[wikipedia] The röntgen (roentgen) equivalent in man (or mammal[1]) or rem (symbol rem) is a traditional historical unit of radiation dose equivalent. It is the product of the absorbed dose in rads and a weighting factor, WR, which accounts for the effectiveness of the radiation to cause biological damage. \n You wrote: \n > I don't know what percentage of x-rays are absorbed by the body, but I think it's pretty low. \n [Absorption coefficients]( and an [explanation]( At higher X-ray energies 0.1 MeV=100 keV, the coefficient is μ/ρ=0.1693 cm^2 g^-1 . Multiply by tissue density of 1g cm^-3 and you get an inverse distance of 0.169 cm^-1 or a characteristic absorption scale of 5.9 cm; over this distance, the intensity falls by a factor of e=2.718 from absorption. Now for these lower energy 30 KeV X-rays we have μ/ρ=0.379 cm^2 g^-1 giving a distance of 2.6 cm at the same density. So I just can't see much of a difference between these X-rays and higher energy ones. They are all mostly absorbed because the distance is much less than the thickness of the body. \n The difference between 100 keV and 30 keV seems awfully modest. \n edit:","Summary: real science sticks its neck out.\n\nPost: It's relevant because (in Popper's time) Marxism and Freudianism were being sold as scientific theories. \n Popper insightfully disagreed, after a flirtation with Marxism, saying that a hallmark of a science is that it is testable - it makes predictions that can be falsified. \n Marxism and Freudianism, by their lack of prediction, can never be contradicted. You can show them virtually any phenomenon, and they will fit it into their theory. Any theory that accounts for everything by default is basically information-free. \n It's a bit as though I had a theory of physics called \"The Elephant God Makes things Happen.\" I could explain every physical phenomenon perfectly, perhaps in some complicated theological context, but it would be very unsatisfying as science, even if the theology had a lot of internal consistency. \n If you're in a science department, you will routinely get crank mails from people with some new theory that purports to explain everything. Invariably, these theories make no new testable predictions.","Summary: you don't know diddly.\n\nPost: And … who would administer this 'flat tax'? Would you rename the IRS, thereby magically making it nice? \n Shuffling around tax brackets (which is what a flat tax does) won't do a durned thang for audits, the issue being discussed. Audits are meant to catch invalid deductions, and deductions will have to exist in a flat-tax system if you want business to work.","Summary: racism is a useless word, because almost nobody is a 'racist' besides certain racialist groups, because racism is a formal articulated belief in racial superiority. The KKK is racist and melanin theory .\n\nPost: It's not such a nutty definition, because '-ist' implies a systematic approach beyond mere prejudice, but 'Power' is the wrong thing to add to the equation. \n When one thinks about it, 'racist' is a useless word, because the \"-ist\" once represented a genuine belief system of racial supremacy, synonymous with 'racialism'. People were probably content to be 'racists' just like they were content to be associated with any other \"-ist\" belief system. \n Then 'racist' went from being a philosophical description to an epithet used to deliver a stinging rebuke to racial prejudice, so that embracing the R=P+P definition was a way of fending off this epithet in the minority-to-majority direction.","Summary: think of it as one approach to the last mile problem of public transport.\n\nPost: Well, transportation is expensive, and it is a fundamental need, and public transport often suffers from the last mile problem. \n $3500 is a lot when you think of it as just another nifty gizmo. It might not be a lot if you think of it as a gizmo that lets you buy a house 2 miles further (and $30K cheaper) from the train station.","Summary: just watched a couple of birds fighting over a female for 15 minutes.\n\nPost: Crazy, crazy eyes. \n My hypothesis is that these are young males who vent their religiously mandated sexual repression in the direction of tribal/religious warfare. Young males are made to fight, and tribal self-righteousness gives them an excuse. \"You should not teach our women\" boils down to sexual competition with the other tribe.","Summary: it will raise the cost of nuclear power in Japan modestly.\n\nPost: The best estimate of the Fukushima cleanup is [$58B]( \n This will add a bit less than $1B to the average cost of a Japanese nuclear plant. If we say that a 1GW nuclear reactor costs $5B to build, then this will add 20% to the cost of Japan's reactors. \n Caveats: costs of cleanup may rise above the $58B figure. On the other hand, the disaster occurred far after Japan's reactors were built, but the benefits of the plant accrued earlier. So the present day cost of a $58B disaster 20 years in the future is only $21B assuming 5% real return on capital. \n In other words, I can build Japan's 60 reactors today for $300B and budget for a disaster in 20 years by putting $21B into a mutual fund, so the cost of the disaster is $20B/$300B=7% of the total program cost.","Summary: reddit is a microcosm of America, minus some frustrated and angry old people who favor a particular flavor of visceral, non-intellectual conservatism.\n\nPost: Liberal here. Reddit is definitely liberal. \n First you really need to define liberal. I think you said \"I have a set of views X. Reddit agrees with me, so it too must be X.\" \n Let's limit ourselves to American politics ... \n You need to ask yourself what reddit is not. Reddit does not have a strong religious contingent. This removes one strong thread of conservatism from reddit. Reddit is not really patriotic/nationalist or have a sense of American tribal identity - there goes another thread of conservatism. \n But Reddit often violates liberal stereotypes: It seems to love guns as much as it dislikes them. /r/atheism can be as anti-Islamic as hardcore rightwingers (to the point of being unfair by tainting all Muslims with the actions of extremists). You'll find plenty of defenders of George Zimmerman. You'll find plenty of tax haters. \n Reddit might be what happens when you take American politics, and remove the religious and nationalistic element. The problem is that these two elements constitute a large part of modern American conservatism, so if you remove them, the remainder will appear liberal.","Summary: I think it's the nonlinear combination of two effects - easy guns and a big underclass - that produces a fertile ground for violence.\n\nPost: I disagree. First, most of the gun deaths are suicides, so some of the plots can be ignored (as author points out). Next, white (and asian ...) Americans aren't very homicidal. Blacks seem to account for [half of all homicides]( ... and this figure seems to lump Latinos in wiith whites. \n What makes the US unique in the developed world, I think, is the presence of an entrenched economically and socially deprived underclass, combined with easy access to guns from a vast legal marketplace, just one or two steps removed from criminals. \n In a multidimensional analysis, I suspect that the strongest dimension for gun violence will a vector v sticking out in the two dimensions of large Gini index and permissive gun laws. That's assuming these effects are linear, which they probably aren't. Big underclass and no guns and no underclass and lots of guns probably both produce low gun violence, so that a projection of v onto one of these axes would overpredict violence compared to both effects being present at once.","Summary: you still need to pay for the power grid until you get batteries, and that's a big share of current electric bills. If you buy batteries for your solar setup so you don't need the grid, you're not making power as cheaply as the grid any more.\n\nPost: The report seems to compare LCOE (levelized cost of electricity) of a solar installation to grid power (which has distribution plus wholesale generation folded into it). \n The problem ls that the solar installation delivers its power from about 09:00 to 15:00 but demand peaks at 18:00 to 21:00 or so. \n So the grid is still needed as backup, and grid power will become more expensive if solar becomes more prevalent, because the cost of the grid will be spread over fewer and fewer grid-supplied kW.hrs.","Summary: this is is all hovering around the standard 2 sigma, p=0.05 significance; this is why one week coffee causes cancer and the next week it cures it. Do 20 studies, and one will be significant at this level by pure random happenstance. And another one will show that vitamins cause cancer.\n\nPost: I think that your abstract section combines the groups with and without previous cancer. In the 'without' group, it seems that there was not much of a benefit. With the confidence interval for the hazard ratio of 0.86 to 0.998, there is still a 2.5% chance that HR>0 and a P=0.04 chance that the effect arose from chance (edit: to satisfy nitpickers, i should have written a P=0.04 probability that this result would have been observed if vitamins had no effect ). So its one those 2 sigma studies that keep contaminating medical research and filling the science pages of newspapers with contradictory results. \n > the total cancer incidence is reduced among the active multivitamin cohort with p=0.4, which is significant as they set alpha to 0.5 (so any p value less than 0.5 means that the observation did not occur by chance). \n I'm trying to understand this. We set alpha to be a probability cutoff (say 1%), and we ask how often in the null case we would have gotten a result this significant (in either direction?); The answer to \"how often\" is P, and the odds that the reported result would result have happened by chance. Correct? So do you mean alpha=0.05 and P=0.04? \n > so any p value less than 0.5 means that the observation did not occur by chance \n I don't think this is the right interpretation. Any P could occur by chance; it's only by adopting the rather loose and sloppy alpha=0.05, p=0.05 threshold of significance in biomedicine that it is called significant. \n I also don't understand why the groups with and without a history were said not to differ, because all the cancer prevention occurred in the group with previous cancer. If we look at the much bigger group without previous cancer, the result was just barely significant. Only by mixing in the smaller group with previous cancer was the overall result made significant. They say the difference between the two groups was at the P=0.07 level, but that's basically the same as the somewhat phony significance cutoff of 0.05.","Summary: medicine requires a weak p=0.05 threshold for publication. This study was p=0.04. It just barely satisfied the already loosey-goosey standards of medical statistical significance. If it had been a teeny bit worse (one or two fewer people getting cancer in the placebo group, maybe), then it would have gone from \"Vitamins are beneficial\" to \"No significant evidence that vitamins are beneficials.\" In reality, in both cases, the proper interpretation is \"There's rather weak evidence that vitamins are beneficial.\"\n\nPost: A alpha of 0.05 is almost universally accepted as robust in most cohort studies like this one. \n Yeah, but it's a social acceptance, not a logically justified one. In particle physics . In most science, they really want 3 sigma (p=0.003), and tend to sneer at 2 sigma. Medicine accepts weak 2 sigma results, and it causes lots of false positives to be reported. In fact, 1 of 20 null studies reports a false positive, by definition. \n > Also, with respect, I don't think you understand the nature of statistical significance. You keep talking about \"phony cutoffs.\" Well, you need to establish cutoffs when you do statistics \n Yes, I know this. I understand cutoffs pretty well. My point is that the p=0.05 cutoff, though \"almost universally accepted as robust\" is not really robust in an absolute sense. Medicine tolerates squishy-soft sigma values, because they have a hard time constructing studies that do better. \n If medicine were to be hardcore like particle physics, this result would not be significant by a long shot. Particle physics produces compartively few false positives. \n > This is nothing like those coffee studies. This is high quality, robust research. \n Those coffee studies were fine! They were done correctly. They just got unlucky and produced a false positive. This happens in 1 of 20 studies if you decide that significance starts at p=0.05. \n > The statistical nuances that lead to errors and thus to contradictory results in those coffee studies tend to resolve themselves as your sample size increases. \n These aren't nuances or errors. They're correctly reported unlucky results. This study could also be a correctly reported unlucky result, given that it is just at the 2 sigma threshold.","Summary: please don't yell correlation isn't causation every time a paper with a correlation pops up, unless someone makes an obviously erroneous claim in equating the two.\n\nPost: I think it should be pointed out that this is correlational and not causational \n Will you people please stop this? Every time a study showing a correlation pops up, someone says \"correlation isn't causation.\" \n We know. That's all that most sciences without a pervasive underlying theory of mechanisms can do. \n Suppose A is correlated with B. This is either 1) random chance, 2) or A causes B, 3) or B causes A, or 4) some unknown factor C causes both A and B. \n We can probably rule out that nice threads make you a sociopath. So we're left with 1 (random chance, always accounted for in paper), or 2, or 4. Now 4 appears pretty unlikely - some mystery factor that makes you both 'dark' and dress nicely - so we're left mostly with 2. And even if 4 exists, then the underlying dark causal agent (C) could be viewed as functionally synonymous with darkness (A) itself.","Summary: it's OK for the President to be as dumb as a stump. \n > So Reagan's putative deep faults - not being Hitchens smart - … \n It's not that he was Hitchens-smart; it's that he was stump-stupid. Don't sanitize it. \n > Hitchens also tore Bill to pieces regularly. \n Yup. For other reasons. He provides a good answer to \"Is Clinton an ethical fellow?\" which is a point we have not raised. The point we raised is \"Was Reagan wise (synonyms: knowledgeable, experienced, sensible)?\" Hitch's answer is \"No, he was as dumb as a stump.\"\n\nPost: When I said I'm between Coulter and Hitchens - on one hand they can't be more different, but they presumably would have a My Dinner With Andre like discussion at the bar, in spite of themselves. What they share is iconoclasm, idiosyncrasy, depth, sense of humor, generally a libertarian and classical liberal outlook, and - more to the point - sharp tongues. \n [Hitchens basically calls Coulter a dishonest populist bimbo]( but think what you want. \n > I'd love to fit in, but it's obviously self-congratulatory to imagine I could. \n Indeed. This is probably because you can't tell the difference between Hitch's genuine erudition and Coulter's shallow bombast. Hitch is a person whom even an opponent can respect. Coulter is a person whose intelligent ideological allies cringe. When you can't tell the difference between genuine learning and belief, and a talk-show vaudeville act, much is explained. \n > is that he was entitled to the opinion, and it's well argued, but it sort of misses the point about the nature of the presidency, what it was designed to do.","Summary: for ADHD: Saban said that Jews seek to control media. Saban is just as much of an anti-Semite as Stone. QED.\n\nPost: Oh, no! Some Jews have influence? Maybe if we banned them from certain professions it would help. \n See, you are incapable of honest discussion, so you construct strawmen. The issue, in a nutshell, is \n \n Stone says pro-Israeli Jews control media. \n \n Saban attacks him as anti-Semite. \n \n Previously, Saban said precisely this - that it was necessary for Israel supporters like himself to 'control media'. \n \n \n The extent to which people like Saban actually influence (control is a bad, absolutist word) media coverage of the Middle East is an interesting question, but is tangential to points 1,2,3 above. We're talking about Saban.","Summary: renting a $500K house - $3K a month, ballpark \n buying with a 3% 15yr mortgage: nonrecoverable $1.4K + $500 = $1900 (roughly), plus a recoverable principal payment of $2200 a month. After 15 years, your living cost goes down to tax plus repairs, or 2.4% of house's value ($1K a month). And you're sitting on 500K of inflation-adjusted non-taxable equity.\n\nPost: even assuming your unrealistically low interest rate, \n [bankrate.com]( 15 year fixed 2.99%, 30 year fixed 3.57%. So 3% is valid for 15 years. \n You're correct about property tax and repairs and insurance. But you save tax on the interest deduction assuming you're itemizing. Average US property tax is 1.4%. \n Let's say a $500K loan at 3% for 15 years. That's $15,000 a year in interest. $3400 a month in total payments. $7000 in property tax. \n Say you're well off, and in the 25% Federal, 8% state income tax brackets. You get 1/3 of your $15K back, so you pay $10K in interest. But you have to add the property tax to it, so you're up to $17K in interest plus property tax, or 3.4% if you pretend that this is all quasi-interest. \n Or in other words, you're paying $17000 a year ($1.4K a month) of non-recoverable money to live in a $500K house. In addition, you're paying $26400 a year into the principal, which essentially amounts to an interest-free, inflation protected savings vehicle subject to zero capital gains when you decide to sell. \n How much does it cost to rent a $500K house where you live? Where I live, it is probably about 3K a month, which is about $1600 more than the loss associated with buying, but $2200 less than the total payment (some of which goes into recoverable principal). \n Insurance? $1000 a year, or almost negligible. Repairs? That's tougher. People estimate 1% per year. That's another $400 a month.","Summary: this will impose a minor technical hurdle on cops. A cop just needs to generate 'probable cause' (smell drugs), or be quicker to do a sniff on reasonable suspicion (which means anything the cop wants it to mean).\n\nPost: The decision pertains to a cop having a suspicion of drugs, and failing to use his drug dog right away, instead calling for backup. \n \"I smell weed\" can be used as probable cause to justify an intrusive search, rather than a dog-sniff from the outside, which needs only reasonable suspicion. \n The whole issue as far as I can tell was extending a \"reasonable suspicion\" stop.","Summary: It's 250 without clouds; I rounded to 200 for clouds. The tilted plate will be another 25% loss at a middling northern latitude.\n\nPost: Average insolation in space: F=1366 watts per square meter. \n Spherical (total) area of earth: As = 4 pi R^2 (R is radius of earth) \n Face on area of earth: Af = pi R^2 \n Flux divided by total area = F x Af / As = F/4 = 341 watts/m^2, assuming no atmosphere. \n But then you have clouds and other atmospheric effects. \n My 200 figure is a bit below the the 250 (ideal cloudless, but with atmosphere) figure of the wikipedia article. You get this by reducing the 1366 figure at the top of the atmosphere to 1000 watts at the surface. This is the standard figure for the light reaching the surface at noon, with the sun overhead. \n The tilted plate difference is just the cosine of the latitude, which isn't such a huge difference.","Summary: nothing wrong with direct marketing if there is a competent medical professional to interpret that information, without that competency layer, the system will be just as broken with or without direct marketing. \n Explain to me the benefit of marketing Lipitor, which is off-patent and has generics. It's designed to drive my insurance rates up. Period.\n\nPost: J&J sell everything from bandaids ... \n Right. That's why J&J is not a good example. But even for J&J, [their pharma and medical devices divisions dominate over consumer goods]( \n > the only reason people buy tylenol instead of generic acetaminophen is because of marketing, the amount of money spent on marketing. \n Yes. This is a bad thing. Poor, uneducated people do this most. But when people pester their doctors for expensive on-patent prescription meds, MY insurance rates go up. If you buy Tyleonol, I don't care, because I get CVS. If you whine until you get Lipitor, I pay for your stupidity. \n > Additionally, direct marketing to consumers does nothing to preclude there being a drug arbiter in the form of your pharmacist and doctor. \n Then why do pharma advertise to consumers? Are they stupid? Of course the MD is an arbiter. But only partially effective. Otherwise, those TV commercials would go away. \n > Again, direct advertising has its negatives, but leaving doctors as the only gatekeepers for drug and pharmaceutical information makes the whole thing even worse \n The problem is that there's no information like \"Don't buy Bozotine! Except in rare cases, it's no better than Generic Bimbazol!\" The information in ads is one sided. A doctor is likely, at least, to give two sides. The problem with going a doctor is that he might give you a drug that's been marketed heavily to him - but those are the same damn drugs that appear on TV, marketed to consumers. Consumer advertising amplifies rather than mitigates the problem of marketing to MDs. \n You want neutral info? Try wikpiedia and WebMD. It's not perfect, but it gives two sides. \n >","Summary: means 'don't waste my time'. At a minimum, video wastes 3x more time than reading.\n\nPost: You can still post it. Just divide it into paragraphs. Have an abstract. Use subtitled sections to make it skimmable. \n An essay is always faster to parse than a video. People read at 250 words per minute, and fast readers read much faster. People speak at 100 words per minute. To hit 250 wpm speaking, the average reading speed, you need to sound like an auctioneer. Reading allows random access, particularly with subtitled sections. \n Fundamentally, '","Summary: you never want to make power from 2mph wind.\n\nPost: The problem with your argument is that the energy in wind at velocity V scales as V^(3). If you double the speed of the wind, energy goes up by a factor of 8. \n So if their example 2mph wind blows for 10 hours and then a 15 mph wind blows for 1 hour, there is 42 times more energy in the short burst of moderately fast wind than in the 10 solid hours of slow wind. \n There simply is very little energy in slow wind. If wind is too slow for a regular turbine, then there isn't much energy to be extracted. \n If this system confers an advantage over the 75% Betz efficiency of a regular turbine, it means you have wasted your money by putting a turbine in a place where the wind is ridiculously slow and where there is little power to be made.","Summary: the people who should be most threatened by a 'Nazi government' disagree with you. \n Look, my forefathers are very familiar with the old Russian imperial proclivities. They lived for decades under the Russian yoke. I think you just don't understand why Russia's neighbors can fear and dislike the Russians.\n\nPost: Can you, after all I said, look inside yourself, and tell me that you honestly believe the Ukrainian government is currently a democratic institution, not controlled by Nazis? \n Yes, because the major representatives of the Jewish population of Ukraine have expressed the opinion that, although some elements of the new government are problematic, on the whole Kiev is not Nazi, and Vladimir Putin represents the greater threat.","Summary: fires need convection, and a matrix of fibers blocks it.\n\nPost: No data. Just speculation. \n Here's a partial justification. The flow of gaseous fuel to a fire is normally by convection, not diffusion. The diffusion speed of hydrogen at STP is something like 10^-4 m^2 s^-1 (weird units because it is a random walk, so increasing time by 100 increases diffusion distance by only 10, again suppressing the fuel-feed-rate). So over a period of one second hydrogen from a distance of 1 cm will arrive to feed a fire, if diffusion is the limiting factor. It's safe to assume that a lattice of fibers will stop any significant convection, so that feeding the fire will be a diffusion process. Moreover, for hydrogen to leak out of the lattice, air has to leak into it, and the diffusion time of air is even slower, by a factor of about four. I imagine that a brick of this stuff might smolder slowly as hydrogen diffuses outward, so slowly that heat loss and the smothering effect of the oxygen-free blanket of combustion gases might put the fire out. Because it is a diffusion process with units of distance^2 time^-1 , only the outermost layer of the brick will provide fuel in short time; the rest of the fuel will take forever to get out. For example, in space, fires go out because of lack of gravitational convection. not-quite-QED.","Summary: you're full of it.\n\nPost: Here it is]( \n > 776.032 Immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action for justifiable use of force. \n > (1) A person who uses force as permitted in s. 776.012, s. 776.013, or s. 776.031 is justified in using such force and is immune from criminal prosecution and civil action for the use of such force, unless the person against whom force was used is a law enforcement officer, as defined in s. 943.10(14), who was acting in the performance of his or her official duties and the officer identified himself or herself in accordance with any applicable law or the person using force knew or reasonably should have known that the person was a law enforcement officer. As used in this subsection, the term \"criminal prosecution\" includes arresting, detaining in custody, and charging or prosecuting the defendant. \n >(2) A law enforcement agency may use standard procedures for investigating the use of force as described in subsection (1), but the agency may not arrest the person for using force unless it determines that there is probable cause that the force that was used was unlawful. \n > (3) The court shall award reasonable attorney's fees, court costs, compensation for loss of income, and all expenses incurred by the defendant in defense of any civil action brought by a plaintiff if the court finds that the defendant is immune from prosecution as provided in subsection (1). \n Now what do 776.012, s. 776.013, or s. 776.031 say? The links are on the same page, so I'll just summarize. \n 776.012: A person may use force, but not deadly force unless there is a threat of great bodily harm or a forcible felony. \n 776.013: Covers deadly force upon entering a dwelling - irrelevant. \n 776.031: Force may be used to defend against trespass, and deadly force in cases to prevent a forcible felony. Also irrelevant, because there was no trespass. \n First, it does not say what you claimed - \"If there are no criminal charges there can't be any civil charges.\" This is because the state is not obligated to file criminal charges even when it is possible. The state does not file criminal charges for every crime! This law merely creates the same self-defense threshold for both criminal and civil cases. It does not make civil cases contingent on criminal ones. \n Next, it is unclear that the self-defense clause of 776.012 required by 776.032 is triggered by the events. Zimmerman followed the guy, got out of the car, and initiated a confrontation. If he wanted to avoid the threat of \"bodily harm\" he could have stayed in the car, or not followed the kid. Also, it is not clear that a reasonable person would have feared \"great bodily harm\" from a lanky teenager not known to be armed.","Summary: Mao was not a well meaning fuckup. He toyed with other people's existences. Like Hitler.\n\nPost: Mao's 'political moves' were deliberate, not just stupid. There's a difference between an honest (heh) mistake, and a reckless ideological policy meant to sacrifice people. Hitler deserves a higher body count for WWII (12M for genocide, but tens more for the war). But there's not much of a difference between sacrificing people to stupid ideology, and warfare. \n [At the meeting [Mao] announced that 'When there is not enough to eat people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.'\" ](","Summary: If you want to make money, bet on Obama at Intrade. They are probably over-estimating Romney's chances of winning the nomination (because GOP candidates add up to over 100%, maybe indicating fan-dom), and Romney is probably the GOP's only hope (50/50 vs Obama), given the others' huge negatives at RealClearPolitics.\n\nPost: Let's use [Intrade]( a betting site often use as a predictor of political events,\nto compute the election odds. \n For our input Intrade odds, use the average of the bid/ask, and instead of percents, use fractions; eg, 0.5=50%. \n First note that Intrade gives Obama a 44.4% chance of losing in 2012. Remember that. \n Next, look at the breakdown of Intrade's GOP nomination odds: \n For the GOP Nomination: \n Romney 0.645\n Gingrich 0.26\n Santorum 0.145\n Paul 0.085\n \n The GOP sum is 1.135, or 113.5%. This probably means that fans of the candidates bid their candidates up a little bit too high. Thus we have to renormalize the above numbers and divide by 1.135: \n For the GOP Nomination (normalized so they add up to 100% rather than 113%) \n Romney 0.478\n Gingrich 0.193\n Santorum 0.107\n Paul 0.063\n \n Now according to the summary of polls in [RealClearPolitics]( Obama beats Romney by 1.8% of voters in the general electorate. Obama beats Santorum and Gingrich by over 10%, but beats Paul by only 5%. \n Let's say that the odds of Obama beating Romney are 0.50 given their near tie among the electorate. Let's say that the odds of Obama beating any of Gingrich, Santorum, or Paul are some unknown value P. We use only one value of P to keep it simple, even though each candidate has a different P. Because\nthe two main non-Romney candidates are both losing by 10%, a single P is probably OK. \n If Intrade is correct and Obama has a 44.4% chance of losing, we have \n ObamaLoseProbability = 0.444 = 0.478x0.5 + (0.193+0.107+0.063)xP \n so that \n P=0.56 - that's ludicrious. Intrade's overall 44% estimate of Obama's chances of winning in 2012 require P, the chances of Santorum, Gingrich, or Paul individually beating Obama, to be more than 50%. These are candidates who are being clobbered by Obama in the polls (except for Paul, who is losing only modestly, but see below). \n If we put in more realistic values of P, Obama's chances of losing are not 0.444 but are\ngiven by this table: \n P ObamaLoseProbability\n 0.10 0.28\n 0.20 0.31\n 0.30 0.34\n 0.40 0.38\n \n Given Gingrich's huge mainstream negatives, and Santorum's inability to keep his Senate seat, and Paul's fringe nature, it seems that a small value of P is most likely. Hence I suggest Obama has about a 70% chance of winning the next election. \n (You might object that Paul is more likely to beat Obama than Gingrich or Santorum, because RealClearPolitics has him losing by just 5% rather than 10%. However, I think his 6.3% chances of getting the GOP nomination are strongly overstated also. Also, adjusting Paul's P doesn't matter much, because it's downweighted by his tiny nomination odds, even if we believe they are 6.3%.)"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: If you don't want WTO actions brought against you, don't sign WTO agreements.\\n\\nPost: And a sovereign nation has this right to develop its own speciality in industry. \\n Unless this sovereign state signed a trade treaty that conferred other benefits, and now wishes to enjoy those benefits while restricting trade in ways forbidden by that treaty. \\n The WTO response will probably be to allow the US to retaliate against Indian goods, another example of \\\"a sovereign nation having a right to determine how it trades.\\\"\",\n \"Summary: the only way to provide retirement for everyone is with an intergenerational transfer scheme. That's the only pool of money that's big enough.\\n\\nPost: Given that his father died at age 55, and Ryan received benefits from ages 16 to 18, you are probably right. \\n However, the fact is that the financial sector (or Wall Street) is too small to absorb the retirement savings of Americans as a group. If you tried to replace Social Security with stocks, you'd find that the stock market is far too small. \\n Stocks return $1T a year, but SS pays out roughly this much. You'd have to buy the whole stock market from rich people (at a premium) and give it to to retirees to match SS, and matching SS is not the same as providing a better retirement than SS. And the rich wouldn't just sell their stock market holdings at the current market price, because they need a place for their money too. \\n Maybe the stock market would grow as cheap retirement capital poured in, but this would mean that percentage returns would fall, negating the reason for favoring the stock market over Social Security.\",\n \"Summary: wingnuts can't tell when you're making fun of them.\\n\\nPost: There's no way a person could read this letter and actually think it was from Romney and not a jab at him from a liberal. \\n [An Ohio State University study claims that many conservatives don't realize that the Colbert Report is a parody of conservative reporting]( \\n > The results supported the hypothesis, reveal- ing that individual-level political conservatism was a significant predictor (B = .377, SE = .077, p < .001) of perceptions that Colbert was using humor but truly meant what he said about liberals (Table 1). Thus, strong conservatives appear to have processed Colbert’s statements (which targeted liberals) as representing how Colbert actually feels, an interpretation that most favored their own political ideology.\",\n \"Summary: the Dems did better far more than random chance allows them to. You can't really attribute it to luck, because it's more than a 3 sigma effect.\\n\\nPost: What convinced me is the fact that random reshuffling of Dem/Rep presidencies means that the Dem advantage will occur just by chance 0.1% of the time. This means that the Dems lucked out at the 99.9% level. This is like throwing a coin and predicting heads 10x in a row, and getting it. \\n Or the authors' conclusion that it's just luck is bogus. Actually, the authors say that about 50% of the effect might be luck.\",\n \"Summary: 1:1000 luck generally indicates that something genuine is afoot.\\n\\nPost: That random fluctuations and 'luck' account for the differences, and not economic policies. \\n But there's two problem with this reading: \\n \\n Blinder and Watson say that only 50% of the difference is explainable by the 'luck' factors they consider. \\n \\n In the sciences, when applying frequentist statistics, we generally say that a 1 in 1000 event indicates that something isn't luck. So it sounds like they're saying \\\"This disparity between Rep and Dem growth is extremely unlikely (p=0.001) to occur by chance according to our tests. Nevertheless, we proceed to explain it partly through this theory of random shocks. We fail to address why these shocks hit one party more than the other against 1:1000 odds.\\\" I don't think that this reasoning would fly in the natural sciences. They've found a disparity that is extremely statistically unlikely, then they've fitted an ad-hoc theory that it is caused by some random events, but they haven't explained why all this supposedly random bad luck went against the GOP, in a manner that really shouldn't happen by chance. \\n \\n \\n Their logic seems to be \\\"Within our economic models, we fail to uncover fundamental economic reasons that explain this disparity, so it must be a metric crap-ton of luck\\\". That's a bit like saying \\\"We don't know why this drug X cures people with disease Y at a p=0.001 significance level; therefore the drug doesn't work, and its success must be luck.\\\" Yet most pharma companies would be overjoyed at this test result, even if they didn't know how the drug worked. \\n Points 1 and 2 could be reconciled if the GOP suffered some random bad luck, plus some other genuine underlying factor helps the Dems, producing an overall effect stronger than just luck alone.\",\n \"Summary: the cost of producing a car is $10,000 plus the very significant sunken costs and redesign-costs of the assembly line.\\n\\nPost: Secondhand [comments]( that cars are priced 10% above marginal cost. This [economics abstract]( gives the same 10% price-cost margin. \\n [This book]( cites, in 1982, $4282 as the marginal cost of a 'large car'. Since cars have [gotten bigger]( I'll call this a medium car today. [Adjusted for inflation]( it is $10,028. This is a marginal cost for an existing model and production line, so you have to add the fixed cost of the plant. This is in agreement with 'ICEVs' on page 31 of [this DOE document]( giving an $11,000 'factory cost', apparently marginal cost again. \\n Yes, this number is very hard to find, and secretive. The marginal cost vs average cost is an issue, because a lot of expense is in the fixed factory, not inputs. How flexible is the plant from model to model? If Ford has to build just one factory and use it from 1950 onward, obviously fixed costs should be small. But if it retools and rebuilds a huge assembly line, then they are significant. \\n Here's a way of approaching it: try to build a car from parts, using non-OEM parts to save money. $100 for a cheap radiator. $100 for a battery. $200 for a fender. $100 each for good tires. $200 for a windshield. $500 for an idle air controller valve (that one hurt). $1000 at least for a manual transmission. 30 man-hours (I looked it up) of labor for $1500 benefits. It's easy, without even touching many of the major parts of car, to get up to big dollar amounts. \\n If it were possible to build a car for 1/5 of the cost, would not KoreaCar start selling basic unchanging cars on fixed production lines for 3/10 of what Americans cars sell, and take over the market?\",\n \"Summary: there is nothing wrong with rich people getting ripped off on overpriced toys. It's just income redistribution. It's when they get their money's worth that's the problem.\\n\\nPost: A $100K bottle of champagne amounts to a gift from a rich person to another rich person (ethically neutral) or a gift from a rich person to a group of less rich people (ethically good). \\n This is because $100K of resources and labor were not actually consumed in the making of this bottle, in contrast to the purchase of a $100K car.\",\n \"Summary: in 1787, arms meant all arms, and as a citizen you could own any weapon.\\n\\nPost: Sigh. We've been over this so many times. [See this pro-gun article]( \\n \\n the 'SALT' treaty - Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty - is about nuclear weapons. Arms can refer to nukes. \\n \\n The Declaration of Independence refers to American sailors being conscripted and being forced to take up 'arms' - meaning heavy naval cannon, the biggest weapons available. \\n \\n Hamilton, in Federalist 29, argued \\\"if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens.\\\" - ie, the right to keep and bear arms means being able to match the army. \\n \\n Washington's and Jefferson's writings (see above link) use 'arms' to refer to heavy weaponry. \\n \\n \\n The distinction between arms and weapons did not exist in 1787. Individuals could own the largest guns available. You still can own the largest guns of 1787. This limited interpretation of the 2nd you postulate is a modern creation, not based on original intent, meant to avoid some unwanted consequences.\",\n \"Summary: from the carefully reasoned and factually valid perspective of the Arabs, the creation of Israel as a Jewish state would, for reasons of demographic necessity, result in the ethnic cleansing of a large number of Palestinians, because they were too intermixed with the Jewish population.\\n\\nPost: Some reasons why Israel might not have been recognized in 1948: \\n \\n The land was promised to the Arabs in WWI in return for fighting the Turks. \\n \\n The land area given to Jews in the UN Partition plan was larger than that given to Palestinians (counterargument: desert land vs relatively arable land) \\n \\n Doozie #1: the Jewish part of the 1948 Partition plan was actually about 50% Palestinian + Bedouin, so that most of the people in the 'Jewish' state didn't want to be there. A necessary part of the creation of the state of Israel, even within the Partition boundaries, was ethnic cleansing. No cleansing, no predominantly Jewish state. The Palestinians had a demographic majority no matter how you diced it and sliced it. \\n \\n Doozie #2: From point #3, there was an ugly civil war from November 1947 to May 1948 in which 200,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes. Whoever was to blame in the immediate sense, this expulsion was necessary for the reasons described in point #3. By the time of the Arab attack of May 14 1948, following Israel's declaration of independence, the principal issue on Arabs' minds was the mass expulsion. Counteracting this expulsion was, in fact, the principal public reason behind the attack.\",\n \"Summary: Republicans have dumb old white people. Democrats have dumb poor minorities.\\n\\nPost: Actually, the Older people tend to be smarter. \\n Let's see ... \\n [On science, young do better than oldest (Pew Poll)]( \\n Interestingly, \\n > On average, Republicans scored somewhat higher than Democrats on the science test ... After taking education, age, gender, race and income into account there is little difference between Republicans and Democrats.\",\n \"Summary: assuming low inflation, and 5% low-taxed inflation adjusted yields, and longevity, I think I'd take the annual distributions.\\n\\nPost: Let's see ... you would be in 50% tax bracket (state + federal ) on $25M the lump sum. You'd have $13M left, good for $650K a year on 5% dividend stocks, taxed at 25% (state + federal). You have $500K of pocket money per year. \\n Or else you take the $2.9M a year. That might be $1.7M a year after tax. You spend $500K a year, like the first example. You take the remaining $1.2M a year and invest it. After 12 years, you have the same spending, plus $12M in the bank (AFTER taking 2% inflation into account, but not assuming growth of the money as you invest it).\",\n \"Summary: this amount of nuts, if purchased in bulk, fits into a food stump budget at a little over the average per-calorie price.\\n\\nPost: Nuts are not cheap. \\n Rather fancy shelled hazlenuts cost [$9/lb]( online. A daily [handful is taken to be an ounce]( so it costs about 60 cents a day. \\n Now this handful has about 10% of your daily calories, so if you are spending $6 on food a day, these nuts will fit right in at the average per-calorie price. Food stamps pays a bit over $4 a day.\",\n \"Summary: i like darkness\\n\\nPost: As other people have mentioned, astronomers hate the broad-band emission of LEDs. And blue light at night is bad for you. \\n I wonder if a better thing to do would be to have numerous very dim lights rather than sparse bright lights. Things like electric cats eyes to light up the road and nothing else. Or lights that dim when there is nobody around. Crosswalks that light up when somebody is using them. Active lights would be a crime preventer too, because it would make it clear that someone is lurking around, like motion detectors everywhere. \\n Eventually, cars equipped with night vision could replace illumination.\",\n \"Summary: GOP wasn't a synonym for 'batshit crazy'\\n\\nPost: The GOP used to have a classy Ivy League WASP element. Bush was part of it. So was WF Buckley Jr. \\n You might dislike them, or disagree with them, but there is no denying that they were much smarter than the current crop of knuckleledraggers. \\n They were also centrists and, for the most part, relatively moderate. \\n The 1980 GOP race was Anderson vs Bush vs Reagan. Anderson and Bush would be Democrats today, probably.\",\n \"Summary: the Hilo milk I-131 went over the EPA limit for continuous year in, year out drinking-water exposure (even though exposure was not continuous). It stayed far, far, within the FDA limit for food. \\n edit: why am being downmodded for providing links to US government exposure limits? ;)\\n\\nPost: 3.03 gallons of milk exceeded the YEARLY maximum EPA limit. \\n The actual limits for I-131 are here: \\n From this, the FDA has a limit of 3 pCi/L in drinking water for continuous exposure , year in, year out, decade in, decade out. \\n > Standard - drinking water - 4 mrem/yr equivalent to 3 pCi/L (0.1 Bq/L) continuous exposure \\n Now the milk contained 18 pCi/L of I-131 for one measurement . If you were to drink milk like you drink water for a year, you would exceed the EPA drinking water I-131 limit. But note that the I-131 has a half life of just 8 days. After a month, the I-131 will be 94% gone unless it is being actively replenished. \\n Also note that the EPA limit is for 4 mrem a year, which is about 1.3% of an average natural background dose. It is very conservative, designed to keep artificial exposure far below natural exposure. What this milk might mean is that if you were to chug milk for a few days, your artificial exposure would be bumped up to a few percent of natural background. But you'd have to chug it faster than the natural 8 day decay timescale. \\n Now note on this same page that the FDA limit for food is 4,600 pCi/kg! This is far more than the 18 pCi/L recorded for milk. So that this milk is below the FDA intervention level by a factor of about 250.\",\n \"Summary: because of the decay of I-131, if you were to chug 3 gallons of milk on the very worst day in Hilo, you would still get about 8% of the FDA limit, because the iodine doesn't last for the whole year for which the 4mrem/yr limit is computed. Your original web page ignores this distinction between short term and continuous exposure. \\n And you're ignoring the fact that the FDA intervention rate for I-131 in food is 250x higher than the Hilo milk measurements I cited. The EPA limit is a very conservative one for continuous drinking water.\\n\\nPost: Wrong. You're comparing i-131 thyroid localized radiation dose to attenuated whole body background. \\n Your [source]( does not consider any thyroid localization. It simply combines all isotopes for a 4 mrem yearly dose. \\n > I already explained that 3 gallons of milk exceeded the 1 year maximum EPA level .. \\n Let's do the math. The contamination you cited is 18 pCi/L of I-131, so that 4 gallons of milk is 266 pCi. Now this is about 15 decays per second (because 20 pCi is 1 decay/sec) at below 1 MeV/decay, or 15 MeV/sec energy released. \\n Now 1 [mrem]( is 10 µSv = 1e-5 Sv. \\n 1 Sv is 1 Joule/kg. Then 15 MeV/sec=2.4e-12 J/s, or over the course of a year it is \\n7e-5 Joules. Hence if you were to deposit this 15 MeV/sec into 1 kg you would deposit\\n7e-5 Sv/kg. This is 70 µSv or 7 mrem into this kg of flesh. But wait a minute! The I-131 has a half-life of 8 days! \\nInvoking the geometric series, the full dose equivalent is administered for just 16 days, so the real\\ndose is 7mrem.16days/365days=0.3 mrem.\",\n \"Summary: nuclear armed regimes going through revolution are a bad thing, so wishing for nukes before revolution might not work so well.\\n\\nPost: I certainly see your point. I think that Americans fail to understand the role of nationalism (rather than religious fanaticism) in the conflict. \\n > It's the same way I feel for the mullahs. They are lying, deceiving bastards who I think should be hung. \\n But one thing that occurred to me is that the existence of a Bomb (as opposed to the ability to build one on a few months' notice) will vastly complicate any regime change of the type you want. \\n North Korea has the bomb. The government is hated. Yet the existence of the bomb strengthens the regime's hand, because it has a last-ditch lever to protect itself. It also transforms local political instability (which is what you want, if you wish to hang the mullahs) into a global problem. The world might just support the mullahs, because they would value stability over the unknowns of revolution and democracy, if control of nukes were at stake. Note how Israel liked Mubarak - he was bad, but stable. Nuclear mullahs might be similar. \\n So even if an Iranian bomb is acceptable from a nationalist perspective, then I have trouble understanding how it is a good thing in the hands of an authoritarian regime. It will probably do a lot to cement the regime's power.\",\n \"Summary: Libertarians will tell you exactly what they want. TPs will only tell you they're discontented, and when they do tell you what they want, they won't reconcile the internal contradictions. The thinkers (whether one agrees with their thinking) are an insignificant fringe.\\n\\nPost: why not move under the Libertarian umbrella? \\n The answer, if I may rudely interrupt, is that Libertarianism, for all its faults, attempts to be a consistent intellectual movement. They try to reconcile part A of their philosophy with part B, and recognize that to get X they need to give up Y. \\n The Tea Party is based on vague discontent and anger and on not thinking too hard. They are 55/5 Republican/Democrat with about 1/3 independents, and they blame the black guy for big government after 8 years of white guy deficits and spending increases. The Libertarian component is very small.\",\n \"Summary: to be convincing, Apple haters need to point the way to an equally good and easy to use Unix option, assuming that not everybody is strongly budget constrained. For some people, paying 30% more might be well worth three years of convenience.\\n\\nPost: On the other hand, if you have a bit of extra money, Apples are a reliable, easy-to-maintain, high quality Unix box. \\n If you are in certain fields, you really can't use Windows, and Linux is still a bit of a PITA (though much less than in the past). Macs are expensive, but remember when a high-end 386 cost the equivalent of $5K today. A 27\\\" iMac for a third of this price is pretty sweet.\",\n \"Summary: the economic cost of gun damage ($150 billion) is about 3000x greater than the cost of fireworks (under $50 million).\\n\\nPost: This doesn't account for the possibility of more fires as a result, though. \\n Yes, and the fires will cause a certain number of casualties too. Let's calculate it (below). \\n > Though I will disagree about that last method you listed. I've fired guns tens of thousands of times (not really crazy considering I can go through at least 500 rounds on a day I spend at the range) \\n You are highly atypical. Most firearm owners (about half of households) don't spend hours on the firing range. \\n I think my experience - firing a gun a few times, and lots of fireworks as a kid - is more typical. But let's calculate it. There are about 2.5 billion 22 LR cartridges a year sold in USA, or about 10 per person. Let's say 20 including other sizes, given that 22 LR is the standard plinking round. \\n Fireworks are a $1B industry in USA , so that would be about 10 billion pieces a year, or about the same as the number of cartridges. \\n So, ballpark, as many or more fireworks are shot off as cartridges, but they kill 10,000 times fewer people. \\n Now let's look at the fire statistics, OK? By the link above, fireworks cause 0.1% of fire damage losses in USA. Total fire losses are 11.6 billion dollars from fire can be attributed to fireworks. \\n A human life is typically valued at around 5 million dollars (give or take a factor of 2) for the purposes of regulation, so that guns cause a loss of $150B a year. This is about $149.95B more than the combined fire and death damage from fireworks.\",\n \"Summary: all of the things you say are small adjustments to the fact that guns kill 31,000 people a year. No matter how you cut it, this is $10s of BILLIONS of damage a year. Compared to this, fire damage and fatalities from fireworks are small potatoes. Even if you increase the usage of fireworks by a factor of 100, fireworks will still cause negligible damage compared to guns.\\n\\nPost: The value of a human life is an intangible number, it's not a good tool to try and compare things with. \\n Disagree strongly. We routinely (FAA, FDA, etc) place a value on human life. Safety is a cost/benefit tradeoff. You should at least place a minimal value on human life, and a couple of million dollars (economic productivity of one human, over one lifetime, at $50K a year) is a good start. \\n Why don't you tell me what you think the value of a human life is, and we'll use your figure? I used the ballpark regulatory figure, but if you have something else, why not proceed from that? \\n > you absolutely have to include the value of animal and plant life that is lost as a result of the fire. \\n The fire figures include economic damages. Values of animals is pretty low - we eat them in hamburgers . Wildlife dies all the time. Nothing close to the value we place on human life. If you'd like, you can place a value on one acre of national park. It will simply not come close to the $150B cost of human life loss from guns. \\n > the overall damage done by an awry firework compared to an awry bullet is on a much grander scale \\n We're not talking about one gun or one firework. We're talking about all guns and all fireworks. We're tallying things up at the end of the year. \\n > A forest fire on the other hand has much larger ecological implications, \\n Not really. In a typical year, 10 million acres burns. This is 15,000 square miles, or 120 miles on a side, or 0.3% of land area. Much of it would burn naturally. This means that a given patch of forest has 300 years to recover. Part of nature. \\n > as well as the possibility of destroying human lives and property. \\n But you just said these aren't important compared to wildlife! QUOTE: \\\"As callous as it sounds, the loss of a human life as a holistic view is very small. A forest fire on the other hand has much larger ecological implications...\\\" \\n Nevertheless, we've already taken this account. As I wrote, fireworks fires are 0.1% of all fires, and account for $10M of damage, and kill about 3 people.\",\n \"Summary: the Pb210 is claimed to be a component of the initial poison. The support ratios of >100% in some samples are claimed to be sample prep biases. There is far too much Pb210 to be from natural sources. The Pb210 contaminant causes the \\\"support ratio\\\" of the Po210 to approach 1 from below asymptotically as would be the case in a natural sample, but you can't hide the excess Pb210.\\n\\nPost: The whole paper, as you know, tries to establish that less than 100% of the Po210 is supported by existing Pb210. \\n Table 14 shows more Pb210 decays than Po210, but the Po210 is still far above background (Fig 13,14). They say that the washing procedure underestimates Po210, and explain it in depth in V.4.5.4. In this section they review the washing procedure for the bones, and conclude that 55% of the Po210 is 'unsupported' by the Pb210. \\n In non-bone specimens (Table 16), there was an excess of Po210 decays. Figure 15 plots the non-supported fraction of Po210 in soft tissues, and it is generally less than 100%. \\n The weird thing is that Arafat's bones show far more Pb210 than normal (Fig 16), and there is a big spread.\\nIn section V.4.8 they speculate that Pb210 is a contaminant in Po210, and verify this is true using a commercial Po sample. In V.4.10.2, they say that there is too much Pb210 to explain through chronic intake. \\n The story, if I understand it, is that Arafat was allegedly poisoned with Po210 unavoidably contaminated with Pb210. The Po210 decayed quickly. What is left behind a slight excess of initial Po210, and lot of Pb210 that creates more Po210 over time in a 1:1 decay ratio. There was 20x more (V.4.10.2) Pb210 than found in bone samples in the literature.\",\n \"Summary: Hamas and the Israeli government are a bunch-o-dicks, and the Israelis tend to cause more damage because their bunch-o-dick guns are bigger than the Hamas bunch-o-dick guns.\\n\\nPost: All those deaths could have been avoided if Israel 1) didn't kick the Palestinians out of their historical home 2) give up the West Bank and Gaza 3) not fund Hamas during the 1980s to create a militant group opposed to the PLO 3) not blockade Gaza 4) not try to prevent the Palestinian unity government from funding Hamas government members.\\\" \\n Hamas is a bunch of dicks, but they are the product of the bunch of dicks who represent Israel's government. The deaths were among a Palestinian population who were orignally screwed by the Israeli bunch-o-dicks, and then ended up living among (and electing) the Hamas bunch-o-dicks who shoot rockets at the people who are ruled by (and elect) the Israeli bunch-o-dicks.\",\n \"Summary: listen, dude, I'm just quoting the current law on the matter.\\n\\nPost: First, see my edit, in which I linked to the actual court decision, and quoted its logic. \\n > define machine consumption because i can set up a toolchain to process and run traditional source code \\n The point is that source code is often used by humans to talk with each other, and the \\\"Supreme Court has explained that “all ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance,” including those concerning “the advancement of truth, science, morality, and arts” have the full protection of the First Amendment.\\\" \\n The fact that source code can be used for humans to express ideas to each other means that transmission of source code can't be restricted. \\n You're also confusing 'assembly' (which is textual, human readable source code for machine code) with machine/object code itself, which is not customarily readable by humans. Although machine code intended for human consumption (eg efficiency analysis and discussion of compiler output) might also be protected.\",\n \"Summary: don't get mad at me bro, I'm just describing a court decision.\\n\\nPost: One more time, buddy - I'm basically just [quoting this court decision that established First Amendment protections for source code]( because it is a means for humans to express ideas to each other. \\n In the words of the decision, source code is functional and EXPRESSIVE but object code is by default assumed to be merely functional (if only because the plaintiff never claimed otherwise, but demanded the right to export source code).\",\n \"Summary: just [read the damned legal precedent instead of getting mad at me]( Even if you don't like these arguments, they're the current law of the land.\\n\\nPost: object code is indeed human readable \\n The courts would probably argue that source code has an expressive purpose , and that mere readability is not sufficient for this purpose. Object code is the result of taking expressive material (source code) and processing it into a form that is far less optimal for expression. \\n It will be hard to argue \\\"I compiled this program and made it much harder to read so we can discuss it.\\\" \\n I can 'read' a cannon barrel and understand how it works, but it is mainly functional. The blueprint for a cannon barrel, if meant at least in part to discuss cannon barrel design, would be expressive, however (though national security considerations can trump First Amendment expression). \\n You'll note that the legal pioneers who forced the government to allow crypto export never even attempted your 'object code is expression' idea. Probably, they assumed it wouldn't fly.