.<\nMy young son (4 at the time) was diagnosed with leukemia over a year ago. My ex believes in faith healing, and although they expressed a willingness to let our son be treated at hospital, sole custody was given to me in fear that they wouldn't follow through with treatment. \n He was very skinny and pale when he started treatment, and the first two months of chemo he barely knew what was going on. But it was the leukemia and not the chemo that was mostly responsible for this. He got an infection at the two month point that set us back a bit, but by the third month he started doing well.... Was more energetic and had a positive outlook and interacted with me and with the various visitors to the ward (sports stars, characters from TV shows, models, and the weekly clown show that he was afraid of the first two months). \n The fourth month in hospital we played on the video game consoles (wheeled carts) and he went to the hospital play area with me dragging his medicine injection cart around for him. \n The chemo frequency for the infusions (into the bloodstream) decreased with frequency. It takes a lot of fluids to wash it down, so he was using the toilet hourly (which actually helped us to toilet train him a lot quicker lol). And during the chemo day he couldn't leave the room. But other than this inconvenience he didn't have adverse affects from the chemo (other than one time it probably was the cause of some sores in his mouth). \n After the first four months his chemo went to once a month, then later once every other month. He actually looked forward to the hospital trips because they had better toys and video games there, and because with all the nurses it was like having 20 mommies (they spoiled him lol). \n He never complained to me about the hospital or the drugs... the only thing I can remember him complaining about was the food (I had to pick up food for him in the shop downstairs about 1/3 of the time). And now that we're home, some weeks during the blood test the needle hurts (so yes, if he's unhappy about something he will complain).","Summary: if you think you're sane, just wait the train coming out of the tunnel and see how you do :P\n\nPost: My son has diabetes... but it only started after all the drugs that he had to take to deal with leukemia... \n What the doctors said was that he was genetically pre-disposed (as are some of his siblings who don't have it), but that taking the steroids were too much of a load on his system and led him to develop diabetes when he either would have developed it years later or maybe not at all. \n Some mental illnesses are probably the same... where you have pre-dispositions, and the harder your life is, or if you have the types of stressors that lead to that illness, then you are more likely to show symptoms. And I tend to think that most people have a pre-disposition to something \n (I also think that most people do show signs of something or other, but just not at a level that they currently need help)","Summary: she needs to be in a support group with other PTSD survivor spouses to work out her feelings... I know you posted that she would resist this, but its really, really important...\n\nPost: sorry about how things are going :( \n I've had friends with both wartime PTSD and abuse PTSD... its a hard thing to deal with, and can be hard also on close family. depending on what caused the trauma, it can be really hard to decide if telling your close family is helpful or not, and for the family it can be hard to get to a point of knowing how much they need/want to know \n because I'm a good and non-judgmental listener, I've heard quite a bit of stories from people with PTSD... but ofc its different if its your spouse, parents or children... I don't see the people differently or have secondary trauma from the stories, but its well documented that this does occur. \n whether you tell them or not, they wind up with secondary PTSD to one degree or other (not the best source to back up what I've observed first hand, but... ) \n ofc now that she actually knows some (or most) of the details, whatever secondary symptoms she's had the last 8 years would be worse, and for some spouses, actually having the story can create a mental image of the event which itself can be a new traumatic event. (i.e. before she knew something happened that made so that she almost lost you, which would have been difficult to deal with... knowing now the details its almost like she was there - but in shadow - so the sense of almost losing you is a lot more \"concrete\" than before)","Summary: even bible handouts are controversial ;)\n\nPost: meh, other than the human skull in the dog dish, its pretty tame... not sure why anyone would complain as long as the material made available was age appropriate (nothing that would need a 18+ sticker for Kindergarteners) \n I remember that some Christian group used to hand out bibles to children walking home from school. I guess where I lived it was illegal to do it on school grounds (this was the 70s), so they did it just outside the gates to the school. I thought it was weird they did that... I was one of three Jewish children in the school and thought that everyone else was Christian (and imagined they were all devout) and they'd have tons of religious books at home already. Anyway, I felt bad for the old guys since no one was taking their books, so I took one and went home. \n When I got home I started to read it out of curiosity. To my mind it was kinda like my brother's Superman comics... Speaking of the little twerp, he told on me so my mom rushed in, saw what I was reading and took it away and to the trash. She was really upset and probably complained to the school about it.","Summary: its understandable to not appreciate a child with problems that are almost impossible to deal with... especially when you're not getting support from anyone (or enough support)\n\nPost: sorry to hear...\n.. \n its weird that in school we're taught so many things that 99% of us never use again... but basic things like child raising, child psychology aren't taught and child behavioral disorders isn't even offered until college >.< ... so we're basically unequipped to deal with normal children yet along children with special needs...\n.. \n in the country I live if your child has certain difficulties you are given visits by specialists who spend time doing rehabilitation with the child so that also you have a break from things and relax. my 9 year old has something similar to ADHD (they're still working on a diagnosis) and occasionally loses complete control and destroys things... he also occasionally hurts people when hugging them (he doesn't understand how to be careful)...\n... \n it was harder when my ex and I still lived together... now that we're separate I think that's calmed him down a lot... but he's still very difficult at times... key seems to be to talk to him like he's an adult and to not get upset myself with him since his \"fight or flight\" response is basically \"hair-trigger\"\n.."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: during that minute (assuming your explanation of what happened is accurate) your brain was operating without external inputs and thus was able to operate at a fairly unlimited speed, thus creating the perception that a ton more time passed than did\\n\\nPost: hard to explain correctly without knowing what you experienced during the minute or so you had your eyes closed AND knowing for sure if you really did wake up before your alarm, and if so what time it actually was when you woke up\\n.. \\n one possibility is that you only dreamt that you woke up before your alarm. this isn't an uncommon occurrence, although its hard to find out you only imagined waking without there being someone else in the room with you to verify.\\n. \\n another possibility is that you woke before the alarm, but in your sleepiness mistook the time either because you were only partly awake and didn't see it well, or were partially in a dream state which interfered with your ability to see reality (i.e. the image of the time on the clock came from your mind and not your eyes).\\n. \\n also you could have partially woken so that your time perception was still impaired but your ability to see your clock wasn't. part of the dream you were in the middle of you now perceive to have occurred after seeing the alarm, when it really occurred before the alarm (because you were still thinking about a dream that occurred in the past, you somehow thought that the entire dream happened during the minute or so after you closed your eyes. \\n not OP's question, but a tangent question of course is why dream and altered state time is so radically different from \\\"real\\\" time. I remember once have been knocked out for about 5 to 10 seconds. I had some kind of vision or dream which was vividly real and lasted for two years . when I woke up I was extremely confused since I literally lived in a different world and had a different life for so long. the dream/vision world seemed the reality and this world seemed not to be real. \\n I would think that our brain processes information at a certain speed during \\\"awake\\\" time. like a computer, it has to wait for inputs from our 5 senses all the time... it waits for inputs, quickly processes info and orders instructions. of course, the inputs can be confusing, contradictory, and against our brain's internal logic, which can slow down our thinking even more.\\n.. \\n but at night, our brain doesn't have anything to slow it down. since it creates the dream world itself, its doesn't have to wait for anything and can operate at full speed... its kinda scary that the brain can make a one hour dream in a minute, or a two year dream/vision in 5 to 10 seconds... but it just can operate that fast... just think of a supercomputer doing complex calculations that would take me 5 years on paper in less than a second... that is what its designed to do and it does it... for whatever reason our brains either evolved or were designed to be mind-numbingly fast in subconscious, stand-alone (no external information entered) processing speed.\",\n \"Summary: think you need to slow things down and spend more time making sure you know each other... this may not be the only thing that you didn't know that you might not see eye to eye (surprise two: he wants to move to India after the ceremony ;) )\\n\\nPost: sad that you also have to consider the effect on your younger sisters as that really limits your options imo (I know that I'd not want to do anything that would affect siblings even if I had to sacrifice a bit) \\n normally I'd say that you just need to find a way to talk about it (in person), but with the cultural and family issues it seems just too risky... if you started to try to find nuances in his views or tried to see how firmly he wants only a virgin bride... how close can you get to the \\\"edge\\\" and know if its safe to let him know or not? :( \\n I read recently about divorce that couples that date for over 3 years before engagement and are engaged over 3 years before marriage have the lowest divorce rates... I guess cos then you have a lot of time to learn about each other before those two big commitment stages. I know you might feel your clock is ticking, but its important to really know who you're going to spend (hopefully) the rest of your life with. \\n Also there's only so much you can get to know someone long distance, Skype etc... its a mistake that I made marrying someone I thought that I knew and later finding out they were a lot different that I had realized...\",\n \"Summary: no young person should give up their dreams because of what other people expect of them. small boys who want to be nurses and girls who want to be computer programmers should be equally supported by family, friends and society\\n\\nPost: I have read articles (including in professional journals) about the shortfall of male teachers, although I'm unsure what the stats and interest in gender imbalances in nursing is. \\n My perception , which could be wrong ofc, is that men don't avoid nursing and teaching because of any professional discrimination or discrimination in the education \\\"pipelines\\\" for those fields, whereas there is copious evidence of bias against women when it comes to the engineering field. \\n Why don't men pursue K-8 and nursing on an even par with women? It could be that men either want to, or that society expects them to, rise to the stereotypical \\\"top\\\" of their field... that they \\\"have to\\\" be a doctor vice a nurse and a university professor vice a teacher. As much as men feel society telling them \\\"give up your dream of teaching 10 year olds, you have to teach college\\\", then this is a problem that should be addressed as well.\",\n \"Summary: you don't need to hack a phone... you need to talk to people to understand how you're feeling in general and about your relationship\\n\\nPost: instead of doing this, why don't you post on the relationships forum about the suspicions that you have or talk to your friends about your suspicions... hacking his phone may not even give you the answers you need (or you might misinterpret something that's actually harmless)... also if you find nothing you'll still likely not be sure that everything is okay anyway \\n but really... if you suspect something is wrong strongly enough to hide his phone and beg strangers to help you hack it... either your suspicions are dead on, or if not then you might be having problems yourself that you need to deal with...\",\n \"Summary: make the ghost comfortable so that it can recover from the trauma of what happened and have peace to pass to the beyond... but if that doesn't work, you'll need a specialist\\n\\nPost: interesting situation... not sure what exactly to make of it... \\n there's a couple of possibilities... easiest one to eliminate is schizophrenia. because only you hear the noises and there isn't anything making them, this would seem to be the most likely BUT since you seem so upset about what's going on it seems this is a new experience for you... but more importantly since there was the physical manifestation of the damaged clothes and no natural explanation at all, schizophrenia can be ruled out* \\n also unlikely is that the \\\"cat spirit\\\" is actually a spirit guide or other \\\"positive force\\\" spirit which is interacting in your life in order to guild or help you. I can't see any facts to support this possibility (of course with more information, it could be possible). \\n it could also be a negative spirit which either is trying to cause a lot of harm to you (it seems that you're upset enough that you could be moving in this direction) or a capricious spirit which is just messing with you (i.e. knowing the apartment's history and merely messing with you). but based on the rather limited interactions with you, these just don't seem likely. \\n as you and most of the previous commentators seem to agree, this does appear to be the spirit of a deceased cat. like human spirits of the deceased, there is tons of stories of pet spirits similarly not immediately going to a final resting place and lingering on earth. Many people worldwide feel the presence of departed relatives and pets shortly after their deaths for a limited time. In rare cases, these spirits do not seem to go anyplace. \\n Usually this occurs in the case of people who met untimely ends (and occasionally people of strong personality who die of natural causes also may stay longer). I think most people know personally of at least one time this has happened (myself I know a couple). So in this particular case, where the last tenant was wanted for animal abuse and the landlord joked about there not being human bodies in the apartment, I think it is highly likely that the former tenant abused and probably killed animals inside the apartment that you now live. \\n Have you noticed how people don't want to live in houses where people died unnatural deaths? In two states where I lived, the law required that when you sell a house, that the agent has to inform the buyers in writing of any deaths in the house. Failing to disclose such a death can void the sale of the house (if the sale is complete, the former owner has to buy it back!!). there's a reason people feel this way... regardless of what religion they are from... we all know the potential for spirits who don't have a peaceful end to somehow get \\\"lost\\\" to the next world... \\n sometimes the person just needs to come to terms with what happened and with time they can pass to the next existence (whether another life or to some kind of other world I don't know and can only guess)... but as some have written they can need the assistance of the living to come to terms with what happened. For people this can be merely that the place that they are \\\"attached to\\\" (usually the place of death, although there are of course stories of people attaching to other places) is made more tranquil and that the living pay them some positive attention, in other cases the person who died can try to push people to solve their murder (if its unsolved) or even seek revenge for what happened to them. \\n So if you are living someplace where a person has died an un-natural death, often making the home lively and comfortable to put their spirit at ease can help them to transition. (Funny that playing calm music is recommended, although if the deceased is a fan of e.g. heavy metal playing music that they liked in their lifetime can be more effective than playing Mozart), as well as learning about the deceased and talking positively about them. \\n So the people who recommended that you leave out cat toys, a water dish, perhaps a used (but nice) scratching post, etc are on the right track. Cooking often seafood and leaving a bit aside on a plate as a \\\"peace offering\\\" is also a nice gesture (of course throw it away the next morning so it doesn't start to smell bad). These kinds of things should put the cat at ease so that it can pass to whatever comes next for cats. \\n I would be very, very surprised if the cat tries to reach out to you to get \\\"justice\\\" for it... either to help the police to find the person who killed it or otherwise... but perhaps cats are more complicated creatures than I realize... \\n If setting the apartment as a cat lover's haven to give the cat peace doesn't work, then you'd want to get someone who has experience with dealing with ghosts... (assuming you don't just move out which would be the easier move if the ghost doesn't move on)... finding someone who has real experience and isn't a flake isn't so difficult (even though there's tons of frauds)... \\n keep updating... hopefully if things don't resolve with the \\\"peace offerings\\\" there's enough people reading this that someone not so far from you with experience can go there in person (its real hard to assess things without visiting... I was asked to do an exorcism one time... it sounded okay from talking to the husband and two of the friends of the woman... but once I actually got to their house and saw the inter-relationships among the people it was clear that things were different that described to me and that my assistance would have been fruit-less [long story for another time])\",\n \"Summary: very strange decision probably made will zero input from actual transpeople, but whatever they write to replace it with will probably be more meaningful to them than doing a production of another person's work (VM)\\n\\nPost: written after recovering from shock lol \\n the article, and the one it quotes from don't answer whether any transwomen or transmen were offended by Vagina Monologues, or whether the Drama Group was just self censoring by imagining what transpeople might be thinking. \\n I would tend to think that transwomen have enough to deal with (societal and family rejection, depression, difficulty in financing transition and then the transition itself) to have the mental energy to be offended by VM. While I think that what the school is doing as an alternative - writing their own show similar in style but more race, class and other identity inclusive ( ) is a nice idea, I doubt that its instigated by transwomen themselves. \\n (thinking about the purpose of VM, it fits imho with my understanding of the authors intent that a group of college women would write their own play about womanhood in their experience... but that's a whole other topic perhaps) \\n by analogy, I remember when I was growing up as one of three jewish people in my school district... there were a lot of things done in school (this was the 70s) that were related to the Christian faith (neighborhood was 50% Baptist and 50% Catholic). But I noticed starting in third grade that teachers seemed uncomfortable doing Easter and Christmas stuff etc because of me... they felt that they had to change things, tone them down... they seemed constantly worried that they were offending me. I never said I didn't want to hear religious Christmas songs, but they struck them out. I wasn't offended by the Easter Story, but they replaced it with the Easter Bunny. It was nothing my parents or I said to them; they just were self censoring in fear without even bothering to talk to me about what my thoughts were... (And while I didn't follow their religion, frankly I find \\\"Silent Night\\\" more beautiful and enjoy hearing it more than \\\"Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer\\\"...)\",\n \"Summary: start making calls for help to \\\"intercept and delete\\\" the files\\n... \\n (good luck ;) )\\n\\nPost: if your girlfriend is with the mom, you might want to call her, explain that something was sent accidentally to her mom and ask her to discretely get her mom's phone and delete the messages\\n.. \\n if she isn't with the mom... then (as hard as this might be) try calling the dad to ask the same favor from him... as a guy he might understand your \\\"collection\\\" and at the least would be happy to keep his wife from seeing it (if you call in time)...\\n... \\n if the mom does see the videos, the dad might feel like he has to be angry with you even if he secretly thinks its funny, so getting his help also helps him out as well... \\n ... \\n lying about it doesn't seem like it would work... what friend would download a ton of porn to your phone and send it to your girlfriends parents? I'm guessing a lot of guys have porn on their phone, so... most likely explanation is usually the true one... \\n ...\",\n \"Summary: if you don't like Islam, read the Koran, study the Hadith, and write a term paper on what you think (once you have an educated opinion) and leave out the cartoons since its juvenile and boorish\\n\\nPost: why antagonize 1.6 billion people? \\n I can understand religious discussion (including atheist/agnostic vs. Muslim) aimed at mutual understanding - even if it includes \\\"hard questions\\\". And I can understand to some degree doing cartoons... but you can make a cartoon about another religion without doing something that shocks that group, such as putting its founder himself into the cartoon. if the goal is to make another religious group think about its beliefs, why do something that guarantees that they'll only be offended and not be open to whatever point you're making? \\n when I grew up there was a lot of emphasis on tolerance... no one was asked to like or agree with people they thought were different, but we were asked to be courteous and polite to everyone... with the idea that was the best way to encourage understanding and exchange of ideas. \\n now just seems like western society has picked winners (gay non-white agnostics) and losers (conservative Christians, all Muslims, people with more than two children) and that its a total evil sin to make constructive criticism of the \\\"winners\\\", but that you're supposed to step all over the faces of the \\\"losers\\\"\",\n \"Summary: talk to each and be honest about where your level of commitment is with them (and that you are dating other people currently) and also talk to a psychologist to see if there might be any issues you need to work through\\n\\nPost: Have you ever watched \\\"Micki & Maude\\\"? Given how your mind seems to work idk that you could sit through it without having severe cringe attacks... \\n everyone is \\\"wired\\\" a bit differently when it comes to attraction and relationship issues... so its hard to know whether your issue (what got you into this situation) is just bad choices on your part, or a behavioral issue that you need to address (possibly with psychologist assistance), or even a brain hard wiring issue that can't really be \\\"fixed\\\" although you still need to learn to be up front with women about who you are. \\n I agree with the people saying that you're likely to lose all of them in the long run (and probably in the short run). There's really no way that you can just pick one, break up with the others and hope that the one you pick won't find out. If you're now making a schedule and are stressed, chances are that they all (on one level or other) suspect something is amiss. Plus until you deal with yourself, you are likely to just get into the same mess again with D, E and F :( \\n maybe its hard being in a new place, and its understandable to have been lonely and wanting to build social networks for yourself (wondering if some of these networks intersect and you don't know yet...), but... \\n anyway, it would help you (and simplify your life) if you talked with someone to dig deep into why you do things like this (I can't imagine this is the first time... maybe first time with three, but...) and tried also to find out who you are... its easy to not look at yourself and work issues by instead substituting relationships as a salve over certain things...\",\n \"Summary: I take absolutely no risks... ever... and it takes me forever to trust anyone :( )\\n\\nPost: At home growing up we had a very large \\\"children's book\\\" which was the illustrated and complete Grimm tales. I (quite unfortunately) learned to read at a wickedly young age, and this being an illustrated book, it was one of the first that I read. Which now that I think about it, probably explains much too much about me :P \\n (\",\n \"Summary: sorry OP. (and next time just light a match ;) )\\n\\nPost: hoping this isn't real... although since pool drains can do a lot of damage ( :( ), its possible that a really good vacuum with a near empty bag and clean filters could do some damage (how likely, idk) \\n ofc sorry OP if this did happen... \\n as for \\\"the war on farts\\\" ... they all dissipate in time... and if you're wanting them to be gone quickly, it only takes lighting a match or two to get rid of the smell (the part of the fart that makes it smell is consumed in the fire) \\n lighting a candle adds a new smell to the room, so unless you lit the candle near the fart (which would consume the smell), having a candle merely nearby would just have you with two competing smells (although again, if you're worried about someone who isn't home, the fart would dissipate in time)\",\n \"Summary: even free elections often have little reflection on what the majority of a country believes in\\n\\nPost: Bush was (is) a moron, but wasn't fat :P lol \\n yeah, also the Nazis had well less than 50% of support from the voting public...\\n.. \\n in the last free election in Germany, the Nazi party got 33.09% of the vote... that's far from a mandate from the people... \\n .. \\n if you adjust that 33% to account for people who voted Nazi either because they thought the alternative parties were worse or irrelevant*, or who were single issue voters (people who only care about a single issue such as gun control, abortion, immigration, health care) or who were idiots (\\\"wow, such a cool flag they have\\\" or \\\"he has a cool mustache\\\"), then actual support for Nazi parties would have been something less than the 33% apparent support.\\n.. \\n (how much real support did Hitler have? based on my own observations of the election public in USA in 2000, real support for Bush probably was less than 20%... I knew a lot of people who voted for him... most of them fell into the categories of \\\"he stinks, but he's better than Gore\\\", single issue voters (abortion or gun control). It was the election in 1992 between Clinton and the older Bush where I knew tons of people who voted Clinton without knowing anything about politics... who voted for him only because he was young(er) and good looking...\\n..\",\n \"Summary: if a parent wants to take a child to a total quack (where they'll die) when there is a treatment available with high success rate that isn't so bad (visit a pediatric leukemia ward if you don't believe me), then the state should remove the child so they can get the proper care\\n\\nPost: Not from Canada, but I understand from the countries I've lived in the sensitivity of taking away minority children from families \\\"for the benefit of the child\\\" \\n However, in this case, as per the earlier story from the same website ( there is a compelling reason for the government to interfere. And if you read the story without bias, it appears that First Nations leadership has been very negligent by allowing a snake oil salesman into reservation to hawk his wares. I could understand a personal freedom / religious liberty argument, but in this case it isn't native medicine that's being sought, but demonstrably fake \\\"white person\\\" medicine in a clinic run by a fake doctor. (Too bad reddit doesn't have an army... that clinic in Florida should be its first target). \\n So the well meaning white people at the hospital aren't trying to take away a native to prevent her from living according to her believes and traditions, but instead protecting her from a foreign white predator (is there any other word for what that doctor at the clinic in florida is??) \\n If you did any research (heck, if you even bothered to read the article) you'd know that survival rates for childhood leukemia are over 90%. If she doesn't have a mixed case (both types of leukemia) the numbers are much higher. I would have expected that the article would have stated if she was in the high risk group that most of the deaths come from. \\n On the other hand, stopping treatment prematurely... the whole reason that the treatment regime lasts over 3 years is that's how long you have to work at it to make sure there isn't a relapse. I don't know if there's any research on children who are taken out of treatment (perhaps because it is too rare to have a study group), but I would expect most of them to have the cancer relapse (like the other girl at the tribe undergoing the same fake treatments). (In this girls case the stories don't even mention the girl being in remission yet, which makes her situation all the more urgent to get the treatments restarted). \\n I'd rather not share personal details, but... guess kinda have to >.<\\nMy young son (4 at the time) was diagnosed with leukemia over a year ago. My ex believes in faith healing, and although they expressed a willingness to let our son be treated at hospital, sole custody was given to me in fear that they wouldn't follow through with treatment. \\n He was very skinny and pale when he started treatment, and the first two months of chemo he barely knew what was going on. But it was the leukemia and not the chemo that was mostly responsible for this. He got an infection at the two month point that set us back a bit, but by the third month he started doing well.... Was more energetic and had a positive outlook and interacted with me and with the various visitors to the ward (sports stars, characters from TV shows, models, and the weekly clown show that he was afraid of the first two months). \\n The fourth month in hospital we played on the video game consoles (wheeled carts) and he went to the hospital play area with me dragging his medicine injection cart around for him. \\n The chemo frequency for the infusions (into the bloodstream) decreased with frequency. It takes a lot of fluids to wash it down, so he was using the toilet hourly (which actually helped us to toilet train him a lot quicker lol). And during the chemo day he couldn't leave the room. But other than this inconvenience he didn't have adverse affects from the chemo (other than one time it probably was the cause of some sores in his mouth). \\n After the first four months his chemo went to once a month, then later once every other month. He actually looked forward to the hospital trips because they had better toys and video games there, and because with all the nurses it was like having 20 mommies (they spoiled him lol). \\n He never complained to me about the hospital or the drugs... the only thing I can remember him complaining about was the food (I had to pick up food for him in the shop downstairs about 1/3 of the time). And now that we're home, some weeks during the blood test the needle hurts (so yes, if he's unhappy about something he will complain).\",\n \"Summary: if you think you're sane, just wait the train coming out of the tunnel and see how you do :P\\n\\nPost: My son has diabetes... but it only started after all the drugs that he had to take to deal with leukemia... \\n What the doctors said was that he was genetically pre-disposed (as are some of his siblings who don't have it), but that taking the steroids were too much of a load on his system and led him to develop diabetes when he either would have developed it years later or maybe not at all. \\n Some mental illnesses are probably the same... where you have pre-dispositions, and the harder your life is, or if you have the types of stressors that lead to that illness, then you are more likely to show symptoms. And I tend to think that most people have a pre-disposition to something \\n (I also think that most people do show signs of something or other, but just not at a level that they currently need help)\",\n \"Summary: she needs to be in a support group with other PTSD survivor spouses to work out her feelings... I know you posted that she would resist this, but its really, really important...\\n\\nPost: sorry about how things are going :( \\n I've had friends with both wartime PTSD and abuse PTSD... its a hard thing to deal with, and can be hard also on close family. depending on what caused the trauma, it can be really hard to decide if telling your close family is helpful or not, and for the family it can be hard to get to a point of knowing how much they need/want to know \\n because I'm a good and non-judgmental listener, I've heard quite a bit of stories from people with PTSD... but ofc its different if its your spouse, parents or children... I don't see the people differently or have secondary trauma from the stories, but its well documented that this does occur. \\n whether you tell them or not, they wind up with secondary PTSD to one degree or other (not the best source to back up what I've observed first hand, but... ) \\n ofc now that she actually knows some (or most) of the details, whatever secondary symptoms she's had the last 8 years would be worse, and for some spouses, actually having the story can create a mental image of the event which itself can be a new traumatic event. (i.e. before she knew something happened that made so that she almost lost you, which would have been difficult to deal with... knowing now the details its almost like she was there - but in shadow - so the sense of almost losing you is a lot more \\\"concrete\\\" than before)\",\n \"Summary: even bible handouts are controversial ;)\\n\\nPost: meh, other than the human skull in the dog dish, its pretty tame... not sure why anyone would complain as long as the material made available was age appropriate (nothing that would need a 18+ sticker for Kindergarteners) \\n I remember that some Christian group used to hand out bibles to children walking home from school. I guess where I lived it was illegal to do it on school grounds (this was the 70s), so they did it just outside the gates to the school. I thought it was weird they did that... I was one of three Jewish children in the school and thought that everyone else was Christian (and imagined they were all devout) and they'd have tons of religious books at home already. Anyway, I felt bad for the old guys since no one was taking their books, so I took one and went home. \\n When I got home I started to read it out of curiosity. To my mind it was kinda like my brother's Superman comics... Speaking of the little twerp, he told on me so my mom rushed in, saw what I was reading and took it away and to the trash. She was really upset and probably complained to the school about it.\",\n \"Summary: its understandable to not appreciate a child with problems that are almost impossible to deal with... especially when you're not getting support from anyone (or enough support)\\n\\nPost: sorry to hear...\\n.. \\n its weird that in school we're taught so many things that 99% of us never use again... but basic things like child raising, child psychology aren't taught and child behavioral disorders isn't even offered until college >.< ... so we're basically unequipped to deal with normal children yet along children with special needs...\\n.. \\n in the country I live if your child has certain difficulties you are given visits by specialists who spend time doing rehabilitation with the child so that also you have a break from things and relax. my 9 year old has something similar to ADHD (they're still working on a diagnosis) and occasionally loses complete control and destroys things... he also occasionally hurts people when hugging them (he doesn't understand how to be careful)...\\n... \\n it was harder when my ex and I still lived together... now that we're separate I think that's calmed him down a lot... but he's still very difficult at times... key seems to be to talk to him like he's an adult and to not get upset myself with him since his \\\"fight or flight\\\" response is basically \\\"hair-trigger\\\"\\n..\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":17,"string":"17"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":9196,"string":"9,196"}}},{"rowIdx":9197,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"tararabbit111279"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post If Carribean cruise lines tries to give you a free cruise, make them send you the offer in writing with all the pertinent details before you pay any fees. If they refuse, tell them to fuck off."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Back in August I took a survey that entered me into a contest to win a free cruise with Carribean cruise lines. A few days later I get a call from carribean cruise lines telling me that I one a 2 day cruise and all I had to do was pay the \"port taxes\". The whole time I was on the phone with the agent they did nothing but try to sell me additional packages, car rentals, hotels, ect. I finally put my foot down and made it clear that I wasn't buying anything else and they were either going to give me the free cruise or I was hanging up. \n The agent processes me and I pay the $118.00 port tax/fee. I find out after the fact that the area where I need to pick up the tickets is 30 minutes from the port (I've been on several carnival cruises and I obtained my ticket at the port). I called to cancel and get the $118.00 back, agent informs me that this isn't possible the travel is already secure (no it wasn't because I hadn't even selected the dates I wanted to travel, nothing was finalized). I was not informed that I would have to travel 30 miles from where tickets are issued to the port when they took my fee for this \"free cruise\". Agent tells me tough luck. \n Calling my bank to initiate a chargeback."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Back in August I took a survey that entered me into a contest to win a free cruise with Carribean cruise lines. A few days later I get a call from carribean cruise lines telling me that I one a 2 day cruise and all I had to do was pay the \"port taxes\". The whole time I was on the phone with the agent they did nothing but try to sell me additional packages, car rentals, hotels, ect. I finally put my foot down and made it clear that I wasn't buying anything else and they were either going to give me the free cruise or I was hanging up. \n The agent processes me and I pay the $118.00 port tax/fee. I find out after the fact that the area where I need to pick up the tickets is 30 minutes from the port (I've been on several carnival cruises and I obtained my ticket at the port). I called to cancel and get the $118.00 back, agent informs me that this isn't possible the travel is already secure (no it wasn't because I hadn't even selected the dates I wanted to travel, nothing was finalized). I was not informed that I would have to travel 30 miles from where tickets are issued to the port when they took my fee for this \"free cruise\". Agent tells me tough luck. \n Calling my bank to initiate a chargeback."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: phone companies and carriers made a fuck ton of money with de-regulation and government subsidies and promised to upgrade our infrastructure. They pocketed the money, did as little as possible, and want to charge us ridiculous fees for what we use. Privatizing infrastructure we all depend on fucks over everyone.\n\nPost: During the Clinton gore administration, The big phone companies of the times pushed for de-regulation. This allowed them to enter long distance markets, (which the regulation prohibited them from doing), ultimately bankrupting long distance companies (anyone remember MCI or having to have a company on their land lines for long distance). The de-regulation also allowed them to raise prices for their services. \n The phone companies promised that the profits they made from entering the long distance markets, raising prices, and local and federal subsidies would be used to invest in infrastructure upgrades. 20 years later we are still waiting for that infrastructure. In fact, Veriozon in the only carrier company I know of doing the infrastructure upgrades to the point that they are putting fiber optics into homes directly. \n ATT may have some fiber somewhere in it's network, but their U-verse and other services are still being delivered into your house via the old copper infrastructure. Look up the laws of bulk conduction - this will cause a data bottleneck.","Summary: these mega corporations will use all sorts of legal tricks to take small companies to court. They have the resources to do this and outlast small companies that can't afford extended litigation. \n Edit - [story here](\n\nPost: Because the large companies shut them down. I have to look it up but there was a case where TWC sued to shut down a local ISP. Basically a community floated bonds to build their own fiber optic infrastructure and created a locally government run company to provide internet service. The local company was cheaper, more reliable (less outages) and faster than TWC, and was still able to be profitable enough where the company would be able to pay back the bonds over time.","Summary: your boyfriend should be the one rolling horde for you, as girl gamers are hard to come by.\n\nPost: seriously - play what you want to play. Your boyfriend should be thanking his lucky stars he has a girl interested in the game and understanding of how time consuming it can be. \n I just convinced my fiance to buy the first 3 xpacs when they were on sale. If she should happen to roll a horde toon I will roll one right along with her, because this is something we can do together. I'm not saying I will stop playing alliance, but I'd dedicate a toon to play with just my wife to help her along as she levels.","Summary: don't try that stuff with ghetto kids if you live in a rough neighborhood.\n\nPost: I lived in the ghetto in a fairly large city where the ghetto kids wouldn't even attempt to make costumes. I can understand not having money, but that never stopped me from getting creative as a kid and doing things with cardboard boxes, paper, ect. I got tired of ghetto ass kids coming to beg for candy in their street clothes claiming to be gangsters - so I did what the OP did and put up a no costume = no candy. This led to the egging of our house and our dog getting shot with a BB gun. The following year I got wise and bought two tiers of candy. Kids with costumes or the ones that made a good attempt got full sized candy bars (snickers, milkyway) and 4 quarters. Kids that came in their everyday street clothes were given a single dum dum lolly pop or roll of smarties.","Summary: the problem is that there are people playing this game that would be better suited to playing action adventure games and have no clue what it means to work with others in a team.\n\nPost: The problem isn't that they are BAD as in can't play. The real problem is that they think GOOD is getting the highest damage/DPS. If you stand in the fire you are going to die, and when you are dead your DPS is ZERO. Likewise if the tank can't hold agro and decides to chew up a healer, the whole group dies. To me good DPS isn't about the numbers. A good DPS is a hunter that pulls crap off the healer and kites it back to the tank. A good DPS is one that interrupts enemy abilities that will hurt the while group. A good DPS is one that considers group viability as a whole. There were plenty of times as a boomkin I popped my tranquility because there was so much raid damage incoming and new there was no way in hell the whole group would survive without it. There have been plenty of times while I dps that I have tossed an off heal around if I thought it would save the tank, healer or another DPS.","Summary: Victimized multiple times while living in the hood. Got a gun and pulled it on a prowler/would be robber. Ghetto ass motherfuckers stopped stealing from me and damaging my property.