by strong interactions, and they will only dissolve into a liquid if the relatively weakly-interacting liquids can overcome the strong solid-solid interactions. Increasing the temperature increases the amount of interaction between the liquid and solid, allowing more solid to be dissolved.\\n\\nPost: To really understand this you need to understand the general differences between physical states, what makes substances assume those states, and what it really means to dissolve something: \\n So the first thing we need is to get a picture of the typical state of a molecule in different states of matter. On a molecular scale you can think of a gas as a bunch of molecules flying all over the place, bumping into everything. This is why gasses fill their volume, and why they flow - because the molecules are shooting in every direction ridiculously fast, going everywhere . Liquids are like gasses in that the molecules are still moving around a lot, but they're not quite as crazy - they're not so much shooting past each other as sliding past each other, because they stick together. This is why a liquid flows, but doesn't necessarily fill the volume of its container. In solids the molecules don't appreciably move at all - they're more or less locked in place. This is why solids don't flow, and don't fill the volume of their container. \\n So why do substances occur in a given state? It has to do with how well the molecules of that substance interact with each other. These interactions are attractive, and serve to bind the molecules together. If they're extremely weak you get molecules that are barely held together at all and fly willy-nilly all over the place - a gas. If they're strong they make the molecules stick together, but still allow them to slide around - you have a liquid. If they're really strong they make the molecules stick together so strongly that they can't move around - that's a solid. These attractive forces compete against the natural thermal motion of molecules, which is why things tend to melt and eventually boil as you heat them - the forces are only so strong and can only constrain movement so much before the increased thermal motion 'wins'. \\n So now let's look at what it means to be dissolved: \\n If you have a solid sitting in a liquid, that means you have something that has relatively strong intramolecular forces sitting in something that has relatively weak intramolecular forces. It will often turn out that the liquid's interaction with the solid is more favorable than the liquid's interaction with itself, but it also often turns out that the liquid's interaction with the solid is less favorable than the solid's interaction with the solid. How soluble the solid is then, depends on the relative strengths of the interactions. You can think of it as the solids 'wanting' to be a part of the solid, but occasionally getting pulled away by the solvating liquid. Increasing the temperature makes the liquid molecules move faster, and all the extra moving and jostling around gives them more opportunities to occasionally peel a bit of solid off of the bulk mass. This shifts the equilibrium more towards a dissolved mixture. \\n For a gas dissolved in a liquid, the situation isn't quite the same. Although solvated gasses are typically slightly energetically stabilized by their interactions with the liquid solvent, there is a preference towards more chaotic arrangements. If a dissolved gas molecule can escape from its solution - it will. Just like always, there are two competing factors here. The interactions with the liquid keep the dissolved gas molecules held relatively tightly, and keep them in solution. The natural thermal motion of the dissolved gas works against those forces. If you heat the mixture the gas molecules have a more energetic movement which is more likely to 'break free' from the liquid - and then since chaotic arrangements are preferred and a gaseous state is much more chaotic than a dissolved liquid state, if a gas molecule manages to 'break free' it tends not to come back. So heating a dissolved gas helps that gas escape the mixture, and lowers its solubility. \\n Why don't dissolved solids 'escape' when the temperature rises? Because there's nowhere to 'escape' to. A substance that would otherwise be solid isn't going to escape as individual gas molecules - when the occasional dissolved molecule changes state it's going to go back to its highly-ordered solid state, where it will sit around waiting for more liquid molecules to bump into it in the right way to whisk it away again. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: Gaming the system to get 6 Death Runes as an Unholy DK is highly situational and not something that is worth messing with. The 6 Death Rune Blood DK rotation that was intended to be nerfed with this hotfix is arguably not overpowered either - by doing that rotation you're gaining about 10% single-target DPS and losing the vast majority of your AoE DPS. From a survivability perspective it's vastly superior without any set bonuses (25% more self-healing under perfect conditions) but once you get a 2-piece set bonus you only end up with about 10% more self-healing at a cost of about 10% less healing received from your healers. The rotation is not significantly overpowered, and it would be best to just revert the changes. \\n Edit: Although I didn't do the math on it, you can also be assured that including the tier-5 talents and Scent of Blood procs would serve to decrease the advantage of the 6 Death rune rotation because the effects would apply equally to both rotations and make them more equal.\\n\\nPost: Honestly though how bad even was the 6-rune gaming? \\n As Unholy I need enough Unholy runes on most fights that I don't even bother going for 6 Death runes except on a couple fights, like Beastlord or Operator. Even on those fights though you really need bursts of AoE instead of sustained AoE which makes it hard to justify gaming to 6 runes (as maintaining 6 death runes is pretty difficult to do unless you're just spamming blood boil or carefully timing your Unholy-rune-using abilities to only use your Death_Blood runes). For Unholy it doesn't seem like it's that big of a deal because it's only useful in niche situations. \\n Then for Blood (which I play way more), it still doesn't seem that good to do 6 Death runes (especially in light of the current 2-piece set bonus). If you don't game for 6 Death runes then every recharge cycle is giving you 2 Death Strikes and 2 Blood Boils. 2 Blood Boils gives 2 stacks of Scent of Blood (+20% D.S. equivalent each), so ignoring T5 talents and procs that comes out to 2.4 effective Death Strikes per rune recharge cycle. If you do game for 6 Death runes then (again ignoring T5 talents and procs) you get 3 effective Death Strikes per rune recharge cycle. \\n This is a sizeable difference (25% more) but not overwhelmingly huge. You're potentially gaining 25% more self-heals and (using Simulationcraft's 680 ilvl damage per execution for this example) gaining 10% more single-target DPS, but you're losing all of your non-disease non-proc AoE DPS. \\n Then if you try to include the 2-piece set bonus, the advantage gets even smaller. Vampric Blood can have a 17% uptime without the bonus. Ignoring Crimson Scourge procs (because they're relatively infrequent on the timescale of a typical rune recharge cycle and I don't feel like calcluating the Blood Boils per second from this right now) a standard rotation without 6 Death Runes would decrease the cooldown by 10 seconds per rune rotation cycle. I am personally not spectacularly geared but my full rune regeneration cycle is 16.5 seconds long - so after 2 cycles (33 seconds) I'd have a guaranteed 20-second cooldown reduction on Vampric Blood, bringing it down to 40 seconds. Throw in an occasional Crimson Scourge and you'll probably end up with an average Vampiric Blood cooldown of around 30-35 seconds. We'll go with 35 to be conservative - that brings the Vampric Blood uptime to about 29%, which is about a 70% increase in Vampiric Blood uptime versus the 6 Death Rune rotation. So all-in-all a non-glyphed but 2-piece-bonused Vampiric Blood used on cooldown gives about 20% overall extra healing in the 6 Death Rune rotation, and about 30% overall extra healing when used with the 'normal' rotation. \\n What are the effects of Vampiric Blood on the effecting Death Strikes per rune recharge cycle above? With the 2-piece set bonus those 2.4 Death Strikes per cycle on the 'normal' rotation go up to about 3.2 death-strike-equivalents worth of self-healing, and the 3 actual Death Strikes per cycle from the 6-Death-rune rotation go to about 3.5 Death-Strike-equivalents worth of self-healing. Now we're looking at about a 10% difference in self-healing potential between the two rotations, but the one with the self-healing advantage also has an approximately 10% healing disadvantage from all other sources . Honestly - I think it's in many situations slightly better to do the 6 Death Rune rotation but it's certainly not overpowered and there are many situations were it's not even the optimal rotation to run (like any time that you need to do AoE damage, or any time you have a 2-piece set bonus and are receiving more healing from the healers than you are doing to yourself). \\n <\",\n \"Summary: Actions can be legal under an 'unconstitutional' law. If the law makes it before a judge and is officially declared unconstitutional, only then do the actions become illegal (because the law is invalidated). IANAL, fact check me if this seems fishy.\\n\\nPost: Illegal and unconstitutional do not mean the same thing, FYI. If the acts bring committed are allowed under laws such as the Patriot Act (and don't break any other legislation - I think it's possible for there go be contradictions between different laws), then they are not illegal. The law is what can be unconstitutional, but even if it's very clearly in violation of the Constitution, it's not actually considered officially unconstitutional until it's been ruled on by a court.. First somebody has to challenge the law, and get it in front of a judge. IANAL so if you know better than anything I am saying, feel free to set be straight. \\n <\",\n \"Summary: I fixed my car, have no idea how, and am trying to figure out what happened. \\n Thanks! \\n Edit: Screwed up a sentence.\\n\\nPost: So this morning my car wouldn't start. About the only prior experience I have with a non-starting car is from a dead battery, and I knew it wasn't that. I started following this flow chart . To my surprise, the car started! I put it back together, and it seems to be working fine again. \\n Does anyone have any ideas for likely problems that could cause this? I'm not used to mechanical problems solving themselves, so I was very surprised that the car started from disconnecting a spark plug, and kept working when I put it back together. If this is something that is likely to happen again, I would like to try to find a more permanent solution so I don't end up stranded far from home with a dead car.\",\n \"Summary: In patch 6.1, DK abilities that convert runes to Death runes finally worked as their tooltips said they should. This was a minor change for Unholy DKs who could now through the use of various talents and tactics use Unholy runes in their AoE rotation, and for Blood DKs who could now use Blood runes differently in their survival rotation. The effect on Unholy was unquestionably slightly positive, and the effect on Blood was arguably about the same. The March 11 hotfix was intended to revert the changes for Blood, which was apparently seen as too overpowered - but had the undocumented side effects of completely changing the way Death runes work for Unholy DKs and severely gimping the Unholy AoE DPS rotation. \\n There is lots of discussion of this change on [the battle.net forums]( on [twitter]( and on relevant [DK blogs](\\n\\nPost: Edit: The change to the rune system from that hotfix [has been reverted]( \\n Some backround on Death Runes for the unfamiliar: \\n There are some DK abilities that have the following text in their tooltips: \\n >Runes spent on this ability will become death runes \\n This is an extremely major mechanic for Blood and Unholy Death Knights. For Blood DKs the only ability that does this is [Death Strike]( for Unholy DKs the abilities that do this are [Blood Boil]( [Festering Strike]( and [Icy Touch]( \\n So as an Unholy DK for instance, if you were to use a Blood rune on Blood Boil, the rune that would recharge in its place would be a Death rune which can be used as any type of rune. In this case it would be a Death_Blood to be specific, Blizzard names runes according to the 'slot' they go in as well as whether or not they're death runes. If there is a Death rune where there would normally be a Frost rune it is a Death_Frost rune, and a Death rune where there is normally an Unholy rune is Death_Unholy rune. All of these types of Death runes can be spent in the same way - as a Blood, Frost, or Unholy rune. From every tooltip description in the game these extra descriptions should not even be necessary (as all Death runes should behave the same), but unfortunately not all Death runes behave the same so they need to be differentiated. \\n So since a death rune could count as any type of rune, the typical Unholy AoE rotation would involve converting Frost runes to Death_Frost runes by using Icy Touch, Festering Strike, or Blood Tap. Any of these three abilities would convert a Frost rune to a Death rune that could then be used to do AoE damage with Blood Boil. Blood Boil, when used on a Death_Frost rune, would then recharge another Death_Frost rune - exactly as one would expect from the tooltip. \\n Pre-6.1 Behavior: \\n Runes recharging as death runes were bugged pre-6.1. The gist of the bug was that specific Death runes would not rechage properly as Death runes when they are used on abilities that say \\\"runes spent on this ability will recharge as Death runes\\\". For Unholy spec, the problem was only Death_Unholy runes, and for Blood spec the problem was only Death_Blood runes. \\n For example for Unholy spec: if you used a Blood Boil (or Festering Strike or Icy Touch) on a Death_Frost rune it would recharge as a Death_Frost rune, if you used it on a Death_Blood rune it would recharge as a Death_Blood rune. If you used either of these abilities on an Death_Unholy rune, it would lose its' Death-rune status and recharge as a regular old Unholy rune. \\n For Blood spec you'd get something similar: If you used Death Strike on an Death_Unholy or Death_Frost rune, you would get back Death_Unholy and/or Death_Frost runes after recharging. If you used Death Strike on a Death_Blood rune, it would recharge as a regular old Blood rune. \\n It was generally understood that this behavior was bugged, or at the very least in contradiction to the tooltips. \\n What changed in 6.1: \\n The behavior of all abilites was changed to match the tooltip, so that any rune of any type that was spent on the abilities in question would recharge as a Death rune. So the specific cases that were changed were (for Unholy Spec) that Death_Unholy runes would properly recharge as Death_Unholy if the rune was used for Blood Boil, Festering Strike or Icy Touch and (for Blood Spec) that Death_Blood runes would properly recharge as Death_Blood runes if the rune was used for a Death Strike. \\n So the implications of this change were as follows: \\n Unholy Death Knights could now with a lot of planning get a slight advantage in their AoE rotation by using Blood Tap or Plague Leech to convert Unholy runes to Death_Unholy runes, and then using Blood Boil (their only spammable cleave ability) on those Death_Unholy runes would cause them to regenerate as Death_Unholy. This was not something that could be accomplished on the fly - it would require planning ahead about 30-60 seconds (depending on which talent you use to accomplish it) in order to get the Death_Unholy runes converted when you need them for AoE (and would require you to do a sub-optimal rotation for any single-target damage in the meantime to avoid converting your Death_Unholy runes back to Unholy runes with your normal single-target rotation). \\n Blood Death Knights could now trade off a large amount of cleaving damage for a significant advantage in their useable number of Death Strikes by using Blood Tap or Plague Leech to convert a Blood rune to Death_Blood, and then using Death Strike on the Death_Blood runes to keep them recharging as Death_Blood. This would allow Blood DKs to use all 6 runes in a recharge cycle towards Death Strikes - which sounds like a major DPS / survivability boost but really is not because it sacrifices all AoE DPS from Blood Boil and all extra healing from Scent of Blood (and also doesn't allow the DK to make use of current-tier set bonuses). In any case, note that the Death_Blood runes were not permanent . They would only recharge as Death runes so long as they were used only on Death Strike, which states in its tooltip that runes spent will recharge as Death runes. If a Death_Blood rune was spent on any other ability , it would recharge as a normal Blood rune as would be expected. \\n What Blizzard claimed to change in the March 11 Hotfix: \\n Here's the text from the patch notes: \\n >[Fixed an situation where Blood Tap (Talent) and Death Strike could interact incorrectly and allow Death Runes to become permanent.]( \\n So this seems to be a nerf intended specifically for Blood DKs, because Blood DKs are the only spec where Death Strike causes runes to regenerate as Blood Runes. This is unquestionably in conflict with the tooltip text, but there are certainly valid arguments that this would be a reasonable nerf. Note however that Death_Blood runes were never actually permanent. They would only recharge as Death runes if they were used on Death Strike, and any other ability would convert them back to normal Blood Runes. I know I'm being redundant here, but that's a very important issue - the behavior the Blizzard is claiming to fix never actually existed. \\n At any rate, from what the patch notes say - Unholy DKs shouldn't have been affected at all. \\n What actually changed in the March 11 Hotfix: \\n \\n In Blood Spec: Death Strike no longer functions as its tooltip suggests. Death runes spent on Death Strike do not recharge as Death Runes - only if they are Death_Frost or Death_Unholy. (This is the apparent intended change, and is identical to the pre-6.1 rune behavior.) \\n \\n In Unholy Spec: Icy Touch, Festering Strike, and Blood Boil no longer function as their tooltips suggest. Death Runes spent on any of these abilities do not recharge as Death RUnes unless they are a specific type of Death Rune. Icy Touch will only recharge Death_Frost runes as Death runes, Blood Boil will only recharge Death_Blood runes as Death runes, and Festering Strike will only recharge Death_Frost or Death_Blood runes as Death runes. This means that Unholy DKs have taken an approximately 25% loss to cleave attack potential as they can no longer convert their Frost runes to Death_Frost and AoE reliably. Instead their Death_Frost runes spent on AoE abilities will recharge as regular Frost runes which are nearly useless in the Unholy AoE rotation. There is no way around it - this hotfix was a MASSIVE nerf for Unholy DKs. This is a major departure from how Unholy DKs have always functioned, and is completely undocumented. \\n \\n \\n This could be summed up concisely as follows: abilities that are supposed to recharge spent runes as Death runes only do so if the runes spent were the normally-required non-Death runes or Death runes derived from the normally-required non-Death runes. \\n But wait - there's more! \\n These actually aren't the only changes brought on by the March 11 hotfix - it gets weird! \\n Not only did Blizzard fix a bug that did not exist , not only did they change mechanics that were for the first time in WoW's history actually matching up with the tooltips, not only did they make a massive undocumented nerf to Unholy DKs, they did more than all of this: \\n They messed this up so badly that literally all of these mechanics vary by what zone you are in . Go try these mechanics in your Garrison - you'll find them working as described in the post-hotfix section of this post. Go try these mechanics in Blackrock Foundry - you'll find them working as described in the post-hotfix section of this post. Go try them in the wilds of Gorgrond? They'll function as they did in 6.1. Go try them in Nagrand? They'll function as they did in 6.1. I haven't gotten around to testing every possible zone, but it's clear that these mechanics now function extremely differently depending on where your character is located in the game world. \\n So what should Blizzard do? \\n There are three obvious ways to fix this: \\n \\n Revert this mechanic to pre-hotfix status. In 6.1 before this hotfix all of the Death Knight abilities were functioning as their tooltip suggested they should (for the first time ever). The 6.1 changes that brought the abilities in-line with the tooltips gave interesting choices to Blood DKs where they could make meaningful tradeoffs between their AoE DPS and Single-target / survival abilities. It also made it so that Unholy DPSers could gain a slight AoE DPS advantage by sacrificing single-target DPS in the short-term and planning ahead to convert their runes to AoE-able runes at an appropriate time. Both of these specs were positively changed by 6.1 - made to be more dynamic and interesting, with the players able to make meaningful decisions about how to play their class. \\n \\n Revert this mechanic to pre-6.1 status. The clearly intended change that this hotfix was supposed to address was Blood DKs being able to output too many Death Strikes. Reverting to pre-6.1 status would fix this, but would avoid completely screwing over Unholy DKs in the process. \\n \\n Do something wildly different, like adjust Icy Touch to not be nearly worthless in the Unholy AoE DPS rotation. As it stands Unholy DPS is in a terrible state as a result of this change that (from the patch notes) was clearly intended for Blood DKs. \\n \\n \\n <\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":43,"string":"43"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":11296,"string":"11,296"}}},{"rowIdx":11297,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"thisistheperfectname"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Yep. If you have a big tablet, it's an iPad. If you have a small tablet, it's either a Kindle Fire or an iPad Mini."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Someone posted in /r/talesfromtechsupport a while back about his/her relative insisting his/her Galaxy Tab was \"an iPad from a different brand\" to the entire family. Not only does that show that the one person at hand was uninformed, it shows that that uninformed people go on to spread untruths about products he/she doesn't know about to others. Word of mouth is powerful, even with inaccuracies. If you want people to recognize Android products, talk about them. If you own them, show them to your friends. If you don't and someone wants recommendations, show them their options."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Someone posted in /r/talesfromtechsupport a while back about his/her relative insisting his/her Galaxy Tab was \"an iPad from a different brand\" to the entire family. Not only does that show that the one person at hand was uninformed, it shows that that uninformed people go on to spread untruths about products he/she doesn't know about to others. Word of mouth is powerful, even with inaccuracies. If you want people to recognize Android products, talk about them. If you own them, show them to your friends. If you don't and someone wants recommendations, show them their options."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Taxation is necessary for keeping the government alive, but, unfortunately, the government is so bloated and inefficient too much money is wasted. To create positive effect X on the poor, you have to do 5X damage to the middle class. \n In case you mean paying off debts, yes, it helps, but you'd need to lower spending as well. No use taking in more money just to go ahead and spend it as frivolously as you were.\n\nPost: I've been spouting this number off a lot here, but I think it applies. Less than 20% of the government's welfare budget makes it to its recipients. \n So, then, when the government decides it needs to allocate more tax money to a new welfare initiative, it takes the money from the people (hitting the middle class the hardest). It then spends tons of money on the program, with a little of it getting to its intended recipients. The rest of that money just found itself tied up in government bureaucracy because government is just that horribly inefficient . So by now it helped the poor a little bit but, in doing so, it just plunged some more middle class people below the poverty line.","Summary: Size comparisons describe the universe at at time later than time 0, and should just be taken to mean \"very, very small.\"\n\nPost: Some things to point out with bonus lay conjectures: \n \n The universe includes \"space,\" so there can be no spatial rendering of the outside of the universe that makes sense. The universe does not sit inside any continuum as far as we know. \n \n The Big Bang Theory does not account for time 0. The earliest time in the universe's history it describes was 1 Planck time after something that started the process. \n \n It might as well have come from a point. If this is true, space-time was created, consistent with the idea of a time 0. This also means there was no arbitrary starting size. Surely it would have been the size of a pea, or a golf ball, or a watermelon at some time, but not at time 0.","Summary: I LOVE YOU ANDROID POLICE! THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING! <3\n\nPost: Seriously. AP has shown themselves to be the only Android news blog that takes itself seriously. They consistently produce new, useful, substantiated content. I don't see many other android journalists (or even other journalists in other fields) do as fantastic of a job as you guys do. \n The APK teardowns, fantastic sources of information. Don't see others doing this. You don't just post \"Oh boy i think this is happening rumor rumor rumor.\" You go through the code line by line to see what it could mean. That's dedication. \n Every week, the \"x apps of the week.\" Awesome! What a great way to find apps. Original reviews, insightful and honest opinions, I love it! \n All other general news. Always original content. Rarely do I see recycled \"this rumor happened\" and \"this is coming out\" like I do from literally every other blog. \n Getting to know Android x.x.x. Perfect. Probably my favorite recurring thing on any blog ever. \n Basically, what I'm trying to say, is thank you so much for putting out actual content. Thank you for not trying to get pageviews from \"hot\" titles and \"latest rumors!\" Thank you for trying to get pageviews from writing solid articles and putting thought into almost every post. \n Seriously, I love you guys. I hope you can tell from all the upvotes and how many of your stories hit the front page! But even still, I wanted to let you know how absolutely grateful I am (and we all are)! Stick around, and keep up the fantastic work! We don't take it for granted, even if it might seem like it sometimes!","Summary: I LOVE YOU ANDROID POLICE! THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING! <3\n\nPost: Seriously. AP has shown themselves to be the only Android news blog that takes itself seriously. They consistently produce new, useful, substantiated content. I don't see many other android journalists (or even other journalists in other fields) do as fantastic of a job as you guys do. \n The APK teardowns, fantastic sources of information. Don't see others doing this. You don't just post \"Oh boy i think this is happening rumor rumor rumor.\" You go through the code line by line to see what it could mean. That's dedication. \n Every week, the \"x apps of the week.\" Awesome! What a great way to find apps. Original reviews, insightful and honest opinions, I love it! \n All other general news. Always original content. Rarely do I see recycled \"this rumor happened\" and \"this is coming out\" like I do from literally every other blog. \n Getting to know Android x.x.x. Perfect. Probably my favorite recurring thing on any blog ever. \n Basically, what I'm trying to say, is thank you so much for putting out actual content. Thank you for not trying to get pageviews from \"hot\" titles and \"latest rumors!\" Thank you for trying to get pageviews from writing solid articles and putting thought into almost every post. \n Seriously, I love you guys. I hope you can tell from all the upvotes and how many of your stories hit the front page! But even still, I wanted to let you know how absolutely grateful I am (and we all are)! Stick around, and keep up the fantastic work! We don't take it for granted, even if it might seem like it sometimes!","Summary: User correctly swiftkey is probably much faster than a qwerty keyboard. \n [Sauce](\n\nPost: I used swiftkey on a 4\" screen in portrait just typing as fast as I can with my two thumbs even if I make mistakes. The auto correction fixes the mistakes 95% of the time. The mistake many swiftkey users make is they see typing errors and try to correct it or try to use the predicted words slowing them down. he Trick is to just continue typing even though there are errors and you will be surprised to see most words corrected. \n Once you are able to just type fast and trust the auto correction you can start using the predicted words for long words. For short words I find just thinking about using the prediction slows you down. By this time the keyboard would have learnt your typing style and have better word prediction too. \n I suggest try portrait first I find you need less finger movement and can type faster even if you make more mistakes. Swiftkey is good enough to correct it. Another great feature not often mentioned is swifkey can combine different dictionaries. Since were I am from people speak and type in 2 languages at the same time it helps because I don't have to explicitly switch between dictionaries. \n Finally you can also try Swype of download switfkey flow beta from the website. Personally I don't like it nearly as much or as quick as just typing.","Summary: Commodity somehow equals right because people want it.\n\nPost: If people want something, and someone tells them they have a right to have it, and will give it to them in exchange for their votes, we know how the people will vote. I don't know that it's as much the libertarians that take the stance you described, but the liberals. Most libertarians don't want to subsidize healthcare for everyone.","Summary: Your government is not infallible, accountable to the people, or even elected in its entirety. It desires control, and asking it nicely to relinquish it is remarkably futile given its monopoly on force. As long as people keep voting statist and no one's afraid to stand up to it and get the public to value their rights, rights will continue to be trampled upon.\n\nPost: I say this because I believe in democracy and the rule of law. \n Until fairly recently the killing of Mormons was still sanctioned by law in Missouri. It was the law in Nazi Germany for Jews to wear yellow stars before the onset of the Holocaust. What makes laws so virtuous in and of themselves? That's not even considering the constitutionality of the laws, which would determine if they ever should have been binding or not. \n > The system was created and repeatedly endorsed by the election and re-election of members of Congress and Presidents. It has been upheld by the judiciary. \n If you voted for the losing candidates? If you didn't vote at all? Democracy isn't always warm-and-fuzzies, it could simply be 60% voting to enslave the other 40%. Once again, what makes it so virtuous in and of itself? \n > No private citizen has the right to unilaterally decide the law shouldn’t apply to them, or that their opinion of the world is more valid than others. \n This would be the statists in government doing it, not private citizens. \n > In our system of government, the proper way to seek changes to (or the abolition of) a system like this is though the political process. \n We've tried asking power-hungry institutions with monopolies on violence to downsize themselves. They don't like to. Even when they outwardly acquiesce to the people's demands they continue on their power-grabbing internally. The NSA lied to Congress repeatedly (there's your infallible government for you!). \n > If it was a priority, voters could have elected members of Congress who would investigate such programs and seek to modify/eliminate them. \n Approval ratings for each congressperson in their respective home districts are much, much higher than approval ratings for Congress as a whole. Also it's hard to enact meaningful change and protect your own rights when the rest of the country is squandering them away in a \"red vs. blue\" football game over candidates that are nearly identical where it counts. \n > The American people have validated this security apparatus in election after election. \n The NSA was not elected. \n > Edward Snowden may have been a hero if he had taken the harder route. If he had exhausted his ability to protest within the system, then resigned and toiled in the trenches of politics pursuing a more open and accountable government with no guarantee of success or glory – that would be heroic. \n It would have been better for him to languish in government, feeding it, while also doing nothing to stop its unconstitutional breaches of rights? I don't see how it's more virtuous to pursue the same end through a means doomed to fail.","Summary: Root is \"freer\" than iOS jailbreaking, but is more involved, and likely will be more time consuming tweaking the phone to your liking. Since you asked about it though, it shows that you at least have a passing interest in getting your hands dirty. Go for it. \n EDIT: Out of curiosity, why did you decide on the Inspire? It's two hardware generations behind the current crop. Was the price right?\n\nPost: The distinction between root and jailbreak is somewhat important. When you jailbreak an iDevice you get tweaks centralized in the Cydia store. Android is a bit different, in that much of the attraction to rooting involves wiping the existing system and replacing it. \n There are root apps in the Play Store that allow you to gain extended functionality without too much hassle (for example, screenshot apps for phones that don't support it), and you can also tether without the carrier charging you (not sure if AT&T does). \n To gain absolute control over your phone check out XDA Developers and get root and a custom recovery from there. Then click around the threads and decide on a good ROM for your needs (this is a package that is applied through recovery with an altered (or entirely new) system). This will allow you to get versions of Android later than the officially supported ones, and gain new features, and even overclock your phone (The Inspire has the QSD8255, which is clocked stock at 1GHz, but can overclock stably to nearly double that). \n Basically, root allows you extended freedom (as does iOS jailbreaking), but allows you complete control over the system (and other partitions), which jailbreaking does not. It's a bit more involved, though, because you may end up having to scour forums for what you want/need, instead of having the convenience of Cydia.","Summary: I LOVE YOU ANDROID POLICE! THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING! <3\n\nPost: Seriously. AP has shown themselves to be the only Android news blog that takes itself seriously. They consistently produce new, useful, substantiated content. I don't see many other android journalists (or even other journalists in other fields) do as fantastic of a job as you guys do. \n The APK teardowns, fantastic sources of information. Don't see others doing this. You don't just post \"Oh boy i think this is happening rumor rumor rumor.\" You go through the code line by line to see what it could mean. That's dedication. \n Every week, the \"x apps of the week.\" Awesome! What a great way to find apps. Original reviews, insightful and honest opinions, I love it! \n All other general news. Always original content. Rarely do I see recycled \"this rumor happened\" and \"this is coming out\" like I do from literally every other blog. \n Getting to know Android x.x.x. Perfect. Probably my favorite recurring thing on any blog ever. \n Basically, what I'm trying to say, is thank you so much for putting out actual content. Thank you for not trying to get pageviews from \"hot\" titles and \"latest rumors!\" Thank you for trying to get pageviews from writing solid articles and putting thought into almost every post. \n Seriously, I love you guys. I hope you can tell from all the upvotes and how many of your stories hit the front page! But even still, I wanted to let you know how absolutely grateful I am (and we all are)! Stick around, and keep up the fantastic work! We don't take it for granted, even if it might seem like it sometimes!","Summary: The difference between freedom of anyone to marry anyone and the freedom of gays to marry each other.\n\nPost: I don't think we're talking about the same thing. Go to /r/feminism and /r/MensRights. Let's, for sake of argument, say they both have legitimate arguments. Because their members all identify so strongly with their respective groups, they are concerned with the interests of that group. If both have legitimate arguments, but are only concerned about their own issues, they end up with a bunch of finger-pointing and nothing productive (which they do already). If they were concerned with rights granted to the individual (and everyone is an individual), they'd be focusing on blanket rights that promise more and affect everyone. Since they focus on the group, though, they care only about the group. It ends up being, instead of rights one has as a human, rights one has because they're affiliated with a certain group.","Summary: The Constitution is not the reason it's bad to steal or murder.\n\nPost: Those two are rights against the institution created in the Constitution. If the Constitution didn't exist neither does the federal government, so those become irrelevant. You don't not have them, they just don't exist. \n Without the Constitution you still have a right against someone seizing your property, right? The right not to be killed? This would, of course, assume there are no qualms over the idea of self-ownership, because that would contradict those rights with or without a codified bill of rights.","Summary: Don't you dare tell me my mild floater isn't as intense as your insane -2G spike. The lesson for you, then, is to not get so damn upset because you yourself cannot see differences between things.\n\nPost: I'm going to relate this to another interest of mine: roller coasters. \n [This]( is one of my favorite rides. It's called Apollo's Chariot, and it's tall and has lots of nice floaty, parabolic hills. \n People tend to call rides like Apollo's Chariot (and really most rides by its manufacturer) boring and forceless. That pisses off fans of that manufacturer that take it personally. \n The people that call these rides forceless usually prefer rides like [Skyrush]( for their insane ejector air. The ones that don't like to pretend airtime=airtime. There's a big difference between zero Gs and whole-number negative Gs. \n Elitism is when the mild floater guy decides to eliminate all nuance in the discussion of intensity and say \"well the rides are about the same height,\" the fact that they ride completely differently be damned. Note that I'm blaming this completely on the mild floater guy even though the ejector guy is the \"elitist\" -- for \"elitism\" to be a problem it has to make somebody upset, and it did so because some guy decided to get offended over someone's distaste for his favorite ride. So if I decided to get my panties in a knot over someone who likes Skyrush better than Apollo's Chariot, that's on me and my inability to approach the topic with any amount of nuance.","Summary: version of it.\n\nPost: Government helped all of that tremendously, both in being bought off to aid the \"robber barons\" in their business ventures and in creating barriers to entry for competitors. \n A monopoly is only a monopoly if there are a grand total of zero viable competitors, and such conditions are pretty much impossible in a society of that size with zero government protection for the existing player. \n I wish I knew more about that time period, but that seems to me to be the","Summary: Allow me to translate from Statist to English. \"I can have freedom and you can't.\"\n\nPost: Three options: \n \n It's a joke. I found it funny at least. \n \n This is the stupidest thing I've read all day, and I've read some stupid things in the hour I've been up. \n \n That person would absolutely have that choice in a free society. A government can exist, and you can pay into it and live by its rules, but you can't force other people to do it.","Summary: I killed ethnic Santas and some zombies, prepared for the apocalypse, stared into the heartbroken eyes of a five year old girl, destroyed another little girl and her father, and was chased around a yacht by Ray Romano and my uncle.\n\nPost: Sorry about the wall of text. Skip to Dream #4 if you don't want to read it all-that one is the weirdest. Also worth noting that some of these aren't recent, so the details are fuzzy. \n Dream #1 \n One of the strangest of my recent dreams. It was an interesting one, though. \nI'm in the North Pole, not around Christmas time. All is quiet. I'm searching Santa's Workshop for something . There were Bouncing Betties in the floor, and other such boobytraps laid all over the place. Weirdest of all was that Santa himself was trying to kill me. Every time I killed him, though, he resurrected elsewhere in the workshop as a different race. I went through white, black, and Asian Santa before the dream ended. \n Dream #2 \n This was one of those ones that had potential to be a full-on story, if it weren't cut short by its fickle nature as a dream. \nI'm in New York City in the future. A zombie outbreak begins and I, with the other survivors, construct a large tower in the middle of the city, heavily fortified, with food growing on the roof. Eventually we need to open the gate at the base of the tower (I'm guessing for supplies-I had this dream a long time ago, and I'm hazy on the details), and zombies rush in. Legions of them. At the front of the horde none other than the Cryptkeeper from Tales From The Crypt. Blood flies and bones crack, and I have to wake up for school. \n Dream #3 \n Another one of those story-like ones. Looking back I'm wondering why the hell that neighbor was in my dream. \nI'm in the passenger seat with my dad, driving home. We're getting off the freeway near our house, and on the radio, there is talk about some cataclysmic event approaching. No one was paying much attention to this, though. We get home and my dad requests help loading the truck with valuables and supplies. I was baffled to find that he was taking this seriously, but I comply. By this point an ominous gyre of clouds has formed overhead-the warnings on the radio were confirmed. We finish up, and my dad goes into the house for one last thing. He left the keys in the truck, windows down. I'm hanging on the passenger window of the truck, and I look in to see our former next door neighbor (he had moved out years before I had this dream, and he was weird ) starting the truck. He gets it going, and goes a hundred feet or so, and I'm still hanging on the window. I'm getting dragged by the truck at this point. At that point the dream ended, and I'm not quite sure what ended it, but I think I kicked myself awake. \n Dream #4 \n You may not think it from just reading this, but this dream was SCARY. \nFor some reason, there was a P.E. class going on outside my house. I was in the class. It ended, and we all went in to change. Sixty sweaty guys in my house. Hardly dream material. I hear a tiny voice calling my name, beckoning me to my little brother's room. I follow it, and there is a lone girl, about five, holding something in her hand. Without a word, she hands me the bundle in her hands-it was a bunch of crumpled papers. I unravel it, and see that there are small, broken Lego structures in it. The papers were drawings-very odd drawings. She didn't say a word, but she teared up and stared at me. All was silent in the dream. I stared at this little girl, and at the Legos and drawings for a few seconds, and then the dream ended. \nI still don't know what to make of that one. \n Dream #5 \n This one was unnerving as well, but didn't have that \"WTF\" effect on me like Dream #4 did. \nI was sitting in my room with a few girls from school (good friends, and nothing sexual was going on). I hear a scratching sound on my window. I open the blinds and nothing is there. I say something like \"Next time I hear that I'm beating the shit out of whoever's out there.