\",\n \"Summary: rants like this are useless.\\n\\nPost: This is a mixture of a bit of truth and a whole lot of conspiracy theory. \\n I'd like to see a calm, rational academic economist explain, quantitatively, how the dollar denomination of oil helps the USA. Barring that, I can't take stuff like this too seriously, though I suspect there is some element of truth in it. \\n The idea that Libya was going to sell oil for gold is silly, for instance. Maybe Qadaffi Duck said so, but that don't make it so. \\n If Saudi gets dollars for a barrel of oil, they can immediately turn them into whatever they want - Euros, gold, delicious stinky cheese.\",\n \"Summary: The 2nd says 'arms'. Arms meant all weapons (see Dec. of Indep. and Madison's writings). If believe in an individual right, and curtail arms in any way, you are violating the Constitution, just like Feinstein. You're just drawing an unconstitutional line at a different place. Madison saw the 2nd as a counterweight to a standing army. Unfortunately, he didn't foresee nukes and MANPADS, but that's not my problem.\\n\\nPost: Thanks for your comments. Here are my quibbles: \\n > Actually, they used a general guideline of 'common use', which mainly means that widely popular weapons \\n My point is that a full and honest reading of the 2nd, using the interpretation that it implies a free-standing individual right to keep and bear arms, precludes any such modifications. \\n In the Heller violate the Second Amendment. The District’s total ban on handgun possession in the home amounts to a prohibition on an entire class of “arms” that Americans overwhelmingly choose for the lawful purpose of self-defense.* \\n The decision also says Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those “in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons. \\n But why is overwhelming choice and common custom a criterion for legitimacy? This is like banning speech that is popular, and claiming to uphold the First Amendment. \\n The second section, about \\\"in common use at the time,\\\" effectively grandfathers gun control. If we ban semi-automatic 'assault weapons', and make the ban stick for a few years, then these guns are no longer in common use, and may be banned. QED. Conservative pro-gun court logic. This is pretty much the way automatic weapons went away, whatever timeline you choose for their demise. \\n > Hell, 37mm 'launchers' are perfectly legal without a Destructive Device permit, so long as you don't create any anti-personnel ammunition, without registering the launcher as a DD. \\n And my point is that such restrictions violate the 2nd, taken literally. The limitations the Court allows on the individual right to carry are every bit as arbitrary as the handgun ban it overturned. The Supreme Court actually embraced arbitrary gun control by quoting that line from Miller . Why should common use be a criterion? MANPADS are in common use by the government.\",\n \"Summary: there is rational risk aversion, and dumb-monkey risk aversion. \\n \\n ^1 I just made that up.\\n\\nPost: Or, marginal utility is an asymmetric thing (by definition). I.E. people are risk-averse because being risk averse is rational. \\n It's also known that people are irrational with respect to utility. \\n It hurts a person more to lose a dollar than it gladdens them to get a dollar, even though their utility function should be locally linear (for small changes in wealth). It's as though wherever you are, your utility function has a convex kink that moves along with your wealth level. \\n So people who are risk averse by genuinely looking at the broad convexity of a static utility function are rational (\\\"think past the kink\\\")^(1). However, a lot of people's risk aversion (including playing on tilt, or bailing out a down market) is due to the irrational local convexity, which has also been observed in experiments with monkeys.\",\n \"Summary: reflection losses are not the limiting factor in cell efficiency today.\\n\\nPost: I'm no expert, but a bit of searching suggests that [traditional silicon nitride coated cells]( already absorb 80% of light, so that this method will at most boost cell efficiency by a factor of 1.25 over ordinary cells, assuming identical efficiency at the semiconductor level. So a 16% cell would go to 20% - nice, but not groundbreaking, even if manufacturing costs were the same.\",\n \"Summary: the smart stuff with lots of words and no spinning graphics or blonde bimbos will have a liberal audience because of educational demographics, no matter what its underlying bias.\\n\\nPost: I'm a little disappointed by how far left, compared to Fox News on the right, readers of the Guardian, NYT, et. al. are. \\n Fox is a general news outlet, available in every house with cable TV, so its audience is determined by flipping a switch on the boobtube. Most of the content is news or fluff. \\n Try dividing that graph by high-brow and low-brow, and you'll see that high-brow is on the left, and the really low-brow tends to be on the center to right. \\n For example, the Economist is strongly free-market, yet its readers are more liberal than those of MSNBC or ABC and CNN, the archetypal \\\"liberal controlled media.\\\" This is probably because more educated people read it, and educated people (post-grad degrees) skew liberal. \\n The WSJ is often regarded as a GOP mouthpiece but its audience is ranked as slightly liberal - its conservative political audience doesn't manage to make up for the fact that it manages to grab lots of educated people by virtue of having real national journalism.\",\n \"Summary: you have CO2 because you made a lot of energy and used it up somewhere. To turn the CO2 into something useful you have to input more valuable energy.\\n\\nPost: Where would the energy come from? The initial system (coal + oxygen) has some total energy (enthalpy, right? it's been a while). Energy leaves the system as heat and electricity when coal gets burned to make CO2. The final system (the organic molecules made from CO2 and by-products like water) has some enthalpy that is much higher than the CO2, and maybe a bit lower than coal+oxygen. You need to input energy to turn the waste CO2 into something useful. \\n You's get this energy either by burning more coal (oops), or from clean energy you could have used in the first place, instead of coal.\",\n \"Summary: justices stick to their guns when losing a vote, when SD says they should switch sides.\\n\\nPost: There are three types of cases: \\n \\n when the justice agrees with precedent. These cases is useless for analysis, because it is a win/win. \\n \\n cases where we don't know the relative role of SD and personal preference. These cases are useless for analysis because, well, we don't know the relative roles of SD and preference. \\n \\n cases where SD indicates one vote, and preference indicates the opposite, and we think know them both. These are the cases that the study looks at. The study finds that personal preference wins by about 10:1. \\n \\n \\n TO THE EXTENT WE CAN MEASURE IT , the study claims that SD is trumped by personal preference. \\n Your point above is valid only if the authors of the study did a bad job of matching same-justice dissent and subsequent 'progeny' cases, or if they misunderstood the terms of the dissent. On page 981, they claim that this was usually easy, citing the case of Justice Black citing his own earlier dissent as a basis of a current dissent. \\n There are a lot of subjective judgements that go into the method and case selection, but the result seems concrete and non-partisan: all justices of any political stripe rarely allow losing a case to the majority to flip their vote in subsequent cases. Such a flip should happen a large fraction of the time, ideally 100%, but perhaps less allowing for your complicating factors. \\n edit: maybe you could argue that we'd want to see at least 50% flips, as would be the case if the new case were independent of the old case, and the justice ignored both precedent and personal preference and just tossed a coin. This would happen if the authors did a completely random job of choosing progeny cases. Instead, we have 10% flips.\",\n \"Summary: they looked at one clear situation (dissent with majority, followed by another similar case and an opportunity to follow the precedent of their own court) when you could analyze respect for stare decisis . In this one type of measurable case, stare decicis lost to personal preference.\\n\\nPost: From the paper: \\n > Theory: We test arguments from the legal model claiming that … justices will follow previously followed legal rules even when when they disagree with them; ie, that they are influenced by stare decisis \\n > Results: Overwhelmingly, Supreme Court justices are not influenced by landmark precedents with which they disagree. We replicate the result for non-landmark decisions and find similar results. \\n The only thing remaining is stare decisis for cases in which they agree . Well, that's pretty much a given. If there's precedent for X, and if you agree with X, then you'll vote X. There's no reason to vote for not-X, so looking at this combination gives you no new information. \\n But, yes, I should have written \\\"So even conservatives threw precedent into the toilet 90% of the time when it conflicts with their views. \\\" \\n You're correct that their method was to look at dissents, but this does not alter the conclusion (see \\\"Results: …\\\" above). Their method (explained on pages 975 onward) was to look whether judges in the minority change their position in subsequent cases to agree with the majority or whether they continue to dissent. For example, does a dissenter in Roe v Wade subsequently take Roe v Wade as precent when given another abortion case? \\n They adopt this method in order to disentangle stare decisis when the justice would have done it anyway, from stare decisis done against a justice's own feelings. The found that when personal opinions come up against precedent in a second case, the first case carries no statistical weight. If a judge voted against abortion in Roe v Wade , he won't take Roe v Wade as precedent when given another abortion case.\",\n \"Summary: if you're watching so much tv that you worry about filling 1TB, go and play in the sunshine and talk to some humans.\\n\\nPost: OK, full Blue-Ray is 50 GB per disk, so you'd be limited to 20 full length features per month at 1TB, assuming no further compression. That's still a lot. \\n But the key question is not 'can I fill all my waking hours with Blue-Ray HD given my bandwidth?' but is 'will cable TV be able to offer anything better than broadband with a 500GB or 1TB monthly cap'? It's not as though cable tv were offering 100 blue ray movies a month.\",\n \"Summary: people who want to use your money and your kids' blood to tinker with the world, not caring much whether the banner they fight under is the hammer and sickle or stars and stripes.\\n\\nPost: What are neocons? \\n People who are 'conservative' in supporting an aggressive, interventionist foreign policy, but are more lax on cultural issues, and show little concern for fiscal matters. They are sort of a remora that has attached itself to the Republican party, sucking its blood while pretending to agree with its fiscal and social agenda. \\n Intellectually descended to a large extent from left-wingers who repudiated Communism, but not the activism that is associated with it.\",\n \"Summary: the most common date rape drug (when one is used) is ethanol. Maybe this straw detects it. Or maybe you can ask the bartender.\\n\\nPost: References: \\n 1 , 8% for benzodiazepines, and 4% for gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB). [ie, 12% of suspected date rape drug use had positive tests for date rape drugs, but the 8% benzodiazepines could also be voluntarily taken Valium] \\n [2]( A similar study of 2,003 urine samples of victims of suspected DFSAs found less than 2% tested positive for Rohypnol or GHB. A three-year study in the UK found two percent of 1,014 rape victims had sedatives detected in their urine 12 hours after the assault. A 2009 Australian study found that of 97 instances of patients admitted to hospital believing their drinks might have been spiked, tests were able to detect drugs in none.\",\n \"Summary: circumcision confers a statistical benefit of 3.5 additional days longevity to a Caucasian US child, ignoring socioeconomic non-uniformities in HIV infection. That doesn't seem too compelling.\\n\\nPost: The major concern to me is that the major benefits cited today are hetero HIV and HPV. Both of these are dependent on social circumstances. \\n Hetero HIV is a risk almost exclusively in 1) Africa and the 3rd world and 2) some US minority or impoverished communities. \\n HPV is now preventable more effectively through immunization; you'd be better encouraging shots for males too. \\n Yes, there are benefits, but for whom and in under what socioeconomic circumstances. \\n This provides a pseudo-medical cover for those with no real medical justification, because those social considerations are given no weight in the report. \\n Some of these arguments are very un-politically-correct. The hetero AIDS argument might make more sense for a black kid in the ghetto than for a white kid on Omaha. \\n edit: \\n Some notes on the US AIDS epidemic. There are about 4400 new male HIV cases in USA per year , so that the years of life lost to the disease are about 0.08 (assuming average mid-life infection), or about 1 month. But circumcision reduces HIV infection risk by a factor of about 50%, so the average benefit of circumcision's HIV protective effect is down to 14 days. \\n But (same source) the HIV cases are not uniformly distributed. Whites represent only 25% of HIV infections, so the benefit to a white male drops to 3.5 days of statistical longevity. \\n Then one has to further subdivide by social class. HIV tends to associated with poverty. \\n If the report had been done well, it would have quantified the benefit in this way.\",\n \"Summary: where there is mobility and advancement, people will look good. Where there is little to compete over, people will let themselves go.\\n\\nPost: Not just more social (not just mate) competition, but the mere existence of competition, and the possibility of rearranging social relationships. If you're the barber in Mayberry, you can't move either up or down, so you might as well get fat. If you're a partner in a law firm in NYC, you need to look good and dress well.\",\n \"Summary: NK was a short-term NPT signatory that pretty much ignored it and semi-withdrew, and never used the nuclear trade the NPT facilitates to develop its bomb.\\n\\nPost: They used the deal to come as close as possible to develop nukes ... \\n The didn't really 'use the deal' because their tech was home-grown. They would have 'used the deal' if they had purchased nuclear tech from NPT countries to build their facilities. In fact, their program was home grown tech, which had been stolen from the Dutch long ago. \\n N.Korea ratified the NPT late (1985), and ignored it until it announced intent to withdraw, then exploded a bomb in 2006. As far as I can tell, they never withdrew, just announced intent, then suspended the process.\",\n \"Summary: the blockade is legal despite the less legal or illegal or unsustainable Gaza land blockade only because ship traffic wouldn't put a dent Gaza's food needs.\\n\\nPost: The legality of the blockade argument involved a bit of legal fiction. \\n Turkey says that Israel is blocking food in order to collectively punish the population, which is illegal. This is supported by statements by Israeli officials like Dov Weisglass. \\n The UN says, to paraphrase, \\\"Yes, but this food blockade is through is control of the land crossings, which we view as a matter separate from the maritime blockade under discussion. There aren't ports in Gaza, which means that significant foodstuffs would not be delivered by sea anyway. (p 43)\\\" \\n Still, any ship running the blockade carrying [contraband macaroni]( would be diverted to Israel, where the goods would have to be transferred through a land crossing. The maritime blockade enforces the same terms as the land blockade. \\n The UN says that the land blockade is \\\"unsustainalble\\\" and \\\"needs to be changed.\\\"\",\n \"Summary: X-rays are mostly absorbed by the human body, whatever the wavelength.\\n\\nPost: I don't quite follow your math, but it seems that you are assuming that they x-rays are fully absorbed by 8 inches of body. Don't most of the x-rays go completely through, unimpeded (and thus not affecting anything)? \\n Most are absorbed. But it doesn't matter, because the dose of a standard X-rays (to which the dose from this machine is being compared) takes only the absorbed ones into account. \\n [REM]( \\n > [wikipedia] The röntgen (roentgen) equivalent in man (or mammal[1]) or rem (symbol rem) is a traditional historical unit of radiation dose equivalent. It is the product of the absorbed dose in rads and a weighting factor, WR, which accounts for the effectiveness of the radiation to cause biological damage. \\n You wrote: \\n > I don't know what percentage of x-rays are absorbed by the body, but I think it's pretty low. \\n [Absorption coefficients]( and an [explanation]( At higher X-ray energies 0.1 MeV=100 keV, the coefficient is μ/ρ=0.1693 cm^2 g^-1 . Multiply by tissue density of 1g cm^-3 and you get an inverse distance of 0.169 cm^-1 or a characteristic absorption scale of 5.9 cm; over this distance, the intensity falls by a factor of e=2.718 from absorption. Now for these lower energy 30 KeV X-rays we have μ/ρ=0.379 cm^2 g^-1 giving a distance of 2.6 cm at the same density. So I just can't see much of a difference between these X-rays and higher energy ones. They are all mostly absorbed because the distance is much less than the thickness of the body. \\n The difference between 100 keV and 30 keV seems awfully modest. \\n edit:\",\n \"Summary: real science sticks its neck out.\\n\\nPost: It's relevant because (in Popper's time) Marxism and Freudianism were being sold as scientific theories. \\n Popper insightfully disagreed, after a flirtation with Marxism, saying that a hallmark of a science is that it is testable - it makes predictions that can be falsified. \\n Marxism and Freudianism, by their lack of prediction, can never be contradicted. You can show them virtually any phenomenon, and they will fit it into their theory. Any theory that accounts for everything by default is basically information-free. \\n It's a bit as though I had a theory of physics called \\\"The Elephant God Makes things Happen.\\\" I could explain every physical phenomenon perfectly, perhaps in some complicated theological context, but it would be very unsatisfying as science, even if the theology had a lot of internal consistency. \\n If you're in a science department, you will routinely get crank mails from people with some new theory that purports to explain everything. Invariably, these theories make no new testable predictions.\",\n \"Summary: you don't know diddly.\\n\\nPost: And … who would administer this 'flat tax'? Would you rename the IRS, thereby magically making it nice? \\n Shuffling around tax brackets (which is what a flat tax does) won't do a durned thang for audits, the issue being discussed. Audits are meant to catch invalid deductions, and deductions will have to exist in a flat-tax system if you want business to work.\",\n \"Summary: racism is a useless word, because almost nobody is a 'racist' besides certain racialist groups, because racism is a formal articulated belief in racial superiority. The KKK is racist and melanin theory .\\n\\nPost: It's not such a nutty definition, because '-ist' implies a systematic approach beyond mere prejudice, but 'Power' is the wrong thing to add to the equation. \\n When one thinks about it, 'racist' is a useless word, because the \\\"-ist\\\" once represented a genuine belief system of racial supremacy, synonymous with 'racialism'. People were probably content to be 'racists' just like they were content to be associated with any other \\\"-ist\\\" belief system. \\n Then 'racist' went from being a philosophical description to an epithet used to deliver a stinging rebuke to racial prejudice, so that embracing the R=P+P definition was a way of fending off this epithet in the minority-to-majority direction.\",\n \"Summary: think of it as one approach to the last mile problem of public transport.\\n\\nPost: Well, transportation is expensive, and it is a fundamental need, and public transport often suffers from the last mile problem. \\n $3500 is a lot when you think of it as just another nifty gizmo. It might not be a lot if you think of it as a gizmo that lets you buy a house 2 miles further (and $30K cheaper) from the train station.\",\n \"Summary: just watched a couple of birds fighting over a female for 15 minutes.\\n\\nPost: Crazy, crazy eyes. \\n My hypothesis is that these are young males who vent their religiously mandated sexual repression in the direction of tribal/religious warfare. Young males are made to fight, and tribal self-righteousness gives them an excuse. \\\"You should not teach our women\\\" boils down to sexual competition with the other tribe.\",\n \"Summary: it will raise the cost of nuclear power in Japan modestly.\\n\\nPost: The best estimate of the Fukushima cleanup is [$58B]( \\n This will add a bit less than $1B to the average cost of a Japanese nuclear plant. If we say that a 1GW nuclear reactor costs $5B to build, then this will add 20% to the cost of Japan's reactors. \\n Caveats: costs of cleanup may rise above the $58B figure. On the other hand, the disaster occurred far after Japan's reactors were built, but the benefits of the plant accrued earlier. So the present day cost of a $58B disaster 20 years in the future is only $21B assuming 5% real return on capital. \\n In other words, I can build Japan's 60 reactors today for $300B and budget for a disaster in 20 years by putting $21B into a mutual fund, so the cost of the disaster is $20B/$300B=7% of the total program cost.\",\n \"Summary: reddit is a microcosm of America, minus some frustrated and angry old people who favor a particular flavor of visceral, non-intellectual conservatism.\\n\\nPost: Liberal here. Reddit is definitely liberal. \\n First you really need to define liberal. I think you said \\\"I have a set of views X. Reddit agrees with me, so it too must be X.\\\" \\n Let's limit ourselves to American politics ... \\n You need to ask yourself what reddit is not. Reddit does not have a strong religious contingent. This removes one strong thread of conservatism from reddit. Reddit is not really patriotic/nationalist or have a sense of American tribal identity - there goes another thread of conservatism. \\n But Reddit often violates liberal stereotypes: It seems to love guns as much as it dislikes them. /r/atheism can be as anti-Islamic as hardcore rightwingers (to the point of being unfair by tainting all Muslims with the actions of extremists). You'll find plenty of defenders of George Zimmerman. You'll find plenty of tax haters. \\n Reddit might be what happens when you take American politics, and remove the religious and nationalistic element. The problem is that these two elements constitute a large part of modern American conservatism, so if you remove them, the remainder will appear liberal.\",\n \"Summary: I think it's the nonlinear combination of two effects - easy guns and a big underclass - that produces a fertile ground for violence.\\n\\nPost: I disagree. First, most of the gun deaths are suicides, so some of the plots can be ignored (as author points out). Next, white (and asian ...) Americans aren't very homicidal. Blacks seem to account for [half of all homicides]( ... and this figure seems to lump Latinos in wiith whites. \\n What makes the US unique in the developed world, I think, is the presence of an entrenched economically and socially deprived underclass, combined with easy access to guns from a vast legal marketplace, just one or two steps removed from criminals. \\n In a multidimensional analysis, I suspect that the strongest dimension for gun violence will a vector v sticking out in the two dimensions of large Gini index and permissive gun laws. That's assuming these effects are linear, which they probably aren't. Big underclass and no guns and no underclass and lots of guns probably both produce low gun violence, so that a projection of v onto one of these axes would overpredict violence compared to both effects being present at once.\",\n \"Summary: you still need to pay for the power grid until you get batteries, and that's a big share of current electric bills. If you buy batteries for your solar setup so you don't need the grid, you're not making power as cheaply as the grid any more.\\n\\nPost: The report seems to compare LCOE (levelized cost of electricity) of a solar installation to grid power (which has distribution plus wholesale generation folded into it). \\n The problem ls that the solar installation delivers its power from about 09:00 to 15:00 but demand peaks at 18:00 to 21:00 or so. \\n So the grid is still needed as backup, and grid power will become more expensive if solar becomes more prevalent, because the cost of the grid will be spread over fewer and fewer grid-supplied kW.hrs.\",\n \"Summary: this is is all hovering around the standard 2 sigma, p=0.05 significance; this is why one week coffee causes cancer and the next week it cures it. Do 20 studies, and one will be significant at this level by pure random happenstance. And another one will show that vitamins cause cancer.\\n\\nPost: I think that your abstract section combines the groups with and without previous cancer. In the 'without' group, it seems that there was not much of a benefit. With the confidence interval for the hazard ratio of 0.86 to 0.998, there is still a 2.5% chance that HR>0 and a P=0.04 chance that the effect arose from chance (edit: to satisfy nitpickers, i should have written a P=0.04 probability that this result would have been observed if vitamins had no effect ). So its one those 2 sigma studies that keep contaminating medical research and filling the science pages of newspapers with contradictory results. \\n > the total cancer incidence is reduced among the active multivitamin cohort with p=0.4, which is significant as they set alpha to 0.5 (so any p value less than 0.5 means that the observation did not occur by chance). \\n I'm trying to understand this. We set alpha to be a probability cutoff (say 1%), and we ask how often in the null case we would have gotten a result this significant (in either direction?); The answer to \\\"how often\\\" is P, and the odds that the reported result would result have happened by chance. Correct? So do you mean alpha=0.05 and P=0.04? \\n > so any p value less than 0.5 means that the observation did not occur by chance \\n I don't think this is the right interpretation. Any P could occur by chance; it's only by adopting the rather loose and sloppy alpha=0.05, p=0.05 threshold of significance in biomedicine that it is called significant. \\n I also don't understand why the groups with and without a history were said not to differ, because all the cancer prevention occurred in the group with previous cancer. If we look at the much bigger group without previous cancer, the result was just barely significant. Only by mixing in the smaller group with previous cancer was the overall result made significant. They say the difference between the two groups was at the P=0.07 level, but that's basically the same as the somewhat phony significance cutoff of 0.05.\",\n \"Summary: medicine requires a weak p=0.05 threshold for publication. This study was p=0.04. It just barely satisfied the already loosey-goosey standards of medical statistical significance. If it had been a teeny bit worse (one or two fewer people getting cancer in the placebo group, maybe), then it would have gone from \\\"Vitamins are beneficial\\\" to \\\"No significant evidence that vitamins are beneficials.\\\" In reality, in both cases, the proper interpretation is \\\"There's rather weak evidence that vitamins are beneficial.\\\"\\n\\nPost: A alpha of 0.05 is almost universally accepted as robust in most cohort studies like this one. \\n Yeah, but it's a social acceptance, not a logically justified one. In particle physics . In most science, they really want 3 sigma (p=0.003), and tend to sneer at 2 sigma. Medicine accepts weak 2 sigma results, and it causes lots of false positives to be reported. In fact, 1 of 20 null studies reports a false positive, by definition. \\n > Also, with respect, I don't think you understand the nature of statistical significance. You keep talking about \\\"phony cutoffs.\\\" Well, you need to establish cutoffs when you do statistics \\n Yes, I know this. I understand cutoffs pretty well. My point is that the p=0.05 cutoff, though \\\"almost universally accepted as robust\\\" is not really robust in an absolute sense. Medicine tolerates squishy-soft sigma values, because they have a hard time constructing studies that do better. \\n If medicine were to be hardcore like particle physics, this result would not be significant by a long shot. Particle physics produces compartively few false positives. \\n > This is nothing like those coffee studies. This is high quality, robust research. \\n Those coffee studies were fine! They were done correctly. They just got unlucky and produced a false positive. This happens in 1 of 20 studies if you decide that significance starts at p=0.05. \\n > The statistical nuances that lead to errors and thus to contradictory results in those coffee studies tend to resolve themselves as your sample size increases. \\n These aren't nuances or errors. They're correctly reported unlucky results. This study could also be a correctly reported unlucky result, given that it is just at the 2 sigma threshold.\",\n \"Summary: please don't yell correlation isn't causation every time a paper with a correlation pops up, unless someone makes an obviously erroneous claim in equating the two.\\n\\nPost: I think it should be pointed out that this is correlational and not causational \\n Will you people please stop this? Every time a study showing a correlation pops up, someone says \\\"correlation isn't causation.\\\" \\n We know. That's all that most sciences without a pervasive underlying theory of mechanisms can do. \\n Suppose A is correlated with B. This is either 1) random chance, 2) or A causes B, 3) or B causes A, or 4) some unknown factor C causes both A and B. \\n We can probably rule out that nice threads make you a sociopath. So we're left with 1 (random chance, always accounted for in paper), or 2, or 4. Now 4 appears pretty unlikely - some mystery factor that makes you both 'dark' and dress nicely - so we're left mostly with 2. And even if 4 exists, then the underlying dark causal agent (C) could be viewed as functionally synonymous with darkness (A) itself.\",\n \"Summary: it's OK for the President to be as dumb as a stump. \\n > So Reagan's putative deep faults - not being Hitchens smart - … \\n It's not that he was Hitchens-smart; it's that he was stump-stupid. Don't sanitize it. \\n > Hitchens also tore Bill to pieces regularly. \\n Yup. For other reasons. He provides a good answer to \\\"Is Clinton an ethical fellow?\\\" which is a point we have not raised. The point we raised is \\\"Was Reagan wise (synonyms: knowledgeable, experienced, sensible)?\\\" Hitch's answer is \\\"No, he was as dumb as a stump.\\\"\\n\\nPost: When I said I'm between Coulter and Hitchens - on one hand they can't be more different, but they presumably would have a My Dinner With Andre like discussion at the bar, in spite of themselves. What they share is iconoclasm, idiosyncrasy, depth, sense of humor, generally a libertarian and classical liberal outlook, and - more to the point - sharp tongues. \\n [Hitchens basically calls Coulter a dishonest populist bimbo]( but think what you want. \\n > I'd love to fit in, but it's obviously self-congratulatory to imagine I could. \\n Indeed. This is probably because you can't tell the difference between Hitch's genuine erudition and Coulter's shallow bombast. Hitch is a person whom even an opponent can respect. Coulter is a person whose intelligent ideological allies cringe. When you can't tell the difference between genuine learning and belief, and a talk-show vaudeville act, much is explained. \\n > is that he was entitled to the opinion, and it's well argued, but it sort of misses the point about the nature of the presidency, what it was designed to do.\",\n \"Summary: for ADHD: Saban said that Jews seek to control media. Saban is just as much of an anti-Semite as Stone. QED.\\n\\nPost: Oh, no! Some Jews have influence? Maybe if we banned them from certain professions it would help. \\n See, you are incapable of honest discussion, so you construct strawmen. The issue, in a nutshell, is \\n \\n Stone says pro-Israeli Jews control media. \\n \\n Saban attacks him as anti-Semite. \\n \\n Previously, Saban said precisely this - that it was necessary for Israel supporters like himself to 'control media'. \\n \\n \\n The extent to which people like Saban actually influence (control is a bad, absolutist word) media coverage of the Middle East is an interesting question, but is tangential to points 1,2,3 above. We're talking about Saban.\",\n \"Summary: renting a $500K house - $3K a month, ballpark \\n buying with a 3% 15yr mortgage: nonrecoverable $1.4K + $500 = $1900 (roughly), plus a recoverable principal payment of $2200 a month. After 15 years, your living cost goes down to tax plus repairs, or 2.4% of house's value ($1K a month). And you're sitting on 500K of inflation-adjusted non-taxable equity.\\n\\nPost: even assuming your unrealistically low interest rate, \\n [bankrate.com]( 15 year fixed 2.99%, 30 year fixed 3.57%. So 3% is valid for 15 years. \\n You're correct about property tax and repairs and insurance. But you save tax on the interest deduction assuming you're itemizing. Average US property tax is 1.4%. \\n Let's say a $500K loan at 3% for 15 years. That's $15,000 a year in interest. $3400 a month in total payments. $7000 in property tax. \\n Say you're well off, and in the 25% Federal, 8% state income tax brackets. You get 1/3 of your $15K back, so you pay $10K in interest. But you have to add the property tax to it, so you're up to $17K in interest plus property tax, or 3.4% if you pretend that this is all quasi-interest. \\n Or in other words, you're paying $17000 a year ($1.4K a month) of non-recoverable money to live in a $500K house. In addition, you're paying $26400 a year into the principal, which essentially amounts to an interest-free, inflation protected savings vehicle subject to zero capital gains when you decide to sell. \\n How much does it cost to rent a $500K house where you live? Where I live, it is probably about 3K a month, which is about $1600 more than the loss associated with buying, but $2200 less than the total payment (some of which goes into recoverable principal). \\n Insurance? $1000 a year, or almost negligible. Repairs? That's tougher. People estimate 1% per year. That's another $400 a month.\",\n \"Summary: this will impose a minor technical hurdle on cops. A cop just needs to generate 'probable cause' (smell drugs), or be quicker to do a sniff on reasonable suspicion (which means anything the cop wants it to mean).\\n\\nPost: The decision pertains to a cop having a suspicion of drugs, and failing to use his drug dog right away, instead calling for backup. \\n \\\"I smell weed\\\" can be used as probable cause to justify an intrusive search, rather than a dog-sniff from the outside, which needs only reasonable suspicion. \\n The whole issue as far as I can tell was extending a \\\"reasonable suspicion\\\" stop.\",\n \"Summary: It's 250 without clouds; I rounded to 200 for clouds. The tilted plate will be another 25% loss at a middling northern latitude.\\n\\nPost: Average insolation in space: F=1366 watts per square meter. \\n Spherical (total) area of earth: As = 4 pi R^2 (R is radius of earth) \\n Face on area of earth: Af = pi R^2 \\n Flux divided by total area = F x Af / As = F/4 = 341 watts/m^2, assuming no atmosphere. \\n But then you have clouds and other atmospheric effects. \\n My 200 figure is a bit below the the 250 (ideal cloudless, but with atmosphere) figure of the wikipedia article. You get this by reducing the 1366 figure at the top of the atmosphere to 1000 watts at the surface. This is the standard figure for the light reaching the surface at noon, with the sun overhead. \\n The tilted plate difference is just the cosine of the latitude, which isn't such a huge difference.\",\n \"Summary: nothing wrong with direct marketing if there is a competent medical professional to interpret that information, without that competency layer, the system will be just as broken with or without direct marketing. \\n Explain to me the benefit of marketing Lipitor, which is off-patent and has generics. It's designed to drive my insurance rates up. Period.\\n\\nPost: J&J sell everything from bandaids ... \\n Right. That's why J&J is not a good example. But even for J&J, [their pharma and medical devices divisions dominate over consumer goods]( \\n > the only reason people buy tylenol instead of generic acetaminophen is because of marketing, the amount of money spent on marketing. \\n Yes. This is a bad thing. Poor, uneducated people do this most. But when people pester their doctors for expensive on-patent prescription meds, MY insurance rates go up. If you buy Tyleonol, I don't care, because I get CVS. If you whine until you get Lipitor, I pay for your stupidity. \\n > Additionally, direct marketing to consumers does nothing to preclude there being a drug arbiter in the form of your pharmacist and doctor. \\n Then why do pharma advertise to consumers? Are they stupid? Of course the MD is an arbiter. But only partially effective. Otherwise, those TV commercials would go away. \\n > Again, direct advertising has its negatives, but leaving doctors as the only gatekeepers for drug and pharmaceutical information makes the whole thing even worse \\n The problem is that there's no information like \\\"Don't buy Bozotine! Except in rare cases, it's no better than Generic Bimbazol!\\\" The information in ads is one sided. A doctor is likely, at least, to give two sides. The problem with going a doctor is that he might give you a drug that's been marketed heavily to him - but those are the same damn drugs that appear on TV, marketed to consumers. Consumer advertising amplifies rather than mitigates the problem of marketing to MDs. \\n You want neutral info? Try wikpiedia and WebMD. It's not perfect, but it gives two sides. \\n >\",\n \"Summary: means 'don't waste my time'. At a minimum, video wastes 3x more time than reading.\\n\\nPost: You can still post it. Just divide it into paragraphs. Have an abstract. Use subtitled sections to make it skimmable. \\n An essay is always faster to parse than a video. People read at 250 words per minute, and fast readers read much faster. People speak at 100 words per minute. To hit 250 wpm speaking, the average reading speed, you need to sound like an auctioneer. Reading allows random access, particularly with subtitled sections. \\n Fundamentally, '\",\n \"Summary: you never want to make power from 2mph wind.\\n\\nPost: The problem with your argument is that the energy in wind at velocity V scales as V^(3). If you double the speed of the wind, energy goes up by a factor of 8. \\n So if their example 2mph wind blows for 10 hours and then a 15 mph wind blows for 1 hour, there is 42 times more energy in the short burst of moderately fast wind than in the 10 solid hours of slow wind. \\n There simply is very little energy in slow wind. If wind is too slow for a regular turbine, then there isn't much energy to be extracted. \\n If this system confers an advantage over the 75% Betz efficiency of a regular turbine, it means you have wasted your money by putting a turbine in a place where the wind is ridiculously slow and where there is little power to be made.\",\n \"Summary: the people who should be most threatened by a 'Nazi government' disagree with you. \\n Look, my forefathers are very familiar with the old Russian imperial proclivities. They lived for decades under the Russian yoke. I think you just don't understand why Russia's neighbors can fear and dislike the Russians.\\n\\nPost: Can you, after all I said, look inside yourself, and tell me that you honestly believe the Ukrainian government is currently a democratic institution, not controlled by Nazis? \\n Yes, because the major representatives of the Jewish population of Ukraine have expressed the opinion that, although some elements of the new government are problematic, on the whole Kiev is not Nazi, and Vladimir Putin represents the greater threat.\",\n \"Summary: fires need convection, and a matrix of fibers blocks it.\\n\\nPost: No data. Just speculation. \\n Here's a partial justification. The flow of gaseous fuel to a fire is normally by convection, not diffusion. The diffusion speed of hydrogen at STP is something like 10^-4 m^2 s^-1 (weird units because it is a random walk, so increasing time by 100 increases diffusion distance by only 10, again suppressing the fuel-feed-rate). So over a period of one second hydrogen from a distance of 1 cm will arrive to feed a fire, if diffusion is the limiting factor. It's safe to assume that a lattice of fibers will stop any significant convection, so that feeding the fire will be a diffusion process. Moreover, for hydrogen to leak out of the lattice, air has to leak into it, and the diffusion time of air is even slower, by a factor of about four. I imagine that a brick of this stuff might smolder slowly as hydrogen diffuses outward, so slowly that heat loss and the smothering effect of the oxygen-free blanket of combustion gases might put the fire out. Because it is a diffusion process with units of distance^2 time^-1 , only the outermost layer of the brick will provide fuel in short time; the rest of the fuel will take forever to get out. For example, in space, fires go out because of lack of gravitational convection. not-quite-QED.\",\n \"Summary: you're full of it.\\n\\nPost: Here it is]( \\n > 776.032 Immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action for justifiable use of force. \\n > (1) A person who uses force as permitted in s. 776.012, s. 776.013, or s. 776.031 is justified in using such force and is immune from criminal prosecution and civil action for the use of such force, unless the person against whom force was used is a law enforcement officer, as defined in s. 943.10(14), who was acting in the performance of his or her official duties and the officer identified himself or herself in accordance with any applicable law or the person using force knew or reasonably should have known that the person was a law enforcement officer. As used in this subsection, the term \\\"criminal prosecution\\\" includes arresting, detaining in custody, and charging or prosecuting the defendant. \\n >(2) A law enforcement agency may use standard procedures for investigating the use of force as described in subsection (1), but the agency may not arrest the person for using force unless it determines that there is probable cause that the force that was used was unlawful. \\n > (3) The court shall award reasonable attorney's fees, court costs, compensation for loss of income, and all expenses incurred by the defendant in defense of any civil action brought by a plaintiff if the court finds that the defendant is immune from prosecution as provided in subsection (1). \\n Now what do 776.012, s. 776.013, or s. 776.031 say? The links are on the same page, so I'll just summarize. \\n 776.012: A person may use force, but not deadly force unless there is a threat of great bodily harm or a forcible felony. \\n 776.013: Covers deadly force upon entering a dwelling - irrelevant. \\n 776.031: Force may be used to defend against trespass, and deadly force in cases to prevent a forcible felony. Also irrelevant, because there was no trespass. \\n First, it does not say what you claimed - \\\"If there are no criminal charges there can't be any civil charges.\\\" This is because the state is not obligated to file criminal charges even when it is possible. The state does not file criminal charges for every crime! This law merely creates the same self-defense threshold for both criminal and civil cases. It does not make civil cases contingent on criminal ones. \\n Next, it is unclear that the self-defense clause of 776.012 required by 776.032 is triggered by the events. Zimmerman followed the guy, got out of the car, and initiated a confrontation. If he wanted to avoid the threat of \\\"bodily harm\\\" he could have stayed in the car, or not followed the kid. Also, it is not clear that a reasonable person would have feared \\\"great bodily harm\\\" from a lanky teenager not known to be armed.\",\n \"Summary: Mao was not a well meaning fuckup. He toyed with other people's existences. Like Hitler.\\n\\nPost: Mao's 'political moves' were deliberate, not just stupid. There's a difference between an honest (heh) mistake, and a reckless ideological policy meant to sacrifice people. Hitler deserves a higher body count for WWII (12M for genocide, but tens more for the war). But there's not much of a difference between sacrificing people to stupid ideology, and warfare. \\n [At the meeting [Mao] announced that 'When there is not enough to eat people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.'\\\" ](\",\n \"Summary: If you want to make money, bet on Obama at Intrade. They are probably over-estimating Romney's chances of winning the nomination (because GOP candidates add up to over 100%, maybe indicating fan-dom), and Romney is probably the GOP's only hope (50/50 vs Obama), given the others' huge negatives at RealClearPolitics.\\n\\nPost: Let's use [Intrade]( a betting site often use as a predictor of political events,\\nto compute the election odds. \\n For our input Intrade odds, use the average of the bid/ask, and instead of percents, use fractions; eg, 0.5=50%. \\n First note that Intrade gives Obama a 44.4% chance of losing in 2012. Remember that. \\n Next, look at the breakdown of Intrade's GOP nomination odds: \\n For the GOP Nomination: \\n Romney 0.645\\n Gingrich 0.26\\n Santorum 0.145\\n Paul 0.085\\n \\n The GOP sum is 1.135, or 113.5%. This probably means that fans of the candidates bid their candidates up a little bit too high. Thus we have to renormalize the above numbers and divide by 1.135: \\n For the GOP Nomination (normalized so they add up to 100% rather than 113%) \\n Romney 0.478\\n Gingrich 0.193\\n Santorum 0.107\\n Paul 0.063\\n \\n Now according to the summary of polls in [RealClearPolitics]( Obama beats Romney by 1.8% of voters in the general electorate. Obama beats Santorum and Gingrich by over 10%, but beats Paul by only 5%. \\n Let's say that the odds of Obama beating Romney are 0.50 given their near tie among the electorate. Let's say that the odds of Obama beating any of Gingrich, Santorum, or Paul are some unknown value P. We use only one value of P to keep it simple, even though each candidate has a different P. Because\\nthe two main non-Romney candidates are both losing by 10%, a single P is probably OK. \\n If Intrade is correct and Obama has a 44.4% chance of losing, we have \\n ObamaLoseProbability = 0.444 = 0.478x0.5 + (0.193+0.107+0.063)xP \\n so that \\n P=0.56 - that's ludicrious. Intrade's overall 44% estimate of Obama's chances of winning in 2012 require P, the chances of Santorum, Gingrich, or Paul individually beating Obama, to be more than 50%. These are candidates who are being clobbered by Obama in the polls (except for Paul, who is losing only modestly, but see below). \\n If we put in more realistic values of P, Obama's chances of losing are not 0.444 but are\\ngiven by this table: \\n P ObamaLoseProbability\\n 0.10 0.28\\n 0.20 0.31\\n 0.30 0.34\\n 0.40 0.38\\n \\n Given Gingrich's huge mainstream negatives, and Santorum's inability to keep his Senate seat, and Paul's fringe nature, it seems that a small value of P is most likely. Hence I suggest Obama has about a 70% chance of winning the next election. \\n (You might object that Paul is more likely to beat Obama than Gingrich or Santorum, because RealClearPolitics has him losing by just 5% rather than 10%. However, I think his 6.3% chances of getting the GOP nomination are strongly overstated also. Also, adjusting Paul's P doesn't matter much, because it's downweighted by his tiny nomination odds, even if we believe they are 6.3%.)\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":67,"string":"67"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":7697,"string":"7,697"}}},{"rowIdx":7698,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"definitelynotaspy"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post for the second one: My friend was being cheated on, I told her and tried to get her to realize what was happening, but eventually I gave up and she suffered another 5 months in a shitty relationship."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I have two that I can think of: \n The first happened when I was probably 14 or 15, playing SOCOM II online for the PS2. I called some black guy a nigger and I could just hear that the tone of his voice had changed the next time he spoke. I crushed that guy, and I still feel like a huge piece of shit about it. \n This one's more recent, one of my best friends is a lesbian, we'll call her Sue. She was dating this girl, who we'll call Jennifer. Last July, after they'd been dating for around 9 months, I started to suspect that Jennifer was cheating on Sue with Sue's ex-girlfriend (Becky). I confronted Becky about it, because her and I were good friends at the time, but she wouldn't admit to much. Eventually, Becky told her best friend that her and Jennifer had a thing going on, and Becky's best friend told me because she thought it was pretty shitty. I confronted Jennifer, and told Sue everything I knew. Jennifer initially admitted that some stuff had happened, but later retracted those statements and claimed everyone was lying and persecuting her and Becky and blah blah. Sue stupidly decided to believe Jennifer's version of events in spit of the evidence, and got mad at me for calling Jennifer and Becky out. I tried to stand firm; I cut ties with Becky and Jennifer, and repeatedly told Sue that she was being manipulated and lied to, trying to make her see what was going on. During this time, all of our mutual friends who initially said they were going to back me up, rolled over and maintained their friendship with Jennifer; Jennifer also never stopped cheating on Sue with Becky. After about two months of getting shit on and and straining my friendship with Sue, I caved in and basically just let it go. I didn't get back into contact with Becky and I only spoke to Jennifer when I had to (at parties when she was with Sue, etc), but I still feel shitty that I caved in and basically feel like I let down my best friend. They broke up finally earlier this week, but I feel like I could have prevented Sue from going through 5 months of heartache and bullshit if I'd held out a little bit longer."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I have two that I can think of: \n The first happened when I was probably 14 or 15, playing SOCOM II online for the PS2. I called some black guy a nigger and I could just hear that the tone of his voice had changed the next time he spoke. I crushed that guy, and I still feel like a huge piece of shit about it. \n This one's more recent, one of my best friends is a lesbian, we'll call her Sue. She was dating this girl, who we'll call Jennifer. Last July, after they'd been dating for around 9 months, I started to suspect that Jennifer was cheating on Sue with Sue's ex-girlfriend (Becky). I confronted Becky about it, because her and I were good friends at the time, but she wouldn't admit to much. Eventually, Becky told her best friend that her and Jennifer had a thing going on, and Becky's best friend told me because she thought it was pretty shitty. I confronted Jennifer, and told Sue everything I knew. Jennifer initially admitted that some stuff had happened, but later retracted those statements and claimed everyone was lying and persecuting her and Becky and blah blah. Sue stupidly decided to believe Jennifer's version of events in spit of the evidence, and got mad at me for calling Jennifer and Becky out. I tried to stand firm; I cut ties with Becky and Jennifer, and repeatedly told Sue that she was being manipulated and lied to, trying to make her see what was going on. During this time, all of our mutual friends who initially said they were going to back me up, rolled over and maintained their friendship with Jennifer; Jennifer also never stopped cheating on Sue with Becky. After about two months of getting shit on and and straining my friendship with Sue, I caved in and basically just let it go. I didn't get back into contact with Becky and I only spoke to Jennifer when I had to (at parties when she was with Sue, etc), but I still feel shitty that I caved in and basically feel like I let down my best friend. They broke up finally earlier this week, but I feel like I could have prevented Sue from going through 5 months of heartache and bullshit if I'd held out a little bit longer."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: The strict moderation on /r/lgbt was the least of its problems.\n\nPost: There was a lot more to that story than simple \"strict moderation,\" though. That was like, transphobia from people claiming to be fighting transphobia, and sexism, and racism, and anti-cis hatespeech and antisemitism and a whole lot of other shit. It was mods deleting comments that weren't \"transphobic\" so much as they were \"ignorant people trying to better their understanding of transsexualism by asking questions that may be a little crude, but are overall earnest and well-intentioned.\" And then, when separate threads were made to try and discuss the mod's behavior, those threads were deleted and the users were banned and harassed. And then the mods made subreddits trying to attack people who disagreed with them.","Summary: You are putting words in morriscode's mouth and you don't know what you're talking about.\n\nPost: Firstly, where did anyone say he had to wear skinny jeans? MFA almost never recommends skinny jeans and certainly no one in this thread has. \n Secondly, those jeans do not fit well at all. They're too long (you can see the heel dragging on the ground) and there's way too much extra fabric, particularly in the calf region, but pretty much everywhere else as well. They're also an ugly color and they look sloppy and cheap.","Summary: keep pumpin' and you'll get your nut. twice.\n\nPost: yeah, multiple orgasms isn't that hard to achieve as a guy, really. if you keep the stimulation going (i.e. keep having sex after you climax, basically) you won't immediately lose your erection and you can keep going until you're ready to have another. the main hurdle in my experience is being determined to reach that second climax, because for a minute or so after the first one I don't really feel like going anymore most of the time, but it's worth it, because for a while after climax everything down there is extra sensitive.","Summary: Yeah I always wore crewnecks sometimes but for a while it was mostly v-necks and I only bought v-necks but now I only buy crewnecks.\n\nPost: I wore crewnecks exclusively growing up. When I started being more fashion-conscious, I started buying v-necks pretty much exclusively (this is five years ago or so). The past year or two I've been back on team crewneck. \n Basically, in my v-neck phase I still wore crewnecks sometimes but I wasn't buying any new ones. Now I still wear v-necks sometimes but I'm not buying any new ones either. The v-neck thing was an experiment when I was still trying to figure out my personal style and it ended up not working out. They kind of project a certain image that I don't think suits me. For a while it did, or at least I thought it did, but now that I'm more comfortable and confident in my ability to dress myself, I've realized that it doesn't. \n That's probably a much longer answer than you wanted so","Summary: I've been playing for ten years, and I've been through the launch of every single expansion. WoD feels like the worst to me. There is quite simply just less content, and the content that has remained has been hollowed out and neutered.\n\nPost: WoD has objectively less to do at max level than most past expansions, and of the stuff it has retained, there is objectively less incentive. \n There are no daily hubs. There are barely any daily quests, and the ones that exist become worthless pretty quickly. Apexis crystals are essentially valueless, because the gear rewards are absurdly expensive. You do the Stables dailies for two weeks, on one character, and have every mount unlocked. The fishing daily is nice for leveling up the skill, but it's more or less useless once maxed. \n There are far fewer reputations than in past expansions. The grind is much more arduous (seriously, why did they think it was a good idea to go back to the Vanilla system of rep grinding? who greenlit that?) and the rewards are pretty underwhelming. \n There are fewer dungeons, and again the rewards from doing them are pretty much nonexistent to anyone who is even moderately geared. \n Professions are an absolute joke and a bore. There are no incentives for doing them and you get nothing fun or rewarding from them. They're just a mediocre way to make a mediocre income. Ores and herbs aren't worth the time it takes to mine them. Everything is time-gated, which is such a lazy design choice. \n PvP might be the worst it's ever been. Class balance is a nightmare. It would be a waste of time to even reiterate all of Ashran's problems. They haven't added any new BGs. The Coliseum is dominated by a few classes. There's a random element to getting gear (how insane is it that that made it live, by the way?). World PvP is dominated by ganking lowbies to farm bones. BGs are completely dominated by bots, and Blizzard isn't being nearly proactive enough in combating them. \n Even the Garrison is a letdown. It takes what, maybe a half hour a day to get all your ore and herbs (which might not even be worth the time, because they're nearly worthless), top off your work orders and send your guys on missions? It's neat to have your own little base, but once that novelty wears off there isn't much substance behind it. Plus, it further fractures the player base, which is already a lot less community-oriented what with LFR and crossrealm and all that other shit. \n The raids are good, but again, there simply aren't as many. There was one raid at launch, and it was a rehash of a Vanilla raid. Three weeks post launch another raid opened. Then they removed the Vanilla rehash. Then four months after launch the second raid opened. BC launched with I think six. Wrath had four. Cata had five, I think? MoP had three. Yeah, Highmaul was a pretty long raid, but it doesn't come close to matching the raid content that the other expansions had at launch. \n Plus the little things. No flying mounts, no flying at all. No capital cities to goof off in (the Ashran ones don't feel like capitals to me). No reason to farm anything. No fun Arch rewards. I barely noticed the Valentine's or Christmas events because I was cooped up in my base the whole time. I could go on but this comment is already way too long for anyone to read.","Summary: Being a Pokemon fan is essentially the same as being a football fan, just with a different focus. People should like what they like and should spend as much money on their hobbies as they need to to be happy, but you shouldn't feel superior to someone or deride them because \"your hobby is better.