\n\nPost: I lived in a rough neighborhood while I was in graduate school. Had 2 bicycles stripped while they were locked to my bike rack in the back yard. Had my apartment broken into twice (once while I was home). After that I got a gun. After getting the gun another person broke into my back yard. I ran out back with my gun and made the asswipe lay on the ground. I told him if he wanted to live like a thug he could die like a thug. He started crying. I told him to get the fuck up and get the fuck out of my yard and to tell his friends to stay the fuck away from my property too, cause next time I would shoot first and ask questions later. No one bothered me or my property after that.","Summary: I agree with sideshow_ \n Edit: These down votes are delicious. Your tears fuel me.\n\nPost: I kind of feel like blizzard CS reps shouldn't be posting on specially tagged accounts in the reddit forums. Blizzard CS reps have an official forum to post in where they can provide customer service. Oh, wait . . . I forgot, if you post anything that doesn't jive with the corporate activision/blizzard hivemind you get banned and your posts get deleted . . . no need to worry about customer service on the official forum. \n There are absolutely things that can be done to remedy the situation. Clearly the reps have communicated to the OP that they know about the problem, people are working on it, they don't have an ETA for a fix. Leaving a customer hanging in limbo and telling him to \"wait it out\" is just shitty customer service. \n I work in customer service 60 hours a week. On a daily basis I perform overrides, make exceptions, and escalate issues to supervisors in order to compensate a customer. Know what I do when a supervisor doesn't respond to an issue I escalate? I get up off my fat ass, walk over to the supervisors desk and essentially make them deal with me and acknowledge the issue, and will keep doing it until they take SOME form of action regarding the issue . . . because it's my fucking job and I love it.","Summary: Douchnozzles will use ANY excuse to justify their Douchnozzlry.\n\nPost: It's sad but true. If you are not black, and you call an inconsiderate person (that happens to be black) out on behavior they are partaking in that is incredibly inconsiderate to those around them you are a racist. If you are black and you call a person out on behavior they are partaking in that is inconsiderate (and that person happens to be black) you are a sell out.","Summary: my letter to AT&T expressing my displeasure with the company.\n\nPost: Mr. Stephenson, \n I am just writing to say that I am deeply saddened with the direction AT&T has taken in the recent year and because of my dissatisfaction I will be taking my business to another cellular company. Now that my son is old enough to have a cell phone, this is a great time for me to switch, along with my two other children and wife. I am going to list my points of dissatisfaction and you can ignore or act upon this information as you see fit. \n 1) Apple products are tethered to the AT&T network. In large cities so many people have purchased them, the network can not handle the demand. When the iphone came out, AT&T should have been rolling in profits from new contracts. How much of that was invested into creating more/better infrastructure where it was available? Now your solution is to have iphone users grandfathered into unlimited plans, while new AT&T iphone/ipad users will have no choice but to have tiered pricing and pay for overages. If you were going to go that route then that tiered pricing and limited bandwidth usage needs to apply to all customers. (Doesn't AT&T state somewhere in the fine print that they reserve the right to discontinue products?) The poor network has kept me from getting an iphone and now the change in pricing pretty much guarantees I won't buy an iphone. (I would have never gotten an ipad anyway.) In this economy you can expect other consumers to follow suit. This move is going to damage revenue you could have made with the ipad. (I have CCed Mr. Steve Jobs, because I feel this first point is pertinent to him and his company. I think he would like to know people are not purchasing apple products because of the network they are tethered to for non wifi services.) \n 2) Giorgio Galante sent you emails and was met with threats of a cease and desist order. Obviously I do not know the nature of those emails, and if they were threatening or harassing, a cease and desist order would be appropriate. However, the news I am reading seems to suggest they were feedback emails. If this is the case, I am absolutely stunned and flabbergasted. Consider this an informal cease and desist request to stop sending me junk mail advertisements with false claims about your AT&T u-verse service. (By false claims, I mean \"high speed internet\". We both know that the last leg is delivered through the old copper wiring. If you and the advertisers of your company knew anything, you know based on the principle of bulk conduction that anyone can achieve greater speed through the coax cable through companies like Time Warner, [not that I think Time Warner customers are treated much better].) I live at xxxx St.. #xxx in xxxxxx, TX. The next time I receive any solicitation for my business I will file a cease and desist letter with your company. \n Good luck sir and have a nice day. \n Sincerely, \n Dr. Tara XXXXXX","Summary: people will pay for the brand new games that they REALLY want to play. People that buy used are often picking up titles they wouldn't have bothered with otherwise.\n\nPost: Also, when you buy used games - most often you get just the game, and not always the manual. If I really want to play a game, I will buy it when it first comes out and I will buy it new. Games that I buy used are just styles of games I am not into. (I bought halo used cause I am not into FPS but I bought Fable brand new when it was released because I like RPGs. I bought WOTLK new because I like MMORPGs. I will likely wait for the price of SCII to drop before I pick it up because I am not into RTS.) Some stuff I WON'T even buy used because I simply detest the type of game (ie Madden or any other sports game).","Summary: non of us are getting what is advertised (in the US) and this is why we need net neutrality.\n\nPost: For residential use only. Actual speeds may vary. Over 4x faster than DSL claim is based on Road Runner Standard’s maximum download speed of 7.0 Mbps versus the standard DSL package’s maximum download speed of 1.5 Mbps. Speed comparison is based on a typical DSL package and may vary by area. Dial-up speed comparisons are based on Road Runner Standard’s maximum download speed of 7.0 Mbps versus the average of a 28k and 56k modem’s maximum download speeds.\" There is the fine print from time warner cable in my area. \n I do know my speed and I can tell you it varies, however any time I have checked it it has NEVER been over 1.5mbps download. The upload speed is far far worse. \n There have been instances were I have played world of warcraft or done video conferencing for work, and have seen my latency gradually rise. My speed dropped to about that of a 56kbs modem. Ran traceroutes and called the company with my findings (which indicated the ISP was putting a fracking choke hold on my download speed) - to have my internet mysteriously start working again after a technician pinged my modem. No power cycling required. \n Edit spelling is hard","Summary: my landlords tried to fuck me over but I was smart about documenting shit and they couldn't get away with it. \n When you find a new place Do several things.\n1) Before you unload your stuff, take pictures of everything with a disposable camera. Get doubles of all the pics. Send one copy to yourself. When you get it in the mail don't open it. The postmark will serve proof of when the pictures were taken.\n2) Make copies of your lease and other paperwork. If you don't have friends in the area keep a copy at work/school and another in your car.\n3) Anytime you have an issue with something, make requests for repairs in writing. Save copies for yourself.\n4) Get a phone that can go speaker phone. When you negotiate with twats like your previous owners inform them at the beginning of the call that you will be recording the conversation. \n Good luck to you. If you should ever need a place to crash in Dallas I'd be more than happy to put you up.\n\nPost: This kind of shit happens in Dallas. I moved to Dallas from NY and took an apartment sight unseen through a realtor 2 years ago. Everything looked nice, it was all bills paid with rent (they paid electricity and water). \n During the summer we lost power because the owners hadn't paid the electric bill (was fixed about 24 hours later). We lost water because the owners weren't paying the water. Luckily this happened right at the beginning of the month - so the manager used all of the rent she collected to pay the water bill. The owners were pissed that she didn't send them the rent and fired her. \n We get new management. Then we get a letter in the mail telling us we have to send our rent check to some weird company in CA. I call the company and ask if they are a bank. They say no. I ask if the property is in foreclosure. They say no. \n Then I find out the property is listed for sale - and has been on the market since before moving into it. (I was not told when I signed my lease - which is against the law here.) \n Then our septic tank blows - raw sewage all over the courtyard. Some apartments directly over the tank are flooded. \n We hit the end of November and we have no heat. Code enforcement comes out to tell the management they must turn the heat on. The heating unit is broken. At this point I've been in the complex for 5 months. I gather up all of the documentation I have about the electricity and water not being paid. I get the documentation from the real estate company selling the property. I get documentation from code enforcement about the heat. I take pictures of all the code violations. \n I type up a nice letter to the management, and to the owners and inform them point by point of all the problems, then I mention the firing of our manager leaving us without a manager for about two weeks. I bring up the letter in the mail asking us to send our rent to some random company. With these letters I sent them copies of everything I documented. All of the issues I listed were more than enough to prove that they had breached my lease. To show that I was willing to play nice I gave them two weeks to get their act together and sign a new lease with me listing the weird company as the person I would be paying rent to. \n The management swings by after the deadline and says we'll sing a new lease - but have no paper work with them ready to go. (I kind of suspect they are jerking my chain hoping I'll be sure to pay my rent on the first - as the deadline was the 31st). I tell them sorry, but I'd already been looking at new places and the manager of another complex held an apartment for me (The manager of the complex new the whole story and was nice enough to hold it for me for $50 so I could give the owners of my complex time to do the right thing) and I informed him at 12:01 on the first I would be taking it. \n I was served with an eviction notice. In the process of moving out my locks were changed and the managers locked me out of about 50% of my belongings. My animals were also locked in the apartment. The police were called and lucky for me I had a friend close by with copies of my lease and documentation. Since the management couldn't be contacted, the police were nice enough to break down the door for me to get the rest of my stuff since my pets were also locked in there without food and water. \n They threatened to take me to court. At this point I lawyered up an had a lawyer send them a letter listing their acts of negligence as proof that they had broken the lease, but if they really felt I was in the wrong I'd be more than happy to sit down with a court appointed moderator to work it out. I never heard from them again.","Summary: I started with 2 toons on Durotan, paid to server transfer both of them due to all of the bullshit, rudeness and competition that came with such a large player base. Went to Nazgrel. The amount of time I spent farming/questing and enduring stupid bullshit dropped by 75% and I was much happier. Ended up leveling 4 more toons on that server and maxing out all professions.\n\nPost: Players that should seriously reconsider playing single player RPG's since seeing people in the open world and having competition for quest mobs/resource nodes etc is an intended part of the game. You having a zone to yourself for node farming is not an intended part of an MMO. \n In response to this let me say that I started wow on a high pop server (Durotan). It was so high population that the lag in populated areas was ridiculous. Back before LFD and LFG, the instance servers would be overwhelmed to the point of making the game unplayable (more lag). Then there were the joys of questing/farming where everyone was farming herbs/ore, quest drops. If I wanted herbs/ore/raw materials I was entirely dependent upon the market price, since farming anything on a max population server meant hours and hours of farming. \n I transferred two toons to a lower population server (Nazgrel). Before CRZ, when I logged in there were plenty of people in capital cities, and I'd still encounter people out in the world farming mats. However, farming no longer takes 4+ hours. I can farm the materials I need for flasks, ore, gems in about 1 - 1.5 hours. If I wanted to level an alt I could go and get quests done without having to camp spawns for hours on end because 50 people were questing for the same thing at the same time. \n Both of my servers are PVE servers. \n My issue was the player base. General rudeness while questing. You try to tap a node and get agro on something, end up having to kill the mob only to have someone come in and hit the node, while you stand in combat right beside them. Or, while questing to kill x of these things, people would try and just pull mobs faster than you instead of grouping up so you could both get credit. Don't get me fucking started on the bots. A high pop server also has a high population of bots. \n Then there's this: \n Rubber band effects at zone borders\nTime Changes between zones\nCamping of Quest Givers (can fall under griefing)\nInability to Report (Ignore and Report features not working for other server players due to \"This Player does not exist\" messages\"\nHarassment (There are reasons why people paid for server transfers) \n If I am farming for ore on my server and it becomes flooded with ppls via crz that are also farming ore - they take the ore back to their server. My server has less access to ore that spawns on our own server. Shit like this fucks with both servers economies. \n I just experience less bullshit on a lower population server that ultimately results in my time being wasted. I have no problem interacting with people. I belong to a lvl 25 guild with over 200 people. We are in the top 10 on the server for progression (horde and alliance combined). \n CRZ is ruining my enjoyment of the game - so much that I will be canceling my sub after my annual pass expires. \n Edit: And the developer/forum rep that told the forums that if people didn't like it they should go play single player RPG's - great way to show contempt for your player base. I'm looking forward to taking my 15$ a month to other franchises. \n Edit 2 -","Summary: Put your tray tables in their upright positions, put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye.\n\nPost: Did you watch his dinner with the press Shawnmi? He basically came out and politely said, \"Fuck you, and you,\" to Trump and Bachman. I was just like o.O. Then the thing with his \"birth video\" - again I was like o.O, :D. I watched this man go up on stage and just not give a fuck. I kind of think that during the dinner he already new that we had Osama . . . and he was building up to it. \n I agree with much of your assessment. Right after hearing the news I was initially elated. Then I just felt sad and /facepalm. \n However, when you consider our constant meddling in the middle east that goes back all the way to the 1950s, overthrowing and elected prime minister in Iran (the guy wanted to nationalize the Iranian oil, and the british company fucking over the whole country for oil didn't like that), the iran/iraq war, the contra scandal and our meddling in that war, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that 9/11 was the creation of our incredibly fucked up foreign policy. \n What I find tragic is that average americans don't know our recent history and foreign policy well enough to understand the events leading up to 9/11, and how easily they will be manipulated by the death of this one man we have turned into a scape goat (Yeah he took innocent lives, not condoning that, but I also can not condone our foreign policy in the past 60 years). The only positive is that this will raise the public's desire for an end to the wars. Many civilians were harmed, some intentionally by our soldiers. We have tortured innocent people at Guantanamo. I fear that when we pull our troops out, more extremists that hate America will only fill the vacuum of the decimated middle eastern governments and infrastructure. \n Here's my prediction - Another group of extremists will rise up and lash out at America again. This will lead to the further eroding of our constitution and bill of rights.","Summary: The GOP can suck a fat dick and degrees are useless now since the only places hiring are Mc JOBS.\n\nPost: That 38K is for 40 hours a week. However I am constantly being told by my boss that 40hrs a week doesn't cut it. I have often worked 50 - 80 hours a week. Never do I get overtime or extra pay for this. I don't get extra sick time or vacation time for working overtime. My paycheck is the same no matter how many hours I work. \n Also take into consideration that I spent more than 10 years in secondary educaiton. 4 college, 3 Masters, 4 Ph.D. - I spent 11 years of my life not earning income to specialize.","Summary: Had a doctor's appointment. Inclement weather caused the practice to close their office that morning and I wasn't notified in time. Arrived to an empty office with unsecured medical records. Got pissed, left notes with the number to report HIPAA violations. Big shot called to lick my ass. I tell big shot to fuck themselves and report the violation. They get fined and have to move their entire office to a new location.\n\nPost: I waited 3 months for an appointment with a GP associated with Baylor. They called me the evening before to verify my appointment and remind me to fast. I asked them, \"Are you sure I should come in tomorrow the weather is going to be bad, my appointment is at 8:30 am?\" (Dallas, TX was actually expecting snow, and stuff like that shuts everything down because people here are tards.) The woman on the phone assured me that I should come in and not worry about rescheduling. \n Because the weather was so bad I left my house at 6 am to make it to this appointment on time. I got there at 8 am. No one was there and the office door was wide open. I waited until about 9:30 am at the office and got pissed - no one was there, but the door to the office was wide open so I was just fuming in the waiting room. I tried the door that led back to the desk and examination rooms. They were all wide open. The room that contained medical records was also wide open. If I had wanted to, I could have sat there all day looking up people's information, social security numbers, ECT. \n I actually have HIPAA training and am mandated to pass a test on it EVERY year. The whole premise of HIPAA is that your medical records are supposed to be between you and your doctor, and people that have no business to your information shouldn't have access to them. The fact that the office and records were not secured was a big fat NO NO. \n I was really pissed that they told me to come in instead and didn't tell me there was a possibility the office might close if the weather was bad enough. I scrounged around and got tape and paper and a pen from the front desk. I wrote several identical notes. I taped one to the front desk, I taped a second note up an exam room with unsecured medical supplies (needles, syringes) and I taped the third note up to the front the door to the medical records room. My notes stated who I was, and why I was there. On all of the notes, I encouraged any other patients that showed up to an unlocked empty office to report HIPAA violations to: \n Office for Civil Rights\nU.S. Department of Health and Human Services\n1301 Young Street, Suite 1169\nDallas, TX 75202\nVoice Phone (214)767-4056\nFAX (214)767-0432\nTDD (214)767-8940 \n At 7 am the following morning some big shot at Baylor called to apologize and offered to get me an appointment that day, mind you, this was after waiting 3 months to be seen in their office for the appointment I showed up for. Turns out the staff decided that since the schools closed they decided to close their office and didn't start calling patients until 7am not to come in - mind you I had already left my house and was well on my way there. I told the woman to go fuck herself, I'd already called in a complaint. I know they were investigated and fined. The doctors office is no longer at the location where I found it unlocked and has since moved to a more secure location.","Summary: Cata had so many bugs at lauch, WOTLK seemed much more polished - this is detracting from enjoyment. Blizz doesn't police the community and has left the community unable to police itself (RDF Faction/Server/name change); causing much of the community to devolve into selfish, elitist douch-nozzles - this is detracting from enjoyment. Homogenization of classes, talent trees, and being locked in to a tree detracts from enjoyment.\n\nPost: I started playing wow in the middle of BC. I solo leveled a druid (still my main) mostly because when I started all of my friends were already level capped and running heroics. I managed to get myself level capped (70) before WOTLK, but gear wise I was so far behind the curve everyone was raiding and I wanted to do regular 5 man dungeons. I enjoyed solo quest leveling immensely and didn't really mind not getting to see 5 man dungeons or raids during BC. \n When WOTLK was released, it was the first time I got to experience an expansion from day 1. I got to experience waiting in a que just to log in. I was maxed so I could level with my friends. I got my first taste of running regular and heroic 5 mans during WOTLK. I raided the redone lvl 80 naxx - my first raid experience ever. When the content was new, when we were all still earning gear from heroics the content was hard, not as hard as cata. Yes the middle and end of WOTLK got a bit faceroll, but really I attribute that to over gearing, not that the content was easy or made for qq casuals. I'm finding healing 5 man heroics has become a bit faceroll for my main resto druid in cata (so long as everyone else in my group is playing their best), mostly because she now overgears them. \n I was dungeon and raid (mostly as a resto druid) grinding before the random dungeon finder. I remember getting a group together, and then spending 30 minutes to an hour portal humping a dungeon instance because the server was just too crowded. WOTLK brought us the random dungeon finder, which has been both a blessing and a curse. \n Cata has been my second experience where I got to see the start of an xpac from day one. There was so much about cata that is awesome. Alot of the music was redone, I'm finding the music so enjoyable. Vash was such a visually stunning zone to level in. \n What bugs me about Cata is the sheer number of bugs that made it into the release. I'm sure WOTLK had bugs, maybe I was lucky and didn't experience any, but cata just feels like a rushed POS when it comes to the bugs. To me, WOTLK from day one just felt like a much more polished product. \n Then there is the constant hot fixing. The PVP QQ and hot fixing because of it drives me crazy. I dabbled with PVP as I leveled and just came to accept that my druid would be OP against some classes and would get pwned by other classes - because each class was UNIQUE. Same goes for PVE. Balance druids have never been chart toppers, but I was ok with that because my druid could battle res, burst heal a group with tranquility or off heal if something ate the faces of the raid healers. I never felt gimped because my druid pulled less dps than a mage. Having to constantly respec because of PVP/PVE QQ hotfixes is annoying. \n Then there is the homogenization of the classes and dumbing down of talent trees. When I solo leveled I used a balance/feral hybrid spec. It wasn't ideal for someone trying to squeeze max dps, but playing solo I enjoyed distance nuking in caster form, shifting to kitty for mele DPS once the mob caught up to me and finishing in bear form. New players can't try different playstyles as they level because they get locked into a talent tree. My wife just started playing this game, her toon is just about to hit level 10 and she has to pick a tree. How does she know what tree she wants if she's never played before? She is such a low level she doesn't know enough about each tree's toolset to even know what she would like. I'm leveling alts; classes I have never played before and I am having the same issue. I don't like not being able to tinker with each talent tree as I level. \n Then there is the community at large. The RDF has made getting groups for multiplayer content so easy and this is both good and bad. Now we can actually experience more content at the cost of the community becoming increasingly selfish and douchy because the people you run with you may never see again, you don't have to be nice if there are no consequences. Add the fact that blizzard no longer allows the community to police itself (since you can now be as douchey as you like and simple faction/server/name change), and the GMs refuse to police the community either. \n Aside from logging on to play with low level alts that I use when playing with my wife I have no desire to log in anymore. \n I can't say that I am quitting for good, as there is lots I still do enjoy about the game and I still enjoy raiding with my guildies, but I do know my play time is about to drop off significantly because I just don't enjoy cata the way I did BC and WOTLK. \n Anyone else as frustrated by cata as I have been?"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: phone companies and carriers made a fuck ton of money with de-regulation and government subsidies and promised to upgrade our infrastructure. They pocketed the money, did as little as possible, and want to charge us ridiculous fees for what we use. Privatizing infrastructure we all depend on fucks over everyone.\\n\\nPost: During the Clinton gore administration, The big phone companies of the times pushed for de-regulation. This allowed them to enter long distance markets, (which the regulation prohibited them from doing), ultimately bankrupting long distance companies (anyone remember MCI or having to have a company on their land lines for long distance). The de-regulation also allowed them to raise prices for their services. \\n The phone companies promised that the profits they made from entering the long distance markets, raising prices, and local and federal subsidies would be used to invest in infrastructure upgrades. 20 years later we are still waiting for that infrastructure. In fact, Veriozon in the only carrier company I know of doing the infrastructure upgrades to the point that they are putting fiber optics into homes directly. \\n ATT may have some fiber somewhere in it's network, but their U-verse and other services are still being delivered into your house via the old copper infrastructure. Look up the laws of bulk conduction - this will cause a data bottleneck.\",\n \"Summary: these mega corporations will use all sorts of legal tricks to take small companies to court. They have the resources to do this and outlast small companies that can't afford extended litigation. \\n Edit - [story here](\\n\\nPost: Because the large companies shut them down. I have to look it up but there was a case where TWC sued to shut down a local ISP. Basically a community floated bonds to build their own fiber optic infrastructure and created a locally government run company to provide internet service. The local company was cheaper, more reliable (less outages) and faster than TWC, and was still able to be profitable enough where the company would be able to pay back the bonds over time.\",\n \"Summary: your boyfriend should be the one rolling horde for you, as girl gamers are hard to come by.\\n\\nPost: seriously - play what you want to play. Your boyfriend should be thanking his lucky stars he has a girl interested in the game and understanding of how time consuming it can be. \\n I just convinced my fiance to buy the first 3 xpacs when they were on sale. If she should happen to roll a horde toon I will roll one right along with her, because this is something we can do together. I'm not saying I will stop playing alliance, but I'd dedicate a toon to play with just my wife to help her along as she levels.\",\n \"Summary: don't try that stuff with ghetto kids if you live in a rough neighborhood.\\n\\nPost: I lived in the ghetto in a fairly large city where the ghetto kids wouldn't even attempt to make costumes. I can understand not having money, but that never stopped me from getting creative as a kid and doing things with cardboard boxes, paper, ect. I got tired of ghetto ass kids coming to beg for candy in their street clothes claiming to be gangsters - so I did what the OP did and put up a no costume = no candy. This led to the egging of our house and our dog getting shot with a BB gun. The following year I got wise and bought two tiers of candy. Kids with costumes or the ones that made a good attempt got full sized candy bars (snickers, milkyway) and 4 quarters. Kids that came in their everyday street clothes were given a single dum dum lolly pop or roll of smarties.\",\n \"Summary: the problem is that there are people playing this game that would be better suited to playing action adventure games and have no clue what it means to work with others in a team.\\n\\nPost: The problem isn't that they are BAD as in can't play. The real problem is that they think GOOD is getting the highest damage/DPS. If you stand in the fire you are going to die, and when you are dead your DPS is ZERO. Likewise if the tank can't hold agro and decides to chew up a healer, the whole group dies. To me good DPS isn't about the numbers. A good DPS is a hunter that pulls crap off the healer and kites it back to the tank. A good DPS is one that interrupts enemy abilities that will hurt the while group. A good DPS is one that considers group viability as a whole. There were plenty of times as a boomkin I popped my tranquility because there was so much raid damage incoming and new there was no way in hell the whole group would survive without it. There have been plenty of times while I dps that I have tossed an off heal around if I thought it would save the tank, healer or another DPS.\",\n \"Summary: Victimized multiple times while living in the hood. Got a gun and pulled it on a prowler/would be robber. Ghetto ass motherfuckers stopped stealing from me and damaging my property.\\n\\nPost: I lived in a rough neighborhood while I was in graduate school. Had 2 bicycles stripped while they were locked to my bike rack in the back yard. Had my apartment broken into twice (once while I was home). After that I got a gun. After getting the gun another person broke into my back yard. I ran out back with my gun and made the asswipe lay on the ground. I told him if he wanted to live like a thug he could die like a thug. He started crying. I told him to get the fuck up and get the fuck out of my yard and to tell his friends to stay the fuck away from my property too, cause next time I would shoot first and ask questions later. No one bothered me or my property after that.\",\n \"Summary: I agree with sideshow_ \\n Edit: These down votes are delicious. Your tears fuel me.\\n\\nPost: I kind of feel like blizzard CS reps shouldn't be posting on specially tagged accounts in the reddit forums. Blizzard CS reps have an official forum to post in where they can provide customer service. Oh, wait . . . I forgot, if you post anything that doesn't jive with the corporate activision/blizzard hivemind you get banned and your posts get deleted . . . no need to worry about customer service on the official forum. \\n There are absolutely things that can be done to remedy the situation. Clearly the reps have communicated to the OP that they know about the problem, people are working on it, they don't have an ETA for a fix. Leaving a customer hanging in limbo and telling him to \\\"wait it out\\\" is just shitty customer service. \\n I work in customer service 60 hours a week. On a daily basis I perform overrides, make exceptions, and escalate issues to supervisors in order to compensate a customer. Know what I do when a supervisor doesn't respond to an issue I escalate? I get up off my fat ass, walk over to the supervisors desk and essentially make them deal with me and acknowledge the issue, and will keep doing it until they take SOME form of action regarding the issue . . . because it's my fucking job and I love it.\",\n \"Summary: Douchnozzles will use ANY excuse to justify their Douchnozzlry.\\n\\nPost: It's sad but true. If you are not black, and you call an inconsiderate person (that happens to be black) out on behavior they are partaking in that is incredibly inconsiderate to those around them you are a racist. If you are black and you call a person out on behavior they are partaking in that is inconsiderate (and that person happens to be black) you are a sell out.\",\n \"Summary: my letter to AT&T expressing my displeasure with the company.\\n\\nPost: Mr. Stephenson, \\n I am just writing to say that I am deeply saddened with the direction AT&T has taken in the recent year and because of my dissatisfaction I will be taking my business to another cellular company. Now that my son is old enough to have a cell phone, this is a great time for me to switch, along with my two other children and wife. I am going to list my points of dissatisfaction and you can ignore or act upon this information as you see fit. \\n 1) Apple products are tethered to the AT&T network. In large cities so many people have purchased them, the network can not handle the demand. When the iphone came out, AT&T should have been rolling in profits from new contracts. How much of that was invested into creating more/better infrastructure where it was available? Now your solution is to have iphone users grandfathered into unlimited plans, while new AT&T iphone/ipad users will have no choice but to have tiered pricing and pay for overages. If you were going to go that route then that tiered pricing and limited bandwidth usage needs to apply to all customers. (Doesn't AT&T state somewhere in the fine print that they reserve the right to discontinue products?) The poor network has kept me from getting an iphone and now the change in pricing pretty much guarantees I won't buy an iphone. (I would have never gotten an ipad anyway.) In this economy you can expect other consumers to follow suit. This move is going to damage revenue you could have made with the ipad. (I have CCed Mr. Steve Jobs, because I feel this first point is pertinent to him and his company. I think he would like to know people are not purchasing apple products because of the network they are tethered to for non wifi services.) \\n 2) Giorgio Galante sent you emails and was met with threats of a cease and desist order. Obviously I do not know the nature of those emails, and if they were threatening or harassing, a cease and desist order would be appropriate. However, the news I am reading seems to suggest they were feedback emails. If this is the case, I am absolutely stunned and flabbergasted. Consider this an informal cease and desist request to stop sending me junk mail advertisements with false claims about your AT&T u-verse service. (By false claims, I mean \\\"high speed internet\\\". We both know that the last leg is delivered through the old copper wiring. If you and the advertisers of your company knew anything, you know based on the principle of bulk conduction that anyone can achieve greater speed through the coax cable through companies like Time Warner, [not that I think Time Warner customers are treated much better].) I live at xxxx St.. #xxx in xxxxxx, TX. The next time I receive any solicitation for my business I will file a cease and desist letter with your company. \\n Good luck sir and have a nice day. \\n Sincerely, \\n Dr. Tara XXXXXX\",\n \"Summary: people will pay for the brand new games that they REALLY want to play. People that buy used are often picking up titles they wouldn't have bothered with otherwise.\\n\\nPost: Also, when you buy used games - most often you get just the game, and not always the manual. If I really want to play a game, I will buy it when it first comes out and I will buy it new. Games that I buy used are just styles of games I am not into. (I bought halo used cause I am not into FPS but I bought Fable brand new when it was released because I like RPGs. I bought WOTLK new because I like MMORPGs. I will likely wait for the price of SCII to drop before I pick it up because I am not into RTS.) Some stuff I WON'T even buy used because I simply detest the type of game (ie Madden or any other sports game).\",\n \"Summary: non of us are getting what is advertised (in the US) and this is why we need net neutrality.\\n\\nPost: For residential use only. Actual speeds may vary. Over 4x faster than DSL claim is based on Road Runner Standard’s maximum download speed of 7.0 Mbps versus the standard DSL package’s maximum download speed of 1.5 Mbps. Speed comparison is based on a typical DSL package and may vary by area. Dial-up speed comparisons are based on Road Runner Standard’s maximum download speed of 7.0 Mbps versus the average of a 28k and 56k modem’s maximum download speeds.\\\" There is the fine print from time warner cable in my area. \\n I do know my speed and I can tell you it varies, however any time I have checked it it has NEVER been over 1.5mbps download. The upload speed is far far worse. \\n There have been instances were I have played world of warcraft or done video conferencing for work, and have seen my latency gradually rise. My speed dropped to about that of a 56kbs modem. Ran traceroutes and called the company with my findings (which indicated the ISP was putting a fracking choke hold on my download speed) - to have my internet mysteriously start working again after a technician pinged my modem. No power cycling required. \\n Edit spelling is hard\",\n \"Summary: my landlords tried to fuck me over but I was smart about documenting shit and they couldn't get away with it. \\n When you find a new place Do several things.\\n1) Before you unload your stuff, take pictures of everything with a disposable camera. Get doubles of all the pics. Send one copy to yourself. When you get it in the mail don't open it. The postmark will serve proof of when the pictures were taken.\\n2) Make copies of your lease and other paperwork. If you don't have friends in the area keep a copy at work/school and another in your car.\\n3) Anytime you have an issue with something, make requests for repairs in writing. Save copies for yourself.\\n4) Get a phone that can go speaker phone. When you negotiate with twats like your previous owners inform them at the beginning of the call that you will be recording the conversation. \\n Good luck to you. If you should ever need a place to crash in Dallas I'd be more than happy to put you up.\\n\\nPost: This kind of shit happens in Dallas. I moved to Dallas from NY and took an apartment sight unseen through a realtor 2 years ago. Everything looked nice, it was all bills paid with rent (they paid electricity and water). \\n During the summer we lost power because the owners hadn't paid the electric bill (was fixed about 24 hours later). We lost water because the owners weren't paying the water. Luckily this happened right at the beginning of the month - so the manager used all of the rent she collected to pay the water bill. The owners were pissed that she didn't send them the rent and fired her. \\n We get new management. Then we get a letter in the mail telling us we have to send our rent check to some weird company in CA. I call the company and ask if they are a bank. They say no. I ask if the property is in foreclosure. They say no. \\n Then I find out the property is listed for sale - and has been on the market since before moving into it. (I was not told when I signed my lease - which is against the law here.) \\n Then our septic tank blows - raw sewage all over the courtyard. Some apartments directly over the tank are flooded. \\n We hit the end of November and we have no heat. Code enforcement comes out to tell the management they must turn the heat on. The heating unit is broken. At this point I've been in the complex for 5 months. I gather up all of the documentation I have about the electricity and water not being paid. I get the documentation from the real estate company selling the property. I get documentation from code enforcement about the heat. I take pictures of all the code violations. \\n I type up a nice letter to the management, and to the owners and inform them point by point of all the problems, then I mention the firing of our manager leaving us without a manager for about two weeks. I bring up the letter in the mail asking us to send our rent to some random company. With these letters I sent them copies of everything I documented. All of the issues I listed were more than enough to prove that they had breached my lease. To show that I was willing to play nice I gave them two weeks to get their act together and sign a new lease with me listing the weird company as the person I would be paying rent to. \\n The management swings by after the deadline and says we'll sing a new lease - but have no paper work with them ready to go. (I kind of suspect they are jerking my chain hoping I'll be sure to pay my rent on the first - as the deadline was the 31st). I tell them sorry, but I'd already been looking at new places and the manager of another complex held an apartment for me (The manager of the complex new the whole story and was nice enough to hold it for me for $50 so I could give the owners of my complex time to do the right thing) and I informed him at 12:01 on the first I would be taking it. \\n I was served with an eviction notice. In the process of moving out my locks were changed and the managers locked me out of about 50% of my belongings. My animals were also locked in the apartment. The police were called and lucky for me I had a friend close by with copies of my lease and documentation. Since the management couldn't be contacted, the police were nice enough to break down the door for me to get the rest of my stuff since my pets were also locked in there without food and water. \\n They threatened to take me to court. At this point I lawyered up an had a lawyer send them a letter listing their acts of negligence as proof that they had broken the lease, but if they really felt I was in the wrong I'd be more than happy to sit down with a court appointed moderator to work it out. I never heard from them again.\",\n \"Summary: I started with 2 toons on Durotan, paid to server transfer both of them due to all of the bullshit, rudeness and competition that came with such a large player base. Went to Nazgrel. The amount of time I spent farming/questing and enduring stupid bullshit dropped by 75% and I was much happier. Ended up leveling 4 more toons on that server and maxing out all professions.\\n\\nPost: Players that should seriously reconsider playing single player RPG's since seeing people in the open world and having competition for quest mobs/resource nodes etc is an intended part of the game. You having a zone to yourself for node farming is not an intended part of an MMO. \\n In response to this let me say that I started wow on a high pop server (Durotan). It was so high population that the lag in populated areas was ridiculous. Back before LFD and LFG, the instance servers would be overwhelmed to the point of making the game unplayable (more lag). Then there were the joys of questing/farming where everyone was farming herbs/ore, quest drops. If I wanted herbs/ore/raw materials I was entirely dependent upon the market price, since farming anything on a max population server meant hours and hours of farming. \\n I transferred two toons to a lower population server (Nazgrel). Before CRZ, when I logged in there were plenty of people in capital cities, and I'd still encounter people out in the world farming mats. However, farming no longer takes 4+ hours. I can farm the materials I need for flasks, ore, gems in about 1 - 1.5 hours. If I wanted to level an alt I could go and get quests done without having to camp spawns for hours on end because 50 people were questing for the same thing at the same time. \\n Both of my servers are PVE servers. \\n My issue was the player base. General rudeness while questing. You try to tap a node and get agro on something, end up having to kill the mob only to have someone come in and hit the node, while you stand in combat right beside them. Or, while questing to kill x of these things, people would try and just pull mobs faster than you instead of grouping up so you could both get credit. Don't get me fucking started on the bots. A high pop server also has a high population of bots. \\n Then there's this: \\n Rubber band effects at zone borders\\nTime Changes between zones\\nCamping of Quest Givers (can fall under griefing)\\nInability to Report (Ignore and Report features not working for other server players due to \\\"This Player does not exist\\\" messages\\\"\\nHarassment (There are reasons why people paid for server transfers) \\n If I am farming for ore on my server and it becomes flooded with ppls via crz that are also farming ore - they take the ore back to their server. My server has less access to ore that spawns on our own server. Shit like this fucks with both servers economies. \\n I just experience less bullshit on a lower population server that ultimately results in my time being wasted. I have no problem interacting with people. I belong to a lvl 25 guild with over 200 people. We are in the top 10 on the server for progression (horde and alliance combined). \\n CRZ is ruining my enjoyment of the game - so much that I will be canceling my sub after my annual pass expires. \\n Edit: And the developer/forum rep that told the forums that if people didn't like it they should go play single player RPG's - great way to show contempt for your player base. I'm looking forward to taking my 15$ a month to other franchises. \\n Edit 2 -\",\n \"Summary: Put your tray tables in their upright positions, put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye.