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Xacuti0ner | I did that on purpose once in the main post and once in the tl;dr don't ask why and this isn't a rant I'm trying to find help... | I did that on purpose once in the main post and once in the tl;dr don't ask why and this isn't a rant I'm trying to find help...
| runescape | t5_2qwxl | cd97w83 | I did that on purpose once in the main post and once in the | don't ask why and this isn't a rant I'm trying to find help... |
bpmorris92 | honestly? it's because a lot of us can't watch the game on TV like we usually can. Because of the knicks, rangers, and devils, we're forced to play on MSG+2, which isn't really an easy channel to find(i know i don't even get it an hour north of NYC)...
TL;DR Fuck the Rangers | honestly? it's because a lot of us can't watch the game on TV like we usually can. Because of the knicks, rangers, and devils, we're forced to play on MSG+2, which isn't really an easy channel to find(i know i don't even get it an hour north of NYC)...
TL;DR Fuck the Rangers
| hockey | t5_2qiel | cd99myw | honestly? it's because a lot of us can't watch the game on TV like we usually can. Because of the knicks, rangers, and devils, we're forced to play on MSG+2, which isn't really an easy channel to find(i know i don't even get it an hour north of NYC)... | Fuck the Rangers |
ClintonHarvey | Oy yeh mate, we've woggin' the morst yip in the bonkers *aaall'*roight, but tha's bananas, mate, ain't a bogan on my lo'vly continent 'at can't press the mois'tcha out of a kookaburra I'll tell ya that right now, mate.
TL;DR: don't go up'n knockin' 'round pink doors if ya can't rup ye'hll wop bit a whop dip, mate. | Oy yeh mate, we've woggin' the morst yip in the bonkers aaall' roight, but tha's bananas, mate, ain't a bogan on my lo'vly continent 'at can't press the mois'tcha out of a kookaburra I'll tell ya that right now, mate.
TL;DR: don't go up'n knockin' 'round pink doors if ya can't rup ye'hll wop bit a whop dip, mate.
| videos | t5_2qh1e | cd9jl87 | Oy yeh mate, we've woggin' the morst yip in the bonkers aaall' roight, but tha's bananas, mate, ain't a bogan on my lo'vly continent 'at can't press the mois'tcha out of a kookaburra I'll tell ya that right now, mate. | don't go up'n knockin' 'round pink doors if ya can't rup ye'hll wop bit a whop dip, mate. |
shitdrummer | An old band of mine once played a gig with TISM in Darwin. Met them all and they were great guys.
Unfortunately we got in heaps of trouble for drinking all their band rider. Luckily the Regurgitator boys didn't drink and covered us by giving their rider to the TISM boys. Good times.
TLDR: Cool story bro. | An old band of mine once played a gig with TISM in Darwin. Met them all and they were great guys.
Unfortunately we got in heaps of trouble for drinking all their band rider. Luckily the Regurgitator boys didn't drink and covered us by giving their rider to the TISM boys. Good times.
TLDR: Cool story bro.
| videos | t5_2qh1e | cd9k65i | An old band of mine once played a gig with TISM in Darwin. Met them all and they were great guys.
Unfortunately we got in heaps of trouble for drinking all their band rider. Luckily the Regurgitator boys didn't drink and covered us by giving their rider to the TISM boys. Good times. | Cool story bro. |
jhangel77 | Okay, I admit it.....this morning I did it. I bitched about it for a long time same as everyone else but I finally did it. Actually I wasn't really bitching about Google+ as an actual site because it's actually pretty cool. What bothered me was that it wanted me to change my youtube name to my google + name and I bitched about it. Call it whatever you want: me giving up, having a revelation, hoping people will mass exodus from FB to Google+, but I finally changed my Google + name to something that I am happy with on youtube also. I had had an account before so it's not bad. I still use FB, I still use Twitter, I still use youtube, and now my youtube channel and google+ is connected.
TL;DR I doth protested to much, but it turned out fine and I'm a hypocrite. | Okay, I admit it.....this morning I did it. I bitched about it for a long time same as everyone else but I finally did it. Actually I wasn't really bitching about Google+ as an actual site because it's actually pretty cool. What bothered me was that it wanted me to change my youtube name to my google + name and I bitched about it. Call it whatever you want: me giving up, having a revelation, hoping people will mass exodus from FB to Google+, but I finally changed my Google + name to something that I am happy with on youtube also. I had had an account before so it's not bad. I still use FB, I still use Twitter, I still use youtube, and now my youtube channel and google+ is connected.
TL;DR I doth protested to much, but it turned out fine and I'm a hypocrite.
| funny | t5_2qh33 | cd9w8qi | Okay, I admit it.....this morning I did it. I bitched about it for a long time same as everyone else but I finally did it. Actually I wasn't really bitching about Google+ as an actual site because it's actually pretty cool. What bothered me was that it wanted me to change my youtube name to my google + name and I bitched about it. Call it whatever you want: me giving up, having a revelation, hoping people will mass exodus from FB to Google+, but I finally changed my Google + name to something that I am happy with on youtube also. I had had an account before so it's not bad. I still use FB, I still use Twitter, I still use youtube, and now my youtube channel and google+ is connected. | I doth protested to much, but it turned out fine and I'm a hypocrite. |
coin_return | Uh no, that's pretty much what he was doing with the Kor'kron and now the "True Horde", which started at the beginning of the expansion. He started in Cataclysm, pushing out the other Horde because he was racist (as demonstrated with the goblin/troll slums, and pushing the tauren in the back). It started moving in full swing when Pandaria was discovered and has only just now started coming to a culmination with Seige of Orgimmar.
tl;dr, I'm tired of hearing about Garrosh and his racially motivated ideologies.
Not sure I'm the one who needs to do the growing up. It's a video game, I don't have to agree with everything. | Uh no, that's pretty much what he was doing with the Kor'kron and now the "True Horde", which started at the beginning of the expansion. He started in Cataclysm, pushing out the other Horde because he was racist (as demonstrated with the goblin/troll slums, and pushing the tauren in the back). It started moving in full swing when Pandaria was discovered and has only just now started coming to a culmination with Seige of Orgimmar.
tl;dr, I'm tired of hearing about Garrosh and his racially motivated ideologies.
Not sure I'm the one who needs to do the growing up. It's a video game, I don't have to agree with everything.
| wow | t5_2qio8 | cdc4c5f | Uh no, that's pretty much what he was doing with the Kor'kron and now the "True Horde", which started at the beginning of the expansion. He started in Cataclysm, pushing out the other Horde because he was racist (as demonstrated with the goblin/troll slums, and pushing the tauren in the back). It started moving in full swing when Pandaria was discovered and has only just now started coming to a culmination with Seige of Orgimmar. | I'm tired of hearing about Garrosh and his racially motivated ideologies.
Not sure I'm the one who needs to do the growing up. It's a video game, I don't have to agree with everything. |
donkeynostril | The Department of Homeland Security has been unresponsive to journalists' questions about the rights and treatments of American citizens at airports and ports into the U.S. A former Congressman Lee Hamilton says the best way to get answers from DHS is for citizens to put pressure on their elected representatives. This tool makes it easy to do that.
**TL:DR** - DHS won't talk to the press -- use this tool to ask your congressperson what the deal is | The Department of Homeland Security has been unresponsive to journalists' questions about the rights and treatments of American citizens at airports and ports into the U.S. A former Congressman Lee Hamilton says the best way to get answers from DHS is for citizens to put pressure on their elected representatives. This tool makes it easy to do that.
TL:DR - DHS won't talk to the press -- use this tool to ask your congressperson what the deal is
| restorethefourth | t5_2xhsu | cda3763 | The Department of Homeland Security has been unresponsive to journalists' questions about the rights and treatments of American citizens at airports and ports into the U.S. A former Congressman Lee Hamilton says the best way to get answers from DHS is for citizens to put pressure on their elected representatives. This tool makes it easy to do that. | DHS won't talk to the press -- use this tool to ask your congressperson what the deal is |
cmdrNacho | I have a feeling you or op don't even understand the business. I suspect neither of you have ever worked with a major brand or tried to get them pay for some sort of ad spend.
Groupon has proven that flash sales do not create customer loyalty. Second op is creating an incredibly high barrier for people to obtain so called rewards. Ok so for the first 6 months to a year maybe the op spends something like 50 to 100k on free stuff to give away, ad spend, development.. etc. He builds a user base. The concept after that is the same. He will approach brands ask for money and tell them he will create a competition to get users to engage with the brand. **This is a suboptimal solution than wildfire as before they are interacting with the brands facebook page so they users had to be somewhat knowledgeable about the brand, where as with ops site they are just trying to get free shit. ** Now companies do spend a lot of money on acquiring new users and things like this, but it would all depend on reach of his service.
tldr: you're right because this is a worse solution for companies to participate in. | I have a feeling you or op don't even understand the business. I suspect neither of you have ever worked with a major brand or tried to get them pay for some sort of ad spend.
Groupon has proven that flash sales do not create customer loyalty. Second op is creating an incredibly high barrier for people to obtain so called rewards. Ok so for the first 6 months to a year maybe the op spends something like 50 to 100k on free stuff to give away, ad spend, development.. etc. He builds a user base. The concept after that is the same. He will approach brands ask for money and tell them he will create a competition to get users to engage with the brand. This is a suboptimal solution than wildfire as before they are interacting with the brands facebook page so they users had to be somewhat knowledgeable about the brand, where as with ops site they are just trying to get free shit. Now companies do spend a lot of money on acquiring new users and things like this, but it would all depend on reach of his service.
tldr: you're right because this is a worse solution for companies to participate in.
| startups | t5_2qh26 | cdaidbo | I have a feeling you or op don't even understand the business. I suspect neither of you have ever worked with a major brand or tried to get them pay for some sort of ad spend.
Groupon has proven that flash sales do not create customer loyalty. Second op is creating an incredibly high barrier for people to obtain so called rewards. Ok so for the first 6 months to a year maybe the op spends something like 50 to 100k on free stuff to give away, ad spend, development.. etc. He builds a user base. The concept after that is the same. He will approach brands ask for money and tell them he will create a competition to get users to engage with the brand. This is a suboptimal solution than wildfire as before they are interacting with the brands facebook page so they users had to be somewhat knowledgeable about the brand, where as with ops site they are just trying to get free shit. Now companies do spend a lot of money on acquiring new users and things like this, but it would all depend on reach of his service. | you're right because this is a worse solution for companies to participate in. |
FavoriteCereal | Do I think we have the right to complain? Yes, because this community has lived with no dev support up until last year. Those years filled with empty promises while we sit here supporting the game every year. Ice even said that CoD only trends on twitter on release day and when there are events. I think IW owes the pros for contributing to the community. I enjoy watching competitive much more than playing, and the last cod I bought before BO2 was mw2. I bought BO2 because I loved what 3arc did. What I don't get it that IW can (I think) make so much money off after an investment of supporting competitive as Riot has. People on Reddit hate on CoD so much for being the same game, but I think if they show the average user what the extent of competitive can be the game could be shown in a new light. Especially with Titanfall coming up and creeping on CoD's space. I feel like this community is the kind of person who is super nice to everyone, but just gets mistreated and taken advantage of by everyone for being too nice.
I think Nadeshot says it best: "Its been 6 years since CoD4 came out and IW still ignores our community. I understand we are the minority, but ignorance is disrespect."
I think in the longrun patches can only fix so many things. We need maps specifically made for competitive. It's sad when in playing TDM I have to run around the whole damn map to find a kill and thats 6v6. 4v4 is a shitshow. Watching that SnD tourney the other night was in my opinion awfully boring. Sorry for the long post just kind of angry.
TLDR: I'm really passionate about this, and I felt like I got stepped on. | Do I think we have the right to complain? Yes, because this community has lived with no dev support up until last year. Those years filled with empty promises while we sit here supporting the game every year. Ice even said that CoD only trends on twitter on release day and when there are events. I think IW owes the pros for contributing to the community. I enjoy watching competitive much more than playing, and the last cod I bought before BO2 was mw2. I bought BO2 because I loved what 3arc did. What I don't get it that IW can (I think) make so much money off after an investment of supporting competitive as Riot has. People on Reddit hate on CoD so much for being the same game, but I think if they show the average user what the extent of competitive can be the game could be shown in a new light. Especially with Titanfall coming up and creeping on CoD's space. I feel like this community is the kind of person who is super nice to everyone, but just gets mistreated and taken advantage of by everyone for being too nice.
I think Nadeshot says it best: "Its been 6 years since CoD4 came out and IW still ignores our community. I understand we are the minority, but ignorance is disrespect."
I think in the longrun patches can only fix so many things. We need maps specifically made for competitive. It's sad when in playing TDM I have to run around the whole damn map to find a kill and thats 6v6. 4v4 is a shitshow. Watching that SnD tourney the other night was in my opinion awfully boring. Sorry for the long post just kind of angry.
TLDR: I'm really passionate about this, and I felt like I got stepped on.
| CoDCompetitive | t5_2tvg8 | cdaj8sm | Do I think we have the right to complain? Yes, because this community has lived with no dev support up until last year. Those years filled with empty promises while we sit here supporting the game every year. Ice even said that CoD only trends on twitter on release day and when there are events. I think IW owes the pros for contributing to the community. I enjoy watching competitive much more than playing, and the last cod I bought before BO2 was mw2. I bought BO2 because I loved what 3arc did. What I don't get it that IW can (I think) make so much money off after an investment of supporting competitive as Riot has. People on Reddit hate on CoD so much for being the same game, but I think if they show the average user what the extent of competitive can be the game could be shown in a new light. Especially with Titanfall coming up and creeping on CoD's space. I feel like this community is the kind of person who is super nice to everyone, but just gets mistreated and taken advantage of by everyone for being too nice.
I think Nadeshot says it best: "Its been 6 years since CoD4 came out and IW still ignores our community. I understand we are the minority, but ignorance is disrespect."