\"\n\nPost: You do have a point, but look at it this way: if a new edition of Pokemon came out annually, with a few new Pokemon being added and some stats and things updated but it was basically the same as the last game (in a manner similar to Madden), do you think the hardcore Pokemon crowd would be less likely to buy it? I think they'd buy it no matter what, the same way football fans buy Madden no matter what. And that doesn't bother me, I honestly don't care. I just don't like how the Pokemon nerds act like they're somehow smarter than the football nerds because they buy games less often. How many of them also spend hundreds of dollars on cards and plushies and whatever other merchandise? There's a hypocrisy there; a false sense of superiority. I'm not trying to single out Pokemon fans; it'd be just as bad if a football fan made fun of a Pokemon fan for buying the new games. However, I can honestly say that I've never witnessed that, whereas I've seen a lot of Pokemon fans call Madden fans idiots for getting each new edition of Madden. That's anecdotal I know, and your experiences may very well be different from my own, but I can only go off of what I know. \n That looks like a huge chunk of text so:","Summary: bad grammar nazi is bad and should feel bad\n\nPost: Nope. It's more ironic than hypocritical. It'd only be hypocritical if he said \"unlike CoD, which is way better and doesn't release the same game over and over again for money!\" \n Right now it's just a CoD fan criticizing the plethora of different versions for Arkham City. There's no explicit hypocrisy there. In fact, if asked, he may very well criticize CoD for doing the same thing. There's no way of knowing, and thus no hypocrisy. \n There's absolutely irony here, though. His criticizing one franchise for several re-hashes of the same game, combined with his apparent failure to notice that a franchise that he likes (allegedly) does the same thing, is very ironic. I'll explain further in case this isn't clear enough: \n Upon reading his words, one would expect him to be critical of game franchises which re-use the same or slightly different content over and over again in order to make a lot of money. This is the natural assumption to make after reading his tirade. The realization that he is a CoD enthusiast (a franchise which is often criticized for said re-use) is ironic because it goes against one's natural assumption. \n If you're gonna grammar nazi, at least do it well.","Summary: I started dressing well to impress other people. Now I dress well because I like dressing well. Dressing well to impress other people can be a good way to develop your own sense of style. MFA has a lot to offer even for people who are already relatively stylish.\n\nPost: I first started to give a shit about how I dressed and how I looked four years ago, almost exactly. At that point in time I was buying things that I thought other people (read: girls) would like, because I was lonely and needed some way to feel better about myself. \n Since then I've formed a genuine interest in fashion and I buy things that I like and honestly people tend to think I dress better now than they ever did when I was dressing to impress them, which is ironic in a way. \n I think the first stage is necessary for a lot of people though. Not everyone'll have to go through it, but if I hadn't been dressing to impress other people I never would have been able to form my own sense of style and dress in a way that reflected who I am. By the time I found MFA, I'd already figured a lot of stuff out for myself, but I've learned so much here in my few months of reading and posting and I'm definitely better dressed because of it. \n inefficient","Summary: Almost everything you said is wrong. Humans do have instincts, wikipedia is perfectly credible and there is definitely a biological urge to care for your offspring.\n\nPost: Wikipedia cites its references and sources at the bottom of every article.]( It's as credible a source as you can find online. Your assertion that humans don't have instincts is absurd, and I'm tempted to ignore it completely, but here is a [source]( anyway. High cognitive function does not preclude instinctual behavior. \n [Humans are social animals]( and it is unusual for a social animal to be cast out from a group for homosexual behavior; for an example look to our closest relative in the animal kingdom, [the bonobo]( In fact it is not unusual at all in the animal kingdom to exhibit [homosexual tendencies]( Anti-homosexual bias is purely a construct of societal and religious influences. \n To summarize: There is a biological urge to protect your offspring. Humans are social animals and have lived in family groups since prehistoric times; ousting your offspring from the group is abnormal regardless of their age. The fact that people are able to overcome the biological urge to care for and nurture their offspring (and again, there is absolutely a biological urge to do so) based on a religious or social bias is upsetting to me.","Summary: My first character was one of the first 10 people to be killed by the first legendary weapon to ever exist, on any realm, in the entirety of the World of Warcraft.\n\nPost: My first character was an [undead mage]( on the Shattered Hand server. As soon as I hit level 40, I started to do PvP pretty regularly at Tarren Mill. This was right around the time that the honor system came out, and before the BGs existed. \n On Shattered Hand there existed an Alliance guild called Skyfang. They were basically a zerg guild, tons of members, but they were also very capable raiders, and they managed to get their GM, Jubei, the [world first Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros.]( \n I was in Tarren Mill, along with some guildies and 20 or so other people, just PvP'ing the way everyone did back then: out in the open, no real organization, no resilience, no PvP gear, just purely for the fun of it. \n All of a sudden, someone got a whisper from one of his rogue friends, who was in Southshore keeping an eye on the Alliance, saying \"a ton of skyfang just landed, jubei's here, he's got some big hammer instead of his [Arcanite Reaper]( \n At that point, things got really still. Most of us knew what hammer he was talking about, but didn't really want to believe it. One of the level 60s in the group (it was still a pretty big deal to have a level 60 back then) had an epic mount (an even bigger deal) and rode off to scout ahead and see what the situation was like. A few minutes later, he comes riding back and just out of range behind him are about 50 red names, chasing him back to Tarren Mill. We all grouped up and got ready for the fight, but for some reason, the huge Alliance group stopped a little ways south of the barn, near the pond. A single player dismounted and started running towards our ragtag group of assembled Horde. \n It was Jubei, and he had his hammer. We all started running to meet him on the field, and he yelled something in his human gibberish that made the rest of his army start running towards us. I blinked forward, got to be towards the front of the group, and Frost Nova'd his ass. He broke free and started basically running amok, one- or two-shotting everything in sight, including my meek little level 42 self. And these were good players. One of my guildies was a rogue who was ranked #3 on the server, and he was there. I'm pretty sure the #1 ranked player, a shaman named Calypso (if memory serves), was there as well. \n We didn't stand a chance. Jubei brought an army 40 players strong, but he could have done it single-handedly at that point. It was about 3 hours of trying, desperately, to re-take Tarren Mill from the Skyfang menace, before I finally logged off, as a ghost, and made my first alt. \n It was a shaman, because Jubei was a paladin. And I hated him.","Summary: Get over it.\n\nPost: People trot this shit out all the time like it's some meaningful thing, but it's just childish, stubborn pedantry. \n The word \"droll\" sounds like it means boring. But it means amusing. Should we change the word droll so that it sounds like it means amusing? Or should we just learn what it means and stop bitching about what it sounds like? \n Pedantic gripes about the name of the feminist movement, or willful ignorance about what it stands for because you have preconceived notions about it based on what the name sounds like, are bad reasons to oppose the movement. It's that simple. Saying \"I'm not a feminist, but I do believe in gender equality\" is equivalent to saying \"I'm not a racist, but I do believe that brown people are worse than white people.\"","Summary: Bandages used to be really good.\n\nPost: First Aid as a skill is kind of a relic at this point. If it weren't for healing potions being included in it it'd be useless this expansion (which seems to be the direction Blizzard is taking professions in in general, but I digress). \n In the olden days it was really important though. Heavy Runecloth Bandages could damn near full-heal you at level 60, and back then most classes didn't have any sort of self-healing at all. There wasn't as much DOT spam, so they were more practical, and it was harder to get out of combat (Rogues could vanish, Hunters could feign death, both abilities were buggy and the other classes had no real escapes), so eating wasn't as appealing of an option as it is now. \n Healers also ran out of mana more frequently, and healing in general was more of a chore then. DPS classes were often expected to be able to bandage up during fights in dungeons and raids to help take pressure off healers. Plus, and this might just be me, but I think the natural life regen was much slower back then. Stopping to eat/drink used to be something that you did after every pull; nowadays I only really eat if I die or want buffs. \n Just a little history lesson, I guess.","Summary: In case you wanted to skip that wall of text, I'd recommend low-carb but counting calories works too (probably just a little bit more slowly). Ride your bike as much as you can, keep doing C25K and you'll be there in no time. Strength training is nice but definitely not essential and isn't particularly useful for actually losing weight.\n\nPost: I was a similar size to you when I started (6'3\" 250-260lbs or so) and now, two-and-a-half months later, I'm down to around 225 and more than halfway to my goal. I did a month of pretty strict low-carb (specifically, keto) without counting calories. Since the start of September I've started counting calories and relaxed my low-carb diet somewhat, though I still try to keep to under 30g carbs/day when I'm eating at home (which accounts for 90+% of my meals). Low-carb was nice because it served as a catalyst to help me learn about the food I was eating and it gave me the ability to keep track of my calories/carbs/fats etc. Plus, it really does work and I've lost a crazy amount of weight pretty quickly and taught myself to cook pretty well, too. I get a few hours of light exercise a week through various means, but I haven't made a huge effort to increase the amount of exercise I was getting since I started my diet, so the fact that you're exercising is gonna make you lose weight even more quickly than I have.","Summary: Being confident and comfortable in who you are isn't playing a game, it's just being mature. Women are attracted to that more than some stupid, poorly-drawn dinosaur.\n\nPost: Being confident and assertive isn't the game , it's just being confident and assertive. All girls respond positively to that, and the fact that some girls may respond positively to some silly dinosaur cartoon, doesn't mean that a) the girls who don't wouldn't make good girlfriends or b) the girls who do wouldn't respond more positively to a silly dinosaur cartoon and confidence and assertiveness. \n Drawing a dinosaur asking a girlfriend for her Facebook isn't mature, and in most situations, it's an awkward and ineffective ice breaker. If you already know the girl, and you've been flirting with her beforehand, a drawing like that might work (say the professor is talking and you casually slide her a piece of paper with that on it). But even then it's probably not the best course of action.","Summary: I got stuck in a room with my friend while he finger-blasted his girlfriend (whom I had a crush on) for two hours. Then I walked home in the rain. Then they acted like I was an asshole for being annoyed. Then I got pretty bad diarrhea.\n\nPost: This is gonna be long but I think it's a story best-told with good context. \n The summer before my junior year of high school I was pretty good friends with this girl. I had a crush on her but nothing ever came of it (because I was a pussy back then and she had a boyfriend) and we kinda drifted apart, no big deal. A few months later she started dating this other guy and he and I became friends through a series of unrelated events and the girl and I started talking again, and I started crushing on her again. At this point her boyfriend was one of my best friends so I just kept it to myself and never made a move or anything, but she probably knew. Girls almost always do. The three of us hung out a lot in the proceeding months, but almost always with someone else around. I was pretty good about avoiding third-wheel situations because I knew how shitty they could get. \n One day we were hanging out with another friend and he had to go to work at like 3pm, so it ended up just being me and them. We were at the girlfriend's house and her mom was getting home at like 6pm or something so we pretty much had the house to ourselves. It was fine for about a half hour and then all of a sudden they got a blanket from somewhere and they covered themselves with it and started rounding the bases. \n So here I am, sitting awkwardly in a quiet room while my friend is knuckle-deep in his girlfriend, whom I have a crush on, and I'm basically stuck. I didn't have a car (or my driver's license for that matter) so I couldn't just get up and leave. It was raining so I didn't want to walk home. I tried turning the TV on but they told me to turn it off and then went right back to it under the blankets. The only sound I can hear is the gross wetness of two teenagers doing everything but. After about two hours with literally the only words spoken to me being \"turn off the TV\" I just decided fuck it, I'll walk. \n About forty minutes into my walk, my friend drives up and says they'd just noticed that I'd gone. I get in his truck and tell him to take me home and they're doing that guilty-defensive thing where they're asking \"why are you so mad?\" and acting like they didn't do anything wrong, but you can tell that they know what they did was fucked up but instead of just saying \"sorry\" or not doing it in the first place, they try to make it seem like I'm being unreasonable. So of course that just made me more annoyed and I ended up not speaking to them for the rest of the drive to my house. Then as icing on the cake when we got to my house, they got out of the truck like they were going to come inside and hang out with me more, so I basically had to say \"I don't want to hang out with you\" which they then tried to turn around and make me seem like I was the asshole yet again. I just ignored them and went inside and didn't talk to them for a few days until everything blew over. \n The next time I hung out with him, my friend bought me McDonalds as some kind of peace offering, I think. It gave me pretty bad diarrhea. Neither of them ever actually apologized.","Summary: u mad huh?\n\nPost: The friend zone should be renamed the pussy zone, because it's full of pussies who are too scared to make a move. It's not the girl's fault that you don't have balls and can't make yourself seem appealing. Nice guys don't finish last, girls like nice guys. What girls don't like is guys without a backbone. Stand up for yourself, stop being a pushover, and maybe you'll have a chance.","Summary: My first character was one of the first 10 people to be killed by the first legendary weapon to ever exist, on any realm, in the entirety of the World of Warcraft.\n\nPost: Reposting this from a thread like this a while back: \n My first character was an [undead mage]( on the Shattered Hand server. As soon as I hit level 40, I started to do PvP pretty regularly at Tarren Mill. This was right around the time that the honor system came out, and before the BGs existed. \n On Shattered Hand there existed an Alliance guild called Skyfang. They were basically a zerg guild, tons of members, but they were also very capable raiders, and they managed to get their GM, Jubei, the [world first Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros.]( \n I was in Tarren Mill, along with some guildies and 20 or so other people, just PvP'ing the way everyone did back then: out in the open, no real organization, no resilience, no PvP gear, just purely for the fun of it. \n All of a sudden, someone got a whisper from one of his rogue friends, who was in Southshore keeping an eye on the Alliance, saying \"a ton of skyfang just landed, jubei's here, he's got some big hammer instead of his [Arcanite Reaper]( \n At that point, things got really still. Most of us knew what hammer he was talking about, but didn't really want to believe it. One of the level 60s in the group (it was still a pretty big deal to have a level 60 back then) had an epic mount (an even bigger deal) and rode off to scout ahead and see what the situation was like. A few minutes later, he comes riding back and just out of range behind him are about 50 red names, chasing him back to Tarren Mill. We all grouped up and got ready for the fight, but for some reason, the huge Alliance group stopped a little ways south of the barn, near the pond. A single player dismounted and started running towards our ragtag group of assembled Horde. \n It was Jubei, and he had his hammer. We all started running to meet him on the field, and he yelled something in his human gibberish that made the rest of his army start running towards us. I blinked forward, got to be towards the front of the group, and Frost Nova'd his ass. He broke free and started basically running amok, one- or two-shotting everything in sight, including my meek little level 42 self. And these were good players. One of my guildies was a rogue who was ranked #3 on the server, and he was there. I'm pretty sure the #1 ranked player, a shaman named Calypso (if memory serves), was there as well. \n We didn't stand a chance. Jubei brought an army 40 players strong, but he could have done it single-handedly at that point. It was about 3 hours of trying, desperately, to re-take Tarren Mill from the Skyfang menace, before I finally logged off, as a ghost, and made my first alt. \n It was a shaman, because Jubei was a paladin. And I hated him.","Summary: People need to downvote things in order for the up/down system to work. reddiquette encourages a strong upvote bias and, in turn, severely hampers the effectiveness of the up/down system, in some cases (large subreddits like /r/funny, for example) totally crippling it.\n\nPost: I have a slightly different take on reddiquette. Bear with me. \n reddiquette is bad because downvotes don't matter in the sense that they prevent content from being seen that would otherwise be seen. \n Look at it like this: say downvotes didn't exist, like you suggested. Where would \"bad\" content end up? At the bottom. No one would see it anyway. The fact that comments are auto-hidden isn't really that important because people aren't going to scroll to the bottom to see the \"bad\" comments unless they want to see the \"bad\" comments specifically, and in cases such as those, they'll unhide them. \n Downvotes change nothing in reality. They just give us a button to push to make ourselves feel better when we see something we don't like. I expect someone to say \"but what about when people downvote an unpopular opinion?\" but that's not really any different. If, instead of downvoting a popular opinion, people just didn't upvote it, it would still end up at the bottom of a post. \n Or as an example, say there are 20 people reading a thread. 15 think blue is the best color and 5 think red is the best color. Someone comments \"red is the best!\" and he gets 5 upvotes and 15 downvotes. Someone comments \"blue is the best!\" and he ends up with 15 upvotes and 5 downvotes. Take the downvotes out and the red guy is still at the bottom. Unless people are actively upvoting things they don't like or opinions they disagree with, downvotes do not matter in that regard. \n Now here's why reddiquette is bad: since downvotes don't really prevent content from being seen, discouraging downvotes only serves to give an avenue for \"bad\" content to slip through the cracks and end up at the top of a page. \n Going back to our previous example and changing it a little bit: say there are 30 people reading a thread. 10 people like red, 10 people like blue and 10 people like memes. The people who like either red or blue don't like memes, but don't downvote them because reddiquette told them not to. Red guy says he likes red, gets 10 upvotes. Blue guy says he likes blue, gets 10 upvotes. Meme guy says \"NOPE!\", gets 10 upvotes. Here we have a thread where 2/3 of the population doesn't like 1/3 of the content, but that content ends up with the same amount of exposure as all the rest. This example is kind of clunky (and definitely over-simplified), but it gets the message across, I think. \n Now you might say \"but reddiquette doesn't say not to downvote anything!\" which may be true, but it's not really how it's interpreted by most people. Downvoting is considered \"mean\" and so people, not wanting to be mean, neglect to downvote things that they should downvote. Content isn't properly moderated by the community and this is why strict moderation is necessary to maintain a high-level of \"quality\" in a community.","Summary: silly bandz aren't for grown men to wear\n\nPost: My friend gave me a silly band that looked like a dick once (it was actually a rocket ship or something but it looked like a total dick) so I put it on and eventually fell asleep wearing it. \n The next morning when I woke up, it had like, gouged its way into my wrist and when I pulled it off it was all red and inflamed and practically bleeding. It was one of the grossest/most painful experiences in recent memory, and I think if I'd left it on another day there's a good chance the wound would've gotten gangrenous.","Summary: He's trying to make a profit, of course he's not going to give someone $12,000 for something that's worth $12,000.\n\nPost: The dude's running a business. When an expert appraises something's maximum value at auction to be $10,000, of course the guy at the pawn shop isn't going to offer anywhere near that. He has to cut a profit, and keep in mind that's the maximum value, and even if the seller decided to auction it off, the auction house would take a cut anyway (10-20% generally). So him offering 50% of the maximum value isn't unreasonable at all, even 30-40% is reasonable in a lot of cases. Further, it's not like he's ripping people off. He makes an offer, if they're not comfortable with it, they don't accept it. There have even been cases where someone underestimated the value of something they had, and he said \"no, it wouldn't be right for me to pay that much, here's what it's actually worth\" and paid them a fair price.","Summary: I was wrong about the oxygen but I still think I was right about everything else.\n\nPost: Yeah I was wrong about that. I remember reading somewhere that the Amazon produced most of the world's O2 but now that I've looked into it more that seems to not be the case. \n I should have focused on how it sustains weather patterns, prevents drought, slows erosion, fosters biodiversity and contains many of the few remaining uncontacted human populations, instead.","Summary: Yes it's possible to play the game without addons (but not as well as someone with them), but no you're not cool for doing so.\n\nPost: First off, this topic has been beaten to death and this exact post is made pretty frequently: \n \n \n (this one is less than two weeks old) \n \n \n Secondly, yes, it is possible to play the game and do things without using UI addons. Blizzard designed the game without addons, playtested it without addons, it was in beta without addons for a long time, everyone knows you don't need addons to play the game. \n But they make it better. There are things that the default UI does not have that a lot of people like to have (cooldown timers, threat bars, damage meters). For these things, you need addons. If you choose to live without these things, fine, but you're not going to be as capable as someone who uses them. For example, I play a resto shaman, and oftentimes Riptide will be on cooldown and I'll need a quick heal. I check the time left on the cooldown and if it's less than 2 seconds I know it's better to just wait for Riptide to be ready than to cast Healing Surge. A shaman healer without a cooldown tracker wouldn't be able to do that, and would be less efficient than me. \n edit: typos!","Summary: Men are constant victims, women have all the power, the only sexism that exists is misandry, blah blah blah.\n\nPost: I'm guessing you're talking about my comments about male victims of rape the other day, the ones where I repeatedly said that the rape of men is a serious problem and that it's not taken as seriously as it should be in society. I guess you can't read very well, huh? \n Here are a few selections from your comment history, since we're playing that game: \n > Plenty of women like overtly masculine men. No woman is shamed for the type of man she's into. Shut the fuck up with your retarded fucking OPPRESSSHUNNNN as a middle class white bitch. \n Middle class white bitch, nice. \n > There's no most there, you fucking retarded dolt. SO FUCKING OPPPPRESSHHHEDDDD OMUHGAWWWWDDD SO OPPRESSSSSSSED. I FEEL SO BAD FOR YOUR JEW-IN-NAZI-GERMANY LEVEL OPPRESSION AS A BRAVE WOMYN ON REDDIT OMG SUCH A HERO. \n Classy. \n > Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahhahaa\nthe cunt at the end STILL managed to score some sweet white girl oppression points \n Oh yeah, I'm gonna take your opinions seriously, definitely. \n > Trannies making fun of neckbeards. Great stuff. \n Tranny! How edgy! \n > You know, I'm pretty glad they're so crazy with this shit. They're already pretty unfuckable because of their looks alone, but this just makes it even less likely that they'll reproduce if they do somehow manage to find some sorry bastard desperate enough to settle for them. \n Bravo, my friend! Bravo! \n > Because that requires being motivated, creative, and talented. That's far too tall an order for the vast majority of feminists. \n So true! \n > the way they say male makes me feel like some other non-human species or something. so creepy and triggering.\nedit: Rampant misandry on reddit again. Lol le typical. \n Thanks so much for standing up for us men. We really need people like you to protect us from the wicked oppression of feminists. \n You're full-on retarded.","Summary: Condescending attitudes stem from insecurity. The best way to handle that is to be secure in yourself, and make sure the condescending party knows it.\n\nPost: People who are condescending are people who are insecure in their own intelligence. People of average intelligence are usually fairly nice to be around; they're not patronizing or rude, and they're easy to relate to. People of well-above-average intelligence are usually fairly nice to be around too; it may be harder to relate to them sometimes, but they're usually secure enough in their intelligence to not have to look down their nose at other people. \n It's the people who are only slightly above-average that are condescending, and it all stems from insecurity. They realize that they're not the biggest fish in the pond, so they feel like they have to try and make themselves seem as big as they can. These are the same people that are pedantic, that look for spelling/grammatical errors everywhere (if you see an error, correct it! but don't search them out, and don't feel superior because someone spelled soliloquy wrongly) and think that people who use abbreviations online (lol, u, r, etc) are actually unintelligent, rather than just, perhaps, a little annoying. \n The best way to counter this? Be secure with yourself! Whether you're above- or below-average; whether you're right in the middle, just know who you are, and don't let the condescension trouble you. When someone tries to talk down to you, there are a few things you can do: talk right back down to them; be patronising \"Wow, you're really smart! Thank goodness we have you here or we'd never get anything done!\"; be indignant and tell them, in so many words, that their rudeness isn't getting anyone anywhere, and if they really are as smart as they'd like to seem, they should be able to realize that. Don't let these people get to you, and when you see it happen, nip it in the bud, so long as it's prudent to do so (it might be best to just let it go in some situations).","Summary: Being depressed by this is exactly what he was advising against.\n\nPost: If this video depresses you, you're probably completely misunderstanding his point. Normally I hate the \"you just don't get it, man\" mindset, but in this case it's appropriate. Nothing about this should upset you, other than the potential realization that you've missed opportunities in the past to give people the benefit of the doubt. But then, letting that upset you also demonstrates a misunderstanding of the principles he's espoused. Instead of being upset by the past, be excited for the future. Take this opportunity to better your outlook and improve the way you relate to people.","Summary: SRS sucks but you suck too. and sometimes reddit sucks.\n\nPost: Not that I'm trying to defend SRS at all, because it sucks, but the fact that you're calling them \"psycho wannabe feminists\" and \"psycho trannies \" is pretty good evidence that not everything they say is bullshit. The way that SRS chooses to try and prove their point is bad, but it's hard to deny that reddit can be a pretty hostile place for women, homosexuals, transgendered individuals and ethnic minorities.","Summary: redditors are just as childish as YouTubers, and there are some days where I'd much rather hang out with YouTubers than redditors, because at least they're unpretentious.\n\nPost: The fucking \"reddit gave me a virus lol! don't go there! go to digg instead!!!!\" shit, oh my god. I've ranted about it before and fuck it I'll rant again. \n How the fuck can redditors consider themselves superior to YouTubers and yet flood the comments section of every popular video with that nonsense? How can someone be that blind to their own blatant hypocrisy? \n My theory is that the reddit users who do that are the people in high school who always acted like they didn't care about the school spirit stuff, the cliques and the parties, but deep down inside it killed them that they never got invited. And now they've found reddit, and they get to be the big men on campus, so they bash YouTubers and diggers and /b/tards and never take enough time looking in the mirror to realize that they're doing the same things that other people did to make them miserable in high school. Except now it's on the internet and no one actually gives a shit so they're really just as impotent as ever. \n And that turned out to be way longer than I thought it would so:","Summary: religions are corporations, tax/treat them as such. freedom to believe what you want is a fundamental right; freedom to act on said beliefs is not.\n\nPost: absolute freedom of religion should not exist. a religious institution should have the exact same rights and responsibilities as a corporation, because that's what they are. they're not a charity. religious organisations do partake in charitable endeavors but they should be taxed on the same level as a corporation: charitable contributions can be written off, and if a significant enough portion of the income goes to charitable causes, they can qualify as a charity, but they should not be given tax exempt status simply for being a religion. this is a loophole that has been taken advantage of time and time again (LDS, Scientology, etc). \n furthermore, freedom to believe what you want is a fundamental right, just as is freedom of speech. however, freedom to act on those beliefs is not, and should not, be. obviously murderers aren't typically getting away with it because they say God told them to, but there are plenty of other laws being broken in the name of a religion that are forgotten about. child abuse, molestation, coercion, blackmail, the list goes on and on, are all things that religious institutions seem to get away with far more than another organisation would.","Summary: It's changed a lot, but I like where I'm at right now.\n\nPost: I couldn't even list the number of items that have fallen in and out of my EDC in the past year. But my philosophy has changed a lot, so I'll write about that. \n At first I went into it like a Boy Scout. I wanted to be prepared for anything and everything. Which meant carrying a lot of stuff I didn't use that often and it got to a point where I felt more encumbered by my EDC than helped by it. \n Then I wanted to be a minimalist. For a while I was down to phone, knife, wallet, keys (with a Shard and Streamlight Nano) and handkerchief. But I found myself missing a lot of my gear that I wasn't carrying. \n Now I feel like I've struck a good balance, and I've realized that it's possible to carry a lot of stuff without being over-encumbered if you're smart about how you carry it. \n A list of what I currently carry: \n \n Fisher Bullet pen, or a Parker Jotter if my shirt has a pocket to clip it to \n Apica CD-7 \n Kent comb, fine \n Two handkerchiefs, one for \"light use,\" one for \"hard use\" \n Saddleback card case \n Band-aids in the card case \n Maratac AAA on Ti split ring \n Style PS on said ring \n True Utility key shackle on said ring, with Gerber shard and three keys \n Apica CD-7 \n Kershaw Skyline \n Trident Original \n Burt's Bees lip balm \n Seiko 5 \n \n Occasionally I add headphones (various kinds) or a Ronson Jetlite, but not usually. \n It sounds like a lot, and it probably is, but I carry it all very comfortably and I use most items several times a week, so it works for me. I just ordered a couple Foursevens keychain lights to try out (they're having a great sale btw), so I'll probably finally get around to posting an EDC pic next week after they arrive.","Summary: Most modern fedora styles are literally unwearable and impossible to \"pull off.\"\n\nPost: For a lot of hats it is the design/look that's bad. Most \"fedoras\" that we cringe at are actually a relatively niche take on the fedora called a trilby, which were popular briefly in the 60s and then for some odd reason caught on amongst goobers in a big way sometime in the late-90s/early-00s. \n Here's one of my favorite examples of a modern fedora done well pseudo-trendy and b) very unversatile. For the vast majority of these hats, there's literally no good way to wear them. You can be impeccably dressed and mannered and if you put a modern trilby hat on you'll look like a goober.","Summary: I think sometimes people are accidentally slightly rude to cops without realizing it, and since cops react to rudeness differently than most people, it causes people to mistakenly think that they're dicks.\n\nPost: Police are, in my experience, pretty much the same as anyone else except they're more defensive, which makes sense given the potential dangers of their job. If you're polite and reasonable when talking to a police officer, 9 times out of 10 they'll be the same back to you. However, if you're a douche or even slightly rude or standoffish or snippy or short with them, they will pay that back to you much more readily than a layperson would because they've been trained and conditioned not to take any shit. \n I think where a lot of the \"fuck the police\" mentality comes from is the fact that people will be annoyed when they're dealing with the police and they'll pass some of that annoyance off on the police. Then when they expect the police to react to that annoyance passively, like a layperson would, they're surprised and caught off guard. Since the police don't react passively and instead return the annoyance, people get it in their heads that all cops are dicks when really they're just less tolerant of sass. I'm not trying to put the blame on people who deal with the police, because it's understandable to be annoyed in those situations, but I don't think it's fair to blame the police entirely, either. \n Of course, some cops are just dickheads and you should be on the look out for them, too.","Summary: the question isn't whether or not the WBC has the right to protest (they absolutely do); rather, do their actions sometimes go beyond protesting and constitute harassment?\n\nPost: One important thing to remember is that this is more about whether the WBC's actions constitute harassment than it is about someone's right to protest. The plaintiff claims that the WBC, in singling out his son, harassed him and his family and caused undue harm. \n It wouldn't necessarily set a precedent for protests in general, but moreso the kind of protesting that the WBC engages in; i.e. choosing a specific target and seeking to disturb a private event in furtherance of their agenda. \n The right to protest is, and absolutely should be, protected at all costs. But using protesting as a guise to incite hatred and violence at the expense of private individuals is not a right, and that's what the plaintiff's are accusing WBC of doing here. \n >Several weeks later, as Snyder surfed the Internet for tributes to Matthew from other soldiers and strangers, he came upon a poem on the church's website that attacked Snyder and his ex-wife for the way they brought up Matthew. \n >That's when he decided to take action and soon filed a lawsuit accusing the Phelpses of intentionally inflicting emotional distress. He won $11 million at trial, later reduced by a judge to $5 million. \n This isn't about passing a law against what the WBC is doing; it's about enabling private citizens to protect themselves from being harassed by such organizations.","Summary: Drunk kid sucker punched me.\n\nPost: I was at a party at a friend's house. A kid there was really drunk and acting pretty belligerent, going around trying to pick fights with people. He got into a scuffle with some guy and some people broke it up and basically told the kid it was time for him to leave. He wouldn't leave until he found his backpack, so I was helping him look for it. He finally remembered it was in one of the bedrooms, so we knocked on the door and the people inside tossed it out. I picked it up and handed it to him and said \"alright, you good?\" and he just started swinging at me. \n I'm not sure if he misunderstood what I said or if he was just that drunk and stupid or what. I swung back and hit him once or twice and brought him to the ground and got away from him so it didn't get worse, and some other guys forced him out the door. He didn't land any good blows so I was pretty much fine at this point. \n Then around a half-hour later, I was standing in the same area where the original fight broke out talking a friend (who's female and almost got hit in the ensuing fracas). There was a commotion at the other end of the hallway, so I looked down and I saw the kid tearing down the hallway with some friend of his; they had snuck in the back door. I guess he must have went and gotten backup and came back to the party to try and jump me because they ran straight for me. I didn't really put two and two together right away so I just stood there like an idiot and that's when I got hit and he fucked my lip up. He or his friend hit me another few times before everyone else could tackle them and kick them out. \n All in all, it bled for like 12 hours and I ruined a nice shirt and possibly a nice pair of pants. He also knocked my glasses off and damaged them, but I'm pretty determined to make him pay for those at the very least. I probably should have gotten stitches but I can't afford it (God bless the U-S-A) so I'm just hoping for the best. It looked worse than it felt, I think. I'm not much of a fighter (the only other fight I've ever been in is when I was 12) and I'm just glad it didn't turn out worse than it did.","Summary: read \"You have no idea what you're talking about.\" The fact that you changed it to rehash the \"nicer and more reliable\" statement for a knife that costs five dollars more and has inferior steel and a shitty lock is, again, hilarious. More expensive doesn't actually mean better, you know. \n But do what you're gonna do, bro. I'm over it at this point.\n\nPost: Actually, I said you shouldn't use a knife for self defense. I then said that if you're not going to listen to that advice, you at least shouldn't use a knife that has a questionable lock. Since you seem to be focused on cost (quote \"Gerber Icon: Best value self defense tanto out there.\"), I recommended a similar knife with a reliable lock in the same price range. \n I'd also like to point out that you've since edited your original post to make yourself look like less of a cock. The original","Summary: Yeah, low level characters are really fucking OP right now . It's awesome.\n\nPost: I was playing my level 20 Paladin earlier, and I was like \"shit, I'll try and solo this Dar'khan quest, see how I do.\" Absolutely not expecting to even get him below half health, as it's a 5-man level 20 quest. \n Long story short, I accidentally pull him at about 40% health with both my interrupts on cooldown (Hammer of Justice and Arcane Torrent). Here I am, thinking I'm completely screwed, he's fearing me, spamming Shadow Bolts blah blah. \n Turns out I'm really overpowered and easily solo'd him without even noticing that I was doing it. He had 3700 hp and he melted before my Arcane Torrent cooldown was up (2 minutes, and there were probably 30 seconds off of it at the start). \n I'm relatively confident I could solo RFC. I'll try it and report back.","Summary: I got hacked in April, didn't realize I was missing anything until now, and lost a bunch of shit because it was so long ago.\n\nPost: In early April, I logged into my SC2 beta account at my friend's house. Turns out he'd downloaded a keylogger, and both of our battle.net accounts were hacked. The keylogger was in some AI package for SC2, so I just assumed the person who stole the accounts was trying to play SC2. I talked to Blizzard, got it all sorted out, put an authenticator on it and went on my merry way, no big deal. \n I wasn't playing WoW at the time, my account had been down for 2-3 months so I just assumed everything was kosher. I renewed here a couple weeks ago and log in and my 80 Death Knight's completely naked, inventory cleaned out; my 80 Shaman's healing set (he was geared to heal 25 ICC) is gone, just got vendored, I guess; my Paladin's artifacts are gone, etc etc. So I put in a ticket asking if they can do anything, but it's been too long since the account was compromised so basically I'm fucked. \n Moral of the story? Get an authenticator. It shouldn't even be optional at this point.","Summary: I just wanna punch every asshole who believes this shit in the face.\n\nPost: This whole anti-vax movement is just so asinine. Even if there were a link, they're trading a lower chance of autism for a higher risk of fucking dying from a common, preventable disease like whooping cough. Not to mention the fact that not having your child vaccinated increases the odds that other kids will get sick, too. This anti-vax movement is literally killing babies. \n I mean, fuck... even if you're pathetic and stupid enough to cling to this belief without there being any evidence to support it, how is possibly not having autism better than possibly dying? They don't even fucking consider that. \n Sorry to rant, this is just a really infuriating issue for me.","Summary: Infidel and heathen aren't inherently offensive words. Nigger is a word that was born out of hatred, and so its usage is generally more hurtful.\n\nPost: The difference here is this: people choose their religions, people are born with their race. \n A religious person calling an atheist an infidel or heathen is easier to bear because when a person chooses to be atheist, they're acknowledging that they are, in the eyes of most religious, heathens and infidels. It's not really offensive to call someone an infidel or a heathen, at least not when there's no vitriol behind it. \n A white person calling a black person a nigger is more difficult to bear because that hatred is directed at who a person is, rather than what a person chooses to be. Where heathen and infidel are words conceived to describe a certain type of person, nigger is a word conceived solely to make a person feel subhuman; to \"put them in their place\" if you will.","Summary: Leveling up used to be an actual, important part of the game.\n\nPost: One thing that I miss about Vanilla that I don't see mentioned a whole lot is how Blizzard has removed the experience of leveling up. \n Currently, and it's been this way since sometime in Wrath I'd say, leveling up is a means to an end. The game is played at max level. The gear you get while leveling up doesn't matter. The quests you do don't matter. Dungeons are totally optional. Nothing you do before level 100 is challenging or important. You're either level 100 or you're trying to get to level 100 so you can finally start really playing the game. \n Back in my day, the experience you had from 1-60 (or 1-70) was just as important as the experience you had at max level. The things you did, the gear you got, it felt meaningful. It had an impact on your play, and your character. Leveling up was a huge part of the WoW experience. It wasn't just a hurdle you jumped to get into the meat of the game. And the way the game was played at low level was pretty darn close to how it was played at max level. You had to find groups, do dungeons, gear up, work on your professions, do long quest chains, etc. \n Dungeons were hard. Some were so hard people didn't even bother with them most of the time (Gnomeregan, LBRS, Dire Maul). But you had to do them. Dungeons were the only way to get gear, and you needed that gear because mobs were hard to kill. There was some gear you'd use for 20+ levels. Robes of the Lich from RFD were the best Warlock chest armor until you got your D1. Before those, you'd get the Robes of Arugal from SFK. And if you weren't running those dungeons and getting the items you needed, you were gimping yourself. You needed to do them for experience, too. There just weren't enough quests to get you from 1-60 in Vanilla. You had to run the shit out of Scarlet Monastery if you wanted to get from 30-40. There wasn't any other way to do it. \n Quests were hard too. And they'd send you all over the world. Think Khadgar's legendary quest chain, multiple times. Often without a mount, and never with more than 60% increased speed. Warlocks needed to get their pets. Shamans needed to get their totems. Warriors and Hunters had quests to get weapons, I think. Rogues had to get their poisons. Group quests couldn't really be solo'd most of the time. You'd have to actually find a group to help you. You couldn't run into a pack of four mobs and kill them without dying. Hell, some classes could barely fight two mobs at once. You had to use CC when you were out in the world questing. You had to be deliberate in your actions. It meant something. \n Max level characters weren't that great. A level 40 character could sometimes hold his own against a fresh 60. The difference between a level 59 character and all but the most geared level 60 characters wasn't huge. The term \"high level character\" was used to describe characters that weren't at max yet. If there were no-shows for an MC or Onyxia, people would take characters that weren't at max level. I remember raiding a few times at 58 or 59. Granted, individual performance wasn't as important back then, but it shows how different the attitude was regarding character level. Would anyone bring a level 99 character to HM? I'm not sure it's even possible. \n There were guilds that were designated \"leveling guilds.\" It was generally assumed that players would leave at max level. The purpose of these guilds was to hopefully make it easier to find groups while you were leveling, or just to have people to talk to. \n Leveling up was harder then, yes. It took longer. But honestly it feels more like a chore now.","Summary: Would you rather have someone say they like your suspenders, or would you rather have someone say they think you look handsome? Dressing for the plebs will get you the first kind of compliments; dressing for the internet will get you the second kind. \n *Some people will probably say that being stylish comes after being well-dressed, once you've found your own \"personal\" look. I don't necessarily disagree, but for the purposes of coherency, I'm considering stylish and well-dressed two separate categories.\n\nPost: I think this kind of plays into the difference between being \"stylish*\" and being \"well-dressed.\" Ideally, you want to be both stylish and well-dressed, but a lot of people are either one or the other (or neither). Wearing CDBs with a blue OCBD and dark indigo 511s would make you well-dressed, but it's not particularly stylish. Wearing a fedora and a black waistcoat with a red tie and pinstriped pants would be stylish (in a sense, anyway) but not necessarily well-dressed. Does that make sense? \n Generally I think the internet (MFA especially) favors a well-dressed but unstylish man over a stylish but unwell-dressed one. Being well-dressed takes a little bit more effort and time, because you actually have to learn the ropes instead of just dressing like [Andre from The League]( \n Personally, I try to go the well-dressed route. A few years back when I was first getting into fashion, I tended towards peacocking, and I probably got more compliments on my outfits/clothing then than I do now, but I get more compliments on how I look now. As in, people say \"you look nice!\" instead of \"I like your red jeans!\" \n This is already way longer than I meant it to be, so:","Summary: Photobucket banned me from viewing any images on their domain because I fuskered my own pictures.\n\nPost: Photobucket is so bad. \n A year or so ago, I lost access to one of my old Photobucket accounts (from like 2005) because I couldn't remember the password/email whatever. Photobucket support was no help, but I had some pictures on there that I wanted because I had a hard drive die on me, so I used a fuskering service to recover the pictures from the account. Photobucket detected that I was using a fuskering service and banned my IP from viewing any images on Photobucket for like six months. I talked to support again to explain that I was fuskering my own account but they refused to lift the ban. One of the worst experiences I've ever had with a business.","Summary: The first one really was wrong place wrong time. In the second one I tried to break up a fight and got caught in the crossfire pretty bad.\n\nPost: I oversimplified a little bit. \n The first one was during the Spring Jam riot in Dinkytown in April of '09. My friend and I were walking back to his house and the cops were in an alley and kind of had it blocked off, so people couldn't get onto the street where the riot took place. They were yelling something at us but we couldn't hear them so we stood there with our hands up and they just came over and sprayed us. I didn't get it very badly that time but my friend got nailed. It was really disorienting. He got it so bad that at first I thought they'd hit him with a nightstick. This one literally was wrong place wrong time. \n The second time was St Patrick's day this year in St Paul. There was a fight on West 7th across Chestnut from Cosetta's, in front of McGovern's. Some idiots picked a fight with some random guy and two cops were sitting across the street just watching it all go down. My friends and I were kinda standing there rubbernecking and eventually it got to the point where the guy was being kicked in the head. Since the cops were literally just standing there watching it happen, I grabbed the guy kicking him and pulled him back and right as that happened the cops decided to come over and spray everyone, no verbal warning. I probably shouldn't have gotten involved, but I feel like I did the right thing. That time I got nailed full on; my friends said they could see the actual spray on my face. It was pretty shitty but honestly it wasn't the worst pain I've felt. Once you can get to a sink and wash it out you're pretty much fine.","Summary: You're dumb, and wrong about non-traditional dress not having a place on MFA. But even if you were right; this is an advice forum, so obviously we're going to recommend safe styles of dress when people say \"what should I wear? I'm clueless.\"\n\nPost: You're an idiot, and anyone who agrees with you is an idiot. I'm just going to say it because I'm sick to death of these pointless spammy threads every week. \n MFA is an advice board first and foremost. No one can give someone advice on how to polish their own look. What are you even talking about? That's like giving a painter advice on what to paint. People have to establish their own look through experimentation and learning what they like. To be able to experiment in a meaningful way, you have to first learn the basics. That's what MFA is for and that's exactly the advice that MFA gives people who are looking to build their own sense of style. I've told countless people that to truly look and feel good, they have to learn how to dress like themselves. \n Also, you speak as if there isn't any avant-garde or urban fashion that goes through MFA. Newsflash, bro: there is. There's tons of it, in fact. But because people who follow urban or avant-garde fashion trends in real life are a minority, obviously posts like that are going to be a minority on MFA. \n MFA is an excellent jumping off point for men trying to get into fashion, and it's a great place to learn the basics that enable you to experiment and personalize your look to best express who you are. Look at veroz, who (correct me if I'm wrong) has said that he learned a lot (most?) of what he knows from MFA. He's kind of the MFA posterboy even, and his style is very non-traditional.","Summary: Can I get a good value on a skeleton watch at around $200? Or am I better off buying a cheap generic one from China?\n\nPost: I don't know a ton about watches, but I've been gaining an interest lately and trying to educate myself. I tried searching but I didn't find any similar threads, so sorry if this has been asked before. \n I'm fascinated by skeleton watches and would love to have one to wear once in a while, but my budget is pretty limited. So, my question is, can I get a skeleton watch for under or around $200 that is actually worth $200? Or would I get a better value if I just bought a $20 generic chinese watch? \n Manual-wind or automatic is fine. I'm not too picky about what kind of band it has, but I'd prefer it to be silver rather than gold if it's a metal band. I've got an average-sized wrist, so case diameter shouldn't be an issue as long as it's not super huge or super tiny. Bonus points for a chronograph. \n And one other additional question: is it silly to buy an inexpensive tourbillon? I think they're neat, but I get the impression that a cheap tourbillon watch might come across as affected. \n Thanks for taking the time to read and answer my questions! If you need any more details or anything, just ask.","Summary: What's the mushroom in the bottom-right of this picture?\n\nPost: It's from the Meyers Konversations-Lexikon 5th edition, which is a German-language encyclopedia. \n The mushroom I'm concerned with identifying is the one in the bottom-right corner. My friend and I are amateur mycologists and like to go out and see what kinds of different mushrooms we can find around where we live. We found several mushrooms that seem to be the same as the one in the picture, but I'm having trouble finding a version of the picture with the text naming the mushrooms intact that's large enough to read. I, unfortunately, don't have any good pictures of the mushrooms we found, but I'm fairly certain they're the same. \n Don't worry, we're not planning on eating them without checking with someone who'd know for sure that they're edible, I'm just hoping to get a lead on figuring out what they are. \n Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.","Summary: Do you think that people have to smoke before they can say it's not their thing?\n\nPost: First off I wanna say that I'm not a smoker myself; I've done it before and decided it wasn't my thing. That being said, I'm very pro-cannabis and pro-legalization and all of that stuff. Almost all of my friends are avid smokers, and I personally have never felt pressured by any of them to smoke against my better judgement. I lurk trees a lot (I've posted once or twice) and I'm always really impressed by how level-headed and chill the community is. \n What I'd like to ask about about is your views on people who choose to abstain entirely from smoking; who never try it and never intend to. The reason I'm asking is because of [this]( comment thread. A few people are calling this kid out because he says that he's never tried cannabis and that it's not his thing. They're saying that he couldn't possibly know it's not his thing unless he's tried it... and I think that's kind of a messed up thing to say. If he wants to smoke, that's awesome; if he doesn't want to, that's awesome too. I feel like some of these comments are challenging that, and almost pressuring him to smoke or implying that he's ignorant if he doesn't smoke. Now, if he were trying to tell other people they shouldn't smoke that'd be another story, but if it's just his personal decision, I think people should respect that. \n One thing I'd like to clarify is that I'm not saying that someone can necessarily predict whether or not they'd enjoy being high without trying it first, but rather that someone can absolutely decide they don't ever want to get high without having previously been high, and that no one should tell them their decision is wrong or closed-minded. \n So do you guys think that someone has to try pot before they can say it's not their thing? Do you think it's okay to just decide to never do it, or would you say that's ignorant or presumptuous? I'm really interested to get your feedback on this and hopefully get a feel for the overall opinion of the community.","Summary: Drop Cassel for Fitzpatrick? Replace Amendola with Henderson or Gaffney? Drop Mike Williams, Jacoby Ford or Austin Collie in favor of Gaffney or Henderson?