\" After saying that I hear it again and open the window. This time a little girl, about four, and her dad are standing out there, looking oblivious. I open the window, pop the screen out, and bludgeon the two to a pulp. Dream over. \n Dream #6 \n I just don't know where the hell this one came from. \nI was on a rather extravagant yacht with Ray Romano, my uncle (who DJ's at a strip club... not sure if it's important, but he may have snuck into the dream based on that), and two obese black women. My uncle and Ray Romano were chasing me around the boat trying to kill me. The black women were very helpful in helping me survive-moving mooring lines and other such instruments to help me survive. I was swinging around the boat like Jack Sparrow. I don't remember how that situation played out (or if the dream ended before it could). \n I've probably had far weirder that I don't remember, or at least can't recall at the moment. I'll keep editing in more as I remember.","Summary: Your government is not infallible, accountable to the people, or even elected in its entirety. It desires control, and asking it nicely to relinquish it is remarkably futile given its monopoly on force. As long as people keep voting statist and no one's afraid to stand up to it and get the public to value their rights, rights will continue to be trampled upon.\n\nPost: I posted this in another thread in which the OP stated his/her opinion that Snowden is no hero. This is my response, with the quotes being things OP said, although some of it will apply more than other parts: \n > I say this because I believe in democracy and the rule of law. \n Until fairly recently the killing of Mormons was still sanctioned by law in Missouri. It was the law in Nazi Germany for Jews to wear yellow stars before the onset of the Holocaust. What makes laws so virtuous in and of themselves? That's not even considering the constitutionality of the laws, which would determine if they ever should have been binding or not. \n > The system was created and repeatedly endorsed by the election and re-election of members of Congress and Presidents. It has been upheld by the judiciary. \n If you voted for the losing candidates? If you didn't vote at all? Democracy isn't always warm-and-fuzzies, it could simply be 60% voting to enslave the other 40%. Once again, what makes it so virtuous in and of itself? \n > No private citizen has the right to unilaterally decide the law shouldn’t apply to them, or that their opinion of the world is more valid than others. \n This would be the statists in government doing it, not private citizens. \n > In our system of government, the proper way to seek changes to (or the abolition of) a system like this is though the political process. \n We've tried asking power-hungry institutions with monopolies on violence to downsize themselves. They don't like to. Even when they outwardly acquiesce to the people's demands they continue on their power-grabbing internally. The NSA lied to Congress repeatedly (there's your infallible government for you!). \n > If it was a priority, voters could have elected members of Congress who would investigate such programs and seek to modify/eliminate them. \n Approval ratings for each congressperson in their respective home districts are much, much higher than approval ratings for Congress as a whole. Also it's hard to enact meaningful change and protect your own rights when the rest of the country is squandering them away in a \"red vs. blue\" football game over candidates that are nearly identical where it counts. \n > The American people have validated this security apparatus in election after election. \n The NSA was not elected. \n > Edward Snowden may have been a hero if he had taken the harder route. If he had exhausted his ability to protest within the system, then resigned and toiled in the trenches of politics pursuing a more open and accountable government with no guarantee of success or glory – that would be heroic. \n It would have been better for him to languish in government, feeding it, while also doing nothing to stop its unconstitutional breaches of rights? I don't see how it's more virtuous to pursue the same end through a means doomed to fail.","Summary: The problem wasn't change. It was bad change.\n\nPost: To be fair, Metallica got indefensibly bad. If they had stuck with their 80s thrash formula they wouldn't progress, but they also wouldn't receive all the hate they get. If they decided to continue the shift toward progressive metal that ...And Justice For All might have begun we could have sat here praising them for it. But no. They put out those albums after the black album."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Taxation is necessary for keeping the government alive, but, unfortunately, the government is so bloated and inefficient too much money is wasted. To create positive effect X on the poor, you have to do 5X damage to the middle class. \\n In case you mean paying off debts, yes, it helps, but you'd need to lower spending as well. No use taking in more money just to go ahead and spend it as frivolously as you were.\\n\\nPost: I've been spouting this number off a lot here, but I think it applies. Less than 20% of the government's welfare budget makes it to its recipients. \\n So, then, when the government decides it needs to allocate more tax money to a new welfare initiative, it takes the money from the people (hitting the middle class the hardest). It then spends tons of money on the program, with a little of it getting to its intended recipients. The rest of that money just found itself tied up in government bureaucracy because government is just that horribly inefficient . So by now it helped the poor a little bit but, in doing so, it just plunged some more middle class people below the poverty line.\",\n \"Summary: Size comparisons describe the universe at at time later than time 0, and should just be taken to mean \\\"very, very small.\\\"\\n\\nPost: Some things to point out with bonus lay conjectures: \\n \\n The universe includes \\\"space,\\\" so there can be no spatial rendering of the outside of the universe that makes sense. The universe does not sit inside any continuum as far as we know. \\n \\n The Big Bang Theory does not account for time 0. The earliest time in the universe's history it describes was 1 Planck time after something that started the process. \\n \\n It might as well have come from a point. If this is true, space-time was created, consistent with the idea of a time 0. This also means there was no arbitrary starting size. Surely it would have been the size of a pea, or a golf ball, or a watermelon at some time, but not at time 0.\",\n \"Summary: I LOVE YOU ANDROID POLICE! THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING! <3\\n\\nPost: Seriously. AP has shown themselves to be the only Android news blog that takes itself seriously. They consistently produce new, useful, substantiated content. I don't see many other android journalists (or even other journalists in other fields) do as fantastic of a job as you guys do. \\n The APK teardowns, fantastic sources of information. Don't see others doing this. You don't just post \\\"Oh boy i think this is happening rumor rumor rumor.\\\" You go through the code line by line to see what it could mean. That's dedication. \\n Every week, the \\\"x apps of the week.\\\" Awesome! What a great way to find apps. Original reviews, insightful and honest opinions, I love it! \\n All other general news. Always original content. Rarely do I see recycled \\\"this rumor happened\\\" and \\\"this is coming out\\\" like I do from literally every other blog. \\n Getting to know Android x.x.x. Perfect. Probably my favorite recurring thing on any blog ever. \\n Basically, what I'm trying to say, is thank you so much for putting out actual content. Thank you for not trying to get pageviews from \\\"hot\\\" titles and \\\"latest rumors!\\\" Thank you for trying to get pageviews from writing solid articles and putting thought into almost every post. \\n Seriously, I love you guys. I hope you can tell from all the upvotes and how many of your stories hit the front page! But even still, I wanted to let you know how absolutely grateful I am (and we all are)! Stick around, and keep up the fantastic work! We don't take it for granted, even if it might seem like it sometimes!\",\n \"Summary: I LOVE YOU ANDROID POLICE! THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING! <3\\n\\nPost: Seriously. AP has shown themselves to be the only Android news blog that takes itself seriously. They consistently produce new, useful, substantiated content. I don't see many other android journalists (or even other journalists in other fields) do as fantastic of a job as you guys do. \\n The APK teardowns, fantastic sources of information. Don't see others doing this. You don't just post \\\"Oh boy i think this is happening rumor rumor rumor.\\\" You go through the code line by line to see what it could mean. That's dedication. \\n Every week, the \\\"x apps of the week.\\\" Awesome! What a great way to find apps. Original reviews, insightful and honest opinions, I love it! \\n All other general news. Always original content. Rarely do I see recycled \\\"this rumor happened\\\" and \\\"this is coming out\\\" like I do from literally every other blog. \\n Getting to know Android x.x.x. Perfect. Probably my favorite recurring thing on any blog ever. \\n Basically, what I'm trying to say, is thank you so much for putting out actual content. Thank you for not trying to get pageviews from \\\"hot\\\" titles and \\\"latest rumors!\\\" Thank you for trying to get pageviews from writing solid articles and putting thought into almost every post. \\n Seriously, I love you guys. I hope you can tell from all the upvotes and how many of your stories hit the front page! But even still, I wanted to let you know how absolutely grateful I am (and we all are)! Stick around, and keep up the fantastic work! We don't take it for granted, even if it might seem like it sometimes!\",\n \"Summary: User correctly swiftkey is probably much faster than a qwerty keyboard. \\n [Sauce](\\n\\nPost: I used swiftkey on a 4\\\" screen in portrait just typing as fast as I can with my two thumbs even if I make mistakes. The auto correction fixes the mistakes 95% of the time. The mistake many swiftkey users make is they see typing errors and try to correct it or try to use the predicted words slowing them down. he Trick is to just continue typing even though there are errors and you will be surprised to see most words corrected. \\n Once you are able to just type fast and trust the auto correction you can start using the predicted words for long words. For short words I find just thinking about using the prediction slows you down. By this time the keyboard would have learnt your typing style and have better word prediction too. \\n I suggest try portrait first I find you need less finger movement and can type faster even if you make more mistakes. Swiftkey is good enough to correct it. Another great feature not often mentioned is swifkey can combine different dictionaries. Since were I am from people speak and type in 2 languages at the same time it helps because I don't have to explicitly switch between dictionaries. \\n Finally you can also try Swype of download switfkey flow beta from the website. Personally I don't like it nearly as much or as quick as just typing.\",\n \"Summary: Commodity somehow equals right because people want it.\\n\\nPost: If people want something, and someone tells them they have a right to have it, and will give it to them in exchange for their votes, we know how the people will vote. I don't know that it's as much the libertarians that take the stance you described, but the liberals. Most libertarians don't want to subsidize healthcare for everyone.\",\n \"Summary: Your government is not infallible, accountable to the people, or even elected in its entirety. It desires control, and asking it nicely to relinquish it is remarkably futile given its monopoly on force. As long as people keep voting statist and no one's afraid to stand up to it and get the public to value their rights, rights will continue to be trampled upon.\\n\\nPost: I say this because I believe in democracy and the rule of law. \\n Until fairly recently the killing of Mormons was still sanctioned by law in Missouri. It was the law in Nazi Germany for Jews to wear yellow stars before the onset of the Holocaust. What makes laws so virtuous in and of themselves? That's not even considering the constitutionality of the laws, which would determine if they ever should have been binding or not. \\n > The system was created and repeatedly endorsed by the election and re-election of members of Congress and Presidents. It has been upheld by the judiciary. \\n If you voted for the losing candidates? If you didn't vote at all? Democracy isn't always warm-and-fuzzies, it could simply be 60% voting to enslave the other 40%. Once again, what makes it so virtuous in and of itself? \\n > No private citizen has the right to unilaterally decide the law shouldn’t apply to them, or that their opinion of the world is more valid than others. \\n This would be the statists in government doing it, not private citizens. \\n > In our system of government, the proper way to seek changes to (or the abolition of) a system like this is though the political process. \\n We've tried asking power-hungry institutions with monopolies on violence to downsize themselves. They don't like to. Even when they outwardly acquiesce to the people's demands they continue on their power-grabbing internally. The NSA lied to Congress repeatedly (there's your infallible government for you!). \\n > If it was a priority, voters could have elected members of Congress who would investigate such programs and seek to modify/eliminate them. \\n Approval ratings for each congressperson in their respective home districts are much, much higher than approval ratings for Congress as a whole. Also it's hard to enact meaningful change and protect your own rights when the rest of the country is squandering them away in a \\\"red vs. blue\\\" football game over candidates that are nearly identical where it counts. \\n > The American people have validated this security apparatus in election after election. \\n The NSA was not elected. \\n > Edward Snowden may have been a hero if he had taken the harder route. If he had exhausted his ability to protest within the system, then resigned and toiled in the trenches of politics pursuing a more open and accountable government with no guarantee of success or glory – that would be heroic. \\n It would have been better for him to languish in government, feeding it, while also doing nothing to stop its unconstitutional breaches of rights? I don't see how it's more virtuous to pursue the same end through a means doomed to fail.\",\n \"Summary: Root is \\\"freer\\\" than iOS jailbreaking, but is more involved, and likely will be more time consuming tweaking the phone to your liking. Since you asked about it though, it shows that you at least have a passing interest in getting your hands dirty. Go for it. \\n EDIT: Out of curiosity, why did you decide on the Inspire? It's two hardware generations behind the current crop. Was the price right?\\n\\nPost: The distinction between root and jailbreak is somewhat important. When you jailbreak an iDevice you get tweaks centralized in the Cydia store. Android is a bit different, in that much of the attraction to rooting involves wiping the existing system and replacing it. \\n There are root apps in the Play Store that allow you to gain extended functionality without too much hassle (for example, screenshot apps for phones that don't support it), and you can also tether without the carrier charging you (not sure if AT&T does). \\n To gain absolute control over your phone check out XDA Developers and get root and a custom recovery from there. Then click around the threads and decide on a good ROM for your needs (this is a package that is applied through recovery with an altered (or entirely new) system). This will allow you to get versions of Android later than the officially supported ones, and gain new features, and even overclock your phone (The Inspire has the QSD8255, which is clocked stock at 1GHz, but can overclock stably to nearly double that). \\n Basically, root allows you extended freedom (as does iOS jailbreaking), but allows you complete control over the system (and other partitions), which jailbreaking does not. It's a bit more involved, though, because you may end up having to scour forums for what you want/need, instead of having the convenience of Cydia.\",\n \"Summary: I LOVE YOU ANDROID POLICE! THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING! <3\\n\\nPost: Seriously. AP has shown themselves to be the only Android news blog that takes itself seriously. They consistently produce new, useful, substantiated content. I don't see many other android journalists (or even other journalists in other fields) do as fantastic of a job as you guys do. \\n The APK teardowns, fantastic sources of information. Don't see others doing this. You don't just post \\\"Oh boy i think this is happening rumor rumor rumor.\\\" You go through the code line by line to see what it could mean. That's dedication. \\n Every week, the \\\"x apps of the week.\\\" Awesome! What a great way to find apps. Original reviews, insightful and honest opinions, I love it! \\n All other general news. Always original content. Rarely do I see recycled \\\"this rumor happened\\\" and \\\"this is coming out\\\" like I do from literally every other blog. \\n Getting to know Android x.x.x. Perfect. Probably my favorite recurring thing on any blog ever. \\n Basically, what I'm trying to say, is thank you so much for putting out actual content. Thank you for not trying to get pageviews from \\\"hot\\\" titles and \\\"latest rumors!\\\" Thank you for trying to get pageviews from writing solid articles and putting thought into almost every post. \\n Seriously, I love you guys. I hope you can tell from all the upvotes and how many of your stories hit the front page! But even still, I wanted to let you know how absolutely grateful I am (and we all are)! Stick around, and keep up the fantastic work! We don't take it for granted, even if it might seem like it sometimes!\",\n \"Summary: The difference between freedom of anyone to marry anyone and the freedom of gays to marry each other.\\n\\nPost: I don't think we're talking about the same thing. Go to /r/feminism and /r/MensRights. Let's, for sake of argument, say they both have legitimate arguments. Because their members all identify so strongly with their respective groups, they are concerned with the interests of that group. If both have legitimate arguments, but are only concerned about their own issues, they end up with a bunch of finger-pointing and nothing productive (which they do already). If they were concerned with rights granted to the individual (and everyone is an individual), they'd be focusing on blanket rights that promise more and affect everyone. Since they focus on the group, though, they care only about the group. It ends up being, instead of rights one has as a human, rights one has because they're affiliated with a certain group.\",\n \"Summary: The Constitution is not the reason it's bad to steal or murder.\\n\\nPost: Those two are rights against the institution created in the Constitution. If the Constitution didn't exist neither does the federal government, so those become irrelevant. You don't not have them, they just don't exist. \\n Without the Constitution you still have a right against someone seizing your property, right? The right not to be killed? This would, of course, assume there are no qualms over the idea of self-ownership, because that would contradict those rights with or without a codified bill of rights.\",\n \"Summary: Don't you dare tell me my mild floater isn't as intense as your insane -2G spike. The lesson for you, then, is to not get so damn upset because you yourself cannot see differences between things.\\n\\nPost: I'm going to relate this to another interest of mine: roller coasters. \\n [This]( is one of my favorite rides. It's called Apollo's Chariot, and it's tall and has lots of nice floaty, parabolic hills. \\n People tend to call rides like Apollo's Chariot (and really most rides by its manufacturer) boring and forceless. That pisses off fans of that manufacturer that take it personally. \\n The people that call these rides forceless usually prefer rides like [Skyrush]( for their insane ejector air. The ones that don't like to pretend airtime=airtime. There's a big difference between zero Gs and whole-number negative Gs. \\n Elitism is when the mild floater guy decides to eliminate all nuance in the discussion of intensity and say \\\"well the rides are about the same height,\\\" the fact that they ride completely differently be damned. Note that I'm blaming this completely on the mild floater guy even though the ejector guy is the \\\"elitist\\\" -- for \\\"elitism\\\" to be a problem it has to make somebody upset, and it did so because some guy decided to get offended over someone's distaste for his favorite ride. So if I decided to get my panties in a knot over someone who likes Skyrush better than Apollo's Chariot, that's on me and my inability to approach the topic with any amount of nuance.\",\n \"Summary: version of it.\\n\\nPost: Government helped all of that tremendously, both in being bought off to aid the \\\"robber barons\\\" in their business ventures and in creating barriers to entry for competitors. \\n A monopoly is only a monopoly if there are a grand total of zero viable competitors, and such conditions are pretty much impossible in a society of that size with zero government protection for the existing player. \\n I wish I knew more about that time period, but that seems to me to be the\",\n \"Summary: Allow me to translate from Statist to English. \\\"I can have freedom and you can't.\\\"\\n\\nPost: Three options: \\n \\n It's a joke. I found it funny at least. \\n \\n This is the stupidest thing I've read all day, and I've read some stupid things in the hour I've been up. \\n \\n That person would absolutely have that choice in a free society. A government can exist, and you can pay into it and live by its rules, but you can't force other people to do it.\",\n \"Summary: I killed ethnic Santas and some zombies, prepared for the apocalypse, stared into the heartbroken eyes of a five year old girl, destroyed another little girl and her father, and was chased around a yacht by Ray Romano and my uncle.\\n\\nPost: Sorry about the wall of text. Skip to Dream #4 if you don't want to read it all-that one is the weirdest. Also worth noting that some of these aren't recent, so the details are fuzzy. \\n Dream #1 \\n One of the strangest of my recent dreams. It was an interesting one, though. \\nI'm in the North Pole, not around Christmas time. All is quiet. I'm searching Santa's Workshop for something . There were Bouncing Betties in the floor, and other such boobytraps laid all over the place. Weirdest of all was that Santa himself was trying to kill me. Every time I killed him, though, he resurrected elsewhere in the workshop as a different race. I went through white, black, and Asian Santa before the dream ended. \\n Dream #2 \\n This was one of those ones that had potential to be a full-on story, if it weren't cut short by its fickle nature as a dream. \\nI'm in New York City in the future. A zombie outbreak begins and I, with the other survivors, construct a large tower in the middle of the city, heavily fortified, with food growing on the roof. Eventually we need to open the gate at the base of the tower (I'm guessing for supplies-I had this dream a long time ago, and I'm hazy on the details), and zombies rush in. Legions of them. At the front of the horde none other than the Cryptkeeper from Tales From The Crypt. Blood flies and bones crack, and I have to wake up for school. \\n Dream #3 \\n Another one of those story-like ones. Looking back I'm wondering why the hell that neighbor was in my dream. \\nI'm in the passenger seat with my dad, driving home. We're getting off the freeway near our house, and on the radio, there is talk about some cataclysmic event approaching. No one was paying much attention to this, though. We get home and my dad requests help loading the truck with valuables and supplies. I was baffled to find that he was taking this seriously, but I comply. By this point an ominous gyre of clouds has formed overhead-the warnings on the radio were confirmed. We finish up, and my dad goes into the house for one last thing. He left the keys in the truck, windows down. I'm hanging on the passenger window of the truck, and I look in to see our former next door neighbor (he had moved out years before I had this dream, and he was weird ) starting the truck. He gets it going, and goes a hundred feet or so, and I'm still hanging on the window. I'm getting dragged by the truck at this point. At that point the dream ended, and I'm not quite sure what ended it, but I think I kicked myself awake. \\n Dream #4 \\n You may not think it from just reading this, but this dream was SCARY. \\nFor some reason, there was a P.E. class going on outside my house. I was in the class. It ended, and we all went in to change. Sixty sweaty guys in my house. Hardly dream material. I hear a tiny voice calling my name, beckoning me to my little brother's room. I follow it, and there is a lone girl, about five, holding something in her hand. Without a word, she hands me the bundle in her hands-it was a bunch of crumpled papers. I unravel it, and see that there are small, broken Lego structures in it. The papers were drawings-very odd drawings. She didn't say a word, but she teared up and stared at me. All was silent in the dream. I stared at this little girl, and at the Legos and drawings for a few seconds, and then the dream ended. \\nI still don't know what to make of that one. \\n Dream #5 \\n This one was unnerving as well, but didn't have that \\\"WTF\\\" effect on me like Dream #4 did. \\nI was sitting in my room with a few girls from school (good friends, and nothing sexual was going on). I hear a scratching sound on my window. I open the blinds and nothing is there. I say something like \\\"Next time I hear that I'm beating the shit out of whoever's out there.\\\" After saying that I hear it again and open the window. This time a little girl, about four, and her dad are standing out there, looking oblivious. I open the window, pop the screen out, and bludgeon the two to a pulp. Dream over. \\n Dream #6 \\n I just don't know where the hell this one came from. \\nI was on a rather extravagant yacht with Ray Romano, my uncle (who DJ's at a strip club... not sure if it's important, but he may have snuck into the dream based on that), and two obese black women. My uncle and Ray Romano were chasing me around the boat trying to kill me. The black women were very helpful in helping me survive-moving mooring lines and other such instruments to help me survive. I was swinging around the boat like Jack Sparrow. I don't remember how that situation played out (or if the dream ended before it could). \\n I've probably had far weirder that I don't remember, or at least can't recall at the moment. I'll keep editing in more as I remember.\",\n \"Summary: Your government is not infallible, accountable to the people, or even elected in its entirety. It desires control, and asking it nicely to relinquish it is remarkably futile given its monopoly on force. As long as people keep voting statist and no one's afraid to stand up to it and get the public to value their rights, rights will continue to be trampled upon.\\n\\nPost: I posted this in another thread in which the OP stated his/her opinion that Snowden is no hero. This is my response, with the quotes being things OP said, although some of it will apply more than other parts: \\n > I say this because I believe in democracy and the rule of law. \\n Until fairly recently the killing of Mormons was still sanctioned by law in Missouri. It was the law in Nazi Germany for Jews to wear yellow stars before the onset of the Holocaust. What makes laws so virtuous in and of themselves? That's not even considering the constitutionality of the laws, which would determine if they ever should have been binding or not. \\n > The system was created and repeatedly endorsed by the election and re-election of members of Congress and Presidents. It has been upheld by the judiciary. \\n If you voted for the losing candidates? If you didn't vote at all? Democracy isn't always warm-and-fuzzies, it could simply be 60% voting to enslave the other 40%. Once again, what makes it so virtuous in and of itself? \\n > No private citizen has the right to unilaterally decide the law shouldn’t apply to them, or that their opinion of the world is more valid than others. \\n This would be the statists in government doing it, not private citizens. \\n > In our system of government, the proper way to seek changes to (or the abolition of) a system like this is though the political process. \\n We've tried asking power-hungry institutions with monopolies on violence to downsize themselves. They don't like to. Even when they outwardly acquiesce to the people's demands they continue on their power-grabbing internally. The NSA lied to Congress repeatedly (there's your infallible government for you!). \\n > If it was a priority, voters could have elected members of Congress who would investigate such programs and seek to modify/eliminate them. \\n Approval ratings for each congressperson in their respective home districts are much, much higher than approval ratings for Congress as a whole. Also it's hard to enact meaningful change and protect your own rights when the rest of the country is squandering them away in a \\\"red vs. blue\\\" football game over candidates that are nearly identical where it counts. \\n > The American people have validated this security apparatus in election after election. \\n The NSA was not elected. \\n > Edward Snowden may have been a hero if he had taken the harder route. If he had exhausted his ability to protest within the system, then resigned and toiled in the trenches of politics pursuing a more open and accountable government with no guarantee of success or glory – that would be heroic. \\n It would have been better for him to languish in government, feeding it, while also doing nothing to stop its unconstitutional breaches of rights? I don't see how it's more virtuous to pursue the same end through a means doomed to fail.\",\n \"Summary: The problem wasn't change. It was bad change.\\n\\nPost: To be fair, Metallica got indefensibly bad. If they had stuck with their 80s thrash formula they wouldn't progress, but they also wouldn't receive all the hate they get. If they decided to continue the shift toward progressive metal that ...And Justice For All might have begun we could have sat here praising them for it. But no. They put out those albums after the black album.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":17,"string":"17"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":11297,"string":"11,297"}}},{"rowIdx":11298,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"darknemesis25"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post we live in the future guys..."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Man its just insane to see such value in computational hardware.. \n Very often I'll be going to a store and see something that costs hundreds of dollars and it's made of wood or just a sheet of metal or something and.. \n I'll just think to myself that you can get a computational device that does billions and billions of calculations per second, through millions of nanoscopic electrical passageways computing millions of points in space and their movements hundreds of times a second, to create vast massive virtual worlds rich with detail and precision. \n the devices also come with controllers that communicate through the air using electromagnetic waves, millions of times a second, they also connect to the world wide web, a collection of billions of devices around the entire globe, linked up and talking to one another letting another human being appear in your virtual world together.. \n this device also lets you have access to thousands of years worth of content and media and can contain information for long term storage.. \n and then I see a sofa at a store for twice as much as this device costs..\nWhat...The...Actual....Fuck.."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Man its just insane to see such value in computational hardware.. \n Very often I'll be going to a store and see something that costs hundreds of dollars and it's made of wood or just a sheet of metal or something and.. \n I'll just think to myself that you can get a computational device that does billions and billions of calculations per second, through millions of nanoscopic electrical passageways computing millions of points in space and their movements hundreds of times a second, to create vast massive virtual worlds rich with detail and precision. \n the devices also come with controllers that communicate through the air using electromagnetic waves, millions of times a second, they also connect to the world wide web, a collection of billions of devices around the entire globe, linked up and talking to one another letting another human being appear in your virtual world together.. \n this device also lets you have access to thousands of years worth of content and media and can contain information for long term storage.. \n and then I see a sofa at a store for twice as much as this device costs..\nWhat...The...Actual....Fuck.."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: an Artificial man made afterlife to solve many of the worlds problems as well as a risk free virtual reality in which anything is possible\n\nPost: It seems inevitable that well have computers capable of computing in the quadrillion operations per second range pretty soon which is comparable to a human brain. \n It wont be long before we can replicate a persons brain in software form, from each individual neuron to each persons brain chemistry and its systems. \n . \n Once we achieve this ( the russians think we will by 2045), then I think it wont be too far,maybe another 50-100 years until we construct an artificial \"heaven\" a man made afterlife where you will indeed be with family and friends as well as live any experience you want. There will be infinite time to meet new people and develop relationships and try anything you want. \n . \n I'm sure by then we may have figured out the rights to ones own life and accept the fact of actual death past simulation.. it may even change the way we learn and invent and discover with unlimited time and resources to attack problems with a supercharged upgraded human mind.There may even be a real economy in the afterlife, with jobs and currency to provide people with meaning or purpose? those jobs may benefit those outside in the real world by solving problems otherwise impossible by current means. \n The possibilities are endless for the repercussions and impact something like this could have on humanities purpose in this universe or even life in general.","Summary: boss didn't want to waste time so he destroyed thouands of dollers of company property\n\nPost: I have a spliced power cord that i use to fry electronics in that case... \n I use to work as a computer technician for a few years and with every company, power surges are covered under warranty, it breaks every important circuit in your device and requires a new motherboard replacement which is easier to replace the whole thing/ computers and tvs alike. \n so moral of the story \n LPT: if you dont want to wait forever having a device \"diagnosed\" under warrenty, carefully, CAREFULLY fry the components and no one will be the wiser.. \nEnjoy quick replacement times, and faster diagnosing when repairing electronics under warrenty. \n I've done it with iphones, laptops, tv's [graphics cards(espicially) since they always come up with a reason as to why its working fine now] etc etc... \n if your going to do it yourself please be aware of the risks,(exploding batteries, electrocution, etc and use safer voltage if possible rather then AC current.. \n wearing socks and charging up static electricity generates up to 5000+volts and can fry electronics with a good shock to important circuits \n here's a shocking story....\nI worked for a big company, when customers return laptops and devices because they are \"not the right colour\" or stupid reasons i caught our lead supervisor with all the returned products opened with a spliced powercord frying all the motherboards so we didnt have to waste time diagnosing them and wiping them,\nbroken devices were then sent to the companies insured repair depot and fixed up for us and sent back to us like new.","Summary: blew my load all over my face and clothes in the middle of class. \nWas a social outcast for years\n\nPost: This memory is burned into my mind. \n Grade 6, just transfered schools. A few months into the semester i was sitting at my desk.. Had a cold, stuffy nose, had to keep clearing it by blowing out slowly, i get the urge to sneeze. Stupid me thinks i can just sneeze with my nose and maybe fix my nose from clogging up.. Its not like anythings going to come out right? It was clogged all morning... Well yeah... I sneezed and hideous ammounts of snot flooded my clothes like someone threw a bowl of green jellow all over my face and pants. \n In my panic, i quickly scooped it off my face and shift and wiped it on my pants, hoping to go no one saw.... Everyone saw.. The whole class was looking at me because the teacher stopped mid sentence and stared... She then told me to get up and go to the bathroom, I proceeded to do the walk of shame out of the classroom and out of any social acceptance for the next 3 years..","Summary: the PC master race idea is so large because almost all arguments can be \"won\"\n\nPost: For further the explanation, many people are very supportive of this argument because its possible to even be a cheap/poor gamer and still have better performance than console with less money. budget gaming custom builds can be bought for 400-500(using seasonal/store deals) that match next gen and the argument for costly upgrading is optional from there if you want to see improved performance/visuals. \n Also controllers(namely the xbox controllers) work nativly with almost all pc games now, and gaming can be done on a television on the couch thanks to steam big picture mode/steam OS.","Summary: quality is hit or miss, sand off the fucking nub on the nozzle and Make sure you have months of free time to devote to tweaking... \n Would not reccomend\n\nPost: Its hit or miss.. Some people got good ones.. I got a terrible one.. All.. Every single lasercut piece was oversize.. I had to sand it by hand every notch to get it to fit.. I was missing parts and cables.. The instructions were new or missing information ... \n i wasn't able to get satisfactory prints after 3 months of tweaking... \n Last week i was going to give up and throw it out or sell it or something ... Absolutely furious... And i decided to sand off the nub on the nozzle as it was causing 90% of the issues... I expected it to close the hole and the nozzle would be permanently broken.. But it worked...\nAnd the printer is printing perfectly now... \n For the import fees alone i wouldn't recommend it.. I ended up paying around 600 for something i thought would be 450... (looks like the price went up a hefty amount, I would strongly not recommend it now considering custom fees would bring ti above 700+ outside US)","Summary: join a gym\n\nPost: I dont know if theres an factual claims to this, but since ive been working out (for the past month and a bit) my voice has become more clean/strong/deep/loud without being conscious of it. it could be because of the suge of testosterone or maybe just because ive been noticing results and feeling healthier and generally more confident,","Summary: you are just wasting space in your freezer\n\nPost: if the compressor stopped working in your refrigerator, the cold would not radiate from ice in your fridge..it's exactly the opposite. coldness can only be achieved by removing heat. Not adding cold. Coldness is the absence of kinetic energy. Since heat is not being removed outside the fridge by the compressor it's going directly into the soda bottles and more heat is continuing to come in. In this case, this would never work as there is an infinite amount of heat ready to come into the fridge. \n at most, the coldness is only as good as the freezers thermal efficiency and the exact time it takes to melt ice at a given temperature.","Summary: when you whistle like this you are licking someones penis. \n I'm off to wash my hands and practice over a sink\n\nPost: I want to try, and probabaly will, i just cant stand the fact that i know how much bacteria is on my fingers... Its the dirtiest place on your body, all the things you've touched, doors you've opened, penises you may have involentaryly come in to contact through various surfaces... \n My point being,","Summary: find any excuse you can to laugh, you will feel better about your life in general, your attitude will unconsciously become positive and people will like you\n\nPost: If you can find anything in your life as an excuse to laugh and smile .. take it! \n I love joking around, even boring/not funny jokes I laugh at. Even if the joke doesn't make you physically laugh, the concept of joking around should be pleasurable and get some sort of reaction out of you.. \n My days at work although mostly boring, are spent laughing and joking around most days and my home life and well being has increased ten-fold. \n I feel great, MI'm more attractive when i smile and I'm generally well liked around the office.","Summary: after 86 shots of beer, my friend exploded..\n\nPost: My friends decided to play a game of century club .. Where i live thats what its called. 1 shot of beer every minute for 100 minutes ... Yeah.. Fucked up.. Considering no ones stomach is large enough to do that at this party.. \n Anyway.. I had to work late so i told them that i wouldnt be comming.. Boy.. Was i glad i missed this party.. \n One of the guys there made it to 86 and then felt like he had to burp... It wasnt a burp... He ended up projectile vomiting over everything Nd everyone.. All the furnature.. All the people.. In their faces... Like a firehose i hear... All over the ceiling and tv and carpet.. All over the walls and tables.... It was bad... It was like an explosion of cottage cheese and beer... Yeah ...as so i was told.... Needless to say, they dont play those kinds of drinking games anymore","Summary: customers actually cared who I was and were sad to see me leave my job\n\nPost: in all honesty this will probably get downvoted since everyone seems to hate geeksquad espicialy in the US \n I use to work there for a few years and I did enjoy it, I knew what I was doing and how to fix things rather than rely on a cd to diagnose everything. \n when I was leaving BB to do some school placement job for the summer, on my last week I had many customers ask when they could come back to pick up their computers or when they should come back to drop off new stuff and i told them I wouldn't be working there anymore. \n To my surprise many of them were in shock as I was the guy they asked for by name to help fix all their problems. many older women were sad to see me leave and they gave me numerous complements and even started to gather support from other people at the front desk to go to the manager of the store and tell him what a wonderful job I was doing and how they kept coming back because of me. (they thought I was being fired LOL) I cant tell you how surprised and grateful is was that these customers were sad to see me go. \n and hey, allot of you might hate geeksquad for overpriced services and greedy money ploys but its not for the techy 20-something that can fix their own stuff, GS is for those people that are afraid of technology, that have no idea how to even confront problems and don't mind paying for help.. these people are happy that there is convenient help at all.","Summary: buy it .... Now....\n\nPost: Going from a xbox to pc on ultra is utterly astounding.. Monumentally incredible ... Undoubtedly ridiculous. \n The first time i played caspian border in the beta my jaw was dropped and eyes were wattering for the entire game. I just couldnt believe the visuals could be that good. I seriously could not believe my eyes. \n Given that i went from a low res xbox on a small tv to a 1080p 40 inch pc with ultra.. I was mindblown... \n In terms of detail, when you play it on a large monitor or tv its probabaly the most intricatly detailed game ive ever played, every single spec of dirt ,blade of grass, bolt on a helicopter, thread on clothing, scratch on a vehicle or number on an instrument panel is visible on a large monitor. On a smaller screen it probabaly wont be that amazing but for the amount of detail and visual fidelity increace its well worth it. \n Its night and day difference.. I wish.. I so wish i could forget my bf3 experience just so i could re discover it again on pc... \n I've played it for so long that its lost its wow and glamour.. \nI still think its one of the best games ive ever played and the most visually stunning but i just cant enjoy it like i use to. \n I did end up playing around with hacked kinect drivers to manually look around my big screen and my view would look around in vehicles..