\\n\\nPost: Did you watch his dinner with the press Shawnmi? He basically came out and politely said, \\\"Fuck you, and you,\\\" to Trump and Bachman. I was just like o.O. Then the thing with his \\\"birth video\\\" - again I was like o.O, :D. I watched this man go up on stage and just not give a fuck. I kind of think that during the dinner he already new that we had Osama . . . and he was building up to it. \\n I agree with much of your assessment. Right after hearing the news I was initially elated. Then I just felt sad and /facepalm. \\n However, when you consider our constant meddling in the middle east that goes back all the way to the 1950s, overthrowing and elected prime minister in Iran (the guy wanted to nationalize the Iranian oil, and the british company fucking over the whole country for oil didn't like that), the iran/iraq war, the contra scandal and our meddling in that war, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that 9/11 was the creation of our incredibly fucked up foreign policy. \\n What I find tragic is that average americans don't know our recent history and foreign policy well enough to understand the events leading up to 9/11, and how easily they will be manipulated by the death of this one man we have turned into a scape goat (Yeah he took innocent lives, not condoning that, but I also can not condone our foreign policy in the past 60 years). The only positive is that this will raise the public's desire for an end to the wars. Many civilians were harmed, some intentionally by our soldiers. We have tortured innocent people at Guantanamo. I fear that when we pull our troops out, more extremists that hate America will only fill the vacuum of the decimated middle eastern governments and infrastructure. \\n Here's my prediction - Another group of extremists will rise up and lash out at America again. This will lead to the further eroding of our constitution and bill of rights.\",\n \"Summary: The GOP can suck a fat dick and degrees are useless now since the only places hiring are Mc JOBS.\\n\\nPost: That 38K is for 40 hours a week. However I am constantly being told by my boss that 40hrs a week doesn't cut it. I have often worked 50 - 80 hours a week. Never do I get overtime or extra pay for this. I don't get extra sick time or vacation time for working overtime. My paycheck is the same no matter how many hours I work. \\n Also take into consideration that I spent more than 10 years in secondary educaiton. 4 college, 3 Masters, 4 Ph.D. - I spent 11 years of my life not earning income to specialize.\",\n \"Summary: Had a doctor's appointment. Inclement weather caused the practice to close their office that morning and I wasn't notified in time. Arrived to an empty office with unsecured medical records. Got pissed, left notes with the number to report HIPAA violations. Big shot called to lick my ass. I tell big shot to fuck themselves and report the violation. They get fined and have to move their entire office to a new location.\\n\\nPost: I waited 3 months for an appointment with a GP associated with Baylor. They called me the evening before to verify my appointment and remind me to fast. I asked them, \\\"Are you sure I should come in tomorrow the weather is going to be bad, my appointment is at 8:30 am?\\\" (Dallas, TX was actually expecting snow, and stuff like that shuts everything down because people here are tards.) The woman on the phone assured me that I should come in and not worry about rescheduling. \\n Because the weather was so bad I left my house at 6 am to make it to this appointment on time. I got there at 8 am. No one was there and the office door was wide open. I waited until about 9:30 am at the office and got pissed - no one was there, but the door to the office was wide open so I was just fuming in the waiting room. I tried the door that led back to the desk and examination rooms. They were all wide open. The room that contained medical records was also wide open. If I had wanted to, I could have sat there all day looking up people's information, social security numbers, ECT. \\n I actually have HIPAA training and am mandated to pass a test on it EVERY year. The whole premise of HIPAA is that your medical records are supposed to be between you and your doctor, and people that have no business to your information shouldn't have access to them. The fact that the office and records were not secured was a big fat NO NO. \\n I was really pissed that they told me to come in instead and didn't tell me there was a possibility the office might close if the weather was bad enough. I scrounged around and got tape and paper and a pen from the front desk. I wrote several identical notes. I taped one to the front desk, I taped a second note up an exam room with unsecured medical supplies (needles, syringes) and I taped the third note up to the front the door to the medical records room. My notes stated who I was, and why I was there. On all of the notes, I encouraged any other patients that showed up to an unlocked empty office to report HIPAA violations to: \\n Office for Civil Rights\\nU.S. Department of Health and Human Services\\n1301 Young Street, Suite 1169\\nDallas, TX 75202\\nVoice Phone (214)767-4056\\nFAX (214)767-0432\\nTDD (214)767-8940 \\n At 7 am the following morning some big shot at Baylor called to apologize and offered to get me an appointment that day, mind you, this was after waiting 3 months to be seen in their office for the appointment I showed up for. Turns out the staff decided that since the schools closed they decided to close their office and didn't start calling patients until 7am not to come in - mind you I had already left my house and was well on my way there. I told the woman to go fuck herself, I'd already called in a complaint. I know they were investigated and fined. The doctors office is no longer at the location where I found it unlocked and has since moved to a more secure location.\",\n \"Summary: Cata had so many bugs at lauch, WOTLK seemed much more polished - this is detracting from enjoyment. Blizz doesn't police the community and has left the community unable to police itself (RDF Faction/Server/name change); causing much of the community to devolve into selfish, elitist douch-nozzles - this is detracting from enjoyment. Homogenization of classes, talent trees, and being locked in to a tree detracts from enjoyment.\\n\\nPost: I started playing wow in the middle of BC. I solo leveled a druid (still my main) mostly because when I started all of my friends were already level capped and running heroics. I managed to get myself level capped (70) before WOTLK, but gear wise I was so far behind the curve everyone was raiding and I wanted to do regular 5 man dungeons. I enjoyed solo quest leveling immensely and didn't really mind not getting to see 5 man dungeons or raids during BC. \\n When WOTLK was released, it was the first time I got to experience an expansion from day 1. I got to experience waiting in a que just to log in. I was maxed so I could level with my friends. I got my first taste of running regular and heroic 5 mans during WOTLK. I raided the redone lvl 80 naxx - my first raid experience ever. When the content was new, when we were all still earning gear from heroics the content was hard, not as hard as cata. Yes the middle and end of WOTLK got a bit faceroll, but really I attribute that to over gearing, not that the content was easy or made for qq casuals. I'm finding healing 5 man heroics has become a bit faceroll for my main resto druid in cata (so long as everyone else in my group is playing their best), mostly because she now overgears them. \\n I was dungeon and raid (mostly as a resto druid) grinding before the random dungeon finder. I remember getting a group together, and then spending 30 minutes to an hour portal humping a dungeon instance because the server was just too crowded. WOTLK brought us the random dungeon finder, which has been both a blessing and a curse. \\n Cata has been my second experience where I got to see the start of an xpac from day one. There was so much about cata that is awesome. Alot of the music was redone, I'm finding the music so enjoyable. Vash was such a visually stunning zone to level in. \\n What bugs me about Cata is the sheer number of bugs that made it into the release. I'm sure WOTLK had bugs, maybe I was lucky and didn't experience any, but cata just feels like a rushed POS when it comes to the bugs. To me, WOTLK from day one just felt like a much more polished product. \\n Then there is the constant hot fixing. The PVP QQ and hot fixing because of it drives me crazy. I dabbled with PVP as I leveled and just came to accept that my druid would be OP against some classes and would get pwned by other classes - because each class was UNIQUE. Same goes for PVE. Balance druids have never been chart toppers, but I was ok with that because my druid could battle res, burst heal a group with tranquility or off heal if something ate the faces of the raid healers. I never felt gimped because my druid pulled less dps than a mage. Having to constantly respec because of PVP/PVE QQ hotfixes is annoying. \\n Then there is the homogenization of the classes and dumbing down of talent trees. When I solo leveled I used a balance/feral hybrid spec. It wasn't ideal for someone trying to squeeze max dps, but playing solo I enjoyed distance nuking in caster form, shifting to kitty for mele DPS once the mob caught up to me and finishing in bear form. New players can't try different playstyles as they level because they get locked into a talent tree. My wife just started playing this game, her toon is just about to hit level 10 and she has to pick a tree. How does she know what tree she wants if she's never played before? She is such a low level she doesn't know enough about each tree's toolset to even know what she would like. I'm leveling alts; classes I have never played before and I am having the same issue. I don't like not being able to tinker with each talent tree as I level. \\n Then there is the community at large. The RDF has made getting groups for multiplayer content so easy and this is both good and bad. Now we can actually experience more content at the cost of the community becoming increasingly selfish and douchy because the people you run with you may never see again, you don't have to be nice if there are no consequences. Add the fact that blizzard no longer allows the community to police itself (since you can now be as douchey as you like and simple faction/server/name change), and the GMs refuse to police the community either. \\n Aside from logging on to play with low level alts that I use when playing with my wife I have no desire to log in anymore. \\n I can't say that I am quitting for good, as there is lots I still do enjoy about the game and I still enjoy raiding with my guildies, but I do know my play time is about to drop off significantly because I just don't enjoy cata the way I did BC and WOTLK. \\n Anyone else as frustrated by cata as I have been?\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":17,"string":"17"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":9197,"string":"9,197"}}},{"rowIdx":9198,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"gamdink"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post got Chinese kids to do hammer time dance"},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"This will probably get buried, but I will share none the less: \n I was teaching some Chinese kids about 7-8 years old. We were working on following simple directions. We started with simple \"stand, stop, sit\" etc. but they were getting bored, on a happy thought I said \"hammer time\"....after demonstrating the M.C. Hammer dance I could say \"stop, hammer time\" and everyone kid in the class would do the dance perfectly."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"This will probably get buried, but I will share none the less: \n I was teaching some Chinese kids about 7-8 years old. We were working on following simple directions. We started with simple \"stand, stop, sit\" etc. but they were getting bored, on a happy thought I said \"hammer time\"....after demonstrating the M.C. Hammer dance I could say \"stop, hammer time\" and everyone kid in the class would do the dance perfectly."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: it's a mixed bag and the school will probably be a joke\n\nPost: I worked in Riyadh at the King Saud PY English program for a semester. Basically....it's probably the best money, but the worst place to work. So if you are really desperate for money, it's a good fit. The cultural problems are there, dealing with stores closing right during lunch time is annoying, but that's just part of living in a new country. The big issue is dealing with your supervisors. I talked with quite a few teachers from other schools and I didn't find anyone that had a good company, all of them are the same from what I know. Bad. \n It's very much the 2 faced system. \"We have the best students in the world, we are going to give them the best classes and they will be better than everyone\". Then the students can't count to 10, the door to the classroom literally doesn't have a handle to open it and you have a morning meeting that goes until 8:30, but class had better start right at 8. If you complain it must be because you don't know what you're doing. \n The system became a joke and the teachers that cared about teaching left, the ones that stayed were depressed. \n If you can find a few friends, it was a great place to explore. I met a few locals and as long as I didn't care about teaching and that whole work bit, it was a good experience. \n Biggest thing, if you are going there, have a lot of money for the first 2 months. You will need to plan on spending a good amount of money on transportation, food, and internet/computer stuff. DO NOT expect them to reimburse you in a timely manner. After the first 2 months you will probably have a paycheck that will allow you to cover what you want/need until they finally reimburse you after 6 months. This is not just my experience, every teacher I know went through this. If you already have a laptop and all the computer equipment you want, I would recommend bringing ~$1000. This is enough to cover getting an internet contract, taxi fare and food and whatever other expenses you have that the school said they would take care of. \n If you have any other questions let me know.","Summary: lie\n\nPost: Now I will say that it's really hard to get a job there without a TESOL. Without experience or qualifications it will be almost impossible. Most of the \"come teach and get your TESOL while your at it\" programs are in Thailand and China. There's a few in other Asian countries, but I have never heard of one in Saudi Arabia. seemed to have low standards for teaching in turkey and I remember a volunteer program for Jordan or Gaza. Those are the only legit places I know of. \n One way is to fudge the resume a bit. I'm not saying this is moral, just the easiest way to succeed. If you've ever done tutoring, or even been part of a study group, claim this as \"teaching experience\". When asked about a TESOL, say that you're going to get the actual paper soon, but you have been through the classes and once your in country either take a TESOL class or just keep delaying them until they forget. \n I know of a teacher that had no B.A. even and claimed having an M.A. and years of experience, he also was a complete idiot. Instead of firing him when they found out (1 year later) they promoted him as he couldn't teach, but they would lose face if he got fired. \n I would recommend looking up the info on how to teach so when your talking to them you sound like you know what you're doing.","Summary: crafting profs are good for rep and helping people, not money.\n\nPost: Basically, the money you make from mining and butchering is great. With that you can buy the crafted items at lvl 60. To the best of my knowledge there are NO crafted BoP items. meaning anything crafted you can buy from someone instead of wasting tons of money leveling up your own crafting skill. \n It is usually pretty easy to find someone that can specially craft something for you if you have the mats for a small tip, or a guild mate that will do it for free. So for getting gear that you need, DO NOT level your own armor smithing. \n The crafting skills give 2 things that you will want in the late game. The first is the ability to create your own stuff and help out the guildies, it's always nice and good to have. The second are the dailies. You DO NOT make money off the dailies, at best the rewards you get help you pull even for the mats you spent with the exception of the rep. The dailies give 500+ rep with different factions, this can be very helpful. Once you have 375 in a crafting prof you get a craft lure for the weekly quest, these can be helpful, as everyone that completes the rift gets a lot of crafting mats.","Summary: she's great but good teams can shut her down in team fights.\n\nPost: akali is my main, I love her. In regular games she is fun to play and can snowball easily. The problem comes when you play against a good team. \n Akali can be a good assassin because of her shroud, pop it down in the middle of the enemy team and go to town on their carries. \n 1: cc will hurt her and make you take care, much like ahri is now. she does have the shroud and this can be mitigated by smart play. \n 2: pink wards/oracles mean there's no way you can charge in. If they have a way of seeing you even if it's lee sin, they can burst you down quickly especially as you are in the middle of their team. \n I did play her in some ranked games (not high elo though, 1200-1400) and the only time you can use her against a good team is to wait until most of the cd's have been blown and clean up quite well. What it means is that if it's a close game, you can't be part of the main team fight until it's basically won already.","Summary: 1: small engineering bug with flamethrower shown damage (not actual)\n2: no credit for action unless damage is done to a mob/player that dies. \n edit: will repost on the extended thread\n\nPost: 1: I had an issue with the flamethrower on my engineer, It scales up as it channels, but it doesn't reset once I channel it again, I was lvl 10 and hitting a veteran mob for over 3k a tick. At least that's what the numbers said, the hp of the mob wasn't falling that fast though. I thought I was op for about 2 minutes. \n 2: A bigger problem is that doing the smarter decision of focusing down targets means you only get to loot the monsters you hit. If you want more xp/loot you have to try to hit each mob once before killing any of them. This is slightly annoying in PvE with the mob rush, but in PvP it's really bad. For defending you have to kill something in order to get credit for defending. If you are focusing down someone and they run away you don't get any credit. In theory this doesn't sound like a problem, but 3 of 4 time periods I was defending (never left except deaths) I didn't get credit as the enemies ran away before they died. \n Maybe giving credit for hurting an enemy creature in a set of mobs would solve this, needing to do a lot of damage to any number of mobs in a group would give credit for all mobs in a group. I'm not a programmer, so I don't know what the easiest solution would be. At least a PvP fix would be nice.","Summary: 1: small engineering bug with flamethrower shown damage (not actual)\n2: no credit for action unless damage is done to a mob/player that dies. \n edit: the flamethrower for the engineer sometimes has a graphical glitch where it looks like it's pointing to the left.\n\nPost: 1: I had an issue with the flamethrower on my engineer, It scales up as it channels, but it doesn't reset once I channel it again, I was lvl 10 and hitting a veteran mob for over 3k a tick. At least that's what the numbers said, the hp of the mob wasn't falling that fast though. I thought I was op for about 2 minutes. \n 2: A bigger problem is that doing the smarter decision of focusing down targets means you only get to loot the monsters you hit. If you want more xp/loot you have to try to hit each mob once before killing any of them. This is slightly annoying in PvE with the mob rush, but in PvP it's really bad. For defending you have to kill something in order to get credit for defending. If you are focusing down someone and they run away you don't get any credit. In theory this doesn't sound like a problem, but 3 of 4 time periods I was defending (never left except deaths) I didn't get credit as the enemies ran away before they died. \n Maybe giving credit for hurting an enemy creature in a set of mobs would solve this, needing to do a lot of damage to any number of mobs in a group would give credit for all mobs in a group. I'm not a programmer, so I don't know what the easiest solution would be. At least a PvP fix would be nice.","Summary: This is essentially making a mistake (getting behind) then making a good decision (turtling) and making the game even again.\n\nPost: I think it shouldn't be changed because it offers a viable turtle strategy into the game. M5 was ahead and CLG managed to keep the game going until the gold difference didn't mean anything. This is the same as a team having baron buff and the enemy team turtles until it is off. Holding off an enemy with an advantage is rewarded in a sense and I would say this is good game design. If you hold an advantage over the enemy and can't do anything with it, you're enemy should be rewarded for holding you off.","Summary: Sequoia is really good.\n\nPost: I went with a friend and sampled every sandwich shop in bakersfield about 6 months ago: \n Sequoia was agreed to be the top place, both stores have the same quality sandwiches for them. \n Next is Panera bread and Togo's. I prefer Togo's as they give a bit more meat in the sandwichs, but Panera has better bread and cookies \n Quiznos I just a bit bellow Panera and Togos and has some good spices tat they use. If you get a good person making the sandwiches it's easily the quality to be #2, but they have some people that don't really put that much in the sandwich. \n Subway. I used to be a big fan of it, but after a comparison to the others.....it's the really cheap option for a sandwich if you really care about saving $2. The ingredients aren't fresh and they don't have the quality of spices and breads that the others do, it's far behind all other shops. \n There's a couple more places I could mention, but I think these are the popular choices for subs.","Summary: kicked for not healing a pvp 388k tank in heroics.\n\nPost: I have recently been gearing up in heroics, I'm basically not even ilvl 470 yet. I have been healing all the dungeons, usually without problem. The issue came when a druid tank that had 388k hp in bear form said he was tanking. He was in pvp blues with less health than EVERY OTHER PERSON. I wasn't about to trust him and wanted a new tank. Apparently everyone else disagreed and kicked me. \n I think it's perfecly reasonable to want a pve geared tank for heroics, but apparently I was a minority in this case. Was I wrong?","Summary: defensive items on AD carry to counter the other team?\n\nPost: Now one of the more advanced ideas of league is to partially counter the other team by buying the correct defensive items. If they're AP heavy, buy MR etc. Now as a tank/bruiser I find myself changing my build up a lot depending on who is getting fed on the other team, but as an AD carry it seems that most of the time I still end up with boots, PD, IE, LW first as I am relying on my team to keep the carried one off of me. The most I usually ever do (95%) before this is buy chain vest or a negatron cloak. \n Should the AD carry (only the AD carry, not talking about anyone else) keep the same general build? from what I have seen (1300-1400 elo) the AD carry needs to go with a core build to put out the damage and let the rest of the team buy the defensive items so that they can do damage late game? \n Any time the AD carry went more defensive (except an early GA) they really hurt their team late game. so how much should an AD carry change build depending on how the game is going? going only 1 dorans if the game is going well is not what I'm talking about, specifically defensive items.","Summary: male body, female name, support won't help. \n edit: should be \"too\" in the title, but can't change it.\n\nPost: I'm a guy, and when I start a new mmo I usually create a female character in a simple class to try out a game (whole history on that with my friends, but doesn't bear on the situation). When I get serious, I create my main as a male in my preferred class. \n Starting Skyforge, I did the same thing, naming myself a distinctly female name with \"Lady\" as the first name and started playing C. After finding I couldn't make a new character, but could get a free change, I didn't worry. Then it appears that the change is appearance only, not name. While trying to figure this out. I saved my new appearance as a male. Now I'm stuck with a male body and a female name. \n I contacted support and explained the whole situation. I have been playing 2 weeks with one of those free promo's, like the game and want to get serious, but don't have the 760,000 credits to change my name or any money to put into the game. They said no. They weren't rude or anything just, \"sorry can't help\". \n After playing other MMO's and having great experiences with the GM's of them, I feel that this is a problem. They create a new creative system, great. But when a new player is confused by it and messes up, I think support should help reset it, or do something to help out. \n Have I just been spoiled by WoW, Everquest, Rift, and all the others? I really don't have money to put into the game, I don't have the credits (I'm at 20k), and I don't want to play a male with a female name.....What should I do?","Summary: assassin and support bot\n\nPost: Now I will preface this by saying that I love akali, and this is an unashamed attempt to get her back into the meta. \n My idea is to have akali or another assassin bottom with a support that has at least a bit of cc: taric, alistar, fiddle, etc. This will allow there to be a good kill lane and hopefully shot down the ad carry after lvl 6. This will require an AD carry somewhere else, possible urgot, fiora, etc. \n What I want to try to avoid with this change is going back to the old meta of a \"kill lane\" bot then ad carry and ap carry mid and top. Is there any chance this can be anything more than a gimick? what other options would allow akali to be able to be played regularly? I really like her!!!","Summary: girl keeps being insanely late, what do I do? \n Edit: I was really hoping someone would come in and say \"don't worry, it will get better\". Needless to say, that didn't happen. I will just move on and not try to keep something going that isn't there. Thanks for all the advice.\n\nPost: I met a girl on one of the free dating sites, we chatted a bit then decided to meet up. On Friday, the date was set for the weekend, then I don't hear anything until 7 days later when she had \"a last minute trip\". She did mention a trip that was canceled, so I put it up to chance. We finally met the next weekend, had a nice date to which she was only 20 minutes late (not bad compared to a week). \n I then ask her out for Tuesday, she says yes, doesn't get back to me on when she's available until Wed. I then suggest Valentines, she says yes, she's off work at 5. 6:30 I ask where she is and \"just off work\". 9:30pm, still no word. \n Now I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, she might have a really busy schedule, but am I being played/ should not pursue her? I'm a bit miffed after 3 times she doesn't show up and doesn't let me know what's going on. I have her phone number, she has mine. I really don't want to put up with this anymore if it's going to continue as a pattern.","Summary: girl blows me off then starts texting me.\n\nPost: I started talking with a girl on OKCupid and things seemed to start off well. We talked for about a week or two when I suggested that we meet for lunch. She said yes and gave me her number. We texted, and she said she wanted to meet up saturday, but then never got back to me when I asked about a time. The following monday she texted me and we texted about 3-5 times and I figured that was her way of blowing me off. \n 2 days later she texts me again I figure she's just not into texting and then suggest we meet up. She says yes. I ask about this weekend, she says she gets off work at 5:30. I respond \"how about dinner then?\" \n This has happened a total of 3 times. I'm fine being blown off, but usually once I'm blown off she doesn't start up a text conversation. What's going on here?","Summary: sending me money via fedex then I send money to the philipines via western union. Is it a scam?\n\nPost: Now I responded to a craigslist ad looking for a computer repair guy. I was then told that he needed 7 laptops setup with windows and a few basic programs. So far so good. Then I get this e-mail and it mentions sending me money, then I send money via western union to get the laptops to me. Any time I am sending money via western union I am scared. Here's the e-mail that made me suspicious. \n Thanks for the patience, I want to let you know that the payment has been mailed to you through FEDEX and will deliver to your address with tracking number (798501547375). \n Please take the payment to your bank and have it deposited, as soon as its cleared, deduct your money for the service you want to do on my Units, you will be sending the rest through western union to my shipping agent as agreed so that the laptops can be shipped to you ASAP, I will get back to you with the shipment tracking number as well for the units coming your way shortly after the agent receive the funds. Western Union charges should also be deducted from the remaining funds after deducting yours. The excess funds is meant for shipping the units forth and back as you finish working on them. \n Find below details of western union for purpose of sending the remaining funds to the Shipper. \n Name. *** \nStreet... * , \nCity...Makati City\nprovince...manilla\ncountry...philipines\nZipcode... ** \n Once the fund has been sent to the agent please get back to me with details such as given below. \n 1) M.T.C.N (Money Transfer Control Number) \n 2) Actual amount to receive after western union sending fee has been deducted. \n 3) Senders name (In-case you are sending someone else to western union) \n I will be waiting for your response real soon. \n \n Especially as it's in the philipines...am I getting scammed?"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: it's a mixed bag and the school will probably be a joke\\n\\nPost: I worked in Riyadh at the King Saud PY English program for a semester. Basically....it's probably the best money, but the worst place to work. So if you are really desperate for money, it's a good fit. The cultural problems are there, dealing with stores closing right during lunch time is annoying, but that's just part of living in a new country. The big issue is dealing with your supervisors. I talked with quite a few teachers from other schools and I didn't find anyone that had a good company, all of them are the same from what I know. Bad. \\n It's very much the 2 faced system. \\\"We have the best students in the world, we are going to give them the best classes and they will be better than everyone\\\". Then the students can't count to 10, the door to the classroom literally doesn't have a handle to open it and you have a morning meeting that goes until 8:30, but class had better start right at 8. If you complain it must be because you don't know what you're doing. \\n The system became a joke and the teachers that cared about teaching left, the ones that stayed were depressed. \\n If you can find a few friends, it was a great place to explore. I met a few locals and as long as I didn't care about teaching and that whole work bit, it was a good experience. \\n Biggest thing, if you are going there, have a lot of money for the first 2 months. You will need to plan on spending a good amount of money on transportation, food, and internet/computer stuff. DO NOT expect them to reimburse you in a timely manner. After the first 2 months you will probably have a paycheck that will allow you to cover what you want/need until they finally reimburse you after 6 months. This is not just my experience, every teacher I know went through this. If you already have a laptop and all the computer equipment you want, I would recommend bringing ~$1000. This is enough to cover getting an internet contract, taxi fare and food and whatever other expenses you have that the school said they would take care of. \\n If you have any other questions let me know.\",\n \"Summary: lie\\n\\nPost: Now I will say that it's really hard to get a job there without a TESOL. Without experience or qualifications it will be almost impossible. Most of the \\\"come teach and get your TESOL while your at it\\\" programs are in Thailand and China. There's a few in other Asian countries, but I have never heard of one in Saudi Arabia. seemed to have low standards for teaching in turkey and I remember a volunteer program for Jordan or Gaza. Those are the only legit places I know of. \\n One way is to fudge the resume a bit. I'm not saying this is moral, just the easiest way to succeed. If you've ever done tutoring, or even been part of a study group, claim this as \\\"teaching experience\\\". When asked about a TESOL, say that you're going to get the actual paper soon, but you have been through the classes and once your in country either take a TESOL class or just keep delaying them until they forget. \\n I know of a teacher that had no B.A. even and claimed having an M.A. and years of experience, he also was a complete idiot. Instead of firing him when they found out (1 year later) they promoted him as he couldn't teach, but they would lose face if he got fired. \\n I would recommend looking up the info on how to teach so when your talking to them you sound like you know what you're doing.\",\n \"Summary: crafting profs are good for rep and helping people, not money.\\n\\nPost: Basically, the money you make from mining and butchering is great. With that you can buy the crafted items at lvl 60. To the best of my knowledge there are NO crafted BoP items. meaning anything crafted you can buy from someone instead of wasting tons of money leveling up your own crafting skill. \\n It is usually pretty easy to find someone that can specially craft something for you if you have the mats for a small tip, or a guild mate that will do it for free. So for getting gear that you need, DO NOT level your own armor smithing. \\n The crafting skills give 2 things that you will want in the late game. The first is the ability to create your own stuff and help out the guildies, it's always nice and good to have. The second are the dailies. You DO NOT make money off the dailies, at best the rewards you get help you pull even for the mats you spent with the exception of the rep. The dailies give 500+ rep with different factions, this can be very helpful. Once you have 375 in a crafting prof you get a craft lure for the weekly quest, these can be helpful, as everyone that completes the rift gets a lot of crafting mats.\",\n \"Summary: she's great but good teams can shut her down in team fights.\\n\\nPost: akali is my main, I love her. In regular games she is fun to play and can snowball easily. The problem comes when you play against a good team. \\n Akali can be a good assassin because of her shroud, pop it down in the middle of the enemy team and go to town on their carries. \\n 1: cc will hurt her and make you take care, much like ahri is now. she does have the shroud and this can be mitigated by smart play. \\n 2: pink wards/oracles mean there's no way you can charge in. If they have a way of seeing you even if it's lee sin, they can burst you down quickly especially as you are in the middle of their team. \\n I did play her in some ranked games (not high elo though, 1200-1400) and the only time you can use her against a good team is to wait until most of the cd's have been blown and clean up quite well. What it means is that if it's a close game, you can't be part of the main team fight until it's basically won already.\",\n \"Summary: 1: small engineering bug with flamethrower shown damage (not actual)\\n2: no credit for action unless damage is done to a mob/player that dies. \\n edit: will repost on the extended thread\\n\\nPost: 1: I had an issue with the flamethrower on my engineer, It scales up as it channels, but it doesn't reset once I channel it again, I was lvl 10 and hitting a veteran mob for over 3k a tick. At least that's what the numbers said, the hp of the mob wasn't falling that fast though. I thought I was op for about 2 minutes. \\n 2: A bigger problem is that doing the smarter decision of focusing down targets means you only get to loot the monsters you hit. If you want more xp/loot you have to try to hit each mob once before killing any of them. This is slightly annoying in PvE with the mob rush, but in PvP it's really bad. For defending you have to kill something in order to get credit for defending. If you are focusing down someone and they run away you don't get any credit. In theory this doesn't sound like a problem, but 3 of 4 time periods I was defending (never left except deaths) I didn't get credit as the enemies ran away before they died. \\n Maybe giving credit for hurting an enemy creature in a set of mobs would solve this, needing to do a lot of damage to any number of mobs in a group would give credit for all mobs in a group. I'm not a programmer, so I don't know what the easiest solution would be. At least a PvP fix would be nice.\",\n \"Summary: 1: small engineering bug with flamethrower shown damage (not actual)\\n2: no credit for action unless damage is done to a mob/player that dies. \\n edit: the flamethrower for the engineer sometimes has a graphical glitch where it looks like it's pointing to the left.\\n\\nPost: 1: I had an issue with the flamethrower on my engineer, It scales up as it channels, but it doesn't reset once I channel it again, I was lvl 10 and hitting a veteran mob for over 3k a tick. At least that's what the numbers said, the hp of the mob wasn't falling that fast though. I thought I was op for about 2 minutes. \\n 2: A bigger problem is that doing the smarter decision of focusing down targets means you only get to loot the monsters you hit. If you want more xp/loot you have to try to hit each mob once before killing any of them. This is slightly annoying in PvE with the mob rush, but in PvP it's really bad. For defending you have to kill something in order to get credit for defending. If you are focusing down someone and they run away you don't get any credit. In theory this doesn't sound like a problem, but 3 of 4 time periods I was defending (never left except deaths) I didn't get credit as the enemies ran away before they died. \\n Maybe giving credit for hurting an enemy creature in a set of mobs would solve this, needing to do a lot of damage to any number of mobs in a group would give credit for all mobs in a group. I'm not a programmer, so I don't know what the easiest solution would be. At least a PvP fix would be nice.\",\n \"Summary: This is essentially making a mistake (getting behind) then making a good decision (turtling) and making the game even again.\\n\\nPost: I think it shouldn't be changed because it offers a viable turtle strategy into the game. M5 was ahead and CLG managed to keep the game going until the gold difference didn't mean anything. This is the same as a team having baron buff and the enemy team turtles until it is off. Holding off an enemy with an advantage is rewarded in a sense and I would say this is good game design. If you hold an advantage over the enemy and can't do anything with it, you're enemy should be rewarded for holding you off.\",\n \"Summary: Sequoia is really good.\\n\\nPost: I went with a friend and sampled every sandwich shop in bakersfield about 6 months ago: \\n Sequoia was agreed to be the top place, both stores have the same quality sandwiches for them. \\n Next is Panera bread and Togo's. I prefer Togo's as they give a bit more meat in the sandwichs, but Panera has better bread and cookies \\n Quiznos I just a bit bellow Panera and Togos and has some good spices tat they use. If you get a good person making the sandwiches it's easily the quality to be #2, but they have some people that don't really put that much in the sandwich. \\n Subway. I used to be a big fan of it, but after a comparison to the others.....it's the really cheap option for a sandwich if you really care about saving $2. The ingredients aren't fresh and they don't have the quality of spices and breads that the others do, it's far behind all other shops. \\n There's a couple more places I could mention, but I think these are the popular choices for subs.\",\n \"Summary: kicked for not healing a pvp 388k tank in heroics.\\n\\nPost: I have recently been gearing up in heroics, I'm basically not even ilvl 470 yet. I have been healing all the dungeons, usually without problem. The issue came when a druid tank that had 388k hp in bear form said he was tanking. He was in pvp blues with less health than EVERY OTHER PERSON. I wasn't about to trust him and wanted a new tank. Apparently everyone else disagreed and kicked me. \\n I think it's perfecly reasonable to want a pve geared tank for heroics, but apparently I was a minority in this case. Was I wrong?\",\n \"Summary: defensive items on AD carry to counter the other team?\\n\\nPost: Now one of the more advanced ideas of league is to partially counter the other team by buying the correct defensive items. If they're AP heavy, buy MR etc. Now as a tank/bruiser I find myself changing my build up a lot depending on who is getting fed on the other team, but as an AD carry it seems that most of the time I still end up with boots, PD, IE, LW first as I am relying on my team to keep the carried one off of me. The most I usually ever do (95%) before this is buy chain vest or a negatron cloak. \\n Should the AD carry (only the AD carry, not talking about anyone else) keep the same general build? from what I have seen (1300-1400 elo) the AD carry needs to go with a core build to put out the damage and let the rest of the team buy the defensive items so that they can do damage late game? \\n Any time the AD carry went more defensive (except an early GA) they really hurt their team late game. so how much should an AD carry change build depending on how the game is going? going only 1 dorans if the game is going well is not what I'm talking about, specifically defensive items.\",\n \"Summary: male body, female name, support won't help. \\n edit: should be \\\"too\\\" in the title, but can't change it.\\n\\nPost: I'm a guy, and when I start a new mmo I usually create a female character in a simple class to try out a game (whole history on that with my friends, but doesn't bear on the situation). When I get serious, I create my main as a male in my preferred class. \\n Starting Skyforge, I did the same thing, naming myself a distinctly female name with \\\"Lady\\\" as the first name and started playing C. After finding I couldn't make a new character, but could get a free change, I didn't worry. Then it appears that the change is appearance only, not name. While trying to figure this out. I saved my new appearance as a male. Now I'm stuck with a male body and a female name. \\n I contacted support and explained the whole situation. I have been playing 2 weeks with one of those free promo's, like the game and want to get serious, but don't have the 760,000 credits to change my name or any money to put into the game. They said no. They weren't rude or anything just, \\\"sorry can't help\\\". \\n After playing other MMO's and having great experiences with the GM's of them, I feel that this is a problem. They create a new creative system, great. But when a new player is confused by it and messes up, I think support should help reset it, or do something to help out. \\n Have I just been spoiled by WoW, Everquest, Rift, and all the others? I really don't have money to put into the game, I don't have the credits (I'm at 20k), and I don't want to play a male with a female name.....What should I do?