\n\nPost: I've got Matt Cassel as a backup QB right now. Would it be a good idea too drop him and pick up Ryan Fitzpatrick? I know it's still early into the season, but it seems like the Bills have a lot more scoring potential this year and Cassel's already having some slight injury problems. \n Also, between Jabar Gaffney and Devery Henderson, who would be the best choice to replace Danny Amendola? I'm leaning towards grabbing Henderson for now at least until Colston and Moore are back in, and then maybe picking up Gaffney later on once Henderson cools down. My only concern is that I play in a fairly active league, so there's a good chance Gaffney won't be available down the road if he keeps performing. Should I just grab Gaffney now? \n I've also got Jacoby Ford, Mike Williams and Austin Collie, so I could trade one of them out and pick up both Henderson and Gaffney. \n Thanks for the help guys, I'm kinda new to all of this.","Summary: Heroics are easy and boring this late into the expansion. Why do you bitch when people try to get through them quickly?\n\nPost: Wrath is almost over, all of the content has been farmable for months. The only reason to do heroics right now is to farm justice points for heirlooms or to gear up to attempt to get Kingslayer before Cataclysm comes out, and this has been the case at least since 4.0.1 came out, and probably for considerably longer (most serious progression guilds have had ICC on farm since summer). \n Heroics are easy now. They're easy to tank, easy to heal and easy to dps. Everyone has done them all a thousand times. Particularly if you're using the LFG tool, you're not doing heroics for the social aspect. \n So why all the bitching about tanks chain-pulling and blowing through heroics as quickly as possible? I don't get it.","Summary: From my point of view, it just seems like that extra .2\" is doing more harm than good. What are your thoughts?\n\nPost: I recently got an EVO 3D on a new line at Sprint, and overall I like it a lot, but a couple minor issues have popped up so I'm considering giving the Epic 4G Touch (Sprint's SGS2 variant) a shot when it comes out in two weeks. \n One thing I'm concerned about, though, is the larger 4.5\" screen. The phone is already only running at WVGA 800x480 resolution, which is lower than the qHD 960x540 that my EVO 3D has. Extending the screen size by another .2\" just reduces the pixel density even further, and although the SAMOLED+ displays are very nice to look at, I can't really say I understand why they felt the need to increase the screen size beyond the 4.3\" of the international version. Not to mention that even though I have pretty big hands, I can't imagine a phone with a 4.5\" screen is going to be comfortable to hold for an extended period of time. \n It seems to me like it might just be a way to reduce the cost of the phone rather than improve the user experience, because a larger screen would be cheaper to produce due to the lower pixel densities required.","Summary: Getting a different phone (EVO 3D to Photon or Epic 4G Touch). What's the best way to back everything up (without rooting) so I have an easy time setting up my new phone?\n\nPost: I got an EVO 3D about two and a half weeks ago, and I've been having some issues with it. It's locked up a few times and shortly after I got it I had to completely wipe the phone to fix a problem I had. \n So, since Sprint has a nice 30 day return/exchange policy, I'm thinking about taking it in and getting either the Epic 4G Touch or the Photon. Since it's a warranty return I don't want to root the device and risk voiding anything. \n What's the best way to back things up to make the transition to a different phone easier? I know there are different backup apps, but will they work going from one kind of a device to a different kind? \n Thanks in advance, guys :)"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: The strict moderation on /r/lgbt was the least of its problems.\\n\\nPost: There was a lot more to that story than simple \\\"strict moderation,\\\" though. That was like, transphobia from people claiming to be fighting transphobia, and sexism, and racism, and anti-cis hatespeech and antisemitism and a whole lot of other shit. It was mods deleting comments that weren't \\\"transphobic\\\" so much as they were \\\"ignorant people trying to better their understanding of transsexualism by asking questions that may be a little crude, but are overall earnest and well-intentioned.\\\" And then, when separate threads were made to try and discuss the mod's behavior, those threads were deleted and the users were banned and harassed. And then the mods made subreddits trying to attack people who disagreed with them.\",\n \"Summary: You are putting words in morriscode's mouth and you don't know what you're talking about.\\n\\nPost: Firstly, where did anyone say he had to wear skinny jeans? MFA almost never recommends skinny jeans and certainly no one in this thread has. \\n Secondly, those jeans do not fit well at all. They're too long (you can see the heel dragging on the ground) and there's way too much extra fabric, particularly in the calf region, but pretty much everywhere else as well. They're also an ugly color and they look sloppy and cheap.\",\n \"Summary: keep pumpin' and you'll get your nut. twice.\\n\\nPost: yeah, multiple orgasms isn't that hard to achieve as a guy, really. if you keep the stimulation going (i.e. keep having sex after you climax, basically) you won't immediately lose your erection and you can keep going until you're ready to have another. the main hurdle in my experience is being determined to reach that second climax, because for a minute or so after the first one I don't really feel like going anymore most of the time, but it's worth it, because for a while after climax everything down there is extra sensitive.\",\n \"Summary: Yeah I always wore crewnecks sometimes but for a while it was mostly v-necks and I only bought v-necks but now I only buy crewnecks.\\n\\nPost: I wore crewnecks exclusively growing up. When I started being more fashion-conscious, I started buying v-necks pretty much exclusively (this is five years ago or so). The past year or two I've been back on team crewneck. \\n Basically, in my v-neck phase I still wore crewnecks sometimes but I wasn't buying any new ones. Now I still wear v-necks sometimes but I'm not buying any new ones either. The v-neck thing was an experiment when I was still trying to figure out my personal style and it ended up not working out. They kind of project a certain image that I don't think suits me. For a while it did, or at least I thought it did, but now that I'm more comfortable and confident in my ability to dress myself, I've realized that it doesn't. \\n That's probably a much longer answer than you wanted so\",\n \"Summary: I've been playing for ten years, and I've been through the launch of every single expansion. WoD feels like the worst to me. There is quite simply just less content, and the content that has remained has been hollowed out and neutered.\\n\\nPost: WoD has objectively less to do at max level than most past expansions, and of the stuff it has retained, there is objectively less incentive. \\n There are no daily hubs. There are barely any daily quests, and the ones that exist become worthless pretty quickly. Apexis crystals are essentially valueless, because the gear rewards are absurdly expensive. You do the Stables dailies for two weeks, on one character, and have every mount unlocked. The fishing daily is nice for leveling up the skill, but it's more or less useless once maxed. \\n There are far fewer reputations than in past expansions. The grind is much more arduous (seriously, why did they think it was a good idea to go back to the Vanilla system of rep grinding? who greenlit that?) and the rewards are pretty underwhelming. \\n There are fewer dungeons, and again the rewards from doing them are pretty much nonexistent to anyone who is even moderately geared. \\n Professions are an absolute joke and a bore. There are no incentives for doing them and you get nothing fun or rewarding from them. They're just a mediocre way to make a mediocre income. Ores and herbs aren't worth the time it takes to mine them. Everything is time-gated, which is such a lazy design choice. \\n PvP might be the worst it's ever been. Class balance is a nightmare. It would be a waste of time to even reiterate all of Ashran's problems. They haven't added any new BGs. The Coliseum is dominated by a few classes. There's a random element to getting gear (how insane is it that that made it live, by the way?). World PvP is dominated by ganking lowbies to farm bones. BGs are completely dominated by bots, and Blizzard isn't being nearly proactive enough in combating them. \\n Even the Garrison is a letdown. It takes what, maybe a half hour a day to get all your ore and herbs (which might not even be worth the time, because they're nearly worthless), top off your work orders and send your guys on missions? It's neat to have your own little base, but once that novelty wears off there isn't much substance behind it. Plus, it further fractures the player base, which is already a lot less community-oriented what with LFR and crossrealm and all that other shit. \\n The raids are good, but again, there simply aren't as many. There was one raid at launch, and it was a rehash of a Vanilla raid. Three weeks post launch another raid opened. Then they removed the Vanilla rehash. Then four months after launch the second raid opened. BC launched with I think six. Wrath had four. Cata had five, I think? MoP had three. Yeah, Highmaul was a pretty long raid, but it doesn't come close to matching the raid content that the other expansions had at launch. \\n Plus the little things. No flying mounts, no flying at all. No capital cities to goof off in (the Ashran ones don't feel like capitals to me). No reason to farm anything. No fun Arch rewards. I barely noticed the Valentine's or Christmas events because I was cooped up in my base the whole time. I could go on but this comment is already way too long for anyone to read.\",\n \"Summary: Being a Pokemon fan is essentially the same as being a football fan, just with a different focus. People should like what they like and should spend as much money on their hobbies as they need to to be happy, but you shouldn't feel superior to someone or deride them because \\\"your hobby is better.\\\"\\n\\nPost: You do have a point, but look at it this way: if a new edition of Pokemon came out annually, with a few new Pokemon being added and some stats and things updated but it was basically the same as the last game (in a manner similar to Madden), do you think the hardcore Pokemon crowd would be less likely to buy it? I think they'd buy it no matter what, the same way football fans buy Madden no matter what. And that doesn't bother me, I honestly don't care. I just don't like how the Pokemon nerds act like they're somehow smarter than the football nerds because they buy games less often. How many of them also spend hundreds of dollars on cards and plushies and whatever other merchandise? There's a hypocrisy there; a false sense of superiority. I'm not trying to single out Pokemon fans; it'd be just as bad if a football fan made fun of a Pokemon fan for buying the new games. However, I can honestly say that I've never witnessed that, whereas I've seen a lot of Pokemon fans call Madden fans idiots for getting each new edition of Madden. That's anecdotal I know, and your experiences may very well be different from my own, but I can only go off of what I know. \\n That looks like a huge chunk of text so:\",\n \"Summary: bad grammar nazi is bad and should feel bad\\n\\nPost: Nope. It's more ironic than hypocritical. It'd only be hypocritical if he said \\\"unlike CoD, which is way better and doesn't release the same game over and over again for money!\\\" \\n Right now it's just a CoD fan criticizing the plethora of different versions for Arkham City. There's no explicit hypocrisy there. In fact, if asked, he may very well criticize CoD for doing the same thing. There's no way of knowing, and thus no hypocrisy. \\n There's absolutely irony here, though. His criticizing one franchise for several re-hashes of the same game, combined with his apparent failure to notice that a franchise that he likes (allegedly) does the same thing, is very ironic. I'll explain further in case this isn't clear enough: \\n Upon reading his words, one would expect him to be critical of game franchises which re-use the same or slightly different content over and over again in order to make a lot of money. This is the natural assumption to make after reading his tirade. The realization that he is a CoD enthusiast (a franchise which is often criticized for said re-use) is ironic because it goes against one's natural assumption. \\n If you're gonna grammar nazi, at least do it well.\",\n \"Summary: I started dressing well to impress other people. Now I dress well because I like dressing well. Dressing well to impress other people can be a good way to develop your own sense of style. MFA has a lot to offer even for people who are already relatively stylish.\\n\\nPost: I first started to give a shit about how I dressed and how I looked four years ago, almost exactly. At that point in time I was buying things that I thought other people (read: girls) would like, because I was lonely and needed some way to feel better about myself. \\n Since then I've formed a genuine interest in fashion and I buy things that I like and honestly people tend to think I dress better now than they ever did when I was dressing to impress them, which is ironic in a way. \\n I think the first stage is necessary for a lot of people though. Not everyone'll have to go through it, but if I hadn't been dressing to impress other people I never would have been able to form my own sense of style and dress in a way that reflected who I am. By the time I found MFA, I'd already figured a lot of stuff out for myself, but I've learned so much here in my few months of reading and posting and I'm definitely better dressed because of it. \\n inefficient\",\n \"Summary: Almost everything you said is wrong. Humans do have instincts, wikipedia is perfectly credible and there is definitely a biological urge to care for your offspring.\\n\\nPost: Wikipedia cites its references and sources at the bottom of every article.]( It's as credible a source as you can find online. Your assertion that humans don't have instincts is absurd, and I'm tempted to ignore it completely, but here is a [source]( anyway. High cognitive function does not preclude instinctual behavior. \\n [Humans are social animals]( and it is unusual for a social animal to be cast out from a group for homosexual behavior; for an example look to our closest relative in the animal kingdom, [the bonobo]( In fact it is not unusual at all in the animal kingdom to exhibit [homosexual tendencies]( Anti-homosexual bias is purely a construct of societal and religious influences. \\n To summarize: There is a biological urge to protect your offspring. Humans are social animals and have lived in family groups since prehistoric times; ousting your offspring from the group is abnormal regardless of their age. The fact that people are able to overcome the biological urge to care for and nurture their offspring (and again, there is absolutely a biological urge to do so) based on a religious or social bias is upsetting to me.\",\n \"Summary: My first character was one of the first 10 people to be killed by the first legendary weapon to ever exist, on any realm, in the entirety of the World of Warcraft.\\n\\nPost: My first character was an [undead mage]( on the Shattered Hand server. As soon as I hit level 40, I started to do PvP pretty regularly at Tarren Mill. This was right around the time that the honor system came out, and before the BGs existed. \\n On Shattered Hand there existed an Alliance guild called Skyfang. They were basically a zerg guild, tons of members, but they were also very capable raiders, and they managed to get their GM, Jubei, the [world first Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros.]( \\n I was in Tarren Mill, along with some guildies and 20 or so other people, just PvP'ing the way everyone did back then: out in the open, no real organization, no resilience, no PvP gear, just purely for the fun of it. \\n All of a sudden, someone got a whisper from one of his rogue friends, who was in Southshore keeping an eye on the Alliance, saying \\\"a ton of skyfang just landed, jubei's here, he's got some big hammer instead of his [Arcanite Reaper]( \\n At that point, things got really still. Most of us knew what hammer he was talking about, but didn't really want to believe it. One of the level 60s in the group (it was still a pretty big deal to have a level 60 back then) had an epic mount (an even bigger deal) and rode off to scout ahead and see what the situation was like. A few minutes later, he comes riding back and just out of range behind him are about 50 red names, chasing him back to Tarren Mill. We all grouped up and got ready for the fight, but for some reason, the huge Alliance group stopped a little ways south of the barn, near the pond. A single player dismounted and started running towards our ragtag group of assembled Horde. \\n It was Jubei, and he had his hammer. We all started running to meet him on the field, and he yelled something in his human gibberish that made the rest of his army start running towards us. I blinked forward, got to be towards the front of the group, and Frost Nova'd his ass. He broke free and started basically running amok, one- or two-shotting everything in sight, including my meek little level 42 self. And these were good players. One of my guildies was a rogue who was ranked #3 on the server, and he was there. I'm pretty sure the #1 ranked player, a shaman named Calypso (if memory serves), was there as well. \\n We didn't stand a chance. Jubei brought an army 40 players strong, but he could have done it single-handedly at that point. It was about 3 hours of trying, desperately, to re-take Tarren Mill from the Skyfang menace, before I finally logged off, as a ghost, and made my first alt. \\n It was a shaman, because Jubei was a paladin. And I hated him.\",\n \"Summary: Get over it.\\n\\nPost: People trot this shit out all the time like it's some meaningful thing, but it's just childish, stubborn pedantry. \\n The word \\\"droll\\\" sounds like it means boring. But it means amusing. Should we change the word droll so that it sounds like it means amusing? Or should we just learn what it means and stop bitching about what it sounds like? \\n Pedantic gripes about the name of the feminist movement, or willful ignorance about what it stands for because you have preconceived notions about it based on what the name sounds like, are bad reasons to oppose the movement. It's that simple. Saying \\\"I'm not a feminist, but I do believe in gender equality\\\" is equivalent to saying \\\"I'm not a racist, but I do believe that brown people are worse than white people.\\\"\",\n \"Summary: Bandages used to be really good.\\n\\nPost: First Aid as a skill is kind of a relic at this point. If it weren't for healing potions being included in it it'd be useless this expansion (which seems to be the direction Blizzard is taking professions in in general, but I digress). \\n In the olden days it was really important though. Heavy Runecloth Bandages could damn near full-heal you at level 60, and back then most classes didn't have any sort of self-healing at all. There wasn't as much DOT spam, so they were more practical, and it was harder to get out of combat (Rogues could vanish, Hunters could feign death, both abilities were buggy and the other classes had no real escapes), so eating wasn't as appealing of an option as it is now. \\n Healers also ran out of mana more frequently, and healing in general was more of a chore then. DPS classes were often expected to be able to bandage up during fights in dungeons and raids to help take pressure off healers. Plus, and this might just be me, but I think the natural life regen was much slower back then. Stopping to eat/drink used to be something that you did after every pull; nowadays I only really eat if I die or want buffs. \\n Just a little history lesson, I guess.\",\n \"Summary: In case you wanted to skip that wall of text, I'd recommend low-carb but counting calories works too (probably just a little bit more slowly). Ride your bike as much as you can, keep doing C25K and you'll be there in no time. Strength training is nice but definitely not essential and isn't particularly useful for actually losing weight.\\n\\nPost: I was a similar size to you when I started (6'3\\\" 250-260lbs or so) and now, two-and-a-half months later, I'm down to around 225 and more than halfway to my goal. I did a month of pretty strict low-carb (specifically, keto) without counting calories. Since the start of September I've started counting calories and relaxed my low-carb diet somewhat, though I still try to keep to under 30g carbs/day when I'm eating at home (which accounts for 90+% of my meals). Low-carb was nice because it served as a catalyst to help me learn about the food I was eating and it gave me the ability to keep track of my calories/carbs/fats etc. Plus, it really does work and I've lost a crazy amount of weight pretty quickly and taught myself to cook pretty well, too. I get a few hours of light exercise a week through various means, but I haven't made a huge effort to increase the amount of exercise I was getting since I started my diet, so the fact that you're exercising is gonna make you lose weight even more quickly than I have.\",\n \"Summary: Being confident and comfortable in who you are isn't playing a game, it's just being mature. Women are attracted to that more than some stupid, poorly-drawn dinosaur.\\n\\nPost: Being confident and assertive isn't the game , it's just being confident and assertive. All girls respond positively to that, and the fact that some girls may respond positively to some silly dinosaur cartoon, doesn't mean that a) the girls who don't wouldn't make good girlfriends or b) the girls who do wouldn't respond more positively to a silly dinosaur cartoon and confidence and assertiveness. \\n Drawing a dinosaur asking a girlfriend for her Facebook isn't mature, and in most situations, it's an awkward and ineffective ice breaker. If you already know the girl, and you've been flirting with her beforehand, a drawing like that might work (say the professor is talking and you casually slide her a piece of paper with that on it). But even then it's probably not the best course of action.\",\n \"Summary: I got stuck in a room with my friend while he finger-blasted his girlfriend (whom I had a crush on) for two hours. Then I walked home in the rain. Then they acted like I was an asshole for being annoyed. Then I got pretty bad diarrhea.\\n\\nPost: This is gonna be long but I think it's a story best-told with good context. \\n The summer before my junior year of high school I was pretty good friends with this girl. I had a crush on her but nothing ever came of it (because I was a pussy back then and she had a boyfriend) and we kinda drifted apart, no big deal. A few months later she started dating this other guy and he and I became friends through a series of unrelated events and the girl and I started talking again, and I started crushing on her again. At this point her boyfriend was one of my best friends so I just kept it to myself and never made a move or anything, but she probably knew. Girls almost always do. The three of us hung out a lot in the proceeding months, but almost always with someone else around. I was pretty good about avoiding third-wheel situations because I knew how shitty they could get. \\n One day we were hanging out with another friend and he had to go to work at like 3pm, so it ended up just being me and them. We were at the girlfriend's house and her mom was getting home at like 6pm or something so we pretty much had the house to ourselves. It was fine for about a half hour and then all of a sudden they got a blanket from somewhere and they covered themselves with it and started rounding the bases. \\n So here I am, sitting awkwardly in a quiet room while my friend is knuckle-deep in his girlfriend, whom I have a crush on, and I'm basically stuck. I didn't have a car (or my driver's license for that matter) so I couldn't just get up and leave. It was raining so I didn't want to walk home. I tried turning the TV on but they told me to turn it off and then went right back to it under the blankets. The only sound I can hear is the gross wetness of two teenagers doing everything but. After about two hours with literally the only words spoken to me being \\\"turn off the TV\\\" I just decided fuck it, I'll walk. \\n About forty minutes into my walk, my friend drives up and says they'd just noticed that I'd gone. I get in his truck and tell him to take me home and they're doing that guilty-defensive thing where they're asking \\\"why are you so mad?\\\" and acting like they didn't do anything wrong, but you can tell that they know what they did was fucked up but instead of just saying \\\"sorry\\\" or not doing it in the first place, they try to make it seem like I'm being unreasonable. So of course that just made me more annoyed and I ended up not speaking to them for the rest of the drive to my house. Then as icing on the cake when we got to my house, they got out of the truck like they were going to come inside and hang out with me more, so I basically had to say \\\"I don't want to hang out with you\\\" which they then tried to turn around and make me seem like I was the asshole yet again. I just ignored them and went inside and didn't talk to them for a few days until everything blew over. \\n The next time I hung out with him, my friend bought me McDonalds as some kind of peace offering, I think. It gave me pretty bad diarrhea. Neither of them ever actually apologized.\",\n \"Summary: u mad huh?\\n\\nPost: The friend zone should be renamed the pussy zone, because it's full of pussies who are too scared to make a move. It's not the girl's fault that you don't have balls and can't make yourself seem appealing. Nice guys don't finish last, girls like nice guys. What girls don't like is guys without a backbone. Stand up for yourself, stop being a pushover, and maybe you'll have a chance.\",\n \"Summary: My first character was one of the first 10 people to be killed by the first legendary weapon to ever exist, on any realm, in the entirety of the World of Warcraft.\\n\\nPost: Reposting this from a thread like this a while back: \\n My first character was an [undead mage]( on the Shattered Hand server. As soon as I hit level 40, I started to do PvP pretty regularly at Tarren Mill. This was right around the time that the honor system came out, and before the BGs existed. \\n On Shattered Hand there existed an Alliance guild called Skyfang. They were basically a zerg guild, tons of members, but they were also very capable raiders, and they managed to get their GM, Jubei, the [world first Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros.]( \\n I was in Tarren Mill, along with some guildies and 20 or so other people, just PvP'ing the way everyone did back then: out in the open, no real organization, no resilience, no PvP gear, just purely for the fun of it. \\n All of a sudden, someone got a whisper from one of his rogue friends, who was in Southshore keeping an eye on the Alliance, saying \\\"a ton of skyfang just landed, jubei's here, he's got some big hammer instead of his [Arcanite Reaper]( \\n At that point, things got really still. Most of us knew what hammer he was talking about, but didn't really want to believe it. One of the level 60s in the group (it was still a pretty big deal to have a level 60 back then) had an epic mount (an even bigger deal) and rode off to scout ahead and see what the situation was like. A few minutes later, he comes riding back and just out of range behind him are about 50 red names, chasing him back to Tarren Mill. We all grouped up and got ready for the fight, but for some reason, the huge Alliance group stopped a little ways south of the barn, near the pond. A single player dismounted and started running towards our ragtag group of assembled Horde. \\n It was Jubei, and he had his hammer. We all started running to meet him on the field, and he yelled something in his human gibberish that made the rest of his army start running towards us. I blinked forward, got to be towards the front of the group, and Frost Nova'd his ass. He broke free and started basically running amok, one- or two-shotting everything in sight, including my meek little level 42 self. And these were good players. One of my guildies was a rogue who was ranked #3 on the server, and he was there. I'm pretty sure the #1 ranked player, a shaman named Calypso (if memory serves), was there as well. \\n We didn't stand a chance. Jubei brought an army 40 players strong, but he could have done it single-handedly at that point. It was about 3 hours of trying, desperately, to re-take Tarren Mill from the Skyfang menace, before I finally logged off, as a ghost, and made my first alt. \\n It was a shaman, because Jubei was a paladin. And I hated him.\",\n \"Summary: People need to downvote things in order for the up/down system to work. reddiquette encourages a strong upvote bias and, in turn, severely hampers the effectiveness of the up/down system, in some cases (large subreddits like /r/funny, for example) totally crippling it.\\n\\nPost: I have a slightly different take on reddiquette. Bear with me. \\n reddiquette is bad because downvotes don't matter in the sense that they prevent content from being seen that would otherwise be seen. \\n Look at it like this: say downvotes didn't exist, like you suggested. Where would \\\"bad\\\" content end up? At the bottom. No one would see it anyway. The fact that comments are auto-hidden isn't really that important because people aren't going to scroll to the bottom to see the \\\"bad\\\" comments unless they want to see the \\\"bad\\\" comments specifically, and in cases such as those, they'll unhide them. \\n Downvotes change nothing in reality. They just give us a button to push to make ourselves feel better when we see something we don't like. I expect someone to say \\\"but what about when people downvote an unpopular opinion?\\\" but that's not really any different. If, instead of downvoting a popular opinion, people just didn't upvote it, it would still end up at the bottom of a post. \\n Or as an example, say there are 20 people reading a thread. 15 think blue is the best color and 5 think red is the best color. Someone comments \\\"red is the best!\\\" and he gets 5 upvotes and 15 downvotes. Someone comments \\\"blue is the best!\\\" and he ends up with 15 upvotes and 5 downvotes. Take the downvotes out and the red guy is still at the bottom. Unless people are actively upvoting things they don't like or opinions they disagree with, downvotes do not matter in that regard. \\n Now here's why reddiquette is bad: since downvotes don't really prevent content from being seen, discouraging downvotes only serves to give an avenue for \\\"bad\\\" content to slip through the cracks and end up at the top of a page. \\n Going back to our previous example and changing it a little bit: say there are 30 people reading a thread. 10 people like red, 10 people like blue and 10 people like memes. The people who like either red or blue don't like memes, but don't downvote them because reddiquette told them not to. Red guy says he likes red, gets 10 upvotes. Blue guy says he likes blue, gets 10 upvotes. Meme guy says \\\"NOPE!\\\", gets 10 upvotes. Here we have a thread where 2/3 of the population doesn't like 1/3 of the content, but that content ends up with the same amount of exposure as all the rest. This example is kind of clunky (and definitely over-simplified), but it gets the message across, I think. \\n Now you might say \\\"but reddiquette doesn't say not to downvote anything!\\\" which may be true, but it's not really how it's interpreted by most people. Downvoting is considered \\\"mean\\\" and so people, not wanting to be mean, neglect to downvote things that they should downvote. Content isn't properly moderated by the community and this is why strict moderation is necessary to maintain a high-level of \\\"quality\\\" in a community.\",\n \"Summary: silly bandz aren't for grown men to wear\\n\\nPost: My friend gave me a silly band that looked like a dick once (it was actually a rocket ship or something but it looked like a total dick) so I put it on and eventually fell asleep wearing it. \\n The next morning when I woke up, it had like, gouged its way into my wrist and when I pulled it off it was all red and inflamed and practically bleeding. It was one of the grossest/most painful experiences in recent memory, and I think if I'd left it on another day there's a good chance the wound would've gotten gangrenous.\",\n \"Summary: He's trying to make a profit, of course he's not going to give someone $12,000 for something that's worth $12,000.\\n\\nPost: The dude's running a business. When an expert appraises something's maximum value at auction to be $10,000, of course the guy at the pawn shop isn't going to offer anywhere near that. He has to cut a profit, and keep in mind that's the maximum value, and even if the seller decided to auction it off, the auction house would take a cut anyway (10-20% generally). So him offering 50% of the maximum value isn't unreasonable at all, even 30-40% is reasonable in a lot of cases. Further, it's not like he's ripping people off. He makes an offer, if they're not comfortable with it, they don't accept it. There have even been cases where someone underestimated the value of something they had, and he said \\\"no, it wouldn't be right for me to pay that much, here's what it's actually worth\\\" and paid them a fair price.\",\n \"Summary: I was wrong about the oxygen but I still think I was right about everything else.\\n\\nPost: Yeah I was wrong about that. I remember reading somewhere that the Amazon produced most of the world's O2 but now that I've looked into it more that seems to not be the case. \\n I should have focused on how it sustains weather patterns, prevents drought, slows erosion, fosters biodiversity and contains many of the few remaining uncontacted human populations, instead.\",\n \"Summary: Yes it's possible to play the game without addons (but not as well as someone with them), but no you're not cool for doing so.\\n\\nPost: First off, this topic has been beaten to death and this exact post is made pretty frequently: \\n \\n \\n (this one is less than two weeks old) \\n \\n \\n Secondly, yes, it is possible to play the game and do things without using UI addons. Blizzard designed the game without addons, playtested it without addons, it was in beta without addons for a long time, everyone knows you don't need addons to play the game. \\n But they make it better. There are things that the default UI does not have that a lot of people like to have (cooldown timers, threat bars, damage meters). For these things, you need addons. If you choose to live without these things, fine, but you're not going to be as capable as someone who uses them. For example, I play a resto shaman, and oftentimes Riptide will be on cooldown and I'll need a quick heal. I check the time left on the cooldown and if it's less than 2 seconds I know it's better to just wait for Riptide to be ready than to cast Healing Surge. A shaman healer without a cooldown tracker wouldn't be able to do that, and would be less efficient than me. \\n edit: typos!\",\n \"Summary: Men are constant victims, women have all the power, the only sexism that exists is misandry, blah blah blah.\\n\\nPost: I'm guessing you're talking about my comments about male victims of rape the other day, the ones where I repeatedly said that the rape of men is a serious problem and that it's not taken as seriously as it should be in society. I guess you can't read very well, huh? \\n Here are a few selections from your comment history, since we're playing that game: \\n > Plenty of women like overtly masculine men. No woman is shamed for the type of man she's into. Shut the fuck up with your retarded fucking OPPRESSSHUNNNN as a middle class white bitch. \\n Middle class white bitch, nice. \\n > There's no most there, you fucking retarded dolt. SO FUCKING OPPPPRESSHHHEDDDD OMUHGAWWWWDDD SO OPPRESSSSSSSED. I FEEL SO BAD FOR YOUR JEW-IN-NAZI-GERMANY LEVEL OPPRESSION AS A BRAVE WOMYN ON REDDIT OMG SUCH A HERO. \\n Classy. \\n > Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahhahaa\\nthe cunt at the end STILL managed to score some sweet white girl oppression points \\n Oh yeah, I'm gonna take your opinions seriously, definitely. \\n > Trannies making fun of neckbeards. Great stuff. \\n Tranny! How edgy! \\n > You know, I'm pretty glad they're so crazy with this shit. They're already pretty unfuckable because of their looks alone, but this just makes it even less likely that they'll reproduce if they do somehow manage to find some sorry bastard desperate enough to settle for them. \\n Bravo, my friend! Bravo! \\n > Because that requires being motivated, creative, and talented. That's far too tall an order for the vast majority of feminists. \\n So true! \\n > the way they say male makes me feel like some other non-human species or something. so creepy and triggering.\\nedit: Rampant misandry on reddit again. Lol le typical. \\n Thanks so much for standing up for us men. We really need people like you to protect us from the wicked oppression of feminists. \\n You're full-on retarded.\",\n \"Summary: Condescending attitudes stem from insecurity. The best way to handle that is to be secure in yourself, and make sure the condescending party knows it.\\n\\nPost: People who are condescending are people who are insecure in their own intelligence. People of average intelligence are usually fairly nice to be around; they're not patronizing or rude, and they're easy to relate to. People of well-above-average intelligence are usually fairly nice to be around too; it may be harder to relate to them sometimes, but they're usually secure enough in their intelligence to not have to look down their nose at other people. \\n It's the people who are only slightly above-average that are condescending, and it all stems from insecurity. They realize that they're not the biggest fish in the pond, so they feel like they have to try and make themselves seem as big as they can. These are the same people that are pedantic, that look for spelling/grammatical errors everywhere (if you see an error, correct it! but don't search them out, and don't feel superior because someone spelled soliloquy wrongly) and think that people who use abbreviations online (lol, u, r, etc) are actually unintelligent, rather than just, perhaps, a little annoying. \\n The best way to counter this? Be secure with yourself! Whether you're above- or below-average; whether you're right in the middle, just know who you are, and don't let the condescension trouble you. When someone tries to talk down to you, there are a few things you can do: talk right back down to them; be patronising \\\"Wow, you're really smart! Thank goodness we have you here or we'd never get anything done!\\\"; be indignant and tell them, in so many words, that their rudeness isn't getting anyone anywhere, and if they really are as smart as they'd like to seem, they should be able to realize that. Don't let these people get to you, and when you see it happen, nip it in the bud, so long as it's prudent to do so (it might be best to just let it go in some situations).\",\n \"Summary: Being depressed by this is exactly what he was advising against.\\n\\nPost: If this video depresses you, you're probably completely misunderstanding his point. Normally I hate the \\\"you just don't get it, man\\\" mindset, but in this case it's appropriate. Nothing about this should upset you, other than the potential realization that you've missed opportunities in the past to give people the benefit of the doubt. But then, letting that upset you also demonstrates a misunderstanding of the principles he's espoused. Instead of being upset by the past, be excited for the future. Take this opportunity to better your outlook and improve the way you relate to people.\",\n \"Summary: SRS sucks but you suck too. and sometimes reddit sucks.\\n\\nPost: Not that I'm trying to defend SRS at all, because it sucks, but the fact that you're calling them \\\"psycho wannabe feminists\\\" and \\\"psycho trannies \\\" is pretty good evidence that not everything they say is bullshit. The way that SRS chooses to try and prove their point is bad, but it's hard to deny that reddit can be a pretty hostile place for women, homosexuals, transgendered individuals and ethnic minorities.\",\n \"Summary: redditors are just as childish as YouTubers, and there are some days where I'd much rather hang out with YouTubers than redditors, because at least they're unpretentious.\\n\\nPost: The fucking \\\"reddit gave me a virus lol! don't go there! go to digg instead!!!!\\\" shit, oh my god. I've ranted about it before and fuck it I'll rant again. \\n How the fuck can redditors consider themselves superior to YouTubers and yet flood the comments section of every popular video with that nonsense? How can someone be that blind to their own blatant hypocrisy? \\n My theory is that the reddit users who do that are the people in high school who always acted like they didn't care about the school spirit stuff, the cliques and the parties, but deep down inside it killed them that they never got invited. And now they've found reddit, and they get to be the big men on campus, so they bash YouTubers and diggers and /b/tards and never take enough time looking in the mirror to realize that they're doing the same things that other people did to make them miserable in high school. Except now it's on the internet and no one actually gives a shit so they're really just as impotent as ever. \\n And that turned out to be way longer than I thought it would so:\",\n \"Summary: religions are corporations, tax/treat them as such. freedom to believe what you want is a fundamental right; freedom to act on said beliefs is not.\\n\\nPost: absolute freedom of religion should not exist. a religious institution should have the exact same rights and responsibilities as a corporation, because that's what they are. they're not a charity. religious organisations do partake in charitable endeavors but they should be taxed on the same level as a corporation: charitable contributions can be written off, and if a significant enough portion of the income goes to charitable causes, they can qualify as a charity, but they should not be given tax exempt status simply for being a religion. this is a loophole that has been taken advantage of time and time again (LDS, Scientology, etc). \\n furthermore, freedom to believe what you want is a fundamental right, just as is freedom of speech. however, freedom to act on those beliefs is not, and should not, be. obviously murderers aren't typically getting away with it because they say God told them to, but there are plenty of other laws being broken in the name of a religion that are forgotten about. child abuse, molestation, coercion, blackmail, the list goes on and on, are all things that religious institutions seem to get away with far more than another organisation would.\",\n \"Summary: It's changed a lot, but I like where I'm at right now.\\n\\nPost: I couldn't even list the number of items that have fallen in and out of my EDC in the past year. But my philosophy has changed a lot, so I'll write about that. \\n At first I went into it like a Boy Scout. I wanted to be prepared for anything and everything. Which meant carrying a lot of stuff I didn't use that often and it got to a point where I felt more encumbered by my EDC than helped by it. \\n Then I wanted to be a minimalist. For a while I was down to phone, knife, wallet, keys (with a Shard and Streamlight Nano) and handkerchief. But I found myself missing a lot of my gear that I wasn't carrying. \\n Now I feel like I've struck a good balance, and I've realized that it's possible to carry a lot of stuff without being over-encumbered if you're smart about how you carry it. \\n A list of what I currently carry: \\n \\n Fisher Bullet pen, or a Parker Jotter if my shirt has a pocket to clip it to \\n Apica CD-7 \\n Kent comb, fine \\n Two handkerchiefs, one for \\\"light use,\\\" one for \\\"hard use\\\" \\n Saddleback card case \\n Band-aids in the card case \\n Maratac AAA on Ti split ring \\n Style PS on said ring \\n True Utility key shackle on said ring, with Gerber shard and three keys \\n Apica CD-7 \\n Kershaw Skyline \\n Trident Original \\n Burt's Bees lip balm \\n Seiko 5 \\n \\n Occasionally I add headphones (various kinds) or a Ronson Jetlite, but not usually. \\n It sounds like a lot, and it probably is, but I carry it all very comfortably and I use most items several times a week, so it works for me. I just ordered a couple Foursevens keychain lights to try out (they're having a great sale btw), so I'll probably finally get around to posting an EDC pic next week after they arrive.\",\n \"Summary: Most modern fedora styles are literally unwearable and impossible to \\\"pull off.\\\"\\n\\nPost: For a lot of hats it is the design/look that's bad. Most \\\"fedoras\\\" that we cringe at are actually a relatively niche take on the fedora called a trilby, which were popular briefly in the 60s and then for some odd reason caught on amongst goobers in a big way sometime in the late-90s/early-00s. \\n Here's one of my favorite examples of a modern fedora done well pseudo-trendy and b) very unversatile. For the vast majority of these hats, there's literally no good way to wear them. You can be impeccably dressed and mannered and if you put a modern trilby hat on you'll look like a goober.\",\n \"Summary: I think sometimes people are accidentally slightly rude to cops without realizing it, and since cops react to rudeness differently than most people, it causes people to mistakenly think that they're dicks.\\n\\nPost: Police are, in my experience, pretty much the same as anyone else except they're more defensive, which makes sense given the potential dangers of their job. If you're polite and reasonable when talking to a police officer, 9 times out of 10 they'll be the same back to you. However, if you're a douche or even slightly rude or standoffish or snippy or short with them, they will pay that back to you much more readily than a layperson would because they've been trained and conditioned not to take any shit. \\n I think where a lot of the \\\"fuck the police\\\" mentality comes from is the fact that people will be annoyed when they're dealing with the police and they'll pass some of that annoyance off on the police. Then when they expect the police to react to that annoyance passively, like a layperson would, they're surprised and caught off guard. Since the police don't react passively and instead return the annoyance, people get it in their heads that all cops are dicks when really they're just less tolerant of sass. I'm not trying to put the blame on people who deal with the police, because it's understandable to be annoyed in those situations, but I don't think it's fair to blame the police entirely, either. \\n Of course, some cops are just dickheads and you should be on the look out for them, too.\",\n \"Summary: the question isn't whether or not the WBC has the right to protest (they absolutely do); rather, do their actions sometimes go beyond protesting and constitute harassment?\\n\\nPost: One important thing to remember is that this is more about whether the WBC's actions constitute harassment than it is about someone's right to protest. The plaintiff claims that the WBC, in singling out his son, harassed him and his family and caused undue harm. \\n It wouldn't necessarily set a precedent for protests in general, but moreso the kind of protesting that the WBC engages in; i.e. choosing a specific target and seeking to disturb a private event in furtherance of their agenda. \\n The right to protest is, and absolutely should be, protected at all costs. But using protesting as a guise to incite hatred and violence at the expense of private individuals is not a right, and that's what the plaintiff's are accusing WBC of doing here. \\n >Several weeks later, as Snyder surfed the Internet for tributes to Matthew from other soldiers and strangers, he came upon a poem on the church's website that attacked Snyder and his ex-wife for the way they brought up Matthew. \\n >That's when he decided to take action and soon filed a lawsuit accusing the Phelpses of intentionally inflicting emotional distress. He won $11 million at trial, later reduced by a judge to $5 million. \\n This isn't about passing a law against what the WBC is doing; it's about enabling private citizens to protect themselves from being harassed by such organizations.\",\n \"Summary: Drunk kid sucker punched me.\\n\\nPost: I was at a party at a friend's house. A kid there was really drunk and acting pretty belligerent, going around trying to pick fights with people. He got into a scuffle with some guy and some people broke it up and basically told the kid it was time for him to leave. He wouldn't leave until he found his backpack, so I was helping him look for it. He finally remembered it was in one of the bedrooms, so we knocked on the door and the people inside tossed it out. I picked it up and handed it to him and said \\\"alright, you good?\\\" and he just started swinging at me. \\n I'm not sure if he misunderstood what I said or if he was just that drunk and stupid or what. I swung back and hit him once or twice and brought him to the ground and got away from him so it didn't get worse, and some other guys forced him out the door. He didn't land any good blows so I was pretty much fine at this point. \\n Then around a half-hour later, I was standing in the same area where the original fight broke out talking a friend (who's female and almost got hit in the ensuing fracas). There was a commotion at the other end of the hallway, so I looked down and I saw the kid tearing down the hallway with some friend of his; they had snuck in the back door. I guess he must have went and gotten backup and came back to the party to try and jump me because they ran straight for me. I didn't really put two and two together right away so I just stood there like an idiot and that's when I got hit and he fucked my lip up. He or his friend hit me another few times before everyone else could tackle them and kick them out. \\n All in all, it bled for like 12 hours and I ruined a nice shirt and possibly a nice pair of pants. He also knocked my glasses off and damaged them, but I'm pretty determined to make him pay for those at the very least. I probably should have gotten stitches but I can't afford it (God bless the U-S-A) so I'm just hoping for the best. It looked worse than it felt, I think. I'm not much of a fighter (the only other fight I've ever been in is when I was 12) and I'm just glad it didn't turn out worse than it did.\",\n \"Summary: read \\\"You have no idea what you're talking about.\\\" The fact that you changed it to rehash the \\\"nicer and more reliable\\\" statement for a knife that costs five dollars more and has inferior steel and a shitty lock is, again, hilarious. More expensive doesn't actually mean better, you know. \\n But do what you're gonna do, bro. I'm over it at this point.\\n\\nPost: Actually, I said you shouldn't use a knife for self defense. I then said that if you're not going to listen to that advice, you at least shouldn't use a knife that has a questionable lock. Since you seem to be focused on cost (quote \\\"Gerber Icon: Best value self defense tanto out there.\\\"), I recommended a similar knife with a reliable lock in the same price range. \\n I'd also like to point out that you've since edited your original post to make yourself look like less of a cock. The original\",\n \"Summary: Yeah, low level characters are really fucking OP right now . It's awesome.\\n\\nPost: I was playing my level 20 Paladin earlier, and I was like \\\"shit, I'll try and solo this Dar'khan quest, see how I do.\\\" Absolutely not expecting to even get him below half health, as it's a 5-man level 20 quest. \\n Long story short, I accidentally pull him at about 40% health with both my interrupts on cooldown (Hammer of Justice and Arcane Torrent). Here I am, thinking I'm completely screwed, he's fearing me, spamming Shadow Bolts blah blah. \\n Turns out I'm really overpowered and easily solo'd him without even noticing that I was doing it. He had 3700 hp and he melted before my Arcane Torrent cooldown was up (2 minutes, and there were probably 30 seconds off of it at the start). \\n I'm relatively confident I could solo RFC. I'll try it and report back.\",\n \"Summary: I got hacked in April, didn't realize I was missing anything until now, and lost a bunch of shit because it was so long ago.\\n\\nPost: In early April, I logged into my SC2 beta account at my friend's house. Turns out he'd downloaded a keylogger, and both of our battle.net accounts were hacked. The keylogger was in some AI package for SC2, so I just assumed the person who stole the accounts was trying to play SC2. I talked to Blizzard, got it all sorted out, put an authenticator on it and went on my merry way, no big deal. \\n I wasn't playing WoW at the time, my account had been down for 2-3 months so I just assumed everything was kosher. I renewed here a couple weeks ago and log in and my 80 Death Knight's completely naked, inventory cleaned out; my 80 Shaman's healing set (he was geared to heal 25 ICC) is gone, just got vendored, I guess; my Paladin's artifacts are gone, etc etc. So I put in a ticket asking if they can do anything, but it's been too long since the account was compromised so basically I'm fucked. \\n Moral of the story? Get an authenticator. It shouldn't even be optional at this point.\",\n \"Summary: I just wanna punch every asshole who believes this shit in the face.\\n\\nPost: This whole anti-vax movement is just so asinine. Even if there were a link, they're trading a lower chance of autism for a higher risk of fucking dying from a common, preventable disease like whooping cough. Not to mention the fact that not having your child vaccinated increases the odds that other kids will get sick, too. This anti-vax movement is literally killing babies. \\n I mean, fuck... even if you're pathetic and stupid enough to cling to this belief without there being any evidence to support it, how is possibly not having autism better than possibly dying? They don't even fucking consider that. \\n Sorry to rant, this is just a really infuriating issue for me.\",\n \"Summary: Infidel and heathen aren't inherently offensive words. Nigger is a word that was born out of hatred, and so its usage is generally more hurtful.\\n\\nPost: The difference here is this: people choose their religions, people are born with their race. \\n A religious person calling an atheist an infidel or heathen is easier to bear because when a person chooses to be atheist, they're acknowledging that they are, in the eyes of most religious, heathens and infidels. It's not really offensive to call someone an infidel or a heathen, at least not when there's no vitriol behind it. \\n A white person calling a black person a nigger is more difficult to bear because that hatred is directed at who a person is, rather than what a person chooses to be. Where heathen and infidel are words conceived to describe a certain type of person, nigger is a word conceived solely to make a person feel subhuman; to \\\"put them in their place\\\" if you will.\",\n \"Summary: Leveling up used to be an actual, important part of the game.\\n\\nPost: One thing that I miss about Vanilla that I don't see mentioned a whole lot is how Blizzard has removed the experience of leveling up. \\n Currently, and it's been this way since sometime in Wrath I'd say, leveling up is a means to an end. The game is played at max level. The gear you get while leveling up doesn't matter. The quests you do don't matter. Dungeons are totally optional. Nothing you do before level 100 is challenging or important. You're either level 100 or you're trying to get to level 100 so you can finally start really playing the game. \\n Back in my day, the experience you had from 1-60 (or 1-70) was just as important as the experience you had at max level. The things you did, the gear you got, it felt meaningful. It had an impact on your play, and your character. Leveling up was a huge part of the WoW experience. It wasn't just a hurdle you jumped to get into the meat of the game. And the way the game was played at low level was pretty darn close to how it was played at max level. You had to find groups, do dungeons, gear up, work on your professions, do long quest chains, etc. \\n Dungeons were hard. Some were so hard people didn't even bother with them most of the time (Gnomeregan, LBRS, Dire Maul). But you had to do them. Dungeons were the only way to get gear, and you needed that gear because mobs were hard to kill. There was some gear you'd use for 20+ levels. Robes of the Lich from RFD were the best Warlock chest armor until you got your D1. Before those, you'd get the Robes of Arugal from SFK. And if you weren't running those dungeons and getting the items you needed, you were gimping yourself. You needed to do them for experience, too. There just weren't enough quests to get you from 1-60 in Vanilla. You had to run the shit out of Scarlet Monastery if you wanted to get from 30-40. There wasn't any other way to do it. \\n Quests were hard too. And they'd send you all over the world. Think Khadgar's legendary quest chain, multiple times. Often without a mount, and never with more than 60% increased speed. Warlocks needed to get their pets. Shamans needed to get their totems. Warriors and Hunters had quests to get weapons, I think. Rogues had to get their poisons. Group quests couldn't really be solo'd most of the time. You'd have to actually find a group to help you. You couldn't run into a pack of four mobs and kill them without dying. Hell, some classes could barely fight two mobs at once. You had to use CC when you were out in the world questing. You had to be deliberate in your actions. It meant something. \\n Max level characters weren't that great. A level 40 character could sometimes hold his own against a fresh 60. The difference between a level 59 character and all but the most geared level 60 characters wasn't huge. The term \\\"high level character\\\" was used to describe characters that weren't at max yet. If there were no-shows for an MC or Onyxia, people would take characters that weren't at max level. I remember raiding a few times at 58 or 59. Granted, individual performance wasn't as important back then, but it shows how different the attitude was regarding character level. Would anyone bring a level 99 character to HM? I'm not sure it's even possible. \\n There were guilds that were designated \\\"leveling guilds.