I think in the longrun patches can only fix so many things. We need maps specifically made for competitive. It's sad when in playing TDM I have to run around the whole damn map to find a kill and thats 6v6. 4v4 is a shitshow. Watching that SnD tourney the other night was in my opinion awfully boring. Sorry for the long post just kind of angry. | I'm really passionate about this, and I felt like I got stepped on. |
StreicherSix | >face of my franchise
>take your head off
>out for that dudes head
sweet homerism bro
edit: some clarification on the point. you claim Robidas is in the right for coming in to charge Tootoo into the boards after he roughed up the face of his franchise, putting Tootoo at huge risk of spinal/concussion injury. You claim Bertuzzi is wrong because he put Moore at huge risk of spinal/concussion injury after Moore already gave Naslund a concussion.
tl;dr you're a joke | >face of my franchise
>take your head off
>out for that dudes head
sweet homerism bro
edit: some clarification on the point. you claim Robidas is in the right for coming in to charge Tootoo into the boards after he roughed up the face of his franchise, putting Tootoo at huge risk of spinal/concussion injury. You claim Bertuzzi is wrong because he put Moore at huge risk of spinal/concussion injury after Moore already gave Naslund a concussion.
tl;dr you're a joke
| hockey | t5_2qiel | cdaw7dw | face of my franchise
>take your head off
>out for that dudes head
sweet homerism bro
edit: some clarification on the point. you claim Robidas is in the right for coming in to charge Tootoo into the boards after he roughed up the face of his franchise, putting Tootoo at huge risk of spinal/concussion injury. You claim Bertuzzi is wrong because he put Moore at huge risk of spinal/concussion injury after Moore already gave Naslund a concussion. | you're a joke |
minz12 | you play hundreds of games watching as mounts, couriers and announcers drop for other players, taking your chest and 15th chen ward everytime you level up until one day... one glorious day... you get an uncommon.
tl;dr its random, but random like bash (you always see them but personally never get em) | you play hundreds of games watching as mounts, couriers and announcers drop for other players, taking your chest and 15th chen ward everytime you level up until one day... one glorious day... you get an uncommon.
tl;dr its random, but random like bash (you always see them but personally never get em)
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | cdarhcq | you play hundreds of games watching as mounts, couriers and announcers drop for other players, taking your chest and 15th chen ward everytime you level up until one day... one glorious day... you get an uncommon. | its random, but random like bash (you always see them but personally never get em) |
the_attorney | Yes, keep the Sabbath day, for it is holy. Anyone who desecrates it must die; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from the community. Work six days only, but the seventh day must be a day of total rest. I repeat: Because the LORD considers it a holy day, anyone who works on the Sabbath must be put to death.' (Exodus 31:12-15 NLT)
TL;DR: Kill thy neighbor if he works on sunday | Yes, keep the Sabbath day, for it is holy. Anyone who desecrates it must die; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from the community. Work six days only, but the seventh day must be a day of total rest. I repeat: Because the LORD considers it a holy day, anyone who works on the Sabbath must be put to death.' (Exodus 31:12-15 NLT)
TL;DR: Kill thy neighbor if he works on sunday
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdb71ut | Yes, keep the Sabbath day, for it is holy. Anyone who desecrates it must die; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from the community. Work six days only, but the seventh day must be a day of total rest. I repeat: Because the LORD considers it a holy day, anyone who works on the Sabbath must be put to death.' (Exodus 31:12-15 NLT) | Kill thy neighbor if he works on sunday |
thisisultimate | It's 18. Also, the smaller the town the more this rule is enforced, presumably because it is a main source of income. I have definitely seen a bunch of children pulled over for this. The cops hang out in front of the schools in the morning and wait...
tldr: The cops in my town are jerks | It's 18. Also, the smaller the town the more this rule is enforced, presumably because it is a main source of income. I have definitely seen a bunch of children pulled over for this. The cops hang out in front of the schools in the morning and wait...
tldr: The cops in my town are jerks
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdb1qt1 | It's 18. Also, the smaller the town the more this rule is enforced, presumably because it is a main source of income. I have definitely seen a bunch of children pulled over for this. The cops hang out in front of the schools in the morning and wait... | The cops in my town are jerks |
krazykman1 | That in racewalking you always have to have one foot on the ground or else it's running. At a racewalking race, if you take a picture at any given time, most people will have both feet off the ground.
Not only that, but this is such a problem that the people on the sidelines meant to check to make sure that people have at least 1 foot on the ground aren't allowed to use any technology like slow motion cameras, or even put their head near the ground for a better angle, because then they would be able to tell that nobody keeps one foot on the ground and everyone would be disqualified.
TL;DR Nobdody racewalks properly. | That in racewalking you always have to have one foot on the ground or else it's running. At a racewalking race, if you take a picture at any given time, most people will have both feet off the ground.
Not only that, but this is such a problem that the people on the sidelines meant to check to make sure that people have at least 1 foot on the ground aren't allowed to use any technology like slow motion cameras, or even put their head near the ground for a better angle, because then they would be able to tell that nobody keeps one foot on the ground and everyone would be disqualified.
TL;DR Nobdody racewalks properly.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdb1u9r | That in racewalking you always have to have one foot on the ground or else it's running. At a racewalking race, if you take a picture at any given time, most people will have both feet off the ground.
Not only that, but this is such a problem that the people on the sidelines meant to check to make sure that people have at least 1 foot on the ground aren't allowed to use any technology like slow motion cameras, or even put their head near the ground for a better angle, because then they would be able to tell that nobody keeps one foot on the ground and everyone would be disqualified. | Nobdody racewalks properly. |
Triplebizzle87 | Can't help but chuckle to myself every time I go to pass somebody and they reveal themselves to be insecure and try to stomp it to catch up. I'll usually speed, about 5 over depending on where I am, but I love how they shoot up to like +20 over the speed limit. The best part is when, after they rocket past you on the left, you merge back over and, in a few miles, catch back up to them once they forget how to drive again and the scenario repeats.
**tl;dr** recursion | Can't help but chuckle to myself every time I go to pass somebody and they reveal themselves to be insecure and try to stomp it to catch up. I'll usually speed, about 5 over depending on where I am, but I love how they shoot up to like +20 over the speed limit. The best part is when, after they rocket past you on the left, you merge back over and, in a few miles, catch back up to them once they forget how to drive again and the scenario repeats.
tl;dr recursion
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdb2cas | Can't help but chuckle to myself every time I go to pass somebody and they reveal themselves to be insecure and try to stomp it to catch up. I'll usually speed, about 5 over depending on where I am, but I love how they shoot up to like +20 over the speed limit. The best part is when, after they rocket past you on the left, you merge back over and, in a few miles, catch back up to them once they forget how to drive again and the scenario repeats. | recursion |
dubflip | I just got a 1974 VW bus and I had no idea just how badly people hate you when you drive the speed limit. Several people have interpreted my observing 55 MPH signs as a personal insult - but really I just can't take the turns much faster than the posted speed.
TL;DR Bus = slow | I just got a 1974 VW bus and I had no idea just how badly people hate you when you drive the speed limit. Several people have interpreted my observing 55 MPH signs as a personal insult - but really I just can't take the turns much faster than the posted speed.
TL;DR Bus = slow
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdb3sos | I just got a 1974 VW bus and I had no idea just how badly people hate you when you drive the speed limit. Several people have interpreted my observing 55 MPH signs as a personal insult - but really I just can't take the turns much faster than the posted speed. | Bus = slow |
Armadylspark | I don't specifically have a source, but in support of the original statement, I'd like to draw attention to the fact that helmets really won't do much for you if a car has any speed behind it.
If you consider that you can stop a car doing 30 before a car doing 50 even hits the brakes, it's logical that most accidents don't really involve the low kind of speeds that helmets were designed to mitigate.
tl;dr: No difference between dead, and deader. | I don't specifically have a source, but in support of the original statement, I'd like to draw attention to the fact that helmets really won't do much for you if a car has any speed behind it.
If you consider that you can stop a car doing 30 before a car doing 50 even hits the brakes, it's logical that most accidents don't really involve the low kind of speeds that helmets were designed to mitigate.
tl;dr: No difference between dead, and deader.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdb40z9 | I don't specifically have a source, but in support of the original statement, I'd like to draw attention to the fact that helmets really won't do much for you if a car has any speed behind it.
If you consider that you can stop a car doing 30 before a car doing 50 even hits the brakes, it's logical that most accidents don't really involve the low kind of speeds that helmets were designed to mitigate. | No difference between dead, and deader. |
Dreadgoat | This is one that people hear and follow without actually thinking about WHY we have this rule. It does not apply in every case, and if you just thought about the purpose of the rule you it would be obvious.
Let's say some close friend of family of yours died yesterday. This person wasn't a saint, certainly had enemies, but they also had many good traits and you loved them dearly. Basically a typical, flawed person. If today I call them out on some of their bullshit, legit though it may be, it is extremely distasteful and disrespectful to YOU who are in mourning. Even if the person has been dead for 10 years, it is distasteful to socially attack someone who cannot defend themselves in the presence of someone who cared for them.
So this only applies on a personal level. It is important that we do not let this rule cloud our perceptions of high profile people and their legacies, unless their death genuinely applies to us on a personal level. Steve Jobs died? I still think he was one of the most destructive and selfish people in the industry. Fuck him. Fuck his corpse. Dumbass coudl have saved himself with real medicine. Steve Jobs died and I happen to be a friend of Woz? May he rest in peace, and be remembered for his best qualities. A man tragically taken from us before his time.
tl;dr: funerals, grief, mourning, "showing your respects", and "don't speak ill of the dead" are sensibilities we follow for the survivors, not the deceased. Respect the living. The dead don't need your respect. | This is one that people hear and follow without actually thinking about WHY we have this rule. It does not apply in every case, and if you just thought about the purpose of the rule you it would be obvious.
Let's say some close friend of family of yours died yesterday. This person wasn't a saint, certainly had enemies, but they also had many good traits and you loved them dearly. Basically a typical, flawed person. If today I call them out on some of their bullshit, legit though it may be, it is extremely distasteful and disrespectful to YOU who are in mourning. Even if the person has been dead for 10 years, it is distasteful to socially attack someone who cannot defend themselves in the presence of someone who cared for them.
So this only applies on a personal level. It is important that we do not let this rule cloud our perceptions of high profile people and their legacies, unless their death genuinely applies to us on a personal level. Steve Jobs died? I still think he was one of the most destructive and selfish people in the industry. Fuck him. Fuck his corpse. Dumbass coudl have saved himself with real medicine. Steve Jobs died and I happen to be a friend of Woz? May he rest in peace, and be remembered for his best qualities. A man tragically taken from us before his time.
tl;dr: funerals, grief, mourning, "showing your respects", and "don't speak ill of the dead" are sensibilities we follow for the survivors, not the deceased. Respect the living. The dead don't need your respect.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdb4kum | This is one that people hear and follow without actually thinking about WHY we have this rule. It does not apply in every case, and if you just thought about the purpose of the rule you it would be obvious.
Let's say some close friend of family of yours died yesterday. This person wasn't a saint, certainly had enemies, but they also had many good traits and you loved them dearly. Basically a typical, flawed person. If today I call them out on some of their bullshit, legit though it may be, it is extremely distasteful and disrespectful to YOU who are in mourning. Even if the person has been dead for 10 years, it is distasteful to socially attack someone who cannot defend themselves in the presence of someone who cared for them.
So this only applies on a personal level. It is important that we do not let this rule cloud our perceptions of high profile people and their legacies, unless their death genuinely applies to us on a personal level. Steve Jobs died? I still think he was one of the most destructive and selfish people in the industry. Fuck him. Fuck his corpse. Dumbass coudl have saved himself with real medicine. Steve Jobs died and I happen to be a friend of Woz? May he rest in peace, and be remembered for his best qualities. A man tragically taken from us before his time. | funerals, grief, mourning, "showing your respects", and "don't speak ill of the dead" are sensibilities we follow for the survivors, not the deceased. Respect the living. The dead don't need your respect. |
redheader | Actually, the eggs in the cookie dough are usually pasteurized/don't cause illness. There was a 2009 outbreak of e. coli traced back to some nestle cookie dough (unsurprisingly it was mostly teenage girls and children that got sick) and the problem was actually the flour. Flour is a raw ingredient with lower standards for food purity and cleanliness because it's supposed to be cooked before consuming.
tl;dr: don't eat cookie dough because the flour is't cooked | Actually, the eggs in the cookie dough are usually pasteurized/don't cause illness. There was a 2009 outbreak of e. coli traced back to some nestle cookie dough (unsurprisingly it was mostly teenage girls and children that got sick) and the problem was actually the flour. Flour is a raw ingredient with lower standards for food purity and cleanliness because it's supposed to be cooked before consuming.
tl;dr: don't eat cookie dough because the flour is't cooked
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdb4zbo | Actually, the eggs in the cookie dough are usually pasteurized/don't cause illness. There was a 2009 outbreak of e. coli traced back to some nestle cookie dough (unsurprisingly it was mostly teenage girls and children that got sick) and the problem was actually the flour. Flour is a raw ingredient with lower standards for food purity and cleanliness because it's supposed to be cooked before consuming. | don't eat cookie dough because the flour is't cooked |
edx74 | I will often see cars stopped on the shoulder (right side, US) with their left turn-signal on. Their intention is to alert other drivers "Pass me on the side that is blinking," but what they are actually saying is "I'm about to pull into traffic." I've gotten many a confused look from these people when I stop behind them so as not to get hit.
TL:DR - your turn signal tells me what YOU plan to do, not what OTHER CARS should be doing | I will often see cars stopped on the shoulder (right side, US) with their left turn-signal on. Their intention is to alert other drivers "Pass me on the side that is blinking," but what they are actually saying is "I'm about to pull into traffic." I've gotten many a confused look from these people when I stop behind them so as not to get hit.
TL:DR - your turn signal tells me what YOU plan to do, not what OTHER CARS should be doing
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdb51t7 | I will often see cars stopped on the shoulder (right side, US) with their left turn-signal on. Their intention is to alert other drivers "Pass me on the side that is blinking," but what they are actually saying is "I'm about to pull into traffic." I've gotten many a confused look from these people when I stop behind them so as not to get hit. | your turn signal tells me what YOU plan to do, not what OTHER CARS should be doing |
tonsofpcs | This!
Growing up near NYC, you learn to cross the street stepping into the road next to a moving car so that you end up walking behind that car to cross. Went to school in upstate (note: you are supposed to stop for pedestrians in cross-walks). Was quite confusing when cars would stop for you nowhere near a stop sign just because you were trying to cross the street or there was a crosswalk nearby (yes, there are state highways with crosswalks randomly placed across them).
Anyway, one day, walking across campus, crossing at a cross-walk, a pickup truck pulls by and dead-stops as I'm walking 'into the side' of it. Guy opens up his door and yells at me for crossing the street.
Then I visited Portland, OR last year. Traffic in all directions would just stop as you walked near an intersection. I was so confused.