\nAnd to be completley honest with you.. The first time i played this game high, my heart was racing faster then it ever was, it felt so incredibly real and immersive that it was so easy to believe it was real. Vary scary to be honest. Pair that with 7.1 sorround and i honestly felt like i was inside the game....","Summary: Using machines that can achieve billions of calculations per second, we use geometry and math to design worlds as large and as detailed as you can imagine to fulfill our wildest imaginations. Hipparchus jizzes himself many times over at just the mere thought\n\nPost: I think I'd explain modern videogames to Hipparchus, the Greek mathamatition who invented trigonometry, or possibly Isaac newton the inventor of claclulus \n I'd try to explain that in the 21st century we have things called video games and the most popular of which, essentially let us fight to the death much like Roman coliseum gladiator battles and anyone from any part of the earth can take part from the comfort of their own home without fear of injury. Vast worlds and universes are made, highly detailed and crafted from nothing, the clouds above to the single blades of grass. places and people recreated to allow you to fulfill most any adventure or fantasy. \n I would then go on to explain that we have things called computers that control the flow of miniscule particles called electrons much like the flow of water to do math and computations. We have designed these machines to calculate at billions of times per second. These machines, as small as books and as portable as them as well. Computing math involving lines and vectors connected to points in space with these points and lines using high level geometry and vector mathematics to make up 3d shapes, recreating detailed objects through millions of points in space. \n I would begin to explain the intricacies of video game genres and experiences and the worlds we have made, unfortunately many are made for killing but the human instinct has evolved along side our technological advancement to accompany competition and battle among many other fantasies and entertainment. \n I have no idea what the reaction would be like, a cross between euphoric excitement and concern for what could happen to people if exposed to something that could grant there every want and offer unlimited enjoyment.","Summary: floating glow orbs filled my house, I played with them and my friend saw too, later as adults I asked him about it and he remembered it too\n\nPost: This was a really persistent memory of my childhood, I'm not at all sure if it was a dream or a reflective light trick or something but i cannot explain it.\nmy best friend use to stay over at my house when we were kids and one night I woke up and I went to get a glass of milk. \n as I stepped into the hall way there was lightly glowing particles almost like dust specks caught in the light.. the only thing out of the ordinary is that these particles were grape sized, fuzzy and emitting light. \n when I touched them they waved away being carried with the air currents form my hand. I walk into the living room next to the kitchen and the place is crowded with them, hundreds, maybe thousands of large and small glowing orbs. \n I remember spinning around and jumping swooshing them around and playing with them, as i did my friend woke up and came to see why i was jumping. He immediately saw them and we both had no idea what they were.. I cant remember much after that, I had talked to my friend about it after we reconnected and he remembered it clearly and we have zero explanations for it. \n part of me thinks the moon was just extremely bright and close lighting up my house and illuminating all the dust particles but the orbs were huge.. and the house was pitch black with no windows around..","Summary: friend atomic-slaps slug guts and spider babies in my face/mouth\n\nPost: a few years ago during a really hot summer night a Friend and I were chilling around the house when we realized my front door was open and my mom was yelling that giant mosquitoes were invading the house... there was dozens of them flocking in the door.. \n we quickly grabbed the giant fly swatters and went to work which was pretty fun actually.. the battle ended up outside and we worked out way into the garden where these guys were crowding.. \n just then my friend sees a spiders nest under a patch of bushes on the garden stone and next to it was a big fat slug/maggot/caterpillar... a giant blob of a creature.. without hesitation my friend winds up.... complete outstreteched reach and windmills his arm sending the flyswatter at mach speed against this thing just as I yell \"NO\" \n piles of guts like a oozing tube of toothpaste spray directly at me through the spiders nest/cobweb and in my face/mouth... covering 2/3rds of my face and nothing else... My friend dies of laughter and I'm yelling and spitting running through the house straight to the shower..","Summary: Kids in a playfight, Which was not obvious to the onlooker, no one stops them but me, Slowly looses faith in humanity\n\nPost: Here's the full story, I'm taking accelerated gr12 calculus in summerschool and i see these kids in grade 7 or 8 (why are kids that young even taking summmerschool in the first place) trash talking a kid that's a little younger. As I walk closer In the somewhat busy halls one of the kids slams him against a locker and slaps the kid as hard as he can.. and the other kid starts trash talking some more. \n Immediately I look around and no one else is doing anything, so I walk up to the larger kid and pull him away and ask what the fuck he thinks he's doing? \n the kids stop and say they were making up a pretend fight for a roleplay in their class and begin to thank me for caring enough to stop bullying like that. \n I felt pretty good about myself for a few minutes and then it seeped in that no one cared enough to help out in a hall full of people and kids.. It kind of made me sick as I had been bullied and attacked in public spaces as a kid and no one bothered to help me.","Summary: what are the basics and need to knows of micro controllers, what do i need to know and how do i choose the right one \n I don't really know where to start looking or what options i have in terms of micro controllers but would like to learn.\nIf anyone has any advice or tips on the subject that would be great\n\nPost: I have beginner/average electronics knowledge from computer engineering classes back in highschool and hobbies, but I would like to find some alternatives to using an arduino for small projects. \n This all seems a bit daunting and I'm not sure what tools or software i need. \n I've heard about buying extra ATmega328 chips and programing them with the arduino and then using them on their own, but I've also heard about other micro controllers like the ATTINY."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: an Artificial man made afterlife to solve many of the worlds problems as well as a risk free virtual reality in which anything is possible\\n\\nPost: It seems inevitable that well have computers capable of computing in the quadrillion operations per second range pretty soon which is comparable to a human brain. \\n It wont be long before we can replicate a persons brain in software form, from each individual neuron to each persons brain chemistry and its systems. \\n . \\n Once we achieve this ( the russians think we will by 2045), then I think it wont be too far,maybe another 50-100 years until we construct an artificial \\\"heaven\\\" a man made afterlife where you will indeed be with family and friends as well as live any experience you want. There will be infinite time to meet new people and develop relationships and try anything you want. \\n . \\n I'm sure by then we may have figured out the rights to ones own life and accept the fact of actual death past simulation.. it may even change the way we learn and invent and discover with unlimited time and resources to attack problems with a supercharged upgraded human mind.There may even be a real economy in the afterlife, with jobs and currency to provide people with meaning or purpose? those jobs may benefit those outside in the real world by solving problems otherwise impossible by current means. \\n The possibilities are endless for the repercussions and impact something like this could have on humanities purpose in this universe or even life in general.\",\n \"Summary: boss didn't want to waste time so he destroyed thouands of dollers of company property\\n\\nPost: I have a spliced power cord that i use to fry electronics in that case... \\n I use to work as a computer technician for a few years and with every company, power surges are covered under warranty, it breaks every important circuit in your device and requires a new motherboard replacement which is easier to replace the whole thing/ computers and tvs alike. \\n so moral of the story \\n LPT: if you dont want to wait forever having a device \\\"diagnosed\\\" under warrenty, carefully, CAREFULLY fry the components and no one will be the wiser.. \\nEnjoy quick replacement times, and faster diagnosing when repairing electronics under warrenty. \\n I've done it with iphones, laptops, tv's [graphics cards(espicially) since they always come up with a reason as to why its working fine now] etc etc... \\n if your going to do it yourself please be aware of the risks,(exploding batteries, electrocution, etc and use safer voltage if possible rather then AC current.. \\n wearing socks and charging up static electricity generates up to 5000+volts and can fry electronics with a good shock to important circuits \\n here's a shocking story....\\nI worked for a big company, when customers return laptops and devices because they are \\\"not the right colour\\\" or stupid reasons i caught our lead supervisor with all the returned products opened with a spliced powercord frying all the motherboards so we didnt have to waste time diagnosing them and wiping them,\\nbroken devices were then sent to the companies insured repair depot and fixed up for us and sent back to us like new.\",\n \"Summary: blew my load all over my face and clothes in the middle of class. \\nWas a social outcast for years\\n\\nPost: This memory is burned into my mind. \\n Grade 6, just transfered schools. A few months into the semester i was sitting at my desk.. Had a cold, stuffy nose, had to keep clearing it by blowing out slowly, i get the urge to sneeze. Stupid me thinks i can just sneeze with my nose and maybe fix my nose from clogging up.. Its not like anythings going to come out right? It was clogged all morning... Well yeah... I sneezed and hideous ammounts of snot flooded my clothes like someone threw a bowl of green jellow all over my face and pants. \\n In my panic, i quickly scooped it off my face and shift and wiped it on my pants, hoping to go no one saw.... Everyone saw.. The whole class was looking at me because the teacher stopped mid sentence and stared... She then told me to get up and go to the bathroom, I proceeded to do the walk of shame out of the classroom and out of any social acceptance for the next 3 years..\",\n \"Summary: the PC master race idea is so large because almost all arguments can be \\\"won\\\"\\n\\nPost: For further the explanation, many people are very supportive of this argument because its possible to even be a cheap/poor gamer and still have better performance than console with less money. budget gaming custom builds can be bought for 400-500(using seasonal/store deals) that match next gen and the argument for costly upgrading is optional from there if you want to see improved performance/visuals. \\n Also controllers(namely the xbox controllers) work nativly with almost all pc games now, and gaming can be done on a television on the couch thanks to steam big picture mode/steam OS.\",\n \"Summary: quality is hit or miss, sand off the fucking nub on the nozzle and Make sure you have months of free time to devote to tweaking... \\n Would not reccomend\\n\\nPost: Its hit or miss.. Some people got good ones.. I got a terrible one.. All.. Every single lasercut piece was oversize.. I had to sand it by hand every notch to get it to fit.. I was missing parts and cables.. The instructions were new or missing information ... \\n i wasn't able to get satisfactory prints after 3 months of tweaking... \\n Last week i was going to give up and throw it out or sell it or something ... Absolutely furious... And i decided to sand off the nub on the nozzle as it was causing 90% of the issues... I expected it to close the hole and the nozzle would be permanently broken.. But it worked...\\nAnd the printer is printing perfectly now... \\n For the import fees alone i wouldn't recommend it.. I ended up paying around 600 for something i thought would be 450... (looks like the price went up a hefty amount, I would strongly not recommend it now considering custom fees would bring ti above 700+ outside US)\",\n \"Summary: join a gym\\n\\nPost: I dont know if theres an factual claims to this, but since ive been working out (for the past month and a bit) my voice has become more clean/strong/deep/loud without being conscious of it. it could be because of the suge of testosterone or maybe just because ive been noticing results and feeling healthier and generally more confident,\",\n \"Summary: you are just wasting space in your freezer\\n\\nPost: if the compressor stopped working in your refrigerator, the cold would not radiate from ice in your fridge..it's exactly the opposite. coldness can only be achieved by removing heat. Not adding cold. Coldness is the absence of kinetic energy. Since heat is not being removed outside the fridge by the compressor it's going directly into the soda bottles and more heat is continuing to come in. In this case, this would never work as there is an infinite amount of heat ready to come into the fridge. \\n at most, the coldness is only as good as the freezers thermal efficiency and the exact time it takes to melt ice at a given temperature.\",\n \"Summary: when you whistle like this you are licking someones penis. \\n I'm off to wash my hands and practice over a sink\\n\\nPost: I want to try, and probabaly will, i just cant stand the fact that i know how much bacteria is on my fingers... Its the dirtiest place on your body, all the things you've touched, doors you've opened, penises you may have involentaryly come in to contact through various surfaces... \\n My point being,\",\n \"Summary: find any excuse you can to laugh, you will feel better about your life in general, your attitude will unconsciously become positive and people will like you\\n\\nPost: If you can find anything in your life as an excuse to laugh and smile .. take it! \\n I love joking around, even boring/not funny jokes I laugh at. Even if the joke doesn't make you physically laugh, the concept of joking around should be pleasurable and get some sort of reaction out of you.. \\n My days at work although mostly boring, are spent laughing and joking around most days and my home life and well being has increased ten-fold. \\n I feel great, MI'm more attractive when i smile and I'm generally well liked around the office.\",\n \"Summary: after 86 shots of beer, my friend exploded..\\n\\nPost: My friends decided to play a game of century club .. Where i live thats what its called. 1 shot of beer every minute for 100 minutes ... Yeah.. Fucked up.. Considering no ones stomach is large enough to do that at this party.. \\n Anyway.. I had to work late so i told them that i wouldnt be comming.. Boy.. Was i glad i missed this party.. \\n One of the guys there made it to 86 and then felt like he had to burp... It wasnt a burp... He ended up projectile vomiting over everything Nd everyone.. All the furnature.. All the people.. In their faces... Like a firehose i hear... All over the ceiling and tv and carpet.. All over the walls and tables.... It was bad... It was like an explosion of cottage cheese and beer... Yeah ...as so i was told.... Needless to say, they dont play those kinds of drinking games anymore\",\n \"Summary: customers actually cared who I was and were sad to see me leave my job\\n\\nPost: in all honesty this will probably get downvoted since everyone seems to hate geeksquad espicialy in the US \\n I use to work there for a few years and I did enjoy it, I knew what I was doing and how to fix things rather than rely on a cd to diagnose everything. \\n when I was leaving BB to do some school placement job for the summer, on my last week I had many customers ask when they could come back to pick up their computers or when they should come back to drop off new stuff and i told them I wouldn't be working there anymore. \\n To my surprise many of them were in shock as I was the guy they asked for by name to help fix all their problems. many older women were sad to see me leave and they gave me numerous complements and even started to gather support from other people at the front desk to go to the manager of the store and tell him what a wonderful job I was doing and how they kept coming back because of me. (they thought I was being fired LOL) I cant tell you how surprised and grateful is was that these customers were sad to see me go. \\n and hey, allot of you might hate geeksquad for overpriced services and greedy money ploys but its not for the techy 20-something that can fix their own stuff, GS is for those people that are afraid of technology, that have no idea how to even confront problems and don't mind paying for help.. these people are happy that there is convenient help at all.\",\n \"Summary: buy it .... Now....\\n\\nPost: Going from a xbox to pc on ultra is utterly astounding.. Monumentally incredible ... Undoubtedly ridiculous. \\n The first time i played caspian border in the beta my jaw was dropped and eyes were wattering for the entire game. I just couldnt believe the visuals could be that good. I seriously could not believe my eyes. \\n Given that i went from a low res xbox on a small tv to a 1080p 40 inch pc with ultra.. I was mindblown... \\n In terms of detail, when you play it on a large monitor or tv its probabaly the most intricatly detailed game ive ever played, every single spec of dirt ,blade of grass, bolt on a helicopter, thread on clothing, scratch on a vehicle or number on an instrument panel is visible on a large monitor. On a smaller screen it probabaly wont be that amazing but for the amount of detail and visual fidelity increace its well worth it. \\n Its night and day difference.. I wish.. I so wish i could forget my bf3 experience just so i could re discover it again on pc... \\n I've played it for so long that its lost its wow and glamour.. \\nI still think its one of the best games ive ever played and the most visually stunning but i just cant enjoy it like i use to. \\n I did end up playing around with hacked kinect drivers to manually look around my big screen and my view would look around in vehicles..\\nAnd to be completley honest with you.. The first time i played this game high, my heart was racing faster then it ever was, it felt so incredibly real and immersive that it was so easy to believe it was real. Vary scary to be honest. Pair that with 7.1 sorround and i honestly felt like i was inside the game....\",\n \"Summary: Using machines that can achieve billions of calculations per second, we use geometry and math to design worlds as large and as detailed as you can imagine to fulfill our wildest imaginations. Hipparchus jizzes himself many times over at just the mere thought\\n\\nPost: I think I'd explain modern videogames to Hipparchus, the Greek mathamatition who invented trigonometry, or possibly Isaac newton the inventor of claclulus \\n I'd try to explain that in the 21st century we have things called video games and the most popular of which, essentially let us fight to the death much like Roman coliseum gladiator battles and anyone from any part of the earth can take part from the comfort of their own home without fear of injury. Vast worlds and universes are made, highly detailed and crafted from nothing, the clouds above to the single blades of grass. places and people recreated to allow you to fulfill most any adventure or fantasy. \\n I would then go on to explain that we have things called computers that control the flow of miniscule particles called electrons much like the flow of water to do math and computations. We have designed these machines to calculate at billions of times per second. These machines, as small as books and as portable as them as well. Computing math involving lines and vectors connected to points in space with these points and lines using high level geometry and vector mathematics to make up 3d shapes, recreating detailed objects through millions of points in space. \\n I would begin to explain the intricacies of video game genres and experiences and the worlds we have made, unfortunately many are made for killing but the human instinct has evolved along side our technological advancement to accompany competition and battle among many other fantasies and entertainment. \\n I have no idea what the reaction would be like, a cross between euphoric excitement and concern for what could happen to people if exposed to something that could grant there every want and offer unlimited enjoyment.\",\n \"Summary: floating glow orbs filled my house, I played with them and my friend saw too, later as adults I asked him about it and he remembered it too\\n\\nPost: This was a really persistent memory of my childhood, I'm not at all sure if it was a dream or a reflective light trick or something but i cannot explain it.\\nmy best friend use to stay over at my house when we were kids and one night I woke up and I went to get a glass of milk. \\n as I stepped into the hall way there was lightly glowing particles almost like dust specks caught in the light.. the only thing out of the ordinary is that these particles were grape sized, fuzzy and emitting light. \\n when I touched them they waved away being carried with the air currents form my hand. I walk into the living room next to the kitchen and the place is crowded with them, hundreds, maybe thousands of large and small glowing orbs. \\n I remember spinning around and jumping swooshing them around and playing with them, as i did my friend woke up and came to see why i was jumping. He immediately saw them and we both had no idea what they were.. I cant remember much after that, I had talked to my friend about it after we reconnected and he remembered it clearly and we have zero explanations for it. \\n part of me thinks the moon was just extremely bright and close lighting up my house and illuminating all the dust particles but the orbs were huge.. and the house was pitch black with no windows around..\",\n \"Summary: friend atomic-slaps slug guts and spider babies in my face/mouth\\n\\nPost: a few years ago during a really hot summer night a Friend and I were chilling around the house when we realized my front door was open and my mom was yelling that giant mosquitoes were invading the house... there was dozens of them flocking in the door.. \\n we quickly grabbed the giant fly swatters and went to work which was pretty fun actually.. the battle ended up outside and we worked out way into the garden where these guys were crowding.. \\n just then my friend sees a spiders nest under a patch of bushes on the garden stone and next to it was a big fat slug/maggot/caterpillar... a giant blob of a creature.. without hesitation my friend winds up.... complete outstreteched reach and windmills his arm sending the flyswatter at mach speed against this thing just as I yell \\\"NO\\\" \\n piles of guts like a oozing tube of toothpaste spray directly at me through the spiders nest/cobweb and in my face/mouth... covering 2/3rds of my face and nothing else... My friend dies of laughter and I'm yelling and spitting running through the house straight to the shower..\",\n \"Summary: Kids in a playfight, Which was not obvious to the onlooker, no one stops them but me, Slowly looses faith in humanity\\n\\nPost: Here's the full story, I'm taking accelerated gr12 calculus in summerschool and i see these kids in grade 7 or 8 (why are kids that young even taking summmerschool in the first place) trash talking a kid that's a little younger. As I walk closer In the somewhat busy halls one of the kids slams him against a locker and slaps the kid as hard as he can.. and the other kid starts trash talking some more. \\n Immediately I look around and no one else is doing anything, so I walk up to the larger kid and pull him away and ask what the fuck he thinks he's doing? \\n the kids stop and say they were making up a pretend fight for a roleplay in their class and begin to thank me for caring enough to stop bullying like that. \\n I felt pretty good about myself for a few minutes and then it seeped in that no one cared enough to help out in a hall full of people and kids.. It kind of made me sick as I had been bullied and attacked in public spaces as a kid and no one bothered to help me.\",\n \"Summary: what are the basics and need to knows of micro controllers, what do i need to know and how do i choose the right one \\n I don't really know where to start looking or what options i have in terms of micro controllers but would like to learn.\\nIf anyone has any advice or tips on the subject that would be great\\n\\nPost: I have beginner/average electronics knowledge from computer engineering classes back in highschool and hobbies, but I would like to find some alternatives to using an arduino for small projects. \\n This all seems a bit daunting and I'm not sure what tools or software i need. \\n I've heard about buying extra ATmega328 chips and programing them with the arduino and then using them on their own, but I've also heard about other micro controllers like the ATTINY.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":17,"string":"17"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":11298,"string":"11,298"}}},{"rowIdx":11299,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"GetGowenz"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Abusive ex dumps me 2 months ago. I broke and contacted her last night. Talk on the phone today. Tells me she loves and misses me but enjoys being single and when she's done enjoying it she will see if she wants to fix it with me. I respond by telling her I might go sleep with this girl I met at a party Friday night that really likes me. Now I'm very hurt over my ex and what she said"},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Backstory: I dated this abusive girl for 2 and a half years. She would hit me, verbally abused me, and stabbed me twice. She dumped me one morning because I asked her to cut back on her video game time [12 hours a day]. She instantly started dating a guy she met on the game. \n So last night I broke and I emailed her. She emailed back. This morning she called me and I was asleep. She called me an hour ago and I picked up. We talked normally for like 10 minutes then she hits me with the I love you and I miss you. She then tells me she wants to be happy single for a while. She doesn't want to talk to me. But when she's done being single she will see if she wants to be with me. She hangs up on me when I don't take that nicely. I proceed to email her and tell her about the party we had at my house Friday night and how I could have slept with this girl but I didn't because of her. I then said I might do it tonight because fuck my ex. I feel so fucked up again guys. Why do I keep doing this to myself?"},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Backstory: I dated this abusive girl for 2 and a half years. She would hit me, verbally abused me, and stabbed me twice. She dumped me one morning because I asked her to cut back on her video game time [12 hours a day]. She instantly started dating a guy she met on the game. \n So last night I broke and I emailed her. She emailed back. This morning she called me and I was asleep. She called me an hour ago and I picked up. We talked normally for like 10 minutes then she hits me with the I love you and I miss you. She then tells me she wants to be happy single for a while. She doesn't want to talk to me. But when she's done being single she will see if she wants to be with me. She hangs up on me when I don't take that nicely. I proceed to email her and tell her about the party we had at my house Friday night and how I could have slept with this girl but I didn't because of her. I then said I might do it tonight because fuck my ex. I feel so fucked up again guys. Why do I keep doing this to myself?"},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Kinda depressed. Dumped by abusive ex. Gave up passion for her. Now I'm stuck in a life I hate that she abandoned me with\n\nPost: I'm in a bit of a hole. My issues are currently crashing in on me. My body issues, being dumped, and college fuck ups. \n My ex who dumped me abused me. Emotionally and physically. She was an unmedicated bipolar. She would go from either telling me about how good other guys were looking and commenting on how bad I look. Then she would hit me, and actually stabbed me twice. Me like an idiot stayed. We were together for 2 and a half years. It's 2 months removed from being dumped and it still hurts. The breakup came from no fault of my own. I feel dumb. I'm still not over her, I cry daily and still hurt. \n I have no clue what I want out of life. I gave up a scholarship for music because my ex didn't want me to go. Like a fucking idiot. Now I'm stuck in a path I hate. My one passion was music and now I can't get back into it, I'm 3 years removed. My motivation and passion is truly gone. I need help reddit, help me get over my breakup and get motivation.","Summary: Contacted bipolar abusive ex. Talks go well. Restart and try to rebuild. After 4 hours she contacts saying she has a bf she met on a game and that she can't fix it with me. Shouldn't have contacted her. Heartbroken all over again.\n\nPost: My ex is terrible. She physically and emotionally abused me. She is an extreme bipolar and narcissist. We've been broken up for 2 months. \n I've had a terrible last 3 days. I broke yesterday and emailed her against my best judgement. She emailed back. \n The talks go okay and we end up exchanging snapchats saying we will restart. We talk for a little then she goes cold. About 3 hours later she messages me saying she can't do this anymore. She said she's dating someone she met on a video game. She also said that she didn't want to go back into the same relationship. \n We would have not been the same relationship. I changed for the better. She hasn't. Like a drug I felt great when I was talking to her. Now she's went back to the terrible person who broke my heart. Everyone said she'd do this to me. I didn't believe it. It feels so terrible. I'm up at 4 am crying my eyes out. Help me guys.","Summary: heard ex misses me and regrets dumping me. Abusive bipolar. I still can't let it go for some reason.\n\nPost: I can't just let go of my ex. She dumped me 2 months ago and I can't let go. It's very hard to just stop caring. I found out last night that she's been regretting her decision to dump me. She treated me like shit for 2 and a half years. Good times in between but a lot of bullshit, getting hit and actually been stabbed. She emotionally abused me. But I can't just fucking let her go. I'm scared she's gonna contact me and I'm gonna melt and go back. She's a severe bipolar who refused medicine. She's dating a guy she met on a video game. She claims she wants to fix herself for him. It hurts because it's like what the else do I have to do. I wasn't worth fixing herself over but some guy on the Internet is? All I ever did was treat her as great as I could. I got walked over a lot. Why can't I just fucking let her go reddit?","Summary: heard ex misses me and regrets dumping me. Abusive bipolar. I still can't let it go for some reason.\n\nPost: I can't just let go of my ex. She dumped me 2 months ago and I can't let go. It's very hard to just stop caring. I found out last night that she's been regretting her decision to dump me. She treated me like shit for 2 and a half years. Good times in between but a lot of bullshit, getting hit and actually been stabbed. She emotionally abused me. But I can't just fucking let her go. I'm scared she's gonna contact me and I'm gonna melt and go back. She's a severe bipolar who refused medicine. She's dating a guy she met on a video game. She claims she wants to fix herself for him. It hurts because it's like what the else do I have to do. I wasn't worth fixing herself over but some guy on the Internet is? All I ever did was treat her as great as I could. I got walked over a lot. Why can't I just fucking let her go reddit?","Summary: Dumped by my ex of 2 and a half years. Extreme bipolar, break up came seemingly out of nowhere because I was blind. How do I get over her and get self confidence back? I am currently going to the gym daily. I have no friends due to the relationship and live in a town where making friends is hard.\n\nPost: Hey Reddit. \n So here's the story. I was in a 2 and a half year relationship with my ex since my senior year in high school up to 5 weeks ago. I'm not going to lie, it was both good and bad and I understand that now. She was clinically diagnosed with severe bipolar disorder. After finding that out she decided she did not want to take medicine, claiming there was nothing wrong with her. Following that multiple instances of anger and violence insued. She moved in with me and my family post her graduation, we were initially going to move out solo but she decided against it. After she moved in things turned ugly. We would have stupid arguments, such as her proclaiming I'm not allowed to listen to a certain genre of music and such. These arguments would turn towards her acting violent towards me. She would punch me, slap me, and a few times attempt to stab me. I realize that this is not reasonable behavior now but she would apologize after and I would forgive. \n In February she started playing video games fairly hardcore and met a group of friends. I found out that she had begun messaging two of them (guys) on instagram. I made this an issue because she did not allow me to keep prior friends when I met her. I had to drop everyone in my life and stupidly I did. I wouldn't have had an issue with it if she wasn't sending selfies to them and general flirting. That argument continued to the point that she left. She went to her moms house. We fix it that night and she is set to come home the next night. The next day she opts to go out with her mom. I later found out she went to meet an ex but she claims nothing happened, which I doubt. \n She comes home that night and everything seems great. The next morning however I wake up to her packing her stuff again. She leaves and goes to her fathers. Around 4 days later she comes home again and seems fine. This time when she comes home she starts playing video games to an extreme. From wake up to sleep. We work for a home business and she neglected to do any of that work. She also proceed to fail 3 of her 8 week college classes. The issue boils over into an argument after she stayed up the whole night playing games. We have a small argument that ends with her staying she doesn't want to date me. She then locks the door to her room and begins rapidly flirting with other guys. \n 2 days of arguing later she finally leaves. I am honestly heartbroken. She had no care for me and I am very hurt. I didn't do no contact for 2 weeks and made an ass of myself. Post those 2 weeks I hit no contact hard. Now she is emailing me once a week to proclaim her love for me and how much she misses me. Only to deny it the next day. Her reasons for leaving she proclaims is that she wanted something else. She said that she didn't know if there was better out there. \n Yesterday while being an idiot I found out that she is dating her ex again. It destroyed me. I feel worthless. Not to sound arrogant but I honestly did everything I could for her. I was on a constant grind to make her happy. I did everything with the goal to make her happy. I did this throughout her anger and violence. I dealt with stupid situations because I loved her. The real question is when does this pain truly end? I hate the thought of her being with another guy. I hate the thought of a life without her, even though my life has gotten so much better. I hate the idea of the single life. I'm a very committed person and I was 100 percent prepared to marry her. I gained 100 pounds while dating her, which also was pointed out multiple times during the breakup in an attempt to fuck up my self confidence. She has done it successfully. I have been consistently going to the gym daily and working on losing weight. Also I live in a small town and am currently friendless due to the break up. All my old high school friends are littered around the world. How do I get over her?","Summary: Dumped by my ex of 2 and a half years. Extreme bipolar, break up came seemingly out of nowhere because I was blind. How do I get over her and get self confidence back? I am currently going to the gym daily. I have no friends due to the relationship and live in a town where making friends is hard.\n\nPost: Hey Reddit. \n So here's the story. I was in a 2 and a half year relationship with my ex since my senior year in high school up to 5 weeks ago. I'm not going to lie, it was both good and bad and I understand that now. She was clinically diagnosed with severe bipolar disorder. After finding that out she decided she did not want to take medicine, claiming there was nothing wrong with her. Following that multiple instances of anger and violence insued. She moved in with me and my family post her graduation, we were initially going to move out solo but she decided against it. After she moved in things turned ugly. We would have stupid arguments, such as her proclaiming I'm not allowed to listen to a certain genre of music and such. These arguments would turn towards her acting violent towards me. She would punch me, slap me, and a few times attempt to stab me. I realize that this is not reasonable behavior now but she would apologize after and I would forgive. \n In February she started playing video games fairly hardcore and met a group of friends. I found out that she had begun messaging two of them (guys) on instagram. I made this an issue because she did not allow me to keep prior friends when I met her. I had to drop everyone in my life and stupidly I did. I wouldn't have had an issue with it if she wasn't sending selfies to them and general flirting. That argument continued to the point that she left. She went to her moms house. We fix it that night and she is set to come home the next night. The next day she opts to go out with her mom. I later found out she went to meet an ex but she claims nothing happened, which I doubt. \n She comes home that night and everything seems great. The next morning however I wake up to her packing her stuff again. She leaves and goes to her fathers. Around 4 days later she comes home again and seems fine. This time when she comes home she starts playing video games to an extreme. From wake up to sleep. We work for a home business and she neglected to do any of that work. She also proceed to fail 3 of her 8 week college classes. The issue boils over into an argument after she stayed up the whole night playing games. We have a small argument that ends with her staying she doesn't want to date me. She then locks the door to her room and begins rapidly flirting with other guys. \n 2 days of arguing later she finally leaves. I am honestly heartbroken. She had no care for me and I am very hurt. I didn't do no contact for 2 weeks and made an ass of myself. Post those 2 weeks I hit no contact hard. Now she is emailing me once a week to proclaim her love for me and how much she misses me. Only to deny it the next day. Her reasons for leaving she proclaims is that she wanted something else. She said that she didn't know if there was better out there. \n Yesterday while being an idiot I found out that she is dating her ex again. It destroyed me. I feel worthless. Not to sound arrogant but I honestly did everything I could for her. I was on a constant grind to make her happy. I did everything with the goal to make her happy. I did this throughout her anger and violence. I dealt with stupid situations because I loved her. The real question is when does this pain truly end? I hate the thought of her being with another guy. I hate the thought of a life without her, even though my life has gotten so much better. I hate the idea of the single life. I'm a very committed person and I was 100 percent prepared to marry her. I gained 100 pounds while dating her, which also was pointed out multiple times during the breakup in an attempt to fuck up my self confidence. She has done it successfully. I have been consistently going to the gym daily and working on losing weight. Also I live in a small town and am currently friendless due to the break up. All my old high school friends are littered around the world. How do I get over her? We had a whole house together, with multiple pets. It doesn't seem real that it's over. Why am I not good enough?","Summary: Dumped by an abusive ex girlfriend. Lost friends gained 100 pounds during relarionship. Failed my first college class. Now I'm very unmotivated and feel worthless daily.\n\nPost: I'm dealing with a rough patch. \n I was dumped by an abusive ex that was both verbally and physically abusive. \n Over the course of that relarionship I lost my friends and gained over 100 pounds. \n I failed my first class in college. \n I feel like if is falling apart. I'm working out and am down 30 pounds but at the end of the day when I'm not working or working out I just sit there letting life pass me by. I feel unfulfilled in life and feel like I'm worthless. What do I do to stop this stuff?","Summary: Girl who likes me came over. Felt no feelings for her. Friends force us to share a bed. Recent break up, woke up with a pit in my stomach because of my ex. How do I get over my ex so I can start enjoying life?\n\nPost: So I've been bitching about my ex for like 2 weeks now on here. We broke up like 2 months ago and I'm steady trying to move forward. She abused me, hit me, stabbed me, verbally abused. She dumped me randomly one day because she's terrible. Instantly went into dating a guy she met on a video game. She lived with me but then moved 4 hours away. She's a totally different person now. \n The effects of her is so bullshit. I have since the break up met a girl who is very into me. We kinda had a get together last night at my place with her and a few friends. We had some beers and just talked. She was obviously gonna stay the night. I was originally gonna sleep on the couch. But after constant pressure from fucking everyone I ended up sharing my bed with her. We didn't do anything but I didn't want to do something so close to what me and my ex had. \n Basically I felt no feelings for her. I don't know if it's her or just because of how my ex treated me. I know I'm not over my ex but my friends don't understand. Im trying very hard to, but they keep putting me in situations I will easily fail in. I don't know what to do. I woke up this morning feeling fucking terrible. The pit in my stomach from my ex is not going away now. How should I handle my break up and this new girl?","Summary: Girl who likes me came over. Felt no feelings for her. Friends force us to share a bed. Recent break up, woke up with a pit in my stomach because of my ex. How do I get over my ex so I can start enjoying life?\n\nPost: So I've been bitching about my ex for like 2 weeks now on here. We broke up like 2 months ago and I'm steady trying to move forward. She abused me, hit me, stabbed me, verbally abused. She dumped me randomly one day because she's terrible. Instantly went into dating a guy she met on a video game. She lived with me but then moved 4 hours away. She's a totally different person now. \n The effects of her is so bullshit. I have since the break up met a girl who is very into me. We kinda had a get together last night at my place with her and a few friends. We had some beers and just talked. She was obviously gonna stay the night. I was originally gonna sleep on the couch. But after constant pressure from fucking everyone I ended up sharing my bed with her. We didn't do anything but I didn't want to do something so close to what me and my ex had. \n Basically I felt no feelings for her. I don't know if it's her or just because of how my ex treated me. I know I'm not over my ex but my friends don't understand. Im trying very hard to, but they keep putting me in situations I will easily fail in. I don't know what to do. I woke up this morning feeling fucking terrible. The pit in my stomach from my ex is not going away now. How should I handle my break up and this new girl?","Summary: Girl who likes me came over. Felt no feelings for her. Friends force us to share a bed. Recent break up, woke up with a pit in my stomach because of my ex. How do I get over my ex so I can start enjoying life?