\\\" It was generally assumed that players would leave at max level. The purpose of these guilds was to hopefully make it easier to find groups while you were leveling, or just to have people to talk to. \\n Leveling up was harder then, yes. It took longer. But honestly it feels more like a chore now.\",\n \"Summary: Would you rather have someone say they like your suspenders, or would you rather have someone say they think you look handsome? Dressing for the plebs will get you the first kind of compliments; dressing for the internet will get you the second kind. \\n *Some people will probably say that being stylish comes after being well-dressed, once you've found your own \\\"personal\\\" look. I don't necessarily disagree, but for the purposes of coherency, I'm considering stylish and well-dressed two separate categories.\\n\\nPost: I think this kind of plays into the difference between being \\\"stylish*\\\" and being \\\"well-dressed.\\\" Ideally, you want to be both stylish and well-dressed, but a lot of people are either one or the other (or neither). Wearing CDBs with a blue OCBD and dark indigo 511s would make you well-dressed, but it's not particularly stylish. Wearing a fedora and a black waistcoat with a red tie and pinstriped pants would be stylish (in a sense, anyway) but not necessarily well-dressed. Does that make sense? \\n Generally I think the internet (MFA especially) favors a well-dressed but unstylish man over a stylish but unwell-dressed one. Being well-dressed takes a little bit more effort and time, because you actually have to learn the ropes instead of just dressing like [Andre from The League]( \\n Personally, I try to go the well-dressed route. A few years back when I was first getting into fashion, I tended towards peacocking, and I probably got more compliments on my outfits/clothing then than I do now, but I get more compliments on how I look now. As in, people say \\\"you look nice!\\\" instead of \\\"I like your red jeans!\\\" \\n This is already way longer than I meant it to be, so:\",\n \"Summary: Photobucket banned me from viewing any images on their domain because I fuskered my own pictures.\\n\\nPost: Photobucket is so bad. \\n A year or so ago, I lost access to one of my old Photobucket accounts (from like 2005) because I couldn't remember the password/email whatever. Photobucket support was no help, but I had some pictures on there that I wanted because I had a hard drive die on me, so I used a fuskering service to recover the pictures from the account. Photobucket detected that I was using a fuskering service and banned my IP from viewing any images on Photobucket for like six months. I talked to support again to explain that I was fuskering my own account but they refused to lift the ban. One of the worst experiences I've ever had with a business.\",\n \"Summary: The first one really was wrong place wrong time. In the second one I tried to break up a fight and got caught in the crossfire pretty bad.\\n\\nPost: I oversimplified a little bit. \\n The first one was during the Spring Jam riot in Dinkytown in April of '09. My friend and I were walking back to his house and the cops were in an alley and kind of had it blocked off, so people couldn't get onto the street where the riot took place. They were yelling something at us but we couldn't hear them so we stood there with our hands up and they just came over and sprayed us. I didn't get it very badly that time but my friend got nailed. It was really disorienting. He got it so bad that at first I thought they'd hit him with a nightstick. This one literally was wrong place wrong time. \\n The second time was St Patrick's day this year in St Paul. There was a fight on West 7th across Chestnut from Cosetta's, in front of McGovern's. Some idiots picked a fight with some random guy and two cops were sitting across the street just watching it all go down. My friends and I were kinda standing there rubbernecking and eventually it got to the point where the guy was being kicked in the head. Since the cops were literally just standing there watching it happen, I grabbed the guy kicking him and pulled him back and right as that happened the cops decided to come over and spray everyone, no verbal warning. I probably shouldn't have gotten involved, but I feel like I did the right thing. That time I got nailed full on; my friends said they could see the actual spray on my face. It was pretty shitty but honestly it wasn't the worst pain I've felt. Once you can get to a sink and wash it out you're pretty much fine.\",\n \"Summary: You're dumb, and wrong about non-traditional dress not having a place on MFA. But even if you were right; this is an advice forum, so obviously we're going to recommend safe styles of dress when people say \\\"what should I wear? I'm clueless.\\\"\\n\\nPost: You're an idiot, and anyone who agrees with you is an idiot. I'm just going to say it because I'm sick to death of these pointless spammy threads every week. \\n MFA is an advice board first and foremost. No one can give someone advice on how to polish their own look. What are you even talking about? That's like giving a painter advice on what to paint. People have to establish their own look through experimentation and learning what they like. To be able to experiment in a meaningful way, you have to first learn the basics. That's what MFA is for and that's exactly the advice that MFA gives people who are looking to build their own sense of style. I've told countless people that to truly look and feel good, they have to learn how to dress like themselves. \\n Also, you speak as if there isn't any avant-garde or urban fashion that goes through MFA. Newsflash, bro: there is. There's tons of it, in fact. But because people who follow urban or avant-garde fashion trends in real life are a minority, obviously posts like that are going to be a minority on MFA. \\n MFA is an excellent jumping off point for men trying to get into fashion, and it's a great place to learn the basics that enable you to experiment and personalize your look to best express who you are. Look at veroz, who (correct me if I'm wrong) has said that he learned a lot (most?) of what he knows from MFA. He's kind of the MFA posterboy even, and his style is very non-traditional.\",\n \"Summary: Can I get a good value on a skeleton watch at around $200? Or am I better off buying a cheap generic one from China?\\n\\nPost: I don't know a ton about watches, but I've been gaining an interest lately and trying to educate myself. I tried searching but I didn't find any similar threads, so sorry if this has been asked before. \\n I'm fascinated by skeleton watches and would love to have one to wear once in a while, but my budget is pretty limited. So, my question is, can I get a skeleton watch for under or around $200 that is actually worth $200? Or would I get a better value if I just bought a $20 generic chinese watch? \\n Manual-wind or automatic is fine. I'm not too picky about what kind of band it has, but I'd prefer it to be silver rather than gold if it's a metal band. I've got an average-sized wrist, so case diameter shouldn't be an issue as long as it's not super huge or super tiny. Bonus points for a chronograph. \\n And one other additional question: is it silly to buy an inexpensive tourbillon? I think they're neat, but I get the impression that a cheap tourbillon watch might come across as affected. \\n Thanks for taking the time to read and answer my questions! If you need any more details or anything, just ask.\",\n \"Summary: What's the mushroom in the bottom-right of this picture?\\n\\nPost: It's from the Meyers Konversations-Lexikon 5th edition, which is a German-language encyclopedia. \\n The mushroom I'm concerned with identifying is the one in the bottom-right corner. My friend and I are amateur mycologists and like to go out and see what kinds of different mushrooms we can find around where we live. We found several mushrooms that seem to be the same as the one in the picture, but I'm having trouble finding a version of the picture with the text naming the mushrooms intact that's large enough to read. I, unfortunately, don't have any good pictures of the mushrooms we found, but I'm fairly certain they're the same. \\n Don't worry, we're not planning on eating them without checking with someone who'd know for sure that they're edible, I'm just hoping to get a lead on figuring out what they are. \\n Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.\",\n \"Summary: Do you think that people have to smoke before they can say it's not their thing?\\n\\nPost: First off I wanna say that I'm not a smoker myself; I've done it before and decided it wasn't my thing. That being said, I'm very pro-cannabis and pro-legalization and all of that stuff. Almost all of my friends are avid smokers, and I personally have never felt pressured by any of them to smoke against my better judgement. I lurk trees a lot (I've posted once or twice) and I'm always really impressed by how level-headed and chill the community is. \\n What I'd like to ask about about is your views on people who choose to abstain entirely from smoking; who never try it and never intend to. The reason I'm asking is because of [this]( comment thread. A few people are calling this kid out because he says that he's never tried cannabis and that it's not his thing. They're saying that he couldn't possibly know it's not his thing unless he's tried it... and I think that's kind of a messed up thing to say. If he wants to smoke, that's awesome; if he doesn't want to, that's awesome too. I feel like some of these comments are challenging that, and almost pressuring him to smoke or implying that he's ignorant if he doesn't smoke. Now, if he were trying to tell other people they shouldn't smoke that'd be another story, but if it's just his personal decision, I think people should respect that. \\n One thing I'd like to clarify is that I'm not saying that someone can necessarily predict whether or not they'd enjoy being high without trying it first, but rather that someone can absolutely decide they don't ever want to get high without having previously been high, and that no one should tell them their decision is wrong or closed-minded. \\n So do you guys think that someone has to try pot before they can say it's not their thing? Do you think it's okay to just decide to never do it, or would you say that's ignorant or presumptuous? I'm really interested to get your feedback on this and hopefully get a feel for the overall opinion of the community.\",\n \"Summary: Drop Cassel for Fitzpatrick? Replace Amendola with Henderson or Gaffney? Drop Mike Williams, Jacoby Ford or Austin Collie in favor of Gaffney or Henderson?\\n\\nPost: I've got Matt Cassel as a backup QB right now. Would it be a good idea too drop him and pick up Ryan Fitzpatrick? I know it's still early into the season, but it seems like the Bills have a lot more scoring potential this year and Cassel's already having some slight injury problems. \\n Also, between Jabar Gaffney and Devery Henderson, who would be the best choice to replace Danny Amendola? I'm leaning towards grabbing Henderson for now at least until Colston and Moore are back in, and then maybe picking up Gaffney later on once Henderson cools down. My only concern is that I play in a fairly active league, so there's a good chance Gaffney won't be available down the road if he keeps performing. Should I just grab Gaffney now? \\n I've also got Jacoby Ford, Mike Williams and Austin Collie, so I could trade one of them out and pick up both Henderson and Gaffney. \\n Thanks for the help guys, I'm kinda new to all of this.\",\n \"Summary: Heroics are easy and boring this late into the expansion. Why do you bitch when people try to get through them quickly?\\n\\nPost: Wrath is almost over, all of the content has been farmable for months. The only reason to do heroics right now is to farm justice points for heirlooms or to gear up to attempt to get Kingslayer before Cataclysm comes out, and this has been the case at least since 4.0.1 came out, and probably for considerably longer (most serious progression guilds have had ICC on farm since summer). \\n Heroics are easy now. They're easy to tank, easy to heal and easy to dps. Everyone has done them all a thousand times. Particularly if you're using the LFG tool, you're not doing heroics for the social aspect. \\n So why all the bitching about tanks chain-pulling and blowing through heroics as quickly as possible? I don't get it.\",\n \"Summary: From my point of view, it just seems like that extra .2\\\" is doing more harm than good. What are your thoughts?\\n\\nPost: I recently got an EVO 3D on a new line at Sprint, and overall I like it a lot, but a couple minor issues have popped up so I'm considering giving the Epic 4G Touch (Sprint's SGS2 variant) a shot when it comes out in two weeks. \\n One thing I'm concerned about, though, is the larger 4.5\\\" screen. The phone is already only running at WVGA 800x480 resolution, which is lower than the qHD 960x540 that my EVO 3D has. Extending the screen size by another .2\\\" just reduces the pixel density even further, and although the SAMOLED+ displays are very nice to look at, I can't really say I understand why they felt the need to increase the screen size beyond the 4.3\\\" of the international version. Not to mention that even though I have pretty big hands, I can't imagine a phone with a 4.5\\\" screen is going to be comfortable to hold for an extended period of time. \\n It seems to me like it might just be a way to reduce the cost of the phone rather than improve the user experience, because a larger screen would be cheaper to produce due to the lower pixel densities required.\",\n \"Summary: Getting a different phone (EVO 3D to Photon or Epic 4G Touch). What's the best way to back everything up (without rooting) so I have an easy time setting up my new phone?\\n\\nPost: I got an EVO 3D about two and a half weeks ago, and I've been having some issues with it. It's locked up a few times and shortly after I got it I had to completely wipe the phone to fix a problem I had. \\n So, since Sprint has a nice 30 day return/exchange policy, I'm thinking about taking it in and getting either the Epic 4G Touch or the Photon. Since it's a warranty return I don't want to root the device and risk voiding anything. \\n What's the best way to back things up to make the transition to a different phone easier? I know there are different backup apps, but will they work going from one kind of a device to a different kind? \\n Thanks in advance, guys :)\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":50,"string":"50"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":7698,"string":"7,698"}}},{"rowIdx":7699,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"Crazy_Overlord"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Intimidating, massive man tries to intimidate an elderly woman into giving him her best coupons. Turns out the coupons are worthless to him, anyways..."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Let me start of by saying that I love seniors, or at least the ones who come to my store. They're usually polite and remind me of my own grandmother, who I adore. On the day this story takes place, I was cashing out this sweet, elderly lady (EL), when a big man (BM) lined up, behind her. \n After telling her the total, EL starts pulling out these coupons that our company sends out. Being a store that has a points system, these coupons give customers a bonus amount of points for spending a certain amount (10x for spending $25, 25x for spending $50, and 50x for spending $75 - or something like that). This lady was spending over $200, so obviously it was more beneficial for her to use the largest coupon. Unfortunately, B noticed her coupons as well. \n BM: ( Literally getting in EL's face ) Oh, I see you have some coupons? Can I have one? \n EL: Sure! [ She starts ripping off the smallest coupon to give him (he was only buying a couple of cartons of milk) ] \n BM: I want this one ( points to the coupon worth the most. Both EL and I are taken back by his forwardness. ) \n EL: Uh...sure...I guess ( starts ripping the bigger one. I can tell she does not want to give him this coupon, but this guy is fucking intimidating...) \n At this point, I'm beyond furious. It's obvious that he's taking advantage of this little old woman! \n Me: ( Addressing EL ) Actually, because you're spending so much, it's best that you use that coupon for your purchase today. ( I hold out my hand while talking so BM doesn't have a chance to cut in ) \n EL: Ok! ( she still proceeds to give BM the second largest coupon, but there's nothing I can really say to prevent her from doing this. BM accepts it, but grudgingly. I can tell he was annoyed at not getting the one worth the most ) \n I finish cashing out EL and wish her a good day before turning around to help BM. He puts his stuff on the counter and then tries to hand me the coupon. His total was only about $10, so I inform him that he needs to spend another $40 in order to get the points. \n BM: Points? I thought I was getting $25 off... I don't even have a membership card! ( grumbles as he pays for his shit and leaves ) \n Really???? You watched me cash out EL and explain how the bonus points would be added to her account. Somehow, the idea of this asshole trying to make a senior give him her $50 coupon made it even worse..."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Let me start of by saying that I love seniors, or at least the ones who come to my store. They're usually polite and remind me of my own grandmother, who I adore. On the day this story takes place, I was cashing out this sweet, elderly lady (EL), when a big man (BM) lined up, behind her. \n After telling her the total, EL starts pulling out these coupons that our company sends out. Being a store that has a points system, these coupons give customers a bonus amount of points for spending a certain amount (10x for spending $25, 25x for spending $50, and 50x for spending $75 - or something like that). This lady was spending over $200, so obviously it was more beneficial for her to use the largest coupon. Unfortunately, B noticed her coupons as well. \n BM: ( Literally getting in EL's face ) Oh, I see you have some coupons? Can I have one? \n EL: Sure! [ She starts ripping off the smallest coupon to give him (he was only buying a couple of cartons of milk) ] \n BM: I want this one ( points to the coupon worth the most. Both EL and I are taken back by his forwardness. ) \n EL: Uh...sure...I guess ( starts ripping the bigger one. I can tell she does not want to give him this coupon, but this guy is fucking intimidating...) \n At this point, I'm beyond furious. It's obvious that he's taking advantage of this little old woman! \n Me: ( Addressing EL ) Actually, because you're spending so much, it's best that you use that coupon for your purchase today. ( I hold out my hand while talking so BM doesn't have a chance to cut in ) \n EL: Ok! ( she still proceeds to give BM the second largest coupon, but there's nothing I can really say to prevent her from doing this. BM accepts it, but grudgingly. I can tell he was annoyed at not getting the one worth the most ) \n I finish cashing out EL and wish her a good day before turning around to help BM. He puts his stuff on the counter and then tries to hand me the coupon. His total was only about $10, so I inform him that he needs to spend another $40 in order to get the points. \n BM: Points? I thought I was getting $25 off... I don't even have a membership card! ( grumbles as he pays for his shit and leaves ) \n Really???? You watched me cash out EL and explain how the bonus points would be added to her account. Somehow, the idea of this asshole trying to make a senior give him her $50 coupon made it even worse..."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Got held up at gunpoint on my way home from campus on the very street I live on. Take my phone and end up getting caught, but somehow manage to find out my name and phone number and make threatening calls to stop me from showing up to court.\n\nPost: It was the night before my religion paper was due and I ended up staying later on campus than usual. The bus stop is less than a 5 minute walk from my house in a safe neighborhood, so coming home at night is not something that really worries me. What I didn't know was, that night, two guys were parked near my bus stop and, seeing me (a small girl) walking alone, decided that I was an easy target. \n When I turned on my street, I heard the sound of people running towards me, along with someone shouting out, \"Alex! Hey, Alex!\" Thinking that it was a case of mistaken identity or that maybe I somehow dropped something with my best friend's name on it, I turned around and informed them that my name wasn't Alex. The guy closest to me came towards me and ominously said, \"So then what's your name?\" At this point, I realized I was in big trouble and decided to run for it (I could SEE my house), only to be cut off by the first guy. I turned around and saw that there was another guy behind me, effectively trapping me there. \n At the time, I didn't think to scream - I was frozen. The guy in front of me reached in his vest and told me that he had a gun. It was pretty dark and I couldn't really see, so I thought he was lying. He threatened to shoot me if I didn't give him my phone. Now, I put my phone in my pocket before I got off the bus, so I tried to play dumb and told them I didn't have one. The guy got angry and pulled the gun (later found out it was a bb gun) out and pointed it at me. I had my dad's SLR camera and my laptop in my bag so, doing the math, I figured that it was best to just hand over my phone. They grabbed it and ran, not before the guy muttered, \"fucking bitch\" at me. \n Dazed and confused, I stumbled home and told my dad what happened. We called the police and I spent most of the night at the police station. They caught the guys a couple of nights later doing the same thing to another girl who was walking home from the bus stop and I got my phone back. However, right before the trial, somehow they got hold of my name (which the police assured me would be kept confidential) and my number, spoofing calls and telling me that \"if you show up in court, you're done.\" Police couldn't prove it was them and told me that my best course of action was to change my number and get campus security involved (to stand outside my classes...). \n It's been over a year and my life is still a fucking mess from this. My mom has gone into 'mama bear' mode, where she freaks out about the smallest things (she wouldn't let my wear my university sweater for the longest time because \"they'll find out where you go!\"). I am no longer able to walk home from the bus stop after 5 unless there is no other option and, when that happens, I'm fucking terrified. Even when it's light outside, I still get scared walking down my own street and that uneasiness doesn't go away unless I see that some neighbors are outside.","Summary: be patient, be understanding - be her friend. Make sure you let her know that you want to get back together and show her that things really have changed. Actions speak louder than words.\n\nPost: My boyfriend and I broke up for a year and a half before getting back together. The only reason it worked was because both of us are radically different people now. We each had our issues (it was my first relationship and I was a naive, selfish dumbass and he was depressed, drinking too much, and had pretty much just given up). \n With us, the spark never really left. He would make it clear that he was interested in me and, like your ex and yourself, we'd talk occasionally. He was always there when I needed him and would drop by my work, just to see me. The reason I considered him giving him another chance was because he made it clear that he understood what went wrong previously and that he was serious about me. \n Our 'second round' was awkward at first - trying to make sense of this person that I thought I knew. There were still some underlying issues we had to work out, mainly my fear of commitment, but he was always patient. He agreed to take it super slow and never pushed me into making a decision. He listened to me whenever I wanted to voice concerns or objections, and he'd help me work out solutions. Just the fact that he did all this proved that he really had changed. \n It's been 2.5 years since we've gotten back together and, everyday, I am grateful that he made the effort to rekindle out relationship.","Summary: Spent most of high school dealing with a creep who was in love with me. Shit got physical and I finally grew some (metaphorical) balls.\n\nPost: My story starts wayyyy back in grade 9, my first year of high school (I'm 20 now). I was in this advanced program (I'm not sure how to describe it without giving away too much information). There were only about 100 of us in this program and we didn't really have any choice in electives, so everyone knew each other on some level. Now, I was a really socially awkward person (I still am) and had no idea how to deal with creeps or how to stand up for myself. \n There was this one guy in my grade, Ted, who was a bit off. He liked to write stories and would base the characters on people in real life. This became really weird when it got out that there was a sex scene in his book involving people in our grade. Awkward. Anyways, I sat near Ted in one of my classes and we didn't really talk much. I don't really remember much of that class except that at one point the guy I was sitting next to was teasing Ted about not having a girlfriend. Ted was pissed and went off about how \"I'd never date any of these girls!\" and actually made a point to address me saying how I wasn't 'smart enough' for him and how \"I would never stoop so low as to date you. I want a girl who's on my intellectual level.\" Whatever - that didn't bother me. \n Grade 10 came around and I ended up making friends with this guy, Jerry, who was a little eccentric, but a lot of fun to talk to. It turned out that he was friends with Ted and, pretty soon, I was having lunch with them every alternative day. Ted made it clear that he didn't approve and told me how I was a wench in his latest story and that my husband and eldest son were both killed in battle. Apparently the heart break was too much and I ended up wasting away in a tiny, filthy room all alone. Needless to say, I quickly found a new set of friends. \n Somehow, during this time Ted fell 'in love' with me because I'm \"a good person\" (Yeah...he still didn't think I was very intelligent). He would constantly text/call me every single day. He would get jealous if I were to hang out with other guys and even my best friend - who was a girl. To be honest, I felt bad for him because he told me that the last girl he confessed to stopped talking to him and he didn't want that to happen with me (turns out he creeped her too). I put up with constant barrages of messages and the many \"WHY ARE YOU IGNORING ME\"s I would get for not replying on MSN after more than 2 minutes. It got to the point where he would actually threaten to kill himself because I got mad when he would talk shit about my friends and, \"you'd never do that for me!\" Now, this was the first time a guy had actually done any of this to me so I had no fucking idea how to respond. I felt guilty and angry at the same time. The only people who knew this shit was happening were my closest friends, and even they didn't know the full extent. \n When it came to yearbook signing he gave me a piece of paper that talked about how \"although this may seem 'creepy,' in [his] time - the time [he] was supposed to be born into - it would be seen as an act of chivalry.\" I asked him what was the purpose of this and he told me that he was afraid that there would not be enough room in my yearbook for his \"declaration.\" He did this every year, even if I was already in a relationship. He was so bold as to, one year, write about how he constantly thinks of \"what could have been\" and went on to insult the current guy I was dating. I never led him on. I outright told him that I was not interested and I even asked out another guy in front of him. He would always claim that he was over me and that he just wanted to stay friends. I put up with this shit for 3 years. \n During my last year, he approached me at my locker to tell me that he was arranging a movie get together and, because I had always bailed on the previous ones, wanted to make sure I could make it to this one before inviting other people. Already sensing something off about this, I took it upon myself to invite a whole bunch of guy friends. Ted found out about this and went behind my back, telling them that they were not good enough friends and that he should have never invited me in the first place because I'm crazy. Of course, the guys found this fucking hilarious and decided not to tell me and chose to, instead, make excuses as to why they couldn't come. After all of them flopped, Ted told me, \"It wouldn't be so bad if it were just you and me, right?\" Reluctantly, I agreed and, all of a sudden, he started calling it a 'date' and went on and on about how he was looking forward to it. \n Shit hit the fan when I found out about the e-mail and told him I wanted nothing to do with him anymore. The next morning, I saw him standing in front of my class, so I ducked into the washroom until the announcements were over. When I exited, I found him standing there, waiting for me. I tried to walk past him, but he grabbed my wrist painfully tight and started dragging me down the deserted hall. Freaking out, I struggled and managed to break free. I made a mad dash for my class and I heard the sound of him punching a locker behind me. I didn't see him for the rest of the day. \n I made sure that, for the rest of the year, I was never alone with him - ever . Luckily for me, my best friend shared 2 classes with me and her locker was right next to mine. When I wasn't with her, I was with either her/my boyfriend. I stopped answering his calls and deleted him from msn. My parents kinda knew about the situation, so when he resorted to calling my house (I have no idea how he got my number), my dad picked up and pretended to be angry, yelling, \"Why is there a boy calling you?\" Needless to say, he never tried that again.","Summary: when you hear your car being described over the P.A. system, don't ignore it. Leave your kid unattended in a potentially unsafe environment and we will take action.\n\nPost: The weather in my area lately has been pretty extreme lately (in the 30 degree area) - today was no different. Everything was going ok until a customer approached my manager looking somewhat upset. Apparently, she had noticed an unattended young child in a car in our parking lot and, being concerned, waited approximately 10 minutes for the parents to return - but they never did. \n My manager (M) stepped out to check on the situation and made an announcement over the P.A., listing the model and license info of the car and asking the owners to immediately come to front cash. Now, our store is fairly small. We have only 8 aisles, a pharmacy counter and a cosmetic portion. There is no way that the parents were unable to hear the page for any reason. M waited 10 minutes for the parents, but they never came. Thinking that they might be in the middle of a pharmacy transaction or something else important, she decided to head over there and ask around. No luck. Another announcement was made, and still no parents showed up. \n At this point, the child had been sitting in the car for a good half hour in the heat, unattended. We are located in a plaza so, at this point, we assumed that maybe the parents came here first and then walked somewhere else. M called the non-emergency police number, requesting that they send someone to check on the situation. 5 minutes after she called, the parents exit our store via the cosmetic area. That's right. They left their young child in the car for half an hour to look at cosmetic products. \n The customer who was waiting by the car and, apparently (I was inside, so I missed this), stood in front of their car and refused to let them leave until the police showed up. My manager was extremely pissed because she now had to call back the police and inform them that the parents had finally returned. She had tried to wait it out as long as possible to avoid this kind of situation and yet, because their cosmetics were apparently more important, shit hit the fan. I didn't get to see much of what was going on but my manager said that there was a lot of yelling. When the cops showed up, they wrote down some stuff and the kid was allowed to leave with their parents. Doesn't really feel like justice, but at least now the parents are more aware. \n It was just so frustrating that everyone was so worried over the welfare of this kid and went out of their way to try and help, only to find out that the parents were in our store all along. That customer waited for half an hour beside that car. It wasn't even like this car was parked far away. This car was, literally, less than a 2 minute walk away from our door. One of the parents could have easily gone back for the child if they realized that they were going to be in our store for so long.","Summary: Co-worker does her job and helps customer with her purchase. Only, customer realizes that she made a mistake and, instead of owning up to it, tries to raise hell and get my co-worker in trouble.\n\nPost: As most of you know, with pre-paid cards like Amex, Visa, and Master Card, there is an activation fee ranging between about $3-6. This is written on each gift card and, before selling any, we have to make sure that we make the customer aware that they are being charged extra. We're also clear that we do not accept any returns or exchanges on gift cards, no matter what. Usually, this isn't a problem. \n A couple of days ago, this lady (L) came in looking to buy a pre-paid gift card for her husband. Apparently his work required him to have one or something and this was the first time she had ever bought one. My co-worker (C), who was standing right next to me, cashed her out and I heard her give L the usual spiel. Everything seemed to be going fine and the transaction was completed without a hassle...that is, until five minutes later. \n Suddenly, L realizes, \"Oh wait...I'm paying $28 for a card that's only worth $25\" and tells C that she wants a refund. C, taken back, explains to L that this isn't possible and that she was well-informed of this before purchasing the card. L decides to ignore this and starts yelling about how there was no sign indicating no returns and calls C a liar. Of course, my manager is called and I make it a point to whisper over the phone that I did hear C give the talk. My manager tells the lady that we're not giving her a refund and that she was stuck with the gift card, causing L to angrily walk off into the sunset (after more yelling and quite a lot of swearing), never to be seen again.","Summary: Favorite regulars see me struggling with a rude customer and make a point to tell me that I'm pretty. It's the small things that make a difference.\n\nPost: Please ignore the crappy title - wittiness is, unfortunately, a talent that I lack. =[ \n Backstory : I've been working as a cashier in a fairly big convenience/small department store for almost 2 years now. My schedule is pretty much set and, unless I book the day off, I always open on the weekends. On Sunday, we have these regulars, an elderly woman and her son, who always come in to buy lottery tickets or purchase some groceries. They are always amazingly polite and happy. \n We also have another regular, a woman who gets snappy when we're not 'fast enough.' She's the kind of customer who will step out of line to rudely ask, \"Can't someone else open?\" or, when a cashier is not cashing out the person in front of her fast enough, she will actually go up to them and say, \"You're not done yet?\" Sigh. \n This Sunday, like clockwork, the nice regulars were back. Unfortunately, the unpleasant customer was ahead of them, which meant that I got the pleasure of cashing her out while my supervisor assisted the woman and her son. Seeing my customer's impoliteness, the son made a face to show me that he understood my pain and then, when the lady left, his mother came up to my counter and whispered kindly, \"You know, I just came here to tell you that you look very pretty.\" It was a little thing, but it did brighten up my day and make me love these customers even more. It's people like them who make working retail worth it.","Summary: Although I am but a lowly cashier, it doesn't make what I say any less valid.\n\nPost: I work in a pretty popular store. We sell everything from pharmaceuticals to high-end cosmetics. We also carry a lot of grocery items. You would think that, by now, people would understand that, as part of a franchise, our prices are set but, alas, some people still think that they can haggle with us for cheaper prices. Here are some stories. \n \n One of the most popular items we carry are eggs. These eggs are under one of our many store brands, meaning that it's a lot cheaper when compared to other brands. Usually, when on sale, a dozen can go for a low as $1.88. This particular week, the eggs happened to be that price. As always, someone was unsatisfied. \n As I was returned some items the shelves in our grocery aisle, a man (H for Haggler) and his family approached me. \n H : (holds out a carton of eggs to me) Some of these eggs are broken. \n Me : I'm so sorry! (I look over at the shelf and see that it's fully stocked with cartons of eggs. Maybe he was just informing me?) Did you want to grab another one? \n H : It's broken - can I get a discount? \n Me : Unfortunately we can't sell broken eggs - it's health code violation. \n H : (He looks a little bit miffed) But what are you going to with these eggs? I'll buy them! \n Me : Again, I can't sell them to you - it's not safe . \n H : I'll buy ALL your broken cartons! \n Me : Sir...I can't! \n H : (definitely upset at this point) Is there anyone else I could talk to? \n Me : (sigh...) Let me get my manager... \n My manager comes in and reiterates exactly what I said. H, again, brings up the fact that we're losing money by scrapping these eggs, but my manager informs him that we get reimbursed for the cartons containing broken eggs. H seems to finally understand and my manager and I walk away. \n Literally less than two minutes later, I go back into our grocery aisle to finish off my returns. There is H, this time asking a different person whether or not he could get a discount on cartons with broken eggs. I stuck around to hear my co-worker also turn down his offer. \n Needless to say, he ended up having to pay the measly $1.88 per carton price. \n \n Our store also carries laptops and netbooks. We don't have a very varied supply and most of our prices tend to be a little above that of our competitors (we make up for it with our membership card - our point system is one of the best). One of the netbooks we sell is pretty tiny and, in all honesty, not much to look at. It retails for about $200 but, since no one was buying it, my manager lowered it to $50. \n That day, we were having a special promotion. We were bumping up the reward levels of our points system, which meant customers were able to save even more than before. Unfortunately, this was also the day that Points Man (PM) decided to show up during my shift. \n PM always asks to check his points balance as soon as he gets in the store. Usually this is no problem, but the thing with PM is that he always insists that he's supposed to have more points than what shows up on screen. Every.single.time, he says, \"Ehhh...I'm supposed to have (insert high number of points here)!\" and, every.single.time, I have to give him the website to check his points balance and to see where his points went. \n I realize that our system screws up once in a while, but I've cashed out PM before and I always see him cashing out his points at the lowest level, instead of waiting until they're worth more. After these transactions, I always make it a point to explain to PM that, since he used his points, he's now back to a lower number. I guess he has selective memory when it comes to these things... \n Anyways...so here comes PM and I instantly cringe. Again, we do the whole points balance dance and he insists that he's supposed to have more points. For the next hour, he strolls around the store and picks up some stuff (I remember baby formula - he tends to buy a lot of it) and maybe some diapers? One of the other things he picks up is the $50 laptop. \n He pushes his cart up to my till and I ring him up. When it comes to the laptop, PM is really excited and goes on about how it's such a good deal and he's been wanting to buy something like this for a while. After I explain to him that it's a clear out item, PM winks at me, smiling, and asks if it's possible for me to give him a better deal. \"Uhhh... no. \" Like most people who try to pull this stunt, once I turn him down he asks for the manager. \n Manager: What's the price of the laptop now? \n Me: $50 \n Manager: What's the original price? \n Me: $200... \n Manager: ...That's the best we can do. \n PM decided not to get the laptop, only to ask for it a couple of weeks later. I guess he was just waiting for it to go on further sale. Unfortunately for him, someone had already snatched it up. \n \n The same thing that happened with PM happened with another couple. They wanted to buy a camera on clear out and tried to bargain for a cheaper price. The camera was, originally, $229 and was on clear out for $50. My supervisor straight-out told them no and explained that we were actually losing money by selling it at that price, already. Apparently, that still wasn't good enough and the couple then asked for a manager to weigh in. Again, they were told no. They didn't buy the camera.","Summary: Interviewed for great job, but accepted retail job position just in case. Just heard back that it looks like I might get the first job. So now I'm not sure what to do.\n\nPost: x-post from /r/relationships \n Essentially, I've been applying to a host of different jobs for the summer. A connection got me an interview at this great company that is hiring full-time for above minimum. I wasn't sure I would get it so I applied to a minimum-wage retail position and got accepted right away. \n Here's the issue. I got an email stating that the HR of the first company \"is currently working on putting together an offer letter and [the person who interviewed me, not my contact ] should have something for [me] later this week.\" I'm thrilled, but I'm still not sure if this means that I'm getting this job for certain. I have my orientation for the retail job tonight, where I have to hand in an agreement stating that I will give 2 weeks notice before I leave. \n What do I do? Should I still go forward and pursue the retail position (you know...two birds in the bush and all that), or should I let them know ahead of time? Are there actually any penalties if I don't give 2 weeks notice?","Summary: The cow jumped over the moon.\n\nPost: My least favorite customers, the ones I absolutely hate, are the ones who have no idea how retail works/what it's like to be a retail employee. \n \n A couple of weeks ago, my store was having a huge promotion, as well as a one-day sale. Needless to say, the lines were long and the complaints were plenty. One of the cashier's and merchandiser's breaks overlapped a little, so my manager was forced to jump on front cash. No problem, right? \n One customer (C) I was ringing through commented how there didn't seem to be much people on the floor. I explained how our manager and a merchandiser were acting as cashiers while some people were having their lunch. \n C : Oh, well can't you pull them off and make them work? \n Me : Well, they went home from lunch. (Lies: they were actually in the back) \n C : Where's your manager? (I point to the counter next to mine) \n C : (to my manager) You know - you shouldn't let your employees leave the store during their break. Instead, make them stay here and then you can make them work when it's busy. (Me: whhattt????) \n Manager: (oh..she's totally pissed off) A lot of their breaks are an hour long. I'm not going to hold them hostage in our store for an hour. \n C : (shrugs and walks off with that, \"it's your loss\" look) I'm just telling you what I would do if I was manager. \n Seriously? My break is my time. Yes, there are times when my manager will ask me if I can cover for a bit, but that's usually only so she can watch people she thinks might be shop-lifting and, even then, she gives me extra time off for my trouble. \n \n This story takes place a couple of months ago. Our store closes at midnight and our manager, although pretty laid back, really doesn't like it when we punch out later than we have to. \n It's a couple of minutes to midnight and all the tills are pulled except for one at front cash. This means that the pharmacy can't cash out prescriptions any more. Although they're closed, we have a 24 hour store literally right down the street. \n Peering down the aisles, I don't see anyone and figure that it's going to be a good night. All of a sudden, I catch a glimpse of them - a couple at the pharmacy counter. I know that pharmacy won't be filling out any prescriptions this close to midnight, but I still do the customary, \"Our store will be closing in 5 minutes...\" call. I figure this will get my point through. They leave pharmacy - and start shopping. FML. \n 1 minute to close - they're still there. I do the page again, this time forgoing any 'pleases' and 'thank yous.' \n Our lights go off. They're still here. My manager approached them and let them know that we're closing up now, but the man had stuff in his hands and said that he was going to cash out now. Awesome! \n 12:05. What.the.fuck. Obviously the woman can see our merchandisers standing at front cash, unable to leave until signed out. She starts telling her husband, \"Let's go - they're closed!\" His response? \"What type of chips do you want?\" We're not allowed to make them leave, so all of us just stand there in disbelief. \n 12:10: Their stuff is loaded on my counter and I start ringing them through. All of a sudden, the husband makes a dash for our seasonal aisle. I ask the lady how she wants to pay and she sheepishly responds, \"He has the money...\" Fuck. \n 12:15: He comes back with a chocolate lollipop. Apparently, that's what was so important. He's taking his sweet time, trying to make small talk, all the whilst his wife is trying to get him to hurry up. Then he dropped this gem - \"It's ok - they get paid overtime.\" WTF. At this point, I was so close to losing it and informing him that none of the people he was holding up were getting paid overtime. But, being the non-confrontational person that I am, I kept my mouth shut and cashed them out with a smile on my face. \n My manager and I didn't leave the store until 12:30 because I still had to count my till and close down the store. Seeing that I still had a lot to do, my manager took pity on the rest of the staff and let them leave asap. I could tell that she was pissed but, luckily, she didn't say anything.","Summary: Clean up in aisle 12\n\nPost: With Halloween out of the way, my store (a high-end convenience store) is in the midst of preparing for our next money-making holiday - Christmas. Already, some of our aisles are decked with festive tinsel, the seasonal section is almost ready, and a lot of 'Christmas-y' items have been set up near our registers. The only dark spot in our store is that, because it's a symbol of Christianity, we are not allowed to put up our Christmas tree this year. \n One of the first items that were put out were the Advent Calenders. For those not familiar with the concept, they are 'countdown' calenders where, for every day leading up until Christmas, you get to open a little window to get a treat. You're also supposed to start counting down on the first day of December. We have a large variety of these, ranging from $1.99 - $11.99. The most expensive ones are the Lindt and Kinder Surprise calenders. These are placed right beside our registers, so customers often pass them when they are cashing out. \n On Sunday, a lady was returning one of the Kinder Surprises calenders that she had bought the previous day. It was sealed and she had her receipt, so there was no problem. As I went to return it to its stand, what do I see? Someone has torn open the wrapper of one the Lindt calenders and taken the chocolate from the 'Day 1' box. They destroyed the most expensive calender that we had for a tiny piece of chocolate when we had cheaper versions right next to it and a bin of $.99 chocolate bars across from it. Not only that, but they did it right beside our registers! \n I told my manager and she laughed, saying, \"Someone's a little anxious for Christmas!\" We joked about how, since they made sure to take Day 1's treat, they might come back every day for another. I worked Monday night and, to my slight disappointment, all the calenders were in perfect condition. Either that customer really wanted a treat or they realized that they were a month early for their snacking.","Summary: If you're going to file a complaint, please make sure you call the right store.\n\nPost: This is just a short story about something that happened to me recently. \n I work as a cashier/supervisor at a franchise store. Once a week, we don't have any cashiers after 6pm, so it's literally just my manager and I running the store. One of these nights, my manager approached me after I finished dealing with a couple of transactions. \n > M: Hey, so a lady just called complaining about a rude cashier. Do you know anything about this? \n > Me: (internally freaking out, trying to remember if I was rude to anyone) Ummm...what did she say? \n > M : She said that the cashier had terrible customer service and that I should fire you immediately. Apparently you were lazy and the customer said you were very unprofessional. (He starts to smile and I have no idea where he's going with this) I told her, 'are you sure it was Crazy_Overlord - she's one of my best cashiers.' (my manager is super awesome) Turns out she meant to call the store down the street! \n I don't think I've ever been more relieved in my life, albeit a little pissed at my manager for making me stress!","Summary: Apparently, we should be accepting holiday returns in March\n\nPost: Our return policy is 30 days with a receipt (we're also a franchise, so every store has this rule). That should be simple enough, right? Apparently not when it's a month before Christmas... \n Up here in Canada, we don't really have a Black Friday, but corporate decided to get a couple of items specifically for this weekend. These items (big ticketed electronics, toys, etc) are not stock items and my boss has no intention of selling them after Christmas. Needless to say, cashiers made sure to emphasize the 30 day return policy (which is pretty generous considering that we're probably going to have to re-sell it for half the price). \n One particular lady took offense to this rule. As soon as my coworker mentioned the policy, this lady started screaming \n about how, \"this is ridiculous!\" and, \"What? You want me to shop after the 25th????\" My coworker patiently explained to the customer that these items were seasonal and that we don't normally stock them, but that still wasn't good enough. \n The woman started yelling for a manager. My coworker called my manager and confirmed with her on the phone that the 30 days was mandatory. This still wasn't good enough. My manager had to come to the front and explain to this woman that we have no control over the return policy and how corporate will not allow us to process returns at a later date. Still not good enough. \n This lady started demanding to speak to someone even higher up. My manager at this point was fed up with this idiot's rudeness and told her that our store manager (who was off today) would be in contact with her. My coworker quickly processed her transaction and tried to hurry her out the door. \n Of course, she managed to find someone she knew and spent the next 15 (I counted) minutes telling them about how insane our policies are (because of course we're the crazy ones here). My favorite line of hers'? \"I'm a business woman!\" Lady, I don't know how you're still in business. Even my customers thought you were out of your fucking mind.","Summary: After a colour mishap, I now have really ugly grey highlights. Is there any advice for colouring over it? Do I have to worry about how the grey will affect the end result?\n\nPost: I recently had my hair cut/coloured. I asked the colour specialist for bright purple highlights but, in the end, it turned out to be a really dark blue. I actually thought it was pretty sweet, so I didn't say anything about the colour mix up. Before I left, the guy who cut my hair told me to use luke-warm water when washing my hair so the colour doesn't fade. I thought this was kind of weird (I've had bright red highlights that I've maintained and I've been told that's the hardest?), but I figured that my hair would just fade to a lighter blue. \n After one shower, my blue hair turned to this really sickly grey colour that is just terrible. Thank goodness I had a violet Ice Cream Kromask that I bought ahead of time (I used the red one to maintain my red). I've been using that for the past couple of weeks, but it's a little tedious having to reapply the mask every time I shower (if I don't, the grey comes back). \n At this point, I just want to dye my hair but I've never done it myself before (I don't want to go back to this salon). Can I just buy any old dye or will I have to worry about how it will look over the grey colour? Other than the highlights, the rest of my hair is black.","Summary: I sometimes get to feel like a fraud-prevention superhero.\n\nPost: I work at a store that sells all kinds of giftcards. We have a strict 'no buying gift cards with other gift cards' policy in order to lower the chances of fraud. These are some stories of (potential) scammers who try to get around our system. \n \n What prompted me to post this was an encounter I had tonight. Right before closing, this girl walks up with $800 worth of iTunes cards (sketchy as fuck...). I explain to her that I'll have to separate her gift cards into two transactions, as per the rules (that, and I definitely thought something was up). I notice that while I'm scanning the gift cards in, she's holding her credit card in her wallet (not pulling it all the way out), and it looks like she's intentionally trying to block my view of it with her hand (well, this is just getting more and more fishier...). \n The cards are scanned in and I ask her straight up, \"Is your credit card a gift card?\" She stutters a little. \"I can't accept any card, unless it has a chip.\" She flashes her card quickly at me and I see that it does have a chip. I'm still not satisfied, though. I watch like a hawk to make sure she inserts the card but, as soon as she does, it beeps. Straight away, I grab the machine, before she gets the chance to swipe her card (which our machine tells customers to do if it can't read the chip). We've been trained that this is a common tactic for scammers and we're not supposed to allow people to buy cards through swiping/tap unless it's Amex (some cards don't have the chip) and we check their ID. \n This girl asks me if she can swipe her card and I tell her that she has to insert it and enter the PIN. Cue her 'whythefuckaminotgettingmyway.jpg' face. She demands an explanation why and I tell her it's to prevent fraud. I tell her she can try inserting the chip again. She does but, yet again, the machine beeps and I quickly cancel the transaction. Now she complains that she doesn't have any other cards (not my problem...). I offer to call Master Card to authorize the purchase, but she starts mumbling how it's her sister's card and she forgot the PIN (righhtttt...). I tell her that I can't go through with the transaction otherwise, so she tells me to 'forget it' and walks off. \n During the transaction, another customer had qued behind her. After watching her leave, he turned to me in disbelief, \"She wanted to buy that much gift cards by swiping ?\" We had a good laugh at the ridiculousness of it. \n \n One night, back when I first started working retail, this guy came in, wanting to buy a $100 LCBO (store in Ontario where you buy alcohol) gift card. I noticed that his payment choce was a gift card, so informed him about our policy. He was really nice and explained how he got the card as a gift and asked if there was any way we could make an exception for him, as he wanted to give the LCBO gift card to someone else. Feeling kind of bad, I paged my supervisor to front cash to help with the situation. \n This is where things got strange. When my supervisor came over, Nice Guy suddenly pulls a completely different card from his wallet (still another gift card) and repeats the sob story. Being new, I had no idea how to call a customer out on their BS, so I just remained silent, wondering how I was going to warn my supervisor without the customer realizing. \n Luckily for me, my supervisor stuck to the rules and reiterated what I had said about our policy. Nice guy ambled off, deciding not to buy the card. After he was gone, I filled my supervisor in on what happened and he laughed, telling me that I needed to be less nice. =[ \n \n This is my favourite instance of a scammer. \n Just to start off, I'd like to note that I look really young (I'm 21, but I still can, apparently, pass for a high schooler). After I informed a man of our policy, he straight-up asked me, \"How long have you even been working here? I came here a year ago and they let me do this - maybe they recently changed it!\" \n Me: I've been here for over two years and I can assure you that it's always been our policy. \n Him: Oh...yeah...I think it was actually two and a half years that I was here last! So can I still pay with this gift card? (He actually said this). \n Me: No...","Summary: My boyfriend wants kids, but I'm not sure I do. He says that he's happy as long as he has me, but is it wrong to stay together?