**tl;dr:** NYC: Walk *into* cars to end up crossing behind them. Try this other places, the car stops and you walk **into** it. | This!
Growing up near NYC, you learn to cross the street stepping into the road next to a moving car so that you end up walking behind that car to cross. Went to school in upstate (note: you are supposed to stop for pedestrians in cross-walks). Was quite confusing when cars would stop for you nowhere near a stop sign just because you were trying to cross the street or there was a crosswalk nearby (yes, there are state highways with crosswalks randomly placed across them).
Anyway, one day, walking across campus, crossing at a cross-walk, a pickup truck pulls by and dead-stops as I'm walking 'into the side' of it. Guy opens up his door and yells at me for crossing the street.
Then I visited Portland, OR last year. Traffic in all directions would just stop as you walked near an intersection. I was so confused.
tl;dr: NYC: Walk into cars to end up crossing behind them. Try this other places, the car stops and you walk into it.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdb538w | This!
Growing up near NYC, you learn to cross the street stepping into the road next to a moving car so that you end up walking behind that car to cross. Went to school in upstate (note: you are supposed to stop for pedestrians in cross-walks). Was quite confusing when cars would stop for you nowhere near a stop sign just because you were trying to cross the street or there was a crosswalk nearby (yes, there are state highways with crosswalks randomly placed across them).
Anyway, one day, walking across campus, crossing at a cross-walk, a pickup truck pulls by and dead-stops as I'm walking 'into the side' of it. Guy opens up his door and yells at me for crossing the street.
Then I visited Portland, OR last year. Traffic in all directions would just stop as you walked near an intersection. I was so confused. | NYC: Walk into cars to end up crossing behind them. Try this other places, the car stops and you walk into it. |
strengthenyoenamel | Okay please stop miss informing people. Traveling happens SO often in basketball it's ridiculous. It's to the point that i think they should even change the rules to three steps. A LOT of people travel and people even get away with four steps. Now people say that the game gets slowed down, but the reason for that is that refs don't call these violations so players begin to adapt to how the refs will usually call it. So players change their footwork for three steps. When i play basketball and take three steps i feel retarded and at many times hesitate because the action is so wrong. You see the NBA players take 3 steps and even 4 steps like it is a natural movement. Honestly i feel like the officiating is just shit and severely biased towards offensive plays. But, NBA is in it for the money and they know what they're doing. Traveling in the NBA is TERRIBLE. Also i feel like the refs fuckin picken and choosen travels or at least it seems that way when they do call a travel.
TL DR; if you are an avid basketball player or watcher you can catch a LOT of travels. They happen more often than you think (comming from experience of watching bball with other people. Generally they can't catch that shit). | Okay please stop miss informing people. Traveling happens SO often in basketball it's ridiculous. It's to the point that i think they should even change the rules to three steps. A LOT of people travel and people even get away with four steps. Now people say that the game gets slowed down, but the reason for that is that refs don't call these violations so players begin to adapt to how the refs will usually call it. So players change their footwork for three steps. When i play basketball and take three steps i feel retarded and at many times hesitate because the action is so wrong. You see the NBA players take 3 steps and even 4 steps like it is a natural movement. Honestly i feel like the officiating is just shit and severely biased towards offensive plays. But, NBA is in it for the money and they know what they're doing. Traveling in the NBA is TERRIBLE. Also i feel like the refs fuckin picken and choosen travels or at least it seems that way when they do call a travel.
TL DR; if you are an avid basketball player or watcher you can catch a LOT of travels. They happen more often than you think (comming from experience of watching bball with other people. Generally they can't catch that shit).
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdb66is | Okay please stop miss informing people. Traveling happens SO often in basketball it's ridiculous. It's to the point that i think they should even change the rules to three steps. A LOT of people travel and people even get away with four steps. Now people say that the game gets slowed down, but the reason for that is that refs don't call these violations so players begin to adapt to how the refs will usually call it. So players change their footwork for three steps. When i play basketball and take three steps i feel retarded and at many times hesitate because the action is so wrong. You see the NBA players take 3 steps and even 4 steps like it is a natural movement. Honestly i feel like the officiating is just shit and severely biased towards offensive plays. But, NBA is in it for the money and they know what they're doing. Traveling in the NBA is TERRIBLE. Also i feel like the refs fuckin picken and choosen travels or at least it seems that way when they do call a travel. | if you are an avid basketball player or watcher you can catch a LOT of travels. They happen more often than you think (comming from experience of watching bball with other people. Generally they can't catch that shit). |
Blenderhead36 | I really take issues with this line of inquiry, so if I come off as harsh, just know that this is something that I'm weird about and you shouldn't take it personally.
Driving, especially on a highway, it way more complicated than it seems if you don't do it everyday. I've been on the road a lot over the past nine years, primarily in the greater Cleveland and greater Pittsburgh areas. I've gone as far West as Indianapolis, Indiana and as far east as Rochester New York. This is where my observations come from.
There are a lot of unwritten rules on the highway. One of the most important is the idea of "Speed Limit." The Speed Limit is, in practice, the lowest speed that you should be traveling. This seems counterintuitive, but it comes from the way that American highways are set up. Most of the time, there are either two or three lanes (the number increases as the area the highway is in gets more urbanized; I've seen as many as six lanes). The rightmost lane is meant for entering and exiting the highway; it should be the slowest lane because the people in it are either accelerating from a slower road or decelerating onto a slower exit. This lane should be going within 5 miles of the Speed Limit, in either direction. If there is a middle lane, this one is reserved for overland travel. This lane should be going the Speed Limit, minimally, 10 miles over the Speed Limit maximally. In practice, it's usually going 5-7 over. If there is no middle lane, that means that there are fewer exits in this area the middle/right lane are collapsed into one that typically goes about 5 MPH over the Speed Limit. If there is more than one middle lane, the expectation is that each lane is going a few MPH faster as it goes left, but in practice it usually means that all middle lanes are faster than the rightmost and slower than the leftmost and typically different speeds from each other, though there's no pattern in the difference. The left lane is the passing lane. I am personally uncomfortable doing more than 10 MPH over the Speed Limit in the passing lane, though most drivers seems comfortable at up to 15 over. People who do more than that are the ones you see at the side of the road with a cop writing them a ticket. It's worth noting that several states, including Pennsylvania, consider overland travel in the leftmost lane to be against the law.
Now, most highways have a posted minimum, typically about 20MPH lower than the Speed Limit. I would love to tell you how that works, but I've never actually seen anyone doing it unless they were in an extremely unusual vehicle, like a megatruck hauling a mobile home and covered in "OVERSIZE LOAD" warnings.
The reason behind all of this is psychological. Most Americans are overstimulated and are in a hurry to get where they're going. If they wanted to take the scenic route, they wouldn't be on the highway. It's common knowledge that, outside of maligned speed traps (the most famous one in my experience was Linndale, OH, which recently had its highway powers expelled after a lawsuit pointed out that there aren't any actual *exits* in Linndale), no cop is going to write a speeding ticket for someone going less than 10MPH over the Speed Limit (once again, we're talking about the highway. Do 35 in a 25 zone and you should prepare to face the Long Arm of the Law). As a result, we can expect the practical effect of a Speed Limit to set the lowest speed, as that's the speed that the most law-minded Americans will travel. And that's fine. If you want to do the Speed Limit on the highway, there are lanes for that.
Does going the Speed Limit in the passing lane cause accidents? No idea; I don't have any figures on hand, and I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't. The problem with it is that it's an etiquette issue. While it's not technically against the law, neither is talking loudly on a cell phone and ignoring the cashier at the front of a long line at the supermarket, double parking in a crowded lot, or texting during a movie. What it is is incredibly rude and insensitive to the needs of others who have a schedule to keep.
TL;DR: If you do the Speed Limit in the passing lane, you're not wrong, you're just an asshole. | I really take issues with this line of inquiry, so if I come off as harsh, just know that this is something that I'm weird about and you shouldn't take it personally.
Driving, especially on a highway, it way more complicated than it seems if you don't do it everyday. I've been on the road a lot over the past nine years, primarily in the greater Cleveland and greater Pittsburgh areas. I've gone as far West as Indianapolis, Indiana and as far east as Rochester New York. This is where my observations come from.
There are a lot of unwritten rules on the highway. One of the most important is the idea of "Speed Limit." The Speed Limit is, in practice, the lowest speed that you should be traveling. This seems counterintuitive, but it comes from the way that American highways are set up. Most of the time, there are either two or three lanes (the number increases as the area the highway is in gets more urbanized; I've seen as many as six lanes). The rightmost lane is meant for entering and exiting the highway; it should be the slowest lane because the people in it are either accelerating from a slower road or decelerating onto a slower exit. This lane should be going within 5 miles of the Speed Limit, in either direction. If there is a middle lane, this one is reserved for overland travel. This lane should be going the Speed Limit, minimally, 10 miles over the Speed Limit maximally. In practice, it's usually going 5-7 over. If there is no middle lane, that means that there are fewer exits in this area the middle/right lane are collapsed into one that typically goes about 5 MPH over the Speed Limit. If there is more than one middle lane, the expectation is that each lane is going a few MPH faster as it goes left, but in practice it usually means that all middle lanes are faster than the rightmost and slower than the leftmost and typically different speeds from each other, though there's no pattern in the difference. The left lane is the passing lane. I am personally uncomfortable doing more than 10 MPH over the Speed Limit in the passing lane, though most drivers seems comfortable at up to 15 over. People who do more than that are the ones you see at the side of the road with a cop writing them a ticket. It's worth noting that several states, including Pennsylvania, consider overland travel in the leftmost lane to be against the law.
Now, most highways have a posted minimum, typically about 20MPH lower than the Speed Limit. I would love to tell you how that works, but I've never actually seen anyone doing it unless they were in an extremely unusual vehicle, like a megatruck hauling a mobile home and covered in "OVERSIZE LOAD" warnings.
The reason behind all of this is psychological. Most Americans are overstimulated and are in a hurry to get where they're going. If they wanted to take the scenic route, they wouldn't be on the highway. It's common knowledge that, outside of maligned speed traps (the most famous one in my experience was Linndale, OH, which recently had its highway powers expelled after a lawsuit pointed out that there aren't any actual exits in Linndale), no cop is going to write a speeding ticket for someone going less than 10MPH over the Speed Limit (once again, we're talking about the highway. Do 35 in a 25 zone and you should prepare to face the Long Arm of the Law). As a result, we can expect the practical effect of a Speed Limit to set the lowest speed, as that's the speed that the most law-minded Americans will travel. And that's fine. If you want to do the Speed Limit on the highway, there are lanes for that.
Does going the Speed Limit in the passing lane cause accidents? No idea; I don't have any figures on hand, and I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't. The problem with it is that it's an etiquette issue. While it's not technically against the law, neither is talking loudly on a cell phone and ignoring the cashier at the front of a long line at the supermarket, double parking in a crowded lot, or texting during a movie. What it is is incredibly rude and insensitive to the needs of others who have a schedule to keep.
TL;DR: If you do the Speed Limit in the passing lane, you're not wrong, you're just an asshole.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdb75eh | I really take issues with this line of inquiry, so if I come off as harsh, just know that this is something that I'm weird about and you shouldn't take it personally.
Driving, especially on a highway, it way more complicated than it seems if you don't do it everyday. I've been on the road a lot over the past nine years, primarily in the greater Cleveland and greater Pittsburgh areas. I've gone as far West as Indianapolis, Indiana and as far east as Rochester New York. This is where my observations come from.
There are a lot of unwritten rules on the highway. One of the most important is the idea of "Speed Limit." The Speed Limit is, in practice, the lowest speed that you should be traveling. This seems counterintuitive, but it comes from the way that American highways are set up. Most of the time, there are either two or three lanes (the number increases as the area the highway is in gets more urbanized; I've seen as many as six lanes). The rightmost lane is meant for entering and exiting the highway; it should be the slowest lane because the people in it are either accelerating from a slower road or decelerating onto a slower exit. This lane should be going within 5 miles of the Speed Limit, in either direction. If there is a middle lane, this one is reserved for overland travel. This lane should be going the Speed Limit, minimally, 10 miles over the Speed Limit maximally. In practice, it's usually going 5-7 over. If there is no middle lane, that means that there are fewer exits in this area the middle/right lane are collapsed into one that typically goes about 5 MPH over the Speed Limit. If there is more than one middle lane, the expectation is that each lane is going a few MPH faster as it goes left, but in practice it usually means that all middle lanes are faster than the rightmost and slower than the leftmost and typically different speeds from each other, though there's no pattern in the difference. The left lane is the passing lane. I am personally uncomfortable doing more than 10 MPH over the Speed Limit in the passing lane, though most drivers seems comfortable at up to 15 over. People who do more than that are the ones you see at the side of the road with a cop writing them a ticket. It's worth noting that several states, including Pennsylvania, consider overland travel in the leftmost lane to be against the law.
Now, most highways have a posted minimum, typically about 20MPH lower than the Speed Limit. I would love to tell you how that works, but I've never actually seen anyone doing it unless they were in an extremely unusual vehicle, like a megatruck hauling a mobile home and covered in "OVERSIZE LOAD" warnings.
The reason behind all of this is psychological. Most Americans are overstimulated and are in a hurry to get where they're going. If they wanted to take the scenic route, they wouldn't be on the highway. It's common knowledge that, outside of maligned speed traps (the most famous one in my experience was Linndale, OH, which recently had its highway powers expelled after a lawsuit pointed out that there aren't any actual exits in Linndale), no cop is going to write a speeding ticket for someone going less than 10MPH over the Speed Limit (once again, we're talking about the highway. Do 35 in a 25 zone and you should prepare to face the Long Arm of the Law). As a result, we can expect the practical effect of a Speed Limit to set the lowest speed, as that's the speed that the most law-minded Americans will travel. And that's fine. If you want to do the Speed Limit on the highway, there are lanes for that.
Does going the Speed Limit in the passing lane cause accidents? No idea; I don't have any figures on hand, and I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't. The problem with it is that it's an etiquette issue. While it's not technically against the law, neither is talking loudly on a cell phone and ignoring the cashier at the front of a long line at the supermarket, double parking in a crowded lot, or texting during a movie. What it is is incredibly rude and insensitive to the needs of others who have a schedule to keep. | If you do the Speed Limit in the passing lane, you're not wrong, you're just an asshole. |
kanuck84 | The Criminal Code sets vaginal age of consent in Canada at 16, but 18 for anal sex. This distinction has been found to be unconstitutional discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, so the law is now effectively 16 for either.