\n\nPost: So I've been bitching about my ex for like 2 weeks now on here. We broke up like 2 months ago and I'm steady trying to move forward. She abused me, hit me, stabbed me, verbally abused. She dumped me randomly one day because she's terrible. Instantly went into dating a guy she met on a video game. She lived with me but then moved 4 hours away. She's a totally different person now. \n The effects of her is so bullshit. I have since the break up met a girl who is very into me. We kinda had a get together last night at my place with her and a few friends. We had some beers and just talked. She was obviously gonna stay the night. I was originally gonna sleep on the couch. But after constant pressure from fucking everyone I ended up sharing my bed with her. We didn't do anything but I didn't want to do something so close to what me and my ex had. \n Basically I felt no feelings for her. I don't know if it's her or just because of how my ex treated me. I know I'm not over my ex but my friends don't understand. Im trying very hard to, but they keep putting me in situations I will easily fail in. I don't know what to do. I woke up this morning feeling fucking terrible. The pit in my stomach from my ex is not going away now. How should I handle my break up and this new girl?","Summary: Kinda depressed. Dumped by abusive ex. Gave up passion for her. Now I'm stuck in a life I hate that she abandoned me with\n\nPost: I'm in a bit of a hole. My issues are currently crashing in on me. My body issues, being dumped, and college fuck ups. \n My ex who dumped me abused me. Emotionally and physically. She was an unmedicated bipolar. She would go from either telling me about how good other guys were looking and commenting on how bad I look. Then she would hit me, and actually stabbed me twice. Me like an idiot stayed. We were together for 2 and a half years. It's 2 months removed from being dumped and it still hurts. The breakup came from no fault of my own. I feel dumb. I'm still not over her, I cry daily and still hurt. \n I have no clue what I want out of life. I gave up a scholarship for music because my ex didn't want me to go. Like a fucking idiot. Now I'm stuck in a path I hate. My one passion was music and now I can't get back into it, I'm 3 years removed. My motivation and passion is truly gone. I need help reddit, help me get over my breakup and get motivation.","Summary: Kinda depressed. Dumped by abusive ex. Gave up passion for her. Now I'm stuck in a life I hate that she abandoned me with\n\nPost: I'm in a bit of a hole. My issues are currently crashing in on me. My body issues, being dumped, and college fuck ups. \n My ex who dumped me abused me. Emotionally and physically. She was an unmedicated bipolar. She would go from either telling me about how good other guys were looking and commenting on how bad I look. Then she would hit me, and actually stabbed me twice. Me like an idiot stayed. We were together for 2 and a half years. It's 2 months removed from being dumped and it still hurts. The breakup came from no fault of my own. I feel dumb. I'm still not over her, I cry daily and still hurt. \n I have no clue what I want out of life. I gave up a scholarship for music because my ex didn't want me to go. Like a fucking idiot. Now I'm stuck in a path I hate. My one passion was music and now I can't get back into it, I'm 3 years removed. My motivation and passion is truly gone. I need help reddit, help me get over my breakup and get motivation.","Summary: Don't talk to my ex for 3 weeks then she contacts me out of the blue to tell me she's made friends and quit college and is smoking weed all day. Why does she feel the need to contact me when I didn't contact her.\n\nPost: Two nights ago I woke up to an email from my ex. I hadn't emailed her in almost 3 weeks and she emailed me to 'update' me. She basically told me she quit college and she smokes weed all day. She said she's never been happier and that everything in her life is going great and she's got her bipolar disorder in check from being high all the time. She proceeded to tell me how many tattoos she's already gotten and all her new friends. \n I responded telling her to stop emailing me. I also included the fact that I also have made friends, I'm taking college classes this summer, and the cabin me and friends have in Tennessee this July. I then ended it saying I don't want updates, I don't want to know. \n It hasn't set me back. I feel great honestly. But does this count as a break of NC? I also want to know why she'd email me in the first place? Like what's the purpose of doing this?","Summary: Don't talk to my ex for 3 weeks then she contacts me out of the blue to tell me she's made friends and quit college and is smoking weed all day. Why does she feel the need to contact me when I didn't contact her.\n\nPost: Two nights ago I woke up to an email from my ex. I hadn't emailed her in almost 3 weeks and she emailed me to 'update' me. She basically told me she quit college and she smokes weed all day. She said she's never been happier and that everything in her life is going great and she's got her bipolar disorder in check from being high all the time. She proceeded to tell me how many tattoos she's already gotten and all her new friends. \n I responded telling her to stop emailing me. I also included the fact that I also have made friends, I'm taking college classes this summer, and the cabin me and friends have in Tennessee this July. I then ended it saying I don't want updates, I don't want to know. \n It hasn't set me back. I feel great honestly. But does this count as a break of NC? I also want to know why she'd email me in the first place? Like what's the purpose of doing this?","Summary: Don't talk to my ex for 3 weeks then she contacts me out of the blue to tell me she's made friends and quit college and is smoking weed all day. Why does she feel the need to contact me when I didn't contact her.\n\nPost: Two nights ago I woke up to an email from my ex. I hadn't emailed her in almost 3 weeks and she emailed me to 'update' me. She basically told me she quit college and she smokes weed all day. She said she's never been happier and that everything in her life is going great and she's got her bipolar disorder in check from being high all the time. She proceeded to tell me how many tattoos she's already gotten and all her new friends. \n I responded telling her to stop emailing me. I also included the fact that I also have made friends, I'm taking college classes this summer, and the cabin me and friends have in Tennessee this July. I then ended it saying I don't want updates, I don't want to know. \n It hasn't set me back. I feel great honestly. But does this count as a break of NC? I also want to know why she'd email me in the first place? Like what's the purpose of doing this?","Summary: Abusive ex dumps me 2 months ago. I broke and contacted her last night. Talk on the phone today. Tells me she loves and misses me but enjoys being single and when she's done enjoying it she will see if she wants to fix it with me. I respond by telling her I might go sleep with this girl I met at a party Friday night that really likes me. Now I'm very hurt over my ex and what she said\n\nPost: Backstory: I dated this abusive girl for 2 and a half years. She would hit me, verbally abused me, and stabbed me twice. She dumped me one morning because I asked her to cut back on her video game time [12 hours a day]. She instantly started dating a guy she met on the game. \n So last night I broke and I emailed her. She emailed back. This morning she called me and I was asleep. She called me an hour ago and I picked up. We talked normally for like 10 minutes then she hits me with the I love you and I miss you. She then tells me she wants to be happy single for a while. She doesn't want to talk to me. But when she's done being single she will see if she wants to be with me. She hangs up on me when I don't take that nicely. I proceed to email her and tell her about the party we had at my house Friday night and how I could have slept with this girl but I didn't because of her. I then said I might do it tonight because fuck my ex. I feel so fucked up again guys. Why do I keep doing this to myself?","Summary: Recognize that I've been obsessed with my abusive ex who dumped me. I accept it was a bad relationship but I don't know how to stop holding on to the relationship.\n\nPost: I've been complaining about being dumped for a fair amount of time now. I've been allowing bread crumbs to rule my life. \n She was abusive to me. Hit me, stabbed me twice, and was overall controlling and rude to me. \n My actions post being dumped are definitely obsessive. I was obsessed with what she was doing and that she was moving on so quickly. I broke no contact occasionally, as recently as today. She would basically give me 5 seconds of hope just to pull the rug out from under me. \n I need to get in control of my life. I can't live this way. I just don't know how to get her off my mind. No matter what activity I think of her. My mind can not escape the want to get back with her. First love and all that bullshit. I know I'm holding on to something broken but it's like fuck man I love her.","Summary: Recognize that I've been obsessed with my abusive ex who dumped me. I accept it was a bad relationship but I don't know how to stop holding on to the relationship.\n\nPost: I've been complaining about being dumped for a fair amount of time now. I've been allowing bread crumbs to rule my life. \n She was abusive to me. Hit me, stabbed me twice, and was overall controlling and rude to me. \n My actions post being dumped are definitely obsessive. I was obsessed with what she was doing and that she was moving on so quickly. I broke no contact occasionally, as recently as today. She would basically give me 5 seconds of hope just to pull the rug out from under me. \n I need to get in control of my life. I can't live this way. I just don't know how to get her off my mind. No matter what activity I think of her. My mind can not escape the want to get back with her. First love and all that bullshit. I know I'm holding on to something broken but it's like fuck man I love her.","Summary: Recognize that I've been obsessed with my abusive ex who dumped me. I accept it was a bad relationship but I don't know how to stop holding on to the relationship.\n\nPost: I've been complaining about being dumped for a fair amount of time now. I've been allowing bread crumbs to rule my life. \n She was abusive to me. Hit me, stabbed me twice, and was overall controlling and rude to me. \n My actions post being dumped are definitely obsessive. I was obsessed with what she was doing and that she was moving on so quickly. I broke no contact occasionally, as recently as today. She would basically give me 5 seconds of hope just to pull the rug out from under me. \n I need to get in control of my life. I can't live this way. I just don't know how to get her off my mind. No matter what activity I think of her. My mind can not escape the want to get back with her. First love and all that bullshit. I know I'm holding on to something broken but it's like fuck man I love her.","Summary: Dated an abusive ex. Physically abused me and stabbed me once. Since the breakup I have made attempts to seek therapy and to lose weight. My parents meet both with no help and are seemingly sabotaging my attempts.\n\nPost: Hey reddit wall of text incoming long ass read \n So I'm 20 and currently in my second year at college. \n Around 2 months ago I was dumped by my girlfriend of 2 and a half years. Me and her were practically married, she lived with me and my family. She was severely bipolar, clinically diagnosed, and decided to be unmedicated. \n She was abusive. Abusive as fuck guys. Simple arguments over little things would turn into full blown yelling usually leading her to punch me and pack her things and leave. She'd get almost fully packed then stop while I was begging her and unpack. \n Around 6 months ago a major event happened when I decided to sing a song lyric outloud. She hates rap music but I was just daydreaming and said 'Everybody's somebody's everything, nobody's nothing'. Her response started with anger and yelling. It ended when she lunged at me with scissors and plunged them into my arm. They didn't go far in. I pulled them out and grabbed her and she calmed down. Saying how sorry she was and crying. I took this event as the time for her to get help and she wouldn't. I stayed stupidly. \n Things continued badly, she admitted she had a crush on a coworker but promise nothing happened. That Christmas she half ass got me some simple presents while getting a mutual guy friend better things then she had gotten for me. I didn't think too much of it. \n She forgot my birthday this year. She didn't even acknowledge it until my family brought out the cake. She had begun playing video games 18 hours a day and not sleeping much. \n Literally the day of our 2 and a half year anniversary I found out she'd been messaging a guy she played games with. I flipped and drove off. We texted while I was in a parking lot and the argument towards her claiming it was my fault because I had gained weight (over the relarionship I gained 100 pounds). By the end of the argument I was begging her to give me a chance and went and got a gym membership the next day. \n A few days later another argument happened when I wouldn't move out on Student loans. She left that day and went to her moms house. The following day she was set to come back but opted to go with her mom out. Come to find out she went and saw an ex yet still maintains nothing happened. She came home that night and seemed great. \n The next morning I woke to her packing again and she left to her dads house 4 hours away. After a few days she came back. She delved more into gaming for the following week. \n One day she didn't sleep at all. I woke up to find her still gaming and she went to our bed to take a nap. I then decided to get up and go run to get her coffee. The local place was closed that day so I ran an extra 30 minutes out and got her coffee and donuts. I came home and woke her up from a 2 hour nap and got the shower running. While in her shower I set up her desk and got the garbage off of it. \n When she got out and got dressed I tried to talk to her. I asked if she could cut back on how much she gamed. Her response was to tell me she didn't love me and locked her door. She instantly started dating this guy from the game. \n She maintained that she wanted to stay and demanded I act like nothing was wrong in front of my family. I agreed hoping she'd change her mind. \n The next morning she didn't sleep again and I went to wake her up. She flipped on me. She started cussing me out and hitting me. I told her she needed to leave and she was floored. We called her mom who deemed that she needed to go to a mental hospital. My ex caught wind of it and broke down. I calmed her down saying I'd never let that happen and my mom reassured her she wouldn't let her. \n Her mom came and I left the room with my mom. They started arguing and yelling and my mom went in to calm it down. She called her mom terrible things and said she never wanted to see her again. \n Her mom was leaving and came up to me and said 'Andy(her nickname for me) you don't deserve this, you deserve better she's never going to get help'. This was amazing because her mom was never really fond of me because of things like my looks. \n I went in there and helped her get in the shower and cleaned up her room again and put her stuff back. She said me and her would work on fixing this. \n That night she didn't come to sleep again. I woke her up the next morning and it was the same cold person. She started yelling at me and cussing me out and then threw her phone at my head. My mom came in and told her to get out. She started packing and left. \n Since the breakup I've been up and down. I'd have good days but break and text her. She'd play along for a couple hours like she missed me only to break my heart again. I'm feeling better now but I'm scared what the abuse will do to me in the future. I've posted before and people have pushed for me to get counselling. \n I've asked my mom to look into it. She does not know about the physical abuse because I didn't really feel like telling her. She'd play along for a few minutes and promise to look into it but nothing ever came from it. I'm adamant about going and have made several attempts to get it set up. They are self employed and we have had lapses in our coverage recently and I'm trying to get filled in on it. She has made zero attempt to help me with this and tells me it's just normal emotions post a breakup. \n Since the breakup I've been trying to lose weight. Eating right breakfast and lunch and going to the gym. My dad though likes to make dinner nightly and causes a big scene if I don't come. He doesn't make amendments to his dinner for me and pressures me to a second plate. Usually it's something fried and unhealthy. I've asked him if I could make my own meals and it's met with anger and he's pissed. \n I don't know what to do with either situation and I can't really get any help from either. I've made attempts in both aspects but they ignore my attempts to reach the help I need. They're usually super supportive but they aren't taking my problems seriously.","Summary: Need therapy to help with abusive ex problems and general depression. Mom who is in charge of Healthcare blows off my requests to get help.\n\nPost: I have recently been dumped by an abusive ex. She was excessively abusive. She hit me. She stabbed me twice over rap lyrics I said out loud. She was emotionally abusive as well, tore my self confidence down and made me feel like I was constantly wrong in every situation. \n After posting on here and the inability to get over it after 2 months I've recently talked to my mom. She is currently in charge of all my Healthcare because I still live with them and have made an attempt to seek therapy to try and figure out more of this shit and get over it. \n When I brought it up she brushed it off. She said that I'd be fine without it. Towards the beginning of the breakup she told me if I needed to go see someone we would get it done. Now she is completely pushing it off as if it's not important. \n I'm not okay. I can't remove my mind from her. I'm purposefully fucking up at dates and being cold because I can only think about my ex. I am very depressed right now with zero energy to do anything. I'm failing classes. I'm not taking my job seriously. \n I need help and she just keeps blowing it off. I've asked 3 times now with the same results.","Summary: Situational Depression due to abusive ex dumping me. Listened to bread crumbs. Allowed my past to dictate dates with other girls. Failing classes in college because of the breakups effect. Lack of motivation to better myself.\n\nPost: I'm in a situational Depression I think. I've had factors out of my control affect me recently. \n My girlfriend of 2 and a half years dumped me. She was very abusive throughout the relationship. She has also made it a goal post breakup to bread crumb as much as she can so she can confidently move on thinking I'll be there if she falls. \n This breakup has kinda taken the wind out of my sails. I've went on some dates but can't even enjoy them because the whole time I'm thinking about my ex. \n The abuse she had towards me is also affecting my confidence. She would hit me and such over small arguments. Stabbed me over a rap song. She also would comment about how bad I looked and was using that as an excuse to text guys behind my back. \n Due to the breakup I also ended up failing one of my college classes and am on the verge of failing another I may not be able to catch up with. \n I am clearly depressed due to just a lack of everything. I can't get myself excited for anything and I constantly dwell on my ex. I have goals to lose a bunch of weight but I have none of the motivation to go do it minus little spurts. I have no clue what to do to erupt out of this better.","Summary: Situational Depression due to abusive ex dumping me. Listened to bread crumbs. Allowed my past to dictate dates with other girls. Failing classes in college because of the breakups effect. Lack of motivation to better myself.\n\nPost: I'm in a situational Depression I think. I've had factors out of my control affect me recently. \n My girlfriend of 2 and a half years dumped me. She was very abusive throughout the relationship. She has also made it a goal post breakup to bread crumb as much as she can so she can confidently move on thinking I'll be there if she falls. \n This breakup has kinda taken the wind out of my sails. I've went on some dates but can't even enjoy them because the whole time I'm thinking about my ex. \n The abuse she had towards me is also affecting my confidence. She would hit me and such over small arguments. Stabbed me over a rap song. She also would comment about how bad I looked and was using that as an excuse to text guys behind my back. \n Due to the breakup I also ended up failing one of my college classes and am on the verge of failing another I may not be able to catch up with. \n I am clearly depressed due to just a lack of everything. I can't get myself excited for anything and I constantly dwell on my ex. I have goals to lose a bunch of weight but I have none of the motivation to go do it minus little spurts. I have no clue what to do to erupt out of this better.","Summary: Ex destroyed my self confidence. How do I get back my confidence and motivation to better myself and not find myself in another situation like this?\n\nPost: My ex destroyed my self confidence. She made me feel terrible about myself. I don't miss her at this point but the pit in my stomach is from the feeling I'll never find another person. \n Where has my self confidence gone? Prior to meeting her I was so confident. Now I'm like a shell. I can't keep myself in motivation to do anything that betters me. What can I do to just get the motivation to better myself honestly? Why did I find my worth in that terrible relationship?","Summary: Ex destroyed my self confidence. How do I get back my confidence and motivation to better myself and not find myself in another situation like this?\n\nPost: My ex destroyed my self confidence. She made me feel terrible about myself. I don't miss her at this point but the pit in my stomach is from the feeling I'll never find another person. \n Where has my self confidence gone? Prior to meeting her I was so confident. Now I'm like a shell. I can't keep myself in motivation to do anything that betters me. What can I do to just get the motivation to better myself honestly? Why did I find my worth in that terrible relationship?","Summary: Situational Depression due to abusive ex dumping me. Listened to bread crumbs. Allowed my past to dictate dates with other girls. Failing classes in college because of the breakups effect. Lack of motivation to better myself.\n\nPost: I'm in a situational Depression I think. I've had factors out of my control affect me recently. \n My girlfriend of 2 and a half years dumped me. She was very abusive throughout the relationship. She has also made it a goal post breakup to bread crumb as much as she can so she can confidently move on thinking I'll be there if she falls. \n This breakup has kinda taken the wind out of my sails. I've went on some dates but can't even enjoy them because the whole time I'm thinking about my ex. \n The abuse she had towards me is also affecting my confidence. She would hit me and such over small arguments. Stabbed me over a rap song. She also would comment about how bad I looked and was using that as an excuse to text guys behind my back. \n Due to the breakup I also ended up failing one of my college classes and am on the verge of failing another I may not be able to catch up with. \n I am clearly depressed due to just a lack of everything. I can't get myself excited for anything and I constantly dwell on my ex. I have goals to lose a bunch of weight but I have none of the motivation to go do it minus little spurts. I have no clue what to do to erupt out of this better. \n I hate waking up daily missing her. When she clearly hasn't recognized my true worth. I know someone will but Jesus I miss her a lot. I wish I could hug her right now. It fucking sucks.","Summary: Ex contacted to reconcile but I found out she had a sexual relationship and I don't know what to do\n\nPost: We broke up about 3 months ago. It was a bad breakup and I was starting to be past it. \n She contacted to me wanting to fix us. We talked on the phone for 2 hours and seem okay. \n It came out she had a relationship with another guy but recently broke it off because she realized she wanted me. When I heard this my heart dropped because it just hurt to hear. \n She wants to fix it but take it slow. \n I'm not sure if I want to fix it or what. I still love her and she seems sincere. But I'm so terrified she will dump me again and the other relarionship kinda hurts.","Summary: Bipolar ex who hit and stabbed me dumped me 2 months ago. Instantly went into dating a guy she met online while she was still at my house. Contacted me post breakup but always doesn't fix shit. I've blocked her. I miss her terribly and I don't know what to do.\n\nPost: I was dumped almost 2 months ago. It was terrible. She kind of came out of nowhere with it. It wasn't reasonable. Post breakup she couldn't explain her reasons. I link the issue back to when she started smoking pot again. She stopped doing her college homework. Stopped caring about her job. She just smoked all day. She lived with me and my family. My family was oblivious to all the problems. \n I noticed little things like her commenting about how other guys looked. She broke up with me for a day a couple months ago because she said she had a crush on a coworker, a friend of mine. It was devastating. But that night I took her back like an idiot. \n One major fact is she a major bipolar. She had taken medicine for a couple weeks but then reverted back to none. She was abusive. Hit me a lot and stabbed me twice. She tore down my self confidence a ton. \n We were together for 2 and a half years. We had a whole house put together. We had a bunch of animals. The morning we broke up she instantly went to dating a guy she met on a video game. It fucking destroyed me. She left the following day and went 4 hours away to her dads house. \n Post the break up she's contacted me a few times saying she misses me and loves me. But the next day she denies it and goes back to the terrible her. I've blocked her for 11 days now and haven't heard a thing. \n I have went to the gym and done things for myself. I went on a date a week ago but no matter how great this girl was i couldn't wait to get home because I was just thinking about my ex. I think about her daily. It has not gotten easier. What do I need to do to get over her? I've tried tons of things but I still miss her a ton.","Summary: Bipolar ex who hit and stabbed me dumped me 2 months ago. Instantly went into dating a guy she met online while she was still at my house. Contacted me post breakup but always doesn't fix shit. I've blocked her. I miss her terribly and I don't know what to do.\n\nPost: I was dumped almost 2 months ago. It was terrible. She kind of came out of nowhere with it. It wasn't reasonable. Post breakup she couldn't explain her reasons. I link the issue back to when she started smoking pot again. She stopped doing her college homework. Stopped caring about her job. She just smoked all day. She lived with me and my family. My family was oblivious to all the problems. \n I noticed little things like her commenting about how other guys looked. She broke up with me for a day a couple months ago because she said she had a crush on a coworker, a friend of mine. It was devastating. But that night I took her back like an idiot. \n One major fact is she a major bipolar. She had taken medicine for a couple weeks but then reverted back to none. She was abusive. Hit me a lot and stabbed me twice. She tore down my self confidence a ton. \n We were together for 2 and a half years. We had a whole house put together. We had a bunch of animals. The morning we broke up she instantly went to dating a guy she met on a video game. It fucking destroyed me. She left the following day and went 4 hours away to her dads house. \n Post the break up she's contacted me a few times saying she misses me and loves me. But the next day she denies it and goes back to the terrible her. I've blocked her for 11 days now and haven't heard a thing. \n I have went to the gym and done things for myself. I went on a date a week ago but no matter how great this girl was i couldn't wait to get home because I was just thinking about my ex. I think about her daily. It has not gotten easier. What do I need to do to get over her? I've tried tons of things but I still miss her a ton.","Summary: Bipolar ex who hit and stabbed me dumped me 2 months ago. Instantly went into dating a guy she met online while she was still at my house. Contacted me post breakup but always doesn't fix shit. I've blocked her. I miss her terribly and I don't know what to do.\n\nPost: I was dumped almost 2 months ago. It was terrible. She kind of came out of nowhere with it. It wasn't reasonable. Post breakup she couldn't explain her reasons. I link the issue back to when she started smoking pot again. She stopped doing her college homework. Stopped caring about her job. She just smoked all day. She lived with me and my family. My family was oblivious to all the problems. \n I noticed little things like her commenting about how other guys looked. She broke up with me for a day a couple months ago because she said she had a crush on a coworker, a friend of mine. It was devastating. But that night I took her back like an idiot. \n One major fact is she a major bipolar. She had taken medicine for a couple weeks but then reverted back to none. She was abusive. Hit me a lot and stabbed me twice. She tore down my self confidence a ton. \n We were together for 2 and a half years. We had a whole house put together. We had a bunch of animals. The morning we broke up she instantly went to dating a guy she met on a video game. It fucking destroyed me. She left the following day and went 4 hours away to her dads house. \n Post the break up she's contacted me a few times saying she misses me and loves me. But the next day she denies it and goes back to the terrible her. I've blocked her for 11 days now and haven't heard a thing. \n I have went to the gym and done things for myself. I went on a date a week ago but no matter how great this girl was i couldn't wait to get home because I was just thinking about my ex. I think about her daily. It has not gotten easier. What do I need to do to get over her? I've tried tons of things but I still miss her a ton.","Summary: Contacted bipolar abusive ex. Talks go well. Restart and try to rebuild. After 4 hours she contacts saying she has a bf she met on a game and that she can't fix it with me. Shouldn't have contacted her. Heartbroken all over again.\n\nPost: My ex is terrible. She physically and emotionally abused me. She is an extreme bipolar and narcissist. We've been broken up for 2 months. \n I've had a terrible last 3 days. I broke yesterday and emailed her against my best judgement. She emailed back. \n The talks go okay and we end up exchanging snapchats saying we will restart. We talk for a little then she goes cold. About 3 hours later she messages me saying she can't do this anymore. She said she's dating someone she met on a video game. She also said that she didn't want to go back into the same relationship. \n We would have not been the same relationship. I changed for the better. She hasn't. Like a drug I felt great when I was talking to her. Now she's went back to the terrible person who broke my heart. Everyone said she'd do this to me. I didn't believe it. It feels so terrible. I'm up at 4 am crying my eyes out. Help me guys.","Summary: Contacted bipolar abusive ex. Talks go well. Restart and try to rebuild. After 4 hours she contacts saying she has a bf she met on a game and that she can't fix it with me. Shouldn't have contacted her. Heartbroken all over again.\n\nPost: My ex is terrible. She physically and emotionally abused me. She is an extreme bipolar and narcissist. We've been broken up for 2 months. \n I've had a terrible last 3 days. I broke yesterday and emailed her against my best judgement. She emailed back. \n The talks go okay and we end up exchanging snapchats saying we will restart. We talk for a little then she goes cold. About 3 hours later she messages me saying she can't do this anymore. She said she's dating someone she met on a video game. She also said that she didn't want to go back into the same relationship. \n We would have not been the same relationship. I changed for the better. She hasn't. Like a drug I felt great when I was talking to her. Now she's went back to the terrible person who broke my heart. Everyone said she'd do this to me. I didn't believe it. It feels so terrible. I'm up at 4 am crying my eyes out. Help me guys.","Summary: Broke things off with my ex and now I feel dead inside.\n\nPost: She treated me like shit. The first day we seemed okay and we were talking great. Then she started not texting me for hours at a time. \n Today I had enough. I told her I'm done with this shit. But I still feel so sad. I feel terrible. I'm about to go do a speech in class and I'm on the verge of tears.","Summary: Recognize that I've been obsessed with my abusive ex who dumped me. I accept it was a bad relationship but I don't know how to stop holding on to the relationship.\n\nPost: I've been complaining about being dumped for a fair amount of time now. I've been allowing bread crumbs to rule my life. \n She was abusive to me. Hit me, stabbed me twice, and was overall controlling and rude to me. She'd tell me who I could hang out with. She was extremely bipolar and would flip over small issues. The first time she stabbed me was actually over me singing a rap lyric. She after several months of commenting on the looks of other people she's been able to make me feel no self confidence. It affects me tremendously. I'm allowing her abuse to me to rule my life. I wake up every morning with a pit in my stomach wondering why I was never good enough. \n My actions post being dumped are definitely obsessive. I was obsessed with what she was doing and that she was moving on so quickly. I broke no contact occasionally, as recently as yesterday. She would basically give me 5 seconds of hope just to pull the rug out from under me. She'd say all this loving and nice things just to end it with, 'I'm enjoying being single when I'm done with it I'll consider taking you back'. Making it seem like I was the one in the wrong in the relationship. \n I need to get in control of my life. I can't live this way. I just don't know how to get her off my mind. No matter what activity I think of her. My mind can not escape the want to get back with her. First love and all that bullshit. I know I'm holding on to something broken but it's like fuck man I love her."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Kinda depressed. Dumped by abusive ex. Gave up passion for her. Now I'm stuck in a life I hate that she abandoned me with\\n\\nPost: I'm in a bit of a hole. My issues are currently crashing in on me. My body issues, being dumped, and college fuck ups. \\n My ex who dumped me abused me. Emotionally and physically. She was an unmedicated bipolar. She would go from either telling me about how good other guys were looking and commenting on how bad I look. Then she would hit me, and actually stabbed me twice. Me like an idiot stayed. We were together for 2 and a half years. It's 2 months removed from being dumped and it still hurts. The breakup came from no fault of my own. I feel dumb. I'm still not over her, I cry daily and still hurt. \\n I have no clue what I want out of life. I gave up a scholarship for music because my ex didn't want me to go. Like a fucking idiot. Now I'm stuck in a path I hate. My one passion was music and now I can't get back into it, I'm 3 years removed. My motivation and passion is truly gone. I need help reddit, help me get over my breakup and get motivation.\",\n \"Summary: Contacted bipolar abusive ex. Talks go well. Restart and try to rebuild. After 4 hours she contacts saying she has a bf she met on a game and that she can't fix it with me. Shouldn't have contacted her. Heartbroken all over again.\\n\\nPost: My ex is terrible. She physically and emotionally abused me. She is an extreme bipolar and narcissist. We've been broken up for 2 months. \\n I've had a terrible last 3 days. I broke yesterday and emailed her against my best judgement. She emailed back. \\n The talks go okay and we end up exchanging snapchats saying we will restart. We talk for a little then she goes cold. About 3 hours later she messages me saying she can't do this anymore. She said she's dating someone she met on a video game. She also said that she didn't want to go back into the same relationship. \\n We would have not been the same relationship. I changed for the better. She hasn't. Like a drug I felt great when I was talking to her. Now she's went back to the terrible person who broke my heart. Everyone said she'd do this to me. I didn't believe it. It feels so terrible. I'm up at 4 am crying my eyes out. Help me guys.\",\n \"Summary: heard ex misses me and regrets dumping me. Abusive bipolar. I still can't let it go for some reason.\\n\\nPost: I can't just let go of my ex. She dumped me 2 months ago and I can't let go. It's very hard to just stop caring. I found out last night that she's been regretting her decision to dump me. She treated me like shit for 2 and a half years. Good times in between but a lot of bullshit, getting hit and actually been stabbed. She emotionally abused me. But I can't just fucking let her go. I'm scared she's gonna contact me and I'm gonna melt and go back. She's a severe bipolar who refused medicine. She's dating a guy she met on a video game. She claims she wants to fix herself for him. It hurts because it's like what the else do I have to do. I wasn't worth fixing herself over but some guy on the Internet is? All I ever did was treat her as great as I could. I got walked over a lot. Why can't I just fucking let her go reddit?\",\n \"Summary: heard ex misses me and regrets dumping me. Abusive bipolar. I still can't let it go for some reason.\\n\\nPost: I can't just let go of my ex. She dumped me 2 months ago and I can't let go. It's very hard to just stop caring. I found out last night that she's been regretting her decision to dump me. She treated me like shit for 2 and a half years. Good times in between but a lot of bullshit, getting hit and actually been stabbed. She emotionally abused me. But I can't just fucking let her go. I'm scared she's gonna contact me and I'm gonna melt and go back. She's a severe bipolar who refused medicine. She's dating a guy she met on a video game. She claims she wants to fix herself for him. It hurts because it's like what the else do I have to do. I wasn't worth fixing herself over but some guy on the Internet is? All I ever did was treat her as great as I could. I got walked over a lot. Why can't I just fucking let her go reddit?\",\n \"Summary: Dumped by my ex of 2 and a half years. Extreme bipolar, break up came seemingly out of nowhere because I was blind. How do I get over her and get self confidence back? I am currently going to the gym daily. I have no friends due to the relationship and live in a town where making friends is hard.\\n\\nPost: Hey Reddit. \\n So here's the story. I was in a 2 and a half year relationship with my ex since my senior year in high school up to 5 weeks ago. I'm not going to lie, it was both good and bad and I understand that now. She was clinically diagnosed with severe bipolar disorder. After finding that out she decided she did not want to take medicine, claiming there was nothing wrong with her. Following that multiple instances of anger and violence insued. She moved in with me and my family post her graduation, we were initially going to move out solo but she decided against it. After she moved in things turned ugly. We would have stupid arguments, such as her proclaiming I'm not allowed to listen to a certain genre of music and such. These arguments would turn towards her acting violent towards me. She would punch me, slap me, and a few times attempt to stab me. I realize that this is not reasonable behavior now but she would apologize after and I would forgive. \\n In February she started playing video games fairly hardcore and met a group of friends. I found out that she had begun messaging two of them (guys) on instagram. I made this an issue because she did not allow me to keep prior friends when I met her. I had to drop everyone in my life and stupidly I did. I wouldn't have had an issue with it if she wasn't sending selfies to them and general flirting. That argument continued to the point that she left. She went to her moms house. We fix it that night and she is set to come home the next night. The next day she opts to go out with her mom. I later found out she went to meet an ex but she claims nothing happened, which I doubt. \\n She comes home that night and everything seems great. The next morning however I wake up to her packing her stuff again. She leaves and goes to her fathers. Around 4 days later she comes home again and seems fine. This time when she comes home she starts playing video games to an extreme. From wake up to sleep. We work for a home business and she neglected to do any of that work. She also proceed to fail 3 of her 8 week college classes. The issue boils over into an argument after she stayed up the whole night playing games. We have a small argument that ends with her staying she doesn't want to date me. She then locks the door to her room and begins rapidly flirting with other guys. \\n 2 days of arguing later she finally leaves. I am honestly heartbroken. She had no care for me and I am very hurt. I didn't do no contact for 2 weeks and made an ass of myself. Post those 2 weeks I hit no contact hard. Now she is emailing me once a week to proclaim her love for me and how much she misses me. Only to deny it the next day. Her reasons for leaving she proclaims is that she wanted something else. She said that she didn't know if there was better out there. \\n Yesterday while being an idiot I found out that she is dating her ex again. It destroyed me. I feel worthless. Not to sound arrogant but I honestly did everything I could for her. I was on a constant grind to make her happy. I did everything with the goal to make her happy. I did this throughout her anger and violence. I dealt with stupid situations because I loved her. The real question is when does this pain truly end? I hate the thought of her being with another guy. I hate the thought of a life without her, even though my life has gotten so much better. I hate the idea of the single life. I'm a very committed person and I was 100 percent prepared to marry her. I gained 100 pounds while dating her, which also was pointed out multiple times during the breakup in an attempt to fuck up my self confidence. She has done it successfully. I have been consistently going to the gym daily and working on losing weight. Also I live in a small town and am currently friendless due to the break up. All my old high school friends are littered around the world. How do I get over her?\",\n \"Summary: Dumped by my ex of 2 and a half years. Extreme bipolar, break up came seemingly out of nowhere because I was blind. How do I get over her and get self confidence back? I am currently going to the gym daily. I have no friends due to the relationship and live in a town where making friends is hard.