\n\nPost: Joe and I have been together for a little over 3 years now and things are amazing. He's everything I've wanted in a man and we get along so well - it's like we're made for one another. The only issue is that he wants kids and, to be frank, I don't think I do. \n I say I don't 'think' I do because I love children and spending time with them, but there's always that sense of relief when their parents take them back. I don't see myself as being selfless enough to care for one and, to be honest, the idea of having a child who is psychologically/physically/mentally handicapped worries me a little. I see having kids as a draw for a roommate that you're stuck with for 20-30 years. Then there's the financial and emotional burdens involved - especially knowing how much my own parents have struggled raising my sisters and I. I just think it would be so much easier to not have kids. I do, however, get twinges of 'baby fever,' where I imagine us having our own child and kind of fantasize about it, which is why I'm so undecided. Logically, I know it's smarter not to have kids - but a little part of me does want to experience being a parent. \n Joe, on the other hand, is the only male in his family with his last name (that he loves and takes pride in). I know it's important to him to carry on his family legacy and he seems to genuinely love kids (he gets a long with all my little cousins). He doesn't want us to break up and believes that we should stay together because one of us could change our minds - but what if we don't? He also said that \"On my list of wants you are number one. Kids aren't even my top 5 so stop [considering breaking up]...I've given up on having a lot of things in my life. I'm sure if I really need to I can change my mind on not having another thing. Especially if it's for something important like keeping the woman I love in my life.\" \n I just don't know what to do. I feel like I'm holding him back from finding someone who actually wants kids but, at the same time, is it wrong to make that decision for him? I do want to be with him, but when I picture myself with a baby right now, I just know I won't be happy, and I don't want him to resent me for not giving him a child. Could it be possible for him to be ok with not having kids or does it have to be a deal-breaker? I want to believe him when he tells me that being with me is more important but, to be honest, I just don't know what the 'right' move is.","Summary: Karma's a bitch. Be kind.\n\nPost: I was shopping at the big blue store, trying to find some materials for a crafts project I wanted to try (cross-stitching). It was fairly busy, but I managed to find a short line with only 3 people ahead of me. The cashier, a young woman (YW), told me that I was going to be her last customer before she clocked out. She put one of those 'Register closed' signs on the conveyor belt and resumed cashing out the people ahead of me. \n When she was cashing out the person in front of me, an older woman (OL) decided that she would que behind me, despite the sign on the register (which I know she saw because she paused momentarily before putting her items right next to it). YM politely addressed OL and told her that she was closed and that I was her last customer. Rather than listen, OL made a big show of suddenly turning away at the beginning of YW's speech and started talking to herself about buying chocolate bars, pretending that she hadn't heard what she was saying. It was pretty obvious that she was putting on a show and just didn't want to wait at another line. \n I could tell YW was frustrated, but turned her attention back to her customer. Being a cashier myself and knowing what a pain it is to deal with customers like OL, I decided to speak up. I turned around to face OL and reiterated that I was the last customer in the line and that YW was going home. YW, now done with the customers, pointed out to OL that there were a lot of registers open and that they would be happy to help her out. \n This, of course, was not good enough for OL. Instead, she slammed her stuff on the next register (which was also closed) and proclaimed, \"Even if I go there, I'll probably have to wait forever in line!\" YW and I ignored her and she ranted and raged in the background. At one point, I heard her yell, \"Fine! I'll just leave my stuff here and not buy anything!\" Despite this outburst, OL stood by her things. YW continued acting as though she didn't hear a thing OL was saying (isn't payback a bitch?) and, instead, struck up a conversation with me about the stuff that I was buying (apparently she cross-stitches too). \n OL, realizing that her temper tantrum was getting her nowhere, eventually caved in. \"Fine,\" I heard her mumble, \"I'll go over there.\" I saw YW's holding in a laugh as OL tottered off to another register to buy her things. After finishing my transaction, I wished YL well and went on my way. \n I know this isn't a big thing, but I do enjoy seeing customers like OL get their comeuppance. Retail workers are people too.","Summary: Guys try to impress cashier with a \"certified badass\" card and think that it will land them a discount.\n\nPost: So tonight I ended up with the night shift and, being summer break, it was fairly busy. Tonight was also the night that we got deliveries and, apparently, the driver was new and didn't know what he was doing, which meant that our merchandisers had to unload the skids. Usually this wouldn't be a problem but, since I was the only cashier, I tried to avoid calling for back-up as much as possible. \n There were two guys in line who appeared to be around 18 years old. They were buying one drink, so I figured I'd be able to quickly cash them out. After scanning the drink, one guy put down a card on my till. I immediately recognized that it wasn't our membership card (wrong colours), so I waited a second for him to realize it. Only, when I looked up, I saw that both guys were snickering and staring at me... \n Confused, I looked down at the card and saw that it said, \"Certified Badass\" in large print (I didn't bother to read the rest). Even more confused, I looked at them again, trying to figure out what the hell was going on. I mean, there was at least 3 people behind them in line with full baskets/carts (one of whom let them go in front of her because they didn't have much stuff) and here they were trying to impress(?) me and drag this transaction on longer? Wtf? \n I just looked at the screen and told them their total, only for the other guy to ask whether his card would get him a discount...because apparently being 'badass' automatically allowed them special privileges. I stated their total again and, still giggling, they gave me their money at an annoyingly slow pace. I honestly wanted to snap at them and tell them to hurry the fuck up. \n Seriously. You're holding up a line and trying to impress a cashier with a stupid card? What kind of reaction did they expect? \"Omg...you have a card (that anyone could buy) saying that you're such a badass? That's so cool! Of course I'll be awesome and give you money off your $2 drink, despite the fact that you're wasting my time and those behind you!\" This is almost as bad as the time I was asked out by a ' millionaire .'","Summary: If you're going to hit on retail workers (please don't), at least try not to be a sleezeball about it.\n\nPost: I work in a small store that is separated by departments (cosmetics, pharmacy, electronics, etc). I work as a supervisor/general cashier near the exit. It's important to note that our 'high-theft' items (baby formula, razor blades cartridges, etc) have magnetic stickers on them that set off the alarm unless a cashier demagnetizes them. \n \n One night, I was taking over checkout as my cashier left for the night. On the side of her till were a pile of toiletries that she said had been paid for. Apparently, the customer (C) asked to leave them there while he went over to cosmetics. \n The night drones on and C is still in cosmetics talking to the cosmetician (M) on duty. I can see into the department and C is literally just standing near the counter, talking to her. I figure he is probably a friend of hers and pay him no mind. \n Finally, C decides to wrap it up and picks up his merchandise from front cash. As he walks out the store, the screeching alarm sounds off, which is weird, considering none of his items are ones that are usually tagged. \n I stop C and ask him to see his merchandise, explaining that one of his things might have a sticker accidentally stuck to it - this is when it gets weird. \n > C: I bought something in pharmacy, did you want to see that too? \n > Me: (confused since he doesn't have any additional bags) ...sure... \n > C pulls out a box of Plan B and receipt (emergency contraceptive) that he had shoved in his jean pockets (he was wearing skinny jeans) \n > Me: Oh...let me just deactivate that. \n After C leaves, M comes running up to me. \n > M : What did he have that set off the alarm? \n > Me: Plan B \n > M: Please tell me you're joking - that guy just asked me out ! \n Apparently C has spent the past half an hour chatting up M and flirting with her (despite the fact that she told him she had a boyfriend), all the whilst he could possibly have just knocked up another girl. Classy. \n \n One of our cashiers (R) is the sweetest, kindest person I know. She's a hit with the customers and she's also one of my favourite people to work with. She's also only 18 (I'm sure you know where this is going...) \n M is the one who told me this story. A 40-year man asked out M (who's in her late 20's/early 30's). This wouldn't be so bad, except the week before he asked one of our merchandisers to give his number to R (eww!). That's right - not only did he try to ask out two girls from the same store, he also knew it was creepy to ask out someone as young as R, so he tried to get someone else to do it for him. \n Poor R was also the victim of another creep this week. Apparently a customer started talking her up and she was visibly weirded out during the conversation (I was told that she kept giving sideways glances to the cashier working with her). R rejected his advances but, unfortunately, the guy was stubborn. Rather than admitting defeat, he gave R a bracelet with the letter 'J' on it because his name was John. I guess he figured she would wear it as a token of his creeptastic, unrequited affection? Needless to say, that bracelet was hurled into the depths of our lost and found bin faster than an angry customer can yell, \"I'm calling corporate!\""],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Got held up at gunpoint on my way home from campus on the very street I live on. Take my phone and end up getting caught, but somehow manage to find out my name and phone number and make threatening calls to stop me from showing up to court.\\n\\nPost: It was the night before my religion paper was due and I ended up staying later on campus than usual. The bus stop is less than a 5 minute walk from my house in a safe neighborhood, so coming home at night is not something that really worries me. What I didn't know was, that night, two guys were parked near my bus stop and, seeing me (a small girl) walking alone, decided that I was an easy target. \\n When I turned on my street, I heard the sound of people running towards me, along with someone shouting out, \\\"Alex! Hey, Alex!\\\" Thinking that it was a case of mistaken identity or that maybe I somehow dropped something with my best friend's name on it, I turned around and informed them that my name wasn't Alex. The guy closest to me came towards me and ominously said, \\\"So then what's your name?\\\" At this point, I realized I was in big trouble and decided to run for it (I could SEE my house), only to be cut off by the first guy. I turned around and saw that there was another guy behind me, effectively trapping me there. \\n At the time, I didn't think to scream - I was frozen. The guy in front of me reached in his vest and told me that he had a gun. It was pretty dark and I couldn't really see, so I thought he was lying. He threatened to shoot me if I didn't give him my phone. Now, I put my phone in my pocket before I got off the bus, so I tried to play dumb and told them I didn't have one. The guy got angry and pulled the gun (later found out it was a bb gun) out and pointed it at me. I had my dad's SLR camera and my laptop in my bag so, doing the math, I figured that it was best to just hand over my phone. They grabbed it and ran, not before the guy muttered, \\\"fucking bitch\\\" at me. \\n Dazed and confused, I stumbled home and told my dad what happened. We called the police and I spent most of the night at the police station. They caught the guys a couple of nights later doing the same thing to another girl who was walking home from the bus stop and I got my phone back. However, right before the trial, somehow they got hold of my name (which the police assured me would be kept confidential) and my number, spoofing calls and telling me that \\\"if you show up in court, you're done.\\\" Police couldn't prove it was them and told me that my best course of action was to change my number and get campus security involved (to stand outside my classes...). \\n It's been over a year and my life is still a fucking mess from this. My mom has gone into 'mama bear' mode, where she freaks out about the smallest things (she wouldn't let my wear my university sweater for the longest time because \\\"they'll find out where you go!\\\"). I am no longer able to walk home from the bus stop after 5 unless there is no other option and, when that happens, I'm fucking terrified. Even when it's light outside, I still get scared walking down my own street and that uneasiness doesn't go away unless I see that some neighbors are outside.\",\n \"Summary: be patient, be understanding - be her friend. Make sure you let her know that you want to get back together and show her that things really have changed. Actions speak louder than words.\\n\\nPost: My boyfriend and I broke up for a year and a half before getting back together. The only reason it worked was because both of us are radically different people now. We each had our issues (it was my first relationship and I was a naive, selfish dumbass and he was depressed, drinking too much, and had pretty much just given up). \\n With us, the spark never really left. He would make it clear that he was interested in me and, like your ex and yourself, we'd talk occasionally. He was always there when I needed him and would drop by my work, just to see me. The reason I considered him giving him another chance was because he made it clear that he understood what went wrong previously and that he was serious about me. \\n Our 'second round' was awkward at first - trying to make sense of this person that I thought I knew. There were still some underlying issues we had to work out, mainly my fear of commitment, but he was always patient. He agreed to take it super slow and never pushed me into making a decision. He listened to me whenever I wanted to voice concerns or objections, and he'd help me work out solutions. Just the fact that he did all this proved that he really had changed. \\n It's been 2.5 years since we've gotten back together and, everyday, I am grateful that he made the effort to rekindle out relationship.\",\n \"Summary: Spent most of high school dealing with a creep who was in love with me. Shit got physical and I finally grew some (metaphorical) balls.\\n\\nPost: My story starts wayyyy back in grade 9, my first year of high school (I'm 20 now). I was in this advanced program (I'm not sure how to describe it without giving away too much information). There were only about 100 of us in this program and we didn't really have any choice in electives, so everyone knew each other on some level. Now, I was a really socially awkward person (I still am) and had no idea how to deal with creeps or how to stand up for myself. \\n There was this one guy in my grade, Ted, who was a bit off. He liked to write stories and would base the characters on people in real life. This became really weird when it got out that there was a sex scene in his book involving people in our grade. Awkward. Anyways, I sat near Ted in one of my classes and we didn't really talk much. I don't really remember much of that class except that at one point the guy I was sitting next to was teasing Ted about not having a girlfriend. Ted was pissed and went off about how \\\"I'd never date any of these girls!\\\" and actually made a point to address me saying how I wasn't 'smart enough' for him and how \\\"I would never stoop so low as to date you. I want a girl who's on my intellectual level.\\\" Whatever - that didn't bother me. \\n Grade 10 came around and I ended up making friends with this guy, Jerry, who was a little eccentric, but a lot of fun to talk to. It turned out that he was friends with Ted and, pretty soon, I was having lunch with them every alternative day. Ted made it clear that he didn't approve and told me how I was a wench in his latest story and that my husband and eldest son were both killed in battle. Apparently the heart break was too much and I ended up wasting away in a tiny, filthy room all alone. Needless to say, I quickly found a new set of friends. \\n Somehow, during this time Ted fell 'in love' with me because I'm \\\"a good person\\\" (Yeah...he still didn't think I was very intelligent). He would constantly text/call me every single day. He would get jealous if I were to hang out with other guys and even my best friend - who was a girl. To be honest, I felt bad for him because he told me that the last girl he confessed to stopped talking to him and he didn't want that to happen with me (turns out he creeped her too). I put up with constant barrages of messages and the many \\\"WHY ARE YOU IGNORING ME\\\"s I would get for not replying on MSN after more than 2 minutes. It got to the point where he would actually threaten to kill himself because I got mad when he would talk shit about my friends and, \\\"you'd never do that for me!\\\" Now, this was the first time a guy had actually done any of this to me so I had no fucking idea how to respond. I felt guilty and angry at the same time. The only people who knew this shit was happening were my closest friends, and even they didn't know the full extent. \\n When it came to yearbook signing he gave me a piece of paper that talked about how \\\"although this may seem 'creepy,' in [his] time - the time [he] was supposed to be born into - it would be seen as an act of chivalry.\\\" I asked him what was the purpose of this and he told me that he was afraid that there would not be enough room in my yearbook for his \\\"declaration.\\\" He did this every year, even if I was already in a relationship. He was so bold as to, one year, write about how he constantly thinks of \\\"what could have been\\\" and went on to insult the current guy I was dating. I never led him on. I outright told him that I was not interested and I even asked out another guy in front of him. He would always claim that he was over me and that he just wanted to stay friends. I put up with this shit for 3 years. \\n During my last year, he approached me at my locker to tell me that he was arranging a movie get together and, because I had always bailed on the previous ones, wanted to make sure I could make it to this one before inviting other people. Already sensing something off about this, I took it upon myself to invite a whole bunch of guy friends. Ted found out about this and went behind my back, telling them that they were not good enough friends and that he should have never invited me in the first place because I'm crazy. Of course, the guys found this fucking hilarious and decided not to tell me and chose to, instead, make excuses as to why they couldn't come. After all of them flopped, Ted told me, \\\"It wouldn't be so bad if it were just you and me, right?\\\" Reluctantly, I agreed and, all of a sudden, he started calling it a 'date' and went on and on about how he was looking forward to it. \\n Shit hit the fan when I found out about the e-mail and told him I wanted nothing to do with him anymore. The next morning, I saw him standing in front of my class, so I ducked into the washroom until the announcements were over. When I exited, I found him standing there, waiting for me. I tried to walk past him, but he grabbed my wrist painfully tight and started dragging me down the deserted hall. Freaking out, I struggled and managed to break free. I made a mad dash for my class and I heard the sound of him punching a locker behind me. I didn't see him for the rest of the day. \\n I made sure that, for the rest of the year, I was never alone with him - ever . Luckily for me, my best friend shared 2 classes with me and her locker was right next to mine. When I wasn't with her, I was with either her/my boyfriend. I stopped answering his calls and deleted him from msn. My parents kinda knew about the situation, so when he resorted to calling my house (I have no idea how he got my number), my dad picked up and pretended to be angry, yelling, \\\"Why is there a boy calling you?\\\" Needless to say, he never tried that again.\",\n \"Summary: when you hear your car being described over the P.A. system, don't ignore it. Leave your kid unattended in a potentially unsafe environment and we will take action.\\n\\nPost: The weather in my area lately has been pretty extreme lately (in the 30 degree area) - today was no different. Everything was going ok until a customer approached my manager looking somewhat upset. Apparently, she had noticed an unattended young child in a car in our parking lot and, being concerned, waited approximately 10 minutes for the parents to return - but they never did. \\n My manager (M) stepped out to check on the situation and made an announcement over the P.A., listing the model and license info of the car and asking the owners to immediately come to front cash. Now, our store is fairly small. We have only 8 aisles, a pharmacy counter and a cosmetic portion. There is no way that the parents were unable to hear the page for any reason. M waited 10 minutes for the parents, but they never came. Thinking that they might be in the middle of a pharmacy transaction or something else important, she decided to head over there and ask around. No luck. Another announcement was made, and still no parents showed up. \\n At this point, the child had been sitting in the car for a good half hour in the heat, unattended. We are located in a plaza so, at this point, we assumed that maybe the parents came here first and then walked somewhere else. M called the non-emergency police number, requesting that they send someone to check on the situation. 5 minutes after she called, the parents exit our store via the cosmetic area. That's right. They left their young child in the car for half an hour to look at cosmetic products. \\n The customer who was waiting by the car and, apparently (I was inside, so I missed this), stood in front of their car and refused to let them leave until the police showed up. My manager was extremely pissed because she now had to call back the police and inform them that the parents had finally returned. She had tried to wait it out as long as possible to avoid this kind of situation and yet, because their cosmetics were apparently more important, shit hit the fan. I didn't get to see much of what was going on but my manager said that there was a lot of yelling. When the cops showed up, they wrote down some stuff and the kid was allowed to leave with their parents. Doesn't really feel like justice, but at least now the parents are more aware. \\n It was just so frustrating that everyone was so worried over the welfare of this kid and went out of their way to try and help, only to find out that the parents were in our store all along. That customer waited for half an hour beside that car. It wasn't even like this car was parked far away. This car was, literally, less than a 2 minute walk away from our door. One of the parents could have easily gone back for the child if they realized that they were going to be in our store for so long.\",\n \"Summary: Co-worker does her job and helps customer with her purchase. Only, customer realizes that she made a mistake and, instead of owning up to it, tries to raise hell and get my co-worker in trouble.\\n\\nPost: As most of you know, with pre-paid cards like Amex, Visa, and Master Card, there is an activation fee ranging between about $3-6. This is written on each gift card and, before selling any, we have to make sure that we make the customer aware that they are being charged extra. We're also clear that we do not accept any returns or exchanges on gift cards, no matter what. Usually, this isn't a problem. \\n A couple of days ago, this lady (L) came in looking to buy a pre-paid gift card for her husband. Apparently his work required him to have one or something and this was the first time she had ever bought one. My co-worker (C), who was standing right next to me, cashed her out and I heard her give L the usual spiel. Everything seemed to be going fine and the transaction was completed without a hassle...that is, until five minutes later. \\n Suddenly, L realizes, \\\"Oh wait...I'm paying $28 for a card that's only worth $25\\\" and tells C that she wants a refund. C, taken back, explains to L that this isn't possible and that she was well-informed of this before purchasing the card. L decides to ignore this and starts yelling about how there was no sign indicating no returns and calls C a liar. Of course, my manager is called and I make it a point to whisper over the phone that I did hear C give the talk. My manager tells the lady that we're not giving her a refund and that she was stuck with the gift card, causing L to angrily walk off into the sunset (after more yelling and quite a lot of swearing), never to be seen again.\",\n \"Summary: Favorite regulars see me struggling with a rude customer and make a point to tell me that I'm pretty. It's the small things that make a difference.\\n\\nPost: Please ignore the crappy title - wittiness is, unfortunately, a talent that I lack. =[ \\n Backstory : I've been working as a cashier in a fairly big convenience/small department store for almost 2 years now. My schedule is pretty much set and, unless I book the day off, I always open on the weekends. On Sunday, we have these regulars, an elderly woman and her son, who always come in to buy lottery tickets or purchase some groceries. They are always amazingly polite and happy. \\n We also have another regular, a woman who gets snappy when we're not 'fast enough.' She's the kind of customer who will step out of line to rudely ask, \\\"Can't someone else open?\\\" or, when a cashier is not cashing out the person in front of her fast enough, she will actually go up to them and say, \\\"You're not done yet?\\\" Sigh. \\n This Sunday, like clockwork, the nice regulars were back. Unfortunately, the unpleasant customer was ahead of them, which meant that I got the pleasure of cashing her out while my supervisor assisted the woman and her son. Seeing my customer's impoliteness, the son made a face to show me that he understood my pain and then, when the lady left, his mother came up to my counter and whispered kindly, \\\"You know, I just came here to tell you that you look very pretty.\\\" It was a little thing, but it did brighten up my day and make me love these customers even more. It's people like them who make working retail worth it.\",\n \"Summary: Although I am but a lowly cashier, it doesn't make what I say any less valid.\\n\\nPost: I work in a pretty popular store. We sell everything from pharmaceuticals to high-end cosmetics. We also carry a lot of grocery items. You would think that, by now, people would understand that, as part of a franchise, our prices are set but, alas, some people still think that they can haggle with us for cheaper prices. Here are some stories. \\n \\n One of the most popular items we carry are eggs. These eggs are under one of our many store brands, meaning that it's a lot cheaper when compared to other brands. Usually, when on sale, a dozen can go for a low as $1.88. This particular week, the eggs happened to be that price. As always, someone was unsatisfied. \\n As I was returned some items the shelves in our grocery aisle, a man (H for Haggler) and his family approached me. \\n H : (holds out a carton of eggs to me) Some of these eggs are broken. \\n Me : I'm so sorry! (I look over at the shelf and see that it's fully stocked with cartons of eggs. Maybe he was just informing me?) Did you want to grab another one? \\n H : It's broken - can I get a discount? \\n Me : Unfortunately we can't sell broken eggs - it's health code violation. \\n H : (He looks a little bit miffed) But what are you going to with these eggs? I'll buy them! \\n Me : Again, I can't sell them to you - it's not safe . \\n H : I'll buy ALL your broken cartons! \\n Me : Sir...I can't! \\n H : (definitely upset at this point) Is there anyone else I could talk to? \\n Me : (sigh...) Let me get my manager... \\n My manager comes in and reiterates exactly what I said. H, again, brings up the fact that we're losing money by scrapping these eggs, but my manager informs him that we get reimbursed for the cartons containing broken eggs. H seems to finally understand and my manager and I walk away. \\n Literally less than two minutes later, I go back into our grocery aisle to finish off my returns. There is H, this time asking a different person whether or not he could get a discount on cartons with broken eggs. I stuck around to hear my co-worker also turn down his offer. \\n Needless to say, he ended up having to pay the measly $1.88 per carton price. \\n \\n Our store also carries laptops and netbooks. We don't have a very varied supply and most of our prices tend to be a little above that of our competitors (we make up for it with our membership card - our point system is one of the best). One of the netbooks we sell is pretty tiny and, in all honesty, not much to look at. It retails for about $200 but, since no one was buying it, my manager lowered it to $50. \\n That day, we were having a special promotion. We were bumping up the reward levels of our points system, which meant customers were able to save even more than before. Unfortunately, this was also the day that Points Man (PM) decided to show up during my shift. \\n PM always asks to check his points balance as soon as he gets in the store. Usually this is no problem, but the thing with PM is that he always insists that he's supposed to have more points than what shows up on screen. Every.single.time, he says, \\\"Ehhh...I'm supposed to have (insert high number of points here)!\\\" and, every.single.time, I have to give him the website to check his points balance and to see where his points went. \\n I realize that our system screws up once in a while, but I've cashed out PM before and I always see him cashing out his points at the lowest level, instead of waiting until they're worth more. After these transactions, I always make it a point to explain to PM that, since he used his points, he's now back to a lower number. I guess he has selective memory when it comes to these things... \\n Anyways...so here comes PM and I instantly cringe. Again, we do the whole points balance dance and he insists that he's supposed to have more points. For the next hour, he strolls around the store and picks up some stuff (I remember baby formula - he tends to buy a lot of it) and maybe some diapers? One of the other things he picks up is the $50 laptop. \\n He pushes his cart up to my till and I ring him up. When it comes to the laptop, PM is really excited and goes on about how it's such a good deal and he's been wanting to buy something like this for a while. After I explain to him that it's a clear out item, PM winks at me, smiling, and asks if it's possible for me to give him a better deal. \\\"Uhhh... no. \\\" Like most people who try to pull this stunt, once I turn him down he asks for the manager. \\n Manager: What's the price of the laptop now? \\n Me: $50 \\n Manager: What's the original price? \\n Me: $200... \\n Manager: ...That's the best we can do. \\n PM decided not to get the laptop, only to ask for it a couple of weeks later. I guess he was just waiting for it to go on further sale. Unfortunately for him, someone had already snatched it up. \\n \\n The same thing that happened with PM happened with another couple. They wanted to buy a camera on clear out and tried to bargain for a cheaper price. The camera was, originally, $229 and was on clear out for $50. My supervisor straight-out told them no and explained that we were actually losing money by selling it at that price, already. Apparently, that still wasn't good enough and the couple then asked for a manager to weigh in. Again, they were told no. They didn't buy the camera.\",\n \"Summary: Interviewed for great job, but accepted retail job position just in case. Just heard back that it looks like I might get the first job. So now I'm not sure what to do.\\n\\nPost: x-post from /r/relationships \\n Essentially, I've been applying to a host of different jobs for the summer. A connection got me an interview at this great company that is hiring full-time for above minimum. I wasn't sure I would get it so I applied to a minimum-wage retail position and got accepted right away. \\n Here's the issue. I got an email stating that the HR of the first company \\\"is currently working on putting together an offer letter and [the person who interviewed me, not my contact ] should have something for [me] later this week.\\\" I'm thrilled, but I'm still not sure if this means that I'm getting this job for certain. I have my orientation for the retail job tonight, where I have to hand in an agreement stating that I will give 2 weeks notice before I leave. \\n What do I do? Should I still go forward and pursue the retail position (you know...two birds in the bush and all that), or should I let them know ahead of time? Are there actually any penalties if I don't give 2 weeks notice?\",\n \"Summary: The cow jumped over the moon.\\n\\nPost: My least favorite customers, the ones I absolutely hate, are the ones who have no idea how retail works/what it's like to be a retail employee. \\n \\n A couple of weeks ago, my store was having a huge promotion, as well as a one-day sale. Needless to say, the lines were long and the complaints were plenty. One of the cashier's and merchandiser's breaks overlapped a little, so my manager was forced to jump on front cash. No problem, right? \\n One customer (C) I was ringing through commented how there didn't seem to be much people on the floor. I explained how our manager and a merchandiser were acting as cashiers while some people were having their lunch. \\n C : Oh, well can't you pull them off and make them work? \\n Me : Well, they went home from lunch. (Lies: they were actually in the back) \\n C : Where's your manager? (I point to the counter next to mine) \\n C : (to my manager) You know - you shouldn't let your employees leave the store during their break. Instead, make them stay here and then you can make them work when it's busy. (Me: whhattt????) \\n Manager: (oh..she's totally pissed off) A lot of their breaks are an hour long. I'm not going to hold them hostage in our store for an hour. \\n C : (shrugs and walks off with that, \\\"it's your loss\\\" look) I'm just telling you what I would do if I was manager. \\n Seriously? My break is my time. Yes, there are times when my manager will ask me if I can cover for a bit, but that's usually only so she can watch people she thinks might be shop-lifting and, even then, she gives me extra time off for my trouble. \\n \\n This story takes place a couple of months ago. Our store closes at midnight and our manager, although pretty laid back, really doesn't like it when we punch out later than we have to. \\n It's a couple of minutes to midnight and all the tills are pulled except for one at front cash. This means that the pharmacy can't cash out prescriptions any more. Although they're closed, we have a 24 hour store literally right down the street. \\n Peering down the aisles, I don't see anyone and figure that it's going to be a good night. All of a sudden, I catch a glimpse of them - a couple at the pharmacy counter. I know that pharmacy won't be filling out any prescriptions this close to midnight, but I still do the customary, \\\"Our store will be closing in 5 minutes...\\\" call. I figure this will get my point through. They leave pharmacy - and start shopping. FML. \\n 1 minute to close - they're still there. I do the page again, this time forgoing any 'pleases' and 'thank yous.' \\n Our lights go off. They're still here. My manager approached them and let them know that we're closing up now, but the man had stuff in his hands and said that he was going to cash out now. Awesome! \\n 12:05. What.the.fuck. Obviously the woman can see our merchandisers standing at front cash, unable to leave until signed out. She starts telling her husband, \\\"Let's go - they're closed!\\\" His response? \\\"What type of chips do you want?\\\" We're not allowed to make them leave, so all of us just stand there in disbelief. \\n 12:10: Their stuff is loaded on my counter and I start ringing them through. All of a sudden, the husband makes a dash for our seasonal aisle. I ask the lady how she wants to pay and she sheepishly responds, \\\"He has the money...\\\" Fuck. \\n 12:15: He comes back with a chocolate lollipop. Apparently, that's what was so important. He's taking his sweet time, trying to make small talk, all the whilst his wife is trying to get him to hurry up. Then he dropped this gem - \\\"It's ok - they get paid overtime.\\\" WTF. At this point, I was so close to losing it and informing him that none of the people he was holding up were getting paid overtime. But, being the non-confrontational person that I am, I kept my mouth shut and cashed them out with a smile on my face. \\n My manager and I didn't leave the store until 12:30 because I still had to count my till and close down the store. Seeing that I still had a lot to do, my manager took pity on the rest of the staff and let them leave asap. I could tell that she was pissed but, luckily, she didn't say anything.\",\n \"Summary: Clean up in aisle 12\\n\\nPost: With Halloween out of the way, my store (a high-end convenience store) is in the midst of preparing for our next money-making holiday - Christmas. Already, some of our aisles are decked with festive tinsel, the seasonal section is almost ready, and a lot of 'Christmas-y' items have been set up near our registers. The only dark spot in our store is that, because it's a symbol of Christianity, we are not allowed to put up our Christmas tree this year. \\n One of the first items that were put out were the Advent Calenders. For those not familiar with the concept, they are 'countdown' calenders where, for every day leading up until Christmas, you get to open a little window to get a treat. You're also supposed to start counting down on the first day of December. We have a large variety of these, ranging from $1.99 - $11.99. The most expensive ones are the Lindt and Kinder Surprise calenders. These are placed right beside our registers, so customers often pass them when they are cashing out. \\n On Sunday, a lady was returning one of the Kinder Surprises calenders that she had bought the previous day. It was sealed and she had her receipt, so there was no problem. As I went to return it to its stand, what do I see? Someone has torn open the wrapper of one the Lindt calenders and taken the chocolate from the 'Day 1' box. They destroyed the most expensive calender that we had for a tiny piece of chocolate when we had cheaper versions right next to it and a bin of $.99 chocolate bars across from it. Not only that, but they did it right beside our registers! \\n I told my manager and she laughed, saying, \\\"Someone's a little anxious for Christmas!\\\" We joked about how, since they made sure to take Day 1's treat, they might come back every day for another. I worked Monday night and, to my slight disappointment, all the calenders were in perfect condition. Either that customer really wanted a treat or they realized that they were a month early for their snacking.\",\n \"Summary: If you're going to file a complaint, please make sure you call the right store.\\n\\nPost: This is just a short story about something that happened to me recently. \\n I work as a cashier/supervisor at a franchise store. Once a week, we don't have any cashiers after 6pm, so it's literally just my manager and I running the store. One of these nights, my manager approached me after I finished dealing with a couple of transactions. \\n > M: Hey, so a lady just called complaining about a rude cashier. Do you know anything about this? \\n > Me: (internally freaking out, trying to remember if I was rude to anyone) Ummm...what did she say? \\n > M : She said that the cashier had terrible customer service and that I should fire you immediately. Apparently you were lazy and the customer said you were very unprofessional. (He starts to smile and I have no idea where he's going with this) I told her, 'are you sure it was Crazy_Overlord - she's one of my best cashiers.' (my manager is super awesome) Turns out she meant to call the store down the street! \\n I don't think I've ever been more relieved in my life, albeit a little pissed at my manager for making me stress!\",\n \"Summary: Apparently, we should be accepting holiday returns in March\\n\\nPost: Our return policy is 30 days with a receipt (we're also a franchise, so every store has this rule). That should be simple enough, right? Apparently not when it's a month before Christmas... \\n Up here in Canada, we don't really have a Black Friday, but corporate decided to get a couple of items specifically for this weekend. These items (big ticketed electronics, toys, etc) are not stock items and my boss has no intention of selling them after Christmas. Needless to say, cashiers made sure to emphasize the 30 day return policy (which is pretty generous considering that we're probably going to have to re-sell it for half the price). \\n One particular lady took offense to this rule. As soon as my coworker mentioned the policy, this lady started screaming \\n about how, \\\"this is ridiculous!\\\" and, \\\"What? You want me to shop after the 25th????\\\" My coworker patiently explained to the customer that these items were seasonal and that we don't normally stock them, but that still wasn't good enough. \\n The woman started yelling for a manager. My coworker called my manager and confirmed with her on the phone that the 30 days was mandatory. This still wasn't good enough. My manager had to come to the front and explain to this woman that we have no control over the return policy and how corporate will not allow us to process returns at a later date. Still not good enough. \\n This lady started demanding to speak to someone even higher up. My manager at this point was fed up with this idiot's rudeness and told her that our store manager (who was off today) would be in contact with her. My coworker quickly processed her transaction and tried to hurry her out the door. \\n Of course, she managed to find someone she knew and spent the next 15 (I counted) minutes telling them about how insane our policies are (because of course we're the crazy ones here). My favorite line of hers'? \\\"I'm a business woman!\\\" Lady, I don't know how you're still in business. Even my customers thought you were out of your fucking mind.\",\n \"Summary: After a colour mishap, I now have really ugly grey highlights. Is there any advice for colouring over it? Do I have to worry about how the grey will affect the end result?\\n\\nPost: I recently had my hair cut/coloured. I asked the colour specialist for bright purple highlights but, in the end, it turned out to be a really dark blue. I actually thought it was pretty sweet, so I didn't say anything about the colour mix up. Before I left, the guy who cut my hair told me to use luke-warm water when washing my hair so the colour doesn't fade. I thought this was kind of weird (I've had bright red highlights that I've maintained and I've been told that's the hardest?), but I figured that my hair would just fade to a lighter blue. \\n After one shower, my blue hair turned to this really sickly grey colour that is just terrible. Thank goodness I had a violet Ice Cream Kromask that I bought ahead of time (I used the red one to maintain my red). I've been using that for the past couple of weeks, but it's a little tedious having to reapply the mask every time I shower (if I don't, the grey comes back). \\n At this point, I just want to dye my hair but I've never done it myself before (I don't want to go back to this salon). Can I just buy any old dye or will I have to worry about how it will look over the grey colour? Other than the highlights, the rest of my hair is black.\",\n \"Summary: I sometimes get to feel like a fraud-prevention superhero.\\n\\nPost: I work at a store that sells all kinds of giftcards. We have a strict 'no buying gift cards with other gift cards' policy in order to lower the chances of fraud. These are some stories of (potential) scammers who try to get around our system. \\n \\n What prompted me to post this was an encounter I had tonight. Right before closing, this girl walks up with $800 worth of iTunes cards (sketchy as fuck...). I explain to her that I'll have to separate her gift cards into two transactions, as per the rules (that, and I definitely thought something was up). I notice that while I'm scanning the gift cards in, she's holding her credit card in her wallet (not pulling it all the way out), and it looks like she's intentionally trying to block my view of it with her hand (well, this is just getting more and more fishier...). \\n The cards are scanned in and I ask her straight up, \\\"Is your credit card a gift card?\\\" She stutters a little. \\\"I can't accept any card, unless it has a chip.\\\" She flashes her card quickly at me and I see that it does have a chip. I'm still not satisfied, though. I watch like a hawk to make sure she inserts the card but, as soon as she does, it beeps. Straight away, I grab the machine, before she gets the chance to swipe her card (which our machine tells customers to do if it can't read the chip). We've been trained that this is a common tactic for scammers and we're not supposed to allow people to buy cards through swiping/tap unless it's Amex (some cards don't have the chip) and we check their ID. \\n This girl asks me if she can swipe her card and I tell her that she has to insert it and enter the PIN. Cue her 'whythefuckaminotgettingmyway.jpg' face. She demands an explanation why and I tell her it's to prevent fraud. I tell her she can try inserting the chip again. She does but, yet again, the machine beeps and I quickly cancel the transaction. Now she complains that she doesn't have any other cards (not my problem...). I offer to call Master Card to authorize the purchase, but she starts mumbling how it's her sister's card and she forgot the PIN (righhtttt...). I tell her that I can't go through with the transaction otherwise, so she tells me to 'forget it' and walks off. \\n During the transaction, another customer had qued behind her. After watching her leave, he turned to me in disbelief, \\\"She wanted to buy that much gift cards by swiping ?\\\" We had a good laugh at the ridiculousness of it. \\n \\n One night, back when I first started working retail, this guy came in, wanting to buy a $100 LCBO (store in Ontario where you buy alcohol) gift card. I noticed that his payment choce was a gift card, so informed him about our policy. He was really nice and explained how he got the card as a gift and asked if there was any way we could make an exception for him, as he wanted to give the LCBO gift card to someone else. Feeling kind of bad, I paged my supervisor to front cash to help with the situation. \\n This is where things got strange. When my supervisor came over, Nice Guy suddenly pulls a completely different card from his wallet (still another gift card) and repeats the sob story. Being new, I had no idea how to call a customer out on their BS, so I just remained silent, wondering how I was going to warn my supervisor without the customer realizing. \\n Luckily for me, my supervisor stuck to the rules and reiterated what I had said about our policy. Nice guy ambled off, deciding not to buy the card. After he was gone, I filled my supervisor in on what happened and he laughed, telling me that I needed to be less nice. =[ \\n \\n This is my favourite instance of a scammer. \\n Just to start off, I'd like to note that I look really young (I'm 21, but I still can, apparently, pass for a high schooler). After I informed a man of our policy, he straight-up asked me, \\\"How long have you even been working here? I came here a year ago and they let me do this - maybe they recently changed it!\\\" \\n Me: I've been here for over two years and I can assure you that it's always been our policy. \\n Him: Oh...yeah...I think it was actually two and a half years that I was here last! So can I still pay with this gift card? (He actually said this). \\n Me: No...\",\n \"Summary: My boyfriend wants kids, but I'm not sure I do. He says that he's happy as long as he has me, but is it wrong to stay together?\\n\\nPost: Joe and I have been together for a little over 3 years now and things are amazing. He's everything I've wanted in a man and we get along so well - it's like we're made for one another. The only issue is that he wants kids and, to be frank, I don't think I do. \\n I say I don't 'think' I do because I love children and spending time with them, but there's always that sense of relief when their parents take them back. I don't see myself as being selfless enough to care for one and, to be honest, the idea of having a child who is psychologically/physically/mentally handicapped worries me a little. I see having kids as a draw for a roommate that you're stuck with for 20-30 years. Then there's the financial and emotional burdens involved - especially knowing how much my own parents have struggled raising my sisters and I. I just think it would be so much easier to not have kids. I do, however, get twinges of 'baby fever,' where I imagine us having our own child and kind of fantasize about it, which is why I'm so undecided. Logically, I know it's smarter not to have kids - but a little part of me does want to experience being a parent. \\n Joe, on the other hand, is the only male in his family with his last name (that he loves and takes pride in). I know it's important to him to carry on his family legacy and he seems to genuinely love kids (he gets a long with all my little cousins). He doesn't want us to break up and believes that we should stay together because one of us could change our minds - but what if we don't? He also said that \\\"On my list of wants you are number one. Kids aren't even my top 5 so stop [considering breaking up]...I've given up on having a lot of things in my life. I'm sure if I really need to I can change my mind on not having another thing. Especially if it's for something important like keeping the woman I love in my life.\\\" \\n I just don't know what to do. I feel like I'm holding him back from finding someone who actually wants kids but, at the same time, is it wrong to make that decision for him? I do want to be with him, but when I picture myself with a baby right now, I just know I won't be happy, and I don't want him to resent me for not giving him a child. Could it be possible for him to be ok with not having kids or does it have to be a deal-breaker? I want to believe him when he tells me that being with me is more important but, to be honest, I just don't know what the 'right' move is.\",\n \"Summary: Karma's a bitch. Be kind.\\n\\nPost: I was shopping at the big blue store, trying to find some materials for a crafts project I wanted to try (cross-stitching). It was fairly busy, but I managed to find a short line with only 3 people ahead of me. The cashier, a young woman (YW), told me that I was going to be her last customer before she clocked out. She put one of those 'Register closed' signs on the conveyor belt and resumed cashing out the people ahead of me. \\n When she was cashing out the person in front of me, an older woman (OL) decided that she would que behind me, despite the sign on the register (which I know she saw because she paused momentarily before putting her items right next to it). YM politely addressed OL and told her that she was closed and that I was her last customer. Rather than listen, OL made a big show of suddenly turning away at the beginning of YW's speech and started talking to herself about buying chocolate bars, pretending that she hadn't heard what she was saying. It was pretty obvious that she was putting on a show and just didn't want to wait at another line. \\n I could tell YW was frustrated, but turned her attention back to her customer. Being a cashier myself and knowing what a pain it is to deal with customers like OL, I decided to speak up. I turned around to face OL and reiterated that I was the last customer in the line and that YW was going home. YW, now done with the customers, pointed out to OL that there were a lot of registers open and that they would be happy to help her out. \\n This, of course, was not good enough for OL. Instead, she slammed her stuff on the next register (which was also closed) and proclaimed, \\\"Even if I go there, I'll probably have to wait forever in line!\\\" YW and I ignored her and she ranted and raged in the background. At one point, I heard her yell, \\\"Fine! I'll just leave my stuff here and not buy anything!\\\" Despite this outburst, OL stood by her things. YW continued acting as though she didn't hear a thing OL was saying (isn't payback a bitch?) and, instead, struck up a conversation with me about the stuff that I was buying (apparently she cross-stitches too). \\n OL, realizing that her temper tantrum was getting her nowhere, eventually caved in. \\\"Fine,\\\" I heard her mumble, \\\"I'll go over there.\\\" I saw YW's holding in a laugh as OL tottered off to another register to buy her things. After finishing my transaction, I wished YL well and went on my way. \\n I know this isn't a big thing, but I do enjoy seeing customers like OL get their comeuppance. Retail workers are people too.\",\n \"Summary: Guys try to impress cashier with a \\\"certified badass\\\" card and think that it will land them a discount.\\n\\nPost: So tonight I ended up with the night shift and, being summer break, it was fairly busy. Tonight was also the night that we got deliveries and, apparently, the driver was new and didn't know what he was doing, which meant that our merchandisers had to unload the skids. Usually this wouldn't be a problem but, since I was the only cashier, I tried to avoid calling for back-up as much as possible. \\n There were two guys in line who appeared to be around 18 years old. They were buying one drink, so I figured I'd be able to quickly cash them out. After scanning the drink, one guy put down a card on my till. I immediately recognized that it wasn't our membership card (wrong colours), so I waited a second for him to realize it. Only, when I looked up, I saw that both guys were snickering and staring at me... \\n Confused, I looked down at the card and saw that it said, \\\"Certified Badass\\\" in large print (I didn't bother to read the rest). Even more confused, I looked at them again, trying to figure out what the hell was going on. I mean, there was at least 3 people behind them in line with full baskets/carts (one of whom let them go in front of her because they didn't have much stuff) and here they were trying to impress(?) me and drag this transaction on longer? Wtf? \\n I just looked at the screen and told them their total, only for the other guy to ask whether his card would get him a discount...because apparently being 'badass' automatically allowed them special privileges. I stated their total again and, still giggling, they gave me their money at an annoyingly slow pace. I honestly wanted to snap at them and tell them to hurry the fuck up. \\n Seriously. You're holding up a line and trying to impress a cashier with a stupid card? What kind of reaction did they expect? \\\"Omg...you have a card (that anyone could buy) saying that you're such a badass? That's so cool! Of course I'll be awesome and give you money off your $2 drink, despite the fact that you're wasting my time and those behind you!\\\" This is almost as bad as the time I was asked out by a ' millionaire .'\",\n \"Summary: If you're going to hit on retail workers (please don't), at least try not to be a sleezeball about it.\\n\\nPost: I work in a small store that is separated by departments (cosmetics, pharmacy, electronics, etc). I work as a supervisor/general cashier near the exit. It's important to note that our 'high-theft' items (baby formula, razor blades cartridges, etc) have magnetic stickers on them that set off the alarm unless a cashier demagnetizes them. \\n \\n One night, I was taking over checkout as my cashier left for the night. On the side of her till were a pile of toiletries that she said had been paid for. Apparently, the customer (C) asked to leave them there while he went over to cosmetics. \\n The night drones on and C is still in cosmetics talking to the cosmetician (M) on duty. I can see into the department and C is literally just standing near the counter, talking to her. I figure he is probably a friend of hers and pay him no mind. \\n Finally, C decides to wrap it up and picks up his merchandise from front cash. As he walks out the store, the screeching alarm sounds off, which is weird, considering none of his items are ones that are usually tagged. \\n I stop C and ask him to see his merchandise, explaining that one of his things might have a sticker accidentally stuck to it - this is when it gets weird. \\n > C: I bought something in pharmacy, did you want to see that too? \\n > Me: (confused since he doesn't have any additional bags) ...sure... \\n > C pulls out a box of Plan B and receipt (emergency contraceptive) that he had shoved in his jean pockets (he was wearing skinny jeans) \\n > Me: Oh...let me just deactivate that. \\n After C leaves, M comes running up to me. \\n > M : What did he have that set off the alarm? \\n > Me: Plan B \\n > M: Please tell me you're joking - that guy just asked me out ! \\n Apparently C has spent the past half an hour chatting up M and flirting with her (despite the fact that she told him she had a boyfriend), all the whilst he could possibly have just knocked up another girl. Classy. \\n \\n One of our cashiers (R) is the sweetest, kindest person I know. She's a hit with the customers and she's also one of my favourite people to work with. She's also only 18 (I'm sure you know where this is going...) \\n M is the one who told me this story. A 40-year man asked out M (who's in her late 20's/early 30's). This wouldn't be so bad, except the week before he asked one of our merchandisers to give his number to R (eww!). That's right - not only did he try to ask out two girls from the same store, he also knew it was creepy to ask out someone as young as R, so he tried to get someone else to do it for him. \\n Poor R was also the victim of another creep this week. Apparently a customer started talking her up and she was visibly weirded out during the conversation (I was told that she kept giving sideways glances to the cashier working with her). R rejected his advances but, unfortunately, the guy was stubborn. Rather than admitting defeat, he gave R a bracelet with the letter 'J' on it because his name was John. I guess he figured she would wear it as a token of his creeptastic, unrequited affection? 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MustangGuy | Generate the content for a reddit post Shitty step-dad | My step-dad came into my life when I was about 7. I had my routine, go home, do homework while watching DuckTales, go outside and play. He changed that real quick, no tv until after homework and even then I didn't get the tv because he and his buddies took it over.