\",\n \"Summary: assassin and support bot\\n\\nPost: Now I will preface this by saying that I love akali, and this is an unashamed attempt to get her back into the meta. \\n My idea is to have akali or another assassin bottom with a support that has at least a bit of cc: taric, alistar, fiddle, etc. This will allow there to be a good kill lane and hopefully shot down the ad carry after lvl 6. This will require an AD carry somewhere else, possible urgot, fiora, etc. \\n What I want to try to avoid with this change is going back to the old meta of a \\\"kill lane\\\" bot then ad carry and ap carry mid and top. Is there any chance this can be anything more than a gimick? what other options would allow akali to be able to be played regularly? I really like her!!!\",\n \"Summary: girl keeps being insanely late, what do I do? \\n Edit: I was really hoping someone would come in and say \\\"don't worry, it will get better\\\". Needless to say, that didn't happen. I will just move on and not try to keep something going that isn't there. Thanks for all the advice.\\n\\nPost: I met a girl on one of the free dating sites, we chatted a bit then decided to meet up. On Friday, the date was set for the weekend, then I don't hear anything until 7 days later when she had \\\"a last minute trip\\\". She did mention a trip that was canceled, so I put it up to chance. We finally met the next weekend, had a nice date to which she was only 20 minutes late (not bad compared to a week). \\n I then ask her out for Tuesday, she says yes, doesn't get back to me on when she's available until Wed. I then suggest Valentines, she says yes, she's off work at 5. 6:30 I ask where she is and \\\"just off work\\\". 9:30pm, still no word. \\n Now I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, she might have a really busy schedule, but am I being played/ should not pursue her? I'm a bit miffed after 3 times she doesn't show up and doesn't let me know what's going on. I have her phone number, she has mine. I really don't want to put up with this anymore if it's going to continue as a pattern.\",\n \"Summary: girl blows me off then starts texting me.\\n\\nPost: I started talking with a girl on OKCupid and things seemed to start off well. We talked for about a week or two when I suggested that we meet for lunch. She said yes and gave me her number. We texted, and she said she wanted to meet up saturday, but then never got back to me when I asked about a time. The following monday she texted me and we texted about 3-5 times and I figured that was her way of blowing me off. \\n 2 days later she texts me again I figure she's just not into texting and then suggest we meet up. She says yes. I ask about this weekend, she says she gets off work at 5:30. I respond \\\"how about dinner then?\\\" \\n This has happened a total of 3 times. I'm fine being blown off, but usually once I'm blown off she doesn't start up a text conversation. What's going on here?\",\n \"Summary: sending me money via fedex then I send money to the philipines via western union. Is it a scam?\\n\\nPost: Now I responded to a craigslist ad looking for a computer repair guy. I was then told that he needed 7 laptops setup with windows and a few basic programs. So far so good. Then I get this e-mail and it mentions sending me money, then I send money via western union to get the laptops to me. Any time I am sending money via western union I am scared. Here's the e-mail that made me suspicious. \\n Thanks for the patience, I want to let you know that the payment has been mailed to you through FEDEX and will deliver to your address with tracking number (798501547375). \\n Please take the payment to your bank and have it deposited, as soon as its cleared, deduct your money for the service you want to do on my Units, you will be sending the rest through western union to my shipping agent as agreed so that the laptops can be shipped to you ASAP, I will get back to you with the shipment tracking number as well for the units coming your way shortly after the agent receive the funds. Western Union charges should also be deducted from the remaining funds after deducting yours. The excess funds is meant for shipping the units forth and back as you finish working on them. \\n Find below details of western union for purpose of sending the remaining funds to the Shipper. \\n Name. *** \\nStreet... * , \\nCity...Makati City\\nprovince...manilla\\ncountry...philipines\\nZipcode... ** \\n Once the fund has been sent to the agent please get back to me with details such as given below. \\n 1) M.T.C.N (Money Transfer Control Number) \\n 2) Actual amount to receive after western union sending fee has been deducted. \\n 3) Senders name (In-case you are sending someone else to western union) \\n I will be waiting for your response real soon. \\n \\n Especially as it's in the philipines...am I getting scammed?\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":15,"string":"15"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":9198,"string":"9,198"}}},{"rowIdx":9199,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"FisherKing22"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Got punched in the face because I hooked up with the girl that my friend called dibs on."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"My best friend (Hubert for the same of this story)had invited one of his high school friends to stay with us for our university's football game against her's. She had asked to bring a friend, let's call her Kate. Before they arrived, Hubert said, \"I call dibs on her friend if she's hot.\" They got there on Friday night, and much to everyone's pleasure, Kate was indeed hot. That night we all went to bed early. We woke up the next morning to tailgate. By the time the game was over we were all smashed. I had been talking with Kate a good bit throughout the day, and long story short, we ended up back in my room doing the no-pants dance. As things started to get hot and heavy, I heard a knock on my door. Given the circumstances, I chose to ignore it. Five minutes passed, and they're was another knock on the door. I decided that it must be important, so I put on my boxers to vaguely concealed my erection. As I was opening the door, Hubert's fist was simultaneously coming in straight at my face. I'm now standing there in boxers with a half chub and blood dripping down my face, all the while there is a naked girl lying in my bed behind me. I was so confused that all I could manage to say was \"Duuude.... the fuck?\" over and over. To this, Hubert replied with a blackout, glazed over look on his face, \"I cawwled dibbs.\""},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"My best friend (Hubert for the same of this story)had invited one of his high school friends to stay with us for our university's football game against her's. She had asked to bring a friend, let's call her Kate. Before they arrived, Hubert said, \"I call dibs on her friend if she's hot.\" They got there on Friday night, and much to everyone's pleasure, Kate was indeed hot. That night we all went to bed early. We woke up the next morning to tailgate. By the time the game was over we were all smashed. I had been talking with Kate a good bit throughout the day, and long story short, we ended up back in my room doing the no-pants dance. As things started to get hot and heavy, I heard a knock on my door. Given the circumstances, I chose to ignore it. Five minutes passed, and they're was another knock on the door. I decided that it must be important, so I put on my boxers to vaguely concealed my erection. As I was opening the door, Hubert's fist was simultaneously coming in straight at my face. I'm now standing there in boxers with a half chub and blood dripping down my face, all the while there is a naked girl lying in my bed behind me. I was so confused that all I could manage to say was \"Duuude.... the fuck?\" over and over. To this, Hubert replied with a blackout, glazed over look on his face, \"I cawwled dibbs.\""},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Fuck you, Carl. Fuck you so much.\n\nPost: I will tell you the story of the worst rushee I've ever seen, and we'll see if we can all learn from his mistakes. Let's call him Carl. \n Carl rushed in the fall as a freshman. He didn't really come around to that many events, but from all accounts, was a pretty cool guy who could hold a conversation. But because we didn't really know anything about him, he didn't get a bid, but was encouraged to come around again the spring. \n Let's flash forward to the spring. I hadn't met this Carl character yet, but was encouraged to at our next event. From what I heard, Carl was a funny person, and more importantly, Carl was also fat. Ive wanted a fat funny pledge since I became a brother. \n So when I set out to meet this Carl character at the next event, I saw this supposedly fat and funny guy wearing new loafers, a gingham vineyard vines shirt, khakis, and croakies on whatever sunglasses he had. The event was at night, and he had clearly just showered and dressed. Fuck your croakies, Carl. They belong around your neck during the day or if you haven't had a chance to go home or to your car once it got dark. Carl had traded in his jeans and t-shirts to try to become what he thought we wanted to see. \n Anyway, enough about this insufferable chode's appearances. The event was just supposed to be some rushees coming over to drink and watch a basketball game. I was with my girlfriend and hanging out with my brothers when Carl showed up about an hour before anybody else. Carl proceeded to act like he already knew every brother and like he already had a bid. This chucklefuck started asking us for liquor and beer like he was entitled to it. No, Carl. You'll drink the Busch Light like the rest of the rushees will when they get here in 50 minutes. \n Carl is upset about not getting any booze, but is just thrilled to be around his future brothers. That cocky fuck. It's after the first 5 minutes of talking to Carl that I want to castrate the brother who said he's a good conversationalist. All Carl wanted to talk about was that time that he got so wasted he puked! Hilarious anecdote, Carl. Or that one time he drank so much that he was hungover the next day in class. Another sidesplitter from Carl. \n We're now about 45 minutes away from the other rushees arriving and Carl has run out of things to say, so he turns the conversation to all of that sweet sweet strange he gets. (Sidenote: I don't want to be presumptuous, but I think Carl's lying about how much sweet sweet strange he gets.) After listening to his explicit stories that sound like he's splicing together American Pie movies and 80's pornography, I'm praying for blunt force trauma to the head to end this misery. \n To move this story along, I'll skip the next 45 minutes and get to the part where Carl starts drinking. According to Carl, he's a real champ when it comes to all things alcohol. Carl gets his hands on the PJ that we had for the ladies in attendance. Carl is not a lady. Carl starts chugging to show how cool he is. He starts to look almost worried when he sees that we are not impressed, so he keeps chugging. The alcohol has been out for maybe 20 minutes when Carl loses pretty much all motor function and verbal filters. He's chatting up the other rushees talking about how he's pretty much assured a bid because of how cool we think he is. He is wrong. At one point he told a brother that he wanted to do tequila shots with him. Carl then decided that he should walk up behind said brother every 15 minutes or so, put his hands on his shoulders, and shout, \"TEQUILLLLLAAAA SHOOOTTTSSSS!!\" \n Carl was the loudest person at this event that later turned into a party. After creeping out most of the girls by proposing that they practice making babies (I don't know if this is the pickup line he used, but it seems fitting), he decided to chat with my girlfriend. After being told numerous times that she was not interested because she had a boyfriend (good girl), Carl walked away and told another rushee that he basically, \"had it in the bag with the brunette.\" Because Carl is a loud, fat, unfunny turtle fucker, another brother overheard him, and informed Carl that she had a boyfriend. He apologized, but I suspect it was not genuine. \n As the night was winding down, Carl managed to make it to the second floor where he passed out on a couch in a brother's room. We were unable to move him, so a couple of brothers watched him to make sure that he didn't die. In an unfortunate turn of events, Carl survived the night. At some point in the night, he managed to piss his pants- an act which he denied in the morning. \n That's pretty much it for Carl. This is basically the story of how a guy went from alright on first impression to the worst rushee I've ever had the displeasure of knowing. Carl kept coming to events until they became invite only. We whiteflagged him, meaning that we emailed other fraternities he was rushing to let them know what ole Carl had done. Needless to say, he did not get a bid.","Summary: Let's please try to keep this subreddit as a forum for gun politics and not anti-Obama politics. The two happen to be one in the same on the issue of gun rights, but his policies on other matters are a nonissue when it comes to this subreddit.\n\nPost: Every US president has viewed their position this way. Let's be reasonable about this. I'm very pro-gun rights, but I also support our president. I don't think he's ever going to successfully institute any type of meaningful gun control, so I'm willing to give him a pass on that. But there is a huge difference between lending military aid to a country that could become a future ally and stronghold and attempting to institute gun control in the US. The two are wholly unrelated. \n But back to my original point, the US has world power because we have the strongest military in the world. We leverage this power by giving aid to countries that need it, who in turn agree to help us when we need it. We spend more on our military than any other country because it gives us the ability to tip world policy in our favor should we need it. Every president since the Cold War began has done the exact same thing. \n This subreddit is about gun politics, not about bashing the president. I hate that the progun movement has become synonymous with the conservative right. It is not. It's a matter of freedom- the freedom for responsible citizens to protect themselves from whatever threats they personally feel they need protection from. Painting the progun movement as a conservative movement doesn't help the cause. If it becomes a matter of right vs left, the movement will fail and we'll be left defenseless solely because popular opinion is moving away from the republican party.","Summary: We need a paradigm shift in this country the same as we had with drunk driving. I think it can be accomplished in the long run with a well funded and well implemented ad campaign as well as draconian penalties for any crime committed with a firearm on the criminal's person, rather or not it was used to commit the crime.\n\nPost: I've made this argument several times. The US has made huge strides in cutting down on drunk driving fatalities by changing the public opinion on drunk driving. I wasn't alive for it, but most people in their 40's or 50's remember a time where if you were pulled over by an officer and were drunk, he might say, \"Can you make it home?\" or if you were really bad off, he might have you sleep it off either in jail or in your car. \n The public opinion has changed dramatically since then. I was talking with my dad about my city's dedicated alcohol law enforcement division exists largely to counter underage drinkers (it's a college town). He said how stupid it was to waste money on something kids are going to do anyway, but went on to say, \"but if they get behind the wheel, throw them under the jail.\" That's a huge change of opinion from just 30 years ago. \n The issue wasn't solved (I use the term loosely) by banning cars- granted, that's a week analogy. It was fixed by organizations like Mother Against Drunk Driving fighting and lobbying for stricter laws, but more importantly, by a very successful ad campaign that preached the dangers of drunk driving. They, along with other organizations, did something that politicians aren't talking about for guns- they changed the public consciousness. \n So why aren't politicians talking about this? I think the answer is complicated, but it boils down to the fact that it's not an easy thing to do. It's much more abstract than instituting an arbitrary ban. A politicians can promise to fund billboards and commercials that teach proper firearm use, the dangers of firearms, etc, but that is unlikely to win many votes because many will see it as an empty gesture, whereas a ban is a much tangible piece of legislation. When running for reelection, it will look much better for anti-gun voters if a politician can say, \"I helped implement a ban on assault weapons and handguns, and gun violence has gone down x amount.\" than to say, \"I've helped start a gun-education campaign, and we hope to see gun violence go down in the next 30 years as the populace becomes more educated.\" People want results and, unfortunately this usually requires short sided legislation. \n With that being said, I do think that tougher laws on criminals are a must. In the same way that the government implemented draconian laws for drunk driving, I think the same should be done for criminals using firearms. If someone commits any violent crime, felony, robbery, etc and has a firearm on him or her, the penalty should be severe enough to serve as an example to others. There needs to be a huge disincentive towards using firearms to commit a crime. I want that criminal to think long and hard before he decides to bring a handgun with him to rob that liquor store. He needs to be thinking, \"is the chance of 25 years in prison worth the $500 from the register, or should I just stay in.\" IIRC, California implemented draconian sentences like these and have seen a steady decline in crime involving firearms since. On a similar note, I think the penalty should be higher if the firearm was purchased illegally, and that being in possession of an illegally acquired firearm should carry a draconian sentence as well.","Summary: There's always hope, and you have a million options at your disposal. A good GPA is just a way to get in the door. For many companies, work experience and recommendations are more important than GPA. As far as grad school goes, it depends on how prestigious of a university you want to attend. Without significant work experience, I would say that's out of the question for the time being, but, depending on the field, many companies have connections to graduate programs and can get you into them if you need a masters or higher degree to continue moving up. Case in point, many banks will get employees into MBA programs and pay for their tuition once they have proven themselves.\n\nPost: I had a similar thing happen to me. What I've found is that you need to attack it head on in the interview- assuming you're able to get one. You need to explain what happened, and point out that your bad semester was an outlier. The most important thing when this happens is getting your first job in the field you want to work in. Once you're in, you can prove yourself in the workforce, and your GPA becomes secondary. \n As an example, I was talking with my dad a good bit about this last night. Without giving many specifics, he's the president of a pretty successful small business- ~300 employees in an international market. We were talking about my GPA in college, which went from a 3.1 to a 2.2 in one semester. I had pretty severe depression and had mono during finals and ended up failing all of my classes. It's my senior year now, and I'm starting to interview for jobs, and my GPA has been a hindrance for getting in the door. The reason I bring up my dad is that he talked about their hiring process a good bit. They have an in-major GPA requirement for engineers and managers of 3.5 to even get an interview. This somewhat negates the notion that you can explain your GPA in an interview. However, he said, the requirement drops to a 3.1 if you have work experience. So they have turned people away, but recommended them for other jobs with a lower requirement to give them a chance to prove themselves in the workplace. \n The good news is that you have work and life experience. There's no doubt that you're a different person now than the person who ended college with the low GPA. Address this in your cover letter on your resume. You need to be willing to accept an entry level job with the promise that you'll work your way up the ranks. \n Another option for you is to apply for a retroactive withdrawal from the classes you failed in college. I'm in the process of doing this now, and if it's approved, it will raise my GPA substantially. Most universities offer this if you can prove that something outside of the classroom (depression in your case) caused you to fail. Obviously, because you received zero credit hours for the classes you failed, it won't affect your degree. It would have been good to do this sooner, but I doubt it's impossible. To give an example, I went to my advisor the other day, and a woman who had flunked out of school 13 years ago was talking to her before I went in. She was retroactively withdrawing from one of the semesters that she had failed, and was going back to school to finish her degree. Her argument was that she is a completely different person now. The semester will likely be dropped if she does well in the first semester that she is back.","Summary: you can't talk about the atomic bombs without talking about the context leading up it it.\n\nPost: Leveling cities with bombs had become a major strategy in WW2. Leading up to the dropping of the atomic bombs, both sides were dropping thousands of bombs on cities claiming they were attacking military targets. However, because the bombs were so inaccurate this quickly turned into carpet bombing cities. Once that became acceptable, the idea of morale bombing started. That is, both sides would drop huge amounts of high explosives followed by incendiaries on cities in order to crush the morale of the enemy. \n You have to understand the context of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. The rules of war changed with the advent of bombers. When the atomic bomb became an option, it wasn't as much an issue of morality as it was an issue of economics. We were going to level cities and then burn the remains to the ground because this had become acceptable as part of the war. The atomic bombs just gave us a way of doing it more efficiently. \n Don't get me wrong, what happened in Japan was horrible by modern standards. But you have to understand the context. WW2 was unlike anything the world had ever seen and the rules of war for bombers were still being worked out in a tit for tat manner. When one side dropped bombs on a city, the other side would escalate and drop more. As a final word, I'd like to point out that the fire bombings in London by Germany and in Tokyo by the US were significantly more destructive than the atomic bombs.","Summary: Took adderall to study. Stayed awake for 54+ straight hours.\n\nPost: Short anecdote. Freshman year of college I had a C- going into my Calc2 final. The final was on Monday and I didn't start really studying until Saturday night. I woke up early Sunday morning and started cramming. I took a 20mg xr and then took 20mg IRs throughout the day to maintain my high. I ended up studying through the night. I went into my exam and crushed it. This would all well and good, but I forgot that I had a 15 page final research paper due the next day that I hadn't started. Long story short, I essentially got back to my room after the calc final, had an \"oh shit\" moment, and went back to the library. I worked on the paper from about 4 in the afternoon until 2pm the next day when it was due, taking adderall the entire time. By this time it was Tuesday, and I had been up since 8am on Sunday. I think I made an A on the paper.","Summary: If Best Buy executives were paid $10 an hour, that would translate to an addition $.11 per hour for all employees. Executives are paid so much because they bring real tangible value to a company, and oftentimes, a large compensation package is the only way to lure them away from another job. \n Also, in response to the \"they take all the money to the top\" statement. If by \"to the top\" you mean to the investors, then yes they do. Investors wouldn't put up with huge compensation packages unless they expected a larger return on it. That's how business works. You don't pay someone just to pay them. You pay them because you expect them to provide more value than what it costs to employ them.\n\nPost: Best Buy, for example, is a publicly traded company. They are not beholden to the wishes of the executives as much as they are to the desires of shareholders. The board of directors makes the decision to pay huge sums of money to quality executives based on what they think having those executives is worth to the shareholders. Executives are paid so much because a good one can dramatically improve a company. This is why shareholders are ok with huge compensation packages. It's not like they are just paying some rich guy money to make him richer. They are paying him (or her) because that executive has proven that he is worth that much to the company. It's a moot point to discuss rather this is right or wrong (in my opinion at least) because it's not a decision based on morality. It's purely a financial decision based on what's best for the company, and in turn, the shareholders. \n Let's look at Best Buy again. It's not a great example, because they recently had to pay their new CEO Hubert Joly enough to convince him to leave his executive position at CWT. Because of that, Best Buy's 2013 executive compensation numbers are inflated at 63.66M. But for 2014, the total is 34.37M spread across all executives, with the most going to Joly. For the sake of painting a better picture of typical Best Buy operations, I'll say that executive compensation for 2013 was actually 43M after taking out the 20M paid by Best Buy to buy Joly out of his contract at CWT. I realize this seems like cherry picking, but I feel that it's justified given that attracting a new CEO is an extraordinary event. \n Best Buy's total labor expense in 2013 was 520M. BBY had 180,000 employees in 2013. (Warning, I know the following number is a leap). Let's assume an average annual employee compensation is between $10,000 and $18,000. The actual figure can be found by going through their financial statements if you're interested. To be fair, I chose a low range that is well below the average US annual income in 2013. 180,000 employees x $10,000 is 1.8B, and at the upper end the total is 3.24B. \n If Best Buy were to divide that 43M among all employees, the total annual pay increase would be an extra $230 per employee or an extra 11 cents an hour. \n I would point out, that in all likelihood, that addition 43M would probably be used to expand elsewhere instead of going to employees. If somebody is willing to work for $10, Best Buy has no incentive to raise wages. \n However, like I said earlier, the point of high executive compensation isn't to help the rich get richer. It's because these people have proven that they are worth this much. Best Buy is struggling, so they brought in somebody who they thought could help. Joly demonstrated his worth at another company. He's not going to leave that position unless he is being compensated equally well. The board of directors made a decision based on Joly's perceived potential value to the company. If he turns Best Buy around, then he is absolutely worth it. One of main reasons executives are paid in stock options is so that they have skin in the game. If the company goes down, their personal worth goes down with it. \n This is a larger topic, but executives are also compensated so highly because they are taking on the most responsibility. If sales manager who is offered a promotion to general manager, there's no reason to take the job unless it is paying more. You would be taking on more work and responsibility at no benefit to yourself. The same is true in the upper ranks of large corporations.","Summary: The problem, as I see it, is that small, local universities are expanding beyond the scope of their mission statements to fill a demand for prestigious universities. Very few schools need to be major research institutions with multi-million dollar facilities. The other colleges would be better served by acknowledging that their role is simply to provide a quality secondary education to the masses. They're not not going to work out the secrets of the Universe at Local State Tech University, but they can improve the lives of everyone by providing their students with a quality, no-frills education that doesn't cripple them financially.\n\nPost: I agree with that. I had this discussion with a state school board member recently, and we both agreed that there's an issue with every university trying to become a large research institution. In order to do that, they need funding. Funding largely comes from tuition and donations. They can increase both of those by becoming a more prestigious university. The top private schools can charge huge amounts for tuition, because the demand for a degree from a university like Harvard or MIT is extremely high because students expect a large return on their investment. The issue is when smaller public schools try to emulate large research institutions. It sounds harsh, but the reality is that most universities aren't going to produce the \"best and brightest,\" and it's a pointless endeavor for them to attempt to become a major research institution. Their mission statements should be simplified to \"provide an adequate secondary education.\" But that's not sexy, and won't attract new students. \n Budgets are a function of enrollment, so universities have a strong incentive to attract more students. They can do this by making the university seem more prestigious. This will attract better students, which creates a positive feedback loop. The problem is that the ROI isn't immediate and is rarely a 1:1 exchange. \n A good example of this is the college in my hometown. It's a small, public 4-year institution with lax admission requirements. They recently spent tens of millions on a new football stadium. They are a not a D1 school, but their hope was that it would bring in more revenue through ticket sales. They were wrong because they overreached and tried to emulate the \"brand name\" universities. That should not be their mission statement. The students choosing a small local school over a prestigious university are almost always those that either didn't want to go to a major university or couldn't get into one. We are wasting money by trying to provide these students with a top50 university experience, when they would be much better served by a no-frills quality education. \n It's a tricky subject especially when you start talking about public universities. It involves acknowledging that all universities are not created equal, and that we don't need 100 research institutions. What makes it trickier is that this acknowledgement would require interstate agreements. In my case, for instance, I wanted to go to a major research institution, but my state didn't have one. So, I payed out of state tuition to attend a good school. I was willing to leave the state and pay a premium, but for those who are not, they are lobbying legislatures to improve local universities beyond what they were intended to be. We need, in my opinion, no more than 10 major flagship public universities, but this would require agreements between states.","Summary: Get off your fucking high horse.\n\nPost: I'd like to point out that the original post was hyperbole. I got into a top 25 school because I busted my ass in high school and am a decently smart person. I get my work done and do well in college, but it is harder than high school ever was. I also do my fair share of partying. Balancing the two is what makes it hard. Sorry for the banality, but I believe that less than half of what you learn in college is learned in the classroom. I'm going to enjoy my 4 years of undergrad, because I won't have another time in my life where I can partake in the same type of destructive behavior and still be considered a \"responsible adult.\" \n In other words, don't tell me that I don't belong in college or that I'm contributing to the downfall of America's youth.","Summary: This post reaching the front page exemplifies everything wrong with /r/wtf and its becoming a default subreddit. We need to bring attention to the other subreddits created for content like this. And people should read or reread the [reddiquette rules]( so that they know when to upvote and when to downvote. \n I don't have a whole lot going on today. Clearly.\n\nPost: This is why I think /r/wtf needs to become a network of different subreddits so that people can subscribe to the ones that fit what they think /r/wtf is. This post is funny, but not in the slightest way is it wtf. A squirrel- one of the most common urban animals- got into somebody's car. That is mildly interesting. If I had been there, I likely would have audibly said, \"what the fuck,\" but seeing a picture of it doesn't arouse that emotion at all. I subscribe here for those wtf moments, and posts like this one just don't do it for me. If it were labeled properly, it would acceptable, IMO. It would still hit the front page in /r/funny or /r/mildlyintersting and OP would still get karma. \n So the question is, does it matter what subreddit it's in if I would have seen it regardless? And the answer, to me at least, is yes it definitely matters. There's an expectation with links on here that I'm going to be confused, disturbed, etc, and that I'm going to be thinking, \"what the fuck, dude?\" when I see them. The subreddit matters because it changes the context in which something is viewed. It's like starting a joke by saying, \"this is the best joke ever!\" It probably isn't, but the expectation has already been set. \n This post illustrates why we need to utilize the different subreddits in the WTF network. Subreddits like /r/awwwtf and /r/mildlywtf are a good start, but they need more traffic. A lot of the posts I've seen hit the frontpage from this subreddit would have been just as successful in /r/mildlyintersting, but for a lot of people who only subscribe to the default subreddits, there's no point in examining the context in which something is posted. A cute squirrel is a cute squirrel, and it's off to the front page we go. \n It's unfortunate that this is a default subreddit, because historically that ruins them. It's basically become a karma mill where people upvote whatever without following reddiquette. One of the most important rules in reddiquette is as follows: \n >Vote. If you think something contributes to conversation, upvote it. If you think it does not contribute to the subreddit it is posted in or is off-topic in a particular community, downvote it. \n This does not contribute to this subreddit. If you actually thought to yourself, \"wtf! There's a squirrel in that car!\" then upvote it. But I seriously doubt that the nearly 6,000 people who upvoted this had that reaction. I would imagine that the majority saw a cute squirrel in a place that squirrels usually are not and upvoted. That's interesting, but upvoting this violates reddiquette in my opinion.","Summary: Soccer players, outside midfielders in particular, run a whole hell of a lot because they have two big responsibilities- to recover from an attack to defend the backside of the goal and to move forward to be apart of the attack when the ball is won. \n Edit: sorry for the length of the post, but I got excited thinking about playing soccer again. I may be time to sew my cleats back together and get after it again.\n\nPost: I used to play outside midfielder for a high level travel team when I was in middle and high school. Each practice started and ended with conditioning that was usually around 3-4 miles for the warm up and then some type of sprinting conditioning at the end of practice. \n One of my least favorite exercises we did involved breaking the field into 6 lines: the two goal lines, and then the sidelines were broken into two segments- from flag to midfield and midfield to flag. The idea was you would sprint one segment and then jog the next five, then sprint 2 and jog the next 4, and so on until the final lap for that set which was a sprint around the field. The whole idea was to simulate the pace of a soccer game where you're jogging into position and then sprinting when you're attacking or recovering on defense. This would usually be done as the warm up. \n A favorite end of practice sprinting exercise of one of my coaches was \"waterfalls.\" For those unfamiliar, the team forms a line at the goal line and then one player sprints 30 yards or so and back at which point the next player in line sprints with him. When they return, they pick up a third player, and so on until the entire team is sprinting. When the last player finishes his first sprint, the player who started drops off and is done. Most teams I played with had 20-25 players at practice (not everyone travelled). This was a good exercise because it allowed the players not sprinting initially to be working on ball skills while waiting to go, and because it allowed different groups (midfielders, defenders, goalies, etc.) to join at different times once they finished with their respective coach. \n As an outside midfielder, I was pretty much constantly moving. It's one of the most commonly substituted positions (at the level I played at least). \n To give you an idea of how much off the ball sprinting and movement there is, imagine this situation. Your team wins the ball at midfield so you may make a run down the sideline. If the ball doesn't come to you, you need to recover back onside and try to open yourself up for a pass or to make another run to move a defender out of the play. You will rarely see a player receive a pass who hasn't just made a run to open him or herself up. \n But to continue with the example, imagine that you make a run down the right side of the field, and your center midfielder plays it down the left side of the field to the other outside midfielder who also made a sideline run. You're attacking now and need to sprint to the top of the 18 yard box in anticipation of a cross if you're counter attacking. Let's say the cross comes in to the goal, so you sprint the 10-18 yards to try to connect with the ball and score, but the goalkeeper picks the ball out of the air and throws it to their outside midfielder on the opposite side of you to counter attack. \n Because you've just made a run to the goal, you should have gotten past their defender. Now there are two potential attackers on your side that you need to recover to defend. So the ball is moving quickly up the left side of the field, and you're sprinting to cover the opponents outside midfielder on your side because the defense will have shifted to cover the ball side. If you don't haul ass for 100 yards back down the field to cover him, your opponent will have an open attacker on the backside of your goal who will have an easy header or shot if the ball is crossed across the face of the goal. No other defender can cover him, because they have changed their shape to pick up attackers in the middle and on the left side of the field. This is one of the reasons the goal of a defender is to slow the ball down and not necessarily to steal it (the main reason is that attempting to steal the ball is one of the surest ways to be beaten if the attacker has any ball skill at all). \n And once you've recovered and your defense has slowed the attack, you can take a short rest by jogging to keep the attacker in front of you assuming he doesn't make a sprinting run to open himself for a through ball- a pass that splits two defenders and is moving up the field. And once your team regains possession, you need to leave this attacker and sprint to be even with the ball. Because the ball moves quickly, you're going to be sprinting for most vertical passes. If the ball is on the opposite side of the field, it's generally ok to jog and try to stretch the field by pushing to the sideline. Once it goes to the center, you need to be making runs to open yourself for a pass again or to pull a defender away. If you jog here, you won't create enough separation to open yourself for a pass, and if you jog to pull a defender away, it's unlikely that he'll bite, because he knows that it wasn't a real attempt to get open. \n Now imagine that this scenario which took 1 minute or so is happening constantly for 90 minutes, and you can start to see how the mileage adds up. Granted this is an extreme example that would only happen against certain types of teams- typically teams with a flat defense who like to counter attack quickly. But even in a slower paced game where you are trying to win by out-possessing your opponent by methodically moving the ball from player to player, the runs to and off the ball are still sprints, and the recovery and initial counter attack runs are at full pace. Generally speaking, the only times that you should be moving slowly or standing as a winger are when you have the ball (assuming it's not a one on one situation to the goal, in which case, I would generally try to beat the sender on the dribble and by moving with pace) or when the ball is out of play. Then you can catch your breath and get ready to do it again.","Summary: We're just as sure that we're right about our non-belief as christians are about their belief. We will never be able to change their opinions by brute force no matter how sure we are about the importance of rational thought. \n Edit 1: Grammar \n Edit 2: Remember reddiquette. Don't downvote because you disagree.\n\nPost: I'm going to get down voted to Hell (pun intended) for this rant, but I've already taken a decent Karma hit, so a little more won't hurt. \n I don't want to attack you personally by saying this, but it's going to come across like that. Think of it as an attack on the anti-theist mindset. With that said, your response is the perfect example of why I stopped identifying with the atheist movement. It shows why I no longer frequent r/atheism and other atheist forums. It's the hypocrisy that nearly all atheists are blind to. We are sure of our position. But so are religious people. We can claim that we have rational thought on our side, but that means little to nothing to any christian with a strongly held belief. \n Atheists are notoriously naive about the way normal people think. You stand on your pedestal and preach about the tenets of rational thought, but that's not going to convince anyone who is unwilling to listen. You further shut out religious people by insulting them when they refuse to listen to you. But why would they listen when you insist on mocking their most sacred of beliefs? This makes them cling to their beliefs even more, because they've seen what arrogant douche bags people become when they've \"lost faith.\" \n I grew up in the Bible Belt and still live below the Mason Dixon line. I am surrounded by religious people who remind me on a day to day basis how strongly they hold their belief. God is everything to these people, and I'm not going to change their mind by scoffing at their beliefs. I can however gently suggest the importance of rationality. But if they're unreceptive, I'm not going to leave a bad taste in their mouth. I will back down and allow them to believe what they want. \n How does it feel for you when you mention that you're an atheist to a Christian and they say something like, \"Oh! Really? I thought you were a good person.\" This used to happen to me on a regular basis. I was vocal about my atheism in my high school. Now, long after graduation, I still have teachers and parents send me books and CDs about faith, hoping to change my mind because they're worried about my \"dangerous beliefs,\" just as they would worry if I was an advocate of \"harmful dogmas such as Stalinism (or) Nazism.\" \n I used to get angry at them for trying to change my mind on an issue that I was quite certain about. But I realize now that I was doing the same type of thing, but i didn't notice it because I was blinded by my self righteous sense of intelligence. I talked to Christians because I felt their beliefs were childish. Do you know where that got me? Absolutely nowhere. They shut down or changed the subject. I would remind them how their beliefs had no place in the 21st century, but it did not matter. \n On a similar note, your post clearly highlights one of my biggest pet peeves in the atheist movement. It's this pseudo-intellectual spouting of bullshit plagiarized from one author or another. It's the way phrases like \"permissive doublethink\" catch on and become staples in the atheist lexicon that truly irks me. I am honestly repulsed with myself to think that I used to do the same thing, and the more I type the angrier I become with myself. \n To think that Dawkins is doing anything constructive for the atheist movement is to be ignorant of human nature. Nobody wants to be told their wrong, but that's exactly what Dawkins does. Why should we tell them that we're right? You are no better than the Christian missionary's who beat their Bibles and promise damnation to those who don't accept Jesus as their savior. And worst of all, you don't realize it. You're so caught up in your own ideological bullshit that you don't take in what you're doing. \n I'll also point out the important fact that we're in the minority in most parts of the world. Like it or not, in a society built around the tenets of democracy, the majority opinion tends to feel security in numbers. They tend to beg the question \"how could so many people be wrong?