\\n\\nPost: Hey Reddit. \\n So here's the story. I was in a 2 and a half year relationship with my ex since my senior year in high school up to 5 weeks ago. I'm not going to lie, it was both good and bad and I understand that now. She was clinically diagnosed with severe bipolar disorder. After finding that out she decided she did not want to take medicine, claiming there was nothing wrong with her. Following that multiple instances of anger and violence insued. She moved in with me and my family post her graduation, we were initially going to move out solo but she decided against it. After she moved in things turned ugly. We would have stupid arguments, such as her proclaiming I'm not allowed to listen to a certain genre of music and such. These arguments would turn towards her acting violent towards me. She would punch me, slap me, and a few times attempt to stab me. I realize that this is not reasonable behavior now but she would apologize after and I would forgive. \\n In February she started playing video games fairly hardcore and met a group of friends. I found out that she had begun messaging two of them (guys) on instagram. I made this an issue because she did not allow me to keep prior friends when I met her. I had to drop everyone in my life and stupidly I did. I wouldn't have had an issue with it if she wasn't sending selfies to them and general flirting. That argument continued to the point that she left. She went to her moms house. We fix it that night and she is set to come home the next night. The next day she opts to go out with her mom. I later found out she went to meet an ex but she claims nothing happened, which I doubt. \\n She comes home that night and everything seems great. The next morning however I wake up to her packing her stuff again. She leaves and goes to her fathers. Around 4 days later she comes home again and seems fine. This time when she comes home she starts playing video games to an extreme. From wake up to sleep. We work for a home business and she neglected to do any of that work. She also proceed to fail 3 of her 8 week college classes. The issue boils over into an argument after she stayed up the whole night playing games. We have a small argument that ends with her staying she doesn't want to date me. She then locks the door to her room and begins rapidly flirting with other guys. \\n 2 days of arguing later she finally leaves. I am honestly heartbroken. She had no care for me and I am very hurt. I didn't do no contact for 2 weeks and made an ass of myself. Post those 2 weeks I hit no contact hard. Now she is emailing me once a week to proclaim her love for me and how much she misses me. Only to deny it the next day. Her reasons for leaving she proclaims is that she wanted something else. She said that she didn't know if there was better out there. \\n Yesterday while being an idiot I found out that she is dating her ex again. It destroyed me. I feel worthless. Not to sound arrogant but I honestly did everything I could for her. I was on a constant grind to make her happy. I did everything with the goal to make her happy. I did this throughout her anger and violence. I dealt with stupid situations because I loved her. The real question is when does this pain truly end? I hate the thought of her being with another guy. I hate the thought of a life without her, even though my life has gotten so much better. I hate the idea of the single life. I'm a very committed person and I was 100 percent prepared to marry her. I gained 100 pounds while dating her, which also was pointed out multiple times during the breakup in an attempt to fuck up my self confidence. She has done it successfully. I have been consistently going to the gym daily and working on losing weight. Also I live in a small town and am currently friendless due to the break up. All my old high school friends are littered around the world. How do I get over her? We had a whole house together, with multiple pets. It doesn't seem real that it's over. Why am I not good enough?\",\n \"Summary: Dumped by an abusive ex girlfriend. Lost friends gained 100 pounds during relarionship. Failed my first college class. Now I'm very unmotivated and feel worthless daily.\\n\\nPost: I'm dealing with a rough patch. \\n I was dumped by an abusive ex that was both verbally and physically abusive. \\n Over the course of that relarionship I lost my friends and gained over 100 pounds. \\n I failed my first class in college. \\n I feel like if is falling apart. I'm working out and am down 30 pounds but at the end of the day when I'm not working or working out I just sit there letting life pass me by. I feel unfulfilled in life and feel like I'm worthless. What do I do to stop this stuff?\",\n \"Summary: Girl who likes me came over. Felt no feelings for her. Friends force us to share a bed. Recent break up, woke up with a pit in my stomach because of my ex. How do I get over my ex so I can start enjoying life?\\n\\nPost: So I've been bitching about my ex for like 2 weeks now on here. We broke up like 2 months ago and I'm steady trying to move forward. She abused me, hit me, stabbed me, verbally abused. She dumped me randomly one day because she's terrible. Instantly went into dating a guy she met on a video game. She lived with me but then moved 4 hours away. She's a totally different person now. \\n The effects of her is so bullshit. I have since the break up met a girl who is very into me. We kinda had a get together last night at my place with her and a few friends. We had some beers and just talked. She was obviously gonna stay the night. I was originally gonna sleep on the couch. But after constant pressure from fucking everyone I ended up sharing my bed with her. We didn't do anything but I didn't want to do something so close to what me and my ex had. \\n Basically I felt no feelings for her. I don't know if it's her or just because of how my ex treated me. I know I'm not over my ex but my friends don't understand. Im trying very hard to, but they keep putting me in situations I will easily fail in. I don't know what to do. I woke up this morning feeling fucking terrible. The pit in my stomach from my ex is not going away now. How should I handle my break up and this new girl?\",\n \"Summary: Girl who likes me came over. Felt no feelings for her. Friends force us to share a bed. Recent break up, woke up with a pit in my stomach because of my ex. How do I get over my ex so I can start enjoying life?\\n\\nPost: So I've been bitching about my ex for like 2 weeks now on here. We broke up like 2 months ago and I'm steady trying to move forward. She abused me, hit me, stabbed me, verbally abused. She dumped me randomly one day because she's terrible. Instantly went into dating a guy she met on a video game. She lived with me but then moved 4 hours away. She's a totally different person now. \\n The effects of her is so bullshit. I have since the break up met a girl who is very into me. We kinda had a get together last night at my place with her and a few friends. We had some beers and just talked. She was obviously gonna stay the night. I was originally gonna sleep on the couch. But after constant pressure from fucking everyone I ended up sharing my bed with her. We didn't do anything but I didn't want to do something so close to what me and my ex had. \\n Basically I felt no feelings for her. I don't know if it's her or just because of how my ex treated me. I know I'm not over my ex but my friends don't understand. Im trying very hard to, but they keep putting me in situations I will easily fail in. I don't know what to do. I woke up this morning feeling fucking terrible. The pit in my stomach from my ex is not going away now. How should I handle my break up and this new girl?\",\n \"Summary: Girl who likes me came over. Felt no feelings for her. Friends force us to share a bed. Recent break up, woke up with a pit in my stomach because of my ex. How do I get over my ex so I can start enjoying life?\\n\\nPost: So I've been bitching about my ex for like 2 weeks now on here. We broke up like 2 months ago and I'm steady trying to move forward. She abused me, hit me, stabbed me, verbally abused. She dumped me randomly one day because she's terrible. Instantly went into dating a guy she met on a video game. She lived with me but then moved 4 hours away. She's a totally different person now. \\n The effects of her is so bullshit. I have since the break up met a girl who is very into me. We kinda had a get together last night at my place with her and a few friends. We had some beers and just talked. She was obviously gonna stay the night. I was originally gonna sleep on the couch. But after constant pressure from fucking everyone I ended up sharing my bed with her. We didn't do anything but I didn't want to do something so close to what me and my ex had. \\n Basically I felt no feelings for her. I don't know if it's her or just because of how my ex treated me. I know I'm not over my ex but my friends don't understand. Im trying very hard to, but they keep putting me in situations I will easily fail in. I don't know what to do. I woke up this morning feeling fucking terrible. The pit in my stomach from my ex is not going away now. How should I handle my break up and this new girl?\",\n \"Summary: Kinda depressed. Dumped by abusive ex. Gave up passion for her. Now I'm stuck in a life I hate that she abandoned me with\\n\\nPost: I'm in a bit of a hole. My issues are currently crashing in on me. My body issues, being dumped, and college fuck ups. \\n My ex who dumped me abused me. Emotionally and physically. She was an unmedicated bipolar. She would go from either telling me about how good other guys were looking and commenting on how bad I look. Then she would hit me, and actually stabbed me twice. Me like an idiot stayed. We were together for 2 and a half years. It's 2 months removed from being dumped and it still hurts. The breakup came from no fault of my own. I feel dumb. I'm still not over her, I cry daily and still hurt. \\n I have no clue what I want out of life. I gave up a scholarship for music because my ex didn't want me to go. Like a fucking idiot. Now I'm stuck in a path I hate. My one passion was music and now I can't get back into it, I'm 3 years removed. My motivation and passion is truly gone. I need help reddit, help me get over my breakup and get motivation.\",\n \"Summary: Kinda depressed. Dumped by abusive ex. Gave up passion for her. Now I'm stuck in a life I hate that she abandoned me with\\n\\nPost: I'm in a bit of a hole. My issues are currently crashing in on me. My body issues, being dumped, and college fuck ups. \\n My ex who dumped me abused me. Emotionally and physically. She was an unmedicated bipolar. She would go from either telling me about how good other guys were looking and commenting on how bad I look. Then she would hit me, and actually stabbed me twice. Me like an idiot stayed. We were together for 2 and a half years. It's 2 months removed from being dumped and it still hurts. The breakup came from no fault of my own. I feel dumb. I'm still not over her, I cry daily and still hurt. \\n I have no clue what I want out of life. I gave up a scholarship for music because my ex didn't want me to go. Like a fucking idiot. Now I'm stuck in a path I hate. My one passion was music and now I can't get back into it, I'm 3 years removed. My motivation and passion is truly gone. I need help reddit, help me get over my breakup and get motivation.\",\n \"Summary: Don't talk to my ex for 3 weeks then she contacts me out of the blue to tell me she's made friends and quit college and is smoking weed all day. Why does she feel the need to contact me when I didn't contact her.\\n\\nPost: Two nights ago I woke up to an email from my ex. I hadn't emailed her in almost 3 weeks and she emailed me to 'update' me. She basically told me she quit college and she smokes weed all day. She said she's never been happier and that everything in her life is going great and she's got her bipolar disorder in check from being high all the time. She proceeded to tell me how many tattoos she's already gotten and all her new friends. \\n I responded telling her to stop emailing me. I also included the fact that I also have made friends, I'm taking college classes this summer, and the cabin me and friends have in Tennessee this July. I then ended it saying I don't want updates, I don't want to know. \\n It hasn't set me back. I feel great honestly. But does this count as a break of NC? I also want to know why she'd email me in the first place? Like what's the purpose of doing this?\",\n \"Summary: Don't talk to my ex for 3 weeks then she contacts me out of the blue to tell me she's made friends and quit college and is smoking weed all day. Why does she feel the need to contact me when I didn't contact her.\\n\\nPost: Two nights ago I woke up to an email from my ex. I hadn't emailed her in almost 3 weeks and she emailed me to 'update' me. She basically told me she quit college and she smokes weed all day. She said she's never been happier and that everything in her life is going great and she's got her bipolar disorder in check from being high all the time. She proceeded to tell me how many tattoos she's already gotten and all her new friends. \\n I responded telling her to stop emailing me. I also included the fact that I also have made friends, I'm taking college classes this summer, and the cabin me and friends have in Tennessee this July. I then ended it saying I don't want updates, I don't want to know. \\n It hasn't set me back. I feel great honestly. But does this count as a break of NC? I also want to know why she'd email me in the first place? Like what's the purpose of doing this?\",\n \"Summary: Don't talk to my ex for 3 weeks then she contacts me out of the blue to tell me she's made friends and quit college and is smoking weed all day. Why does she feel the need to contact me when I didn't contact her.\\n\\nPost: Two nights ago I woke up to an email from my ex. I hadn't emailed her in almost 3 weeks and she emailed me to 'update' me. She basically told me she quit college and she smokes weed all day. She said she's never been happier and that everything in her life is going great and she's got her bipolar disorder in check from being high all the time. She proceeded to tell me how many tattoos she's already gotten and all her new friends. \\n I responded telling her to stop emailing me. I also included the fact that I also have made friends, I'm taking college classes this summer, and the cabin me and friends have in Tennessee this July. I then ended it saying I don't want updates, I don't want to know. \\n It hasn't set me back. I feel great honestly. But does this count as a break of NC? I also want to know why she'd email me in the first place? Like what's the purpose of doing this?\",\n \"Summary: Abusive ex dumps me 2 months ago. I broke and contacted her last night. Talk on the phone today. Tells me she loves and misses me but enjoys being single and when she's done enjoying it she will see if she wants to fix it with me. I respond by telling her I might go sleep with this girl I met at a party Friday night that really likes me. Now I'm very hurt over my ex and what she said\\n\\nPost: Backstory: I dated this abusive girl for 2 and a half years. She would hit me, verbally abused me, and stabbed me twice. She dumped me one morning because I asked her to cut back on her video game time [12 hours a day]. She instantly started dating a guy she met on the game. \\n So last night I broke and I emailed her. She emailed back. This morning she called me and I was asleep. She called me an hour ago and I picked up. We talked normally for like 10 minutes then she hits me with the I love you and I miss you. She then tells me she wants to be happy single for a while. She doesn't want to talk to me. But when she's done being single she will see if she wants to be with me. She hangs up on me when I don't take that nicely. I proceed to email her and tell her about the party we had at my house Friday night and how I could have slept with this girl but I didn't because of her. I then said I might do it tonight because fuck my ex. I feel so fucked up again guys. Why do I keep doing this to myself?\",\n \"Summary: Recognize that I've been obsessed with my abusive ex who dumped me. I accept it was a bad relationship but I don't know how to stop holding on to the relationship.\\n\\nPost: I've been complaining about being dumped for a fair amount of time now. I've been allowing bread crumbs to rule my life. \\n She was abusive to me. Hit me, stabbed me twice, and was overall controlling and rude to me. \\n My actions post being dumped are definitely obsessive. I was obsessed with what she was doing and that she was moving on so quickly. I broke no contact occasionally, as recently as today. She would basically give me 5 seconds of hope just to pull the rug out from under me. \\n I need to get in control of my life. I can't live this way. I just don't know how to get her off my mind. No matter what activity I think of her. My mind can not escape the want to get back with her. First love and all that bullshit. I know I'm holding on to something broken but it's like fuck man I love her.\",\n \"Summary: Recognize that I've been obsessed with my abusive ex who dumped me. I accept it was a bad relationship but I don't know how to stop holding on to the relationship.\\n\\nPost: I've been complaining about being dumped for a fair amount of time now. I've been allowing bread crumbs to rule my life. \\n She was abusive to me. Hit me, stabbed me twice, and was overall controlling and rude to me. \\n My actions post being dumped are definitely obsessive. I was obsessed with what she was doing and that she was moving on so quickly. I broke no contact occasionally, as recently as today. She would basically give me 5 seconds of hope just to pull the rug out from under me. \\n I need to get in control of my life. I can't live this way. I just don't know how to get her off my mind. No matter what activity I think of her. My mind can not escape the want to get back with her. First love and all that bullshit. I know I'm holding on to something broken but it's like fuck man I love her.\",\n \"Summary: Recognize that I've been obsessed with my abusive ex who dumped me. I accept it was a bad relationship but I don't know how to stop holding on to the relationship.\\n\\nPost: I've been complaining about being dumped for a fair amount of time now. I've been allowing bread crumbs to rule my life. \\n She was abusive to me. Hit me, stabbed me twice, and was overall controlling and rude to me. \\n My actions post being dumped are definitely obsessive. I was obsessed with what she was doing and that she was moving on so quickly. I broke no contact occasionally, as recently as today. She would basically give me 5 seconds of hope just to pull the rug out from under me. \\n I need to get in control of my life. I can't live this way. I just don't know how to get her off my mind. No matter what activity I think of her. My mind can not escape the want to get back with her. First love and all that bullshit. I know I'm holding on to something broken but it's like fuck man I love her.\",\n \"Summary: Dated an abusive ex. Physically abused me and stabbed me once. Since the breakup I have made attempts to seek therapy and to lose weight. My parents meet both with no help and are seemingly sabotaging my attempts.\\n\\nPost: Hey reddit wall of text incoming long ass read \\n So I'm 20 and currently in my second year at college. \\n Around 2 months ago I was dumped by my girlfriend of 2 and a half years. Me and her were practically married, she lived with me and my family. She was severely bipolar, clinically diagnosed, and decided to be unmedicated. \\n She was abusive. Abusive as fuck guys. Simple arguments over little things would turn into full blown yelling usually leading her to punch me and pack her things and leave. She'd get almost fully packed then stop while I was begging her and unpack. \\n Around 6 months ago a major event happened when I decided to sing a song lyric outloud. She hates rap music but I was just daydreaming and said 'Everybody's somebody's everything, nobody's nothing'. Her response started with anger and yelling. It ended when she lunged at me with scissors and plunged them into my arm. They didn't go far in. I pulled them out and grabbed her and she calmed down. Saying how sorry she was and crying. I took this event as the time for her to get help and she wouldn't. I stayed stupidly. \\n Things continued badly, she admitted she had a crush on a coworker but promise nothing happened. That Christmas she half ass got me some simple presents while getting a mutual guy friend better things then she had gotten for me. I didn't think too much of it. \\n She forgot my birthday this year. She didn't even acknowledge it until my family brought out the cake. She had begun playing video games 18 hours a day and not sleeping much. \\n Literally the day of our 2 and a half year anniversary I found out she'd been messaging a guy she played games with. I flipped and drove off. We texted while I was in a parking lot and the argument towards her claiming it was my fault because I had gained weight (over the relarionship I gained 100 pounds). By the end of the argument I was begging her to give me a chance and went and got a gym membership the next day. \\n A few days later another argument happened when I wouldn't move out on Student loans. She left that day and went to her moms house. The following day she was set to come back but opted to go with her mom out. Come to find out she went and saw an ex yet still maintains nothing happened. She came home that night and seemed great. \\n The next morning I woke to her packing again and she left to her dads house 4 hours away. After a few days she came back. She delved more into gaming for the following week. \\n One day she didn't sleep at all. I woke up to find her still gaming and she went to our bed to take a nap. I then decided to get up and go run to get her coffee. The local place was closed that day so I ran an extra 30 minutes out and got her coffee and donuts. I came home and woke her up from a 2 hour nap and got the shower running. While in her shower I set up her desk and got the garbage off of it. \\n When she got out and got dressed I tried to talk to her. I asked if she could cut back on how much she gamed. Her response was to tell me she didn't love me and locked her door. She instantly started dating this guy from the game. \\n She maintained that she wanted to stay and demanded I act like nothing was wrong in front of my family. I agreed hoping she'd change her mind. \\n The next morning she didn't sleep again and I went to wake her up. She flipped on me. She started cussing me out and hitting me. I told her she needed to leave and she was floored. We called her mom who deemed that she needed to go to a mental hospital. My ex caught wind of it and broke down. I calmed her down saying I'd never let that happen and my mom reassured her she wouldn't let her. \\n Her mom came and I left the room with my mom. They started arguing and yelling and my mom went in to calm it down. She called her mom terrible things and said she never wanted to see her again. \\n Her mom was leaving and came up to me and said 'Andy(her nickname for me) you don't deserve this, you deserve better she's never going to get help'. This was amazing because her mom was never really fond of me because of things like my looks. \\n I went in there and helped her get in the shower and cleaned up her room again and put her stuff back. She said me and her would work on fixing this. \\n That night she didn't come to sleep again. I woke her up the next morning and it was the same cold person. She started yelling at me and cussing me out and then threw her phone at my head. My mom came in and told her to get out. She started packing and left. \\n Since the breakup I've been up and down. I'd have good days but break and text her. She'd play along for a couple hours like she missed me only to break my heart again. I'm feeling better now but I'm scared what the abuse will do to me in the future. I've posted before and people have pushed for me to get counselling. \\n I've asked my mom to look into it. She does not know about the physical abuse because I didn't really feel like telling her. She'd play along for a few minutes and promise to look into it but nothing ever came from it. I'm adamant about going and have made several attempts to get it set up. They are self employed and we have had lapses in our coverage recently and I'm trying to get filled in on it. She has made zero attempt to help me with this and tells me it's just normal emotions post a breakup. \\n Since the breakup I've been trying to lose weight. Eating right breakfast and lunch and going to the gym. My dad though likes to make dinner nightly and causes a big scene if I don't come. He doesn't make amendments to his dinner for me and pressures me to a second plate. Usually it's something fried and unhealthy. I've asked him if I could make my own meals and it's met with anger and he's pissed. \\n I don't know what to do with either situation and I can't really get any help from either. I've made attempts in both aspects but they ignore my attempts to reach the help I need. They're usually super supportive but they aren't taking my problems seriously.\",\n \"Summary: Need therapy to help with abusive ex problems and general depression. Mom who is in charge of Healthcare blows off my requests to get help.\\n\\nPost: I have recently been dumped by an abusive ex. She was excessively abusive. She hit me. She stabbed me twice over rap lyrics I said out loud. She was emotionally abusive as well, tore my self confidence down and made me feel like I was constantly wrong in every situation. \\n After posting on here and the inability to get over it after 2 months I've recently talked to my mom. She is currently in charge of all my Healthcare because I still live with them and have made an attempt to seek therapy to try and figure out more of this shit and get over it. \\n When I brought it up she brushed it off. She said that I'd be fine without it. Towards the beginning of the breakup she told me if I needed to go see someone we would get it done. Now she is completely pushing it off as if it's not important. \\n I'm not okay. I can't remove my mind from her. I'm purposefully fucking up at dates and being cold because I can only think about my ex. I am very depressed right now with zero energy to do anything. I'm failing classes. I'm not taking my job seriously. \\n I need help and she just keeps blowing it off. I've asked 3 times now with the same results.\",\n \"Summary: Situational Depression due to abusive ex dumping me. Listened to bread crumbs. Allowed my past to dictate dates with other girls. Failing classes in college because of the breakups effect. Lack of motivation to better myself.\\n\\nPost: I'm in a situational Depression I think. I've had factors out of my control affect me recently. \\n My girlfriend of 2 and a half years dumped me. She was very abusive throughout the relationship. She has also made it a goal post breakup to bread crumb as much as she can so she can confidently move on thinking I'll be there if she falls. \\n This breakup has kinda taken the wind out of my sails. I've went on some dates but can't even enjoy them because the whole time I'm thinking about my ex. \\n The abuse she had towards me is also affecting my confidence. She would hit me and such over small arguments. Stabbed me over a rap song. She also would comment about how bad I looked and was using that as an excuse to text guys behind my back. \\n Due to the breakup I also ended up failing one of my college classes and am on the verge of failing another I may not be able to catch up with. \\n I am clearly depressed due to just a lack of everything. I can't get myself excited for anything and I constantly dwell on my ex. I have goals to lose a bunch of weight but I have none of the motivation to go do it minus little spurts. I have no clue what to do to erupt out of this better.\",\n \"Summary: Situational Depression due to abusive ex dumping me. Listened to bread crumbs. Allowed my past to dictate dates with other girls. Failing classes in college because of the breakups effect. Lack of motivation to better myself.\\n\\nPost: I'm in a situational Depression I think. I've had factors out of my control affect me recently. \\n My girlfriend of 2 and a half years dumped me. She was very abusive throughout the relationship. She has also made it a goal post breakup to bread crumb as much as she can so she can confidently move on thinking I'll be there if she falls. \\n This breakup has kinda taken the wind out of my sails. I've went on some dates but can't even enjoy them because the whole time I'm thinking about my ex. \\n The abuse she had towards me is also affecting my confidence. She would hit me and such over small arguments. Stabbed me over a rap song. She also would comment about how bad I looked and was using that as an excuse to text guys behind my back. \\n Due to the breakup I also ended up failing one of my college classes and am on the verge of failing another I may not be able to catch up with. \\n I am clearly depressed due to just a lack of everything. I can't get myself excited for anything and I constantly dwell on my ex. I have goals to lose a bunch of weight but I have none of the motivation to go do it minus little spurts. I have no clue what to do to erupt out of this better.\",\n \"Summary: Ex destroyed my self confidence. How do I get back my confidence and motivation to better myself and not find myself in another situation like this?\\n\\nPost: My ex destroyed my self confidence. She made me feel terrible about myself. I don't miss her at this point but the pit in my stomach is from the feeling I'll never find another person. \\n Where has my self confidence gone? Prior to meeting her I was so confident. Now I'm like a shell. I can't keep myself in motivation to do anything that betters me. What can I do to just get the motivation to better myself honestly? Why did I find my worth in that terrible relationship?\",\n \"Summary: Ex destroyed my self confidence. How do I get back my confidence and motivation to better myself and not find myself in another situation like this?\\n\\nPost: My ex destroyed my self confidence. She made me feel terrible about myself. I don't miss her at this point but the pit in my stomach is from the feeling I'll never find another person. \\n Where has my self confidence gone? Prior to meeting her I was so confident. Now I'm like a shell. I can't keep myself in motivation to do anything that betters me. What can I do to just get the motivation to better myself honestly? Why did I find my worth in that terrible relationship?\",\n \"Summary: Situational Depression due to abusive ex dumping me. Listened to bread crumbs. Allowed my past to dictate dates with other girls. Failing classes in college because of the breakups effect. Lack of motivation to better myself.\\n\\nPost: I'm in a situational Depression I think. I've had factors out of my control affect me recently. \\n My girlfriend of 2 and a half years dumped me. She was very abusive throughout the relationship. She has also made it a goal post breakup to bread crumb as much as she can so she can confidently move on thinking I'll be there if she falls. \\n This breakup has kinda taken the wind out of my sails. I've went on some dates but can't even enjoy them because the whole time I'm thinking about my ex. \\n The abuse she had towards me is also affecting my confidence. She would hit me and such over small arguments. Stabbed me over a rap song. She also would comment about how bad I looked and was using that as an excuse to text guys behind my back. \\n Due to the breakup I also ended up failing one of my college classes and am on the verge of failing another I may not be able to catch up with. \\n I am clearly depressed due to just a lack of everything. I can't get myself excited for anything and I constantly dwell on my ex. I have goals to lose a bunch of weight but I have none of the motivation to go do it minus little spurts. I have no clue what to do to erupt out of this better. \\n I hate waking up daily missing her. When she clearly hasn't recognized my true worth. I know someone will but Jesus I miss her a lot. I wish I could hug her right now. It fucking sucks.\",\n \"Summary: Ex contacted to reconcile but I found out she had a sexual relationship and I don't know what to do\\n\\nPost: We broke up about 3 months ago. It was a bad breakup and I was starting to be past it. \\n She contacted to me wanting to fix us. We talked on the phone for 2 hours and seem okay. \\n It came out she had a relationship with another guy but recently broke it off because she realized she wanted me. When I heard this my heart dropped because it just hurt to hear. \\n She wants to fix it but take it slow. \\n I'm not sure if I want to fix it or what. I still love her and she seems sincere. But I'm so terrified she will dump me again and the other relarionship kinda hurts.\",\n \"Summary: Bipolar ex who hit and stabbed me dumped me 2 months ago. Instantly went into dating a guy she met online while she was still at my house. Contacted me post breakup but always doesn't fix shit. I've blocked her. I miss her terribly and I don't know what to do.\\n\\nPost: I was dumped almost 2 months ago. It was terrible. She kind of came out of nowhere with it. It wasn't reasonable. Post breakup she couldn't explain her reasons. I link the issue back to when she started smoking pot again. She stopped doing her college homework. Stopped caring about her job. She just smoked all day. She lived with me and my family. My family was oblivious to all the problems. \\n I noticed little things like her commenting about how other guys looked. She broke up with me for a day a couple months ago because she said she had a crush on a coworker, a friend of mine. It was devastating. But that night I took her back like an idiot. \\n One major fact is she a major bipolar. She had taken medicine for a couple weeks but then reverted back to none. She was abusive. Hit me a lot and stabbed me twice. She tore down my self confidence a ton. \\n We were together for 2 and a half years. We had a whole house put together. We had a bunch of animals. The morning we broke up she instantly went to dating a guy she met on a video game. It fucking destroyed me. She left the following day and went 4 hours away to her dads house. \\n Post the break up she's contacted me a few times saying she misses me and loves me. But the next day she denies it and goes back to the terrible her. I've blocked her for 11 days now and haven't heard a thing. \\n I have went to the gym and done things for myself. I went on a date a week ago but no matter how great this girl was i couldn't wait to get home because I was just thinking about my ex. I think about her daily. It has not gotten easier. What do I need to do to get over her? I've tried tons of things but I still miss her a ton.\",\n \"Summary: Bipolar ex who hit and stabbed me dumped me 2 months ago. Instantly went into dating a guy she met online while she was still at my house. Contacted me post breakup but always doesn't fix shit. I've blocked her. I miss her terribly and I don't know what to do.\\n\\nPost: I was dumped almost 2 months ago. It was terrible. She kind of came out of nowhere with it. It wasn't reasonable. Post breakup she couldn't explain her reasons. I link the issue back to when she started smoking pot again. She stopped doing her college homework. Stopped caring about her job. She just smoked all day. She lived with me and my family. My family was oblivious to all the problems. \\n I noticed little things like her commenting about how other guys looked. She broke up with me for a day a couple months ago because she said she had a crush on a coworker, a friend of mine. It was devastating. But that night I took her back like an idiot. \\n One major fact is she a major bipolar. She had taken medicine for a couple weeks but then reverted back to none. She was abusive. Hit me a lot and stabbed me twice. She tore down my self confidence a ton. \\n We were together for 2 and a half years. We had a whole house put together. We had a bunch of animals. The morning we broke up she instantly went to dating a guy she met on a video game. It fucking destroyed me. She left the following day and went 4 hours away to her dads house. \\n Post the break up she's contacted me a few times saying she misses me and loves me. But the next day she denies it and goes back to the terrible her. I've blocked her for 11 days now and haven't heard a thing. \\n I have went to the gym and done things for myself. I went on a date a week ago but no matter how great this girl was i couldn't wait to get home because I was just thinking about my ex. I think about her daily. It has not gotten easier. What do I need to do to get over her? I've tried tons of things but I still miss her a ton.\",\n \"Summary: Bipolar ex who hit and stabbed me dumped me 2 months ago. Instantly went into dating a guy she met online while she was still at my house. Contacted me post breakup but always doesn't fix shit. I've blocked her. I miss her terribly and I don't know what to do.\\n\\nPost: I was dumped almost 2 months ago. It was terrible. She kind of came out of nowhere with it. It wasn't reasonable. Post breakup she couldn't explain her reasons. I link the issue back to when she started smoking pot again. She stopped doing her college homework. Stopped caring about her job. She just smoked all day. She lived with me and my family. My family was oblivious to all the problems. \\n I noticed little things like her commenting about how other guys looked. She broke up with me for a day a couple months ago because she said she had a crush on a coworker, a friend of mine. It was devastating. But that night I took her back like an idiot. \\n One major fact is she a major bipolar. She had taken medicine for a couple weeks but then reverted back to none. She was abusive. Hit me a lot and stabbed me twice. She tore down my self confidence a ton. \\n We were together for 2 and a half years. We had a whole house put together. We had a bunch of animals. The morning we broke up she instantly went to dating a guy she met on a video game. It fucking destroyed me. She left the following day and went 4 hours away to her dads house. \\n Post the break up she's contacted me a few times saying she misses me and loves me. But the next day she denies it and goes back to the terrible her. I've blocked her for 11 days now and haven't heard a thing. \\n I have went to the gym and done things for myself. I went on a date a week ago but no matter how great this girl was i couldn't wait to get home because I was just thinking about my ex. I think about her daily. It has not gotten easier. What do I need to do to get over her? I've tried tons of things but I still miss her a ton.\",\n \"Summary: Contacted bipolar abusive ex. Talks go well. Restart and try to rebuild. After 4 hours she contacts saying she has a bf she met on a game and that she can't fix it with me. Shouldn't have contacted her. Heartbroken all over again.\\n\\nPost: My ex is terrible. She physically and emotionally abused me. She is an extreme bipolar and narcissist. We've been broken up for 2 months. \\n I've had a terrible last 3 days. I broke yesterday and emailed her against my best judgement. She emailed back. \\n The talks go okay and we end up exchanging snapchats saying we will restart. We talk for a little then she goes cold. About 3 hours later she messages me saying she can't do this anymore. She said she's dating someone she met on a video game. She also said that she didn't want to go back into the same relationship. \\n We would have not been the same relationship. I changed for the better. She hasn't. Like a drug I felt great when I was talking to her. Now she's went back to the terrible person who broke my heart. Everyone said she'd do this to me. I didn't believe it. It feels so terrible. I'm up at 4 am crying my eyes out. Help me guys.\",\n \"Summary: Contacted bipolar abusive ex. Talks go well. Restart and try to rebuild. After 4 hours she contacts saying she has a bf she met on a game and that she can't fix it with me. Shouldn't have contacted her. Heartbroken all over again.\\n\\nPost: My ex is terrible. She physically and emotionally abused me. She is an extreme bipolar and narcissist. We've been broken up for 2 months. \\n I've had a terrible last 3 days. I broke yesterday and emailed her against my best judgement. She emailed back. \\n The talks go okay and we end up exchanging snapchats saying we will restart. We talk for a little then she goes cold. About 3 hours later she messages me saying she can't do this anymore. She said she's dating someone she met on a video game. She also said that she didn't want to go back into the same relationship. \\n We would have not been the same relationship. I changed for the better. She hasn't. Like a drug I felt great when I was talking to her. Now she's went back to the terrible person who broke my heart. Everyone said she'd do this to me. I didn't believe it. It feels so terrible. I'm up at 4 am crying my eyes out. Help me guys.\",\n \"Summary: Broke things off with my ex and now I feel dead inside.\\n\\nPost: She treated me like shit. The first day we seemed okay and we were talking great. Then she started not texting me for hours at a time. \\n Today I had enough. I told her I'm done with this shit. But I still feel so sad. I feel terrible. I'm about to go do a speech in class and I'm on the verge of tears.\",\n \"Summary: Recognize that I've been obsessed with my abusive ex who dumped me. I accept it was a bad relationship but I don't know how to stop holding on to the relationship.\\n\\nPost: I've been complaining about being dumped for a fair amount of time now. I've been allowing bread crumbs to rule my life. \\n She was abusive to me. Hit me, stabbed me twice, and was overall controlling and rude to me. She'd tell me who I could hang out with. She was extremely bipolar and would flip over small issues. The first time she stabbed me was actually over me singing a rap lyric. She after several months of commenting on the looks of other people she's been able to make me feel no self confidence. It affects me tremendously. I'm allowing her abuse to me to rule my life. I wake up every morning with a pit in my stomach wondering why I was never good enough. \\n My actions post being dumped are definitely obsessive. I was obsessed with what she was doing and that she was moving on so quickly. I broke no contact occasionally, as recently as yesterday. She would basically give me 5 seconds of hope just to pull the rug out from under me. She'd say all this loving and nice things just to end it with, 'I'm enjoying being single when I'm done with it I'll consider taking you back'. Making it seem like I was the one in the wrong in the relationship. \\n I need to get in control of my life. I can't live this way. I just don't know how to get her off my mind. No matter what activity I think of her. My mind can not escape the want to get back with her. First love and all that bullshit. 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fantasticsid | Generate the content for a reddit post unlikely. | Drug testing kits test for a reasonably low proportion of metabolites in your urine, because there's not much there in the grand scheme of things, especially after a day or two. On the assumption that your wad contains the same proportion of metabolites as your piss does, a reasonably small concentration of metabolite... | Drug testing kits test for a reasonably low proportion of metabolites in your urine, because there's not much there in the grand scheme of things, especially after a day or two. On the assumption that your wad contains the same proportion of metabolites as your piss does, a reasonably small concentration of metabolite... | [
"Summary: too much work, too little reward IMO\n\nPost: Trying to use a GPU as a universal computer severely limits your performance. Branching on GPUs is a hack, simply put; you only ever get anything approximating theoretical performance is when you're applying a transformation between one or more input buff... | 47 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,200 |
james_3000 | Generate the content for a reddit post This has nothing to do with Democrats or the President. The circumstances for a party flip were there. There will be a primary and a strong likely Jewish Democrat will emerge. The district will go back to D in 2012. | I don't think so. This is a Democratic voting district with a large Jewish population. They haven't had a Republican since the 1920's IIRC. Some notable reps are Chuck Schumer and Geraldine Ferraro. Democrats may not take back the house but this reminds me of Joseph Cao(R) beating a Rep. involved in a scandal then ... | I don't think so. This is a Democratic voting district with a large Jewish population. They haven't had a Republican since the 1920's IIRC. Some notable reps are Chuck Schumer and Geraldine Ferraro. Democrats may not take back the house but this reminds me of Joseph Cao(R) beating a Rep. involved in a scandal then ... | [
"Summary: uhh...umm.... Charlize Theron isn't African American.\n\nPost: Cut it out already people. It's not cute. \n Everybody knows that when we say \"African-American\" in the USA we mainly mean descendants of African slaves in America who don't know what country their ancestors come from. But also it includes... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,201 |
Puppy_stomper | Generate the content for a reddit post The seed of Nurgle, god of disease and pestilence, broke through, dooming what was left of the porcelain god. | I always like Hamburger Helper, until the fateful night I had tried the Nacho Supreme.