About 2 years later, he was shot at a pool hall and ... | My step-dad came into my life when I was about 7. I had my routine, go home, do homework while watching DuckTales, go outside and play. He changed that real quick, no tv until after homework and even then I didn't get the tv because he and his buddies took it over.
About 2 years later, he was shot at a pool hall and ... | [
"Summary: All in one day: stalled my car in a blizzard, took a wrong turn, totalled my car via deer, passing motorist gave me ride to base sans buttsex.\n\nPost: This is more of a roller coaster type story. It starts out alright, then it gets worse, then better, then much worse, then ends pretty alright. \n I joine... | 30 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,600 |
kol13190 | Generate the content for a reddit post Math is like a fun game to me, but it's rewards are well worth the trouble, because it isn't as simple as spray and pray (lol cs1.6) | I am currently taking a pretty basic math class, (college alg. 2, yeah I'm real smart), however since graduating high school and maturing, I have realized that one of the best challenges in life is math, I tend to look at my math work as merely another challenge and take it in small strides, but it does feel fucking ... | I am currently taking a pretty basic math class, (college alg. 2, yeah I'm real smart), however since graduating high school and maturing, I have realized that one of the best challenges in life is math, I tend to look at my math work as merely another challenge and take it in small strides, but it does feel fucking ... | [
"Summary: Heavy Drinking causes molestation to occur more often.\n\nPost: So I was at a party with a bunch of friends and was finally talking to this girl that my friend was friends with. They had dated previously but she ended things and enjoyed hanging out with us as a group. So we get down to drinking and I ende... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,601 |
CajunSioux | Generate the content for a reddit post you're the worst kind of . I'm too lazy (and, frankly, indifferent) to actually make the meme, but if I did, it would read "Calls his wife lazy and asks for replacement on internet. // Gets pissed when someone judges his relationship "without knowing the whole story". | I'm glad we could entertain you. I don't think it's a foolish assumption that when you call your wife lazy in a public forum, people will assume you are a dick. Seriously, if your relationship is so awesome - TELL HER you think she's lazy instead of strangers.
>Or maybe fools on the internet think they can know the w... | I'm glad we could entertain you. I don't think it's a foolish assumption that when you call your wife lazy in a public forum, people will assume you are a dick. Seriously, if your relationship is so awesome - TELL HER you think she's lazy instead of strangers.
>Or maybe fools on the internet think they can know the w... | [
"Summary: it's up to you, but if you love other people who are attending, you might want to try, for their sakes.\n\nPost: I agree with /brokedown. Funerals are to comfort and give closure to the people left behind. If any of your family/friends cared for him, you would be going to offer your love and support to th... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,602 |
fear_nothin | Generate the content for a reddit post turtles not eating - going on four days- can't seem to find the problem | My turtle has a large tank. Waterfall, stones, privacy grass, fish - basically its turtle paradise.
I change the water frequently and give it a full about once a month washing it all.
I left him at my parents for about a week and they say he hasn't been eating. He will swim up too it , sniff it and just go back to ... | My turtle has a large tank. Waterfall, stones, privacy grass, fish - basically its turtle paradise.
I change the water frequently and give it a full about once a month washing it all.
I left him at my parents for about a week and they say he hasn't been eating. He will swim up too it , sniff it and just go back to ... | [
"Summary: there's a steep learning curve be prepared to die lots but have a blast playing!\n\nPost: Run the tutorial. There is a big learning curve in this game. It should cover all basics, experiment with the features that interest you and once you got your feet grounded , join an outfit and get into the real fun ... | 32 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,603 |
Traceofbass | Generate the content for a reddit post Whoa, whoa, whoa. There's still plenty of meat on that bone. Now, you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you've got a stew going. | Let’s face it, the Sabres know they aren’t going to be a contender this season, so what do they have to lose by giving Grigorenko a big role?
This is one thing that I'm hoping they do. Not just with Grigorenko, but in general. We're gonna be a young developing team. People always want us to be a contender and say tha... | Let’s face it, the Sabres know they aren’t going to be a contender this season, so what do they have to lose by giving Grigorenko a big role?
This is one thing that I'm hoping they do. Not just with Grigorenko, but in general. We're gonna be a young developing team. People always want us to be a contender and say tha... | [
"Summary: Schools will always ask for money regardless of who you are. I have high doubts they have an obligation to help beyond career services (once you're out, you're out).\n\nPost: Well I'll play devil's advocate here (as a non-Pitt undergrad alum/current Pitt grad student). \n All schools are gonna hit you up ... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,604 |
DeathGodBob | Generate the content for a reddit post cliche situational bullshit that makes the social setting uncomfortable in movies. | Any time someone in a movie makes a social or situational faux pas that you should TOTALLY know not to do.
Maybe you know that your best female friend might make you happy, but don't choose to show her the ring that you purchased for your fiance in a restaurant where you're going to propose before your wife gets th... | Any time someone in a movie makes a social or situational faux pas that you should TOTALLY know not to do.
Maybe you know that your best female friend might make you happy, but don't choose to show her the ring that you purchased for your fiance in a restaurant where you're going to propose before your wife gets th... | [
"Summary: Yeah, eloped, married for eight years. My mom is awesome.\n\nPost: I did. Her dad was polite, but he said he didn't think we were ready. \n We eloped, got married in court (without her parents being there), and are eight years strong so far. \n They didn't offer anything to help with the marriage, but t... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,605 |
lawrensj | Generate the content for a reddit post i couldn't disagree with you more. i hope you enjoy your turkey. | happy thanks giving. but i don't agree with anything you just said. i don't agree with the palestinian claim to the land. and i think you missed my point about population lines, as 20% of israel population is arab/palestinian. so the map is designed to be decpetive and to prove the palestinian point. if you can't se... | happy thanks giving. but i don't agree with anything you just said. i don't agree with the palestinian claim to the land. and i think you missed my point about population lines, as 20% of israel population is arab/palestinian. so the map is designed to be decpetive and to prove the palestinian point. if you can't se... | [
"Summary: i think the fairest way to both help the economy grow and reduce our debt is by increasing revenue so as to offset how much of the higher than needed expenditures we need to cut, so that those who need those programs feel it the least.\n\nPost: we'll have to disagree on spending vs. reform. i don't belie... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,606 |
ptoftheprblm | Generate the content for a reddit post point is this: we have an opportunity to eliminate a large amount of the dangers and risks of driving but we will no doubt see many fight this tooth and nail strictly for fear of ruining an already unsteady industry. | I will preface with this- I hate driving and only hate it due to getting jerked around by insurance companies, being hit by multiple unfit and uninsured drivers, and am currently bleeding 60% of my menial paychecks in commuting costs. Take this with a grain of salt but its time someone said it.
Lets be honest: in the... | I will preface with this- I hate driving and only hate it due to getting jerked around by insurance companies, being hit by multiple unfit and uninsured drivers, and am currently bleeding 60% of my menial paychecks in commuting costs. Take this with a grain of salt but its time someone said it.
Lets be honest: in the... | [
"Summary: I don't go out of my way to draw attention to myself and my recreational substances in my possession by making sure everyone knows I'm into it. Its why I've rode dirty ALL over the fucking country going to fests and haven't ever been arrested or wrongfully searched.\n\nPost: you're missing the point, they... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,607 |
MrCompletely | Generate the content for a reddit post I've done as much acid as you can do and still be coherent, and have lived in scenes where dosing was fairly common, and I can tell you for sure that's it's a fucking punk ass bullshit move.
EDIT: the one time I can recall thinking it was at least karmically apt was a guy who ha... | I completely endorse everything this person says. My bona fides in making this statement are relevant only because of the depth of my experience:
I have tripped several hundred times over the years. I have taken extremely large doses from time to time. My friends and I used to go a month at a time tripping 4-5 times ... | I completely endorse everything this person says. My bona fides in making this statement are relevant only because of the depth of my experience:
I have tripped several hundred times over the years. I have taken extremely large doses from time to time. My friends and I used to go a month at a time tripping 4-5 times ... | [
"Summary: you don't have to spend a bunch of money on figs and stuff. \n That being said there are some really nice ones and every once in awhile I do like to spring for the real thing for effect. But save money on the little stuff by using your imagination\n\nPost: battlemats are the way to go unless you really wa... | 40 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,608 |
Usernameisntthatlong | Generate the content for a reddit post Moved in with cousins for a while (ghetto part of the area). Heard a loud bang from upstairs and ran up to see what had happened. Popcorn bowl my brother and cousin were eating from had exploded. | Will be buried.. but whatever.
I had to stay over at my cousin's house (with my brother) for about 2 months or so because my parents didn't need us to help out with the moving of our house.
So it's just me (male, 13), my brother (11), my cousins (male, 13/female, 8 or 9).
It was around 9 or so and we were alone i... | Will be buried.. but whatever.
I had to stay over at my cousin's house (with my brother) for about 2 months or so because my parents didn't need us to help out with the moving of our house.
So it's just me (male, 13), my brother (11), my cousins (male, 13/female, 8 or 9).
It was around 9 or so and we were alone i... | [
"Summary: One house, one computer, 2 friends. Friend A gives his seat to Friend B. Friend B is playing on Friend A's account but on the same computer.\n\nPost: Not to be a dick to my friends but one of my friends is a Platinum player and the other a Silver player. Silver friend (we're all friends together IRL by ... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,609 |
Annakha | Generate the content for a reddit post It doesn't just happen to inexperienced adolescents. | My wife was sick for about a week and half last year and we didn't do anything for that time period. A few days after she was better we were finally able to have intercourse. At apex of my orgasm I felt like i was hit in the back of my scrotum by a baseball bat, causing throbbing pain to radiate up into my abdomen. ... | My wife was sick for about a week and half last year and we didn't do anything for that time period. A few days after she was better we were finally able to have intercourse. At apex of my orgasm I felt like i was hit in the back of my scrotum by a baseball bat, causing throbbing pain to radiate up into my abdomen. ... | [
"Summary: If you don't know how to use a gun, you aren't a survivor.\n\nPost: I'm sorry, but in the event of a catastrophic failure of society the people who don't know anything at all about firearms beyond what they played in a video game aren't going to be the survivors. Please have believable designations for t... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,610 |
SanityInAnarchy | Generate the content for a reddit post If it doesn't work with a different person's power cord, make sure your manufacturer isn't an asshat like Dell. | Could be problematic.
I have a Dell. I bought a spare AC adapter from the bookstore -- one of those things that comes with an attachment for just about every laptop. Well, it works, but my laptop won't charge, because modern Dell laptops actually talk to the charger to confirm it's the right one, or big enough, whate... | Could be problematic.
I have a Dell. I bought a spare AC adapter from the bookstore -- one of those things that comes with an attachment for just about every laptop. Well, it works, but my laptop won't charge, because modern Dell laptops actually talk to the charger to confirm it's the right one, or big enough, whate... | [
"Summary: I don't think it's more taxing performance -wise. It's just that it's taxing at all developer-wise, and takes away from other things that can't be as easily ignored. \n Also, just for fun: In [eduke32]( with the high-res pack -- a modern source port of Duke Nukem 3D that uses OpenGL for a renderer and ... | 84 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,611 |
accessofevil | Generate the content for a reddit post get off my lawn. | Wow... I was thinking "that was fast" because it feels like h.264 just came out and I remember when it started making digital video "good."
But actually h.264 is about 10 years old now. h.263 was finished in 1995, so h.264 actually had a much longer "life" and was significantly more useful.
All h.263 ever did was ... | Wow... I was thinking "that was fast" because it feels like h.264 just came out and I remember when it started making digital video "good."
But actually h.264 is about 10 years old now. h.263 was finished in 1995, so h.264 actually had a much longer "life" and was significantly more useful.
All h.263 ever did was ... | [
"Summary: yes, this is an overengineered answer, and it's probably fine.\n\nPost: Yes. There really isn't much of a difference between your alternator, starter, fans, window motors, or the electricity generating part of a nuclear reactor. \n Normally this wouldn't happen because when the fan relay is open, a circu... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,612 |
jemyr | Generate the content for a reddit post Those of us who follow the rules don't get nice things because of those who don't. | What is bad about it is that the studio knows you and millions like you did this, and because you can't follow the law they will continue forward with DRM and harder-to-steal models, which means those of us that do follow the law won't be able to watch movies on the internet on the first day of release: because the mo... | What is bad about it is that the studio knows you and millions like you did this, and because you can't follow the law they will continue forward with DRM and harder-to-steal models, which means those of us that do follow the law won't be able to watch movies on the internet on the first day of release: because the mo... | [
"Summary: Don't want/desire a refresher in high school lockerroom humor.\n\nPost: Personally, it's moreso the sudden shift in focus to \"my parents suck\" \"penis! penis! penis!\" and \"ohmygerd masturbation stories/embarassment.\" \n I don't relate. Not because crass penis humor is not relatable. But because t... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,613 |
Borax | Generate the content for a reddit post use a test kit if you're unsure , but a numerical value is hard to come by. | Chromatography is the only reliable way to find the purity of a sample. It is relatively complex and expensive, so tends not to be available to normal users. It separates each type of molecule into a "fraction" these are collected and analysed to determine what is present.
The best method for a regular user is an aci... | Chromatography is the only reliable way to find the purity of a sample. It is relatively complex and expensive, so tends not to be available to normal users. It separates each type of molecule into a "fraction" these are collected and analysed to determine what is present.
The best method for a regular user is an aci... | [
"Summary: MDMA is not some supersafe wonder drug. If you take 6 doses you might die.\n\nPost: Toxicology showed indisputably that one case at EZ was MDMA where the girl apparently announced she took 6 \"mollies\" before collapsing. The other was an unknown amount of methylone* and MDMA. \n Though these are well bel... | 32 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,614 |
kerrz | Generate the content for a reddit post The effective-focal-length crap is a confusing mind-trap. On a DX camera, both DX and non-DX lenses will produce an image with the same proportions. DX lenses only become an issue when you buy a high-end camera. | The difference between DX and non-DX (or FX) lenses is in the size of the image they project on a sensor.
Both the 35mm f/2D and the 35mm f/1.8G DX will produce the same picture on a DX camera (like the D3100, D5100, D7000 or D300). Same picture. Both will have an "effective focal length" of 50mm.
HOWEVER. On a ful... | The difference between DX and non-DX (or FX) lenses is in the size of the image they project on a sensor.
Both the 35mm f/2D and the 35mm f/1.8G DX will produce the same picture on a DX camera (like the D3100, D5100, D7000 or D300). Same picture. Both will have an "effective focal length" of 50mm.
HOWEVER. On a ful... | [
"Summary: Yes, it's probably worth going back to school unless you're already working in the IT field.\n\nPost: CIS is the typical IT degree, as opposed to Computer Science, which is the programming degree. \n I can't speak on the value of the specific CIS program unless you post the school that you're looking at, ... | 31 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,615 |
creepy_doll | Generate the content for a reddit post If you want a job when you graduate, study something that's in demand. It'll probably be more demanding and you'll have less time to party, but you will have freedom to choose from many jobs instead of settling for a substandard offer. | At the end of the article it refers to another one it claims to be running an opposite argument: namely that there are jobs that could be done in the US for which the skills are not present.
The claim that the two articles are mutually exclusive is false. The thing is, a lot of the degrees people are taking are simpl... | At the end of the article it refers to another one it claims to be running an opposite argument: namely that there are jobs that could be done in the US for which the skills are not present.
The claim that the two articles are mutually exclusive is false. The thing is, a lot of the degrees people are taking are simpl... | [
"Summary: Viva ;\n\nPost: I genuinely think that every language that gets rid of semi-colons is merely involved in an exercise of masturbation on the part of the developer. \n They're not there for the compiler. It's not really that hard to develop a syntax that has non-ambiguous statement structure that doesn'... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,616 |
SilentStarryNight | Generate the content for a reddit post Again: #1 Being (rightly) reprimanded at work by your boss, then going home and discovering your parents knew about the incident before you were reprimanded. #2 Also, fearing for one week straight the only job you have ever wanted since ever could be taken away simply by a single ... | This is gonna be a lot, for whatever importance it has. For frame of reference: When it happened, I was an adult (though single and around a decade younger than most co-workers), working/living in a different state as my folks. I worked in a culture that definitely was convinced that if you, an adult, weren't married... | This is gonna be a lot, for whatever importance it has. For frame of reference: When it happened, I was an adult (though single and around a decade younger than most co-workers), working/living in a different state as my folks. I worked in a culture that definitely was convinced that if you, an adult, weren't married... | [
"Summary: Life would be a lot simpler, and possibly more boring, but for the better.\n\nPost: I actually think of this topic a lot, great question! \n Communications wise, upvotes would abound, but downvotes would be really scarce. We would all speak English and Spanish, and curse words would just about cease to ex... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,617 |
Morgothic | Generate the content for a reddit post Law is fine. | Ok, I just went and read through the bill text for the senate bill (S.54). The house bill does not have text available yet on GovTrack, but according to the article, the senate bill is a companion to the house bill which usually means the text is identical (see S.150 and H.R.437 (AWB) as an example of companion bills).... | Ok, I just went and read through the bill text for the senate bill (S.54). The house bill does not have text available yet on GovTrack, but according to the article, the senate bill is a companion to the house bill which usually means the text is identical (see S.150 and H.R.437 (AWB) as an example of companion bills).... | [
"Summary: We walmart employees aren't all completely ignorant, mindless, button pushing, shelve-stocking drones. But a lot are.\n\nPost: Ok, as a walmart employee of 4 years, I feel the need to speak up here. Generally speaking, a lot of the walmart employee hate in this thread is true. However, there are some good... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,618 |
Torquemada1970 | Generate the content for a reddit post laughably bad article. It must be a slow day. | The following line summarises the entire article nicely;
>They were a large group of senior civil servants and bankers, in a country well beyond Europe and the US. To them, the iPad wasn't a status symbol; it was a device they had chosen to use because it enhanced their ability to do their job.
Because that's the w... | The following line summarises the entire article nicely;
>They were a large group of senior civil servants and bankers, in a country well beyond Europe and the US. To them, the iPad wasn't a status symbol; it was a device they had chosen to use because it enhanced their ability to do their job.
Because that's the w... | [
"Summary: High Hopes.\n\nPost: A lot of people, myself included, thought that Momentary Lapse was their best album since The Wall. \n A lot of people also thought that Division Bell was their best since WYWH, including Rick Wright. High Hopes alone stands with their best. \n I ended up going to see them six or seve... | 83 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,619 |
Roben9 | Generate the content for a reddit post Watch A Boy and His Dog . | Ever played Fallout3? The relationship between the PC and Dogmeat, as well as lot of story elements, was taken from a film called A Boy and His Dog (which was in turn based off a book).
Basic premise is a guy wanders the wasteland with his telepathic dog raping and pillaging whenever the opportunity arises. One day... | Ever played Fallout3? The relationship between the PC and Dogmeat, as well as lot of story elements, was taken from a film called A Boy and His Dog (which was in turn based off a book).
Basic premise is a guy wanders the wasteland with his telepathic dog raping and pillaging whenever the opportunity arises. One day... | [
"Summary: Inspiring or not there is no scale for reference, therefore bad photographer/photography in my humble opinion.\n\nPost: The problem that I have with this is that they are taken at an angle and there is no reference for any of the given objects. Everything is taken on a white plate with black background so... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,620 |
SJ0 | Generate the content for a reddit post r/Tribes exists too. use them to share such information. this effects all communities. | this whole thing is kinda sad. time and again Tribes players have to come to r/Smite to get new information and have a chance of any communication with hirez.
i don't give a fuck that you stopped developing tribes. i don't care that you made several promises and never fulfilled them. i think we're all over that. but ... | this whole thing is kinda sad. time and again Tribes players have to come to r/Smite to get new information and have a chance of any communication with hirez.
i don't give a fuck that you stopped developing tribes. i don't care that you made several promises and never fulfilled them. i think we're all over that. but ... | [
"Summary: in time it'll happen and it'll be GLORIOUS.\n\nPost: humm i think they're just saving it. only recently did they build young Bruce as a character. they'll take their time to explore bruce as time goes by. remember this show doesn't revolve around bruce. a lot of characters are written really well in this ... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,621 |
Anergos | Generate the content for a reddit post Get a good mouse pad. It doesn't have to be a $40 one, but not those 15cm $1 generic ones. The aforementioned steelseries qck mass can be had at a good price, is heavy and of very good quality so it gets a suggestion from me. | There's a VAST difference between a good mouse pad and those $1 ones.
I've used tons of cheap pads, most got thrown away in a weeks time in favor of the simple wood surface on my desk. I've used from typical plastic crap, to cloth crap, to those very thin plastic crap mats that "stick" to the surface. All were a disa... | There's a VAST difference between a good mouse pad and those $1 ones.
I've used tons of cheap pads, most got thrown away in a weeks time in favor of the simple wood surface on my desk. I've used from typical plastic crap, to cloth crap, to those very thin plastic crap mats that "stick" to the surface. All were a disa... | [
"Summary: You want a card now? Get a 7970/7970GHz. Are you willing to wait till November? Check nvidia price drops and amd mantle performance and decide then.\n\nPost: 280x reference looks to be a bit slower than 7970 GHz edition, which seems silly since you can probably find a sub 300$ 7970 GHz edition nowdays. \n... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,622 |
StAnonymous | Generate the content for a reddit post Girls went back in time to save the professor. Young professor sees them and decides he will make them. | There was an episode where Mojo Jojo goes back in time to kill the professor so the girls never get created (which would have destroyed Mojo due to the fact that the girls creation lead to his creation, but whatevs). So the girls go back in time to stop him, but the professor warns them not to let the young (around the... | There was an episode where Mojo Jojo goes back in time to kill the professor so the girls never get created (which would have destroyed Mojo due to the fact that the girls creation lead to his creation, but whatevs). So the girls go back in time to stop him, but the professor warns them not to let the young (around the... | [
"Summary: Don't have a least favorite. Just games I do or don't play.\n\nPost: I've never really come across a game I outright hated. I have a few games I don't play because I don't enjoy them, but I don't hate them. I just don't play them. \n Well, I do have a Steam Category labeled Probably Won't Play, but there'... | 31 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,623 |
demiandaniel | Generate the content for a reddit post need pc on [my kara ch mw]( please help | So i entered both of the daily pc threads but it seems like nobody answered although the comments above and below were ansered, and now i need to make an own thread to ask if you guys can pricecheck my karambit case hardened mw.
I tried Pc'ing it a couple times and sometimes even got the response "not even marketpric... | So i entered both of the daily pc threads but it seems like nobody answered although the comments above and below were ansered, and now i need to make an own thread to ask if you guys can pricecheck my karambit case hardened mw.
I tried Pc'ing it a couple times and sometimes even got the response "not even marketpric... | [
"Summary: need pc on [my kara ch mw]( please help\n\nPost: So i entered both of the daily pc threads but it seems like nobody answered although the comments above and below were ansered, and now i need to make an own thread to ask if you guys can pricecheck my karambit case hardened mw. \n I tried Pc'ing it a coupl... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,624 |
fargosucks | Generate the content for a reddit post shooting to wound animals is cowardly, disrespectful, and a fucking awful thing to do. | I see.
Hunting was a tradition where I grew up, and we hunted for the venison, not for sport. Every winter and spring was constant deer meat for dinner, or venison jerky (which is fucking delicious). When one of my mother's brothers or sisters didn't get a deer during hunting season, everyone who did would share a li... | I see.
Hunting was a tradition where I grew up, and we hunted for the venison, not for sport. Every winter and spring was constant deer meat for dinner, or venison jerky (which is fucking delicious). When one of my mother's brothers or sisters didn't get a deer during hunting season, everyone who did would share a li... | [
"Summary: fLocke is an asshole, but not a liar.\n\nPost: Not sure that he was necessarily lying, per se, just leaving out the intervening facts. He said that he needed all of the candidates in order to leave and that they all needed to be together to get off the island, he never said HOW they were going to leave th... | 36 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,625 |
biskitwheels | Generate the content for a reddit post hell yes | 2/17 is one of my all time favorites. Have gushed about it here recently.
I've been waiting for a board of this for ages,and, even though the audience recordings available are stellar, an official board of this show will propel it to its deserved spot on "best jams" of all time.
That Disease defines a fear jam. One... | 2/17 is one of my all time favorites. Have gushed about it here recently.
I've been waiting for a board of this for ages,and, even though the audience recordings available are stellar, an official board of this show will propel it to its deserved spot on "best jams" of all time.
That Disease defines a fear jam. One... | [
"Summary: my garage logic says orders with GDTS TOO in return address won't have tickets in them. Prevents theft.\n\nPost: I would think they would reject all improper orders, the put all eligible orders in a pile work from there. \n Putting GDTS TOO in the return address will put out red flags for people to steal ... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,626 |
buffalo_pete | Generate the content for a reddit post Every time you hear a politician talk about The Children! you can bet some kids are about to get fucked. | Just because your response is emotional doesn't mean that I'm appealing to emotion.
You are. You're throwing around vague "think of the children" platitudes and suggesting that because I don't think it makes sense to have a political appointee in St. Paul manage discipline in schools I must therefore just hate kids, ... | Just because your response is emotional doesn't mean that I'm appealing to emotion.
You are. You're throwing around vague "think of the children" platitudes and suggesting that because I don't think it makes sense to have a political appointee in St. Paul manage discipline in schools I must therefore just hate kids, ... | [
"Summary: Dirty capitalist money built every fucking one of the modern European welfare states. They would not exist without it.\n\nPost: This was a great goddamn post. I'd like to throw one more nugget in that my lefty friends (and my European friends) don't like me bringing up. \n > one of the things that I see i... | 57 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,627 |
King-Of-The-Raves | Generate the content for a reddit post Euron killed Gerion Lannister and took credit for going to Valyria | Gerion Lannister, a man who prior to the series' beginning begun a voyage to the Smoking Sea, to recover Brightroar, the Lannister ancesteral sword. He was last seen in Volantis, progressing with about half his crew into the Smoking Sea.
Euron Greyjoy, the Crow's Eye, claims to have sailed into the Smoking Sea and Va... | Gerion Lannister, a man who prior to the series' beginning begun a voyage to the Smoking Sea, to recover Brightroar, the Lannister ancesteral sword. He was last seen in Volantis, progressing with about half his crew into the Smoking Sea.
Euron Greyjoy, the Crow's Eye, claims to have sailed into the Smoking Sea and Va... | [
"Summary: The Martells will give (f?)Aegon the crown of Aegon The Conqueror which will be a gesture of good faith and alliance as well as giving (f?)Aegon much needed political legitimacy.\n\nPost: At the end of ADWD, (f?)Aegon VI has descended into the Stormlands with the Golden Company and has taken Griffin's Roo... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,628 |
thetoethumb | Generate the content for a reddit post You don't need dream stabilisation. The only reason you have been doing it is because you think you have to. You don't have to, so stop. Your dreams will be stable.
Disclaimer: I know I'm going to get people saying "This worked for you but it might not work for everyone." I bel... | After reading this and the five pages linked inside it, I've come to realise something that helped me immensely with stabilising dreams.
What if I told you that you didn't need to stabilise your dreams?
Hear me out on this before you downvote me. As I'm sure you're all aware, your dreams are made by your mind, an... | After reading this and the five pages linked inside it, I've come to realise something that helped me immensely with stabilising dreams.
What if I told you that you didn't need to stabilise your dreams?
Hear me out on this before you downvote me. As I'm sure you're all aware, your dreams are made by your mind, an... | [
"Summary: The orange stuff is ammonium dichromate. It decomposes into the grey stuff called chromium (III) oxide.\n\nPost: Starts getting interesting at about 0:50 \n As always, here's how it works. The orange powder is the ammonium dichromate. When the matches are lit, the heat provides enough energy to start it d... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,629 |
Sawta | Generate the content for a reddit post is Think long term and Train ALL THE THINGS! | Here's how I would approach it if I had to start as an EVE noob again:
What is your dream goal as a miner? What is that image in your head that makes it sound super interesting? Here's a few examples of what people commonly strive towards:
Multi-box with 10-20 accounts, all in T2 exhumers (fanciest ships you ca... | Here's how I would approach it if I had to start as an EVE noob again:
What is your dream goal as a miner? What is that image in your head that makes it sound super interesting? Here's a few examples of what people commonly strive towards:
Multi-box with 10-20 accounts, all in T2 exhumers (fanciest ships you ca... | [
"Summary: If you are asking for people to freely contribute money to your project simply out of the goodness of their heart, do so in a manner that doesn't resort to blackmail and half-reasoned examples on how better every other OSS project is being treated. It's not a good way to watch your donation counter incre... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,630 |
numbski | Generate the content for a reddit post WTF is wrong with you. Get up there and read it! | My wife started lifting about 6 weeks ago, and was doing well to deadlift the empty bar, which is of course 45lb. She's doing StrongLifts 5x5, and knocked out 4x80 and had to bail. That's .5xbody weight for her right now. Of course, that's a pittance, but for her - I'm proud of her. She's getting it. She worked to... | My wife started lifting about 6 weeks ago, and was doing well to deadlift the empty bar, which is of course 45lb. She's doing StrongLifts 5x5, and knocked out 4x80 and had to bail. That's .5xbody weight for her right now. Of course, that's a pittance, but for her - I'm proud of her. She's getting it. She worked to... | [
"Summary: inside I'm whining because I'm not a super-model yet and everyone doesn't love me.\n\nPost: There there. We could all use the help of a strength and conditioning coach. It's just a matter of whether we want to burn the cash on it. That, and I get the feeling more than a few of us are sporting the \"s... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,631 |
spudmcnally | Generate the content for a reddit post why did banshee and the white queen have to die?, how did trask actually manage to catch any of them short of them tripping into his lap? and why god why bother bringing back a different toad for just two scenes ? | okay, so i love that almost everything in the franchise got retconned, it opens for tons of new story options and brings back characters we would need to do some of the biggest stories (jean for pheonix saga[no no, xmen 3 does not count, that was not a pheonix saga] is a good example).
but what i don't get, what i ... | okay, so i love that almost everything in the franchise got retconned, it opens for tons of new story options and brings back characters we would need to do some of the biggest stories (jean for pheonix saga[no no, xmen 3 does not count, that was not a pheonix saga] is a good example).
but what i don't get, what i ... | [
"Summary: if you see a story on the news about people dying is the middle of the city due to what appears to be a lion attack from how brutal is was and the sheer state of f'ed up the bodies are in..that won't be a lion.\n\nPost: to me, it's just that fact they they can't understand, they don't know why their own... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,632 |
ShredShootDrive | Generate the content for a reddit post What do you pay for dues? I want to know. | I'm compiling a list of dues paid around the nation, and want to show that the increase in dues will be worth the price for the acquisition of a rental house for the fraternity. I'm hoping that the national average will be more than what we will have to pay to have the house, including what we're already paying for due... | I'm compiling a list of dues paid around the nation, and want to show that the increase in dues will be worth the price for the acquisition of a rental house for the fraternity. I'm hoping that the national average will be more than what we will have to pay to have the house, including what we're already paying for due... | [
"Summary: Will resetting my car's adaptive ECU allow octane-boosted fuel to increase my car's performance? Or will it just overlook it and treat it as regular fuel, meaning no improved performance?\n\nPost: If I reset my ECU, and put in an octane booster to my fuel (Properly mixed), is it possible that the ECU will... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,633 |
skeeto111 | Generate the content for a reddit post Lots of farts too. Whenever I was in my room it was like I was living inside of my roommate's fart. | My roommate freshman year was from China.
Really I had two roommates, one was from China, the other was cool as fuck.
My Chinese roommate was pretty fat (not inherently bad but he was also unhygienic which coupled with fatness is even worse than normal), enamored with our free internet, and hardly left the room. He... | My roommate freshman year was from China.
Really I had two roommates, one was from China, the other was cool as fuck.
My Chinese roommate was pretty fat (not inherently bad but he was also unhygienic which coupled with fatness is even worse than normal), enamored with our free internet, and hardly left the room. He... | [
"Summary: Both the Israelis and Egyptians in this clip are stupid and do not want solutions. They just enjoy being assholes to each other without even considering the consequences.\n\nPost: It would be more like being in America right after the september 11 attacks, and you have all these American actors on TV, the... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,634 |
Doomsday_Device | Generate the content for a reddit post Avoid Portland, but stay on the Colombia River, only go to Portland for Supply Runs, and stay between the Coast and Portland. | I live in Portland, Oregon, which is right on the Colombia, and if you took Kindergarten Geography then you would know that the Colombia serves as the border between Oregon and Washington.
Anyways, it can get pretty mild up here, you would want to avoid Portland, lots of homeless here, lots of homeless means that the... | I live in Portland, Oregon, which is right on the Colombia, and if you took Kindergarten Geography then you would know that the Colombia serves as the border between Oregon and Washington.
Anyways, it can get pretty mild up here, you would want to avoid Portland, lots of homeless here, lots of homeless means that the... | [
"Summary: Punched an Australian, got kicked out of a special military project, ended up using mechs to kill giant ocean monsters.\n\nPost: I'm in the military, and me and a few other guys did some stupid shit while testing some weapons and shit. There was this asian chick with us who started the stupid shit, and so... | 27 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,635 |
charliebrown1321 | Generate the content for a reddit post Hot coffee is hot, and if you spill ANY hot drink in your lap (where it will soak into clothes and stick) you are in for a really bad time. | from [burnfoundation.org](
>Hot Water Causes Third Degree Burns…
>…in 1 second at 156º
>…in 2 seconds at 149º
>…in 5 seconds at 140º
>…in 15 seconds at 133º
From the National Coffee Association
>Your brewer should maintain a water temperature between 195 - 205 degrees Fahrenheit for optimal extraction. Col... | from [burnfoundation.org](
>Hot Water Causes Third Degree Burns…
>…in 1 second at 156º
>…in 2 seconds at 149º
>…in 5 seconds at 140º
>…in 15 seconds at 133º
From the National Coffee Association
>Your brewer should maintain a water temperature between 195 - 205 degrees Fahrenheit for optimal extraction. Col... | [
"Summary: Make sure to keep an open mind and think about it from his shoes and make sure he does the same for you(or you may have bigger troubles.)\n\nPost: As a contrasting opinion, the money spent on \"one day\" can be invested to a better long term life. Financial problems can cause massive rifts in a marriage,... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,636 |
AAlsmadi1 | Generate the content for a reddit post the chemical addiction leaves you after three days , the rest is a behavioral addiction, you just gotta want it bad.
The upside is that you can breath again, you get your nose back, and you are less repulsive to people (most people won't tell you, it's not pleasant) and you can ... | Well I quit because I was sick of it. I wasn't progressing on anything, destroying my lungs , I want to be a good fighter. Waste of money, and my religion (islam) prohibits killing your self, so I needed to quit . Also one of my biggest motivators is my mom said she would but me a 500$ lap top. So I went and got patche... | Well I quit because I was sick of it. I wasn't progressing on anything, destroying my lungs , I want to be a good fighter. Waste of money, and my religion (islam) prohibits killing your self, so I needed to quit . Also one of my biggest motivators is my mom said she would but me a 500$ lap top. So I went and got patche... | [
"Summary: i know you guys don't like to read so here's the short version: you're a fucking idiot =)\n\nPost: OH SHIT HE PROVED I'M MUSLIM THE JIGS UP. /s \n so lets hear it oh great scholar of Islam, why is it poison? make your case don't just spout what mommy and daddy told you. \n btw i'm poised to be a chemical ... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,637 |
fightinscot | Generate the content for a reddit post Came up with a Facebook style site before Zuckerburg. | A few weeks before the end of my senior year of high school, my group of friends were talking about what we planned to do in one year when high school was over. We were all going to college, all for different things. During this conversation we mentioned keeping up with people from our graduating class and the class th... | A few weeks before the end of my senior year of high school, my group of friends were talking about what we planned to do in one year when high school was over. We were all going to college, all for different things. During this conversation we mentioned keeping up with people from our graduating class and the class th... | [
"Summary: but this is a really wonderful story and I am happy to see how much has been done for her.\n\nPost: To add on to what /u/broken_ankles said, besides the NCAA getting it right, a lot of people from not only Cincinnati and the surrounding area, but all over the country have sent her #22 jerseys, Devon Still... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,638 |
rockemsockemrobot | Generate the content for a reddit post I like their business mindset, but feel they could combine it with a bit more artistic freedom to work towards a better product and a better profit. | I really disagree that what he's saying would necessarily be bad for business. The thing that makes indie studios so powerful (on occasion, I'm not saying every indie game is great) is that they're in it for the games, not for the investors. They literally are just 'creating art'.
EA, as a company, is not in it just ... | I really disagree that what he's saying would necessarily be bad for business. The thing that makes indie studios so powerful (on occasion, I'm not saying every indie game is great) is that they're in it for the games, not for the investors. They literally are just 'creating art'.
EA, as a company, is not in it just ... | [
"Summary: Your post wasn't very long, but I would reconsider this- I feel like you have more to say than 'you're an asshole', and this makes you look immature.\n\nPost: If your country sucks, it isn't my responsibility. \n Fuck this mentality. Countries are imaginary lines in the dirt drawn up by people who want to... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,639 |
ModernRonin | Generate the content for a reddit post In the long run, deharnessing kids hurts the Espheni most of all. The battles that destroy their mechs and skitters hurt them, for sure. But the best way to drive them off Earth is to deharness every kid possible. They will be unable to intellectually or logistically sustain their... | Hey guys, what do you think are the motives of the new alien race?
I agree with Pope: We flat out don't know what they really want or why they're really here.
See, Pope is always right in his strategic analyses. He just always chooses the exact wrong action to take, in response to his conclusions. But his conclusio... | Hey guys, what do you think are the motives of the new alien race?
I agree with Pope: We flat out don't know what they really want or why they're really here.
See, Pope is always right in his strategic analyses. He just always chooses the exact wrong action to take, in response to his conclusions. But his conclusio... | [
"Summary: Gun safety class. Now. Do it!\n\nPost: I want to buy a gun for self protection. I don't know what I'm doing or how to go about it. I'm totally clueless. \n You should take a firearms safety class before doing anything else. Above all, safety! You need to know how to unload and disable a firearm before y... | 77 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,640 |
Bytewave | Generate the content for a reddit post You could understand my French and I could live in your country if I wanted. :) | Yay, NSA!)
Its more than just the NSA. Canada has its own, I call it NSA North. Other Anglosphere countries too. They closely share data and are together known as [the five eyes]( 'NSA North', CSEC, records everything that passes through Canada exactly like the NSA.
> Would it be Québecquois.
It's complicated. ... | Yay, NSA!)
Its more than just the NSA. Canada has its own, I call it NSA North. Other Anglosphere countries too. They closely share data and are together known as [the five eyes]( 'NSA North', CSEC, records everything that passes through Canada exactly like the NSA.
> Would it be Québecquois.
It's complicated. ... | [
"Summary: poor in-house protocols around QA and engineering practices.\n\nPost: We asked ourselves the same question. All week, actually as you'll see in later parts. The most likely explanation is that the bugs we faced that week were introduced late. Typically, a load shouldn't see rapid iteration once it's in te... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,641 |
SPC_Patchless | Generate the content for a reddit post Your post contains a different assertion from your title. "Men make more and here is why" would be more accurate. You made no statement on your opinion of "should" based on gender. | You've got a compound statement here.
What you're actually saying is that people who work more should make more money. Then you're following that assertion by saying that men work more.
Your "should" statement is not gendered, your factual statement is. However, compounding these two statements is not the same as s... | You've got a compound statement here.
What you're actually saying is that people who work more should make more money. Then you're following that assertion by saying that men work more.
Your "should" statement is not gendered, your factual statement is. However, compounding these two statements is not the same as s... | [
"Summary: The basilisk is a lie, but \"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream\" is a heck of a video game/story.\n\nPost: The claim is that a hypothetical, or inevitable, ultimate intelligence may punish those who fail to help it or help create it, with greater punishment given to those who knew the importance of the t... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,642 |
hotcod | Generate the content for a reddit post Bands can basically end up in debt to a label even having made a profitable album. | Not sure how it works for boy bands but when most bands sign to a label they are given an advance, this advance is to cover the cost of recording, producing and manufacturing the album as well as for some level of living expenses while doing it.
Which would be fine except the band typically has to pay it back from t... | Not sure how it works for boy bands but when most bands sign to a label they are given an advance, this advance is to cover the cost of recording, producing and manufacturing the album as well as for some level of living expenses while doing it.
Which would be fine except the band typically has to pay it back from t... | [
"Summary: It could be Ned it just seems like a waste if it was.\n\nPost: But... why? \n Firstly in the story there are 3 people directly involved, the crannogman who was wronged, Lyanna who defended him and Benjen who who offered to find the crannogman a horse and armor. Ned may have heard the man praying to the ... | 54 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,643 |
super_soprano13 | Generate the content for a reddit post how do people feel about adding c25k and yoga to p90 as long as you don't burn yourself out? Also, opinions on alternate quad stretches for when body parts get in the way, and do you add extra stretching at the end of your p90? | so I don't have weights, I have resistance bands=I had to pause a million times because it would take me forever to figure out how best to set up the low resistance band for some of the exercises. I'm way out of shape, but parts of my upper body are really strong. Also, I'm going to have to find a modified quad stretch... | so I don't have weights, I have resistance bands=I had to pause a million times because it would take me forever to figure out how best to set up the low resistance band for some of the exercises. I'm way out of shape, but parts of my upper body are really strong. Also, I'm going to have to find a modified quad stretch... | [
"Summary: Get good coffee, a light roast for hot. Try cold brew, look for coffees with a darker roast, and chocolate/caramel/rich notes and you won't need any sweetner at all (Actually, diluted with some water, over ice, with sea salt is one of the very best ways to drink cold brew. The salt makes the coffee taste ... | 83 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,644 |
cam18_2000 | Generate the content for a reddit post Got my degree and changed jobs, quadrupled my income in about 5 years which made me feel overpaid, even though I make less than most others in the same position. | Absolutely. I was working a $10 an hour job throughout college, graduated and within weeks was picked up for a target GS-11 job with the US Army, my base pay started at $37k which was almost double what I made before, and within 2 years I was promoted to a GS-11 making almost $62k, a year and a half after that I was p... | Absolutely. I was working a $10 an hour job throughout college, graduated and within weeks was picked up for a target GS-11 job with the US Army, my base pay started at $37k which was almost double what I made before, and within 2 years I was promoted to a GS-11 making almost $62k, a year and a half after that I was p... | [
"Summary: The army wants enemies to get hurt, not die (if it can be avoided) so the enemy has to expend resources to help the injured. So... no H2O2 bullets, sorry.\n\nPost: I'm not sure if you wanted an honest answer, but I work for the army, the use of any type of reactive material in a bullet would be in violati... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,645 |
YetAnotherRandomGuy | Generate the content for a reddit post Don't make the mistake of falling for the label game. As you can see, labels are just a way to boil things down to the extremes, removing thinking and rational dialog from the conversation, and divide the people. | The problem is that most people fall into the rational grey area and wouldn't fall into an absolute "pro-life" or "pro-choice" bucket. These labels have been used by the extremists on both sides to hijack the conversion.
Most would agree that an abortion at 3 weeks after conception is not a murder.
Most would ag... | The problem is that most people fall into the rational grey area and wouldn't fall into an absolute "pro-life" or "pro-choice" bucket. These labels have been used by the extremists on both sides to hijack the conversion.
Most would agree that an abortion at 3 weeks after conception is not a murder.
Most would ag... | [
"Summary: I rant too. lol\n\nPost: Oh god, sorry about ranting. I could go on forever, I'll stop. \n I think we both could, and I will certainly applaud your ability to remain civil and speak intelligently about the matter at hand. (I, myself, have been guilty of lapses on this at times) \n That said: \n >...the ... | 35 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,646 |
holleywood28 | Generate the content for a reddit post can I cover up the cross with a 4-leaf clover? | So I will be the first to admit that my tattoos are not the greatest, but some of them were done by friends that were just starting in the business so I didn't mind. Plus I was young....
I now know you get what you pay for and I am in the process for fixing a few of my tattoos that I am disappointed with, and plannin... | So I will be the first to admit that my tattoos are not the greatest, but some of them were done by friends that were just starting in the business so I didn't mind. Plus I was young....
I now know you get what you pay for and I am in the process for fixing a few of my tattoos that I am disappointed with, and plannin... | [
"Summary: count your calories for the day and get an actual idea. Start lifting weights along with your cardio. Give it a month and see where you stand.\n\nPost: Honestly I believe if you actually compare your eating now to when you smoked then you might see an increase. I also quit smoking but didn't fill it with ... | 27 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,647 |
Dain42 | Generate the content for a reddit post Anti-aliasing makes [this]( rendered scene look like [this]( | If you're really curious about it, you can read more at the [Wiki page here.](
Anti-aliasing is also important for fonts when displayed on-screen are opting to drop anti-aliasing and font smoothing in their interfaces on these screens, as the pixel density effectively takes care of this on its own.
Aliased text i... | If you're really curious about it, you can read more at the [Wiki page here.](
Anti-aliasing is also important for fonts when displayed on-screen are opting to drop anti-aliasing and font smoothing in their interfaces on these screens, as the pixel density effectively takes care of this on its own.