\" Minorities have to be loud to be heard, but being vocal doesn't mean making an ass of yourself by insulting people. \n Richard Dawkins has given credence to the extremist atheist point of view as a means of countering the extremist religious position. He is the modern day Malcolm X (though with less of an inclination towards violence). He can rally atheists, but he will never win over the minds of christians because they are completely unwilling to listen to him. Try this: get a staunchly religious friend of yours and ask him to watch a Richard Dawkins video and tell you what he thinks. Now do the same thing with a Sam Harris video. I will almost guarantee that they will turn off the Dawkins video but listen to the one by Sam Harris. \n I will say that I agree with you in principle. I also think that religion is a dangerous superstition. However, you can't be so naive as to think that everyone is willing or even capable of seeing it in the same light as you. It is idealistic to the point of insanity to think that religious people can be won over by beating them over the head with rational thought. You have to be gentle and tactful. These are two qualities that Dawkins seriously lacks. \n Finally, please understand where I'm coming from. I felt the same way as you for several years, but that type of thinking doesn't translate into the real world- at least among the people in my region of the country. I'm pessimistic, but only because I was naively optimistic for so long. Religion may disappear from the face of the Earth, but it's not going to happen in our generation. Unlike your examples of Nazism and Stalinism, Christianity is not a product of the modern era. It has proven to have staying power for a number of reasons. Most importantly (IMO), it makes people feel like they're living for something and that their lives have meaning. Despite all the reasons that we think religion is dangerous and unbecoming of a modern society, they're are thousands of good reasons to believe in God. We only have a handful of reasons not to, the most important of which being that the evidence points to the likely fact that there is no god. Argue about it all you want, but know that unless you can absolutely convince religious people that certainty based on rational thought is better than certainty based on faith, you're never going to win over people who feel they have so much to lose by denying their faith.","Summary: friend used my shirt as a cum rag, I jerked off on his pillow.\n\nPost: This is apparently pretty tame compared to everyone else, but I'll give it a go anyway. \n The background: I was kicked out of my dorm freshman year and was forced to live in the office room of a house with a few of my friends. I had set up my temporary room with my clothes hanging wherever I could find space and a few blankets on a small couch and the rest of my belongings either in the car or anywhere I could find space. \n The Betrayal: One night after some serious binge drinking my best friend came back to the house with a wonderful, morally sound woman he met that night. Being too drunk to make it to his room, the two began engaging in what I can only imagine to have been a passionate session of romantic fornication that ended with him showing his affection for her by blowing his load on her face. Despite being drunk and tired, the two decided to return to party that was picking up momentum at the house. Knowing that the recipient of his affection couldn't be seen looking like a Jackson Pollock painting, he handed her the closest piece of fabric he could find, my favorite dress shirt, which she used to clean his little soldiers from her face. \n The aftermath: The next day, my friend gloated to me about what he had done. I was furious and demanded that he buy me a new shirt. He refused. So, I decided to settle for having him dry clean it, knowing that I would still get some sort of mild revenge. Again, he refused. So now I'm living in a cramped office, sleeping on a broken futon, and my favorite shirt is covered in my friend's semen. I'm not the happiest person in the world at this point. \n The revenge: About a month after this happened, I went into his bedroom when he was gone and cranked one out his hanging clothes. Not being satisfied with that, I went for something more personal and jerked it onto his pillow. I told him about it after he had been sleeping in my cum for a few weeks. The best part was thinking that I glimpsed a bit of my spluge in his hair the next morning. Justice is... Sticky?","Summary: See bold text for the main part if you must. \n Edit: spacing.\n\nPost: This incredibly scene from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was left out by some screenwriter. I'm crestfallen. I couldn't find a link, so I opened my copy of Deathly Hallows to the dogeared page of chapter 30 \"The Sacking of Severus Snape,\" to make sure I got it right. Here it is in its original form... \n Pages 591-593, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling. \n There was a rap on the common room door and every Ravenclaw froze. From the other side, Harry heard the soft, musical voice that issued from the eagle door knocker: “Where do Vanished objects go?” \n “I dunno, do I? Shut it!” snarled an uncouth voice that Harry knew was that of the Carrow brother, Amycus, “Alecto? Alecto? Are you there? Have you got him? Open the door!” \n The Ravenclaws were whispering amongst themselves, terrified. Then without warning, there came a series of loud bangs, as though somebody was firing a gun into the door. \n \"ALECTO! If he comes, and we haven't got Potter- d'you want to go the same way as the Malfoys? ANSWER ME!\" Amycus bellowed, shaking the door for all he was worth, but still it did not open. The Ravenclaws were all backing away, and some of the most frightened began scampering back up the staircase to their beds. Then, just as Harry was wondering whether he ought not to blast open the door and Stun Amycus before the Death Eater could do anything else, a second, most familiar voice rang out beyond the door. \n “May I ask what you are doing, Professor Carrow?” \n “Trying—to get-- through this damned-- door!” shouted Amycus. “Go and get Flitwick! Get him to open it, now!” \n “But isn't your sister in there” asked Professor McGonagall. “Didn't Professor Flitwick let her in earlier this evening, at your urgent request? Perhaps she could open the door for you? Then you needn't wake up half the castle.” \n \"She ain't answering, you old besom! You open it! Garn! Do it, now!\" \n \"Certainly, if you wish it,\" said Professor McGonagall, with awful coldness. There was a genteel tap of the knocker and the musical voice asked again, \n \"Where do Vanished objects go?\" \n \"Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything,\" replied Professor MCGonagall. \n \"Nicely phrased,\" replied the eagle door knocker, and the door swung open. \n The few Ravenclaws who had remained behind sprinted for the stairs as Amycus burst over the threshold, brandishing his wand. Hunched like his sister, he had a pallid, doughy face and tiny eyes, which fell at once on Alecto, sprawled motionless on the floor. He let out a yell of fury and fear. \n \"What've they done, the little whelps?,\" he screamed. \"I'll Cruciate the lot of 'em till they tell me who did it- and what's the Dark Lord going to say?\" he shrieked, standing over his sister and smacking himself on the forehead with his first. \"We haven't got him, and they've gorn and killed her!\" \n “She's only Stunned,” said Professor McGonagall impatiently, who had stooped down to examine Alecto. “She'll be perfectly all right.” \n “No she bludgering well won't!” bellowed Amycus. “Not after the Dark Lord gets hold of her! She's gone and sent for him, I felt me Mark burn, and he thinks we've got Potter!” \n “'Got Potter'?” said Professor McGonagall sharply, “What do you mean, 'got Potter'?” \n “He told us Potter might try and get inside Ravenclaw Tower, and to send for him if we caught him!” \n “Why would Harry Potter try to get inside Ravenclaw Tower! Potter belongs in my House!” \n Beneath the disbelief and anger, Harry heard a little strain of pride in her voice, and affection for Minerva McGonagall gushed up inside him. \n \"We was told he might come in here!\" said Carrow. \"I dunno why, do I?\" \n Professor McGonagall stood up and her beady eyes swept the room. Twice they passed right over where Harry and Luna stood. \n “We can push it off on the kids,” said Amycus, his pig like face suddenly crafty. “Yeah, that's what we'll do. We'll say Alecto was ambushed by the kids, them kids up there” -- he looked up at the starry ceiling toward the dormitories -- “ and we'll say they forced her to pres her Mark, and that's why he got a false alarm.... He can punish them. Couple of kids more or less, what's the difference?” \n “Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice,” said Professor McGonagall, who had turned pale, “a difference, in short, which you and your sister seem unable to appreciate. But let me make one thing very clear. You are not going to pass off your many ineptitudes on the students of Hogwarts. I shall not permit it.” \n “Excuse me?” \n Amycus moved forward until he was offensively close to Professor McGonagall, his face within inches of hers. She refused to back away, but looked down at him as if he were something disgusting she had found stuck to the lavatory seat. \n “It's not a case of what you'll permit, Minerva McGonagall. Your time's over. It's us what's in charge here now, and you'll back me up or you'll pay the price.”\nAnd he spat in her face. \n Harry pulled the Cloak off himself, raised his wand, and said, “You shouldn't have done that.” \n As Amycus spun around, Harry shouted, “Crucio!” \n The Death Eater was lifted off his feet. He writhed through the air like a drowning man, thrashing and howling in pain, and then, with a crunch and a shattering of glass, he smashed into the front of a bookcase and crumpled, insensible, to the floor. “I see what Bellatrix meant,” said Harry, the blood thundering through his brain, “you need to really mean it.” \n “Potter!” whispered Professor McGonagall, clutching her heart. “Potter--- you're here! What---? How---?” She struggled to pull herself together. “Potter, that was foolish!”\n“He spat at you,” said Harry. \n “Potter, I --- that was very --- gallant of you --- but don't you realize --?” \n “Yeah, I do,” Harry assured her. Somehow her panic steadied him. “Professor McGonagall, Voldemort's on the way.” \n P.S. While we're on the subject, what scenes were you looking forward to that were left out?","Summary: Ted Cruz is campaigning on implementing the gold standard despite the fact that he is educated and informed enough to know that experts almost unanimously agree that it's a disastrous idea.\n\nPost: Ted Cruz has mentioned that he wants [to return to the gold standard.]( \n I was thinking about this the other day, and I think it says a lot about the state of modern politics. \n To start, it's pretty universally accepted by economists that the gold standard is a terrible idea for a number of reasons. This deserves its own post, but for now, suffice it to say that the gold standard is bad for the world economy. \n Ted Cruz knows this. He is highly educated, and by most accounts, brilliant. He studied public policy at Princeton, where he almost certainly would have studied the Great Depression. He can't not understand the problems with the gold standard. \n I think he is advocating it because he knows it sounds good and will resonate with his voters. Instead of being an educated voice of reason, he is saying what the voters want to hear. \n Politics aside, this is disgusting to me. I didn't notice this until my mom, an Econ professor, pointed it out to me. \n To me, it's just indicative of a larger problem. We've completely moved away from voting for people we can trust to make important informed decisions to voting for people who echo our own opinions. I'd much rather have a representative who made informed decisions, even if I disagreed initially, than one who echoes my own beliefs to get my vote. \n Anyways, I thought it was worth discussing. Anybody have any thoughts?"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Fuck you, Carl. Fuck you so much.\\n\\nPost: I will tell you the story of the worst rushee I've ever seen, and we'll see if we can all learn from his mistakes. Let's call him Carl. \\n Carl rushed in the fall as a freshman. He didn't really come around to that many events, but from all accounts, was a pretty cool guy who could hold a conversation. But because we didn't really know anything about him, he didn't get a bid, but was encouraged to come around again the spring. \\n Let's flash forward to the spring. I hadn't met this Carl character yet, but was encouraged to at our next event. From what I heard, Carl was a funny person, and more importantly, Carl was also fat. Ive wanted a fat funny pledge since I became a brother. \\n So when I set out to meet this Carl character at the next event, I saw this supposedly fat and funny guy wearing new loafers, a gingham vineyard vines shirt, khakis, and croakies on whatever sunglasses he had. The event was at night, and he had clearly just showered and dressed. Fuck your croakies, Carl. They belong around your neck during the day or if you haven't had a chance to go home or to your car once it got dark. Carl had traded in his jeans and t-shirts to try to become what he thought we wanted to see. \\n Anyway, enough about this insufferable chode's appearances. The event was just supposed to be some rushees coming over to drink and watch a basketball game. I was with my girlfriend and hanging out with my brothers when Carl showed up about an hour before anybody else. Carl proceeded to act like he already knew every brother and like he already had a bid. This chucklefuck started asking us for liquor and beer like he was entitled to it. No, Carl. You'll drink the Busch Light like the rest of the rushees will when they get here in 50 minutes. \\n Carl is upset about not getting any booze, but is just thrilled to be around his future brothers. That cocky fuck. It's after the first 5 minutes of talking to Carl that I want to castrate the brother who said he's a good conversationalist. All Carl wanted to talk about was that time that he got so wasted he puked! Hilarious anecdote, Carl. Or that one time he drank so much that he was hungover the next day in class. Another sidesplitter from Carl. \\n We're now about 45 minutes away from the other rushees arriving and Carl has run out of things to say, so he turns the conversation to all of that sweet sweet strange he gets. (Sidenote: I don't want to be presumptuous, but I think Carl's lying about how much sweet sweet strange he gets.) After listening to his explicit stories that sound like he's splicing together American Pie movies and 80's pornography, I'm praying for blunt force trauma to the head to end this misery. \\n To move this story along, I'll skip the next 45 minutes and get to the part where Carl starts drinking. According to Carl, he's a real champ when it comes to all things alcohol. Carl gets his hands on the PJ that we had for the ladies in attendance. Carl is not a lady. Carl starts chugging to show how cool he is. He starts to look almost worried when he sees that we are not impressed, so he keeps chugging. The alcohol has been out for maybe 20 minutes when Carl loses pretty much all motor function and verbal filters. He's chatting up the other rushees talking about how he's pretty much assured a bid because of how cool we think he is. He is wrong. At one point he told a brother that he wanted to do tequila shots with him. Carl then decided that he should walk up behind said brother every 15 minutes or so, put his hands on his shoulders, and shout, \\\"TEQUILLLLLAAAA SHOOOTTTSSSS!!\\\" \\n Carl was the loudest person at this event that later turned into a party. After creeping out most of the girls by proposing that they practice making babies (I don't know if this is the pickup line he used, but it seems fitting), he decided to chat with my girlfriend. After being told numerous times that she was not interested because she had a boyfriend (good girl), Carl walked away and told another rushee that he basically, \\\"had it in the bag with the brunette.\\\" Because Carl is a loud, fat, unfunny turtle fucker, another brother overheard him, and informed Carl that she had a boyfriend. He apologized, but I suspect it was not genuine. \\n As the night was winding down, Carl managed to make it to the second floor where he passed out on a couch in a brother's room. We were unable to move him, so a couple of brothers watched him to make sure that he didn't die. In an unfortunate turn of events, Carl survived the night. At some point in the night, he managed to piss his pants- an act which he denied in the morning. \\n That's pretty much it for Carl. This is basically the story of how a guy went from alright on first impression to the worst rushee I've ever had the displeasure of knowing. Carl kept coming to events until they became invite only. We whiteflagged him, meaning that we emailed other fraternities he was rushing to let them know what ole Carl had done. Needless to say, he did not get a bid.\",\n \"Summary: Let's please try to keep this subreddit as a forum for gun politics and not anti-Obama politics. The two happen to be one in the same on the issue of gun rights, but his policies on other matters are a nonissue when it comes to this subreddit.\\n\\nPost: Every US president has viewed their position this way. Let's be reasonable about this. I'm very pro-gun rights, but I also support our president. I don't think he's ever going to successfully institute any type of meaningful gun control, so I'm willing to give him a pass on that. But there is a huge difference between lending military aid to a country that could become a future ally and stronghold and attempting to institute gun control in the US. The two are wholly unrelated. \\n But back to my original point, the US has world power because we have the strongest military in the world. We leverage this power by giving aid to countries that need it, who in turn agree to help us when we need it. We spend more on our military than any other country because it gives us the ability to tip world policy in our favor should we need it. Every president since the Cold War began has done the exact same thing. \\n This subreddit is about gun politics, not about bashing the president. I hate that the progun movement has become synonymous with the conservative right. It is not. It's a matter of freedom- the freedom for responsible citizens to protect themselves from whatever threats they personally feel they need protection from. Painting the progun movement as a conservative movement doesn't help the cause. If it becomes a matter of right vs left, the movement will fail and we'll be left defenseless solely because popular opinion is moving away from the republican party.\",\n \"Summary: We need a paradigm shift in this country the same as we had with drunk driving. I think it can be accomplished in the long run with a well funded and well implemented ad campaign as well as draconian penalties for any crime committed with a firearm on the criminal's person, rather or not it was used to commit the crime.\\n\\nPost: I've made this argument several times. The US has made huge strides in cutting down on drunk driving fatalities by changing the public opinion on drunk driving. I wasn't alive for it, but most people in their 40's or 50's remember a time where if you were pulled over by an officer and were drunk, he might say, \\\"Can you make it home?\\\" or if you were really bad off, he might have you sleep it off either in jail or in your car. \\n The public opinion has changed dramatically since then. I was talking with my dad about my city's dedicated alcohol law enforcement division exists largely to counter underage drinkers (it's a college town). He said how stupid it was to waste money on something kids are going to do anyway, but went on to say, \\\"but if they get behind the wheel, throw them under the jail.\\\" That's a huge change of opinion from just 30 years ago. \\n The issue wasn't solved (I use the term loosely) by banning cars- granted, that's a week analogy. It was fixed by organizations like Mother Against Drunk Driving fighting and lobbying for stricter laws, but more importantly, by a very successful ad campaign that preached the dangers of drunk driving. They, along with other organizations, did something that politicians aren't talking about for guns- they changed the public consciousness. \\n So why aren't politicians talking about this? I think the answer is complicated, but it boils down to the fact that it's not an easy thing to do. It's much more abstract than instituting an arbitrary ban. A politicians can promise to fund billboards and commercials that teach proper firearm use, the dangers of firearms, etc, but that is unlikely to win many votes because many will see it as an empty gesture, whereas a ban is a much tangible piece of legislation. When running for reelection, it will look much better for anti-gun voters if a politician can say, \\\"I helped implement a ban on assault weapons and handguns, and gun violence has gone down x amount.\\\" than to say, \\\"I've helped start a gun-education campaign, and we hope to see gun violence go down in the next 30 years as the populace becomes more educated.\\\" People want results and, unfortunately this usually requires short sided legislation. \\n With that being said, I do think that tougher laws on criminals are a must. In the same way that the government implemented draconian laws for drunk driving, I think the same should be done for criminals using firearms. If someone commits any violent crime, felony, robbery, etc and has a firearm on him or her, the penalty should be severe enough to serve as an example to others. There needs to be a huge disincentive towards using firearms to commit a crime. I want that criminal to think long and hard before he decides to bring a handgun with him to rob that liquor store. He needs to be thinking, \\\"is the chance of 25 years in prison worth the $500 from the register, or should I just stay in.\\\" IIRC, California implemented draconian sentences like these and have seen a steady decline in crime involving firearms since. On a similar note, I think the penalty should be higher if the firearm was purchased illegally, and that being in possession of an illegally acquired firearm should carry a draconian sentence as well.\",\n \"Summary: There's always hope, and you have a million options at your disposal. A good GPA is just a way to get in the door. For many companies, work experience and recommendations are more important than GPA. As far as grad school goes, it depends on how prestigious of a university you want to attend. Without significant work experience, I would say that's out of the question for the time being, but, depending on the field, many companies have connections to graduate programs and can get you into them if you need a masters or higher degree to continue moving up. Case in point, many banks will get employees into MBA programs and pay for their tuition once they have proven themselves.\\n\\nPost: I had a similar thing happen to me. What I've found is that you need to attack it head on in the interview- assuming you're able to get one. You need to explain what happened, and point out that your bad semester was an outlier. The most important thing when this happens is getting your first job in the field you want to work in. Once you're in, you can prove yourself in the workforce, and your GPA becomes secondary. \\n As an example, I was talking with my dad a good bit about this last night. Without giving many specifics, he's the president of a pretty successful small business- ~300 employees in an international market. We were talking about my GPA in college, which went from a 3.1 to a 2.2 in one semester. I had pretty severe depression and had mono during finals and ended up failing all of my classes. It's my senior year now, and I'm starting to interview for jobs, and my GPA has been a hindrance for getting in the door. The reason I bring up my dad is that he talked about their hiring process a good bit. They have an in-major GPA requirement for engineers and managers of 3.5 to even get an interview. This somewhat negates the notion that you can explain your GPA in an interview. However, he said, the requirement drops to a 3.1 if you have work experience. So they have turned people away, but recommended them for other jobs with a lower requirement to give them a chance to prove themselves in the workplace. \\n The good news is that you have work and life experience. There's no doubt that you're a different person now than the person who ended college with the low GPA. Address this in your cover letter on your resume. You need to be willing to accept an entry level job with the promise that you'll work your way up the ranks. \\n Another option for you is to apply for a retroactive withdrawal from the classes you failed in college. I'm in the process of doing this now, and if it's approved, it will raise my GPA substantially. Most universities offer this if you can prove that something outside of the classroom (depression in your case) caused you to fail. Obviously, because you received zero credit hours for the classes you failed, it won't affect your degree. It would have been good to do this sooner, but I doubt it's impossible. To give an example, I went to my advisor the other day, and a woman who had flunked out of school 13 years ago was talking to her before I went in. She was retroactively withdrawing from one of the semesters that she had failed, and was going back to school to finish her degree. Her argument was that she is a completely different person now. The semester will likely be dropped if she does well in the first semester that she is back.\",\n \"Summary: you can't talk about the atomic bombs without talking about the context leading up it it.\\n\\nPost: Leveling cities with bombs had become a major strategy in WW2. Leading up to the dropping of the atomic bombs, both sides were dropping thousands of bombs on cities claiming they were attacking military targets. However, because the bombs were so inaccurate this quickly turned into carpet bombing cities. Once that became acceptable, the idea of morale bombing started. That is, both sides would drop huge amounts of high explosives followed by incendiaries on cities in order to crush the morale of the enemy. \\n You have to understand the context of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. The rules of war changed with the advent of bombers. When the atomic bomb became an option, it wasn't as much an issue of morality as it was an issue of economics. We were going to level cities and then burn the remains to the ground because this had become acceptable as part of the war. The atomic bombs just gave us a way of doing it more efficiently. \\n Don't get me wrong, what happened in Japan was horrible by modern standards. But you have to understand the context. WW2 was unlike anything the world had ever seen and the rules of war for bombers were still being worked out in a tit for tat manner. When one side dropped bombs on a city, the other side would escalate and drop more. As a final word, I'd like to point out that the fire bombings in London by Germany and in Tokyo by the US were significantly more destructive than the atomic bombs.\",\n \"Summary: Took adderall to study. Stayed awake for 54+ straight hours.\\n\\nPost: Short anecdote. Freshman year of college I had a C- going into my Calc2 final. The final was on Monday and I didn't start really studying until Saturday night. I woke up early Sunday morning and started cramming. I took a 20mg xr and then took 20mg IRs throughout the day to maintain my high. I ended up studying through the night. I went into my exam and crushed it. This would all well and good, but I forgot that I had a 15 page final research paper due the next day that I hadn't started. Long story short, I essentially got back to my room after the calc final, had an \\\"oh shit\\\" moment, and went back to the library. I worked on the paper from about 4 in the afternoon until 2pm the next day when it was due, taking adderall the entire time. By this time it was Tuesday, and I had been up since 8am on Sunday. I think I made an A on the paper.\",\n \"Summary: If Best Buy executives were paid $10 an hour, that would translate to an addition $.11 per hour for all employees. Executives are paid so much because they bring real tangible value to a company, and oftentimes, a large compensation package is the only way to lure them away from another job. \\n Also, in response to the \\\"they take all the money to the top\\\" statement. If by \\\"to the top\\\" you mean to the investors, then yes they do. Investors wouldn't put up with huge compensation packages unless they expected a larger return on it. That's how business works. You don't pay someone just to pay them. You pay them because you expect them to provide more value than what it costs to employ them.\\n\\nPost: Best Buy, for example, is a publicly traded company. They are not beholden to the wishes of the executives as much as they are to the desires of shareholders. The board of directors makes the decision to pay huge sums of money to quality executives based on what they think having those executives is worth to the shareholders. Executives are paid so much because a good one can dramatically improve a company. This is why shareholders are ok with huge compensation packages. It's not like they are just paying some rich guy money to make him richer. They are paying him (or her) because that executive has proven that he is worth that much to the company. It's a moot point to discuss rather this is right or wrong (in my opinion at least) because it's not a decision based on morality. It's purely a financial decision based on what's best for the company, and in turn, the shareholders. \\n Let's look at Best Buy again. It's not a great example, because they recently had to pay their new CEO Hubert Joly enough to convince him to leave his executive position at CWT. Because of that, Best Buy's 2013 executive compensation numbers are inflated at 63.66M. But for 2014, the total is 34.37M spread across all executives, with the most going to Joly. For the sake of painting a better picture of typical Best Buy operations, I'll say that executive compensation for 2013 was actually 43M after taking out the 20M paid by Best Buy to buy Joly out of his contract at CWT. I realize this seems like cherry picking, but I feel that it's justified given that attracting a new CEO is an extraordinary event. \\n Best Buy's total labor expense in 2013 was 520M. BBY had 180,000 employees in 2013. (Warning, I know the following number is a leap). Let's assume an average annual employee compensation is between $10,000 and $18,000. The actual figure can be found by going through their financial statements if you're interested. To be fair, I chose a low range that is well below the average US annual income in 2013. 180,000 employees x $10,000 is 1.8B, and at the upper end the total is 3.24B. \\n If Best Buy were to divide that 43M among all employees, the total annual pay increase would be an extra $230 per employee or an extra 11 cents an hour. \\n I would point out, that in all likelihood, that addition 43M would probably be used to expand elsewhere instead of going to employees. If somebody is willing to work for $10, Best Buy has no incentive to raise wages. \\n However, like I said earlier, the point of high executive compensation isn't to help the rich get richer. It's because these people have proven that they are worth this much. Best Buy is struggling, so they brought in somebody who they thought could help. Joly demonstrated his worth at another company. He's not going to leave that position unless he is being compensated equally well. The board of directors made a decision based on Joly's perceived potential value to the company. If he turns Best Buy around, then he is absolutely worth it. One of main reasons executives are paid in stock options is so that they have skin in the game. If the company goes down, their personal worth goes down with it. \\n This is a larger topic, but executives are also compensated so highly because they are taking on the most responsibility. If sales manager who is offered a promotion to general manager, there's no reason to take the job unless it is paying more. You would be taking on more work and responsibility at no benefit to yourself. The same is true in the upper ranks of large corporations.\",\n \"Summary: The problem, as I see it, is that small, local universities are expanding beyond the scope of their mission statements to fill a demand for prestigious universities. Very few schools need to be major research institutions with multi-million dollar facilities. The other colleges would be better served by acknowledging that their role is simply to provide a quality secondary education to the masses. They're not not going to work out the secrets of the Universe at Local State Tech University, but they can improve the lives of everyone by providing their students with a quality, no-frills education that doesn't cripple them financially.\\n\\nPost: I agree with that. I had this discussion with a state school board member recently, and we both agreed that there's an issue with every university trying to become a large research institution. In order to do that, they need funding. Funding largely comes from tuition and donations. They can increase both of those by becoming a more prestigious university. The top private schools can charge huge amounts for tuition, because the demand for a degree from a university like Harvard or MIT is extremely high because students expect a large return on their investment. The issue is when smaller public schools try to emulate large research institutions. It sounds harsh, but the reality is that most universities aren't going to produce the \\\"best and brightest,\\\" and it's a pointless endeavor for them to attempt to become a major research institution. Their mission statements should be simplified to \\\"provide an adequate secondary education.\\\" But that's not sexy, and won't attract new students. \\n Budgets are a function of enrollment, so universities have a strong incentive to attract more students. They can do this by making the university seem more prestigious. This will attract better students, which creates a positive feedback loop. The problem is that the ROI isn't immediate and is rarely a 1:1 exchange. \\n A good example of this is the college in my hometown. It's a small, public 4-year institution with lax admission requirements. They recently spent tens of millions on a new football stadium. They are a not a D1 school, but their hope was that it would bring in more revenue through ticket sales. They were wrong because they overreached and tried to emulate the \\\"brand name\\\" universities. That should not be their mission statement. The students choosing a small local school over a prestigious university are almost always those that either didn't want to go to a major university or couldn't get into one. We are wasting money by trying to provide these students with a top50 university experience, when they would be much better served by a no-frills quality education. \\n It's a tricky subject especially when you start talking about public universities. It involves acknowledging that all universities are not created equal, and that we don't need 100 research institutions. What makes it trickier is that this acknowledgement would require interstate agreements. In my case, for instance, I wanted to go to a major research institution, but my state didn't have one. So, I payed out of state tuition to attend a good school. I was willing to leave the state and pay a premium, but for those who are not, they are lobbying legislatures to improve local universities beyond what they were intended to be. We need, in my opinion, no more than 10 major flagship public universities, but this would require agreements between states.\",\n \"Summary: Get off your fucking high horse.\\n\\nPost: I'd like to point out that the original post was hyperbole. I got into a top 25 school because I busted my ass in high school and am a decently smart person. I get my work done and do well in college, but it is harder than high school ever was. I also do my fair share of partying. Balancing the two is what makes it hard. Sorry for the banality, but I believe that less than half of what you learn in college is learned in the classroom. I'm going to enjoy my 4 years of undergrad, because I won't have another time in my life where I can partake in the same type of destructive behavior and still be considered a \\\"responsible adult.\\\" \\n In other words, don't tell me that I don't belong in college or that I'm contributing to the downfall of America's youth.\",\n \"Summary: This post reaching the front page exemplifies everything wrong with /r/wtf and its becoming a default subreddit. We need to bring attention to the other subreddits created for content like this. And people should read or reread the [reddiquette rules]( so that they know when to upvote and when to downvote. \\n I don't have a whole lot going on today. Clearly.\\n\\nPost: This is why I think /r/wtf needs to become a network of different subreddits so that people can subscribe to the ones that fit what they think /r/wtf is. This post is funny, but not in the slightest way is it wtf. A squirrel- one of the most common urban animals- got into somebody's car. That is mildly interesting. If I had been there, I likely would have audibly said, \\\"what the fuck,\\\" but seeing a picture of it doesn't arouse that emotion at all. I subscribe here for those wtf moments, and posts like this one just don't do it for me. If it were labeled properly, it would acceptable, IMO. It would still hit the front page in /r/funny or /r/mildlyintersting and OP would still get karma. \\n So the question is, does it matter what subreddit it's in if I would have seen it regardless? And the answer, to me at least, is yes it definitely matters. There's an expectation with links on here that I'm going to be confused, disturbed, etc, and that I'm going to be thinking, \\\"what the fuck, dude?\\\" when I see them. The subreddit matters because it changes the context in which something is viewed. It's like starting a joke by saying, \\\"this is the best joke ever!\\\" It probably isn't, but the expectation has already been set. \\n This post illustrates why we need to utilize the different subreddits in the WTF network. Subreddits like /r/awwwtf and /r/mildlywtf are a good start, but they need more traffic. A lot of the posts I've seen hit the frontpage from this subreddit would have been just as successful in /r/mildlyintersting, but for a lot of people who only subscribe to the default subreddits, there's no point in examining the context in which something is posted. A cute squirrel is a cute squirrel, and it's off to the front page we go. \\n It's unfortunate that this is a default subreddit, because historically that ruins them. It's basically become a karma mill where people upvote whatever without following reddiquette. One of the most important rules in reddiquette is as follows: \\n >Vote. If you think something contributes to conversation, upvote it. If you think it does not contribute to the subreddit it is posted in or is off-topic in a particular community, downvote it. \\n This does not contribute to this subreddit. If you actually thought to yourself, \\\"wtf! There's a squirrel in that car!\\\" then upvote it. But I seriously doubt that the nearly 6,000 people who upvoted this had that reaction. I would imagine that the majority saw a cute squirrel in a place that squirrels usually are not and upvoted. That's interesting, but upvoting this violates reddiquette in my opinion.\",\n \"Summary: Soccer players, outside midfielders in particular, run a whole hell of a lot because they have two big responsibilities- to recover from an attack to defend the backside of the goal and to move forward to be apart of the attack when the ball is won. \\n Edit: sorry for the length of the post, but I got excited thinking about playing soccer again. I may be time to sew my cleats back together and get after it again.\\n\\nPost: I used to play outside midfielder for a high level travel team when I was in middle and high school. Each practice started and ended with conditioning that was usually around 3-4 miles for the warm up and then some type of sprinting conditioning at the end of practice. \\n One of my least favorite exercises we did involved breaking the field into 6 lines: the two goal lines, and then the sidelines were broken into two segments- from flag to midfield and midfield to flag. The idea was you would sprint one segment and then jog the next five, then sprint 2 and jog the next 4, and so on until the final lap for that set which was a sprint around the field. The whole idea was to simulate the pace of a soccer game where you're jogging into position and then sprinting when you're attacking or recovering on defense. This would usually be done as the warm up. \\n A favorite end of practice sprinting exercise of one of my coaches was \\\"waterfalls.\\\" For those unfamiliar, the team forms a line at the goal line and then one player sprints 30 yards or so and back at which point the next player in line sprints with him. When they return, they pick up a third player, and so on until the entire team is sprinting. When the last player finishes his first sprint, the player who started drops off and is done. Most teams I played with had 20-25 players at practice (not everyone travelled). This was a good exercise because it allowed the players not sprinting initially to be working on ball skills while waiting to go, and because it allowed different groups (midfielders, defenders, goalies, etc.) to join at different times once they finished with their respective coach. \\n As an outside midfielder, I was pretty much constantly moving. It's one of the most commonly substituted positions (at the level I played at least). \\n To give you an idea of how much off the ball sprinting and movement there is, imagine this situation. Your team wins the ball at midfield so you may make a run down the sideline. If the ball doesn't come to you, you need to recover back onside and try to open yourself up for a pass or to make another run to move a defender out of the play. You will rarely see a player receive a pass who hasn't just made a run to open him or herself up. \\n But to continue with the example, imagine that you make a run down the right side of the field, and your center midfielder plays it down the left side of the field to the other outside midfielder who also made a sideline run. You're attacking now and need to sprint to the top of the 18 yard box in anticipation of a cross if you're counter attacking. Let's say the cross comes in to the goal, so you sprint the 10-18 yards to try to connect with the ball and score, but the goalkeeper picks the ball out of the air and throws it to their outside midfielder on the opposite side of you to counter attack. \\n Because you've just made a run to the goal, you should have gotten past their defender. Now there are two potential attackers on your side that you need to recover to defend. So the ball is moving quickly up the left side of the field, and you're sprinting to cover the opponents outside midfielder on your side because the defense will have shifted to cover the ball side. If you don't haul ass for 100 yards back down the field to cover him, your opponent will have an open attacker on the backside of your goal who will have an easy header or shot if the ball is crossed across the face of the goal. No other defender can cover him, because they have changed their shape to pick up attackers in the middle and on the left side of the field. This is one of the reasons the goal of a defender is to slow the ball down and not necessarily to steal it (the main reason is that attempting to steal the ball is one of the surest ways to be beaten if the attacker has any ball skill at all). \\n And once you've recovered and your defense has slowed the attack, you can take a short rest by jogging to keep the attacker in front of you assuming he doesn't make a sprinting run to open himself for a through ball- a pass that splits two defenders and is moving up the field. And once your team regains possession, you need to leave this attacker and sprint to be even with the ball. Because the ball moves quickly, you're going to be sprinting for most vertical passes. If the ball is on the opposite side of the field, it's generally ok to jog and try to stretch the field by pushing to the sideline. Once it goes to the center, you need to be making runs to open yourself for a pass again or to pull a defender away. If you jog here, you won't create enough separation to open yourself for a pass, and if you jog to pull a defender away, it's unlikely that he'll bite, because he knows that it wasn't a real attempt to get open. \\n Now imagine that this scenario which took 1 minute or so is happening constantly for 90 minutes, and you can start to see how the mileage adds up. Granted this is an extreme example that would only happen against certain types of teams- typically teams with a flat defense who like to counter attack quickly. But even in a slower paced game where you are trying to win by out-possessing your opponent by methodically moving the ball from player to player, the runs to and off the ball are still sprints, and the recovery and initial counter attack runs are at full pace. Generally speaking, the only times that you should be moving slowly or standing as a winger are when you have the ball (assuming it's not a one on one situation to the goal, in which case, I would generally try to beat the sender on the dribble and by moving with pace) or when the ball is out of play. Then you can catch your breath and get ready to do it again.