It started like any other, breaking out the beautiful box with the wonderful glove on the front; I cracked open the box and got the contents together.
Let it simmer for a while.
I finally got my plate, scooped some of this, what ... | I always like Hamburger Helper, until the fateful night I had tried the Nacho Supreme.
It started like any other, breaking out the beautiful box with the wonderful glove on the front; I cracked open the box and got the contents together.
Let it simmer for a while.
I finally got my plate, scooped some of this, what ... | [
"Summary: League for faster paced, grind centric gameplay, Dota for long thought out gameplay.\n\nPost: Ooh! I love comparing these games. I've sunk probably around 500 hours into League, and after picking up Dota I'm almost at 100. \n League definitely feels more like a fighting game. It's all about comboing on th... | 40 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,202 |
uninvitedthirteenth | Generate the content for a reddit post If you’re interested, subscribe to /r/90daysgoal. Day 1 is January 26th. There will be informational posts throughout the first couple weeks to get everyone started toward their goals. We'll have a progress/recovery week at the end of each month. The final day will be May 5th. Som... | About three years ago, a group of Redditors decided to change their lives at /r/90daysgoal. We just wrapped up Round 15!
With fifteen successful rounds under our (much smaller) belts, we’re excited to start Round 16 and we’re hoping others will join in.
What 90days is and what it isn’t
This isn’t a set diet or ex... | About three years ago, a group of Redditors decided to change their lives at /r/90daysgoal. We just wrapped up Round 15!
With fifteen successful rounds under our (much smaller) belts, we’re excited to start Round 16 and we’re hoping others will join in.
What 90days is and what it isn’t
This isn’t a set diet or ex... | [
"Summary: If you’re interested, subscribe to [r/90daysgoal]( Day 1 is August 13th. There will be informational posts throughout the first couple weeks to get everyone started toward their goals. We'll have a progress/recovery week at the end of each month. The final day will be November 20th. I hope we’ll all have ... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,203 |
elduderino01 | Generate the content for a reddit post i can vouch for foreskin not being any sort of hygenic issue, and it's the part on my body that i like to have touched the most. more than the head, base of the shaft, balls, or choad. the foreskin baby, it's where its at! | dude. you are so waaay off base. the presence of foreskin has no bearing on whether or not you can acheive or maintain erections longer or faster. and while i'm sure you enjoy sex, imagine what it would feel like if you had super sensitive skin wrapped around the bottom of your head. like super super sensitive.
whene... | dude. you are so waaay off base. the presence of foreskin has no bearing on whether or not you can acheive or maintain erections longer or faster. and while i'm sure you enjoy sex, imagine what it would feel like if you had super sensitive skin wrapped around the bottom of your head. like super super sensitive.
whene... | [
"Summary: Treasures\" rules) \n EDIT why are people downvoting me? if you downvoted me and arent saying why, you're a loser and hater.\n\nPost: in my defense, i was in vegas this weekend and only got to watch about 15% of the football i would normally. as well, i had Wisky as my anchor on all 5 parlays i made. so... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,204 |
daveshow07 | Generate the content for a reddit post That cracked article is terrible, and I would encourage people to do their own research. Friends and people in general will make their own decisions about their life and they sometimes might not be in line with your expectations. Sometimes their decisions leave them in an unfortun... | Perhaps you should try reading the studies yourself rather than relying on filtered information from the writers at cracked. This article generalizes and removes many arguments from context. It has been posed that California alone would reap billions in direct tax revenue from excise tax and sales tax alone.
[Califo... | Perhaps you should try reading the studies yourself rather than relying on filtered information from the writers at cracked. This article generalizes and removes many arguments from context. It has been posed that California alone would reap billions in direct tax revenue from excise tax and sales tax alone.
[Califo... | [
"Summary: IMO much of current research on THC is an apples to oranges comparison to smoked or vaporized marijuana, considering a large amount of research (at least that people use for arguments) concerns isolated THC, does not consider the numerous other chemical compounds, and their apparent interactions, inherent... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,205 |
Dabok | Generate the content for a reddit post Do what you have to do for the right reasons. If you think you can bottle up your feelings for as long as you know her, not bothered if she gets a partner without even trying, then you can just "set your feelings aside". If not, then I think it's still not a bad move to tell her h... | Hmmm....this is tough for me to answer, to be honest. I typically go for the "Shoot for it" route. I'm still tempted to tell you to go for it, just like I usually do, but... she has stated that she's not straight... which means that your chances are virtually much lower.
Furthermore, even if this weren't the case, th... | Hmmm....this is tough for me to answer, to be honest. I typically go for the "Shoot for it" route. I'm still tempted to tell you to go for it, just like I usually do, but... she has stated that she's not straight... which means that your chances are virtually much lower.
Furthermore, even if this weren't the case, th... | [
"Summary: I'm so casual I don't look at numbers and pay little heed to \"nerfs\" or anything like that and still enjoy shaman ever since I've started playing one (WotLK)\n\nPost: Hummm.... maybe, for once, I can advocate for ignorance. \n Why do I say this? Because I'm a shaman player (mainly restoration and enha... | 48 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,206 |
Player13 | Generate the content for a reddit post English and the Latin alphabet have an adaptability and versatility that are unmatched, even moreso now that it's so widespread.
Source: I speak English, French, Chinese. | About the English language, part of its dominance, I think, comes from the versatility of the Alphabet coupled with the lack of strict grammatical rules (compared to 'masculine' & 'feminine' nouns in, say, the French language. even though it also uses the Latin Alphabet, it has a higher 'burden of knowledge').
Logogr... | About the English language, part of its dominance, I think, comes from the versatility of the Alphabet coupled with the lack of strict grammatical rules (compared to 'masculine' & 'feminine' nouns in, say, the French language. even though it also uses the Latin Alphabet, it has a higher 'burden of knowledge').
Logogr... | [
"Summary: Who's supplying the plastic to this energy company? And is there enough 'excess plastic' that's not usable in manufacturing, for this plastic-into-energy system to be copied reliably around the world?\n\nPost: Quality waste product\" is an oxymoron, but when you consider that to get plastic from straight ... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,207 |
zalifer | Generate the content for a reddit post Complete a heart, and the NPC at the location of the heart on the map becomes a karma vendor. | Each heart is associated with a particular NPC. You may never see them or talk to them, but they are there, with the heart over their heads. They "give the quests" so to speak, being the ones you help, or who are telling you what needs to be done in that area. They may also provide some deeper background information on... | Each heart is associated with a particular NPC. You may never see them or talk to them, but they are there, with the heart over their heads. They "give the quests" so to speak, being the ones you help, or who are telling you what needs to be done in that area. They may also provide some deeper background information on... | [
"Summary: Only playing content you have paid for will not change in any way. \n You will be able to partially use content you have not paid for, including joining servers running that content, and being a passenger in un-purchased vehicles.\n\nPost: You just got the DLC partially for free. \n You can join servers w... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,208 |
zellyman | Generate the content for a reddit post You are mad about a lot of legitimate things but where you place the blame doesn't follow logic, only racism. | Our bankrupt ruined medicaid system doesn't matter
Hey, the people that love these fierce anti-immigration laws are the same people holding back our healthcare and welfare programs, imagine that.
> Driving down wages for poor americans doesn't matter.
Why do you hate capitalism? Also one only has to take a look ... | Our bankrupt ruined medicaid system doesn't matter
Hey, the people that love these fierce anti-immigration laws are the same people holding back our healthcare and welfare programs, imagine that.
> Driving down wages for poor americans doesn't matter.
Why do you hate capitalism? Also one only has to take a look ... | [
"Summary: The entire goal is to make the F-15 go defensive so you can close range for a higher pK shot, while also trying to break lock on his incoming missiles by a combination of jamming, chaff, and beaming the missile on your 3/9 line.\n\nPost: Your missiles outrange theirs, budget at least 2 missiles for a BVR ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,209 |
Jsnave | Generate the content for a reddit post I was confused about whether the guy I was seeing was into me or not. On our date tonight he kissed me....SCORE! | Here's the first post](
So date tonight went great. This guy can cook! Add that to the fact that he's got a great job, a fun personality, and seems to have a level head on his shoulders - I'm hooked. But I guess the question on my mind tonight was "Is he?"
Dinner went pretty much like last night - lots of fun ba... | Here's the first post](
So date tonight went great. This guy can cook! Add that to the fact that he's got a great job, a fun personality, and seems to have a level head on his shoulders - I'm hooked. But I guess the question on my mind tonight was "Is he?"
Dinner went pretty much like last night - lots of fun ba... | [
"Summary: calling it a Civil Union doesn't make it any different than your church marriage in the eyes of the law, and I think it's petty to call it something different because marriage doesn't just belong to you.\n\nPost: 1) The guy was the one who was quoting Leviticus. I think George was just replying to that o... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,210 |
ravenbear | Generate the content for a reddit post Basic how to use a pump resources or guide. | I'm looking in to upgrading by adding a third vessel and pump to my system. Now its a two vessel labor intensive system. Is there a good guide or resource on pumps, fittings and hoses you all suggest? I've done my Google foo but honestly need something that would lay it out real nice and simple. I'm not super handy a... | I'm looking in to upgrading by adding a third vessel and pump to my system. Now its a two vessel labor intensive system. Is there a good guide or resource on pumps, fittings and hoses you all suggest? I've done my Google foo but honestly need something that would lay it out real nice and simple. I'm not super handy a... | [
"Summary: Bottles for wort chiller and swamp coolers advice please!\n\nPost: I am getting ready to BIAB a Hef (wyeast 3068)and an APA (US 05) this weekend. I think I have the whole process pretty figured out with 2 exceptions. First I do not have a chiller of any variety. I would do an ice bath but due to a recent... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,211 |
opallix | Generate the content for a reddit post best sub $80 keyboard, pref red or brown switches | I'm looking to buy a mechanical keyboard for a friend. I looked at this subreddit's [price]( guide, but I haven't been able to make a conclusion.
I have used a razer blackwidow in the past, and right now I'm using a corsair vengeance k70. I don't know much about mechanical keyboards, but from my experience, I (and I ... | I'm looking to buy a mechanical keyboard for a friend. I looked at this subreddit's [price]( guide, but I haven't been able to make a conclusion.
I have used a razer blackwidow in the past, and right now I'm using a corsair vengeance k70. I don't know much about mechanical keyboards, but from my experience, I (and I ... | [
"Summary: I suggest you read the post, but to recap: I think that your best bet to is to focus on a very small pool of champs in ranked. That pool is \n for ADC: jinx, trist, twitch \n for Support: Karma \n Those specific ADC champs have the advantage of being able to carry the shit out of bronze. Champions like si... | 27 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,212 |
niccig | Generate the content for a reddit post Let him see you at your worst, you'll find out if he's worth keeping. | Lol, this is almost my exact experience. Drank too much at a party, he held my hair while I was puking out the side of the car, helped me get my roommate up to our room (I went back to his apartment), and took my makeup off/took my contacts out for me. This was possibly our fourth or fifth date. In May we'll have been ... | Lol, this is almost my exact experience. Drank too much at a party, he held my hair while I was puking out the side of the car, helped me get my roommate up to our room (I went back to his apartment), and took my makeup off/took my contacts out for me. This was possibly our fourth or fifth date. In May we'll have been ... | [
"Summary: Dog wouldn't let my mother in the house until I got home.\n\nPost: A few years ago we adopted a 9 year old Great Dane. After a few months my mom came to visit, and I was planning on meeting her at my house. I left a key for her just in case, and told her to let herself in if the dog didn't mind (we had D... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,213 |
Gertiel | Generate the content for a reddit post No, not directly. All electronic and cell phone contact with the President is going to filter through his people for reasons. I'm sure Michelle can just go down and talk to him as long as he's not in a closed meeting, though. | Not sure I can explain this in a way you'd understand.
Merkel doesn't email Obama. Merkel's people email Obama's people and long before the two of them get together for a chat, the terms of the meeting are established. What's going to be discussed, what's off limits, and like that. Similarly, Biden's people contact O... | Not sure I can explain this in a way you'd understand.
Merkel doesn't email Obama. Merkel's people email Obama's people and long before the two of them get together for a chat, the terms of the meeting are established. What's going to be discussed, what's off limits, and like that. Similarly, Biden's people contact O... | [
"Summary: Troll Dad taught me Kudzu was spaghetti plants. Much amusement was had when I helpfully explained pictures of trees overgrown with vines. \n Edit:format issues\n\nPost: When I was a small child of around six or at most seven, my father woke me on a family car trip across the US to see the magnificent spag... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,214 |
icheckessay | Generate the content for a reddit post Nope. | Didnt one guy calculate exactly the contrary a few weeks ago?
Basic income of 10.000$ a year for the entire population of the USA (320,064,285 minus people below 20 (because they had stats for that in wikipedia, like 25%) gives us about 240 million peoples)
so 240m x10.000 = 2.400.000.000.000, that's 2.4Trillion do... | Didnt one guy calculate exactly the contrary a few weeks ago?
Basic income of 10.000$ a year for the entire population of the USA (320,064,285 minus people below 20 (because they had stats for that in wikipedia, like 25%) gives us about 240 million peoples)
so 240m x10.000 = 2.400.000.000.000, that's 2.4Trillion do... | [
"Summary: The MAG one is long because i had to explain the game, but portal 2 and resistance arent THAT long, so go read those (or dont, im a piece of text not a cop)\n\nPost: Now since i couldnt decide which game to give a review for, i'd like to write my three favourite games, in no particular order as they're mo... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,215 |
degeso | Generate the content for a reddit post Keep legendaries BoA, but remove the two hour trade window between players in the game at the time of finding said legendary. | So everyone agrees that the AH was pretty much only good in theory, and when actually implemented it made the game not worth playing, just find all the upgrades you want in the AH. Coupled with the abysmal drop rates of pre-2.0, and the game was very unrewarding.
Now, we have removed the AH, and with it came smart lo... | So everyone agrees that the AH was pretty much only good in theory, and when actually implemented it made the game not worth playing, just find all the upgrades you want in the AH. Coupled with the abysmal drop rates of pre-2.0, and the game was very unrewarding.
Now, we have removed the AH, and with it came smart lo... | [
"Summary: MUSHI \n EDIT: Somebody should show Mushi this thread, he deserves to know how highly the community holds him after TI3. Placing third over Chinese juggernauts like iG and DK is a phenomenal feat for him, Orange, and SEA DotA.\n\nPost: Gotta go with Mushi, the M-God. The player who had the most variety a... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,216 |
steelcitykid | Generate the content for a reddit post Cat breaks into my closet and scares the shit out of me. | A few months back I woke up in the early hours of the morning, still dark out. I hear this shuffling about, like a knocking of sorta. Then I hear what I thought sounded like running. I jumped out of bed with the intent to do damage to whomever had broken into my place.
So as I come out of my groggy state I hear my c... | A few months back I woke up in the early hours of the morning, still dark out. I hear this shuffling about, like a knocking of sorta. Then I hear what I thought sounded like running. I jumped out of bed with the intent to do damage to whomever had broken into my place.
So as I come out of my groggy state I hear my c... | [
"Summary: This may sound like a plug for Ironmind but their handgrips and bands really turned my hand pain around. They sell a variety of strength levels to get you started and I'm a firm believer in hand/grip strength as well as general hand health. I think it's foolish to think that playing games for a huge chunk... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,217 |
gunner85 | Generate the content for a reddit post both the protesters and the driver are morons, I never said there WAS an ambulance, and I have absolutely no need, want, or desire to provide you with "evidence that an ambulance was delayed or blocked", as the entire discussion about an ambulance is purely hypothetical. | I got about three sentences in and realized that you probably had to use a dictionary and thesaurus to come up with some of those big fancy words. Don't try to play the "I'm right because I'm smart" card, it won't work.
>In this case there is however, no substantial risk of being a direct cause of killing someone,
... | I got about three sentences in and realized that you probably had to use a dictionary and thesaurus to come up with some of those big fancy words. Don't try to play the "I'm right because I'm smart" card, it won't work.
>In this case there is however, no substantial risk of being a direct cause of killing someone,
... | [
"Summary: Make the first move. Kiss him already.\n\nPost: Who cares if he thinks you're assertive? If you want something, go for it. \n I read an interesting one on this subreddit a few days ago, might work for you. Hold up your hand to \"compare hand sizes\" or some BS. Do the comparison thing, then simply \"forge... | 35 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,218 |
gnuworldorder | Generate the content for a reddit post stop being an asshole and dont cloud chase in public | honestly this needs to happen in more places. I went to a show last night and it got really annoying when 2 jerks in the front kept on blowing big ass clouds in the air blocking everyones view. if people are going to be jerks and use a mech mod in public and blow 7 foot clouds every 45 seconds we are going to get vapin... | honestly this needs to happen in more places. I went to a show last night and it got really annoying when 2 jerks in the front kept on blowing big ass clouds in the air blocking everyones view. if people are going to be jerks and use a mech mod in public and blow 7 foot clouds every 45 seconds we are going to get vapin... | [
"Summary: its not an employeers responsibility to pay someone for their own mistakes. it is their responsibility to at least pay them the minimum amount of money to live.\n\nPost: so do you agree that someone that is irresponsible enough to not use one of the literally dozens of ways to prevent pregnancy in order t... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,219 |
Rixxer | Generate the content for a reddit post I had "rich" friends w/ slightly older brothers (also friends) by coincidence.
Wow, did I really just type all that? You don't have to read it if you don't want. | xD I noticed later in life (I'm only 19, but I had been friends with them for a few years) that for some reason most of my friends were rich/well off. I never went toward rich kids or anything like that, so I thought it was kind of funny.
Now that I think of it, they all also had older (slightly) brothers that I was ... | xD I noticed later in life (I'm only 19, but I had been friends with them for a few years) that for some reason most of my friends were rich/well off. I never went toward rich kids or anything like that, so I thought it was kind of funny.
Now that I think of it, they all also had older (slightly) brothers that I was ... | [
"Summary: don't do drugs\n\nPost: I didn't like Requiem for a Dream. I mean, I didn't think it was bad at all, but it didn't have the same effect on me as it seems it did most people. I guess I already knew how terrible it could get, so when it did I was just like \"well, duh..\"",
"Summary: You're a fucking moro... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,220 |
IIIZhouYu | Generate the content for a reddit post it doesn't matter much. | Protein before or after workout or both are both good options and are unlikely to make any sort of meaningful difference to your gains, assuming you are intaking enough protein every day in total.
There was an [article]( recently claiming protein later in the day could make a reasonable amount of difference, but the ... | Protein before or after workout or both are both good options and are unlikely to make any sort of meaningful difference to your gains, assuming you are intaking enough protein every day in total.
There was an [article]( recently claiming protein later in the day could make a reasonable amount of difference, but the ... | [
"Summary: If you want to be health-conscious while drinking, focus on enjoying the two or three drinks you have, rather than drinking to get drunk.\n\nPost: Bleh, this attitude kind of bugs me. It makes sense to be aware of the calories you are drinking, but the infographic perpetuates the importance of getting dru... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,221 |
jasenlee | Generate the content for a reddit post An American telling off a European who has a superior attitude.
P.S. I'm sure I made some grammar errors. I'm not coming back to fix them. It'll give you something to pick on. | Most of what you said is correct and in general conversation I wouldn't disagree with. Where I take issue is your aim at Americans.
Is it because Europeans have a deep seeded resentment of our success?
Is it because you feel like you are superior with your social programs? Always pointing out how we spend so mu... | Most of what you said is correct and in general conversation I wouldn't disagree with. Where I take issue is your aim at Americans.
Is it because Europeans have a deep seeded resentment of our success?
Is it because you feel like you are superior with your social programs? Always pointing out how we spend so mu... | [
"Summary: If you have a better solution please let me know. \n EDIT: Okay, so Bearvivant and I just kissed and made up via PM and now we are [planning on getting married and having babies]( 500 of them! Babies everywhere!\n\nPost: It's really not as devious as that. I've had a really long day so I hope I don't come... | 43 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,222 |
dmetzcher | Generate the content for a reddit post You're clearly not a Mac user, or, if you are, you are severely uninformed about the products you've chosen to use and the company that sold them to you. | Jobs makes all macs under $5000 non-upgradeable.
Not true. First, your pricing is way off. When was the last time you looked at the prices for various Mac models? The Mac Pro, which is 100% upgradeable (I know because I happen to own one... do you own a Mac?) is less priced at half the cost you stated. If you are ... | Jobs makes all macs under $5000 non-upgradeable.
Not true. First, your pricing is way off. When was the last time you looked at the prices for various Mac models? The Mac Pro, which is 100% upgradeable (I know because I happen to own one... do you own a Mac?) is less priced at half the cost you stated. If you are ... | [
"Summary: You're rude, obnoxious, and have no clue how to have a normal, rational, mutually respectful conversation with others. Your comment history makes this point better than I can put into words. Others have also pointed this out to you. Go troll elsewhere.\n\nPost: Why are you always looking for a fight? Near... | 37 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,223 |
patienceinbee | Generate the content for a reddit post No, it is not co-opting — particularly when there were trans people who were coming to this conclusion on their own independent of interacting with people who have intersex bodies. In the end, we are all coerced into prescribed gendered placements. When the prescription runs a... | Some^ [who?] have suggested, and I'm somewhat inclined to agree, that the use of CA*AB to refer to transpeople is really co-opting the experience of the intersex^[what?]. Medical intervention is certainly a much more coercive event than the near-universal gender socialization most babies experience.
Except, quite bl... | Some^ [who?] have suggested, and I'm somewhat inclined to agree, that the use of CA*AB to refer to transpeople is really co-opting the experience of the intersex^[what?]. Medical intervention is certainly a much more coercive event than the near-universal gender socialization most babies experience.
Except, quite bl... | [
"Summary: When reproductive justice exists, gatekeeping does not.\n\nPost: Thank you for asking this question, and forgive my only arriving to it now. \n The short answer: Gatekeeping is a system of control. Or, more plainly, it is control. \n The long answer: \n Gatekeeping is an institutionally-governed instrumen... | 161 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,224 |
Stanislawiii | Generate the content for a reddit post medicine was cheap in the civil war era because it was barely science at that point.
Republicans don't worry a whole lot about what works either. There's never a bad time for a tax cut, nor a good regulation or a bad time to build up or use the military. If the tax receipts we... | My problem is that the same points can literally be made of any entrenched ideology.
Unfortunately celebrating the death of people you didn't like politically is common enough. How many times did I hear celebratory statements when someone famous on the left died. The conservatives had great fun when Ted Kennedy d... | My problem is that the same points can literally be made of any entrenched ideology.
Unfortunately celebrating the death of people you didn't like politically is common enough. How many times did I hear celebratory statements when someone famous on the left died. The conservatives had great fun when Ted Kennedy d... | [
"Summary: It's not just the national funding, districts are in competition for resources, and if a good teacher can get more money in a rich area than a poor area, she's going to go where the money is.\n\nPost: It IS about money. If you're in a poor district, luxuries like enough textbooks for each student, let al... | 41 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,225 |
BukkRogerrs | Generate the content for a reddit post cisgendered heteronormative white males are the devil, and by their very nature, they're racist, misogynist, rapists who control the world and are responsible for all bad things that happen. We're racist, and sexist, too, but we don't call it racism or sexism if it's against the r... | I used to think this, too. Everyone has, at some point, because everyone's discovery of SRS goes through the same series of realizations. At first, one is appalled that such a group of radical left, misandrist, sexist, racist, fascists actually made their own subreddit to simultaneously circlejerk on reddit, and cry ab... | I used to think this, too. Everyone has, at some point, because everyone's discovery of SRS goes through the same series of realizations. At first, one is appalled that such a group of radical left, misandrist, sexist, racist, fascists actually made their own subreddit to simultaneously circlejerk on reddit, and cry ab... | [
"Summary: There are no Boston Seltics. There are only Boston Keltics.\n\nPost: Celtic. \n Many argue that \"Seltic\" is an acceptable pronunciation of it. It may be \"acceptable\", but it is not correct. The S sound is a bastardization of the original word by the English, derived from the Latin Celtæ, in which the ... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,226 |
Moruitelda | Generate the content for a reddit post Jesus Christ, stop.
Oh, and we do have a pretty stellar track record when it comes to polishing. Fred Jackson (UDFA), Stevie Johnson (7th Rd.), Kyle Williams (5th Rd.)... | Oh, JESUS CHRIST. Fucking hell, people. Man the fuck up and stop acting like children every time the Bills make a roster move. Yes, the Bills have been bad. Yes, hope hurts. No, it's not reasonable to look at signing young depth negatively.
They're backups. They're not even first string backups. These are guys that w... | Oh, JESUS CHRIST. Fucking hell, people. Man the fuck up and stop acting like children every time the Bills make a roster move. Yes, the Bills have been bad. Yes, hope hurts. No, it's not reasonable to look at signing young depth negatively.
They're backups. They're not even first string backups. These are guys that w... | [
"Summary: It's not available outside of grant-funded areas, they hope to expand, as additional funding becomes available , but have no plans for it at present. \n E: Sorry for the aggression, but I hate being called a liar by someone who is laboring under a misapprehension of fact.\n\nPost: uh, screw you? \n From ... | 67 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,227 |
Ilnez | Generate the content for a reddit post Is the Timewalking trinket good? Is Bonus armor the be all-end-all? Is Stamina something to look for? | Hey guys,
I'm a new (see extremely undergeared) Death Knight tank. I'm looking to get into tanking actual content (which is what I want to do) instead of just DPS'ing it. That being said, having no Trinkets/armor rings is making me feel really behind.