Aliased text i... | [
"Summary: Every piece of culture we've ever consumed has shaped and affected us in some way. Why bother denying it? Just go with it; unapologetically like what you like. \n \n Also, to be fair, Britain needs little aid in the [fetishization of British Culture™.](\n\nPost: I'd cop to it, at least a bit. Looking at a... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,648 |
SuperConductiveRabbi | Generate the content for a reddit post Hypocritically, /u/Batty-Koda habitually downvotes people he/she disagrees with, then complains when others return the favor. | because it's an unpopular explanation, everything I say is downvoted.
> I'm even willing to discuss the rules, or I was, until I got downvoted to shit for trying to have a discussion.
>I want to be able to have an honest and open discussion, but it's hard to do that when people are so blinded by bias. It's funny ho... | because it's an unpopular explanation, everything I say is downvoted.
> I'm even willing to discuss the rules, or I was, until I got downvoted to shit for trying to have a discussion.
>I want to be able to have an honest and open discussion, but it's hard to do that when people are so blinded by bias. It's funny ho... | [
"Summary: Before we continue I believe you should either delete your account or concede that shadowbanning is an effective tool to inconvenience, silence, or drive away Redditors--especially considering that the Redditor in question lost control of his subreddit as a result of his ban, a fact you either purposefull... | 30 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,649 |
probably_apocryphal | Generate the content for a reddit post The way you list things doesn't really matter, but splitting one research experience into a bunch of separate things in categories that are intended for major accomplishments looks weird.
edit: I realize this sounds kind of mean, which was not intended. Please don't freak out. T... | A1. I wouldn't list this at all - if it was part of a research experience, I would include it in the description for that "Research" entry.
A2. Irrelevant question if you followed my answer to A1
A3. You can list it as an award if you want. Personally, I would just add this to the description (since honestly, no... | A1. I wouldn't list this at all - if it was part of a research experience, I would include it in the description for that "Research" entry.
A2. Irrelevant question if you followed my answer to A1
A3. You can list it as an award if you want. Personally, I would just add this to the description (since honestly, no... | [
"Summary: if in doubt, don't say anything.\n\nPost: It's not about being right, its about wanting to know the right thing. \n I feel the same way, but a lot of people don't. My friends and I call each other out on being wrong/misinformed all the time, but we're all interested in/good at slightly different things, s... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,650 |
Sirwootalot | Generate the content for a reddit post i'm right, you're wrong. | Known as the "Twin Cities," Minneapolis-St. Paul is the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the U.S., with 3.5 million residents."
Climate data for the area is here:
20 was hyperbole, and I apologize; a more accurate phrasing would be "it does not get above freezing point for a 3.5 month period". For another roughly ... | Known as the "Twin Cities," Minneapolis-St. Paul is the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the U.S., with 3.5 million residents."
Climate data for the area is here:
20 was hyperbole, and I apologize; a more accurate phrasing would be "it does not get above freezing point for a 3.5 month period". For another roughly ... | [
"Summary: oh god what the fuck happened \n Edit: 1755 comments? jesus christ, still nobody will have heard this because it's buried so goddamned far. :c Also, I derped.\n\nPost: Oh god, this one's easy. \n I was staying up late one winter evening/morning back when I was a teenager, and around 5:30 AM I began to h... | 54 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,651 |
twitchMAC17 | Generate the content for a reddit post Worked out really hard with a sinus infection. Parts of the workout were crossfit influenced and I stayed in constant motion, was proud of myself. | I just did a 1-1/2 mile run, 50 total burpees, 40 total floor presses at 35 and 40 pounds (two sets at 40, 15 of them narrow "grip", it was dumbbells), some ab stuff and a bunch of unweighted (with a practice bar, my form sucks cause I have a screwed up back) overhead squats (didn't count them, just trying to get form ... | I just did a 1-1/2 mile run, 50 total burpees, 40 total floor presses at 35 and 40 pounds (two sets at 40, 15 of them narrow "grip", it was dumbbells), some ab stuff and a bunch of unweighted (with a practice bar, my form sucks cause I have a screwed up back) overhead squats (didn't count them, just trying to get form ... | [
"Summary: Maokai remains as he always has been, moreso than other champs, which lends a weird e-sport tradition to him.\n\nPost: Y'know what, I'ma add to that. Mao also has something that doesn't really matter to gameplay but certainly matters to the question at hand, in a similar way to cheering on your favorite ... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,652 |
itty53 | Generate the content for a reddit post Religious people exist to form groups of like-minded people, not because of books, or because of a like-minded belief in the books. | I see this concept coming up a lot among atheists/agnostics, and it's putting the faith-cart before the faith-horse.
I'm gonna probably piss off atheists and believers alike here (good):
No religion, ever, was based upon a work of literary text.
None of 'em . Not one.
It's true of every religion because ever... | I see this concept coming up a lot among atheists/agnostics, and it's putting the faith-cart before the faith-horse.
I'm gonna probably piss off atheists and believers alike here (good):
No religion, ever, was based upon a work of literary text.
None of 'em . Not one.
It's true of every religion because ever... | [
"Summary: Nah, if OP wanted to sell these things for $600 a piece, he totally could. Maybe even more. \n Edit: Also, if OP 'production lined' it, and did all of phase 1 for 10x pieces, then all of phase 2, etc etc, he could crank out more than $5/hr for himself. A lot more.\n\nPost: You vastly underestimate the [... | 85 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,653 |
Fake_William_Shatner | Generate the content for a reddit post Shia LeBeouf did not kill someone's dog and is not Nancy Grace. | You should see the comments we had for Nancy Grace!
However, I was slightly encouraged by the fact that everyone seemed to dislike her.
However, the strong opinions about LeBeouf seem a bit over-the-top. I think it's envy. Not every actor has to be super human, or talented, or attractive. Some of them have to be be... | You should see the comments we had for Nancy Grace!
However, I was slightly encouraged by the fact that everyone seemed to dislike her.
However, the strong opinions about LeBeouf seem a bit over-the-top. I think it's envy. Not every actor has to be super human, or talented, or attractive. Some of them have to be be... | [
"Summary: the Ancient Greeks got it right.\n\nPost: It also sounds like their God actually sounds like a \"reasonable\" higher being. \n The Christian God sounds like a putz. No-one before Him, contradictory information -- but if you don't have perfect faith and eat red meat on Friday; burn in Hell for eternity. No... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,654 |
TheJobsGuy | Generate the content for a reddit post You are right, it is about the employer, and this is hard for young applicants to realize sometimes. | Sadly, I can only upvote you once.
I teach a high school seminar on this, and in the first part, titled "It's All About YOU", we take a job advertisement and show them how to write a resume/cover full of typical teen "I Wants".
The second part of the seminar is what your comment resonated to me-"It's All About THEM... | Sadly, I can only upvote you once.
I teach a high school seminar on this, and in the first part, titled "It's All About YOU", we take a job advertisement and show them how to write a resume/cover full of typical teen "I Wants".
The second part of the seminar is what your comment resonated to me-"It's All About THEM... | [
"Summary: Say something nice; you can ask questions too; match your strengths to their needs. \n EDIT-You seem so sincere but so nervous that I went and had a little dinner, and wrote a full article called \"The Elevator Speech in 4 Easy Steps. You can find it [Here](\n\nPost: PLEASE HIRE ME I WANT SO BADLY TO WOR... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,655 |
rhadamanthus52 | Generate the content for a reddit post there isn't good evidence humans intervened, but if they did it would be quite unfair and illegitimize the IBM victory. | While I don't put much stock in the paranoia that Kasparov and many others have about that match, that's not a very good response to those accusations.
There were several strong players, including at least one Grandmaster on the IBM team. Kasparov's accusation is that at a critical moment one of them intervened in a ... | While I don't put much stock in the paranoia that Kasparov and many others have about that match, that's not a very good response to those accusations.
There were several strong players, including at least one Grandmaster on the IBM team. Kasparov's accusation is that at a critical moment one of them intervened in a ... | [
"Summary: we mostly agree, SP's job doesn't require him to be so agro\n\nPost: I realize SP was doing his job by trying to interview Reid, and I realize the way these interviews are conducted is usually by trying to jam yourself as close to the subject as possible soon as you are allowed to be on the field. However... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,656 |
mrxscarface | Generate the content for a reddit post Marjiuana affects REM; vivid dreams happen during REM. | Yes, marijuana does have an effect on dreams. THC effects the latency of stages 3 and 4 of sleep, along with great effects on the length and intensity (sometimes eliminating altogether) of the REM stage of sleep. This isn't to say that it isn't possible to dream at all if you smoke a lot of cannabis, or smoke before ... | Yes, marijuana does have an effect on dreams. THC effects the latency of stages 3 and 4 of sleep, along with great effects on the length and intensity (sometimes eliminating altogether) of the REM stage of sleep. This isn't to say that it isn't possible to dream at all if you smoke a lot of cannabis, or smoke before ... | [
"Summary: You'll be ok man.\n\nPost: How much were you consuming? I felt a myriad of short lived medical problems after I quit smoking, but I was an extremely heavy smoker. \n List is: \n \n I felt the pressure behind my right eye too, which also gave me a twitch. This lasted almost an entire week, but never ac... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,657 |
Skyline969 | Generate the content for a reddit post People don't really know why one procs for both and one doesn't, but it's likely for balance reasons. | Could you be any more of a douchebag?
OP, it's unknown why Nemesis Bracers proc on pylons and not shrines, even though the wording is the same as Gloves of Worship. Ideally they should be the exact same or different for both, not one and the other. However, /u/ESHMakcim does bring up a good point - a pylon lasting ... | Could you be any more of a douchebag?
OP, it's unknown why Nemesis Bracers proc on pylons and not shrines, even though the wording is the same as Gloves of Worship. Ideally they should be the exact same or different for both, not one and the other. However, /u/ESHMakcim does bring up a good point - a pylon lasting ... | [
"Summary: If you want a cloud-based music service, go for Google Play Music All-Access.\n\nPost: Personally, I find Google Play Music to be vastly superior. I tried both, and GPM wins in terms of user-friendliness and features. GPM allows you to upload your own music, so if you have some bonus tracks from an album ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,658 |
theroachsays | Generate the content for a reddit post Late 90s/early 2000s sketch comedy show/movie with CGI and animation, likely aired on NVC
features CGI Ace Ventura Doppelganger, weird skeleton whose eyes pop out when he spazzes out
also some weird CGI or claymation sketch with "Hotsi", some little dude who's like pepper spra... | For some weird reason this one popped into my mind, and like my last post on here, it's gonna be a stretch. It's some weird show I remembered stumbling upon on NBC (not the one with the Lions, or Mad TV.) It aired in the late 90s or early/mid 2000s. It had a main character that resembled [the animated Ace Ventura]( It ... | For some weird reason this one popped into my mind, and like my last post on here, it's gonna be a stretch. It's some weird show I remembered stumbling upon on NBC (not the one with the Lions, or Mad TV.) It aired in the late 90s or early/mid 2000s. It had a main character that resembled [the animated Ace Ventura]( It ... | [
"Summary: It's not the end of the world, high school is a bunch of shit, persevere and make your own story. You're almost done with the drivel in your hometown.\n\nPost: I used to be someone like you. Never really dated in high school since I had other priorities (although people decided that was \"gay\" and I was ... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,659 |
thatoneguy889 | Generate the content for a reddit post Pop-culture has the 21st century starting with the year 2000, but because the Gregorian Calendar does not have a year zero, the century does not start on a zero year. | From Wikipedia:
>The year 2000 was the first year of the 2000s decade. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, due to a tendency to group the years according to decimal values, as if year zero were counted. According to the Gregorian Calendar this distinction ... | From Wikipedia:
>The year 2000 was the first year of the 2000s decade. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, due to a tendency to group the years according to decimal values, as if year zero were counted. According to the Gregorian Calendar this distinction ... | [
"Summary: Rich != Prosperous\n\nPost: The issue with that statement is you are equating superpower with prosperous. Another poster summed it up well saying that the USSR's economy is somewhat analogous with China or India today. They are/were all very rich, still very developing countries (think of China as a whole... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,660 |
DarQraven | Generate the content for a reddit post Always use clutch pedal when changing gears, and let it up again slowly. Use lower gears for more power at low speed, higher gears for reduce the noise at high speeds. Don't shift down a couple of gears at high speeds if you like your nose the way it looks now, and don't try to dr... | The simplified theory:
The reason any car needs a transmission is because an engine has two limitations:
Engine RPM (rotation speed) is limited by the strength of certain engine parts, produced heat and noise, etc. You could theoretically drive on the freeway in first gear, but you would not want to be in that ca... | The simplified theory:
The reason any car needs a transmission is because an engine has two limitations:
Engine RPM (rotation speed) is limited by the strength of certain engine parts, produced heat and noise, etc. You could theoretically drive on the freeway in first gear, but you would not want to be in that ca... | [
"Summary: If you want to design a game that's fully skillbased and you want to make it accessible - you will need random elements to keep the game from being solved. If not, you will have to make it sufficiently complicated. Complicated is not always good.\n\nPost: I get the feeling you're not really trying to see ... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,661 |
disturbd | Generate the content for a reddit post Grandma got owned by a brown out and the "Restart after power loss" BIOS setting. | This past April I set up a new store-bought computer for a very nice older couple who happen to be the bosses of my sister-in-law's father. They seemed to know very little about computers beyond the ability to turn them on and access their email accounts while at work, and this would be their first home computer. A t... | This past April I set up a new store-bought computer for a very nice older couple who happen to be the bosses of my sister-in-law's father. They seemed to know very little about computers beyond the ability to turn them on and access their email accounts while at work, and this would be their first home computer. A t... | [
"Summary: The general population is traditionally misinformed by ignorant fucktards like Ray Comfort and Kent Hovind. Tradition means fuck all. Dictionary/Etymology or GTFO.\n\nPost: That is the cultural definition, as in recent western theistic culture. \n Etymologically speaking, it means \"without gods\" fro... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,662 |
carpe-jvgvlvm | Generate the content for a reddit post It's more a " before I call Cece as QoH #3 ", I want to know more about who this Bethany is, if she were even a real person. | No: no revelations!
I've decided I'm POed about the whole "Bethany" asspull, and if not for Rhonda, I seriously wouldn't believe she even existed . The only other evidence of her (since I don't trust Jessica's files, the cops' files, the newspapers that can't report an escaped mental patient disappearing the sam... | No: no revelations!
I've decided I'm POed about the whole "Bethany" asspull, and if not for Rhonda, I seriously wouldn't believe she even existed . The only other evidence of her (since I don't trust Jessica's files, the cops' files, the newspapers that can't report an escaped mental patient disappearing the sam... | [
"Summary: Moved some points around, and though it looks like more \"he is A\", the most important points put him as more of Alison's friend who got tricked by her (like all Alison's friends do). Bottom line is Ezra didn't want to torment Alison the year before she disappeared, as far as we know now.\n\nPost: R... | 49 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,663 |
amishtek | Generate the content for a reddit post don't hate the player, hate the game | I use the same argument when people get all pissy about Monsanto--we are focusing our distaste at the wrong thing. The reason companies can act like this is because of the policies put in place; if it wasn't Monsanto or Carnival or Exxon, it would be someone else.
Politicians love the fact that we have misplaced ange... | I use the same argument when people get all pissy about Monsanto--we are focusing our distaste at the wrong thing. The reason companies can act like this is because of the policies put in place; if it wasn't Monsanto or Carnival or Exxon, it would be someone else.
Politicians love the fact that we have misplaced ange... | [
"Summary: she's probably mad at herself about something, and is taking it out on you.\n\nPost: I hate to say it, but she's probably riddled with guilt about something. My ex had been finding reasons to be mad at me for months, but could never get a rise out of me as I'm pretty even-tempered. Eventually (a few weeks... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,664 |
commandx | Generate the content for a reddit post your trolling for shits and giggles about one of the biggest injustices every practiced in the united states.
Edit: slavery was one of the biggest injustices practiced worldwide. | How about because even if the south had won, the antagonist in this short batting show was white, so you are just trolling for shits and giggles. Hell it wasn't good footage but it looked like most of them were white, and slavery was such a shitty way of doing business that even if it hadn't been morally and ethically ... | How about because even if the south had won, the antagonist in this short batting show was white, so you are just trolling for shits and giggles. Hell it wasn't good footage but it looked like most of them were white, and slavery was such a shitty way of doing business that even if it hadn't been morally and ethically ... | [
"Summary: holy fuck somebody got fleeced. \n P.S. I did this with the wiki and a calculator, I might go back and run up an excel document to make certain I didn't make any mistakes.\n\nPost: you could buy almost all of the other WoT premiums with that money \n All other premiums in game that are currently availab... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,665 |
KingBee | Generate the content for a reddit post Don't feel like you have to force yourself to drink tea you don't like. That being said, you are used to the POW of fizzy sugary flavorful soda. As you drink more tea, you will find yourself being less and less dependent on those strong flavors. When starting - in teas that are to... | I'm going to say that I while I agree with most others here that say drink what you like and don't force anything - you should force it for at least a little while, and heres why:
I started off sort of similar to you. I liked stronger flavored teas, and still prefer them. When I made tea I would always add large amou... | I'm going to say that I while I agree with most others here that say drink what you like and don't force anything - you should force it for at least a little while, and heres why:
I started off sort of similar to you. I liked stronger flavored teas, and still prefer them. When I made tea I would always add large amou... | [
"Summary: the campaign was run a few days ago, it is to late to switch to mailable today and expect to receive an email.\n\nPost: No, unfortunately you won't get them. \n What happens is they ran a process to pull a mailing list of names from their database that fulfilled the requirements. They did this september 8... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,666 |
Sharky-PI | Generate the content for a reddit post technically it's choice & willpower vs temptation & ease, and in the US the latter is Goliath. | the problem is that it's phenomenally harder to make the right choices in the US. ITT:
insane number of fast food joints on every corner
embedded eat-out culture more prevalent (which becomes a choice when you're an independent adult but if you've grown up in the culture it's harder to change the norm)
mass... | the problem is that it's phenomenally harder to make the right choices in the US. ITT:
insane number of fast food joints on every corner
embedded eat-out culture more prevalent (which becomes a choice when you're an independent adult but if you've grown up in the culture it's harder to change the norm)
mass... | [
"Summary: solutions abound, but people don't treat something as scarce until it's priced as scarce.\n\nPost: I wonder if there could be a tiered cost structure based on number of people in the residence. One person equals X litres of water. Use more? Pay - increasingly sharply. Use less? Save. This would benefit ci... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,667 |
IrenaeusGSaintonge | Generate the content for a reddit post Ghosts. Also blatant movie ripoff. | Well, back when I was about five years old my mother and father had just divorced and were involved in a custody battle for me. I was living with my mom, who just got back to working as an editor for a local publishing company.
We found an old apartment that was right in our price range. It was old and a bit run down... | Well, back when I was about five years old my mother and father had just divorced and were involved in a custody battle for me. I was living with my mom, who just got back to working as an editor for a local publishing company.
We found an old apartment that was right in our price range. It was old and a bit run down... | [
"Summary: entirely created, forced, staged fandom of adult males who like blowing bubbles. Troll the hell out of it for several months, then bail.\n\nPost: Plan D: make another subculture/activity to villainize, volunteer, and go batshit insane for the camera. \n Something completely over the top. Something where... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,668 |
tripsteady | Generate the content for a reddit post Enter Keto on Thursday kicked out by Saturday due to high carbs on Friday nights and Saturdays. Also trying to build muscle mass. Thinking of going low carb, study linked says full blown keto may not offer that significant of an advantage compared to low carb. | Hi All
I've been on keto for a few months now and have lost alot of weight..
However I seem to be struggling on the weekends.. I can do under 30g a day Mon to Fri but eat an average of 100g a day on weekends. I also do intense weightlifting sessions 3 times a week.
It usually takes me until Thursday until I'm bac... | Hi All
I've been on keto for a few months now and have lost alot of weight..
However I seem to be struggling on the weekends.. I can do under 30g a day Mon to Fri but eat an average of 100g a day on weekends. I also do intense weightlifting sessions 3 times a week.
It usually takes me until Thursday until I'm bac... | [
"Summary: I'm a newbie. Ive purchased an Ego One Mega. I want to make my own nicotine e juice, with the normal tobacco flavor and some others, what would I need from start to finish?\n\nPost: Hi All \n So I've scoured the forums and the faq and have purchased the Ego One Mega: \n Since I can't buy nicotine e liquid... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,669 |
cassander | Generate the content for a reddit post because the allies had the best tank in 42 they had the worst tank in 44. | the sherman wasn't a new design in 44, it was a new design in 42, which led to it becoming a mistake that I find fascinating. there were basically 3 generations of military equipment in ww2, the stuff made well before the war, stuff that was new or almost ready when the war started, and the stuff that was either develo... | the sherman wasn't a new design in 44, it was a new design in 42, which led to it becoming a mistake that I find fascinating. there were basically 3 generations of military equipment in ww2, the stuff made well before the war, stuff that was new or almost ready when the war started, and the stuff that was either develo... | [
"Summary: standing up to the soviets would not have been suicide. it would have been extremely costly if they fought back, but it was very doable.\n\nPost: 1) because they needed Soviet help against Japan (especially in China); \n Not really. For some reason we kept asking for it, but kicking the Japanese out of ... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,670 |
dr_john_batman | Generate the content for a reddit post The Federation can be a pacifist utopia while having neighbors that are not. | I'm not sure I agree with this.
Wars over resources are pointless for post-scarcity societies, but that assumes that resources are the only thing to fight wars over. Even between post-scarcity states ideology and security competition are both pretty good reasons to engage in power politics and military conflict. You ... | I'm not sure I agree with this.
Wars over resources are pointless for post-scarcity societies, but that assumes that resources are the only thing to fight wars over. Even between post-scarcity states ideology and security competition are both pretty good reasons to engage in power politics and military conflict. You ... | [
"Summary: Before the war, Starfleet is constrained by politics. Once the war starts, DS9 is an expensive asset of limited value and Starfleet needs time to get set and tech up. \n edit: typo\n\nPost: I think there are a few more factors to consider. \n The first is the prevailing political climate internationally. ... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,671 |
Astro493 | Generate the content for a reddit post Arrested for protesting, talked my way out of jail. | It was the weekend of the G20 summit in Toronto and I had already been arrested twice. Both times were for sitting on the ground and not moving when the horses approached. Both times I was processed and sent the bootleg jail they had set up to handle protesters (it was a converted TV studio).
Anyway, I had just been ... | It was the weekend of the G20 summit in Toronto and I had already been arrested twice. Both times were for sitting on the ground and not moving when the horses approached. Both times I was processed and sent the bootleg jail they had set up to handle protesters (it was a converted TV studio).
Anyway, I had just been ... | [
"Summary: not trying to be a douche, and I've never played video games :/\n\nPost: Though it's fantastic that your child is outside in this specific picture, and was very enthusiastic about climbing, it doesn't mean that you have the right to judge what makes other parents proud. Their gaming systems were very impo... | 59 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,672 |
cinnajerry | Generate the content for a reddit post Buy TiPS if you haven't yet. Point miners to TiPS. Our goal is to increase community hash power. This increases sustaining price. Purchasers of cheap coins can easily sell out without destroying price. Community members can hold for marketing launch.
EDIT: (I STILL STAND BY... | We are less than 24 hours from the halvening! If you haven't purchased your TiPS yet, you should do so now. Prices are extremely low right now for a currency that is currently implementing
New subreddit (/r/tipscoin) - (prototype)
Fayens new [BCTALK front page]( /w DarkVenu as potential admin
[/w FedoraCoin](... | We are less than 24 hours from the halvening! If you haven't purchased your TiPS yet, you should do so now. Prices are extremely low right now for a currency that is currently implementing
New subreddit (/r/tipscoin) - (prototype)
Fayens new [BCTALK front page]( /w DarkVenu as potential admin
[/w FedoraCoin](... | [
"Summary: Stalin's atheist regime specifically targeted Christians. As for beheadings, please read the Bible. When taken in context beheadings were strategic actions against aggressor armies during time of war OR they were considered crimes and were treated as such. \n [edit: formatting]\n\nPost: none of those we... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,673 |
haloraptor | Generate the content for a reddit post make things smaller & everything is connected | Making stuff way too big was always a major problem for me. I used to make these big, huge entities that never could have existed in the way I built them. Part of the problem was that I didn't fully understand or comprehend how big e.g. 600,000km2 was (for reference, that's more or less the size of modern day France ... | Making stuff way too big was always a major problem for me. I used to make these big, huge entities that never could have existed in the way I built them. Part of the problem was that I didn't fully understand or comprehend how big e.g. 600,000km2 was (for reference, that's more or less the size of modern day France ... | [
"Summary: they try to minimise the damage caused by powerful magic users but usually end up going too far and giving them control over all aspects of society\n\nPost: Magical ability is absolutely par for the course for all humans in my project. It's just something that they do - around age 7 - 9 children begin to ... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,674 |
troglozyte | Generate the content for a reddit post Depends a lot on who you ask. | I am neither an Abrahamic theist nor a theist of any other description>
>Is the Abrahamic deity a limited being compared to a panentheistic one?
It seems to me that there's a very wide spectrum of opinions about just what "the Abrahamic deity" is like.
The earliest Abrahamists apparently thought of... | I am neither an Abrahamic theist nor a theist of any other description>
>Is the Abrahamic deity a limited being compared to a panentheistic one?
It seems to me that there's a very wide spectrum of opinions about just what "the Abrahamic deity" is like.
The earliest Abrahamists apparently thought of... | [
"Summary: Yeah, maybe this is new and amazing to people who have never thought much about it. \n But don't insist that it has to be new and amazing to everyone.\n\nPost: I'm seriously surprised at how peremptorily dismissive and incurious the responses here have been. \n People always say this whenever... | 140 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,675 |
ducatimechanic | Generate the content for a reddit post I did this to a woman who cut in line at a McDonalds; she just went away. | I actually did this at a McDonalds along the Pennsylvania Turnpike: We were all standing in a long line, the last register on the right. I'm living in Maryland, driving back to Michigan as I'm retiring from the Army (one of many trips).
The register stops working, I'm about the 8th or 9th guy in line, and we all star... | I actually did this at a McDonalds along the Pennsylvania Turnpike: We were all standing in a long line, the last register on the right. I'm living in Maryland, driving back to Michigan as I'm retiring from the Army (one of many trips).
The register stops working, I'm about the 8th or 9th guy in line, and we all star... | [
"Summary: He keeps wandering all over the road; kind of annoying because this car can handle so well...\n\nPost: Just throwing this out there, mostly because I have the same car and have had a string of vehicles like an Audi S5, Honda S2000, and a 2004 BMZ 330i ZHP (Imola Red - wished I'd kept that car) - this is a... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,676 |
Helassaid | Generate the content for a reddit post I'm an average guy who changed his outlook on his weight, did C25K, and lost 25lbs in 3 months while eating hamburgers and drinking beer. | Hi /r/loseit. I've been lurking around here for quite some time, and I've seen some great, inspiring stories about weight loss, muscle gain, fat loss, and general health improvement.
I wanted to thank everyone that's taking the journey and posted it here, because reading a personal victory, a NSV, a personal failure... | Hi /r/loseit. I've been lurking around here for quite some time, and I've seen some great, inspiring stories about weight loss, muscle gain, fat loss, and general health improvement.
I wanted to thank everyone that's taking the journey and posted it here, because reading a personal victory, a NSV, a personal failure... | [
"Summary: Getting awards for doing our job is pointless IMO. \n No, you're not. This is something that's endemic in healthcare - we all go into this job looking to help people, we end up being successful in our efforts, and then we don't know what to do with the new-found recognition for doing an otherwise thankle... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,677 |
thatissomeBS | Generate the content for a reddit post There was really no other way to play this hand, while getting more than he got. | Thank you. So many people think there is a way to get all in when you have a hand. The reality is, most the time when you flop the nuts, everyone else whiffed. If Damon led out on the flop, everyone folds. He might have gotten a caller after the turn, but the other guy bet anyway. If he bets on the river, everyone prob... | Thank you. So many people think there is a way to get all in when you have a hand. The reality is, most the time when you flop the nuts, everyone else whiffed. If Damon led out on the flop, everyone folds. He might have gotten a caller after the turn, but the other guy bet anyway. If he bets on the river, everyone prob... | [
"Summary: The city and the business benefit from the partnership, so they both pay a share.\n\nPost: This happens in all businesses. If your business brings substantial benefits to the city, they will pay part of the costs for you to come there. My small hometown of 9,000 paid millions of dollars to build a corpora... | 40 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,678 |
my_lucid_nightmare | Generate the content for a reddit post Washington State has the highest liquor taxes in the nation, by far, and it was voted this way just 2 years ago. | That is because our voting public decided that to get rid of our antiquated State Store system, we needed instead to tax ourselves more under a private distribution model than we were being taxed under the State Store model. This was predictably sold as a benefit to schools (collect more taxes, fund more schools) .. a... | That is because our voting public decided that to get rid of our antiquated State Store system, we needed instead to tax ourselves more under a private distribution model than we were being taxed under the State Store model. This was predictably sold as a benefit to schools (collect more taxes, fund more schools) .. a... | [
"Summary: Ditka had a 106-62 record coaching Chicago. That didn't happen because he was overrated. Not able to beat Gibbs, Walsh/Siefert, or Parcells in the playoffs except in 85 was his downfall.\n\nPost: I'll white knight the Bears a little bit. In that era they were in the middle of perhaps the biggest dynast... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,679 |
silverbackjack | Generate the content for a reddit post Sleep paralysis is scary as hell and extremely hard to describe
Edit: Please ignore my punctuation, I skipped a lot of school =d | Not entirely sure that this counts but by far the scariest thing that ever happened to me was when I suffered from a sever case of sleep paralysis.
I was lying down on my Dad's couch and slowly drifting off to sleep, suddenly the room seemed to change, it stretched out in front of me and some weird plants started gro... | Not entirely sure that this counts but by far the scariest thing that ever happened to me was when I suffered from a sever case of sleep paralysis.
I was lying down on my Dad's couch and slowly drifting off to sleep, suddenly the room seemed to change, it stretched out in front of me and some weird plants started gro... | [
"Summary: Learning to support will teach you how to play the game more passively because you are forced to keep map awareness and play as passively as you can.\n\nPost: I think the best point you raise here and the one that is most often overlooked is the passive play style. Sitting in lane and farming as many cree... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,680 |
justabovemaine | Generate the content for a reddit post communication and finding a balance is key. | Yes. Been married 9.5 years. I am very extroverted and my husband is very introverted. The trick is understanding that I get energy and fulfillment from having people around whereas he gets energy and fulfillment through alone time. We both are respectful of those needs.
Edit: There are many times that I go out and ... | Yes. Been married 9.5 years. I am very extroverted and my husband is very introverted. The trick is understanding that I get energy and fulfillment from having people around whereas he gets energy and fulfillment through alone time. We both are respectful of those needs.
Edit: There are many times that I go out and ... | [
"Summary: Just another article about how you are probably a bad parent.\n\nPost: Parents who use timeouts are often shocked to learn that there are families who never hit, never use timeouts, and rarely raise their voices to their children. \n wow. i didn't realize that perfect children do exist. ಠ_ಠ ... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,681 |
custerc | Generate the content for a reddit post how the hell do I ult well as Annie? | Annie. I main support, but I simply can't get the hang of how to control Tibbers, which means I'm basically useless as annie because I don't have an ult. I know it says hit R again to control tibbers separately from annie, but Annie still seems to follow him..., and if I'm not paying attention to Annie because I'm deal... | Annie. I main support, but I simply can't get the hang of how to control Tibbers, which means I'm basically useless as annie because I don't have an ult. I know it says hit R again to control tibbers separately from annie, but Annie still seems to follow him..., and if I'm not paying attention to Annie because I'm deal... | [
"Summary: rggh rrrgh ranting!\n\nPost: While I'm not interested in defending the behavior of every media outlet (like any industry, there are good and bad), I think blaming the media for these shootings is just as misguided as blaming video games or violent movies or whatever else. \n I'll go into more detail below... | 39 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,682 |
AdamBombTV | Generate the content for a reddit post Bad stuff happened, Good stuff happened, Ponies, Happy New Year. | I'm heading out to a friends place to have a "New Years Game Night", I'm bringing along my Magic deck (even though I am certain I am playing it wrong) My Zombie dice, My Cthulhu dice, two packs of Flux cards, Tsuro (look it up, it's pretty fun), and Cluedo (I think it's just called "Clue" in the states), all that plus ... | I'm heading out to a friends place to have a "New Years Game Night", I'm bringing along my Magic deck (even though I am certain I am playing it wrong) My Zombie dice, My Cthulhu dice, two packs of Flux cards, Tsuro (look it up, it's pretty fun), and Cluedo (I think it's just called "Clue" in the states), all that plus ... | [
"Summary: My friend left a £1 tip on a £50 bill and thought it was okay.\n\nPost: No, we tip here in England. \n Okay, [true story], last year a friend of mine from high school was celebrating their birthday by taking a few of us out to this \"All American\" Restaurant place (It was a place that did okay steaks), w... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,683 |
junkmale | Generate the content for a reddit post we're still headed towards globalization | Technically you are correct. I can't find the source, but not too long ago Congress almost proposed/allowed jets to be built in either Europe or Japan(?) and there was a big stink about it, so they backed down. However, I do know that we share a lot of technology and that the companies that build the jets are already i... | Technically you are correct. I can't find the source, but not too long ago Congress almost proposed/allowed jets to be built in either Europe or Japan(?) and there was a big stink about it, so they backed down. However, I do know that we share a lot of technology and that the companies that build the jets are already i... | [
"Summary: VI Lenin - Look at who profits and ...\n\nPost: It started with the Clinton Administration proclaiming that every American should own a house, but then those on Wall Street and others in the government colluded to find a way to profit off that move. The Bush Administration ignored and even pushed investig... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,684 |
oscarfotz | Generate the content for a reddit post True damage does not simply skip shields, but it does go through them faster than uh... false damage. | True damage still does "true damage" to shields. Shield are counted as extra HP, but they also benefit from resists. (Arbitrary number warning) If Morde has 1000 HP and a 100 HP shield, it is calculated that he has 1100 health. If he has 100 MR and armor then his 100 HP shield also has 100 MR and armor. With normal att... | True damage still does "true damage" to shields. Shield are counted as extra HP, but they also benefit from resists. (Arbitrary number warning) If Morde has 1000 HP and a 100 HP shield, it is calculated that he has 1100 health. If he has 100 MR and armor then his 100 HP shield also has 100 MR and armor. With normal att... | [
"Summary: Sticking with the norm stagnates progression. If you see somone trying something new, please don't troll because that's what you think they're doing. Try your best to win regardless. You might learn something.\n\nPost: Asbestos and lead-based paint used to work very well in homes. It was the norm, and it ... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,685 |
SwampFox4 | Generate the content for a reddit post I'm convincing my family to buy me a shit ton of alcohol for my 21st. | I turn 21 in June. I'm throwing a big party out at my granddads house and inviting all of my extended family for a day on the river. Instead of gifts, I'm asking each person to bring his/her favorite alcoholic beverage. Its gonna be a tasting party/competition all day long. I can't wait. | I turn 21 in June. I'm throwing a big party out at my granddads house and inviting all of my extended family for a day on the river. Instead of gifts, I'm asking each person to bring his/her favorite alcoholic beverage. Its gonna be a tasting party/competition all day long. I can't wait. | [
"Summary: I think the wall is more of a magical barrier to the others rather than a physical one.\n\nPost: I don't think the boats matter. IMO, the wall isn't a PHYSICAL thing holding the others back, but rather a MAGICAL thing. Only one wight has made it south of the wall, the one who attacked the old bear, but no... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,686 |
ttoasty | Generate the content for a reddit post You're overestimating how much anyone involved would really care about influence/advice from the former presidents. The candidates themselves are presumably qualified for the office they seek, there's more qualified people than the former presidents to give situation specific adv... | Your idea that the former presidents would have undue influence bothers me, because it strips the relatives of their agency. Is it possible that this "loophole" could be used to create a dynasty or political machine, where the candidates are just puppets, but it hasn't happened yet and is unlikely to happen in the fut... | Your idea that the former presidents would have undue influence bothers me, because it strips the relatives of their agency. Is it possible that this "loophole" could be used to create a dynasty or political machine, where the candidates are just puppets, but it hasn't happened yet and is unlikely to happen in the fut... | [
"Summary: One of the most basic ways that society will judge your worth as a person (thus whether you are better or worse than the average), involves how well you conform to societal norms and relate to the people around you. You're failing so badly at this that you come across in this post as a sociopath. You're n... | 42 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,687 |
rbfjunkie | Generate the content for a reddit post I know plenty about her, but she doesn't seem to want to know much about me. | We'll be hanging out, I'll be asking her questions about her, what she likes, where she's traveled to, etc...but she never really asks me anything. She just says "Chinese food...Jamaica...3 sisters..." She doesn't really elaborate or ask anything about me. I'm not sure if I'm explaining this very well, but I just fe... | We'll be hanging out, I'll be asking her questions about her, what she likes, where she's traveled to, etc...but she never really asks me anything. She just says "Chinese food...Jamaica...3 sisters..." She doesn't really elaborate or ask anything about me. I'm not sure if I'm explaining this very well, but I just fe... | [
"Summary: I dreamt I got an SNES with very specific, rare occurrences beforehand...it happened in real life MONTHS later.\n\nPost: I've had this happen a few times... \n When I was really young, I had a dream that my parents bought me a Super Nintendo. In my dream, I was on the bus and we got stopped twice on the ... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,688 |
dwf | Generate the content for a reddit post if you think that atheists have no legitimate beefs with the religious majority then you really haven't been paying enough attention. And unlike an "Internet hate group", we aren't advocating either the killing or the harassment of anyone, merely that they keep their faiths out of... | You're so out of touch with reality that I don't even know where to begin, but here are some things to consider:
There are more US states where it is legal to marry your first cousin than there are where it is legal for two consenting adults of the same sex to get married.
There are plenty of counties where one c... | You're so out of touch with reality that I don't even know where to begin, but here are some things to consider:
There are more US states where it is legal to marry your first cousin than there are where it is legal for two consenting adults of the same sex to get married.
There are plenty of counties where one c... | [
"Summary: Anyone and everyone who matters in Washington DC has been on the take for as long as anyone can remember, and that's the problem, not government intervention in general.\n\nPost: You speak as though all government intervention is equivalent. Clearly it isn't. I agree that government intervention has con... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,689 |
Klowned | Generate the content for a reddit post Days worth of exretion. cool enough day. 'consumer' levels of detergent. No smell. | Depending on the temperature, time of last cleaning, and amount of chemical in the toilet, it might not smell like what you imagine a port-a-potty to smell like.
Judging by the sun dresses, shorts, and general 'warmth' of the sun, and the shadow. I am estimating it was 70 degrees (F) and it's about 60(F) around the p... | Depending on the temperature, time of last cleaning, and amount of chemical in the toilet, it might not smell like what you imagine a port-a-potty to smell like.
Judging by the sun dresses, shorts, and general 'warmth' of the sun, and the shadow. I am estimating it was 70 degrees (F) and it's about 60(F) around the p... | [
"Summary: Trolling is a art.\n\nPost: I'm feeling petty, so instead of admitting I fucked up I remember a post of 4chan that went something like this: >Trolling is a art. To which a person replied: \"Don't you mean an art?\" And thus was replied a picture of a trollface. I've never been particularly fond of memes, ... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,690 |
fashionandfunction | Generate the content for a reddit post why does washington have crap museums? how do we change that? | ok so can you tell me why Seattle has not-so-good museums? the pacific science center is so lacking and the seattle art museum is barely there. the only thing i can think of that's any good is the museum of flight...
basically i adore art and i adore history (and i'm torn on which to major in) and ever since i saw mu... | ok so can you tell me why Seattle has not-so-good museums? the pacific science center is so lacking and the seattle art museum is barely there. the only thing i can think of that's any good is the museum of flight...
basically i adore art and i adore history (and i'm torn on which to major in) and ever since i saw mu... | [
"Summary: 21st bday included like 13 shots in 3hrs. blacked out. played in the bright snow the next morning happy has a clam.\n\nPost: ok, 21 birthday, EVERYBODY buys you double shots. I had about 8 of those, plus two drinks of my own, and one my brother bought for me. (plus the two beers I had about an hour or so ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,691 |
fprintf | Generate the content for a reddit post Best is to have two sets of tires. All season or snows for the winter, and summer tires to help the Mini live up to its promise when it is warm. | Yes I have advice on this topic, having been through the same considerations 6 or 7 years ago. I wish I had listened to folks that said to get dedicated winter tires and dedicated summer tires earlier.
The nice thing about dedicated summer tires is that you get more seasons out of them when they are only driven from ... | Yes I have advice on this topic, having been through the same considerations 6 or 7 years ago. I wish I had listened to folks that said to get dedicated winter tires and dedicated summer tires earlier.
The nice thing about dedicated summer tires is that you get more seasons out of them when they are only driven from ... | [
"Summary: Domestic insurance does not cover action in a war/conflict zone. There is special insurance you have to buy.\n\nPost: How do you know life insurance takes care of the families? If I were an insurer I'd be damn sure to increase my rates to astronomical levels if I knew someone was going into a freakin war... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,692 |
Shadygaga | Generate the content for a reddit post Roll hardcore elite, leave one slot open on server, and fun will ensue. Try it! | What difficulty are you playing on? If you are on normal, that would explain why it's super boring.
My first toon was a softcore tank engineer. I played on normal to about level 65, and just got bored with the game. I also played a lot by myself.
Creating servers with slots for just one other person to join, or ... | What difficulty are you playing on? If you are on normal, that would explain why it's super boring.
My first toon was a softcore tank engineer. I played on normal to about level 65, and just got bored with the game. I also played a lot by myself.
Creating servers with slots for just one other person to join, or ... | [
"Summary: I find MoC damage increase to EP not required, as if you have up enough palms in a group, the whole group dies without it. I find group survivability to be a better way to kill groups faster, as dead DPS with MoC does 0 damage.\n\nPost: Thanks for that detailed information! I did not consider Mantra of ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,693 |
ruindd | Generate the content for a reddit post Yes, you won't lose money in the market unless you go after short term gambles trying to 'time the market'. Over the long run (which is what 401k investing should be) you won't lose anything.
Example: I just did a report out of my fidelity 401k and over the last two years (that'... | Only if the market truly "collapses" which will pretty much mean the USA will be no more will you really "lose all of your hard earned money". If the market completely collapses then i'm guessing gold, guns, and food will be the only investments that will have mattered. But any crash is almost always completely recover... | Only if the market truly "collapses" which will pretty much mean the USA will be no more will you really "lose all of your hard earned money". If the market completely collapses then i'm guessing gold, guns, and food will be the only investments that will have mattered. But any crash is almost always completely recover... | [
"Summary: He either touched wheels or messed up his sprint.\n\nPost: Sometimes when you crash weird shit happens. I've gone down and had no explanation for how I unclipped more than once. \n Exactly. It's pretty rare that you don't come unclipped. \n I haven't seen a video, but here's my guess. \n But for him to en... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,694 |
wolfram184 | Generate the content for a reddit post it doesn't matter
also there is a computer recommendation subreddit somewhere around here, you should really post this there. also check out /r/engineeringstudents, for general engineering student stuff, but posting this there might not go over well. definitely don't post this... | as a mechanical engineering student (who did chemical engineering research), i have a laptop that can run most anything i need it too but end up using the labs most of the time when i need to do something intensive. chances are you'll do the same.
generally speaker, the most computing intensive things are rendering ... | as a mechanical engineering student (who did chemical engineering research), i have a laptop that can run most anything i need it too but end up using the labs most of the time when i need to do something intensive. chances are you'll do the same.
generally speaker, the most computing intensive things are rendering ... | [
"Summary: we know the bible isn't written by God because it explicitly is a collection of stories written by people (though there are those that would disagree, but they are a minority)\n\nPost: the Bible never purported to be the direct word of God. Unlike, say, the Koran (and I'm not trying to attack Islam here,... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,695 |
Kameniev | Generate the content for a reddit post Head aches, but don't take it too far—it's not WWIII, yet. | Sure, though I still disagree mostly with pronouncements that Russia's somehow "redesigning Europe" etc. or that this represents a resumption of the Cold War. If there's a New Cold War about, it's been raging long before Ukraine. Annexation's new, for sure, but apparently that was more a decision made by Crimeans, not ... | Sure, though I still disagree mostly with pronouncements that Russia's somehow "redesigning Europe" etc. or that this represents a resumption of the Cold War. If there's a New Cold War about, it's been raging long before Ukraine. Annexation's new, for sure, but apparently that was more a decision made by Crimeans, not ... | [
"Summary: America pretends to be Liberal while Russia makes less of an effort and its aggression is domestically profitable. \n Now pretend this is Russia talking to Crimea/Ukraine: \"since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,696 |
anonymous-coward | Generate the content for a reddit post if you argue for the random shock theory, you're replacing the question "Why do Ds have better growth than Rs much, much more than random chance predicts?" with the equally strange question "Why do Rs suffer (or Ds benefit) from shocks much, much more than random chance predicts?"... | I don't agree with the math that gives a p=.001 level.
What about their math do you not agree with? Do you have objections to the resampling technique?
How would you answer the following non-political question: There is a list of numbers X and they have labels A,B. The numbers labeled A have larger average (medi... | I don't agree with the math that gives a p=.001 level.
What about their math do you not agree with? Do you have objections to the resampling technique?
How would you answer the following non-political question: There is a list of numbers X and they have labels A,B. The numbers labeled A have larger average (medi... | [
"Summary: If you don't want WTO actions brought against you, don't sign WTO agreements.\n\nPost: And a sovereign nation has this right to develop its own speciality in industry. \n Unless this sovereign state signed a trade treaty that conferred other benefits, and now wishes to enjoy those benefits while restricti... | 67 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,697 |
definitelynotaspy | Generate the content for a reddit post for the second one: My friend was being cheated on, I told her and tried to get her to realize what was happening, but eventually I gave up and she suffered another 5 months in a shitty relationship. | I have two that I can think of:
The first happened when I was probably 14 or 15, playing SOCOM II online for the PS2. I called some black guy a nigger and I could just hear that the tone of his voice had changed the next time he spoke. I crushed that guy, and I still feel like a huge piece of shit about it.
This on... | I have two that I can think of:
The first happened when I was probably 14 or 15, playing SOCOM II online for the PS2. I called some black guy a nigger and I could just hear that the tone of his voice had changed the next time he spoke. I crushed that guy, and I still feel like a huge piece of shit about it.
This on... | [
"Summary: The strict moderation on /r/lgbt was the least of its problems.\n\nPost: There was a lot more to that story than simple \"strict moderation,\" though. That was like, transphobia from people claiming to be fighting transphobia, and sexism, and racism, and anti-cis hatespeech and antisemitism and a whole ... | 50 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,698 |
Crazy_Overlord | Generate the content for a reddit post Intimidating, massive man tries to intimidate an elderly woman into giving him her best coupons. Turns out the coupons are worthless to him, anyways... | Let me start of by saying that I love seniors, or at least the ones who come to my store. They're usually polite and remind me of my own grandmother, who I adore. On the day this story takes place, I was cashing out this sweet, elderly lady (EL), when a big man (BM) lined up, behind her.
After telling her the t... | Let me start of by saying that I love seniors, or at least the ones who come to my store. They're usually polite and remind me of my own grandmother, who I adore. On the day this story takes place, I was cashing out this sweet, elderly lady (EL), when a big man (BM) lined up, behind her.
After telling her the t... | [
"Summary: Got held up at gunpoint on my way home from campus on the very street I live on. Take my phone and end up getting caught, but somehow manage to find out my name and phone number and make threatening calls to stop me from showing up to court.\n\nPost: It was the night before my religion paper was due and... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 7,699 |
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