\",\n \"Summary: We're just as sure that we're right about our non-belief as christians are about their belief. We will never be able to change their opinions by brute force no matter how sure we are about the importance of rational thought. \\n Edit 1: Grammar \\n Edit 2: Remember reddiquette. Don't downvote because you disagree.\\n\\nPost: I'm going to get down voted to Hell (pun intended) for this rant, but I've already taken a decent Karma hit, so a little more won't hurt. \\n I don't want to attack you personally by saying this, but it's going to come across like that. Think of it as an attack on the anti-theist mindset. With that said, your response is the perfect example of why I stopped identifying with the atheist movement. It shows why I no longer frequent r/atheism and other atheist forums. It's the hypocrisy that nearly all atheists are blind to. We are sure of our position. But so are religious people. We can claim that we have rational thought on our side, but that means little to nothing to any christian with a strongly held belief. \\n Atheists are notoriously naive about the way normal people think. You stand on your pedestal and preach about the tenets of rational thought, but that's not going to convince anyone who is unwilling to listen. You further shut out religious people by insulting them when they refuse to listen to you. But why would they listen when you insist on mocking their most sacred of beliefs? This makes them cling to their beliefs even more, because they've seen what arrogant douche bags people become when they've \\\"lost faith.\\\" \\n I grew up in the Bible Belt and still live below the Mason Dixon line. I am surrounded by religious people who remind me on a day to day basis how strongly they hold their belief. God is everything to these people, and I'm not going to change their mind by scoffing at their beliefs. I can however gently suggest the importance of rationality. But if they're unreceptive, I'm not going to leave a bad taste in their mouth. I will back down and allow them to believe what they want. \\n How does it feel for you when you mention that you're an atheist to a Christian and they say something like, \\\"Oh! Really? I thought you were a good person.\\\" This used to happen to me on a regular basis. I was vocal about my atheism in my high school. Now, long after graduation, I still have teachers and parents send me books and CDs about faith, hoping to change my mind because they're worried about my \\\"dangerous beliefs,\\\" just as they would worry if I was an advocate of \\\"harmful dogmas such as Stalinism (or) Nazism.\\\" \\n I used to get angry at them for trying to change my mind on an issue that I was quite certain about. But I realize now that I was doing the same type of thing, but i didn't notice it because I was blinded by my self righteous sense of intelligence. I talked to Christians because I felt their beliefs were childish. Do you know where that got me? Absolutely nowhere. They shut down or changed the subject. I would remind them how their beliefs had no place in the 21st century, but it did not matter. \\n On a similar note, your post clearly highlights one of my biggest pet peeves in the atheist movement. It's this pseudo-intellectual spouting of bullshit plagiarized from one author or another. It's the way phrases like \\\"permissive doublethink\\\" catch on and become staples in the atheist lexicon that truly irks me. I am honestly repulsed with myself to think that I used to do the same thing, and the more I type the angrier I become with myself. \\n To think that Dawkins is doing anything constructive for the atheist movement is to be ignorant of human nature. Nobody wants to be told their wrong, but that's exactly what Dawkins does. Why should we tell them that we're right? You are no better than the Christian missionary's who beat their Bibles and promise damnation to those who don't accept Jesus as their savior. And worst of all, you don't realize it. You're so caught up in your own ideological bullshit that you don't take in what you're doing. \\n I'll also point out the important fact that we're in the minority in most parts of the world. Like it or not, in a society built around the tenets of democracy, the majority opinion tends to feel security in numbers. They tend to beg the question \\\"how could so many people be wrong?\\\" Minorities have to be loud to be heard, but being vocal doesn't mean making an ass of yourself by insulting people. \\n Richard Dawkins has given credence to the extremist atheist point of view as a means of countering the extremist religious position. He is the modern day Malcolm X (though with less of an inclination towards violence). He can rally atheists, but he will never win over the minds of christians because they are completely unwilling to listen to him. Try this: get a staunchly religious friend of yours and ask him to watch a Richard Dawkins video and tell you what he thinks. Now do the same thing with a Sam Harris video. I will almost guarantee that they will turn off the Dawkins video but listen to the one by Sam Harris. \\n I will say that I agree with you in principle. I also think that religion is a dangerous superstition. However, you can't be so naive as to think that everyone is willing or even capable of seeing it in the same light as you. It is idealistic to the point of insanity to think that religious people can be won over by beating them over the head with rational thought. You have to be gentle and tactful. These are two qualities that Dawkins seriously lacks. \\n Finally, please understand where I'm coming from. I felt the same way as you for several years, but that type of thinking doesn't translate into the real world- at least among the people in my region of the country. I'm pessimistic, but only because I was naively optimistic for so long. Religion may disappear from the face of the Earth, but it's not going to happen in our generation. Unlike your examples of Nazism and Stalinism, Christianity is not a product of the modern era. It has proven to have staying power for a number of reasons. Most importantly (IMO), it makes people feel like they're living for something and that their lives have meaning. Despite all the reasons that we think religion is dangerous and unbecoming of a modern society, they're are thousands of good reasons to believe in God. We only have a handful of reasons not to, the most important of which being that the evidence points to the likely fact that there is no god. Argue about it all you want, but know that unless you can absolutely convince religious people that certainty based on rational thought is better than certainty based on faith, you're never going to win over people who feel they have so much to lose by denying their faith.\",\n \"Summary: friend used my shirt as a cum rag, I jerked off on his pillow.\\n\\nPost: This is apparently pretty tame compared to everyone else, but I'll give it a go anyway. \\n The background: I was kicked out of my dorm freshman year and was forced to live in the office room of a house with a few of my friends. I had set up my temporary room with my clothes hanging wherever I could find space and a few blankets on a small couch and the rest of my belongings either in the car or anywhere I could find space. \\n The Betrayal: One night after some serious binge drinking my best friend came back to the house with a wonderful, morally sound woman he met that night. Being too drunk to make it to his room, the two began engaging in what I can only imagine to have been a passionate session of romantic fornication that ended with him showing his affection for her by blowing his load on her face. Despite being drunk and tired, the two decided to return to party that was picking up momentum at the house. Knowing that the recipient of his affection couldn't be seen looking like a Jackson Pollock painting, he handed her the closest piece of fabric he could find, my favorite dress shirt, which she used to clean his little soldiers from her face. \\n The aftermath: The next day, my friend gloated to me about what he had done. I was furious and demanded that he buy me a new shirt. He refused. So, I decided to settle for having him dry clean it, knowing that I would still get some sort of mild revenge. Again, he refused. So now I'm living in a cramped office, sleeping on a broken futon, and my favorite shirt is covered in my friend's semen. I'm not the happiest person in the world at this point. \\n The revenge: About a month after this happened, I went into his bedroom when he was gone and cranked one out his hanging clothes. Not being satisfied with that, I went for something more personal and jerked it onto his pillow. I told him about it after he had been sleeping in my cum for a few weeks. The best part was thinking that I glimpsed a bit of my spluge in his hair the next morning. Justice is... Sticky?\",\n \"Summary: See bold text for the main part if you must. \\n Edit: spacing.\\n\\nPost: This incredibly scene from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was left out by some screenwriter. I'm crestfallen. I couldn't find a link, so I opened my copy of Deathly Hallows to the dogeared page of chapter 30 \\\"The Sacking of Severus Snape,\\\" to make sure I got it right. Here it is in its original form... \\n Pages 591-593, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling. \\n There was a rap on the common room door and every Ravenclaw froze. From the other side, Harry heard the soft, musical voice that issued from the eagle door knocker: “Where do Vanished objects go?” \\n “I dunno, do I? Shut it!” snarled an uncouth voice that Harry knew was that of the Carrow brother, Amycus, “Alecto? Alecto? Are you there? Have you got him? Open the door!” \\n The Ravenclaws were whispering amongst themselves, terrified. Then without warning, there came a series of loud bangs, as though somebody was firing a gun into the door. \\n \\\"ALECTO! If he comes, and we haven't got Potter- d'you want to go the same way as the Malfoys? ANSWER ME!\\\" Amycus bellowed, shaking the door for all he was worth, but still it did not open. The Ravenclaws were all backing away, and some of the most frightened began scampering back up the staircase to their beds. Then, just as Harry was wondering whether he ought not to blast open the door and Stun Amycus before the Death Eater could do anything else, a second, most familiar voice rang out beyond the door. \\n “May I ask what you are doing, Professor Carrow?” \\n “Trying—to get-- through this damned-- door!” shouted Amycus. “Go and get Flitwick! Get him to open it, now!” \\n “But isn't your sister in there” asked Professor McGonagall. “Didn't Professor Flitwick let her in earlier this evening, at your urgent request? Perhaps she could open the door for you? Then you needn't wake up half the castle.” \\n \\\"She ain't answering, you old besom! You open it! Garn! Do it, now!\\\" \\n \\\"Certainly, if you wish it,\\\" said Professor McGonagall, with awful coldness. There was a genteel tap of the knocker and the musical voice asked again, \\n \\\"Where do Vanished objects go?\\\" \\n \\\"Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything,\\\" replied Professor MCGonagall. \\n \\\"Nicely phrased,\\\" replied the eagle door knocker, and the door swung open. \\n The few Ravenclaws who had remained behind sprinted for the stairs as Amycus burst over the threshold, brandishing his wand. Hunched like his sister, he had a pallid, doughy face and tiny eyes, which fell at once on Alecto, sprawled motionless on the floor. He let out a yell of fury and fear. \\n \\\"What've they done, the little whelps?,\\\" he screamed. \\\"I'll Cruciate the lot of 'em till they tell me who did it- and what's the Dark Lord going to say?\\\" he shrieked, standing over his sister and smacking himself on the forehead with his first. \\\"We haven't got him, and they've gorn and killed her!\\\" \\n “She's only Stunned,” said Professor McGonagall impatiently, who had stooped down to examine Alecto. “She'll be perfectly all right.” \\n “No she bludgering well won't!” bellowed Amycus. “Not after the Dark Lord gets hold of her! She's gone and sent for him, I felt me Mark burn, and he thinks we've got Potter!” \\n “'Got Potter'?” said Professor McGonagall sharply, “What do you mean, 'got Potter'?” \\n “He told us Potter might try and get inside Ravenclaw Tower, and to send for him if we caught him!” \\n “Why would Harry Potter try to get inside Ravenclaw Tower! Potter belongs in my House!” \\n Beneath the disbelief and anger, Harry heard a little strain of pride in her voice, and affection for Minerva McGonagall gushed up inside him. \\n \\\"We was told he might come in here!\\\" said Carrow. \\\"I dunno why, do I?\\\" \\n Professor McGonagall stood up and her beady eyes swept the room. Twice they passed right over where Harry and Luna stood. \\n “We can push it off on the kids,” said Amycus, his pig like face suddenly crafty. “Yeah, that's what we'll do. We'll say Alecto was ambushed by the kids, them kids up there” -- he looked up at the starry ceiling toward the dormitories -- “ and we'll say they forced her to pres her Mark, and that's why he got a false alarm.... He can punish them. Couple of kids more or less, what's the difference?” \\n “Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice,” said Professor McGonagall, who had turned pale, “a difference, in short, which you and your sister seem unable to appreciate. But let me make one thing very clear. You are not going to pass off your many ineptitudes on the students of Hogwarts. I shall not permit it.” \\n “Excuse me?” \\n Amycus moved forward until he was offensively close to Professor McGonagall, his face within inches of hers. She refused to back away, but looked down at him as if he were something disgusting she had found stuck to the lavatory seat. \\n “It's not a case of what you'll permit, Minerva McGonagall. Your time's over. It's us what's in charge here now, and you'll back me up or you'll pay the price.”\\nAnd he spat in her face. \\n Harry pulled the Cloak off himself, raised his wand, and said, “You shouldn't have done that.” \\n As Amycus spun around, Harry shouted, “Crucio!” \\n The Death Eater was lifted off his feet. He writhed through the air like a drowning man, thrashing and howling in pain, and then, with a crunch and a shattering of glass, he smashed into the front of a bookcase and crumpled, insensible, to the floor. “I see what Bellatrix meant,” said Harry, the blood thundering through his brain, “you need to really mean it.” \\n “Potter!” whispered Professor McGonagall, clutching her heart. “Potter--- you're here! What---? How---?” She struggled to pull herself together. “Potter, that was foolish!”\\n“He spat at you,” said Harry. \\n “Potter, I --- that was very --- gallant of you --- but don't you realize --?” \\n “Yeah, I do,” Harry assured her. Somehow her panic steadied him. “Professor McGonagall, Voldemort's on the way.” \\n P.S. While we're on the subject, what scenes were you looking forward to that were left out?\",\n \"Summary: Ted Cruz is campaigning on implementing the gold standard despite the fact that he is educated and informed enough to know that experts almost unanimously agree that it's a disastrous idea.\\n\\nPost: Ted Cruz has mentioned that he wants [to return to the gold standard.]( \\n I was thinking about this the other day, and I think it says a lot about the state of modern politics. \\n To start, it's pretty universally accepted by economists that the gold standard is a terrible idea for a number of reasons. This deserves its own post, but for now, suffice it to say that the gold standard is bad for the world economy. \\n Ted Cruz knows this. He is highly educated, and by most accounts, brilliant. He studied public policy at Princeton, where he almost certainly would have studied the Great Depression. He can't not understand the problems with the gold standard. \\n I think he is advocating it because he knows it sounds good and will resonate with his voters. Instead of being an educated voice of reason, he is saying what the voters want to hear. \\n Politics aside, this is disgusting to me. I didn't notice this until my mom, an Econ professor, pointed it out to me. \\n To me, it's just indicative of a larger problem. We've completely moved away from voting for people we can trust to make important informed decisions to voting for people who echo our own opinions. I'd much rather have a representative who made informed decisions, even if I disagreed initially, than one who echoes my own beliefs to get my vote. \\n Anyways, I thought it was worth discussing. 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5heepdawg | Generate the content for a reddit post Work full/overtime job. Tried "many" languages. Usually stuck around the same place (functions/architecture) of a prog. Don't know how to overcome the obstacles. Not looking for "practice makes perfect". Need maybe training regiment. Help please. | This has been asked many times, and in many different variances. My issue has been asked and answered hundreds of times I am sure, but I am not one of those hundreds of people. Here is a bit of background.
I have done many of "Hello, World!" programs. I have made many a "Basic Calculator" programs. I have made Fo... | This has been asked many times, and in many different variances. My issue has been asked and answered hundreds of times I am sure, but I am not one of those hundreds of people. Here is a bit of background.
I have done many of "Hello, World!" programs. I have made many a "Basic Calculator" programs. I have made Fo... | [
"Summary: d into Faggot Quixskop4201337Numbkayke.\n\nPost: Dead Space vs Battlefield 3. Dead Space was a good game, that although hindered by a few hiccups, was a relatively smooth release on multiple consoles. BF3, has now been \"restored\" to what it should have honestly been at release. Understand I am not pi... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,100 |
Spunge14 | Generate the content for a reddit post people may not be dumber, but I think they may be bigger assholes | Actually just was typing to a friend about this topic today - excuse the weird breaks. Try to read it like an IM conversation:
People love to say things like "everyone is getting dumber now " blah blah
It's the worst it has ever been etc
When actually people are probably more educated etc.
And it's easy to refu... | Actually just was typing to a friend about this topic today - excuse the weird breaks. Try to read it like an IM conversation:
People love to say things like "everyone is getting dumber now " blah blah
It's the worst it has ever been etc
When actually people are probably more educated etc.
And it's easy to refu... | [
"Summary: Don't do it.\n\nPost: Look, it's true that you can escape from the friend zone (I know from personal experience in fact!), but this whole thing sounds a little...well...desperate. If you've asked her out before and she verbally enforced the friend-zoning, then it seems to me that proposing a four date pla... | 29 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,101 |
speckledspectacles | Generate the content for a reddit post on meeting : Best friend jokes "If you were a chick, I'd date you." Fast forward several years... "Hey, I'm a chick now!" and he keeps his word. | I'm in that additional question category. I'm trans and I've been dating a straight guy for a bit over a year. It's kind of funny to me how we wound up together.
For about half my life he's been one of my closest friends, and the only friend I've had that's stuck with me for that long. We always had one of those old ... | I'm in that additional question category. I'm trans and I've been dating a straight guy for a bit over a year. It's kind of funny to me how we wound up together.
For about half my life he's been one of my closest friends, and the only friend I've had that's stuck with me for that long. We always had one of those old ... | [
"Summary: DS1 is a game about breaking down a man, and DS2 is a game about building that man back up. While both are good games, DS1 is a much better horror game.\n\nPost: Mechanically, Dead Space 2 is (unsurprisingly) superior in most ways. Controls are smoother, guns have more variety and are simply more useful (... | 29 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,102 |
zejaws | Generate the content for a reddit post there is no event in the world of soccer quite so crushing for a supporter as the [re-location of the Cleveland Browns]( It sucks to be from Cleveland. | I know this is r/soccer but to be honest I don't think Rangers' financial troubles even hold a candle to the heartbreak experienced by fans of NFL's Cleveland Browns. Long story:
The Browns were one of the oldest and most well respected members of the National Football League, having dominated the league (and before... | I know this is r/soccer but to be honest I don't think Rangers' financial troubles even hold a candle to the heartbreak experienced by fans of NFL's Cleveland Browns. Long story:
The Browns were one of the oldest and most well respected members of the National Football League, having dominated the league (and before... | [
"Summary: yeah too fucking soon...\n\nPost: I've no idea what OP is talking about. forget whats happening in international football right now and focus on the crop of talent brazil is looking at in two years. \n by the time the 2014 cup kicks off i think the brazil side will be electric. Working out who the back fo... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,103 |
wicksa | Generate the content for a reddit post dont quit. | dont quit nursing school, you seem to care a lot about your patients, and that is a good thing. patients need people who care.
now im trying to decipher if this place is really as bad as you make it seem, or if its a little bit of "im new to the healthcare field" shock.
dont get me wrong, nursing homes can be terri... | dont quit nursing school, you seem to care a lot about your patients, and that is a good thing. patients need people who care.
now im trying to decipher if this place is really as bad as you make it seem, or if its a little bit of "im new to the healthcare field" shock.
dont get me wrong, nursing homes can be terri... | [
"Summary: pizza hut gives zero fucks about sexual harassment, even when it is a minor being harassed by a 40 year old man.\n\nPost: when i was 17-19 i worked at a pizza hut. i was a delivery driver and did work in the back (making pizzas, wings, doing prep work, answering phones, etc). there was a delivery driver w... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,104 |
smpx | Generate the content for a reddit post Taking away SD cards is for the good of the users!! | You and I must have been browsing different reddits--from the most upvoted/commented "leak" about Nexus 5 and its monster specs and amazingly low pricing, these were the comments about SD cards (there were less than 30 comments about it in over 900).
>The average user has no clue that there are different file systems... | You and I must have been browsing different reddits--from the most upvoted/commented "leak" about Nexus 5 and its monster specs and amazingly low pricing, these were the comments about SD cards (there were less than 30 comments about it in over 900).
>The average user has no clue that there are different file systems... | [
"Summary: Money buys you happiness because Lamborginis make you happy, so you should go work for Wall Street. Just joking. It's really not that long, just go fucking read it you lazy bastard.\n\nPost: You're not the only one. In fact what you describe is incredibly normal. It has a lot to do with the values of moti... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,105 |
bauski | Generate the content for a reddit post What can we do to save hots? Share the game. Do something constructive for it. Anything, really, it will help. | If any of you are watching Inside the Game right now, you just got to witness what happens on r/sc in a stream. It was funny, but I wanted to talk about a question that painuser had, and I wanted to talk to you guys about it too...
We know that Blizzard is going to do what they are going to do, it doesn't matter how ... | If any of you are watching Inside the Game right now, you just got to witness what happens on r/sc in a stream. It was funny, but I wanted to talk about a question that painuser had, and I wanted to talk to you guys about it too...
We know that Blizzard is going to do what they are going to do, it doesn't matter how ... | [
"Summary: patch 1.4 = Good ; we need to start utilizing the variety of units better, but maintain, as best as possible, the basic army unit compositions.\n\nPost: I'm not sure what you mean by redesign here. If you're talking about slight tweaks to their mid game and late game harass, I completely agree, but if you... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,106 |
Davezter | Generate the content for a reddit post This will result in poorer search results for both /cfb and for the subreddits that were in the sidebar. | Ahh Crap. I really liked it being in the sidebar. When people do a search for a college subreddit... let's say "sooners", for example, the /CFB subreddit would appear at the TOP of the search results. I think this was true with any college or university that was listed in the /CFB sidebar. I think this is a bad mo... | Ahh Crap. I really liked it being in the sidebar. When people do a search for a college subreddit... let's say "sooners", for example, the /CFB subreddit would appear at the TOP of the search results. I think this was true with any college or university that was listed in the /CFB sidebar. I think this is a bad mo... | [
"Summary: Thanks to the ESPN contract, The only way Texas can really move to another conference is if OU makes the choice first and causes the Big 12 to dissolve. Then Texas has an out and can join us.\n\nPost: OU running political cover for UT? \n It's not because of politics. It's because the 'horns locked thems... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,107 |
DidymusEi | Generate the content for a reddit post Disrupted a 1 minute silence for the Columbine High School victims by making a perfect farting sound and blaming it on the kid next to me. Laughs were had. | I went to a Middle School in Colorado Springs, which is about 1 1/2 hours outside Boulder where the Columbine High School Shooting happened. I was in 6th grade when the shooting happened and even though we were far away they locked all the doors on the day.
Anyway, fast forward a year and the entire school has a 1 mi... | I went to a Middle School in Colorado Springs, which is about 1 1/2 hours outside Boulder where the Columbine High School Shooting happened. I was in 6th grade when the shooting happened and even though we were far away they locked all the doors on the day.
Anyway, fast forward a year and the entire school has a 1 mi... | [
"Summary: 2nd grade. Got to front of line after recess. Pushed out of place by girl. Had to go to back of line. Smacked a bitch.\n\nPost: In 2nd grade we had to form a line outside the entrance of the school, behind a white line, after Recess before being let in. I managed to be first in line, but this girl bumped ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,108 |
pharmaceus | Generate the content for a reddit post There is no magic in Tolkien's world but a closer relationship with the nature of the world which was designed by Ainur/Maiar (angels) and given life by Eru (god). Then Ainur and Maiar (some of them) entered the world and had to play by the rules set by Eru. Magic in middle earth ... | People upvote this response because that's the correct one and it should be on the very top. Ask Stephen Colbert if you don't believe me. He'd also tell you that Gandalf is Maia . Maiar is the plural form.
Vala/Valar, Ainu/Ainur, Maia/Maiar etc etc. It's important unless you want to forget that Tolkien came up with ... | People upvote this response because that's the correct one and it should be on the very top. Ask Stephen Colbert if you don't believe me. He'd also tell you that Gandalf is Maia . Maiar is the plural form.
Vala/Valar, Ainu/Ainur, Maia/Maiar etc etc. It's important unless you want to forget that Tolkien came up with ... | [
"Summary: To get a three-dimensional map it's simplest to first get a two-dimensional map where everything lies on a single plane and then add the third dimension - heights. The tripod allows you to set up that first two-dimensional plane so that you can measure where things are in 2d. Then for every point in 2d ... | 34 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,109 |
leedlebug | Generate the content for a reddit post Get a grip. Your sexuality will be just fine. | Think of it this way. Many guys I know are not attracted to black women, just as you are not attracted to men. They're not sexist, they just don't usually find black women sexually attractive. So, they usually seek out women of other ethnicities that they find more attractive, which is also completely acceptable.
H... | Think of it this way. Many guys I know are not attracted to black women, just as you are not attracted to men. They're not sexist, they just don't usually find black women sexually attractive. So, they usually seek out women of other ethnicities that they find more attractive, which is also completely acceptable.
H... | [
"Summary: Not being interested in sex is certainly normal for OP, but it is not normal for \"most women\". Don't stereotype.\n\nPost: I'm not saying it's wrong to not enjoy sex. OP (and her husband) are clearly happy in their current state of disinterest in sex, and if they're happy and otherwise healthy, I don't... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,110 |
jczik | Generate the content for a reddit post Zionism ≠ Extremism | Wow, how about you do some research before you throw around the term. Zionism has been tossed around by a large portion of people in a negative fashion, very similar to Jihad for Muslim. Zionism is solely movement in support for a Jewish state in Israel. That's simply it. There are very few Zionists who are extremists ... | Wow, how about you do some research before you throw around the term. Zionism has been tossed around by a large portion of people in a negative fashion, very similar to Jihad for Muslim. Zionism is solely movement in support for a Jewish state in Israel. That's simply it. There are very few Zionists who are extremists ... | [
"Summary: Bill Belichick doesn't like being told what to wear, so he makes the outfits look like shit.\n\nPost: For those who don't know who Bill Belichick is, he is the head coach for the NFL team, the New England Patriots. He is considered one of the most successful coaches in the sport as well as one of the most... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,111 |
fawker | Generate the content for a reddit post bitch who actually brought the food to the table was a cunt, and her own fucking problem with the world | I was at a Longhorn's Steak House. It's a chain but they are very consistent with their steak cooking and quality. Our waiter seemed a bit nervous and new, but it didn't bother me.
He kinda forgot about us for awhile, and then the girl came out with our food. She asked us if we needed anything else after giving us... | I was at a Longhorn's Steak House. It's a chain but they are very consistent with their steak cooking and quality. Our waiter seemed a bit nervous and new, but it didn't bother me.
He kinda forgot about us for awhile, and then the girl came out with our food. She asked us if we needed anything else after giving us... | [
"Summary: make sure your real cell phone number is updated in your email account if its important to you\n\nPost: I had to help someone with a similar problem. They had used an old cell phone number. I just waited. \n Did you get a reference or ticket number from the account recovery form? You could put that i... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,112 |
IhaveSomeQuestions56 | Generate the content for a reddit post Don't be stupid. Go read Sun Tsu | Physically resisting the police is a stupid move in almost any case. If you are really that worried about your recording download an app that lets you live stream to a secure server.
Fighting the state with physical resistance is a really really dumb idea. They will bring more people than you and they will kill you i... | Physically resisting the police is a stupid move in almost any case. If you are really that worried about your recording download an app that lets you live stream to a secure server.
Fighting the state with physical resistance is a really really dumb idea. They will bring more people than you and they will kill you i... | [
"Summary: Sovereign types is a label that covers anyone who believes in the basic principals of freedom. The biggest threat to our country right now is our debt and foreign policy. The real extremists are the ones who enforce their ideas with the barrel of a gun, rather than persuasion.\n\nPost: right -wing in euro... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,113 |
Ardailec | Generate the content for a reddit post Disc is godmode, and fire is stronger than before but easier to get out of. | Disc Priest is pretty strong right now, but for WoD there's been a general shift in how healing works on the whole.
A quick way I've heard it is: most fights depend on if people are standing in bad. If they don't, then healing is easy. If they do, then it gets hard.
Outside of tank damage, there are actually very f... | Disc Priest is pretty strong right now, but for WoD there's been a general shift in how healing works on the whole.
A quick way I've heard it is: most fights depend on if people are standing in bad. If they don't, then healing is easy. If they do, then it gets hard.
Outside of tank damage, there are actually very f... | [
"Summary: After we lop off Grom's head or enslave him, we'll either deal with Demons, an Old God, or another Dark Naaru.\n\nPost: Odds are we'll either finish off or severly cripple The Iron Horde in Tanaan jungle. But it's what is going to come after that which makes me curious. I see two directions for this to go... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,114 |
WalkonWalrus | Generate the content for a reddit post We have a 25yo unstable mental asshole living here we have to play nice with, and it's driving me crazy. | Shorty version- I (24m) had to move back to my n-dad's place to save money. We were knocking our heads together for a while but now it's basically water under the bridge and we started to reconnect, which felt good.
But now, he has this step-famiy here. I don't know what it is but I guess that N's attracting other N'... | Shorty version- I (24m) had to move back to my n-dad's place to save money. We were knocking our heads together for a while but now it's basically water under the bridge and we started to reconnect, which felt good.
But now, he has this step-famiy here. I don't know what it is but I guess that N's attracting other N'... | [
"Summary: You could technically disobey everything a security guard tells you and not be arrested so long as you leave before the cops show up.\n\nPost: Speaking as a former SG for Six flags, we were told we had less authority than the guests at our park. By that, I mean they can make civil arrests, while we can no... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,115 |
HashRunner | Generate the content for a reddit post It's good, but could be better. | Kinda.
I have a great social circle and an in a happy relationship with an amazing girl. My family is awesome and I see them every few weeks.
Professionally I feel like I am in a dead-end career, limited by income and opportunities, and I am quite unsure of how to approach moving forward. Should I risk more debt an... | Kinda.
I have a great social circle and an in a happy relationship with an amazing girl. My family is awesome and I see them every few weeks.
Professionally I feel like I am in a dead-end career, limited by income and opportunities, and I am quite unsure of how to approach moving forward. Should I risk more debt an... | [
"Summary: If you're good at what you do, they will pay you well and take great care of you. \n Source: Roomed with 2 developers @ RVs, met the others while drinking. Still keep in touch with all 4. Never worked there myself.\n\nPost: Red Ventures is a pretty interesting company. I know 4 people that work /worked th... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,116 |
Metalhead2881 | Generate the content for a reddit post met awesome wrestler and asked for ID cuz weird name, simple plan band members are as big of babies as you might think. | I have 2 very different celebrity retail stories.
One time, this big guy goes to buy something and hands me his card to pay. I look and it says "Sgt Slaughter Inc" and he signed the receipt, I ask for ID and the signatures don't match. I start to stare at it and say "ummm" and he says something about signing the wron... | I have 2 very different celebrity retail stories.
One time, this big guy goes to buy something and hands me his card to pay. I look and it says "Sgt Slaughter Inc" and he signed the receipt, I ask for ID and the signatures don't match. I start to stare at it and say "ummm" and he says something about signing the wron... | [
"Summary: customers are stupid sometimes\n\nPost: Oh my gosh, yes! I used to work at a store that sold mostly clothes, and during back to school we used to run this big sale where if you bought $150 you got 25% off on the spot (none of those stupid off a future purchase crap). No matter how we tried to explain it, ... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,117 |
ladycarp | Generate the content for a reddit post the compromise on both of our parts saved our marriage | I agree, to a certain extent.
I no longer have a dead bedroom, but it took a lot of arguing, a lot of sleepless nights on the couch, and a lot of tears on my part.
I would love to have sex everyday, but I was lucky if I ever had any action once a month. Twice, if it was a good month. And even then, the sex would... | I agree, to a certain extent.
I no longer have a dead bedroom, but it took a lot of arguing, a lot of sleepless nights on the couch, and a lot of tears on my part.
I would love to have sex everyday, but I was lucky if I ever had any action once a month. Twice, if it was a good month. And even then, the sex would... | [
"Summary: pick a movement that's well balanced and shows off your attributes. You need to be comfortable with what you're playing. Use an accompanist if available or accepted. \n If you were picked to do a masterclass, you must be playing your butt off! Congratulations! Now go show all off it off! \n Good luck! Let... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,118 |
R4vendarksky | Generate the content for a reddit post Ancient weapons, higher tier legendary gems and the toughness boost are going to made T6 a joke even on hardcore. The game is going to be even more causal than it is now, which is fine as long as that is what you want out of D3. | The fun for me is playing Diablo 3 in hardcore mode. I don't run with 50000 billion toughness either.
I want the game to be challenging and to have a real element of danger... I liked interacting with the monsters and HAVING to be aware of my position and what I was fighting and taking appropriate action. I liked tha... | The fun for me is playing Diablo 3 in hardcore mode. I don't run with 50000 billion toughness either.
I want the game to be challenging and to have a real element of danger... I liked interacting with the monsters and HAVING to be aware of my position and what I was fighting and taking appropriate action. I liked tha... | [
"Summary: O.M.G! An official, non web based, no microtransactions, cross platform tetris game with a focus on customisation, competitive play and listening to the feedback of the tetris community? TAKE ALL OF MY MONIES.\n\nPost: Relevant link: \n I may get it so I can finally use my own control scheme but also pla... | 30 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,119 |
bluefactories | Generate the content for a reddit post Your comments annoyed me because they are ignorant and present your opinions as ultimate fact, without any account for any new writers, new talent or new ideas. Elementary is as valid of an adaptation as Sherlock is, and it shouldn't be judged on a couple of trailers and negative ... | I was not getting 'so upset' in my previous posts, I was using sarcasm.
I'm somebody who intends to move into screenwriting, so I will admit that your posts rubbed me the wrong way (although "butthurt" is stretching it) - as did any comments that completely miss the point of how adaptation works. People seriously und... | I was not getting 'so upset' in my previous posts, I was using sarcasm.
I'm somebody who intends to move into screenwriting, so I will admit that your posts rubbed me the wrong way (although "butthurt" is stretching it) - as did any comments that completely miss the point of how adaptation works. People seriously und... | [
"Summary: People are obsessed with getting 'special' cats and often make bonds with unusually coloured pets over plainly coloured pets. So tabbies and black cats stay in the system longer and may not be played with as often, which might mean that they aren't as social/loveable when they are checked out by potenti... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,120 |
STEVESMITHISTHEKING1 | Generate the content for a reddit post Fuck nofap. Please be careful when cooking. | So, I decided I will cook some food this weekend, I finally got some exotic meat and I was really eager to taste it. I get up early on a Saturday morning, chop the veggies, measure out the sauces for my secret recipe, and get to work.
I start cutting up the meat, and damn, I had a raging hard on by the time I was 10%... | So, I decided I will cook some food this weekend, I finally got some exotic meat and I was really eager to taste it. I get up early on a Saturday morning, chop the veggies, measure out the sauces for my secret recipe, and get to work.
I start cutting up the meat, and damn, I had a raging hard on by the time I was 10%... | [
"Summary: Fuck nofap. Please be careful when cooking.\n\nPost: So, I decided I will cook some food this weekend, I finally got some exotic meat and I was really eager to taste it. I get up early on a Saturday morning, chop the veggies, measure out the sauces for my secret recipe, and get to work. \n I start cutting... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,121 |
Bouda | Generate the content for a reddit post Homepathic medicine venders...try to sell us whatever snake oil they have on hand." | Homepathic medicine venders LOVE these things and like to jump out at me and my wife as we are browsing the different booths, the most often thing they like to shout at us is "HOW WOULD LIKE TO SAY GOODBYE TO THAT WHEEL CHAIR? THERE AIN'T NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU! THEM DOCTORS LIE!" And then they try to sell us whatever ... | Homepathic medicine venders LOVE these things and like to jump out at me and my wife as we are browsing the different booths, the most often thing they like to shout at us is "HOW WOULD LIKE TO SAY GOODBYE TO THAT WHEEL CHAIR? THERE AIN'T NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU! THEM DOCTORS LIE!" And then they try to sell us whatever ... | [
"Summary: Coppermines were 256k cache and Tualatins were 512k cache. It really shows in performance.\n\nPost: Sorry, I meant Tualatin, not Turion. Tualatin is so hard to remember. \n The coppermines were a bit slower \n Keep raising the fsb by 1MHz increments and if the computer crashes or reboots than raise the co... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,122 |
metrogdor22 | Generate the content for a reddit post 8 if you're a stickler for minor performance increases, 7 if you don't like 8. | I've heard that 8 is better internally, but I had nothing but problems with it. You can install addons to make it look like 7, but even at that, I still found it overwhelmingly confusing. I'm running 7 HP x64, and I haven't noticed any performance issues compared to doing things on 8 (FX-4100, and a 7850 2GB. Vanilla M... | I've heard that 8 is better internally, but I had nothing but problems with it. You can install addons to make it look like 7, but even at that, I still found it overwhelmingly confusing. I'm running 7 HP x64, and I haven't noticed any performance issues compared to doing things on 8 (FX-4100, and a 7850 2GB. Vanilla M... | [
"Summary: Just do a little bit of exercise. 1 sit up a day. Then 2 when you can. Then 3, then 5, then however many you can. Just add a few more weekly. You'll be surprised at how much better things around you seem to get when you feel better about yourself.\n\nPost: I agree with BosskHogg. Just from your post alone... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,123 |
Shovelbum26 | Generate the content for a reddit post My point was, WTF does the media know? Nothing. | Ha, thank you for not downvoting me. I'm not sure why I'm getting them.
I never said I think Winston is lazy or entitled, just that the media is portraying him the same way the did Russell and Newton so that's the impression people get of him. Russell did end up lazy and entitled and people remember that, but New... | Ha, thank you for not downvoting me. I'm not sure why I'm getting them.