So I've been looking around and it makes me realize I have no re... | Hey guys,
I'm a new (see extremely undergeared) Death Knight tank. I'm looking to get into tanking actual content (which is what I want to do) instead of just DPS'ing it. That being said, having no Trinkets/armor rings is making me feel really behind.
So I've been looking around and it makes me realize I have no re... | [
"Summary: Best buy tried to screw me and got burnt.\n\nPost: Best buy. \n I've actually been waiting for a while to tell this story. So two years ago and a few months I bought an iPod from best buy and put a 2 year warranty on it. Well two weeks before the warranty was over it bricked so I brought it back. They sen... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,228 |
Dakrys | Generate the content for a reddit post Just read it, okay? WBC ain't legit and there's a way to stop them but everyone needs to be on board with it. | Let's not forget that gay marriage is not the only thing they protest.
"God hates fags." (Everywhere.)
"God hates jews." (Outside of a holocaust memorial museum.)
"Thank God for dead soldiers." (At a Memorial day service in a cemetery.)
"1,2,3,4, God hates the marine corps."
Fuck, they even threatened to prot... | Let's not forget that gay marriage is not the only thing they protest.
"God hates fags." (Everywhere.)
"God hates jews." (Outside of a holocaust memorial museum.)
"Thank God for dead soldiers." (At a Memorial day service in a cemetery.)
"1,2,3,4, God hates the marine corps."
Fuck, they even threatened to prot... | [
"Summary: Read my awkward story, jackass.\n\nPost: Oh shit. I've got this. \n I dated a girl in high school and early college from my hometown. We ended up going to different colleges, and hers started a week earlier than mine did. So freshmen year, after she moved in, I was helping her dad out with some stuff. I c... | 36 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,229 |
Taniwha_NZ | Generate the content for a reddit post Medical Marijuana has been implemented badly, and it's given conservatives an easy way to shoot weed advocates down. We need to do a reboot on medicinal marijuana, then focus more on the personal rights angle. | I have been for medical weed for many years, both because it is genuinely helpful for a number of medical conditions, and because it looked like a step in the right direction toward complete legalisation. The latter is my real goal, because I love pot and I'm offended that drunks are allowed to indulge themselves buy... | I have been for medical weed for many years, both because it is genuinely helpful for a number of medical conditions, and because it looked like a step in the right direction toward complete legalisation. The latter is my real goal, because I love pot and I'm offended that drunks are allowed to indulge themselves buy... | [
"Summary: Customer of my Compaq reseller in the Navy is called 'Richard Hardon' - we meet and he insists I call him 'Dick'. He has no idea why this is hilarious.\n\nPost: I remember, many years ago when I was a green IT networking tech, I worked for Compaq in New Zealand doing on-site support for some of their bigg... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,230 |
SillySparklyGirl | Generate the content for a reddit post I'm rambling. This is heartbreaking. Wish she'd have left some kind of information for those she left grieving. Hope she found peace. | As many crazy accidental deaths and insane deaths as I've seen, this breaks my heart. She was so lovely. I have no clue why she would do this, and her complete silence on the 'why' may have been her (albeit unintentionally) most cruel act. Maybe I'm not making sense, but god forbid someone I know did this, at the very ... | As many crazy accidental deaths and insane deaths as I've seen, this breaks my heart. She was so lovely. I have no clue why she would do this, and her complete silence on the 'why' may have been her (albeit unintentionally) most cruel act. Maybe I'm not making sense, but god forbid someone I know did this, at the very ... | [
"Summary: cultural differences make certain men of color seem infinitely creepier than they intend. Be careful though.\n\nPost: I'm probably gonna get downvoted to the depths of hell for this, but here goes: I live in a culturally diverse city, and I am a dancer in an, um, 'gentleman's club'. We are closest to the ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,231 |
VAPossum | Generate the content for a reddit post Rageworthy if true, but with zero proof that anything ever happened, maybe we should blur all the faces. | I wish they'd all been blurred for the repost, actually. My problem with things like this is that we're given nothing but a picture and a story, and zero proof--and the internet witch hunt begins.
Know what else happened at Target this weekend? The Lilly Pulitzer limited release. It was a fucking madhouse, think B... | I wish they'd all been blurred for the repost, actually. My problem with things like this is that we're given nothing but a picture and a story, and zero proof--and the internet witch hunt begins.
Know what else happened at Target this weekend? The Lilly Pulitzer limited release. It was a fucking madhouse, think B... | [
"Summary: There's forms of OCD that have to do with something other than \"clean it,\" and it could be fascinating to write/read a story about someone with armageddon OCD living through a nuclear holocaust.\n\nPost: There's already the typical \"clean it/organize it\" jokes, but OCD isn't just about cleaning shit. ... | 70 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,232 |
spinningfaith | Generate the content for a reddit post I want to ask this girl out before she finds someone else but she might be annoyed with me so I don't know if I should ask her out now, or wait two weeks when my trip is over to try then. | Backstory: I've helped this girl through alot back in the day, with relationship drama, roommate conflicts (that often ended in physical harm) and have just always been there for her. Lately I've felt I'm growing feelings for her but some complications have come into play.
We were texting one day and out of nowhere s... | Backstory: I've helped this girl through alot back in the day, with relationship drama, roommate conflicts (that often ended in physical harm) and have just always been there for her. Lately I've felt I'm growing feelings for her but some complications have come into play.
We were texting one day and out of nowhere s... | [
"Summary: Get BL2 GOTY if it is discounted, the game itself is fun, great villain, lots of comedic moments, better than the first I thought, and the DLC campaigns are all really fun and original\n\nPost: Even if Pre Sequel kills Coop for Borderlands 2, its still a great single player experience, primarily for the s... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,233 |
DatAperture | Generate the content for a reddit post an aperture comparison alone isn't enough info to compare two cameras, but assuming all else is the same, the differences would be so small you might not even notice them
edit: * /u/michaelrnw is better at math than me | Aperture effects depth of field, and light entry. As for depth of field, because the difference in aperture is so small, and because the small sensors in phone cameras are not good for shallow depth of field anyways, there is probably no visible difference in depth of field. For light entry, f1.8 lets in about ~66%* mo... | Aperture effects depth of field, and light entry. As for depth of field, because the difference in aperture is so small, and because the small sensors in phone cameras are not good for shallow depth of field anyways, there is probably no visible difference in depth of field. For light entry, f1.8 lets in about ~66%* mo... | [
"Summary: you'd be surprised how much you can do and learn using only limited gear.\n\nPost: If I had had the money to just buy whatever gear I wanted whenever I wanted, I'd probably be a worse photographer. By having to wait and save up, I'm more thorough in my research (I spend more time reading and learning) and... | 78 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,234 |
RyuSythe | Generate the content for a reddit post It's at the very least it's a play worthy game for any Star Wars fan, especially a KotOR fan. Download it, make a toon, and see for yourself. | It's an amazing game. The free to play limits tend to be annoying and at time rage inducing. Those who say it's just a sci-fi WoW have completely missed why this game is in fact unique and top notch..
Yes there are 3 skill trees per class and yes, the graphics are "cartoon-y",and there are "dungeons" but there is on... | It's an amazing game. The free to play limits tend to be annoying and at time rage inducing. Those who say it's just a sci-fi WoW have completely missed why this game is in fact unique and top notch..
Yes there are 3 skill trees per class and yes, the graphics are "cartoon-y",and there are "dungeons" but there is on... | [
"Summary: Joined Jung Ma so that I could play with someone I knew IRL.\n\nPost: Welp, you asked for it. \n So back before launch when there was only the site and closed beta. I dreamed of playing SWTOR with my best friends, one of which was a SW nerd like me and had played KotOR/2 too. But alas, they weren't down w... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,235 |
m15wallis | Generate the content for a reddit post You're right, but Mexico didn't exactly have their shit together, so they hired Anglos to settle, and then didn't handle that so well.
Also, this map is wrong; there was never a "Texas." It was always Coahuila y Tejas, which, because its capital was located in Coahuila, was also... | You got it...to a point. They settled in Texas for all the reasons you suggested, but it wasn't so much of "expansionist and aggressive" by the people who actually lived there (not the politicians in Washington or New Orleans, but the poor farmers and downtrodden who actually moved, settled, and fought into Texas) as i... | You got it...to a point. They settled in Texas for all the reasons you suggested, but it wasn't so much of "expansionist and aggressive" by the people who actually lived there (not the politicians in Washington or New Orleans, but the poor farmers and downtrodden who actually moved, settled, and fought into Texas) as i... | [
"Summary: If the GOP is forced to make all non-Christian marriage illegal or make same-sex marriage legal, they're gonna make it legal because the blowback of the alternative would destroy the base of the party. \n Edit: Should probably point out that I am conservative, (usually) vote Republican, and am a Methodi... | 32 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,236 |
Olpainless | Generate the content for a reddit post Apple's iPhones, and consequently it's games, are pretty much only in the US. | I don't understand why people act like the iPhone is so huge, it really isn't compared to their competitors - especially looking at things globally. They might be quite big in the US, but worldwide they are outsold epically by Nokia (most people I know have Nokia smartphones) and Android is pretty much eclipsing the iP... | I don't understand why people act like the iPhone is so huge, it really isn't compared to their competitors - especially looking at things globally. They might be quite big in the US, but worldwide they are outsold epically by Nokia (most people I know have Nokia smartphones) and Android is pretty much eclipsing the iP... | [
"Summary: It isn't as bad as it could be\" is a shite argument.\n\nPost: What a terrible measurement! The most ludicrous argument you hear spewed forth from advocates! \n You put the point forward that standards of living are higher, as though this is something achievable solely under capitalism. It's such a stupid... | 33 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,237 |
beetrootdip | Generate the content for a reddit post Neither of those things is sufficient to disprove that America is a fat/stupid country. America did not prove the world wrong, they just misinterpreted what the world has been saying, and they incorrectly applied statistics to 'prove' the point they wanted to prove.
n.b. I have ... | Well, America is criticised, not because literally every person in the country is perceived as fat/stupid, but because the majority are. As with many things in America, there is a vast disparity between the 'haves' and the 'have nots', to use the old, moderately offensive terms.
America has many of the top universiti... | Well, America is criticised, not because literally every person in the country is perceived as fat/stupid, but because the majority are. As with many things in America, there is a vast disparity between the 'haves' and the 'have nots', to use the old, moderately offensive terms.
America has many of the top universiti... | [
"Summary: Don't do it when there are lots of other cars around. It is dangerous - what you are essentially doing is provoking a psychopath that has the ability to kill you.\n\nPost: I used to do that and have since stopped. I did it once while driving on a 3 lane highway, speed limit 110 (km/h). \n A guy was tailga... | 40 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,238 |
TrivialCipher | Generate the content for a reddit post Dark Pit is literally Trunks
EDIT: Added basic snippets to who these people are | From what I gather, most people aren't bothered by Dark Pit being a clone as much as what him being added means for Smash's 'All-Star' inclusions. Let me put it like this.
You know how Goku was the first of the Z-Fighters to go Super Saiyan? It made sense, right? He was the main character, and certainly the most capa... | From what I gather, most people aren't bothered by Dark Pit being a clone as much as what him being added means for Smash's 'All-Star' inclusions. Let me put it like this.
You know how Goku was the first of the Z-Fighters to go Super Saiyan? It made sense, right? He was the main character, and certainly the most capa... | [
"Summary: Almost never seen requested\" is still a step up from a lot of the \"Only seen requested once\" characters out there. I'd say he rounds out the ass-end of the list. Excluding Ridley :P\n\nPost: However, we do see him requested. There's a reason I put him as the final first party character. Of course, we a... | 33 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,239 |
GoonCommaThe | Generate the content for a reddit post The Chinese border cuts right through non-Chinese cultural regions, and those non-Chinese people want their own country because they're not Chinese. | The people in Xinjiang are mainly Uyghurs , Han Chinese (China's largest ethnic group, think Bruce Lee , and [Kazakhs]( Uyghurs are the largest group, then Han Chinese, with Kazakhs and other smaller groups making up the rest.
As you can see, Uyghurs and Kazakhs don't look vey Chinese, and they aren't. They are m... | The people in Xinjiang are mainly Uyghurs , Han Chinese (China's largest ethnic group, think Bruce Lee , and [Kazakhs]( Uyghurs are the largest group, then Han Chinese, with Kazakhs and other smaller groups making up the rest.
As you can see, Uyghurs and Kazakhs don't look vey Chinese, and they aren't. They are m... | [
"Summary: let my friend buzz my head bald at camp, campers thought I had cancer\n\nPost: Perfect time for this story! I work at a summer camp, and when I got up there, I had my hair pretty long for our staff week (no campers yet), because I hadn't had time to get a haircut before I left. I was planning on buzzing... | 37 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,240 |
BlackSquirrel05 | Generate the content for a reddit post don't look like a BB in your profile.. or just be honest and confident in yourself. | Something that sets them apart/actually makes their personality unique.
Example when I was in my early 20's every other girl on OKC or other sites would say "I'M REALLY INTO PHOTOGRAPHY!! AND MY FRIENDS ARE SUPER IMPORTANT PART OF MY LIFE!!" (O really a whole nation of Ansel Adams...)
Then go on to list a bunch of ... | Something that sets them apart/actually makes their personality unique.
Example when I was in my early 20's every other girl on OKC or other sites would say "I'M REALLY INTO PHOTOGRAPHY!! AND MY FRIENDS ARE SUPER IMPORTANT PART OF MY LIFE!!" (O really a whole nation of Ansel Adams...)
Then go on to list a bunch of ... | [
"Summary: Fess up to the stupid thing you did... They usually have you dead to rights at Mast anyway... Just try to think about it from someone else's perspective. At which point if it's your first offense they may go lenient to you.\n\nPost: You don't necessarily need to prove you're not racist... You just need to... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,241 |
what_a_cat_astrophe | Generate the content for a reddit post Just screw around with positioning. Take a bunch of shots of something at all different angles by a window/far away from a window and then throw it into your post software. See which types of lighting do best with your filters and giving you the look you want to achieve. Also, ... | It all depends on what kind of look you are going for. You seem to have your filters going in a similar direction already, so I would just focus on attentiveness to lighting AND shadows, and how they affect the camera's and the objects positioning now.
Window light is a GREAT light source for this technique. Maybe... | It all depends on what kind of look you are going for. You seem to have your filters going in a similar direction already, so I would just focus on attentiveness to lighting AND shadows, and how they affect the camera's and the objects positioning now.
Window light is a GREAT light source for this technique. Maybe... | [
"Summary: You may experience trouble getting that blurred background look if you are using a wider angle lens and standing far away from your subject.\n\nPost: Some tips about achieving that blurred background look with shallow depth of field they don't always tell 'ya: \n \n The wider angle your lens (e.g. the mor... | 200 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,242 |
Wordwench | Generate the content for a reddit post He's either an absolute idiot or a PR genius. Sadly, the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive and often interchangable. Please do not let it be this. | I completely agree. My point was that Paul-OceanMarketting Guy would have to be kicking himself over this, right? I mean, the email war alone wasted an infinite amount of time and resources and now has the fury of the Internet assaulting him over essentially two controllers. That is a massive ego issue overriding an as... | I completely agree. My point was that Paul-OceanMarketting Guy would have to be kicking himself over this, right? I mean, the email war alone wasted an infinite amount of time and resources and now has the fury of the Internet assaulting him over essentially two controllers. That is a massive ego issue overriding an as... | [
"Summary: It's all art.\n\nPost: Honestly, after a lifetime of studying the arts, I can tell you that what comprises art is simply what moves you. Popular art is popular simply because its moving the collective mass. What we consider to be \"Masters\" is much the same as anything else - people who have honed their ... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,243 |
Corvus133 | Generate the content for a reddit post Quebec defines Socialism. It begs for free hand outs from other provinces and can only sustain it's system via those payments and does a piss ass job of it (infrastructure is terrible there, mafia driven, etc.). It demands free hand outs while holding Eastern Provinces hostage and... | To continue with that.
Quebec will vote in the same Socialist bullshit it votes in every single election time: The Mafia.
Then, all the children will come into the streets and cry because Alberta wrote them a HUGE payment worth 1 billion dollars which didn't provide a free hockey arena to the people of Quebec city ... | To continue with that.
Quebec will vote in the same Socialist bullshit it votes in every single election time: The Mafia.
Then, all the children will come into the streets and cry because Alberta wrote them a HUGE payment worth 1 billion dollars which didn't provide a free hockey arena to the people of Quebec city ... | [
"Summary: This study sucks. (More than I thought as I just finished it and feel like vomiting)\n\nPost: Then why can't I remember anyone's name if I am always saying it subconsciously? \n EDIT: I'm shocked the top replies are following along on this. \n Anyways, this study has SO many area's of concern it's almost ... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,244 |
TheBusinessOfWaffles | Generate the content for a reddit post Please don't jump to conclusions, especially when those conclusions accuse people of doing wrong. It doesn't facilitate proper discussion. | Most senators are great people and do their job with the best of our people in mind. While some are "crooked" as you say because of our whole patronage issue, most are not. Many senators are national heroes, too.
I think you may have missed the part where the previous post makes his entire argument.
Senators aren't... | Most senators are great people and do their job with the best of our people in mind. While some are "crooked" as you say because of our whole patronage issue, most are not. Many senators are national heroes, too.
I think you may have missed the part where the previous post makes his entire argument.
Senators aren't... | [
"Summary: I know r/Canada loves its bias, but please actually take proper care before making statements which are false.\n\nPost: I re-read the article. That is to me the most likely context, though the article seems to be (purposely?) ambiguous. Which is exactly what you get caught into. There is no question posed... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,245 |
Wake_and_Blake | Generate the content for a reddit post get it on brand it's good | I know a lot of people don't play him much anymore, but I find it to be incredible on brand as a 2-3rd pickup item. It helps him wave clear since his W doesn't clear casters (you have to E afterwards and that takes precious mana) so it helps it that regard.
It adds to his burst combo (in a game where I wasn't even fed ... | I know a lot of people don't play him much anymore, but I find it to be incredible on brand as a 2-3rd pickup item. It helps him wave clear since his W doesn't clear casters (you have to E afterwards and that takes precious mana) so it helps it that regard.
It adds to his burst combo (in a game where I wasn't even fed ... | [
"Summary: make the most use of your abilities while escaping. They're all large and will all knock them down/back. You want to be annoying as possible. It's not easy shooting at something in the air while also trying to avoid the wildlife. You don't want to just fly away, you want to fly and shoot back at them. If ... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,246 |
Rossage99 | Generate the content for a reddit post My name is Rossage99 and i am addicted to Fifa. | Ultimate Team. It seems great when you first try it. You might play a few games of single player seasons and win some games. It makes you feel great winning. Then you step into online play. You lose a few games but you think it's ok because of how good it feels to win. By this point your hooked. Determined to push thro... | Ultimate Team. It seems great when you first try it. You might play a few games of single player seasons and win some games. It makes you feel great winning. Then you step into online play. You lose a few games but you think it's ok because of how good it feels to win. By this point your hooked. Determined to push thro... | [
"Summary: Trying to solve the problem caused by EA but i can't because of EA!\n\nPost: Things are just getting worse. To open a ticket i need to know my origin email and password. I can't remember the password and on xbox there is no \"forgot your password?\" option. There is only an update your email/password opti... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,247 |
OneHelluvaUsername | Generate the content for a reddit post Access to prevention methods isn't the primary issue in NYC. The foresight needed to incentivize a person to utilize those preventative tools is more so. | I'm inclined to disagree with the argument made about access to prevention methods in NYC.
From the Dept. of Health website: "As part of the mandated New York City DOE HIV/AIDS Prevention Program, high schools are required to provide Health Resource Rooms where free condoms, health information, and health referrals a... | I'm inclined to disagree with the argument made about access to prevention methods in NYC.
From the Dept. of Health website: "As part of the mandated New York City DOE HIV/AIDS Prevention Program, high schools are required to provide Health Resource Rooms where free condoms, health information, and health referrals a... | [
"Summary: Fuck stink bugs. And the prick who brought them here, too.\n\nPost: These fuckers]( are technically small and 'harmless' to humans, but I can't stand sharing living space with the freeloading bastards. \n I was not aware that they'd taken up residence in my parents' home before visiting a few weeks ago. O... | 32 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,248 |
A_600lb_Tunafish | Generate the content for a reddit post I don't think junk food/sugar/salt is as addicting and powerful as alcohol or hard drug withdrawal. When you become physically addicted to alcohol or cocaine the neural pathways for falling back into addiction will always remain in your brain. Food cravings aren't nearly as powerf... | I'd argue that obesity doesn't do irreversible/permanent damage. Fat cells do die with prolonged diet (they're tenacious as fuck though, they do fill up with water/fat given the chance but after a few months of weight loss and dedication they can die and be removed from the body). And body weight is the biggest factor ... | I'd argue that obesity doesn't do irreversible/permanent damage. Fat cells do die with prolonged diet (they're tenacious as fuck though, they do fill up with water/fat given the chance but after a few months of weight loss and dedication they can die and be removed from the body). And body weight is the biggest factor ... | [
"Summary: deadlifts are tough. Also the sky is blue.\n\nPost: First and foremost, that is a video of OP's max, and EVERY max will have some form degradation. If you have perfect form, you're not maxing out deadlift. \n OP's lower back is rounding, that's bad, at 0:34 you can see his hips dip down and back a little ... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,249 |
Micelight | Generate the content for a reddit post I watched a homeless man make advances on a woman on a bus before Santa Claus rained down furious vengeance. | I'm going to copypaste my reply (obviously not by text) to a friend after he had texted me. Happened a few Christmases ago and has to be one of the best things I've ever seen on a bus...
"So here I am finishing my christmas shopping, waiting at the bus stop until finally one of the drivers decides to actually pull up... | I'm going to copypaste my reply (obviously not by text) to a friend after he had texted me. Happened a few Christmases ago and has to be one of the best things I've ever seen on a bus...
"So here I am finishing my christmas shopping, waiting at the bus stop until finally one of the drivers decides to actually pull up... | [
"Summary: Basically, the idea of bomb calorimeter measurement is still sound, just requires the wrangling of numbers which is capable of being done by people who did first year chemistry. The fact that it \"costs money\" is a cheap excuse in my mind, because both methods have their own shortfalls. Also edit becau... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,250 |
Teknofobe | Generate the content for a reddit post Check out Aikido and Shinkendo. Advice from a student. | I have been doing martial arts for about 4 years now.
Aikido is not so much about physical strength as it as about using your opponent's strength against them. My sensei teaches all ages, even some young children. He has said that for the young ones, he has started teaching as early as 4 or 5. This would be an exc... | I have been doing martial arts for about 4 years now.
Aikido is not so much about physical strength as it as about using your opponent's strength against them. My sensei teaches all ages, even some young children. He has said that for the young ones, he has started teaching as early as 4 or 5. This would be an exc... | [
"Summary: roommate walked in unexpectedly while I was laying some pipe\n\nPost: Don't have any good post-coitus stories, but I have a decent mid-coitus story. \n In college I had one roommate who was engaged. He lived at his fiancee's place and it was his last semester. He was NEVER there at night - he didn't eve... | 44 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,251 |
burnerid88 | Generate the content for a reddit post Mandatory summary/question! Tried the "ex be friends". He stopped talking to me but would stare at me. I stopped acknowledging him and his stares, he proceeded to talk to me, and was mad when I ignored him. My question is why is he so emotional that I ignored him? especially after... | We didn't date that long(2 months, no sex) and I ended things because I could tell that we'd make each other miserable.
We were hitting it off as friends, then he started to stop talking to me for weeks, but would feel him staring at me. I started to stop talking to him, which he started to say hello to me again. I d... | We didn't date that long(2 months, no sex) and I ended things because I could tell that we'd make each other miserable.
We were hitting it off as friends, then he started to stop talking to me for weeks, but would feel him staring at me. I started to stop talking to him, which he started to say hello to me again. I d... | [
"Summary: I feel like I keep screwing up potential relationships and can't get my mind off of being in one. any advice is welcome.\n\nPost: I have noticed that when there is miscommunication, the guy(all guys mentioned are in general and do not pinpoint one specific man) tends to disappear. \n When I try to communi... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,252 |
mildlyincoherent | Generate the content for a reddit post Show some respect and appreciation for people working a second full time job - completely unpaid - for your benefit. And if you can't do that then at least have the human decency to shut the fuck up. | Each PTP staff member puts anywhere from 15-80 hours per week into staffing. Completely unpaid. To provide users like you with a free service. And you have the audacity to demand that they dedicate every waking second? How do you propose they will afford to eat and pay rent if they quit their jobs to be on the site 17 ... | Each PTP staff member puts anywhere from 15-80 hours per week into staffing. Completely unpaid. To provide users like you with a free service. And you have the audacity to demand that they dedicate every waking second? How do you propose they will afford to eat and pay rent if they quit their jobs to be on the site 17 ... | [
"Summary: Leave the recruiting of users up to staff. Just invite your actual friends. And no one else. \n -- PTP Staff\n\nPost: It's much more simple than people are making out: \n Do you consider them to be a real friend? Would you wake up at 4am to drive them to the hospital? Would you baby sit their two screa... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,253 |
TateXD | Generate the content for a reddit post I would say that it is worth it if you fit in well with the guys in the frat. | Here's my story. I go to a small liberal arts college in the midwest, and prior to coming here, I never thought that I would join a fraternity. Here I am, my second semester of college, and I'm in a frat.
When I first got here, I was a bit shy. I came from a place where I knew nearly everyone, and suddenly found m... | Here's my story. I go to a small liberal arts college in the midwest, and prior to coming here, I never thought that I would join a fraternity. Here I am, my second semester of college, and I'm in a frat.
When I first got here, I was a bit shy. I came from a place where I knew nearly everyone, and suddenly found m... | [
"Summary: Music doesn't sell very well anymore, but people still pay for shows and merch, so that's where labels need to shift their focus in a way.\n\nPost: Should have just posted a self-post if you're looking to create a discussion, but the question you pose is a good one. I don't think that labels will be fadi... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,254 |
ApplicableSongLyric | Generate the content for a reddit post if you like pigs so much why don't you get triple penetrated by a crowd of 'em, meatbag.
EDIT: @downvotes, lol mouthbreathers. | You need to understand the pendulum effect. I will run out here an claim fully that being a cop is nothing but being in a government sanctioned gang, but I know a few cops that are too correctly passionate about what their job is, indifferent and non partial or maybe just obliviously stupid; my comments don't recognize... | You need to understand the pendulum effect. I will run out here an claim fully that being a cop is nothing but being in a government sanctioned gang, but I know a few cops that are too correctly passionate about what their job is, indifferent and non partial or maybe just obliviously stupid; my comments don't recognize... | [
"Summary: someone who can't even legally watch porn is doling out crypto advice. Whatever.\n\nPost: I know /r/news isn't a generally safe place to express this, but this is true. \n More than a few porn distributors and production houses take payment from end users in Bitcoin, it could make sense to give the option... | 35 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,255 |
Treatid | Generate the content for a reddit post our understanding of singularities lies at the extreme of two theories that fundamentally disagree with each other. And in any case there is no way of directly (or indirectly) observing a singularity. By contrast the Event Horizon (black hole bit of a black hole) is much better un... | A singularity is a logical consequence of General Relativity taken to an extreme. However, GR only describes gravity - there are three other forces described by Quantum Mechanics. At a singularity the scale becomes one at which Quantum Mechanics is generally regarded as more relevant than General Relativity.
As such,... | A singularity is a logical consequence of General Relativity taken to an extreme. However, GR only describes gravity - there are three other forces described by Quantum Mechanics. At a singularity the scale becomes one at which Quantum Mechanics is generally regarded as more relevant than General Relativity.
As such,... | [
"Summary: You are where you perceive yourself to be. There may be no absolutist answer. Other entities may have differing perceptions of where you are.\n\nPost: Subjectively (which is the only point of view that matters when you ask \"Where am I?\") you are in the simulated (virtual) environment that includes you a... | 35 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,256 |
Browsing_From_Work | Generate the content for a reddit post Either article is jumping to conclusions or the title is sensationalism. | Did they not read the warrants? Those list what's being searched for.
Would make it a whole lot easier to figure out what law they allegedly broke if you know exactly what they're looking for.
Also, not to be a naysayer, but "won't even tell us what law they think we've violated" followed with a defense of their im... | Did they not read the warrants? Those list what's being searched for.
Would make it a whole lot easier to figure out what law they allegedly broke if you know exactly what they're looking for.
Also, not to be a naysayer, but "won't even tell us what law they think we've violated" followed with a defense of their im... | [
"Summary: Planning ahead is ok. Snooping is not.\n\nPost: Even if you don't consider it greasy, I'd still say don't do it. It's bad habit. \n If you go to a more competitive event like a PTQ or SCG open, you can't count on having the time or option to scout out the event's metagame and modifying your sideboard ac... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,257 |
KinkyTraficCone | Generate the content for a reddit post telemarketers lives suck, be nice to them. | I was at my friends house when a telemarketer called, he put it on speaker and was polite, and respectful about asking them not to call. The telemarketer understood but said she is required to finish the conversation, so that's when he started trolling, started off minor with speaking nonsense, she was laughing, then w... | I was at my friends house when a telemarketer called, he put it on speaker and was polite, and respectful about asking them not to call. The telemarketer understood but said she is required to finish the conversation, so that's when he started trolling, started off minor with speaking nonsense, she was laughing, then w... | [
"Summary: Asked a chick out, she said no, then asked me out, i said no, then she dated my friend\n\nPost: So I used to have the biggest crush on a girl who was my friend, i told her about it and she joked around a bit about it, then the topic got changed, didn't talk to her for a week or two (after it being part of... | 36 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,258 |
gregtron | Generate the content for a reddit post Tarmogoyf is 100 bucks again. | I think that's probably where our divide is. I think the power of speculation over the market has already made itself known. I think the difference lies in the fact that I think economic harm has already been done due to massive short-term inflation, but you believe if the market levels out eventually then no harm wa... | I think that's probably where our divide is. I think the power of speculation over the market has already made itself known. I think the difference lies in the fact that I think economic harm has already been done due to massive short-term inflation, but you believe if the market levels out eventually then no harm wa... | [
"Summary: RANDO IS HARD, GUYS\n\nPost: Pretty much into low diamond you can get by with just a good grasp on the fundamental macro style of each race, and three solid, flexible standard openings. But, even if you're an awesome player, it's an uphill battle when, say, you and your opponent both know 15 solid builds... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,259 |
puck342 | Generate the content for a reddit post Steak 'N Shake is the best fast food joint for a stoner, if you want the why, read the long-ass post above | Okay. Hear me out. I realize that in the end, convenience is the ultimate arbiter for all things fast food. However, me and my friends got to talking about this over some spliffs earlier today, and since we have traveled/attended school all around the country, we had a fairly deep amount of knowledge of the various pro... | Okay. Hear me out. I realize that in the end, convenience is the ultimate arbiter for all things fast food. However, me and my friends got to talking about this over some spliffs earlier today, and since we have traveled/attended school all around the country, we had a fairly deep amount of knowledge of the various pro... | [
"Summary: Sometimes its not you you're afraid of, it's everyone else. Don't be, there are at least a few good people out there, sometimes the internet can help you learn that. I'm bad at summaries.\n\nPost: Great Advice Amandurp! Might work best for certain types of social anxiety I'd think, though. If I may share ... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,260 |
_The_Editor_ | Generate the content for a reddit post Apparently I'm an idiot that can't do up hose clips... | Just wanted to share my weekends fiddling...
Friday night, I replaced the broken solenoid that controls the vacuum to the turbo VNT veins... Found it was broken last weekend but didn't have time in the week to sort it, so have been driving around for a week with the turbo veins stuck in the low-boost position...
Fr... | Just wanted to share my weekends fiddling...
Friday night, I replaced the broken solenoid that controls the vacuum to the turbo VNT veins... Found it was broken last weekend but didn't have time in the week to sort it, so have been driving around for a week with the turbo veins stuck in the low-boost position...
Fr... | [
"Summary: Toothpaste acts like a solid until it's squeezed.\n\nPost: Toothpaste is an interesting fluid (believe it or not). \n It's one of a class of [Non-Newtonian fluids]( This means it doesn't act like most normal liquids.. \n Specifically, toothpaste is one of the shear-thinning fluids known as [Bingham Plasti... | 29 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,261 |
streamstroller | Generate the content for a reddit post I KNOW, FUCK ME, RIGHT? | I know, fuck me right? How dare I attend a discussion group with a tenured professor and not expect a pass? Seriously though, I was a sophomore and in all honesty, I was one of those girls who wasn't aware of my own appeal...my high school years were awkward and i had very little experience with boys and none at all ... | I know, fuck me right? How dare I attend a discussion group with a tenured professor and not expect a pass? Seriously though, I was a sophomore and in all honesty, I was one of those girls who wasn't aware of my own appeal...my high school years were awkward and i had very little experience with boys and none at all ... | [
"Summary: Time, Pink Floyd.\n\nPost: Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day \n You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way \n Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown \n Waiting for someone or something to show you the way. \n Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rai... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,262 |
xbkingx | Generate the content for a reddit post Theming and brightness control will reduce eye strain significantly. Take some time to check out the ~10 highest rated reader apps and keep in mind the filetypes you'll be using. | Two things most ebook reader apps have that make a world of difference: theming and brightness control.
Most allow you to set the color of the text and background, which can really reduce eye strain. Black background with white text alleviated the bit of a headache I would develop after a couple hours. Some apps just... | Two things most ebook reader apps have that make a world of difference: theming and brightness control.
Most allow you to set the color of the text and background, which can really reduce eye strain. Black background with white text alleviated the bit of a headache I would develop after a couple hours. Some apps just... | [
"Summary: Getting everything you want is nice, but it's the stuff you don't even know exists that you might appreciate the most. Sometimes we unknowingly surrender control because too much freedom creates a bunch of islands that lack influence over larger controlling influences (advertising, lobbying, etc.).\n\nPos... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,263 |
OBISerious | Generate the content for a reddit post Bologna still reminds me of cow patties.