TL;DR: You're welcome, kinky straightfolk. | The Criminal Code sets vaginal age of consent in Canada at 16, but 18 for anal sex. This distinction has been found to be unconstitutional discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, so the law is now effectively 16 for either.
TL;DR: You're welcome, kinky straightfolk.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdb91jx | The Criminal Code sets vaginal age of consent in Canada at 16, but 18 for anal sex. This distinction has been found to be unconstitutional discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, so the law is now effectively 16 for either. | You're welcome, kinky straightfolk. |
riptide747 | Friend of my was Q-tipping (sounds like cow tipping...interesting image. Calling /u/AWildSketchAppeared ?") anyway. Long story short, had the q-tip in his ear, phone rang, forgot he had the q-tip in and answered the phone. "HelloooOOWWWWWW". Now he's 100% deaf in his right ear.
TL;DR Don't phone while Q-tip | Friend of my was Q-tipping (sounds like cow tipping...interesting image. Calling /u/AWildSketchAppeared ?") anyway. Long story short, had the q-tip in his ear, phone rang, forgot he had the q-tip in and answered the phone. "HelloooOOWWWWWW". Now he's 100% deaf in his right ear.
TL;DR Don't phone while Q-tip
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdb9bwx | Friend of my was Q-tipping (sounds like cow tipping...interesting image. Calling /u/AWildSketchAppeared ?") anyway. Long story short, had the q-tip in his ear, phone rang, forgot he had the q-tip in and answered the phone. "HelloooOOWWWWWW". Now he's 100% deaf in his right ear. | Don't phone while Q-tip |
Asyx | Yeah but American eggs are cleaned before they are sold. That's why you have to put American eggs into the fridge.
In the EU, cleaning eggs before they're sold is illegal so it's not as easy to hide bad hygiene. So the natural protecting layer the hen puts around the egg is kept unharmed. Like it was in the past.
I assume the process in the US to keep eggs clean just became so good that there is no reason to worry about it anymore because I've literally never heard that raw eggs can cause health problems in Germany (where we don't clean our eggs).
TL;DR: European eggs have chicken vagina slime all over them. | Yeah but American eggs are cleaned before they are sold. That's why you have to put American eggs into the fridge.
In the EU, cleaning eggs before they're sold is illegal so it's not as easy to hide bad hygiene. So the natural protecting layer the hen puts around the egg is kept unharmed. Like it was in the past.
I assume the process in the US to keep eggs clean just became so good that there is no reason to worry about it anymore because I've literally never heard that raw eggs can cause health problems in Germany (where we don't clean our eggs).
TL;DR: European eggs have chicken vagina slime all over them.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdb9t1b | Yeah but American eggs are cleaned before they are sold. That's why you have to put American eggs into the fridge.
In the EU, cleaning eggs before they're sold is illegal so it's not as easy to hide bad hygiene. So the natural protecting layer the hen puts around the egg is kept unharmed. Like it was in the past.
I assume the process in the US to keep eggs clean just became so good that there is no reason to worry about it anymore because I've literally never heard that raw eggs can cause health problems in Germany (where we don't clean our eggs). | European eggs have chicken vagina slime all over them. |
TulipChicken | The formula that transportation engineers use to determine speed limits basically states that the slower the cars are going, the more you can fit (because following distance is shorter). The goal when moving traffic through urban areas is to get as many vehicles as possible through the city. They sacrifice speed for density in hopes of getting a higher volume through the area at a slower speed, rather than less cars at a faster speed.
TL;DR Slow speed means more cars. | The formula that transportation engineers use to determine speed limits basically states that the slower the cars are going, the more you can fit (because following distance is shorter). The goal when moving traffic through urban areas is to get as many vehicles as possible through the city. They sacrifice speed for density in hopes of getting a higher volume through the area at a slower speed, rather than less cars at a faster speed.
TL;DR Slow speed means more cars.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdbb7yh | The formula that transportation engineers use to determine speed limits basically states that the slower the cars are going, the more you can fit (because following distance is shorter). The goal when moving traffic through urban areas is to get as many vehicles as possible through the city. They sacrifice speed for density in hopes of getting a higher volume through the area at a slower speed, rather than less cars at a faster speed. | Slow speed means more cars. |
TheMelancholyManatee | A few days before wrestling sectionals my sophomore year of hs i decided to treat my girlfriend and I to some dericious cookie dough. We ate about half the tube. Turns out people really *do* get salmonella from it. For the next three days (at school, mind you) I was almost continuously and furiously shitting my innards out. Every class I would clench and waddle to the bathroom to unleash the beast. Sectional weigh-in time. I step on the scale and end up being seven pounds under my weight class. Could have wrestled the class below me had I not been seeded. After sectionals I celebrated with another tube of cookie dough, because who wouldn't?
TL;DR I fucking love cookie dough
| A few days before wrestling sectionals my sophomore year of hs i decided to treat my girlfriend and I to some dericious cookie dough. We ate about half the tube. Turns out people really do get salmonella from it. For the next three days (at school, mind you) I was almost continuously and furiously shitting my innards out. Every class I would clench and waddle to the bathroom to unleash the beast. Sectional weigh-in time. I step on the scale and end up being seven pounds under my weight class. Could have wrestled the class below me had I not been seeded. After sectionals I celebrated with another tube of cookie dough, because who wouldn't?
TL;DR I fucking love cookie dough
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdbbjtu | A few days before wrestling sectionals my sophomore year of hs i decided to treat my girlfriend and I to some dericious cookie dough. We ate about half the tube. Turns out people really do get salmonella from it. For the next three days (at school, mind you) I was almost continuously and furiously shitting my innards out. Every class I would clench and waddle to the bathroom to unleash the beast. Sectional weigh-in time. I step on the scale and end up being seven pounds under my weight class. Could have wrestled the class below me had I not been seeded. After sectionals I celebrated with another tube of cookie dough, because who wouldn't? | I fucking love cookie dough |
timd234 | I really wish more people realized this... What started my affliction with opiates was exactly this. I was 18 and got put on probation for a year (for, you guessed it, possession of pot) with monthly check-ins and drug tests. I went to my regular dude I formerly bought weed from, and asked him if he knew of any pot that didn't I stay in your system for long (I was young dumb, knew nothing about drugs, cut me some slack). He didn't know if that was possible, but said he had some OxyCotin. I looked it had up on Erowid and wouldn't you know, it only stays in your system for a few days, as opposed to pot that could stay for weeks upon weeks! I had never done it before, and I just wanted to get ~~high~~ stoned, but I figured "what the hell? Erowid said it's a nice mellow high, I guess this will be nice and get me through until I'm off probation... I probably won't even do it very often anyways..."
Ooooooo how wrong I was. Opiates don't make me mellow out... They actually make me kinda hyper and annoyingly happy.
5 years later, and I'm battling a Heroin addiction. I'm clean at the moment, but I've had more slip-ups than I care to admit. I fear the next relapse is always right around the corner. I'll carry this affliction to the grave... It's terrible.
Part of me thinks that had I just been allowed to smoke pot and be happy, none of the life-ruining pain and misery of heroin addiction would have ever happened to me....
Tl;Dr pot laws are fucking retarded and led me to stronger drugs that got out of your system faster. | I really wish more people realized this... What started my affliction with opiates was exactly this. I was 18 and got put on probation for a year (for, you guessed it, possession of pot) with monthly check-ins and drug tests. I went to my regular dude I formerly bought weed from, and asked him if he knew of any pot that didn't I stay in your system for long (I was young dumb, knew nothing about drugs, cut me some slack). He didn't know if that was possible, but said he had some OxyCotin. I looked it had up on Erowid and wouldn't you know, it only stays in your system for a few days, as opposed to pot that could stay for weeks upon weeks! I had never done it before, and I just wanted to get high stoned, but I figured "what the hell? Erowid said it's a nice mellow high, I guess this will be nice and get me through until I'm off probation... I probably won't even do it very often anyways..."
Ooooooo how wrong I was. Opiates don't make me mellow out... They actually make me kinda hyper and annoyingly happy.
5 years later, and I'm battling a Heroin addiction. I'm clean at the moment, but I've had more slip-ups than I care to admit. I fear the next relapse is always right around the corner. I'll carry this affliction to the grave... It's terrible.
Part of me thinks that had I just been allowed to smoke pot and be happy, none of the life-ruining pain and misery of heroin addiction would have ever happened to me....
Tl;Dr pot laws are fucking retarded and led me to stronger drugs that got out of your system faster.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdbbxw6 | I really wish more people realized this... What started my affliction with opiates was exactly this. I was 18 and got put on probation for a year (for, you guessed it, possession of pot) with monthly check-ins and drug tests. I went to my regular dude I formerly bought weed from, and asked him if he knew of any pot that didn't I stay in your system for long (I was young dumb, knew nothing about drugs, cut me some slack). He didn't know if that was possible, but said he had some OxyCotin. I looked it had up on Erowid and wouldn't you know, it only stays in your system for a few days, as opposed to pot that could stay for weeks upon weeks! I had never done it before, and I just wanted to get high stoned, but I figured "what the hell? Erowid said it's a nice mellow high, I guess this will be nice and get me through until I'm off probation... I probably won't even do it very often anyways..."
Ooooooo how wrong I was. Opiates don't make me mellow out... They actually make me kinda hyper and annoyingly happy.
5 years later, and I'm battling a Heroin addiction. I'm clean at the moment, but I've had more slip-ups than I care to admit. I fear the next relapse is always right around the corner. I'll carry this affliction to the grave... It's terrible.
Part of me thinks that had I just been allowed to smoke pot and be happy, none of the life-ruining pain and misery of heroin addiction would have ever happened to me.... | pot laws are fucking retarded and led me to stronger drugs that got out of your system faster. |
OfMiceAndMouseMats | There are situations where you fall off a bike that don't involve getting hit by a car. In my example, the car just pulled out of the driveway and startled you, causing you to swerve and lose your balance. A helmet would absorb the impact of your head hitting the ground in that case. That is what happened to my dad once, and thanks to his helmet he didn't smash his head open.
I don't know who the tl;dr is supposed to cater for. If people can't read two sentences they don't really care about what you are talking about. | There are situations where you fall off a bike that don't involve getting hit by a car. In my example, the car just pulled out of the driveway and startled you, causing you to swerve and lose your balance. A helmet would absorb the impact of your head hitting the ground in that case. That is what happened to my dad once, and thanks to his helmet he didn't smash his head open.
I don't know who the tl;dr is supposed to cater for. If people can't read two sentences they don't really care about what you are talking about.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdb4lr8 | There are situations where you fall off a bike that don't involve getting hit by a car. In my example, the car just pulled out of the driveway and startled you, causing you to swerve and lose your balance. A helmet would absorb the impact of your head hitting the ground in that case. That is what happened to my dad once, and thanks to his helmet he didn't smash his head open.
I don't know who the | is supposed to cater for. If people can't read two sentences they don't really care about what you are talking about. |
codmanhowie | BF4 is awesome as always. The single player is good. But this game is geared toward multi player. And yes it has its problems. It could have been polished up more but with how much games have come, I expect more problems to arise. I have faith in EA to work on and provide us with an awesome gaming experience. I to often feel people don't have faith in the companies that they should, especially when they have done us good in the past.
Tldr; awesome game. Can be polished a bit more but excellent non the less. | BF4 is awesome as always. The single player is good. But this game is geared toward multi player. And yes it has its problems. It could have been polished up more but with how much games have come, I expect more problems to arise. I have faith in EA to work on and provide us with an awesome gaming experience. I to often feel people don't have faith in the companies that they should, especially when they have done us good in the past.
Tldr; awesome game. Can be polished a bit more but excellent non the less.
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | cdb80qa | BF4 is awesome as always. The single player is good. But this game is geared toward multi player. And yes it has its problems. It could have been polished up more but with how much games have come, I expect more problems to arise. I have faith in EA to work on and provide us with an awesome gaming experience. I to often feel people don't have faith in the companies that they should, especially when they have done us good in the past. | awesome game. Can be polished a bit more but excellent non the less. |
ArcticSpaceman | What you mean to say is "I make house music" because that's what this is. It's definitely not bad or terrible, I've heard some ready shit mixes, but as a listen I'm a lot more apprehensive to listen and appreciate someone's work if they come off as needlessly fishing for compliments on work that is often sub-par. Now, I'm absolutely guilty of this on one major occasion where I was having problems with my ex and asked Reddit to listen to my music because I was in a terrible mood. I still feel guilty that the music want even that good and that I was definitely fishing for attention to make me feel better.
TL; DR Your music is good and keep it up, but present yourself differently in the future, because it can come off as shallow.
Don't quit with the music though man, there's a lot of talent in that track. | What you mean to say is "I make house music" because that's what this is. It's definitely not bad or terrible, I've heard some ready shit mixes, but as a listen I'm a lot more apprehensive to listen and appreciate someone's work if they come off as needlessly fishing for compliments on work that is often sub-par. Now, I'm absolutely guilty of this on one major occasion where I was having problems with my ex and asked Reddit to listen to my music because I was in a terrible mood. I still feel guilty that the music want even that good and that I was definitely fishing for attention to make me feel better.
TL; DR Your music is good and keep it up, but present yourself differently in the future, because it can come off as shallow.
Don't quit with the music though man, there's a lot of talent in that track.
| Music | t5_2qh1u | cdbeint | What you mean to say is "I make house music" because that's what this is. It's definitely not bad or terrible, I've heard some ready shit mixes, but as a listen I'm a lot more apprehensive to listen and appreciate someone's work if they come off as needlessly fishing for compliments on work that is often sub-par. Now, I'm absolutely guilty of this on one major occasion where I was having problems with my ex and asked Reddit to listen to my music because I was in a terrible mood. I still feel guilty that the music want even that good and that I was definitely fishing for attention to make me feel better. | Your music is good and keep it up, but present yourself differently in the future, because it can come off as shallow.
Don't quit with the music though man, there's a lot of talent in that track. |
1up- | My mom sometimes decides to spring new traditions on us without telling us beforehand and gets mad when we don't know what's happening.
Last Christmas, we all sat down for dinner, and she said "Wait!" And left the room for a few minutes. We were all very hungry. She came back and said she wanted a picture of us all with the food, to which one of us asked "Why?" Since we never did that before. She got kinda annoyed, but my dad told us to humor her. So we asked whether we were supposed to look at her, or what. She said "look at the food" to which we (my dad, brother, sister, and myself) immediately looked straight down at our plates full of food. And we laughed. Except mother did not. She flipped out and yelled, "JUST FUCKING FORGET ABOUT IT!!!" (we don't curse) and she stomped off into her bedroom.