I never said I think Winston is lazy or entitled, just that the media is portraying him the same way the did Russell and Newton so that's the impression people get of him. Russell did end up lazy and entitled and people remember that, but New... | [
"Summary: I can start 2 out of the following: \n RB: DeAngelo Williams (vsStL), LeVonn Bell (vsBal), Stevan Ridley (@NYJ) \n TE: Martellus Bennett (@Was) \n Any advice would be appreciated!\n\nPost: 1 point per 20 yards Rushing/Receiving, 6 points per TD, .75 PPR \n I haven't picked right all season on my flex sp... | 32 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,124 |
JubilationLee | Generate the content for a reddit post from a different perspective.
Good luck | Couple things. Opinion, 9 months isn't a long enough time to adequately gauge whether a marriage would work, especially in early twenties.
You forced her to make a decision. Any time you force someone to make a decision, they are already predisposed to making the decision you DON'T want to happen just to spite you fo... | Couple things. Opinion, 9 months isn't a long enough time to adequately gauge whether a marriage would work, especially in early twenties.
You forced her to make a decision. Any time you force someone to make a decision, they are already predisposed to making the decision you DON'T want to happen just to spite you fo... | [
"Summary: it's late and the guy in the video is a sorcerer\n\nPost: That was a lot more interesting than I thought it would be. The pretty colors probably helped. What makes that happen? \n Edit: [found it!]( \n This was the simplest explanation I came across; the momentum is transferred from the metronomes to the ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,125 |
redhopper | Generate the content for a reddit post It's really easy to just say "you need to do this" because it is self-evident to you why he needs to. But maybe he doesn't know why and you need to tell him. | I am fairly new to serious relationships compared to you two so I am no authority on this type of domesticity. However, I am a guy who has been guilty of not doing his part around the house. I know that very often when I am asked to do something I want to know why. Why do I have to do it now? Why is it necessary at all... | I am fairly new to serious relationships compared to you two so I am no authority on this type of domesticity. However, I am a guy who has been guilty of not doing his part around the house. I know that very often when I am asked to do something I want to know why. Why do I have to do it now? Why is it necessary at all... | [
"Summary: Go online, find a girl that matches you, date that girl, own who you are, impress that girl with your you-ness, and then have sex with that girl, if she wants to have sex with you.\n\nPost: I really get where you're coming from with wanting to date people you know well. Some people will tell you not to wa... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,126 |
Bucky_Ohare | Generate the content for a reddit post because I gave a damn, tried rebelling against "death by powerpoint," and was "too animated," I am banned from giving training or presentations to 2nd MEF in the US Marines. | I am banned from speaking (presentations) to an entire Group in 2 MEF in the US Marines, by their commanding officer.
I gave a health and wellness "post deployment" brief during my time in Iraq. I put on quite a show, and I'm proud to say that with practice I was a very good public speaker / presenter. When you hav... | I am banned from speaking (presentations) to an entire Group in 2 MEF in the US Marines, by their commanding officer.
I gave a health and wellness "post deployment" brief during my time in Iraq. I put on quite a show, and I'm proud to say that with practice I was a very good public speaker / presenter. When you hav... | [
"Summary: lowest common denominator not totally inclusive.\n\nPost: It's simple; there are far more vocal fans on the internet than were actually watching the show. \n A few dedicated fans alone cannot keep a ship afloat on primetime television, which is why it usually panders to a low common denominator. It's why... | 36 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,127 |
bethechangeyouwant | Generate the content for a reddit post Mirror test is kil | Not only has this test been tossed out, entirely, but the results of it have been shown to be wholly incorrect and unable on multiple counts, not limited to: human children fail the test, some animals pass it that exhibit no other signs of self-awareness, and most importantly that there is another behavior, "freezing... | Not only has this test been tossed out, entirely, but the results of it have been shown to be wholly incorrect and unable on multiple counts, not limited to: human children fail the test, some animals pass it that exhibit no other signs of self-awareness, and most importantly that there is another behavior, "freezing... | [
"Summary: IT WAS A DIRTY KNIFE AND POOR AFTER-CARE, NOT THE PROCEDURE ITSELF \n ^(e: I love how anything that doesn't fit with reddit's narrative is downvoted, regardless of quoting reputable sources with facts and scientific analysis that specifically counter their ideology, rather than emotional pleading; especia... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,128 |
baultista | Generate the content for a reddit post Rick Nash is kinda good at hockey. Discuss. | With the number one selection in the draft, we select from the London Knights, Rick Nash ". "The Columbus Blue Jackets select Rick Nash" . ](
A truly rare moment for an equally rare player as Brampton Ontario native Rick Nash goes first overall in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft held in the Air Canada Centre, and while c... | With the number one selection in the draft, we select from the London Knights, Rick Nash ". "The Columbus Blue Jackets select Rick Nash" . ](
A truly rare moment for an equally rare player as Brampton Ontario native Rick Nash goes first overall in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft held in the Air Canada Centre, and while c... | [
"Summary: Decline in activity due to responsibilities and injures.\n\nPost: I peaked in 2009 during 3rd year of college at a solid 195lb, from 240lb in highschool. If I wasn't in class I was at the hockey rink, the yoga studio, the gym, or the swimming pool. That level of activity was just not sustainable. \n As ... | 33 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,129 |
Ivebeenfurthereven | Generate the content for a reddit post he obviously had sufficient commitment that there was nothing OP could do to stop it. | Hmm, I think I agree, that's certainly what I heard in the first place: someone who fails most likely didn't try their utmost, because a little bit of them still desperately wants to live and get help. Although this guy did tell the OP, probably to shock a relatively casual questioner, it sounds like other than that it... | Hmm, I think I agree, that's certainly what I heard in the first place: someone who fails most likely didn't try their utmost, because a little bit of them still desperately wants to live and get help. Although this guy did tell the OP, probably to shock a relatively casual questioner, it sounds like other than that it... | [
"Summary: I don't believe in God, but I don't see what's wrong with pointing out that scientific theists have actually used this question as evidence, because it's that mysterious.\n\nPost: I am actually atheist, and a firm believer in empirical science, myself; I was merely trying to provide a backdrop to this bei... | 34 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,130 |
KEM10 | Generate the content for a reddit post Similar expenses, different methodology based on politics instead of best business practices (what ever that may be). | Long version: Most of those disconnects are actually budgetary matters. While the household will chose internet based on cost, service, hear say, and possibly company's political affiliation, politically the internet decision is based of similar matters only rearranged to suit the atmosphere. Most notably, the company'... | Long version: Most of those disconnects are actually budgetary matters. While the household will chose internet based on cost, service, hear say, and possibly company's political affiliation, politically the internet decision is based of similar matters only rearranged to suit the atmosphere. Most notably, the company'... | [
"Summary: Economy = war$ + nonwar$. war$ can go up or down depending on action but nonwar$ will be down no matter what.\n\nPost: No, the turbulence in Syria is bad for the economy. If an action is taken (more than a few carpet bombings and air strikes) then it will be slightly better for the economy. \n However... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,131 |
Raydr | Generate the content for a reddit post Short, Puertorican nerd physically shuts a bus bully the fuck up, doesn't get in trouble. | In high school, I wasn't "popular", but I was known. I didn't hang out with any particular group, and I actually got along very well with the teachers, which allowed me to get away with some extra privileges. I even had a teacher who would buy downloaded movies off of me! I also chatted quite a bit with my bus driver, ... | In high school, I wasn't "popular", but I was known. I didn't hang out with any particular group, and I actually got along very well with the teachers, which allowed me to get away with some extra privileges. I even had a teacher who would buy downloaded movies off of me! I also chatted quite a bit with my bus driver, ... | [
"Summary: Be honest and upfront from the beginning and avoid all this.\n\nPost: You know, I disagree with the other posters. OP, your post actually angered me a little and I'm going to tell you why: \n Now that you realize he's more attractive than you originally though, you suddenly care that your photos don't \"p... | 27 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,132 |
splattypus | Generate the content for a reddit post too much money at doctors, weeks of seeing a chiropractor to help me keep from overcompensating and screwing up something worse, and starting over at square 1, I realized that you should give every injury (easily) twice the amount of time you think you need. And watch your form .... | I strained/sprained my sacroiliac earlier this year. I can only figure it was years of bad posture, desk job, terrible mattress, and awkward form, but they all culminated at the bottom of one squat. Felt like a drill being gouged into my pelvis/tailbone region.
And then like a dumbass, I tried to go back at it a few... | I strained/sprained my sacroiliac earlier this year. I can only figure it was years of bad posture, desk job, terrible mattress, and awkward form, but they all culminated at the bottom of one squat. Felt like a drill being gouged into my pelvis/tailbone region.
And then like a dumbass, I tried to go back at it a few... | [
"Summary: shut up. Users crying censorship: shut the fuck up. Pissant little bloggers reporting on reddit gossip as though it were news: shut the fuck up. Everyone: shut the fuck up.\n\nPost: The fact that it's getting posted to reddit at all proves that it exists in some form elsewhere on the internet. Reddit s... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,133 |
Sonmi-452 | Generate the content for a reddit post On Reddit, I'm like Jack Palance old. | Feel free to be snarky as you like. I myself regularly hold back from true feelings on people's work on this sub - which is exactly the impetus for this submission. I wouldn't have the same conversation on technique with a kid just starting out as I would with an adult just starting out, for one thing. Or a kid with... | Feel free to be snarky as you like. I myself regularly hold back from true feelings on people's work on this sub - which is exactly the impetus for this submission. I wouldn't have the same conversation on technique with a kid just starting out as I would with an adult just starting out, for one thing. Or a kid with... | [
"Summary: Nuts.\n\nPost: OP - why did you post this junk? \n I am so fucking sick of bullshit arms dealer propaganda making the airwaves. Why are so many gun owners such fuckingcrybabylittlebitchpussymetrosexualRambo-wannabe cunts? They actually believe this monkeyjizz? \n \"Ooohh, the (UN/Obama/government) is co... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,134 |
Osiris32 | Generate the content for a reddit post you know nothing of my church or troop, don't insult them | My church was a super-liberal, we're-here-for-the-coffee-and-donuts type. Our congregation had openly gay couples, and our minister met his wife, who was a stewardess, in the bathroom of an airplane (if you get my drift.) They allowed myself and a few friends to create a secular concert hall in the basement. They sp... | My church was a super-liberal, we're-here-for-the-coffee-and-donuts type. Our congregation had openly gay couples, and our minister met his wife, who was a stewardess, in the bathroom of an airplane (if you get my drift.) They allowed myself and a few friends to create a secular concert hall in the basement. They sp... | [
"Summary: you're an asshole, and I hope that, if you're still in the military, your CO sees this and rips you a new one for it.\n\nPost: But it DOES reflect on not only your service but the entire military. Saying \"I'm a soldier and I think all firefighters are queer\" makes you a de facto representative of the m... | 200 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,135 |
CynofChaos | Generate the content for a reddit post My dad and I rick-rolled. Before the cool kids caught on. | Living in England, I was around 6-8. Some of the best memories I have of my dad were when we were in the car. It seemed like we were always on long road trips (to a kid anyway). He called me his "Navigator" because I was his eyes and the map-reader. During these long trips, we'd listen to music and there was this new y... | Living in England, I was around 6-8. Some of the best memories I have of my dad were when we were in the car. It seemed like we were always on long road trips (to a kid anyway). He called me his "Navigator" because I was his eyes and the map-reader. During these long trips, we'd listen to music and there was this new y... | [
"Summary: We discussed abortion before I was pregnant and changed our minds when I got pregnant. \n [Pic of my daughter at 3 months](\n\nPost: This came up for me the other day. A friend asked if I had always wanted children. I didn't. In fact, before I got pregnant--my hunny and I had only discussed abortion as an... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,136 |
JosephHowards | Generate the content for a reddit post My dads new family is bullying my brother and i am absent from home and i cant defend him, what can i do? | My little brother is a chubby kid but i love him and i cant just watch while he gets bullied. I have been there, i know how much it hurts.
I am a huge 2m tall guy, i am attending the army for my mandatory enlisting and i get to be home 48 hours.
I have warned the kids to stop doing it else i will break every singl... | My little brother is a chubby kid but i love him and i cant just watch while he gets bullied. I have been there, i know how much it hurts.
I am a huge 2m tall guy, i am attending the army for my mandatory enlisting and i get to be home 48 hours.
I have warned the kids to stop doing it else i will break every singl... | [
"Summary: its paradox, cant happen.\n\nPost: It wouldnt happen! \n Its a paradox, it would be as if Hitler didnt exist and had hitler nor existed, chances are you wouldnt either. Even if you did exist, you would practically have no need of killing hitler (because he doesnt exist). But if you dont kill him, then he ... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,137 |
whitejaguar | Generate the content for a reddit post Inventory:
[Inventory listing by TradeStarter]( | Have - Steam gifts:
[Alien Breed Trilogy](
Alien Shooter - Vengeance
[Anomaly 2](
[Awesomenauts](
[Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY](
[BioShock Infinite (preorder WW)](
[BioShock](
Blur
[Borderlands: Game of the Year](
[Call of Duty: Black Ops II Digital Deluxe Edition Upgrade]( w/o the base game
[Cal... | Have - Steam gifts:
[Alien Breed Trilogy](
Alien Shooter - Vengeance
[Anomaly 2](
[Awesomenauts](
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"Summary: Inventory: \n [Inventory listing by TradeStarter](\n\nPost: Have - Steam gifts: \n \n [ARMA II: Combined Operations]( \n [Alien Breed Trilogy]( \n Alien Shooter - Vengeance \n [Anomaly 2]( \n [Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY]( \n [BioShock Infinite (preorder WW)]( \n [BioShock]( \n Blur \n [Borderlands: Game o... | 145 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,138 |
Spongi | Generate the content for a reddit post it's not racist, it's another "ist". | What's the difference between a race, a culture and a religion?
One you are born as, one you can join or leave.
For example. You can be born black, white, indian, asian and so on.
You can join a religion, such as christian, judiasm or islam.
So you can be a black christian, a black jew or a black muslim etc. a... | What's the difference between a race, a culture and a religion?
One you are born as, one you can join or leave.
For example. You can be born black, white, indian, asian and so on.
You can join a religion, such as christian, judiasm or islam.
So you can be a black christian, a black jew or a black muslim etc. a... | [
"Summary: words, lots of them :-)\n\nPost: I've been gaming for most of my life and it's been interesting to see this play out over the last 15-20 years. In my experience the gamers I've played with come in different flavors with different behaviors/motivations. \n Your average gamer, male or female just doesn't... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,139 |
zyzzogeton | Generate the content for a reddit post Flew a helicopter search and rescue mission deep into enemy territory one night. The downed pilots could hear, but not see Clyde. Clyde turned on his lights so they could find their way, got his bird all shot to hell, and barely made it back.
He was the first Naval Aviator to ... | I bring it up because there is a ship named after him as well, the USS Lassen.
[Here is his story]( he died of cancer when I was a kid, but I remember going to visit him and fishing off of his dock... he got frustrated one time, went in, got a .38 and started shooting at the fish as a joke.
If the article is | I bring it up because there is a ship named after him as well, the USS Lassen.
[Here is his story]( he died of cancer when I was a kid, but I remember going to visit him and fishing off of his dock... he got frustrated one time, went in, got a .38 and started shooting at the fish as a joke.
If the article is | [
"Summary: I have no fear for rage fueled beserker anger. I fear the man who becomes increasingly calm as the situation deteriorates. That man has a plan, and that plan is to kill you.\n\nPost: I'm that guy, but once my father and I were driving back to college and the topic came around to defending the house, and... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,140 |
downneck | Generate the content for a reddit post LOLBUTTHURRRRRRRT | so this is the level of discourse we've sunk to on reddit now?
1) i wasn't referring to it's usefulness, i was referring to its (lack of) flavor, texture, and nutritional content. that you decided to counter an aesthetic opinion with an argument about pragmatism shows that you didn't read the material. you get a B- o... | so this is the level of discourse we've sunk to on reddit now?
1) i wasn't referring to it's usefulness, i was referring to its (lack of) flavor, texture, and nutritional content. that you decided to counter an aesthetic opinion with an argument about pragmatism shows that you didn't read the material. you get a B- o... | [
"Summary: nobody's firing a frickin' laser at an incoming missile with a mouse OR a controller. they're hitting the \"HOLY FUCK, INCOMING MISSILE\" button and a computer is figuring it out from there.\n\nPost: as far as i can tell, the article is talking about two modes of operation: \n \n low-power \"dazzle\" mode... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,141 |
Bennyboy1337 | Generate the content for a reddit post 9lb Terrier viciously hunted mice and gophers dozens at a time, also got in a brawl with a 30lb badger. | I use to live on a farm and we had a Yorkshire Terrier; any time I would go to change the water for our crops she would follow me along because she knew what this meant. When I would switch all the pipes to a new row of crops the water would go down the corrugates and fill up mice and gopher holes, the obvious outcome ... | I use to live on a farm and we had a Yorkshire Terrier; any time I would go to change the water for our crops she would follow me along because she knew what this meant. When I would switch all the pipes to a new row of crops the water would go down the corrugates and fill up mice and gopher holes, the obvious outcome ... | [
"Summary: Cool lighting, but the photo has no context or anything else worth looking at, maybe underexposed depending how you look at it; keep at it, there is only room to improve!\n\nPost: That is an amazing lighting burst you caught, I've been storm chasing for several years, seen plenty of lighting in my day, bu... | 48 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,142 |
bradmont | Generate the content for a reddit post be careful with the "it doesn't work" argument: it's a straw man that could very easily backfire. | The "It hasn't caught a single terrorst!" argument, use against both overzealous TSA screenings and NSA surveillance, is a very attractive one, but it is also dangerous for the civil liberties cause. Ultimately, the problem with these programs is not that they are ineffective, but that they are a violation of peoples... | The "It hasn't caught a single terrorst!" argument, use against both overzealous TSA screenings and NSA surveillance, is a very attractive one, but it is also dangerous for the civil liberties cause. Ultimately, the problem with these programs is not that they are ineffective, but that they are a violation of peoples... | [
"Summary: Watts made me think deeply; about consciousness, intelligence, the value of the person, how individualism will affect the future of humanity. I like things that make me think deeply. The story wasn't stellar, but that's ok since it was more of a vessel for the exploration of ideas than the main point.\n... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,143 |
Hispes | Generate the content for a reddit post The guy is definitely an asshat, regardless of his experience with bourbon. | First, what is your selection? =)
Second, there is no wrong way for someone to drink HIS or HER own whiskey. (If you are drinking MY whiskey, there is certainly an incorrect way.)
Thirdly, assuming standard choices in your bar, Basil Hayden isn't a bad choice, but it is not a snob's choice. | First, what is your selection? =)
Second, there is no wrong way for someone to drink HIS or HER own whiskey. (If you are drinking MY whiskey, there is certainly an incorrect way.)
Thirdly, assuming standard choices in your bar, Basil Hayden isn't a bad choice, but it is not a snob's choice. | [
"Summary: If the traders are happy, then the trade is fair.\n\nPost: Also, value is not an intrinsic quality inherent to each bottle of whiskey. Value is decided on a per person basis. \n Ex: I value my birthday bourbons very highly, despite retail on each being ~$50. You may value them only at retail or perhaps e... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,144 |
dried_up_waterparks | Generate the content for a reddit post A company in the US had an additive in its gasoline that was banned by the EPA for "health reasons". This company appealed to the US courts saying the EPA had no jurisdiction in this matter as it was a health --not environmental-- issue. The result was that the ban was struck down... | I did. I had about a page written and i hit ctrl R instead of ctrl T (i was looking up the name of a chemical) and it erased. I'll give you a shorter version.
People who often tout that "the US needs Canada more than we need them" do so on the assumption that our natural resources are extremely valuable to the United... | I did. I had about a page written and i hit ctrl R instead of ctrl T (i was looking up the name of a chemical) and it erased. I'll give you a shorter version.
People who often tout that "the US needs Canada more than we need them" do so on the assumption that our natural resources are extremely valuable to the United... | [
"Summary: No. Webster's is a terrible source, and I'm still right.\n\nPost: Lol. \n Alright well next time I'm faced with determining what is \"reasonable\" in the circumstances I'll consult Websters. \n Tribunal in a legal context, when used correctly, is a word for an alternative mode of adjudication than a \"Cou... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,145 |
DrColdReality | Generate the content for a reddit post Americans were trained to consider socialism as evil by the rich, and then it became government policy. Hilarity (and almost the end of the world) ensued. | For some 150 years, there has been an ongoing smear campaign in America against socialism and communism (which most people just take as the same thing), and now many Americans just automatically associate it with evil.
Back in the 19th century, socialism became quite popular among people fighting for social justice a... | For some 150 years, there has been an ongoing smear campaign in America against socialism and communism (which most people just take as the same thing), and now many Americans just automatically associate it with evil.
Back in the 19th century, socialism became quite popular among people fighting for social justice a... | [
"Summary: life in the Wild West was actually a lot like today, but nowhere near as violent.\n\nPost: While in general one cannot prove a negative, what we can do in this case is point to the reams of newspapers, diaries, letters, and even 20th century recorded personal accounts from people who were there from... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,146 |
itsabearcannon | Generate the content for a reddit post More VRAM =/= higher performance. | The extra VRAM doesn't help unless you widen the memory bus to be able to utilize it all effectively. That's why the new R9 290X has 4GB of VRAM, but also a huge 512-bit memory bus to handle it all, meaning each 1GB of memory gets a 128-bit section of the memory bus (this is simplified, but it gets the point across).
... | The extra VRAM doesn't help unless you widen the memory bus to be able to utilize it all effectively. That's why the new R9 290X has 4GB of VRAM, but also a huge 512-bit memory bus to handle it all, meaning each 1GB of memory gets a 128-bit section of the memory bus (this is simplified, but it gets the point across).
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"Summary: If OP is going for \"future-proofing\", they should get a Haswell i7. If OP understands \"future-proofing\" is an uphill battle with desktop PC's, they should go with the Haswell i5.\n\nPost: I hate to be that guy, but the 4670K doesn't \"have futureproofing\", especially for the reasons you indicated. Th... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,147 |
JonWood007 | Generate the content for a reddit post PS, if inflation is slow, then that's ok. Because basic income will rise with inflation. Inflation is inevitable in a healthy economy. It's only fast inflation that's actually a threat. Your basic argument is that if we give people money, prices will rise to gobble it all up to le... | Once again, oh gosh, why, PLEASE keep your posts to a reasonable length. Second of all, check this out. It's 2noame's article on the subject, and it does way better than I can do.
>The short answer is no; and the long answer is a lengthy economics discussion about supply and demand, as well as a futile attempt to exp... | Once again, oh gosh, why, PLEASE keep your posts to a reasonable length. Second of all, check this out. It's 2noame's article on the subject, and it does way better than I can do.
>The short answer is no; and the long answer is a lengthy economics discussion about supply and demand, as well as a futile attempt to exp... | [
"Summary: 1) The flat tax acts as a clawback mechanism of the welfare trap, providing a favorable alternative that claws back wealth gradually as opposed to all at once. \n 2) A progressive tax, considering the amounts we need to raise for UBI, would be too high on the rich, and taking UBI into consideration, the t... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,148 |
Boneslatch | Generate the content for a reddit post A nice cut above my left eye, went to hospital for stitches, hit my head again and got a matching cut above my right. | Around 3, or 4 years of age, While watching a supercross race with my family I was sitting on our vaccum cleaner pretending it was a dirt bike, things escalated, pretended I was crashing, ended up smacking my head on the corner of a wooden table and got a scar above my left eye. Went to the hospital to get it stitched ... | Around 3, or 4 years of age, While watching a supercross race with my family I was sitting on our vaccum cleaner pretending it was a dirt bike, things escalated, pretended I was crashing, ended up smacking my head on the corner of a wooden table and got a scar above my left eye. Went to the hospital to get it stitched ... | [
"Summary: Filmed an emo girl attacking me, and me tripping her causing her to split her face open, Made it into a \"romantic comedy\" for the whole school to see.\n\nPost: A few years back in high school, I was in a video making class, and got put in a group with a buddy of mine and a wanabe emo girl. To this day I... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,149 |
lediablerouge | Generate the content for a reddit post The Kim Jong Il of the Middle East is dead. | Okay, here we go.
Khaddafi (to use my favorite spelling) was, as you probably already know, the dictator of a country called Libya, where he has ruled since 1969. He took power basically by stealing it in the night; he and a couple of other soldiers staged a coup while the reigning monarch was away in Turkey.
His r... | Okay, here we go.
Khaddafi (to use my favorite spelling) was, as you probably already know, the dictator of a country called Libya, where he has ruled since 1969. He took power basically by stealing it in the night; he and a couple of other soldiers staged a coup while the reigning monarch was away in Turkey.
His r... | [
"Summary: Morality is complicated.\n\nPost: See, I appreciate the services of the military but the logic you're using here is a common mistake. You say they're risking their lives so \"we don't have to\" but you admit that most of us feel that we don't really have to be there. If that's the case, it might well be i... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,150 |
rickg3 | Generate the content for a reddit post of this article is "Australians drink less sugary shit but they've gotten lazy as fuck and now they're getting fat." Then again, though, I only skimmed the article. | If you notice, the consumption of refined sucrose has gone down, but the consumption of HFCS has increased, although only by a relatively nominal amount. Also, the total ingestion of total sugars has increased. Overall, the Australians appear to be ingesting more calories from sugar in drinks, rather than from food. Th... | If you notice, the consumption of refined sucrose has gone down, but the consumption of HFCS has increased, although only by a relatively nominal amount. Also, the total ingestion of total sugars has increased. Overall, the Australians appear to be ingesting more calories from sugar in drinks, rather than from food. Th... | [
"Summary: Go up and read what I wrote, asshole. There's no shortcut down here.\n\nPost: Look, if you really want to cut like that, I'll give you some tips that worked for me when I wrestled. \n \n Kiss bread goodbye. Really, anything with processed flour or refined sugar in it. This includes, but is not limited to,... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,151 |
TryptamineX | Generate the content for a reddit post Hobby Lobby has nothing to do with this case. The courts cited some of its explanations, but none of the principles cited in Hobby Lobby are unique to it; they are all established understandings of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that were in place well before Hobby Lobby wa... | Having read through the documents attached, I think that this article is pretty overblown and misguided.
First off, nothing is protecting anyone against labor laws. What's in question is whether or not a member of the FLDS faith has to answer questions about the inner workings of the church even though doing so would... | Having read through the documents attached, I think that this article is pretty overblown and misguided.
First off, nothing is protecting anyone against labor laws. What's in question is whether or not a member of the FLDS faith has to answer questions about the inner workings of the church even though doing so would... | [
"Summary: The law will require the government to show that it's pursuing a compelling interest through the least restrictive means whenever it burdens religious practice. That's how things used to work at the federal level and the state level, but currently it's only how it works at the federal level and in states ... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,152 |
Quasid | Generate the content for a reddit post Morde has a good to exceptional laning phase, even with heavy ganks. His ability to succeed in team fights hinges on getting the right ghost, QUICKLY, in a team fight... And this is something that, i feel, makes him fall off late game if you don't know how to counteract it. | He is very strong. He becomes an absolute monster in lane if he's allowed to get to level 6 or 7 without falling behind. His shield (with a negatron>abyssal rush) will negate all but the hardest poke enemy AP mids can put down, and he's free to clear wraiths/wolves.
Basically, 2 things need to happen for a good huehu... | He is very strong. He becomes an absolute monster in lane if he's allowed to get to level 6 or 7 without falling behind. His shield (with a negatron>abyssal rush) will negate all but the hardest poke enemy AP mids can put down, and he's free to clear wraiths/wolves.
Basically, 2 things need to happen for a good huehu... | [
"Summary: i agree that in this very specific case you are correct, but how could a law be written that would have saved this woman from further trauma but also wouldn't be open to abuse for future cases?\n\nPost: It's an interesting point of discussion, is it not? \n This is something that doesn't only apply to rap... | 32 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,153 |
pottyaboutpotter1 | Generate the content for a reddit post I had a very unlucky childhood. | I swallowed the hand of Buzz Lightyear when I was 3. I have no idea why and I have no memory of the event. Aparently I wasn't choking at all and it was all fine. Then when I was 8, I slipped and fell on the side of a swimming pool and bashed my chin open. Blood everywhere. I had to have several sticthes. The Doctor sai... | I swallowed the hand of Buzz Lightyear when I was 3. I have no idea why and I have no memory of the event. Aparently I wasn't choking at all and it was all fine. Then when I was 8, I slipped and fell on the side of a swimming pool and bashed my chin open. Blood everywhere. I had to have several sticthes. The Doctor sai... | [
"Summary: Stuff I've had on my chest for a while.\n\nPost: Don't shoot me guys, but this is when Dean was funny. Now he's kind of not. For me anyway. It seems they've taken Dean's character and turned it up by 1000% where now you can't expect a scene to go by without Dean cracking some sort of joke, his love of pie... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,154 |
Dalfamurni | Generate the content for a reddit post I think it's actually mostly actual gameplay, because while there are parts that look scripted, there are some parts between the scripted looking parts that look like gameplay. So I think the scripted parts were just animations for drawing weapons, or what have you, with the excep... | To me this trailer looks like gameplay, with some scripted events like the bridge destruction, all recorded using a modified version of the Mario Kart 8 highlights camera. The scene where Link sides around the bend especially looks like a player controlling him.
To me it looks like gameplay right up until Link reache... | To me this trailer looks like gameplay, with some scripted events like the bridge destruction, all recorded using a modified version of the Mario Kart 8 highlights camera. The scene where Link sides around the bend especially looks like a player controlling him.
To me it looks like gameplay right up until Link reache... | [
"Summary: Eat some eggs for breakfast, and drink a smoothie while you write. It may help!\n\nPost: You may have depression driving your writer's block, if sad or insulting things make your writer's block more intense. Have you thought about being checked for that, or checking yourself for that? The internet has som... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,155 |
LuiSP | Generate the content for a reddit post Where's my book?>>
As you can see I'm kind of pissed at these guys. Maybe other sites got more copies but that's just asinine. Leaving one of the biggest retailers hanging out to dry... As I said, delaying and not producing enough for what others existed at the time isn't exactl... | I talked to an Amazon CSR and he told me they didn't have anymore books to ship at this moment. So yes, in a sense the book came out yesterday but only for a few lucky bastards.
He recommended I contact Insight Editions, the publisher. I'll provide the email I sent them and any replies after that will be posted here.... | I talked to an Amazon CSR and he told me they didn't have anymore books to ship at this moment. So yes, in a sense the book came out yesterday but only for a few lucky bastards.
He recommended I contact Insight Editions, the publisher. I'll provide the email I sent them and any replies after that will be posted here.... | [
"Summary: Fuck you, fuck your army, fuck your brother.\n\nPost: No, it just means the military are better than anyone because they put their lives at risk for good old US of A. \n Fuck'em. \n Every single last one of them. Afghanistan and Iraq? It should be their mass grave. They signed up for it, die for it. \n An... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,156 |
limabeanns | Generate the content for a reddit post Was bum-rushed by a 7-foot black mass with red eyes. | This happened in an apartment I lived in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, IL. In late summer/early fall 2004, I went to bed one night but as usual could not fall asleep quickly. Our cats normally went to bed with me but they didn't on this night, so I sat up in bed, hoping I would see them and could call them to m... | This happened in an apartment I lived in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, IL. In late summer/early fall 2004, I went to bed one night but as usual could not fall asleep quickly. Our cats normally went to bed with me but they didn't on this night, so I sat up in bed, hoping I would see them and could call them to m... | [
"Summary: I learned that even people with a doctrate/multiple degrees can and will walk all over you. Don't let them.\n\nPost: I suffer from too-niceitis too. My eyes were first truly opened in 2009 when a new friend began trying to take advantage of me. She was a veterinarian and 10 years my senior. She would say ... | 29 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,157 |
nolimitsoldier | Generate the content for a reddit post I should be able to give money to whoever I want in any amount without taxes being involved. Including my children. | Can you elaborate as to why "this person's parents earned a bunch of money" implies "this person should have that money"?
Sure! The reason they should get the money tax free is because I say so. While this may look aggressive and/or self centered I only mean to imply that while I am alive I should be able to give you... | Can you elaborate as to why "this person's parents earned a bunch of money" implies "this person should have that money"?
Sure! The reason they should get the money tax free is because I say so. While this may look aggressive and/or self centered I only mean to imply that while I am alive I should be able to give you... | [
"Summary: Walking down a sidewalk holding signs and yelling at the police is stupid and won't get anything resolved.\n\nPost: My problem is they went about it in the dumbest way possible. Walking down the street and antagonizing law enforcement, please. That is not the way to get what they want. Hold a protest/rall... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,158 |
SkunkMonkey420 | Generate the content for a reddit post Getting high prolly throws your panic threshold out of whack. Stop anxious thinking before it grows by using logic to keep yourself grounded. | I should change my screen name to anxious smoker because I keep responding to posts like these. I have anxiety and suffer from panic attacks. I know exactly the feeling you are talking about and it has taken me a while to master it, but my love of ganja and my distaste for alcohol forced me to find a way.
I believe t... | I should change my screen name to anxious smoker because I keep responding to posts like these. I have anxiety and suffer from panic attacks. I know exactly the feeling you are talking about and it has taken me a while to master it, but my love of ganja and my distaste for alcohol forced me to find a way.
I believe t... | [
"Summary: his personal relational affairs don't indicate much about his ability to perform his job, but his willingness to use his position of power to satisfy his personal vices does.\n\nPost: I think you underestimate how difficult it is for humans in general to change their behavior. I agree that his judgement w... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,159 |
LogicalPagan | Generate the content for a reddit post weird/lazy sporadic stoner teacher barely taught us anything and a weird teacher situation from the same building, and scary psychological bully algebra teacher made me hate math. | I've only had a few thankfully- the weirdest one was in middle school she lived in an old camper on the street outside the school. We had a lot of subs since she missed school a lot; she would take attendance, and leave anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour and come back with bloodshot eyes and red-rimmed cat eye glasses... | I've only had a few thankfully- the weirdest one was in middle school she lived in an old camper on the street outside the school. We had a lot of subs since she missed school a lot; she would take attendance, and leave anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour and come back with bloodshot eyes and red-rimmed cat eye glasses... | [
"Summary: I don't hate Christmas, its just my least favourite holiday that I'm obligated to celebrate when I would rather celebrate just Yule. \n Edit: I just found out what my purpouse is this time of year- to dress up as a Krampus/Krampuz and scare delinquent children! Actually I don't have the heart to scare kid... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,160 |
Bredul | Generate the content for a reddit post If I die, do me a solid and erase my browsing history. | Could go either way, I think. I'd like to imagine that he was somehow trying to correct his urges, but browsing /r/wtf will yeild results of people who want to either mutilate themselves as a form of pleasure or just want to be rid of their sexual organs.
I've tried looking up the reasoning for wanting to be rid of i... | Could go either way, I think. I'd like to imagine that he was somehow trying to correct his urges, but browsing /r/wtf will yeild results of people who want to either mutilate themselves as a form of pleasure or just want to be rid of their sexual organs.