P.S. Pepperettes straight out if the smoker are fantastically delicious. | Ditto for bologna, but for a very different reason.
I worked at a meat processing plant one summer in my teenage years. For 6 weeks we made Oktoberfest sausages in preparation for the fall festival. For the remaining 2 weeks, we made all different varieties of sausage.
One of these was a product that the workers call... | Ditto for bologna, but for a very different reason.
I worked at a meat processing plant one summer in my teenage years. For 6 weeks we made Oktoberfest sausages in preparation for the fall festival. For the remaining 2 weeks, we made all different varieties of sausage.
One of these was a product that the workers call... | [
"Summary: Saved my sister from drowning because I happened to be wearing goggles underwater.\n\nPost: When I was 10 and my sister was 5, we went swimming with my Dad at a beach. Where we were swimming the water was about 5 feet deep, and there was a large rock that was about 4 feet high.\nWe spent a lot of time sit... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,264 |
deadly-one | Generate the content for a reddit post NYC = hive of scum and villainy. | Indeed.
6/14/2011: Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that the New York State Department of Labor (DOL) has reached a $5.1 million settlement with New York City-based "Lenny's: The Ultimate Sandwich" (Lenny's) for minimum wage and overtime violations affecting over 800 workers. This settlement is the largest r... | Indeed.
6/14/2011: Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that the New York State Department of Labor (DOL) has reached a $5.1 million settlement with New York City-based "Lenny's: The Ultimate Sandwich" (Lenny's) for minimum wage and overtime violations affecting over 800 workers. This settlement is the largest r... | [
"Summary: It can cause stress but reasonable adults can work through it.\n\nPost: I breezed through highschool and worked hard, finishing my BS in 4 years. I got a good job in my degree's field. It was not easy, but I had confidence and just sucked it up. Perhaps it seemed easy to her. My then-gf always had fam... | 40 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,265 |
aaronrenoawesome | Generate the content for a reddit post No. | Not once.
I can see the difference, obviously, and I find it neat to actually watch the process of putting her face together, but I really do wish they wouldn't wear it. I understand that their self-esteem (and the boost granted by said make-up) is a big part of why they wear it, and that's far harder to overcome th... | Not once.
I can see the difference, obviously, and I find it neat to actually watch the process of putting her face together, but I really do wish they wouldn't wear it. I understand that their self-esteem (and the boost granted by said make-up) is a big part of why they wear it, and that's far harder to overcome th... | [
"Summary: Get a bus.\n\nPost: Are you in the US? The best person to ask works at your local DMV. \n That said... \n I did nothing special - I found the bus on Craigslist (I had more disposable income then) and after a few emails and texts, some friends and I drove out to Lake Tahoe to take a look. I bought it that ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,266 |
halupki | Generate the content for a reddit post Walt sets up Hank as the fall guy, gets away scott free.
Ninja edit: I know it says "Heisenberg" on Walt's wall now. Could potentially ruin my dream, but maybe Walt can set up the story that Hank is trying to frame him because he's a chemist. I want to believe. | This might be a bit far fetched, but I have been thinking about a crazy ending for the series. Can Walt somehow turn this all around and stick the blame on Hank? Can he convince the world that Hank is Heisenberg? Hank certainly has the know-how being so deep with the DEA, and he can certainly bury evidence if needed.... | This might be a bit far fetched, but I have been thinking about a crazy ending for the series. Can Walt somehow turn this all around and stick the blame on Hank? Can he convince the world that Hank is Heisenberg? Hank certainly has the know-how being so deep with the DEA, and he can certainly bury evidence if needed.... | [
"Summary: Ronda is hot as balls but the movie kinda sucked balls \n edit: Wanted to also mention Mel Gibson was pretty good. He's not in it enough, but he's what you'd expect. The final fist fight with him sucks though. Pretty lame. And since someone out there asked me to rank this movie against the others, here is... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,267 |
romple | Generate the content for a reddit post I'd rather have mediocre coffee where I feel welcomed than superior coffee where the staff is unfriendly. | I go to a lot of restaurants and cafes that may not have the greatest product but have the greatest staff. Places I feel like I'm friends with the servers, where they remember me, know me by name, etc... The more the customer feels welcome and at home the better.
Conversely I avoid some cafes because the baristas are... | I go to a lot of restaurants and cafes that may not have the greatest product but have the greatest staff. Places I feel like I'm friends with the servers, where they remember me, know me by name, etc... The more the customer feels welcome and at home the better.
Conversely I avoid some cafes because the baristas are... | [
"Summary: answer is to your original post is to get to a point you can actually make useful programs in C++, and then make the same programs in a new language. Doesn't have to be complicated or huge. Feel free to reinvent the wheel, or a spoke of a wheel, or whatever. Then try to make the same thing in python or ja... | 33 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,268 |
Ginnerben | Generate the content for a reddit post People treat me as an adult, but overestimate my age by a good ~25%. Makes me feel like I'm masquerading as an adult. | 4.I was on a train a while ago reading, and a mother and her kid sat opposite me and the kid was moving around a lot. The mother said to the kid "Sit down and be quiet, you're bothering the man." Took me a few seconds to realize she was referring to me.
I kind of get the opposite. I'm 22 and doing my PhD in a postgra... | 4.I was on a train a while ago reading, and a mother and her kid sat opposite me and the kid was moving around a lot. The mother said to the kid "Sit down and be quiet, you're bothering the man." Took me a few seconds to realize she was referring to me.
I kind of get the opposite. I'm 22 and doing my PhD in a postgra... | [
"Summary: The Catholic faith actively protects child molesters and rejects condoms in Africa, while the actions of Muslims are just that - The actions of Muslims.\n\nPost: Strawman or lack of reading comprehension? \n There's a difference between knowing about something and experiencing it. My knowledge of Christi... | 41 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,269 |
sethra007 | Generate the content for a reddit post Frontier Airlines responds "Bitch, please. You're the one who needs to apologize." | IIRC from my linguistic classes in college, in confined spaces where everyone is forced to intrude on each others' personal space (such as in an aircraft, where people can be stuffed in there like sardines) people tend to have a much more increased focus on upholding social norms, in order to help everyone manage the s... | IIRC from my linguistic classes in college, in confined spaces where everyone is forced to intrude on each others' personal space (such as in an aircraft, where people can be stuffed in there like sardines) people tend to have a much more increased focus on upholding social norms, in order to help everyone manage the s... | [
"Summary: My mom has always had a shopping addiction. I am worried it is turning into a hoarding problem. She will not throw anything away and stock piles clothing, candles, barbies, make-up, toiletries, etc. She buys something new for herself every day. We helped her move over the weekend and it took me and my 2 s... | 32 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,270 |
breauxstradamus | Generate the content for a reddit post Yeah, no big deal. Just don't be sleazy about it. | Flirting is kind of a blanket term. I think it's important to still be friendly, and smile, while engaging in conversation. It's good to stay in practice, as this helps on remain attractive to their SO and maintain healthy confidence. I don't think this is the same as "running game" on a girl though. The same goes for ... | Flirting is kind of a blanket term. I think it's important to still be friendly, and smile, while engaging in conversation. It's good to stay in practice, as this helps on remain attractive to their SO and maintain healthy confidence. I don't think this is the same as "running game" on a girl though. The same goes for ... | [
"Summary: not giving a shit no matter what the area of life is unadmirable\n\nPost: My problem is getting to that point, takes so long. I don't understand how people pack on 400lbs when they should have started doing something much earlier. To me its because they didn't give a shit. I had a weight gain in college, ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,271 |
relytv2 | Generate the content for a reddit post teacher assigned an in depth report on the Rape of Nanking and got all butthurt because it was graphic. | For our final assignment in 8th grade we had to do an in depth lecture on a specific topic we were assigned. The teacher gave me The Rape of Nanking and said, "you'll find this one interesting" what the fuck did that mean? Anyway the project was supposed to be super in depth with lots of pictures and details and all. S... | For our final assignment in 8th grade we had to do an in depth lecture on a specific topic we were assigned. The teacher gave me The Rape of Nanking and said, "you'll find this one interesting" what the fuck did that mean? Anyway the project was supposed to be super in depth with lots of pictures and details and all. S... | [
"Summary: 7th gen Civic good. Automatic trans BAD. Manual trans fine. Timing belt 110K \n Edit: I see you are using those silly base ten based measurementometers. All my measurements were in thousands of miles because Murica.\n\nPost: The 7th gen Civic 01-05 had very bad automatic transmission problems. The worst y... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,272 |
katffro | Generate the content for a reddit post Pay attention in class, read your textbook and take notes, get a review book ($10 on Amazon, usually) and relax! The test, IMHO, is a lot easier than the course. | I was in AP World last year (sophomore) and I'm now in AP US (junior). The AP test is the same format.
I don't know which textbook you use, but mine is crap. We use all handouts for review. Read through those and we're fine.
If you don't get handouts and must use the textbook, just read through the chapter once witho... | I was in AP World last year (sophomore) and I'm now in AP US (junior). The AP test is the same format.
I don't know which textbook you use, but mine is crap. We use all handouts for review. Read through those and we're fine.
If you don't get handouts and must use the textbook, just read through the chapter once witho... | [
"Summary: I don't like my brother. At all.\n\nPost: This will make me sound like a terrible person, but I really don't like my younger brother. He's rude, careless, disrespectful, spoiled, and mean. He expects my sisters and me to help him with his homework then takes advantage of us, only plays xbox all day, think... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,273 |
Flowah | Generate the content for a reddit post Religion assumes the answer, Science assumes it can find the answer. Completely different. Religion has only been wrong, Science has an epic pattern of being right and constantly improving itself. | Okay, this one is shit all easy.
The idiot theist, though I repeat myself, has equated assuming knowledge of the answer to assuming the ability to figure out the answer. Well, let's see if that holds up to any sort of third grader's ability to scrutinize.
Imagine I'm your algebra teacher. I've given you a complicat... | Okay, this one is shit all easy.
The idiot theist, though I repeat myself, has equated assuming knowledge of the answer to assuming the ability to figure out the answer. Well, let's see if that holds up to any sort of third grader's ability to scrutinize.
Imagine I'm your algebra teacher. I've given you a complicat... | [
"Summary: police fucking lie. Over and over and over. We have it on video countless times. Not even little lies, huge fucking lies. When they've killed people and lied about it. Don't trust a cop. Ever.\n\nPost: Damn right. \n People keep saying \"evidence evidence\" but if you actually read the medical reports and... | 49 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,274 |
moonphoenix | Generate the content for a reddit post I love being a skinny dude with long hair and beard. | I'm really skinny, 5'9'' and 112 lbs(1.75 meters and 52 kgs for fellow Europeans) skinny, 16 BMI skinny, Oh some people love girls who are skinny? Did I mention I was a male, long hair and beard and everything. People keep urging to gain weight and grow muscle and stuff, even eating burger king twice a day didn't work,... | I'm really skinny, 5'9'' and 112 lbs(1.75 meters and 52 kgs for fellow Europeans) skinny, 16 BMI skinny, Oh some people love girls who are skinny? Did I mention I was a male, long hair and beard and everything. People keep urging to gain weight and grow muscle and stuff, even eating burger king twice a day didn't work,... | [
"Summary: we were 10 hours apart (time zone wise). She had to get her life in line so I backed off.\n\nPost: Almost was going to be in an LDR. I didn't know her before, so it was a met online thing. I thought for a minute, about what I was doing. Immediately called it off, and cut her off from my life(A mixture of ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,275 |
The_Real_Opie | Generate the content for a reddit post get out of the way; you have no idea what that person's story is. | You should move out of the way, ESPECIALLY for speeding banshees.
I was coasting to a stop at busy intersection, because I had a red light, when suddenly in my rear view mirror, I see a black Mustang just barreling towards me. It was flying, and though I was tempted to get out of his way, I thought "fuck it, we're n... | You should move out of the way, ESPECIALLY for speeding banshees.
I was coasting to a stop at busy intersection, because I had a red light, when suddenly in my rear view mirror, I see a black Mustang just barreling towards me. It was flying, and though I was tempted to get out of his way, I thought "fuck it, we're n... | [
"Summary: Quit bitching, your life is awesome.\n\nPost: Why is working a long time fucked up? \n It can only seem fucked up \"once your really think about it\" if you only consider in the most self-important and myopic framework possible. \n Is it really so abhorrent that collection of animated has to expend an eff... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,276 |
HumanSockPuppet | Generate the content for a reddit post Didn't you read the title? There are no shortcuts. Read the post, you silly bastard. | As you awaken from your Blue Pill coma, know this: there are no shortcuts.
Your years as a Blue Pill slave were your most unproductive. You laboured in vain, with no personal, heartfelt goal to galvanize your efforts. Perhaps you laboured for the sake of someone else - a nebulous corporation, or an exploitative boss... | As you awaken from your Blue Pill coma, know this: there are no shortcuts.
Your years as a Blue Pill slave were your most unproductive. You laboured in vain, with no personal, heartfelt goal to galvanize your efforts. Perhaps you laboured for the sake of someone else - a nebulous corporation, or an exploitative boss... | [
"Summary: They're mostly tedious.\n\nPost: Programmer girls typically fall into one of two categories: \n \n The true programmer. She's dedicated, hard-working, and stoic. You usually find her in the corner of the lab working studiously on her current assignments and projects. Her verbal responses are terse and sh... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,277 |
theartfulcodger | Generate the content for a reddit post we'd be screwed.
Edit: No, I didn't steal this from whatever-and-crake. Most of it is adapted from a lively dinner-table discussion with some clever engineers and academic anthropologists about the consequences of a long nuclear winter. Which, by the way, is much, much closer to... | It would be utterly impossible to "get back to today's standards". Except for a few minuscule and temporary pockets, we'd be reduced to stone-age technology, and we'd remain there until our species eventually became extinct through natural processes.
Reasons? For one, virtually all viable deposits of industrial metal... | It would be utterly impossible to "get back to today's standards". Except for a few minuscule and temporary pockets, we'd be reduced to stone-age technology, and we'd remain there until our species eventually became extinct through natural processes.
Reasons? For one, virtually all viable deposits of industrial metal... | [
"Summary: Justice.\n\nPost: Mental illness can play a significant role in this kind of situation, and my family has experienced it. \n My uncle by marriage was quite probably an undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, and definitely a wife abuser and a hoarder. When he died, his long-estranged wife (my aunt) inherite... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,278 |
neverelax | Generate the content for a reddit post Oui Madame. | Yes Maam. It's the standard form in Ontario, Canada, and I believe every province east of Saskatchewan. I hear that the reasoning is that its cheaper and creates 75% less waste than cartons, even though we recycle bags, jugs and cartons in ontario (must have something to do with how much of the material can be recovere... | Yes Maam. It's the standard form in Ontario, Canada, and I believe every province east of Saskatchewan. I hear that the reasoning is that its cheaper and creates 75% less waste than cartons, even though we recycle bags, jugs and cartons in ontario (must have something to do with how much of the material can be recovere... | [
"Summary: I like to settle each limb independently into a comfortable position before bed.\n\nPost: The way you worded this is like you're setting us up to say. \"Hah! Odds are someone else does it too, you just didn't know it!\" - To which I say, it's a belief, not a fact. And I bet many of us will be surprised to... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,279 |
robotevil | Generate the content for a reddit post It's obvious that RobotEvil is a huge hypocrite, because he lets European commenters actively comment on gun related US news in his (gun) related forum.
[Logic'd]( | And, yet, as I said, you run an anti-gun subreddit full of Europeans complaining about the fact that Americans own guns.
Oh, I see what you're saying. Because I run a pro-gun control subreddit, which happens to have Europeans comment there (although we have never claimed to be US-centric focused) makes me a hypocrite... | And, yet, as I said, you run an anti-gun subreddit full of Europeans complaining about the fact that Americans own guns.
Oh, I see what you're saying. Because I run a pro-gun control subreddit, which happens to have Europeans comment there (although we have never claimed to be US-centric focused) makes me a hypocrite... | [
"Summary: You might want to actually take two seconds and check to see at least if your story has some facts before trying to bait a bunch of Skeptics. \n So much time spent on the style sheet, so much time setting up your profile to build \"cred\" with /r/conspiratard, and you couldn't be bothered with checking ... | 94 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,280 |
anarashka | Generate the content for a reddit post Cockatoo babies make horrific noises FOREVAR. Also, parrots are complicated.
EDIT: Can't spell. :( | Yep, that's a Ducorp's, also knows as a Solomon Cockatoo. Delightful parrots, but like all 'Toos, can be more than a little volatile and dangerous as they reach puberty (Yay temper tantrums with a can opener for a face).
ALL cockatoos (and cockatiels too) make sounds similar to this. Cockatiels stop pretty much as so... | Yep, that's a Ducorp's, also knows as a Solomon Cockatoo. Delightful parrots, but like all 'Toos, can be more than a little volatile and dangerous as they reach puberty (Yay temper tantrums with a can opener for a face).
ALL cockatoos (and cockatiels too) make sounds similar to this. Cockatiels stop pretty much as so... | [
"Summary: You should be grateful\"\n\nPost: You should be grateful!\" \n My mom would call me any time Step-Father (hereafter: SF) abused her . We'd talk, she'd cry, talk about how awful it was and how she hates him and on and on. I'd give her encouragement. INEVITABLY, the next day, I'd receive a call from her. It... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,281 |
Shaken_U | Generate the content for a reddit post Resist is not good (for me) in cqc, or even when 2 guys are shooting at me. But wrecks at mid range.
NMG is good in close, but not as good as adrenaline in the hands of skilled players. It's also better than adrenaline at mid range.
Adrenaline is the best in close, but sucks a... | My loadouts
Ns 15m. Grip compensator, 2x or hsnv. Soft point.
Resist shield.
Asc
Regeneration II
That's my go to mid range loadout. The resist allows me to tank those extra bullets, and most players empty their magazine before I'm dead. That, and it allows me to run to cover if necessary.
Good range: 20-50 ... | My loadouts
Ns 15m. Grip compensator, 2x or hsnv. Soft point.
Resist shield.
Asc
Regeneration II
That's my go to mid range loadout. The resist allows me to tank those extra bullets, and most players empty their magazine before I'm dead. That, and it allows me to run to cover if necessary.
Good range: 20-50 ... | [
"Summary: my hardware is limiting me from getting better, I can't go to the clusterfucks for lag.\n\nPost: Relevant story \n Yesterday there was some drama (I said mi7 was a lagwizard). I proceed to see him in killfeed. \n \"Oh mi7 is here. I should kill him\" \n Fancy-\"You should get Really really good so when yo... | 30 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,282 |
HueHueJimmyRustler | Generate the content for a reddit post it's extremely easy to claim misogyny on just about every single conflicting situation that you're involved in when you're of the female gender. It's also extremely lame. Please don't. | I guess you didn't read where I said or
I read both of the statements you made in their entirety.
>So don't go jumping to conclusions
yeah. ditto.
But seriously - the whole misogyny thing is getting out of hand and overplayed on the internet. It's the easiest way for you to get people to agree with you. Women... | I guess you didn't read where I said or
I read both of the statements you made in their entirety.
>So don't go jumping to conclusions
yeah. ditto.
But seriously - the whole misogyny thing is getting out of hand and overplayed on the internet. It's the easiest way for you to get people to agree with you. Women... | [
"Summary: your analysis is bad and you should feel bad. And you didn't reply to my comment, so you fail in that regard as well\n\nPost: hand is perfect\" equating to having 1 medraut and an equip card that isn't excaliburn. \n Rabbit build is better if you want to run Lady of the Lake (even as a singleton). If you'... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,283 |
Seaman182 | Generate the content for a reddit post I think that you agree completely with the OP. | I think you're misinterpreting the OP's point, because it's exactly the same as yours. In his view, serial commas should always be used when listing separate items, as opposed to sometimes being used when listing separate items. When not listing separate items, don't use commas.
In the example you cited, if Alice... | I think you're misinterpreting the OP's point, because it's exactly the same as yours. In his view, serial commas should always be used when listing separate items, as opposed to sometimes being used when listing separate items. When not listing separate items, don't use commas.
In the example you cited, if Alice... | [
"Summary: This meme is merely a tad immature; your post definitely IS one of the dumbest I've seen, at least recently. Keep trying, though, you'll learn.\n\nPost: There are way, way stupider posts on Reddit every single day. This doesn't even make the list. \n \n \"Ooh, anybody who talks about sex must be 13.\" No.... | 27 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,284 |
thenorthwinddothblow | Generate the content for a reddit post Without proving God's existence isn't theology just mythology? Don't we have better methods now? | Whenever I watch a debate about religion and I see that somebody is say a doctor of theology I automatically disregard this. Without being able to definitively prove the existence of God wouldn't this field be better described as Christian mythology? (or more intellectually honest to do so)
Evidently I don't believe ... | Whenever I watch a debate about religion and I see that somebody is say a doctor of theology I automatically disregard this. Without being able to definitively prove the existence of God wouldn't this field be better described as Christian mythology? (or more intellectually honest to do so)
Evidently I don't believe ... | [
"Summary: physical limitations of each body type and how related body issues affect sex/dating from my experience. Obese is the worst, fit is the best.\n\nPost: Ok so I've had sex with a good range of girls in terms of size. PLease bear in mind that this is based on my experience only as asked by OP. \n Obese girls... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,285 |
ferretinjapan | Generate the content for a reddit post Its a dumb idea to commit serious crimes with Bitcoin, they will be marked men long after they have spent the money, but there's also a lot going for it too. | Pseudo-anonymity is almost as good as anonymous. I think the key aspect here is Bitcoin is frictionless. It is incredibly frictionless and secure. You can be hidden on an island and you can still get paid with the most minimal communications with the outside world. Normal money is simply incapable of that. The trade of... | Pseudo-anonymity is almost as good as anonymous. I think the key aspect here is Bitcoin is frictionless. It is incredibly frictionless and secure. You can be hidden on an island and you can still get paid with the most minimal communications with the outside world. Normal money is simply incapable of that. The trade of... | [
"Summary: payment processors do not devalue bitcoin. They are a bridge for merchants that would otherwise never get involved in bitcoin in the first place.\n\nPost: The answer is yes, it reduces value, the same as if a person had sold their Bitcoins directly. \n If the option for the merchant is to accept via bit... | 39 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,286 |
Jiveturtle | Generate the content for a reddit post if you have that much cash without being way behind you're probably much better than your opponent anyway, so go for it. | I play quite a bit of riven. Brutalized gives you something bf sword doesn't - cdr. Early on, cdr is really important.
It's really all about what you get in addition to your major item.
I rarely have 1600 on my first back. If I did, I'd probably wait for 1800 if possible so I could also get a ward and a few he... | I play quite a bit of riven. Brutalized gives you something bf sword doesn't - cdr. Early on, cdr is really important.
It's really all about what you get in addition to your major item.
I rarely have 1600 on my first back. If I did, I'd probably wait for 1800 if possible so I could also get a ward and a few he... | [
"Summary: get good with 2 champs, don't lose with 6 or play counter picks you don't know how to play well. Pots and wards are key. Make friends with your jungler, so you can abuse their jungler (and then your lane.) Trade well, zone them off the creeps. Profit.\n\nPost: To start: pick two. One farmy, one kill... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,287 |
Rickaroni | Generate the content for a reddit post Want a job as a prop trader but don't know how to get there. | Hello /r/finance! I'm a 22 year old who recently found a new love in finance. I'm working on switching majors to finance and I really want a job working as a prop trader.
My only problem is that I don't know where to start and anything that I've researched has been vague and unhelpful. I have no problem with doing an... | Hello /r/finance! I'm a 22 year old who recently found a new love in finance. I'm working on switching majors to finance and I really want a job working as a prop trader.
My only problem is that I don't know where to start and anything that I've researched has been vague and unhelpful. I have no problem with doing an... | [
"Summary: Never date a whore. \n EDIT: Thank you all for the kind words about this. I guess I lied to you guys. I ended up breaking down and calling her a few months later and that spiraled in a few more months of hell and getting played. My advice for anyone that gets cheated on to cut ALL contact and don't be ash... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,288 |
midnitewarrior | Generate the content for a reddit post College is great if you do it for the right things. | The thing prospective students don't understand is that "college recruiters" are salespeople. They have admission spots in academic colleges to sell. The availability of these programs has little to do with job market demand, and more to do with what "sells well".
The other thing is that an entire generation has be... | The thing prospective students don't understand is that "college recruiters" are salespeople. They have admission spots in academic colleges to sell. The availability of these programs has little to do with job market demand, and more to do with what "sells well".
The other thing is that an entire generation has be... | [
"Summary: We are screwed.\n\nPost: The fact that this is news should be scaring everybody. \n The International Energy Association puts our [global crude oil consumption at 90 million barrels per day]( \n This \"breakthrough\" discovery's reserve estimates are between 3.5 billion barrels and 233 billion barrels. \n... | 31 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,289 |
skorp129 | Generate the content for a reddit post Your mod has some great ideas to make the game more challenging, some more so than others. Reduced drops, pills, and hearts is a great idea. However, removing items, or making them rare enough that they'll never be found anyways, is not so great. This is especially true if the ite... | Hey! Thanks for reply. I think it's awesome that there's this amazing modding community out there who put time and effort into making mods like you do, for us to consume for free. I agree that the majority of the community sees this game as a casual experience rather than a test of skill. For example, less than 23% of ... | Hey! Thanks for reply. I think it's awesome that there's this amazing modding community out there who put time and effort into making mods like you do, for us to consume for free. I agree that the majority of the community sees this game as a casual experience rather than a test of skill. For example, less than 23% of ... | [
"Summary: 1/5 stars would not recommend. Extremely slow delivery time, excessive and expensive cost to get to work properly and even then it did not perform as advertised.\n\nPost: AMAZON: Curious about the so-called 'primordial soup', I decided to order it. Two weeks later it came; a freeze-dried packet of nutrien... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,290 |
minze | Generate the content for a reddit post SOPA would affect the sale of counterfeit products. | Now I am completely against SOPA, but I can see the logical thought of the CoC, and the legislators in the regard to counterfeit products. There is a multi-pronged approach to stopping counterfeiting. Stopping the manufacture, stopping the distribution and stopping the sales.
Many times the manufacture happens in c... | Now I am completely against SOPA, but I can see the logical thought of the CoC, and the legislators in the regard to counterfeit products. There is a multi-pronged approach to stopping counterfeiting. Stopping the manufacture, stopping the distribution and stopping the sales.
Many times the manufacture happens in c... | [
"Summary: Old owners included clothes washer with house. first load run through had the machine flood the basement.\n\nPost: This is good advice. The people we bought the house included the clothes washing machine and clothes dryer in the purchase price (they were downsizing to an apartment). We had our own that... | 45 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,291 |
redditor-for-2-hours | Generate the content for a reddit post troll someone by saying "calm down" when they're calm, it will make them not calm | I had a friend who used to troll me so much with that simple phrase. I didn't catch on until I realized how pissed off I ended up getting at him telling me to just calm down, when originally I wasn't pissed off at all. Then he started cracking up, saying he loved doing that to people. | I had a friend who used to troll me so much with that simple phrase. I didn't catch on until I realized how pissed off I ended up getting at him telling me to just calm down, when originally I wasn't pissed off at all. Then he started cracking up, saying he loved doing that to people. | [
"Summary: Penises.\n\nPost: I'm probably going to be downvoted into oblivion for admitting this, but back when I was still in high school, my friends and I were complete trolls and did this all the time (except, we pretended to be a 12 year old girl, specifically targeting the creepers). We got a lot of screenshots... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,292 |
Alymae | Generate the content for a reddit post The story about how I lost my virginity before I got my first kiss. | I was in a long distance relationship with my online boyfriend of 2 years, then I went to go see him about 2 months ago!
The night I got there I was INCREDIBLY tired from the timezone difference (like 4 or 5 hours past when I usually went to bed) so when i met him at the airport and we headed back to the hotel... we w... | I was in a long distance relationship with my online boyfriend of 2 years, then I went to go see him about 2 months ago!
The night I got there I was INCREDIBLY tired from the timezone difference (like 4 or 5 hours past when I usually went to bed) so when i met him at the airport and we headed back to the hotel... we w... | [
"Summary: He's the scum of the earth and telling himself it's my fault that he's controlling other people's lives.\n\nPost: Just the thought of how my ex is still going around and ruining other girl's lives (manipulating them, cutting them off from everyone and running their lives) and justifying it because I, ME... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,293 |
StupidHumanSuit | Generate the content for a reddit post I feel bad for pit bulls. | You don't hear about it because breeds are often misidentified.
The same way every rifle is an "Ak47" or pistol is "Glock," "pit bull" is the preferred breed of dangerous dogs.
I'm not saying that there aren't dangerous pits or stupid pit owners, there absolutely are. I'm also not doubting the validity of this vict... | You don't hear about it because breeds are often misidentified.
The same way every rifle is an "Ak47" or pistol is "Glock," "pit bull" is the preferred breed of dangerous dogs.
I'm not saying that there aren't dangerous pits or stupid pit owners, there absolutely are. I'm also not doubting the validity of this vict... | [
"Summary: I always want the woman I'm with, and it's not because I just want a girlfriend.\n\nPost: I think it's a little bit of both, in the beginning stages. \n We still don't really know the person. We know we like to be around them. After a little while, we figure out if we like them enough to \"take ourselves ... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,294 |
QnA | Generate the content for a reddit post You'll get more use out of Beelzebub. I speak from experience having and using both. | I have both Athena and Beelzebub, and both are hypermaxed. I almost never use Athena anymore. I'll use her to farm a few coin dungeons but outside of that, I just leave her up for the PAL points. I almost always use Beelzebub over her. She's great and all, but if you want to burst big with her (like farming KotG) you n... | I have both Athena and Beelzebub, and both are hypermaxed. I almost never use Athena anymore. I'll use her to farm a few coin dungeons but outside of that, I just leave her up for the PAL points. I almost always use Beelzebub over her. She's great and all, but if you want to burst big with her (like farming KotG) you n... | [
"Summary: Resist teams need 1500 autoheal or don't even bother trying, you'll just waste 40 stamina.\n\nPost: As everyone has already said, and I said it [here yesterday]( you need 1500 autoheal if you're going to be doing a resist team on hera. \n Is it possible to do a resist team without 1500 autoheal? Sure, i... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,295 |
Panaphobe | Generate the content for a reddit post Massachusetts drivers are fucking crazy. Like "we don't give a shit about common sense or safety" level of crazy. | People don't drive, or apparently read, so well in Massachusetts.
I just got back from a trip to Providence, and for reasons I won't get into I had to fly into Boston and drive down in a rental.
HOLY SHIT, Massachusetts drivers are crazy. 5 minutes on the road and I'm coming up on one of those two-lane exits - you ... | People don't drive, or apparently read, so well in Massachusetts.
I just got back from a trip to Providence, and for reasons I won't get into I had to fly into Boston and drive down in a rental.
HOLY SHIT, Massachusetts drivers are crazy. 5 minutes on the road and I'm coming up on one of those two-lane exits - you ... | [
"Summary: When you start to plug in realistic numbers and think about the difficulty of contacting another civilization in our galaxy even if we wanted to, it's no surprise at all that the stars are silent.\n\nPost: Honestly, most of this article is a moot point because it's being extremely over-generous with its... | 43 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,296 |
thisistheperfectname | Generate the content for a reddit post Yep. If you have a big tablet, it's an iPad. If you have a small tablet, it's either a Kindle Fire or an iPad Mini. | Someone posted in /r/talesfromtechsupport a while back about his/her relative insisting his/her Galaxy Tab was "an iPad from a different brand" to the entire family. Not only does that show that the one person at hand was uninformed, it shows that that uninformed people go on to spread untruths about products he/she do... | Someone posted in /r/talesfromtechsupport a while back about his/her relative insisting his/her Galaxy Tab was "an iPad from a different brand" to the entire family. Not only does that show that the one person at hand was uninformed, it shows that that uninformed people go on to spread untruths about products he/she do... | [
"Summary: Taxation is necessary for keeping the government alive, but, unfortunately, the government is so bloated and inefficient too much money is wasted. To create positive effect X on the poor, you have to do 5X damage to the middle class. \n In case you mean paying off debts, yes, it helps, but you'd need to l... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,297 |
darknemesis25 | Generate the content for a reddit post we live in the future guys... | Man its just insane to see such value in computational hardware..
Very often I'll be going to a store and see something that costs hundreds of dollars and it's made of wood or just a sheet of metal or something and..
I'll just think to myself that you can get a computational device that does billions and billions o... | Man its just insane to see such value in computational hardware..
Very often I'll be going to a store and see something that costs hundreds of dollars and it's made of wood or just a sheet of metal or something and..
I'll just think to myself that you can get a computational device that does billions and billions o... | [
"Summary: an Artificial man made afterlife to solve many of the worlds problems as well as a risk free virtual reality in which anything is possible\n\nPost: It seems inevitable that well have computers capable of computing in the quadrillion operations per second range pretty soon which is comparable to a human br... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,298 |
GetGowenz | Generate the content for a reddit post Abusive ex dumps me 2 months ago. I broke and contacted her last night. Talk on the phone today. Tells me she loves and misses me but enjoys being single and when she's done enjoying it she will see if she wants to fix it with me. I respond by telling her I might go sleep with thi... | Backstory: I dated this abusive girl for 2 and a half years. She would hit me, verbally abused me, and stabbed me twice. She dumped me one morning because I asked her to cut back on her video game time [12 hours a day]. She instantly started dating a guy she met on the game.
So last night I broke and I emailed her. S... | Backstory: I dated this abusive girl for 2 and a half years. She would hit me, verbally abused me, and stabbed me twice. She dumped me one morning because I asked her to cut back on her video game time [12 hours a day]. She instantly started dating a guy she met on the game.
So last night I broke and I emailed her. S... | [
"Summary: Kinda depressed. Dumped by abusive ex. Gave up passion for her. Now I'm stuck in a life I hate that she abandoned me with\n\nPost: I'm in a bit of a hole. My issues are currently crashing in on me. My body issues, being dumped, and college fuck ups. \n My ex who dumped me abused me. Emotionally and physic... | 34 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 11,299 |
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