We all looked at each other like, wtf, and my dad went to console her. She yelled at him to leave her alone, came back, took her plate, and ate Christmas dinner in her room. The rest of us had a great time.
The rest of the day was kinda off, Mother avoided us, my dad stayed in his office. Eventually we (the kids) decided to play with the archery set my brother got, and went to our rooms to change into warmer clothes. About that time my dad came upstairs and went to talk to mother and calm her down. Only she didn't want that, and started yelling at him, and he started yelling back. (my parents don't get in arguments, and when they do it's behind closed doors and quiet) We heard everything, and they were really going at it. It was scary.
And then I learned I'm fucking Katniss.
Tl;Dr my mom had a fit of crazy, and my parents got in a huge fight. Also I'm motherfucking Katniss. | My mom sometimes decides to spring new traditions on us without telling us beforehand and gets mad when we don't know what's happening.
Last Christmas, we all sat down for dinner, and she said "Wait!" And left the room for a few minutes. We were all very hungry. She came back and said she wanted a picture of us all with the food, to which one of us asked "Why?" Since we never did that before. She got kinda annoyed, but my dad told us to humor her. So we asked whether we were supposed to look at her, or what. She said "look at the food" to which we (my dad, brother, sister, and myself) immediately looked straight down at our plates full of food. And we laughed. Except mother did not. She flipped out and yelled, "JUST FUCKING FORGET ABOUT IT!!!" (we don't curse) and she stomped off into her bedroom.
We all looked at each other like, wtf, and my dad went to console her. She yelled at him to leave her alone, came back, took her plate, and ate Christmas dinner in her room. The rest of us had a great time.
The rest of the day was kinda off, Mother avoided us, my dad stayed in his office. Eventually we (the kids) decided to play with the archery set my brother got, and went to our rooms to change into warmer clothes. About that time my dad came upstairs and went to talk to mother and calm her down. Only she didn't want that, and started yelling at him, and he started yelling back. (my parents don't get in arguments, and when they do it's behind closed doors and quiet) We heard everything, and they were really going at it. It was scary.
And then I learned I'm fucking Katniss.
Tl;Dr my mom had a fit of crazy, and my parents got in a huge fight. Also I'm motherfucking Katniss.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdbbgan | My mom sometimes decides to spring new traditions on us without telling us beforehand and gets mad when we don't know what's happening.
Last Christmas, we all sat down for dinner, and she said "Wait!" And left the room for a few minutes. We were all very hungry. She came back and said she wanted a picture of us all with the food, to which one of us asked "Why?" Since we never did that before. She got kinda annoyed, but my dad told us to humor her. So we asked whether we were supposed to look at her, or what. She said "look at the food" to which we (my dad, brother, sister, and myself) immediately looked straight down at our plates full of food. And we laughed. Except mother did not. She flipped out and yelled, "JUST FUCKING FORGET ABOUT IT!!!" (we don't curse) and she stomped off into her bedroom.
We all looked at each other like, wtf, and my dad went to console her. She yelled at him to leave her alone, came back, took her plate, and ate Christmas dinner in her room. The rest of us had a great time.
The rest of the day was kinda off, Mother avoided us, my dad stayed in his office. Eventually we (the kids) decided to play with the archery set my brother got, and went to our rooms to change into warmer clothes. About that time my dad came upstairs and went to talk to mother and calm her down. Only she didn't want that, and started yelling at him, and he started yelling back. (my parents don't get in arguments, and when they do it's behind closed doors and quiet) We heard everything, and they were really going at it. It was scary.
And then I learned I'm fucking Katniss. | my mom had a fit of crazy, and my parents got in a huge fight. Also I'm motherfucking Katniss. |
herplede | The L and the G has never been very accepting of the B and the T*. The short version is that they're not a real thing, they're just faking it for one reason or another (in the queer communities opinion).
Bi people are often thought of as not really bi. If they're a girl, they're just doing it for attention, to feel special, to put on a show for boys. If they're a guy they're actually really gay but afraid to admit it. Bi people don't exist, they just have an agenda of some kind. Gay people will only date strictly gay people. They refuse to date bi/pan/etc people because they'll just up and leave them for the opposite sex.
As for trans* people, they're gay and in a form of extreme denial (eg, "Oh no, I'm a dude who likes other dudes! That's not right. But I can fix this! If I become a chick then everything will be ok!"). Or, they're real, but they're basically not allowed to date anyone. A lesbian can't date a MtF because that means they're not a real lesbian. A MtF/cis lesbian couple (or ftm/cis gay man couple, or ftm/cis straight girl, etc) can't date because that means the lesbian/gay man isn't actually a lesbian/gay man. A trans* person of any kind can't date anyone bi because they don't actually exist, remember?
tl;dr The world will end if the wrong people fall in love with each other.
Also, ignore all the downvotes your getting. It's a pretty dick move for people to downvote you for asking a question, and it's against reddiquette.
| The L and the G has never been very accepting of the B and the T*. The short version is that they're not a real thing, they're just faking it for one reason or another (in the queer communities opinion).
Bi people are often thought of as not really bi. If they're a girl, they're just doing it for attention, to feel special, to put on a show for boys. If they're a guy they're actually really gay but afraid to admit it. Bi people don't exist, they just have an agenda of some kind. Gay people will only date strictly gay people. They refuse to date bi/pan/etc people because they'll just up and leave them for the opposite sex.
As for trans people, they're gay and in a form of extreme denial (eg, "Oh no, I'm a dude who likes other dudes! That's not right. But I can fix this! If I become a chick then everything will be ok!"). Or, they're real, but they're basically not allowed to date anyone. A lesbian can't date a MtF because that means they're not a real lesbian. A MtF/cis lesbian couple (or ftm/cis gay man couple, or ftm/cis straight girl, etc) can't date because that means the lesbian/gay man isn't actually a lesbian/gay man. A trans person of any kind can't date anyone bi because they don't actually exist, remember?
tl;dr The world will end if the wrong people fall in love with each other.
Also, ignore all the downvotes your getting. It's a pretty dick move for people to downvote you for asking a question, and it's against reddiquette.
| ainbow | t5_2tcpq | cdbfgkd | The L and the G has never been very accepting of the B and the T*. The short version is that they're not a real thing, they're just faking it for one reason or another (in the queer communities opinion).
Bi people are often thought of as not really bi. If they're a girl, they're just doing it for attention, to feel special, to put on a show for boys. If they're a guy they're actually really gay but afraid to admit it. Bi people don't exist, they just have an agenda of some kind. Gay people will only date strictly gay people. They refuse to date bi/pan/etc people because they'll just up and leave them for the opposite sex.
As for trans people, they're gay and in a form of extreme denial (eg, "Oh no, I'm a dude who likes other dudes! That's not right. But I can fix this! If I become a chick then everything will be ok!"). Or, they're real, but they're basically not allowed to date anyone. A lesbian can't date a MtF because that means they're not a real lesbian. A MtF/cis lesbian couple (or ftm/cis gay man couple, or ftm/cis straight girl, etc) can't date because that means the lesbian/gay man isn't actually a lesbian/gay man. A trans person of any kind can't date anyone bi because they don't actually exist, remember? | The world will end if the wrong people fall in love with each other.
Also, ignore all the downvotes your getting. It's a pretty dick move for people to downvote you for asking a question, and it's against reddiquette. |
lolmonger | Sure, but there's no reason someone couldn't call her a slut.
Calling someone a "slut" is simply saying your values about sexual conduct make you think that person has conducted themselves with great promiscuity.
Calling someone a "whore" means you impose some condition of there being a particularly morally offensive, venal nature to what they did. (yet often with the connotation of impersonally engaging in sexual relations for some transactional end)
Personally, I'd say Meera was an adulterer; - - but what she did wasn't slutty, just out of extreme infidelity; it's not like she had *little* in the way of personal reasons to emotionally decide to have sex with someone who is her friend - - -those reasons are just particularly egregious to me.
*But there will be people who don't* see Meera as having been either promiscuous (like I don't) *Or* morally 'wrong' -- they just happen to have a different value structure.
**tl;dr** What's "right" as far as values go has nothing to do with how pleasant and accommodating someone's vocabulary of moral judgement is as a result.
| Sure, but there's no reason someone couldn't call her a slut.
Calling someone a "slut" is simply saying your values about sexual conduct make you think that person has conducted themselves with great promiscuity.
Calling someone a "whore" means you impose some condition of there being a particularly morally offensive, venal nature to what they did. (yet often with the connotation of impersonally engaging in sexual relations for some transactional end)
Personally, I'd say Meera was an adulterer; - - but what she did wasn't slutty, just out of extreme infidelity; it's not like she had little in the way of personal reasons to emotionally decide to have sex with someone who is her friend - - -those reasons are just particularly egregious to me.
But there will be people who don't see Meera as having been either promiscuous (like I don't) Or morally 'wrong' -- they just happen to have a different value structure.
tl;dr What's "right" as far as values go has nothing to do with how pleasant and accommodating someone's vocabulary of moral judgement is as a result.
| homeland | t5_2smlq | cdbqmv7 | Sure, but there's no reason someone couldn't call her a slut.
Calling someone a "slut" is simply saying your values about sexual conduct make you think that person has conducted themselves with great promiscuity.
Calling someone a "whore" means you impose some condition of there being a particularly morally offensive, venal nature to what they did. (yet often with the connotation of impersonally engaging in sexual relations for some transactional end)
Personally, I'd say Meera was an adulterer; - - but what she did wasn't slutty, just out of extreme infidelity; it's not like she had little in the way of personal reasons to emotionally decide to have sex with someone who is her friend - - -those reasons are just particularly egregious to me.
But there will be people who don't see Meera as having been either promiscuous (like I don't) Or morally 'wrong' -- they just happen to have a different value structure. | What's "right" as far as values go has nothing to do with how pleasant and accommodating someone's vocabulary of moral judgement is as a result. |
Fureedo | I'm in the same boat, except as a ME. My grades are...average (very average, 2,4 GPA...which is a bit below average here). I'm part of a club (SAE Aero), but it doesn't seem to help, as it's the least known competition EVER...and when I explain what it is, and that it's not about making the most energy efficient plane, they all think it's worthless and stupid. Every places i've been looking at either straight out told me my grades were too bad, or the companies were too small to need an extra engineer.
Right now i'm looking at slowing down and taking less classes per semester, because I can't do my internship during the last 2 semesters before graduating, and I can't graduate withouth having done an internship. I'm almost thinking of getting a machinist certification because as it stands, even if i'm able to "finish" my degree, I won't be able to graduate because I won't have gotten an internship.
Personal projects for me are a no-go, because they are either too expensive to get to completion...in which case you only have a design paper...which is kind of boring, or require too expensive tools (No makerspace anywhere within 500km and there's no way to use the school's shop).
Oh, and I have huge trouble making friends and talking to people in general. And none of my family/friends have any ties to anything related to engineering or companies that would need Mech-Es... *sigh*
tl;dr: Yay rant. Welcome to the uncertain future club!
Edit: and yeah, do project, your projects should be easilly cheaper than mines are =( | I'm in the same boat, except as a ME. My grades are...average (very average, 2,4 GPA...which is a bit below average here). I'm part of a club (SAE Aero), but it doesn't seem to help, as it's the least known competition EVER...and when I explain what it is, and that it's not about making the most energy efficient plane, they all think it's worthless and stupid. Every places i've been looking at either straight out told me my grades were too bad, or the companies were too small to need an extra engineer.
Right now i'm looking at slowing down and taking less classes per semester, because I can't do my internship during the last 2 semesters before graduating, and I can't graduate withouth having done an internship. I'm almost thinking of getting a machinist certification because as it stands, even if i'm able to "finish" my degree, I won't be able to graduate because I won't have gotten an internship.
Personal projects for me are a no-go, because they are either too expensive to get to completion...in which case you only have a design paper...which is kind of boring, or require too expensive tools (No makerspace anywhere within 500km and there's no way to use the school's shop).
Oh, and I have huge trouble making friends and talking to people in general. And none of my family/friends have any ties to anything related to engineering or companies that would need Mech-Es... sigh
tl;dr: Yay rant. Welcome to the uncertain future club!
Edit: and yeah, do project, your projects should be easilly cheaper than mines are =(
| EngineeringStudents | t5_2sh0b | cdbsav2 | I'm in the same boat, except as a ME. My grades are...average (very average, 2,4 GPA...which is a bit below average here). I'm part of a club (SAE Aero), but it doesn't seem to help, as it's the least known competition EVER...and when I explain what it is, and that it's not about making the most energy efficient plane, they all think it's worthless and stupid. Every places i've been looking at either straight out told me my grades were too bad, or the companies were too small to need an extra engineer.
Right now i'm looking at slowing down and taking less classes per semester, because I can't do my internship during the last 2 semesters before graduating, and I can't graduate withouth having done an internship. I'm almost thinking of getting a machinist certification because as it stands, even if i'm able to "finish" my degree, I won't be able to graduate because I won't have gotten an internship.
Personal projects for me are a no-go, because they are either too expensive to get to completion...in which case you only have a design paper...which is kind of boring, or require too expensive tools (No makerspace anywhere within 500km and there's no way to use the school's shop).
Oh, and I have huge trouble making friends and talking to people in general. And none of my family/friends have any ties to anything related to engineering or companies that would need Mech-Es... sigh | Yay rant. Welcome to the uncertain future club!
Edit: and yeah, do project, your projects should be easilly cheaper than mines are =( |
squigglu105 | > Your skin is a continuous surface which I can divide it into infinite areas (deltaA).
This is not the case. Did you see the thing in that physics video I linked? They were talking about a limited number of quantums states for the universe. They were talking about how long it would take for the universe to return to it's current state because it could only have a finite number of states. It's both unimaginably large AND finite. The same thing applies to a 2m by 2m by 2m cube surrounding me. That space only has a possible number of states that it can occupy, and among those states are the finite number of possibilities for the way I would look. Also included in that are the finite number of states you could look like, every model of toaster built by man, every calculator model. TLDR Its a big number but it's finite. I know what you are trying to say, that you think between red and blue my skin could have any shade, my body any shape, etc. But it's actually finite because there are only a finite number of quantum states that can occupy the space I exist in.