I've tried looking up the reasoning for wanting to be rid of i... | [
"Summary: all of my relationships formed organically by spending no-pressure time with friends. I'd be more apt to set up a group session for fear that the guy wanted to merely hang out, thinking that I was making something more of what he actually intended. Just go spend time with her. Talk with and engage her fri... | 33 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,161 |
jpgray | Generate the content for a reddit post unless the game engine is completely rewritten, "fixing" the teleportation/speed hacks will not be a trivial task since the dodge mechanic requires your character's position to be calculated locally and then reported to the server (as opposed to many/most MMOs where your position ... | Well it's not as simple as it seems...the code to make a syncless teleport work is fairly complicated and requires come pretty clever coding to make it possible. A teleport where you need to re-sync with the "ground" is a little less complicated but less convenient (although definitely not useless).
Completely solvin... | Well it's not as simple as it seems...the code to make a syncless teleport work is fairly complicated and requires come pretty clever coding to make it possible. A teleport where you need to re-sync with the "ground" is a little less complicated but less convenient (although definitely not useless).
Completely solvin... | [
"Summary: go Shortbow if yo'ure going to range on a thief, pistol mainhand blows.\n\nPost: P/P is actually really bad, Shortbow does the same single target DPS but it lets you bring cluster bomb (which is one of the best skills for any thief) for AoE damage + blast finishers plus a poison field (+weakness when you ... | 32 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,162 |
joelunchbucket | Generate the content for a reddit post leave space, initially take a conservative/safe/yielding approach to passes (or being passed), and you will get a feel for more aggressive passes. | This is a tricky one because sometimes it's just impossible to have the accurate spacial awareness that you would otherwise have in a real car, so it takes practice to know the dimensions of the car you're driving in the game. If you watch professional racing, whenever two drivers are wheel-to-wheel, the good ones alwa... | This is a tricky one because sometimes it's just impossible to have the accurate spacial awareness that you would otherwise have in a real car, so it takes practice to know the dimensions of the car you're driving in the game. If you watch professional racing, whenever two drivers are wheel-to-wheel, the good ones alwa... | [
"Summary: I met Jesus.\n\nPost: I was taking the train downtown to go to a music festival last year. We encountered some weird ass people along the way, but one guy takes the cake. This black dude with a crazy look in his eye...the first thing he asks: \"When will Jesus be a gay man?\" I didn't think I heard him ri... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,163 |
Hader102 | Generate the content for a reddit post So a little bit mad my video got shit reception, but I really want to know why everyone's attitude towards A2A combat in PS2 is so very different than just about any other modern dogfighter. | So I recently submitted a video montage of my a2a exploits flying my mossy, and it got shit reception. That in particular I don't care about, but the attitude I see from people regarding a2a and dogfights between ESFs honestly surprises me, and that is what I wish to discuss.
Most people seem to completely hate the u... | So I recently submitted a video montage of my a2a exploits flying my mossy, and it got shit reception. That in particular I don't care about, but the attitude I see from people regarding a2a and dogfights between ESFs honestly surprises me, and that is what I wish to discuss.
Most people seem to completely hate the u... | [
"Summary: I like turtles.\n\nPost: I definitely couldn't do everything the role dictates alone right now, my schedule is a random one half the time so I can't always say when I will or will not be around. Ginjar and I sharing the role gives us good enough coverage over the week. We also have good captains and lieut... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,164 |
KeyR1 | Generate the content for a reddit post put you name here if you would like ranked to have an "if a person doesn't connect within 8 minutes of the start of the game it gives loss forgiven. | So I put forth a petition that I wish every one to please sign as no body should like to not have this occur.
I put forth a logical, reasonable and I feel fair to all suggestion that should be taken into careful consideration.
If the ranked game starts and within 8 minutes somebody that has no connected / disconnec... | So I put forth a petition that I wish every one to please sign as no body should like to not have this occur.
I put forth a logical, reasonable and I feel fair to all suggestion that should be taken into careful consideration.
If the ranked game starts and within 8 minutes somebody that has no connected / disconnec... | [
"Summary: 19 year old lad , got 8 weeks of free wrestling training and enjoyment with people he idolised and then got to \"main event\" special guest referee and got involved in the result. Still friends now. \n LOVED IT\n\nPost: I don't know whether it was / is a claim to fame but I am mega chuffed and look back o... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,165 |
RCIX | Generate the content for a reddit post yes, at least some/most spells with %DPS do | Pick a weapon with Conveys Damage over 5 or socket a damage/5 gem into one and pick Rapid Fire (on Outlander). Now go train it at the targeting dummy, hold down Rapid Fire, and hover over the icon in the targeting dummy bar and see how it says Dealing [insert absurd number] damage over 5 seconds | Pick a weapon with Conveys Damage over 5 or socket a damage/5 gem into one and pick Rapid Fire (on Outlander). Now go train it at the targeting dummy, hold down Rapid Fire, and hover over the icon in the targeting dummy bar and see how it says Dealing [insert absurd number] damage over 5 seconds | [
"Summary: I sometimes feel all alone, partly because of circumstances and partly because of who I am... does it ever get better?\n\nPost: I was diagnosed with Aspergers within the last several years - I'm 20 now - and I also have/had depression (and come from a family with a long history of various neurological di... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,166 |
jstevewhite | Generate the content for a reddit post I think you're partly right. A lot of good people panic in interviews and perform poorly. | Way back in 1995, a friend of mine brought me a stack of floppies full of slackware. I was hooked. This friend taught me the wonders of shell accounts and the beauty that is *nix.
Many years later, I got him an interview at the company where I was an engineer (Unix/wireless core networks/etc). One of the questions my... | Way back in 1995, a friend of mine brought me a stack of floppies full of slackware. I was hooked. This friend taught me the wonders of shell accounts and the beauty that is *nix.
Many years later, I got him an interview at the company where I was an engineer (Unix/wireless core networks/etc). One of the questions my... | [
"Summary: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean you're safe.\n\nPost: It does not follow that simply because past stressors turned out \"ok\" by some definition; that has no bearing on current issues. There is evidence, in that there does appear to be seepage on the ocean floor as much as thirty or forty me... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,167 |
Hoxtinite | Generate the content for a reddit post not a bug for the diamond, and even if it is a bug it isn't really a bad one, considering everyone must die before it happens | Nope, no bug. I was doing a solo mallcrashers normal a while back with my recently acquired 37th mask (A great way to wrap up my Riders on the snowstorm cheivo) and was on my last down. As I was escaping, a sniper got a lucky sniper shot (on my 65% dodge build) and I slowly swan song'd my way to escape. Just barely esc... | Nope, no bug. I was doing a solo mallcrashers normal a while back with my recently acquired 37th mask (A great way to wrap up my Riders on the snowstorm cheivo) and was on my last down. As I was escaping, a sniper got a lucky sniper shot (on my 65% dodge build) and I slowly swan song'd my way to escape. Just barely esc... | [
"Summary: It has nothing to do with pagers, it's the guards AI's\n\nPost: The pager system is not at fault here, it is the guards themselves. \n In Big Bank, all stationary guards in the vault area are stationary for (what I assume) is because they are called to investigate a broken camera in the front area; an are... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,168 |
IHeartDay9 | Generate the content for a reddit post Women in Burqas get raped same as everyone else. Sexual assault rates vary by culture, and has very much to do with how society views women and their sexuality. Telling people not to rape is about changing societies attitude towards rapists and their victims.
Some statistics to ... | First of all, the vast majority of sexual assaults are from lovers, friends and acquaintances. "Stranger rape" is in the minority of assaults (something like 15%).
Secondly, rape culture is a thing. There's a reason that 20% of men in India who commit assault, or try to downplay the experience of their victims, the... | First of all, the vast majority of sexual assaults are from lovers, friends and acquaintances. "Stranger rape" is in the minority of assaults (something like 15%).
Secondly, rape culture is a thing. There's a reason that 20% of men in India who commit assault, or try to downplay the experience of their victims, the... | [
"Summary: Want more kids but it would be unethical to have them. Doing the right thing can really suck sometimes.\n\nPost: No suggestions, but I'm going through something of a midlife crisis myself. \n My partner and I decided not to have any more children after our daughter was diagnosed with autism. Studies have ... | 54 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,169 |
ogSPLICE | Generate the content for a reddit post didnt want to believe my tank recycled, had to step back and get outside opinions and advice. Seems it has. fuck | As title says.
All was fine and dandy, until one water change saturday.
My routine in my 75 gal with my RTC and oscar, drain 40-50 gallons, remove fluval 406. clean fluval, replace water, good to go. Ive been doing it like so for 2 years, since the RTC pollutes the water so much, never an issue.
Until this day. T... | As title says.
All was fine and dandy, until one water change saturday.
My routine in my 75 gal with my RTC and oscar, drain 40-50 gallons, remove fluval 406. clean fluval, replace water, good to go. Ive been doing it like so for 2 years, since the RTC pollutes the water so much, never an issue.
Until this day. T... | [
"Summary: I got the itch at 18, now 28. it never stops\n\nPost: When i was younger, my father had a 30 gallon fish tank, which seemed huge to me. And i used to try to pick the fish out early in the morning while everyone was asleep, using the net. And when id drop them on the floor, id scream like a banshee and run... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,170 |
redhotkurt | Generate the content for a reddit post Buy and use an ohm meter. Buy good batteries from a good vendor and know their amp limits. Build coils that draw within those amp limits. | Piggybacking on what the gang said about buying an ohm meter: yes, get one. BroDoYouEvenSubOhm linked to Steam Engine, which is an invaluable coil-building resource you should add to your bookmarks. It'll tell you how many wraps you need to get the resistance you want.
Also on that site is the [Ohm's law page]( which... | Piggybacking on what the gang said about buying an ohm meter: yes, get one. BroDoYouEvenSubOhm linked to Steam Engine, which is an invaluable coil-building resource you should add to your bookmarks. It'll tell you how many wraps you need to get the resistance you want.
Also on that site is the [Ohm's law page]( which... | [
"Summary: Worry about \"CHASING clouds\" later. Do the math before you blow your face off, son.\n\nPost: Are you using an ohm meter to check your coil resistance? If you like having fingers, you should be. \n \n If so, what are your coils measuring? \n \n What batteries are you using? \n \n \n According to the Ste... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,171 |
irrational_abbztract | Generate the content for a reddit post if you were brought up being told there is no god, you wouldn't give a damn about the words of "god" and would find it much easier to kill..... | Well if there had never been the origination of the idea of god, there would be no fear of possibly being judged for your deeds after death. This you wouldn't give a damn about killing someone. But because there is the idea that God may exist, you make decisions taking that into consideration. Most don't steal because ... | Well if there had never been the origination of the idea of god, there would be no fear of possibly being judged for your deeds after death. This you wouldn't give a damn about killing someone. But because there is the idea that God may exist, you make decisions taking that into consideration. Most don't steal because ... | [
"Summary: The Qur'an is the first religious text I chose to read because it will help me understand my family's mindset and also because the library has many Bibles and I was confused on which to read.\n\nPost: To be honest, I didn't really put a lot of thought into that. \n The subconscious reasoning behind doing ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,172 |
Delslayer | Generate the content for a reddit post The hate from redditors in particular is for the most part centered on trying to differentiate ourselves from those who obsessively use Facebook, when in fact there is almost no difference between the two. The whole issue of reddit focusing on the community and Facebook focusing o... | So I guess the question is, what's with all the posturing on Reddit about Facebook being the worst thing on Earth? Like all forms of communication, can't we just use it correctly to stay in touch with each other?
In the end, what it comes down to is that reddit is no different than facebook in that, as you put it, bo... | So I guess the question is, what's with all the posturing on Reddit about Facebook being the worst thing on Earth? Like all forms of communication, can't we just use it correctly to stay in touch with each other?
In the end, what it comes down to is that reddit is no different than facebook in that, as you put it, bo... | [
"Summary: Because of the ambiguity of the above quoted statement, the author of that website has in fact stated that, under prop 19, it will be legal for people to smoke pot as they drive on the freeway or in your neighborhood.\n\nPost: While your right that “It will be legal for drivers to get high right before ta... | 39 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,173 |
v_soma | Generate the content for a reddit post Last paragraph | Let me make two things clear before I discussed what you've said. I referred to America as it actually is (according to the IHDI measure), not as what it would be if it was on a level playing field with other countries. It makes no sense to discount parts of the country when talking about the country as a whole. Ther... | Let me make two things clear before I discussed what you've said. I referred to America as it actually is (according to the IHDI measure), not as what it would be if it was on a level playing field with other countries. It makes no sense to discount parts of the country when talking about the country as a whole. Ther... | [
"Summary: Projecting one's own desires onto God and saying that they're God's desires is narcissistic and insensitive to other people's equally important desires. \n Edit: Although the facebook post was a bit narcissistic, that doesn't mean it necessarily deserved the response it received. The response was also a b... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,174 |
CC440 | Generate the content for a reddit post The PS2 was the Swan song of a technical era where consoles were distinct from computers in every way. This Current generation and future generations owe more to the Xbox which pioneered a concept of having a computer with a stripped down OS as your media center. | I agree, I think the Xbox gave birth to more of the things that define a modern console.
In my opinion the PS2 was the pinnacle of the traditional console. A box that plugged in to your TV and played games off a disk. Multi player was an extra controller and a friend on the couch. There wasn't any effort involved in ... | I agree, I think the Xbox gave birth to more of the things that define a modern console.
In my opinion the PS2 was the pinnacle of the traditional console. A box that plugged in to your TV and played games off a disk. Multi player was an extra controller and a friend on the couch. There wasn't any effort involved in ... | [
"Summary: I don't like the implications of using advanced power management to advertise a low TDP when most people use it as a reference for power consumption.\n\nPost: I think most people confuse TDP with power consumption and they've been right to equate the two up until now. The latest power management technique... | 32 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,175 |
exposed_knees | Generate the content for a reddit post I didn't reach my goals for week one but i will try again for week two. How was yours and what are your next goals? | Bring them in and let's hear them!
My goals for week one were:
> Study total of 12 hours.
> No dishes left every night before i sleep.
> 2 hours of calligraphy.
> No alcohol.
It's a bit embarrassing, but I have only succeed with the last one. I think it was the most important one though, I take anti depress... | Bring them in and let's hear them!
My goals for week one were:
> Study total of 12 hours.
> No dishes left every night before i sleep.
> 2 hours of calligraphy.
> No alcohol.
It's a bit embarrassing, but I have only succeed with the last one. I think it was the most important one though, I take anti depress... | [
"Summary: My general behavior and my actions are simultaneously influenced and fine-tuned by how a hypothetical non-participating but observing person would think of what is going on. What is the name of this mechanism that I am experiencing?.\n\nPost: This happens to me but I am not sure if it happens in the same ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,176 |
Grizzant | Generate the content for a reddit post there isn't a joke to get. he is just being a fox news cock gobbler. | don't worry folks, you aren't in the wrong subreddit. this shit is posted in the political humor subreddit by someone who at this point isn't even trying to be funny, just push their ideological agenda that Obama is somehow socialist despite it being just a koch brothers fantasy. If mark would take the fox news dick... | don't worry folks, you aren't in the wrong subreddit. this shit is posted in the political humor subreddit by someone who at this point isn't even trying to be funny, just push their ideological agenda that Obama is somehow socialist despite it being just a koch brothers fantasy. If mark would take the fox news dick... | [
"Summary: you are so fucking retarded that if you were in the womb with trig and palin told the doctors to abort the retarded one you would never have been born.\n\nPost: what you've just said... Is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point, in your rambling, incoherent response, were y... | 27 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,177 |
buzz1089 | Generate the content for a reddit post Reading Fool's Assassin first might spoil some things in the Rain Wild Chronicles | I would recommend reading it first just because timeline wise, it does happen before Fool's Assassin. For example, I read Farseer and then Tawny Man before knowing that Liveship was in the same world and between the two timeline wise. I didn't have any confusion about the events in Tawny Man but some things in Liveship... | I would recommend reading it first just because timeline wise, it does happen before Fool's Assassin. For example, I read Farseer and then Tawny Man before knowing that Liveship was in the same world and between the two timeline wise. I didn't have any confusion about the events in Tawny Man but some things in Liveship... | [
"Summary: Calling her fucking stupid because she was ignorant in a way she had no control over just shows how fucking stupid you are.\n\nPost: Stupid? Now if someone told her beforehand and she did it anyway, that's stupid. But not knowing beforehand? That's ignorance not stupidity. You can't get mad at someone for... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,178 |
Ipp | Generate the content for a reddit post Sion is great 1v1, but like Mord with a good jungler will almost guarantee he feeds. | AP Sion needs to keep his shield up to avoid being harassed out of lane, his shield pushes lanes pretty hard. This allows him to be ganked relatively easily. He is a great counter to champions like Morg because he can constantly push a lane very hard and Morg does not do well last hitting under a tower. However, you... | AP Sion needs to keep his shield up to avoid being harassed out of lane, his shield pushes lanes pretty hard. This allows him to be ganked relatively easily. He is a great counter to champions like Morg because he can constantly push a lane very hard and Morg does not do well last hitting under a tower. However, you... | [
"Summary: It's over, don't fight fire with fire. WP has a lot of hard working honest people, however every corporation has a few bad seeds. Don't forget WP has helped IPL/NASL .\n\nPost: Atleast for me, I know this drove me to donate some money to Jake for his troubles and am sure many other people did aswell. In... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,179 |
17Hongo | Generate the content for a reddit post I improved my school's interior design. | When I was in high school I woke up with a stomach ache. My parents sent me to school regardless of my complaints, and I spent most of the first class almost bent double trying to reduce the pain. Someone noticed, and sent me to the school nurse, who called my parents. I threw up on the wall of the sick-room while wait... | When I was in high school I woke up with a stomach ache. My parents sent me to school regardless of my complaints, and I spent most of the first class almost bent double trying to reduce the pain. Someone noticed, and sent me to the school nurse, who called my parents. I threw up on the wall of the sick-room while wait... | [
"Summary: Bloody Hell Trevor, just call her!\n\nPost: OK Trevor - Is it OK if I call you Trevor? Great. OK Trevor - lets run through this. \n This girl gave you her number. That would imply that she wants you to text her. If she's taking down her account, maybe that means she isn't interested in finding someone in ... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,180 |
SolaAesir | Generate the content for a reddit post Just ignore these whiners and keep counting the days until release. | So they've basically announced they're removing UI addons for basics like seeing your health and mana amounts numerically, custom target plates, and pretty much everything, on their Psijic boards and then locked the thread of people arguing against the decision. Their statements internally to a guild leader were that t... | So they've basically announced they're removing UI addons for basics like seeing your health and mana amounts numerically, custom target plates, and pretty much everything, on their Psijic boards and then locked the thread of people arguing against the decision. Their statements internally to a guild leader were that t... | [
"Summary: I stayed with Eve past the first 3 months because it was teaching me real life skills.\n\nPost: One of the \n > I kept playing on my own without social influence well past the 5 million SP watermark. \n people here. I played through a trial a couple years ago and got picked up quickly by a mining corp. I ... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,181 |
thejesusfinger | Generate the content for a reddit post The guy who wrote this can go fuck himself with a stick | If the writer was so genuinely interested in getting new readers to check out comics, he would have spent more time pointin out the good things that are happening in current comics. I know it's "cool" to shit on the event book that's out now for whatever reason, but wasting ink on a Wall Street Journal article just to ... | If the writer was so genuinely interested in getting new readers to check out comics, he would have spent more time pointin out the good things that are happening in current comics. I know it's "cool" to shit on the event book that's out now for whatever reason, but wasting ink on a Wall Street Journal article just to ... | [
"Summary: I'm having sad fat thoughts right now.\n\nPost: From past hometowns: \n Stamford, CT: Stinger and hot oil pizza from the Colony grill. Anyone who says there exists a better pie is a heretic and must burn for it. \n Santa Barbara County, CA: Ævelskiver from the Solvang Restaurant, anything from Taco Loco/R... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,182 |
batkarma | Generate the content for a reddit post dual install linux on your system, try it out and you'll understand why everyone loves it. | I just want to know why this seems to cause problems as often as it does.
I'd say you have dependency/installation problems in linux about as often as you do in windows, which is to say very rarely. I haven't had it happen to me on either Ubuntu or Archlinux.
>(1) How was this done in "pre-modern" Linux systems? W... | I just want to know why this seems to cause problems as often as it does.
I'd say you have dependency/installation problems in linux about as often as you do in windows, which is to say very rarely. I haven't had it happen to me on either Ubuntu or Archlinux.
>(1) How was this done in "pre-modern" Linux systems? W... | [
"Summary: Don't be a lazy thinker.\n\nPost: Dude, there comes a certain point when you need to be well-versed in a particular field in order to critically analyze the research material. In my opinion, that point is when you can't trust the intentions of the researchers (on either side in this case). \n Let's look a... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,183 |
Ironanimation | Generate the content for a reddit post Would you guys know any routines that are specifically targeted at draining your energy efficiently, regardless of any other goal? | Weight, Height, Sex, and Age: 130lbs,5'10,Male,17
Your Goals:combat anxiety/depression/tics
History of diet or exercise: I have a chronic dehydration issue. drink half a bottle of water a day without a schedule. Lots of medical issues manifesting from that which I wont go into for sake of breviary.
Do you have ac... | Weight, Height, Sex, and Age: 130lbs,5'10,Male,17
Your Goals:combat anxiety/depression/tics
History of diet or exercise: I have a chronic dehydration issue. drink half a bottle of water a day without a schedule. Lots of medical issues manifesting from that which I wont go into for sake of breviary.
Do you have ac... | [
"Summary: actions come from a tiny bit of pleasure, and without the tiny bit of pleasure acting is hard. They can't snap out of it because they have literally lost the ability to control themselves and are stunted with willpower. You are somewhat in control of your mind, its a gradient. Imagine carrying around a we... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,184 |
necromundus | Generate the content for a reddit post Ran out into traffic, almost got hit by the mayor's daughter. From now on I always look both ways, even on one-way streets. | I was waiting to cross the street with my parents when I was very young. I was sure there was no traffic coming from the left so I was just waiting for traffic to stop coming from the right. When the last car came I ran out into the street but didn't realize there was now a car speeding at me from the left. It stopped ... | I was waiting to cross the street with my parents when I was very young. I was sure there was no traffic coming from the left so I was just waiting for traffic to stop coming from the right. When the last car came I ran out into the street but didn't realize there was now a car speeding at me from the left. It stopped ... | [
"Summary: Climactic end-scene of GotG where the little space ships link up to form a shield and it doesn't even work.\n\nPost: I re-watched Guardians of the Galaxy the other day. I fucking love that movie, but I found I was poking holes in the plot left and right. \n Most are forgivable. Why doesn't Star-lord's m... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,185 |
danaofdoom | Generate the content for a reddit post The evidence that TRP uses to support their statement that rape is all women's #1 fantasy actually demonstrates that it's not the preferred fantasy of most women. And even if it was, there's a pretty big difference between fantasizing about something and actually having it happe... | That is some circular reasoning right there.
Also
>despite rape being women's sex fantasy #1
I remember when they came up with this study. It was done on a fairly small sample size of female undergraduates. Not really representative of the general female population.
Edit: Here and found that 62% have a rape f... | That is some circular reasoning right there.
Also
>despite rape being women's sex fantasy #1
I remember when they came up with this study. It was done on a fairly small sample size of female undergraduates. Not really representative of the general female population.
Edit: Here and found that 62% have a rape f... | [
"Summary: the human body is weird. Something you love today can be repulsive tomorrow, and something you hated yesterday can become your new favorite food overnight.\n\nPost: Idk if I'd jump right to that though. My mom has always, always hated eggs in the morning. She loves them for dinner, or hardboiled on a sala... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,186 |
just_an_ordinary_guy | Generate the content for a reddit post don't just "nip it up" because even experienced mechanics don't have a perfectly calibrated arm. It's poor form and will lead to a headache at some point. | My job requires that I use torque wrenches, typically in the 50 ft-lb and higher range. The engine cover bolts on my bike are 36 inch pounds IIRC. My idea of "about 36 inch pounds" far exceeded the actual value. I'm not familiar with "nip it up," but context is telling me that it probably means lightly tightening t... | My job requires that I use torque wrenches, typically in the 50 ft-lb and higher range. The engine cover bolts on my bike are 36 inch pounds IIRC. My idea of "about 36 inch pounds" far exceeded the actual value. I'm not familiar with "nip it up," but context is telling me that it probably means lightly tightening t... | [
"Summary: at less than 1000 calories per day, that commenter would, at best, end up in the hospital. Either they are lying about what they ate, or they were so fucking lazy that they were kicked out of basic.\n\nPost: As someone who was fat when they joined the military, this stinks worse than a pile of shit (as w... | 58 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,187 |
kak0 | Generate the content for a reddit post Allah could have categorically banned music but He didn't. There is no reason for scholars to ban something that God has not banned. | the ruling is not that music is halal on 2 days of the year and haram on all others. The Prophet, saw, was telling abu bakr to show leniency. Perhaps he is saying it's not the biggest deal in the world for the kids to be beating
This simply shows it is not haram. There is no other haram thing in which you can be leni... | the ruling is not that music is halal on 2 days of the year and haram on all others. The Prophet, saw, was telling abu bakr to show leniency. Perhaps he is saying it's not the biggest deal in the world for the kids to be beating
This simply shows it is not haram. There is no other haram thing in which you can be leni... | [
"Summary: Degrees mean jack. \n In absolute terms yes. They don't mean anything. But in human society they do. \n Would you also extend this to islamic degrees and ijazas? That they also don't mean jack? I am with you in that too :)\n\nPost: On the other hand beyond that it means little except inflating your sense ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,188 |
mrhoopers | Generate the content for a reddit post You have to LOVE the home for it to be worth it. | The asbestos will be a one time fix...hopefully. It'll be expensive and a pain but it'll be done.
The issue is finding things like moldings. You can't buy ANYTHING for the home in your local box store. Everything is custom. I have a buddy with a 100+ year old home who had to have custom router bits made so he could d... | The asbestos will be a one time fix...hopefully. It'll be expensive and a pain but it'll be done.
The issue is finding things like moldings. You can't buy ANYTHING for the home in your local box store. Everything is custom. I have a buddy with a 100+ year old home who had to have custom router bits made so he could d... | [
"Summary: You'll have to make some compromises that will frustrate you but you'll love your first home no matter what.\n\nPost: They're called starter homes. \n You will LOVE yours when you find it. It will either be stupid tiny and new in a \"meh\" location OR small and nice but in a shit location (traffic/crime/d... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,189 |
gamas | Generate the content for a reddit post Beyond everything else, its more about not being seen to be hypocrites in the eyes of everyone who is more oppressed than a cis woman... (also the issue isn't about using the word penis in general but the suggestion that a penis is something only a cis man has) | The way to understand it is to realise the complications that come about in the context of social justice.
The problem is that when fighting against people using stereotypes and language that can be used to oppress a group of people, it is important to be careful that you aren't being hypocritical in criticising othe... | The way to understand it is to realise the complications that come about in the context of social justice.
The problem is that when fighting against people using stereotypes and language that can be used to oppress a group of people, it is important to be careful that you aren't being hypocritical in criticising othe... | [
"Summary: Next time you travel to Greece, go and absorb the local culture instead of staying in the hotel.\n\nPost: The problem is its actually starting to get worse now. With travel agents and hotels offering all-inclusive deals, tourists can basically go to Greece without ever interacting with any of the locals.... | 58 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,190 |
iBanana32GB | Generate the content for a reddit post I still find it confusing sometimes, but picking up flowers gives you seeds that can be grown with [Gardening]( Only way to get flowers directly seems to be to buy them back from a merchant. | You might want to hold on the Red Asters if you didn't need them yet.
Bluebells are pretty easy to grow near Therese with low level Gardening.
Hunt the panthers and other animals nearby the Eltibule portal entrance (inside Eltibule), they often drop seeds.
You can also always check the "Used" inventory of merchan... | You might want to hold on the Red Asters if you didn't need them yet.
Bluebells are pretty easy to grow near Therese with low level Gardening.
Hunt the panthers and other animals nearby the Eltibule portal entrance (inside Eltibule), they often drop seeds.
You can also always check the "Used" inventory of merchan... | [
"Summary: If you simplify the process the interaction is simple and pleasant.\n\nPost: I fucking hate haggling so for all random rares that are usable I sell them for 1 alch to 1 chaos and always put the price in trade. They either go fast or get vendored minutes later. No hassle. \n For things that I am unsure abo... | 54 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,191 |
lfgbrd | Generate the content for a reddit post The majority of the checklist points are true for even the smallest aircraft. It gets to be second nature, though. | Most of the stuff is pretty standard. Even your lowly Cessna 172 has a fairly comprehensive checklist. If you get into something like it's bigger brother a 182RG (which is not a large plane by any means), with retractable gear, cowl flaps, and a constant speed prop, the pre-flight and climb checklists are very similar ... | Most of the stuff is pretty standard. Even your lowly Cessna 172 has a fairly comprehensive checklist. If you get into something like it's bigger brother a 182RG (which is not a large plane by any means), with retractable gear, cowl flaps, and a constant speed prop, the pre-flight and climb checklists are very similar ... | [
"Summary: There's a version for the G3 which is pretty easy to install (but the current version (2.0 or 2.1 or something) on XDA is only for Korean and International versions), and there's a version for the G2 which is more complicated.\n\nPost: IS this rom meant for G2 devices? \n I'm glad you noticed this, becaus... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,192 |
Willravel | Generate the content for a reddit post kaiju seem to adapt better to guns than hand to hand combat. | It seems like the kaiju are all about (engineered) adaptation. Every time they fight and lose to a jaeger, the next generation is engineered to be better, to make up for the failings of its predecessor. One area, however, they seem to be slower in adapting to is in hand to hand (hand to claw) combat. The early jaegers ... | It seems like the kaiju are all about (engineered) adaptation. Every time they fight and lose to a jaeger, the next generation is engineered to be better, to make up for the failings of its predecessor. One area, however, they seem to be slower in adapting to is in hand to hand (hand to claw) combat. The early jaegers ... | [
"Summary: Claire's nothing to sneeze at either.\n\nPost: Funny though this article may be, I have a sneaking suspicion there's a group of people who are every bit as fond of Claire as many are of Jamie. She's strong, intelligent, assertive, but always in a very human way. She's not some ass-kicking superhero or agg... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,193 |
wckz | Generate the content for a reddit post Team flexibility doesn't matter if you're at a level where you can't afford your champions. Team flexibility is irrelevant with early game advantages. Your logic blows. | It's relevant. Team comp flexibility isn't worth shit at low levels where you can't afford champions. You aren't thinking about this correctly. At high levels, people will be able to afford flexibility with IP and have it matter. At low levels, people who can't afford flexibility with IP don't give a shit because every... | It's relevant. Team comp flexibility isn't worth shit at low levels where you can't afford champions. You aren't thinking about this correctly. At high levels, people will be able to afford flexibility with IP and have it matter. At low levels, people who can't afford flexibility with IP don't give a shit because every... | [
"Summary: Republicans lie and convince people to screw themselves over.\n\nPost: The richest 1% wouldn't be as rich. There would be a more equal income distribution. Prices would be higher, but employment would also be higher. People would spend more and thus end the poor man's recession (The recession has actually... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,194 |
cadika_orade | Generate the content for a reddit post Mac is great if you only ever want to consume things Apple has approved. I usually recommend it for elderly people and art students, or anyone who is okay with driving a car with the hood bolted shut. | There's no Windows laptop, whose experience would come even near the MBA
Have fun trying to do anything other than Photoshop. The only decent IDE for Mac is Xcode, the APIs are all terrible, and game support is pale at best.
Oh, and if it breaks you can't fix it, and you can't upgrade it.
My Windows laptop cost h... | There's no Windows laptop, whose experience would come even near the MBA
Have fun trying to do anything other than Photoshop. The only decent IDE for Mac is Xcode, the APIs are all terrible, and game support is pale at best.
Oh, and if it breaks you can't fix it, and you can't upgrade it.
My Windows laptop cost h... | [
"Summary: The majority of people I like are white, and the worst people I know are black and hispanic. This isn't because I don't like black or hispanic people, but because many black and hispanic people use their culture as a reason to be terrible people.\n\nPost: Anecdotal evidence is only evidence and is therefo... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,195 |
adopted_by_bunnies | Generate the content for a reddit post even if the shot caused it, getting the flu probably would also have caused it
edit: sorry about the RA :( | seems its a very rare but possible occurrence. although it seems that getting the flu itself would have been just as likely/unlikely to cause the RA to start (both the flu and the shot would have triggered similar immune system responses which conceivably would have led to the RA which is an auto-immune condition) | seems its a very rare but possible occurrence. although it seems that getting the flu itself would have been just as likely/unlikely to cause the RA to start (both the flu and the shot would have triggered similar immune system responses which conceivably would have led to the RA which is an auto-immune condition) | [
"Summary: during that minute (assuming your explanation of what happened is accurate) your brain was operating without external inputs and thus was able to operate at a fairly unlimited speed, thus creating the perception that a ton more time passed than did\n\nPost: hard to explain correctly without knowing what y... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,196 |
tararabbit111279 | Generate the content for a reddit post If Carribean cruise lines tries to give you a free cruise, make them send you the offer in writing with all the pertinent details before you pay any fees. If they refuse, tell them to fuck off. | Back in August I took a survey that entered me into a contest to win a free cruise with Carribean cruise lines. A few days later I get a call from carribean cruise lines telling me that I one a 2 day cruise and all I had to do was pay the "port taxes". The whole time I was on the phone with the agent they did nothing b... | Back in August I took a survey that entered me into a contest to win a free cruise with Carribean cruise lines. A few days later I get a call from carribean cruise lines telling me that I one a 2 day cruise and all I had to do was pay the "port taxes". The whole time I was on the phone with the agent they did nothing b... | [
"Summary: phone companies and carriers made a fuck ton of money with de-regulation and government subsidies and promised to upgrade our infrastructure. They pocketed the money, did as little as possible, and want to charge us ridiculous fees for what we use. Privatizing infrastructure we all depend on fucks over ev... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,197 |
gamdink | Generate the content for a reddit post got Chinese kids to do hammer time dance | This will probably get buried, but I will share none the less:
I was teaching some Chinese kids about 7-8 years old. We were working on following simple directions. We started with simple "stand, stop, sit" etc. but they were getting bored, on a happy thought I said "hammer time"....after demonstrating the M.C. Hamme... | This will probably get buried, but I will share none the less:
I was teaching some Chinese kids about 7-8 years old. We were working on following simple directions. We started with simple "stand, stop, sit" etc. but they were getting bored, on a happy thought I said "hammer time"....after demonstrating the M.C. Hamme... | [
"Summary: it's a mixed bag and the school will probably be a joke\n\nPost: I worked in Riyadh at the King Saud PY English program for a semester. Basically....it's probably the best money, but the worst place to work. So if you are really desperate for money, it's a good fit. The cultural problems are there, dealin... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,198 |
FisherKing22 | Generate the content for a reddit post Got punched in the face because I hooked up with the girl that my friend called dibs on. | My best friend (Hubert for the same of this story)had invited one of his high school friends to stay with us for our university's football game against her's. She had asked to bring a friend, let's call her Kate. Before they arrived, Hubert said, "I call dibs on her friend if she's hot." They got there on Friday night,... | My best friend (Hubert for the same of this story)had invited one of his high school friends to stay with us for our university's football game against her's. She had asked to bring a friend, let's call her Kate. Before they arrived, Hubert said, "I call dibs on her friend if she's hot." They got there on Friday night,... | [
"Summary: Fuck you, Carl. Fuck you so much.\n\nPost: I will tell you the story of the worst rushee I've ever seen, and we'll see if we can all learn from his mistakes. Let's call him Carl. \n Carl rushed in the fall as a freshman. He didn't really come around to that many events, but from all accounts, was a pretty... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 9,199 |
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