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A name doesn't really do much. The first thing that comes to mind is Richard Feynman's description of how knowing the name of a particular species of bird in dozens of man made languages would never tell you as much about the bird as actually looking at it and studying it.
Besides the man-made names for Allah, is there any coherent attribute that god has? | > Your skin is a continuous surface which I can divide it into infinite areas (deltaA).
This is not the case. Did you see the thing in that physics video I linked? They were talking about a limited number of quantums states for the universe. They were talking about how long it would take for the universe to return to it's current state because it could only have a finite number of states. It's both unimaginably large AND finite. The same thing applies to a 2m by 2m by 2m cube surrounding me. That space only has a possible number of states that it can occupy, and among those states are the finite number of possibilities for the way I would look. Also included in that are the finite number of states you could look like, every model of toaster built by man, every calculator model. TLDR Its a big number but it's finite. I know what you are trying to say, that you think between red and blue my skin could have any shade, my body any shape, etc. But it's actually finite because there are only a finite number of quantum states that can occupy the space I exist in.
A name doesn't really do much. The first thing that comes to mind is Richard Feynman's description of how knowing the name of a particular species of bird in dozens of man made languages would never tell you as much about the bird as actually looking at it and studying it.
Besides the man-made names for Allah, is there any coherent attribute that god has?
| islam | t5_2qhbp | cddtkow | Your skin is a continuous surface which I can divide it into infinite areas (deltaA).
This is not the case. Did you see the thing in that physics video I linked? They were talking about a limited number of quantums states for the universe. They were talking about how long it would take for the universe to return to it's current state because it could only have a finite number of states. It's both unimaginably large AND finite. The same thing applies to a 2m by 2m by 2m cube surrounding me. That space only has a possible number of states that it can occupy, and among those states are the finite number of possibilities for the way I would look. Also included in that are the finite number of states you could look like, every model of toaster built by man, every calculator model. | Its a big number but it's finite. I know what you are trying to say, that you think between red and blue my skin could have any shade, my body any shape, etc. But it's actually finite because there are only a finite number of quantum states that can occupy the space I exist in.
A name doesn't really do much. The first thing that comes to mind is Richard Feynman's description of how knowing the name of a particular species of bird in dozens of man made languages would never tell you as much about the bird as actually looking at it and studying it.
Besides the man-made names for Allah, is there any coherent attribute that god has? |
OleUncleDrew | Its part of our history and culture. The three major American sports (football, baseball, basketball) were born and raised in colleges in the late 1800s, and major pro organizations really didn't appear until post WWII, and they are only in the largest cities for the most part. In most industrialized nations, the vast majority of the people live in such cities. But in the US there is still a sizable portion of us in small towns or rural areas that may not be close to a city large enough to host pro teams but are a lot closer to a college campus. In Alabama, there are no NFL teams, but there are at least 8 colleges with football teams. Our culture also places a high value on college education, so many of us are personally connected to colleges either through attendance or a loved one having attended.
TL;DR: American sports started in college and proximity affects fandom. | Its part of our history and culture. The three major American sports (football, baseball, basketball) were born and raised in colleges in the late 1800s, and major pro organizations really didn't appear until post WWII, and they are only in the largest cities for the most part. In most industrialized nations, the vast majority of the people live in such cities. But in the US there is still a sizable portion of us in small towns or rural areas that may not be close to a city large enough to host pro teams but are a lot closer to a college campus. In Alabama, there are no NFL teams, but there are at least 8 colleges with football teams. Our culture also places a high value on college education, so many of us are personally connected to colleges either through attendance or a loved one having attended.
TL;DR: American sports started in college and proximity affects fandom.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdbnfam | Its part of our history and culture. The three major American sports (football, baseball, basketball) were born and raised in colleges in the late 1800s, and major pro organizations really didn't appear until post WWII, and they are only in the largest cities for the most part. In most industrialized nations, the vast majority of the people live in such cities. But in the US there is still a sizable portion of us in small towns or rural areas that may not be close to a city large enough to host pro teams but are a lot closer to a college campus. In Alabama, there are no NFL teams, but there are at least 8 colleges with football teams. Our culture also places a high value on college education, so many of us are personally connected to colleges either through attendance or a loved one having attended. | American sports started in college and proximity affects fandom. |
AvidLebon | I don't believe in demonic hauntings. It might not be paranormal, you very well could have scratched yourself in your sleep. Or even the day before and not noticed at the time, it happens. If it is paranormal, usually if there is physical scratches and things like that it is from PK, the person themselves is subconsciously manifesting the activity. This almost always occurs in an emotionally heightened time in their lives, and when their life problems/stresses go away the activity also recedes.
My advice would be to work on your depression. Are there things in your life causing you to be depressed? Do what you can to change that, we all have challenges in life we must face and rarely are they easy to get rid of. But with persistence we can overcome most of them. Having someone to talk to really helps, if a therapist is an option you might want to try it. If it is clinical depression you might want to talk to a doctor about what medication might be best for balancing your chemicals. A lot of people go through this.
Tl;dr if it is paranormal, dealing with it as if it weren't paranormal will achieve the same results. | I don't believe in demonic hauntings. It might not be paranormal, you very well could have scratched yourself in your sleep. Or even the day before and not noticed at the time, it happens. If it is paranormal, usually if there is physical scratches and things like that it is from PK, the person themselves is subconsciously manifesting the activity. This almost always occurs in an emotionally heightened time in their lives, and when their life problems/stresses go away the activity also recedes.
My advice would be to work on your depression. Are there things in your life causing you to be depressed? Do what you can to change that, we all have challenges in life we must face and rarely are they easy to get rid of. But with persistence we can overcome most of them. Having someone to talk to really helps, if a therapist is an option you might want to try it. If it is clinical depression you might want to talk to a doctor about what medication might be best for balancing your chemicals. A lot of people go through this.
Tl;dr if it is paranormal, dealing with it as if it weren't paranormal will achieve the same results.
| ParanormalHelp | t5_2tcup | cdca3m9 | I don't believe in demonic hauntings. It might not be paranormal, you very well could have scratched yourself in your sleep. Or even the day before and not noticed at the time, it happens. If it is paranormal, usually if there is physical scratches and things like that it is from PK, the person themselves is subconsciously manifesting the activity. This almost always occurs in an emotionally heightened time in their lives, and when their life problems/stresses go away the activity also recedes.
My advice would be to work on your depression. Are there things in your life causing you to be depressed? Do what you can to change that, we all have challenges in life we must face and rarely are they easy to get rid of. But with persistence we can overcome most of them. Having someone to talk to really helps, if a therapist is an option you might want to try it. If it is clinical depression you might want to talk to a doctor about what medication might be best for balancing your chemicals. A lot of people go through this. | if it is paranormal, dealing with it as if it weren't paranormal will achieve the same results. |
ShadowSpectre47 | We never did.
Life took the two of us apart. I didn't know how she felt at the time anymore but after a long time when we got separated, I wanted her to live a happy life and thought she would be better off without me in her life and vice-versa.
For years we were separated, and In that time, I still always asked about her and made sure that she was okay and happy.
We didn't know it at the time but even though we both were trying to live our own life now, we missed each other the whole way through. The relationship was one thing; but mainly it was losing that strong friendship, that understanding, and being able to be completely open with each-other without being judged at all.
We had lost each-other's best friend.
It wasn't until she got married and moved back that we actually got to see one another once again, and from the moment we started catching up, it was like no time had passed between us at all, and our bond was just as strong as ever.
We have gotten our friendship back, in a way. We admitted that we still missed each-other in all that time, and that we should have tried harder. Some feelings still remain, but we both know that it's not the life that we live in anymore.
So although we're both happy were we are; we both apparently haven't gotten over each other. But we're able to keep living our own lives.
**TL;DR** Was in a relationship, got separated for years. Live our own separate lives now, and didn't realize that we both missed each-other dearly the entire time until our paths crossed again. But we accept the truth that it's not the way the world is for us anymore, and we continue to live our lives as the memories that makes us still miss our past friendship lingers in the echoes of our minds. | We never did.
Life took the two of us apart. I didn't know how she felt at the time anymore but after a long time when we got separated, I wanted her to live a happy life and thought she would be better off without me in her life and vice-versa.
For years we were separated, and In that time, I still always asked about her and made sure that she was okay and happy.
We didn't know it at the time but even though we both were trying to live our own life now, we missed each other the whole way through. The relationship was one thing; but mainly it was losing that strong friendship, that understanding, and being able to be completely open with each-other without being judged at all.
We had lost each-other's best friend.
It wasn't until she got married and moved back that we actually got to see one another once again, and from the moment we started catching up, it was like no time had passed between us at all, and our bond was just as strong as ever.
We have gotten our friendship back, in a way. We admitted that we still missed each-other in all that time, and that we should have tried harder. Some feelings still remain, but we both know that it's not the life that we live in anymore.
So although we're both happy were we are; we both apparently haven't gotten over each other. But we're able to keep living our own lives.
TL;DR Was in a relationship, got separated for years. Live our own separate lives now, and didn't realize that we both missed each-other dearly the entire time until our paths crossed again. But we accept the truth that it's not the way the world is for us anymore, and we continue to live our lives as the memories that makes us still miss our past friendship lingers in the echoes of our minds.
| AskMen | t5_2s30g | cdbvdli | We never did.
Life took the two of us apart. I didn't know how she felt at the time anymore but after a long time when we got separated, I wanted her to live a happy life and thought she would be better off without me in her life and vice-versa.
For years we were separated, and In that time, I still always asked about her and made sure that she was okay and happy.
We didn't know it at the time but even though we both were trying to live our own life now, we missed each other the whole way through. The relationship was one thing; but mainly it was losing that strong friendship, that understanding, and being able to be completely open with each-other without being judged at all.
We had lost each-other's best friend.
It wasn't until she got married and moved back that we actually got to see one another once again, and from the moment we started catching up, it was like no time had passed between us at all, and our bond was just as strong as ever.
We have gotten our friendship back, in a way. We admitted that we still missed each-other in all that time, and that we should have tried harder. Some feelings still remain, but we both know that it's not the life that we live in anymore.
So although we're both happy were we are; we both apparently haven't gotten over each other. But we're able to keep living our own lives. | Was in a relationship, got separated for years. Live our own separate lives now, and didn't realize that we both missed each-other dearly the entire time until our paths crossed again. But we accept the truth that it's not the way the world is for us anymore, and we continue to live our lives as the memories that makes us still miss our past friendship lingers in the echoes of our minds. |
NuthinToHoldBack | For me personally, I bought in to my last relationship and really thought it was going to go to the distance. We had ups and downs (more of the latter). I was of the mindset that I would have made it work on my end. It's a great mentality to have as long as the other person on the same page. But then things ended and I took it hard. Harder than I wanted but I did expect it to be bad.
We were together for about a year and she filled a variety of roles for me. I had been in prior relationships and had been in love before, but I personally don't feel I really cared as much about those girls as I did this one. I basically got a crash course in 3-5 different types of relationships over the course of the year and I have identified that as a major reason for why the up's were so good and the down's so bad.
Wrapping up, it's been almost three months and we still see each other regularly. She's already dating someone new and has been whereas I've been having to put the pieces of my life back together. I'm not over her, and I honestly don't know if I ever will be. She'll always have a piece of me and vice versa. We both know this and that's why we have worked to remain civil/friendly toward one another. But at the same time, we weren't right for each other at this particular time in our lives and I have accepted that and am looking forward to tomorrow instead of dwelling in the past.
tl;dr: Bad break up and probably won't ever truly get over her, but I've accepted that we weren't right for each other at this time in our lives and am pumped about the future instead of being bummed about the past. | For me personally, I bought in to my last relationship and really thought it was going to go to the distance. We had ups and downs (more of the latter). I was of the mindset that I would have made it work on my end. It's a great mentality to have as long as the other person on the same page. But then things ended and I took it hard. Harder than I wanted but I did expect it to be bad.
We were together for about a year and she filled a variety of roles for me. I had been in prior relationships and had been in love before, but I personally don't feel I really cared as much about those girls as I did this one. I basically got a crash course in 3-5 different types of relationships over the course of the year and I have identified that as a major reason for why the up's were so good and the down's so bad.
Wrapping up, it's been almost three months and we still see each other regularly. She's already dating someone new and has been whereas I've been having to put the pieces of my life back together. I'm not over her, and I honestly don't know if I ever will be. She'll always have a piece of me and vice versa. We both know this and that's why we have worked to remain civil/friendly toward one another. But at the same time, we weren't right for each other at this particular time in our lives and I have accepted that and am looking forward to tomorrow instead of dwelling in the past.
tl;dr: Bad break up and probably won't ever truly get over her, but I've accepted that we weren't right for each other at this time in our lives and am pumped about the future instead of being bummed about the past.
| AskMen | t5_2s30g | cdbwuqf | For me personally, I bought in to my last relationship and really thought it was going to go to the distance. We had ups and downs (more of the latter). I was of the mindset that I would have made it work on my end. It's a great mentality to have as long as the other person on the same page. But then things ended and I took it hard. Harder than I wanted but I did expect it to be bad.
We were together for about a year and she filled a variety of roles for me. I had been in prior relationships and had been in love before, but I personally don't feel I really cared as much about those girls as I did this one. I basically got a crash course in 3-5 different types of relationships over the course of the year and I have identified that as a major reason for why the up's were so good and the down's so bad.
Wrapping up, it's been almost three months and we still see each other regularly. She's already dating someone new and has been whereas I've been having to put the pieces of my life back together. I'm not over her, and I honestly don't know if I ever will be. She'll always have a piece of me and vice versa. We both know this and that's why we have worked to remain civil/friendly toward one another. But at the same time, we weren't right for each other at this particular time in our lives and I have accepted that and am looking forward to tomorrow instead of dwelling in the past. | Bad break up and probably won't ever truly get over her, but I've accepted that we weren't right for each other at this time in our lives and am pumped about the future instead of being bummed about the past. |
fuzzysamurai | Unless you're going to underground raves where there is little to no security, or going to events in particularly unsavory neighborhoods, you're worrying too much. I go to shows by myself a lot, and I've never had an issue - I stay aware of my surroundings, keep an eye out for nearby security guards in case anybody makes me uncomfortable, and I sometimes chat up people around me and those who are friendly and seem nice, I let them know I'm there solo and they usually decide to make me in their group for the night. Then, I always have someone to walk with to the bathroom, or who might notice if I've been gone a while getting a drink.
tl;dr - getting literally kidnapped from a show is not on my radar at all | Unless you're going to underground raves where there is little to no security, or going to events in particularly unsavory neighborhoods, you're worrying too much. I go to shows by myself a lot, and I've never had an issue - I stay aware of my surroundings, keep an eye out for nearby security guards in case anybody makes me uncomfortable, and I sometimes chat up people around me and those who are friendly and seem nice, I let them know I'm there solo and they usually decide to make me in their group for the night. Then, I always have someone to walk with to the bathroom, or who might notice if I've been gone a while getting a drink.
tl;dr - getting literally kidnapped from a show is not on my radar at all
| aves | t5_2rev7 | cdcdbmb | Unless you're going to underground raves where there is little to no security, or going to events in particularly unsavory neighborhoods, you're worrying too much. I go to shows by myself a lot, and I've never had an issue - I stay aware of my surroundings, keep an eye out for nearby security guards in case anybody makes me uncomfortable, and I sometimes chat up people around me and those who are friendly and seem nice, I let them know I'm there solo and they usually decide to make me in their group for the night. Then, I always have someone to walk with to the bathroom, or who might notice if I've been gone a while getting a drink. | getting literally kidnapped from a show is not on my radar at all |
XLK9 | I spent an afternoon with Unicoi Outfitters, all the time I had. They took me to a spot and I hooked into a major pig, but it immediately went under a limb and broke me off.
TL;DR
**I know there are fish that size in Georgia, I hooked one.** | I spent an afternoon with Unicoi Outfitters, all the time I had. They took me to a spot and I hooked into a major pig, but it immediately went under a limb and broke me off.
TL;DR
I know there are fish that size in Georgia, I hooked one.
| Fishing | t5_2qlu4 | cdcfuc6 | I spent an afternoon with Unicoi Outfitters, all the time I had. They took me to a spot and I hooked into a major pig, but it immediately went under a limb and broke me off. | I know there are fish that size in Georgia, I hooked one. |
Jebediah33 | Cont'd
I ended up living in the weight room that year and went from 180 pounds the day before my ACL tear to 165 pounds 1 week after surgery to 208.9 pounds weighing in to the first day of two-a-days senior year. I switched from playing fullback and linebacker to being the right offensive guard. (Even with my bum leg I could run circles around the rest of the linemen). Because I was only 5'9 (currently 5'10'') it was really hard to maintain a block without having some top of my head to the other guys chin contact. This pissed off one of our defensive tackles a lot during practice and resulted in my quite literally being held and thrown around. (The coaches for some reason just let it happen day in and out which I could never figure out). Eventually from the way I kept getting thrown around I kept hyper-extending my elbow until I could no longer move it without pain. The doctors diagnosis from my MRI was that I had dislocated it because there was severe bone bruising.
After physical therapy yet again I started disc golfing a lot more with my friends. I could drive the disc further than any of my other friends and wanted to ensure that nobody would catch me... eventually leading to the same hyper-extension problem in my right elbow. (Which I have opted to not go through physical therapy on, and I manage it with rest and ice).
I didn't have any other major problems until my freshman year of college because I had mostly retired from sports because I couldn't take the pain anymore. I had been playing broomball and ultimate frisbee occasionally and during my very first competetive broomball game partially tore/severely pulled (I never really figure out which) a muscle in my back, which resulted in back spasms and severe difficulty doing anything more than walking for a month and a half.
My junior year of college I began playing full contact club football and played right offensive guard. I was the lightest linemen in the country weighing in at 175 pounds. During this season I subluxed my left shoulder and then severely subluxed the right (almost a dislocation), which caused me to sit out for two games. And then in practice I sprained my right ankle ending my season.
All off season I worked out and ran and got my asthma back under control to the point where I was in the best shape I had been in since just before I tore my ACL 5 years prior. It was my senior year of college I dubbed this season my last hoorah. I tore it up all day every day during two-a-days, I even ran through a pair of cleats...LITERALLY! My foot went through the side of the one cleat and then immediately after my other foot went through the other shoe! On the very first day of hitting I was carrying the ball during a drill and during a head on collision sprained my left and ankle and foot. I hit the other guy so hard that I actually didn't feel any pain in my foot until I tried to walk away when I nearly fell on my face. This took me out for about 7 weeks.
In my first hitting practice back I either subluxed or got a stinger in my shoulder resulting in my entire left arm to go numb for about 20-30 seconds. Initially I thought it quite literally fell off of my body.
In my very first game back on a punt return during the 3rd quarter I made a cut to chase a missed block down the field. The cut resulted in me tearing up cartilage and meniscal tissue in the laterally portion of my knee as well as a partial re-tear of my ACL.
I now sit hit one month later from that cut and I just recieved the MRI results about 12 hrs ago. You don't know what the hell pain really is until you put your entire life behind something and no matter how hard you try, you are physically unable to achieve results because your body cannot keep up.
I believe I suffer from Ehler-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), I have had one PA and one nurse practitioner agree with my self diagnosis and had my routine visit PA shrug his shoulders and had my stem-cell and regenerative medicine professor tell me that there is probably nothing wrong with me. I can understand there not being anything wrong with me if I had never trained, if I had never done routine PT, and if these were reoccurring injuries. But the fact that all of these being spread out throughout my body...how can you say that this is not at least a mild case.
EDS is a genetic problem where the sufferer has a mutation that encodes collagen, resulting in weak and stretchy tendons and ligaments, skin that easily cuts and tears, and so on. I actually suffer from all of these problems, just didn't see them as significant enough to mention.
I also have ADD which I did not find out that I had until I was a junior in college.
tldr: I suffer from Ehler-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) causing me to tear, sprain, and dislocate almost every joint in my body. I suffer from lifelong asthma, I have ADD, I had sleep apnea as a child, and I suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) which makes me go through depression in the winter months.
No matter what I have done in my life I have never been able to out fight any of these problems, the fighting of these disorder and diseases have only lead to further hurt and pain in another area of my life. My body is the perfectly imperfect, there is not much else that will not end up being wrong with me since my family has a history of just about everything possible as well.
Would having my own blood related children be selfish due to all of these genetic problems that I suffer from?
| Cont'd
I ended up living in the weight room that year and went from 180 pounds the day before my ACL tear to 165 pounds 1 week after surgery to 208.9 pounds weighing in to the first day of two-a-days senior year. I switched from playing fullback and linebacker to being the right offensive guard. (Even with my bum leg I could run circles around the rest of the linemen). Because I was only 5'9 (currently 5'10'') it was really hard to maintain a block without having some top of my head to the other guys chin contact. This pissed off one of our defensive tackles a lot during practice and resulted in my quite literally being held and thrown around. (The coaches for some reason just let it happen day in and out which I could never figure out). Eventually from the way I kept getting thrown around I kept hyper-extending my elbow until I could no longer move it without pain. The doctors diagnosis from my MRI was that I had dislocated it because there was severe bone bruising.
After physical therapy yet again I started disc golfing a lot more with my friends. I could drive the disc further than any of my other friends and wanted to ensure that nobody would catch me... eventually leading to the same hyper-extension problem in my right elbow. (Which I have opted to not go through physical therapy on, and I manage it with rest and ice).
I didn't have any other major problems until my freshman year of college because I had mostly retired from sports because I couldn't take the pain anymore. I had been playing broomball and ultimate frisbee occasionally and during my very first competetive broomball game partially tore/severely pulled (I never really figure out which) a muscle in my back, which resulted in back spasms and severe difficulty doing anything more than walking for a month and a half.
My junior year of college I began playing full contact club football and played right offensive guard. I was the lightest linemen in the country weighing in at 175 pounds. During this season I subluxed my left shoulder and then severely subluxed the right (almost a dislocation), which caused me to sit out for two games. And then in practice I sprained my right ankle ending my season.
All off season I worked out and ran and got my asthma back under control to the point where I was in the best shape I had been in since just before I tore my ACL 5 years prior. It was my senior year of college I dubbed this season my last hoorah. I tore it up all day every day during two-a-days, I even ran through a pair of cleats...LITERALLY! My foot went through the side of the one cleat and then immediately after my other foot went through the other shoe! On the very first day of hitting I was carrying the ball during a drill and during a head on collision sprained my left and ankle and foot. I hit the other guy so hard that I actually didn't feel any pain in my foot until I tried to walk away when I nearly fell on my face. This took me out for about 7 weeks.
In my first hitting practice back I either subluxed or got a stinger in my shoulder resulting in my entire left arm to go numb for about 20-30 seconds. Initially I thought it quite literally fell off of my body.
In my very first game back on a punt return during the 3rd quarter I made a cut to chase a missed block down the field. The cut resulted in me tearing up cartilage and meniscal tissue in the laterally portion of my knee as well as a partial re-tear of my ACL.
I now sit hit one month later from that cut and I just recieved the MRI results about 12 hrs ago. You don't know what the hell pain really is until you put your entire life behind something and no matter how hard you try, you are physically unable to achieve results because your body cannot keep up.
I believe I suffer from Ehler-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), I have had one PA and one nurse practitioner agree with my self diagnosis and had my routine visit PA shrug his shoulders and had my stem-cell and regenerative medicine professor tell me that there is probably nothing wrong with me. I can understand there not being anything wrong with me if I had never trained, if I had never done routine PT, and if these were reoccurring injuries. But the fact that all of these being spread out throughout my body...how can you say that this is not at least a mild case.
EDS is a genetic problem where the sufferer has a mutation that encodes collagen, resulting in weak and stretchy tendons and ligaments, skin that easily cuts and tears, and so on. I actually suffer from all of these problems, just didn't see them as significant enough to mention.
I also have ADD which I did not find out that I had until I was a junior in college.
tldr: I suffer from Ehler-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) causing me to tear, sprain, and dislocate almost every joint in my body. I suffer from lifelong asthma, I have ADD, I had sleep apnea as a child, and I suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) which makes me go through depression in the winter months.
No matter what I have done in my life I have never been able to out fight any of these problems, the fighting of these disorder and diseases have only lead to further hurt and pain in another area of my life. My body is the perfectly imperfect, there is not much else that will not end up being wrong with me since my family has a history of just about everything possible as well.
Would having my own blood related children be selfish due to all of these genetic problems that I suffer from?
| ChronicPain | t5_2rdpj | cdcfptv | Cont'd
I ended up living in the weight room that year and went from 180 pounds the day before my ACL tear to 165 pounds 1 week after surgery to 208.9 pounds weighing in to the first day of two-a-days senior year. I switched from playing fullback and linebacker to being the right offensive guard. (Even with my bum leg I could run circles around the rest of the linemen). Because I was only 5'9 (currently 5'10'') it was really hard to maintain a block without having some top of my head to the other guys chin contact. This pissed off one of our defensive tackles a lot during practice and resulted in my quite literally being held and thrown around. (The coaches for some reason just let it happen day in and out which I could never figure out). Eventually from the way I kept getting thrown around I kept hyper-extending my elbow until I could no longer move it without pain. The doctors diagnosis from my MRI was that I had dislocated it because there was severe bone bruising.
After physical therapy yet again I started disc golfing a lot more with my friends. I could drive the disc further than any of my other friends and wanted to ensure that nobody would catch me... eventually leading to the same hyper-extension problem in my right elbow. (Which I have opted to not go through physical therapy on, and I manage it with rest and ice).
I didn't have any other major problems until my freshman year of college because I had mostly retired from sports because I couldn't take the pain anymore. I had been playing broomball and ultimate frisbee occasionally and during my very first competetive broomball game partially tore/severely pulled (I never really figure out which) a muscle in my back, which resulted in back spasms and severe difficulty doing anything more than walking for a month and a half.
My junior year of college I began playing full contact club football and played right offensive guard. I was the lightest linemen in the country weighing in at 175 pounds. During this season I subluxed my left shoulder and then severely subluxed the right (almost a dislocation), which caused me to sit out for two games. And then in practice I sprained my right ankle ending my season.
All off season I worked out and ran and got my asthma back under control to the point where I was in the best shape I had been in since just before I tore my ACL 5 years prior. It was my senior year of college I dubbed this season my last hoorah. I tore it up all day every day during two-a-days, I even ran through a pair of cleats...LITERALLY! My foot went through the side of the one cleat and then immediately after my other foot went through the other shoe! On the very first day of hitting I was carrying the ball during a drill and during a head on collision sprained my left and ankle and foot. I hit the other guy so hard that I actually didn't feel any pain in my foot until I tried to walk away when I nearly fell on my face. This took me out for about 7 weeks.
In my first hitting practice back I either subluxed or got a stinger in my shoulder resulting in my entire left arm to go numb for about 20-30 seconds. Initially I thought it quite literally fell off of my body.
In my very first game back on a punt return during the 3rd quarter I made a cut to chase a missed block down the field. The cut resulted in me tearing up cartilage and meniscal tissue in the laterally portion of my knee as well as a partial re-tear of my ACL.
I now sit hit one month later from that cut and I just recieved the MRI results about 12 hrs ago. You don't know what the hell pain really is until you put your entire life behind something and no matter how hard you try, you are physically unable to achieve results because your body cannot keep up.
I believe I suffer from Ehler-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), I have had one PA and one nurse practitioner agree with my self diagnosis and had my routine visit PA shrug his shoulders and had my stem-cell and regenerative medicine professor tell me that there is probably nothing wrong with me. I can understand there not being anything wrong with me if I had never trained, if I had never done routine PT, and if these were reoccurring injuries. But the fact that all of these being spread out throughout my body...how can you say that this is not at least a mild case.
EDS is a genetic problem where the sufferer has a mutation that encodes collagen, resulting in weak and stretchy tendons and ligaments, skin that easily cuts and tears, and so on. I actually suffer from all of these problems, just didn't see them as significant enough to mention.
I also have ADD which I did not find out that I had until I was a junior in college. | I suffer from Ehler-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) causing me to tear, sprain, and dislocate almost every joint in my body. I suffer from lifelong asthma, I have ADD, I had sleep apnea as a child, and I suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) which makes me go through depression in the winter months.
No matter what I have done in my life I have never been able to out fight any of these problems, the fighting of these disorder and diseases have only lead to further hurt and pain in another area of my life. My body is the perfectly imperfect, there is not much else that will not end up being wrong with me since my family has a history of just about everything possible as well.
Would having my own blood related children be selfish due to all of these genetic problems that I suffer from? |
Joeskeppi | I don't get trading at all at the moment, all I see is people spamming walls of items and never actually trading anything. There's no way of advertising items that I have, so I just end up vendoring everything I find that I can't use. Even if I could realistically sell something, it'll take me hours to get noticed in between the sea of spam.
But, the drop rates are just right to mean that I don't need to trade stuff, I can find my own bits which makes it much more fun.
tl;dr Don't know what I'm talking about and I don't really have a point to make. | I don't get trading at all at the moment, all I see is people spamming walls of items and never actually trading anything. There's no way of advertising items that I have, so I just end up vendoring everything I find that I can't use. Even if I could realistically sell something, it'll take me hours to get noticed in between the sea of spam.
But, the drop rates are just right to mean that I don't need to trade stuff, I can find my own bits which makes it much more fun.
tl;dr Don't know what I'm talking about and I don't really have a point to make.
| pathofexile | t5_2sf6m | cdda0e2 | I don't get trading at all at the moment, all I see is people spamming walls of items and never actually trading anything. There's no way of advertising items that I have, so I just end up vendoring everything I find that I can't use. Even if I could realistically sell something, it'll take me hours to get noticed in between the sea of spam.
But, the drop rates are just right to mean that I don't need to trade stuff, I can find my own bits which makes it much more fun. | Don't know what I'm talking about and I don't really have a point to make. |
acrolicious | So a little history: i started having left hip/back pain while squatting and deadlifting. I started working on my mobility and stopped squatting and deadlifting so heavy. It's been about 6-7 months since then. Odd things happening: I have a slight ache in my left hip and if I squeeze my glutes hard enough at times my tailbone area cracks/realigns. I think that's my SI joint. I'm pretty flexible and starting to consider that my left leg is longer by a small amout (which could explain the over development, pushing from that side more due to a length discrepency. Also thr hip not healing due to constant additional pressure and popping out of place) strange thing is that I can squat without discomfort randomly and deadlift is the same. Then other days I can barely move 135lbs without pain.. I noticed that Leg Press (single or both) does not hurt my hip nor does isolated curls / extensions. Obviously lunges and RDL's are hit or miss like the dl/squat situation... I dunno.. kind of at a loss, trying to even them out with more isolation and MMC on my right side. Any suggestions aee appreciated. Btw, saw a Dr about it and he thought my left leg might be out of the socket and wanted to do an MRA (injecting dye into the socket and doing an MRI) I decided to try rehabbing it myself. So far, not much luck and wanting to be a bodybuilder on stage with a bigger left leg is silly. Thanks!
**tldr** i got problems with my left hip, left leg is bigger. I need to get the right one to catch up? | So a little history: i started having left hip/back pain while squatting and deadlifting. I started working on my mobility and stopped squatting and deadlifting so heavy. It's been about 6-7 months since then. Odd things happening: I have a slight ache in my left hip and if I squeeze my glutes hard enough at times my tailbone area cracks/realigns. I think that's my SI joint. I'm pretty flexible and starting to consider that my left leg is longer by a small amout (which could explain the over development, pushing from that side more due to a length discrepency. Also thr hip not healing due to constant additional pressure and popping out of place) strange thing is that I can squat without discomfort randomly and deadlift is the same. Then other days I can barely move 135lbs without pain.. I noticed that Leg Press (single or both) does not hurt my hip nor does isolated curls / extensions. Obviously lunges and RDL's are hit or miss like the dl/squat situation... I dunno.. kind of at a loss, trying to even them out with more isolation and MMC on my right side. Any suggestions aee appreciated. Btw, saw a Dr about it and he thought my left leg might be out of the socket and wanted to do an MRA (injecting dye into the socket and doing an MRI) I decided to try rehabbing it myself. So far, not much luck and wanting to be a bodybuilder on stage with a bigger left leg is silly. Thanks!
tldr i got problems with my left hip, left leg is bigger. I need to get the right one to catch up?
| bodybuilding | t5_2ql8s | cdd79jk | So a little history: i started having left hip/back pain while squatting and deadlifting. I started working on my mobility and stopped squatting and deadlifting so heavy. It's been about 6-7 months since then. Odd things happening: I have a slight ache in my left hip and if I squeeze my glutes hard enough at times my tailbone area cracks/realigns. I think that's my SI joint. I'm pretty flexible and starting to consider that my left leg is longer by a small amout (which could explain the over development, pushing from that side more due to a length discrepency. Also thr hip not healing due to constant additional pressure and popping out of place) strange thing is that I can squat without discomfort randomly and deadlift is the same. Then other days I can barely move 135lbs without pain.. I noticed that Leg Press (single or both) does not hurt my hip nor does isolated curls / extensions. Obviously lunges and RDL's are hit or miss like the dl/squat situation... I dunno.. kind of at a loss, trying to even them out with more isolation and MMC on my right side. Any suggestions aee appreciated. Btw, saw a Dr about it and he thought my left leg might be out of the socket and wanted to do an MRA (injecting dye into the socket and doing an MRI) I decided to try rehabbing it myself. So far, not much luck and wanting to be a bodybuilder on stage with a bigger left leg is silly. Thanks! | i got problems with my left hip, left leg is bigger. I need to get the right one to catch up? |
_sLaTaTtAcK_ | Earlier in that game they attempted to run it up the gut with Ahman on a 4th and goal with about a yard to go. Even with Ahman at the peak of his dominance they failed on the conversion. I have two points here, one being that if we would have taken those 3 points rather than going for it there wouldn't have been an overtime. The second point being that this failed conversion likely caused Sherman to make the decision to punt late in the game. Looking back at it, I wish he would have taken the 3 points early and gone for it on the 4th and short later in the game.
TLDR: always take the early points. | Earlier in that game they attempted to run it up the gut with Ahman on a 4th and goal with about a yard to go. Even with Ahman at the peak of his dominance they failed on the conversion. I have two points here, one being that if we would have taken those 3 points rather than going for it there wouldn't have been an overtime. The second point being that this failed conversion likely caused Sherman to make the decision to punt late in the game. Looking back at it, I wish he would have taken the 3 points early and gone for it on the 4th and short later in the game.
TLDR: always take the early points.
| GreenBayPackers | t5_2qqd2 | cddlhvy | Earlier in that game they attempted to run it up the gut with Ahman on a 4th and goal with about a yard to go. Even with Ahman at the peak of his dominance they failed on the conversion. I have two points here, one being that if we would have taken those 3 points rather than going for it there wouldn't have been an overtime. The second point being that this failed conversion likely caused Sherman to make the decision to punt late in the game. Looking back at it, I wish he would have taken the 3 points early and gone for it on the 4th and short later in the game. | always take the early points. |
pedal2000 | It doesn't matter if the US Senate will pass it or not pass it. I mean it does, but the better question is "How far can the provisions be pushed before the number of nations required to ratify the treaty to make it come into effect will no longer do so."
Tl;dr the 'safety net' on this is the fact that international treaties require multiple countries to sign on, and those nations need to ratify which requires public debate. | It doesn't matter if the US Senate will pass it or not pass it. I mean it does, but the better question is "How far can the provisions be pushed before the number of nations required to ratify the treaty to make it come into effect will no longer do so."
Tl;dr the 'safety net' on this is the fact that international treaties require multiple countries to sign on, and those nations need to ratify which requires public debate.
| explainlikeimfive | t5_2sokd | cddlevj | It doesn't matter if the US Senate will pass it or not pass it. I mean it does, but the better question is "How far can the provisions be pushed before the number of nations required to ratify the treaty to make it come into effect will no longer do so." | the 'safety net' on this is the fact that international treaties require multiple countries to sign on, and those nations need to ratify which requires public debate. |
DashingLeech | I'm not sure anybody can say yet what the implications are, but here's a quick summary of [Michael Geist's quick summary](
- U.S. and Australia seem to be pushing draconian provisions, meaning siding very much with copyright owners and pushing huge penalties against infringers, including jail time under certain circumstances.
- Most countries are pushing for "balance, promotion of the public domain, protection of public health, and measures to ensure that IP rights themselves do not become barriers to trade". The exceptions are the U.S. and Japan who oppose this article, and Australia takes no position on it.
- U.S. and Australia are pushing for everybody to ratify ten other treaties before TPP. Everybody else opposes this.
- A gang of countries (led by Canada) are proposing measures "to prevent the abuse of intellectual property rights by rights holders or the resort to practices which unreasonably restrain trade or adversely affect the international transfer of technology." U.S. and Japan oppose.
- The articles cover everything IP related include "patents, copyright, trademarks, and geographic indications" as well as Internet enforcement and ISP liability.
**TL;DR: U.S., Australia, and Japan are being asshats. Everybody else seems to actually care about people, balance, and generating the best value.**
| I'm not sure anybody can say yet what the implications are, but here's a quick summary of [Michael Geist's quick summary](
U.S. and Australia seem to be pushing draconian provisions, meaning siding very much with copyright owners and pushing huge penalties against infringers, including jail time under certain circumstances.
Most countries are pushing for "balance, promotion of the public domain, protection of public health, and measures to ensure that IP rights themselves do not become barriers to trade". The exceptions are the U.S. and Japan who oppose this article, and Australia takes no position on it.
U.S. and Australia are pushing for everybody to ratify ten other treaties before TPP. Everybody else opposes this.
A gang of countries (led by Canada) are proposing measures "to prevent the abuse of intellectual property rights by rights holders or the resort to practices which unreasonably restrain trade or adversely affect the international transfer of technology." U.S. and Japan oppose.
The articles cover everything IP related include "patents, copyright, trademarks, and geographic indications" as well as Internet enforcement and ISP liability.
TL;DR: U.S., Australia, and Japan are being asshats. Everybody else seems to actually care about people, balance, and generating the best value.
| explainlikeimfive | t5_2sokd | cddfh1g | I'm not sure anybody can say yet what the implications are, but here's a quick summary of [Michael Geist's quick summary](
U.S. and Australia seem to be pushing draconian provisions, meaning siding very much with copyright owners and pushing huge penalties against infringers, including jail time under certain circumstances.
Most countries are pushing for "balance, promotion of the public domain, protection of public health, and measures to ensure that IP rights themselves do not become barriers to trade". The exceptions are the U.S. and Japan who oppose this article, and Australia takes no position on it.
U.S. and Australia are pushing for everybody to ratify ten other treaties before TPP. Everybody else opposes this.
A gang of countries (led by Canada) are proposing measures "to prevent the abuse of intellectual property rights by rights holders or the resort to practices which unreasonably restrain trade or adversely affect the international transfer of technology." U.S. and Japan oppose.
The articles cover everything IP related include "patents, copyright, trademarks, and geographic indications" as well as Internet enforcement and ISP liability. | U.S., Australia, and Japan are being asshats. Everybody else seems to actually care about people, balance, and generating the best value. |
Probablyist | thank you for putting the TL;DR at the top :) | thank you for putting the TL;DR at the top :)
| explainlikeimfive | t5_2sokd | cddjue8 | thank you for putting the | at the top :) |
SeaWombat | Fyi, the wiki is basically relying on the classical version of the story. Lines like "The Euphrates ran black with ink that day." are poorly sourced at best. If you really want to learn more I would suggest making a post on /r/AskHistorians.
This is a post by /u/alltorndown (a Mongol historian) that basically contradicts everything written above:
>By the time Baghdad was beseiged in 1258, Genghis was long dead. It was his grandson, Hulegu (badass name, badass guy) who made the 'river (in Baghdad - whether its the Tigris or Euphrates is not specified) run red with blood and then blue with ink' (from the books in the destroyed library.)
>contemporary chronicles say that 80,000 were killed in Baghdad, but there is a good chance that that's bullshit. Firstly, even in a town like Baghdad, it is unlikely that there were 80,000 citizens in the first place. Secondly, it is known that many people were allowed to live, craftsmen, christians, jews, and any muslims who lay down their arms. Some were slaughtered in the inevitable post-siege carnage, but it was few enough that the city was still an important centre a few decades later.
Lastly, the Mongols were active propagandists, and often exaggerated tales of their own baddassery, and tried to convince others to do the same. It was in their interest to make people think they'd killed everyone in Baghdad, as when they got to Damascus a few years later they could just go 'oi! you heard what happened in Baghdad? yeah, 80,000. just surrender.'
>And what of the library of Baghdad? Well, it was the most extensive library of the middle ages, and it was long assumed that these 'barbarians' burnt a pillaged the whole place. The thing is, a few years after the fall of Baghdad, Hulegu established a complex in Maragheh, North West Iran. He built an observatory, a church, a buddhist temple, and... a Library, to be headed by one of the great Iranian thinkers, Nasir al-Din Tusi. Now libraries are a BITCH to fill up in the age before the printing press, with good-quality volumes ofthen taking YEARS to copy by hand. In the period just after the conquest, things were so chaotic that it is unlikely any peaceful little schools of calligraphers were able to copy out 5-10,000 odd volumes of text. So where did the books come from? Chances are, from the libraries in Baghdad and the ones in the Assassin capital in Alamut. The Mongols may not (at first) have known what to do with the combined knowledge of thousands of years of sedentary society (they soon learned, in the Ilkhanate in Iran and as the Yuan dynasty in China), but they knew it was important enough to protect and save.
>tl;dr; The Mongols were dicks, but not as massive dicks as people today assume. And chances are they made a conscious effort to save the knowledge and books of Baghdad from destruction | Fyi, the wiki is basically relying on the classical version of the story. Lines like "The Euphrates ran black with ink that day." are poorly sourced at best. If you really want to learn more I would suggest making a post on /r/AskHistorians.
This is a post by /u/alltorndown (a Mongol historian) that basically contradicts everything written above:
>By the time Baghdad was beseiged in 1258, Genghis was long dead. It was his grandson, Hulegu (badass name, badass guy) who made the 'river (in Baghdad - whether its the Tigris or Euphrates is not specified) run red with blood and then blue with ink' (from the books in the destroyed library.)
>contemporary chronicles say that 80,000 were killed in Baghdad, but there is a good chance that that's bullshit. Firstly, even in a town like Baghdad, it is unlikely that there were 80,000 citizens in the first place. Secondly, it is known that many people were allowed to live, craftsmen, christians, jews, and any muslims who lay down their arms. Some were slaughtered in the inevitable post-siege carnage, but it was few enough that the city was still an important centre a few decades later.
Lastly, the Mongols were active propagandists, and often exaggerated tales of their own baddassery, and tried to convince others to do the same. It was in their interest to make people think they'd killed everyone in Baghdad, as when they got to Damascus a few years later they could just go 'oi! you heard what happened in Baghdad? yeah, 80,000. just surrender.'
>And what of the library of Baghdad? Well, it was the most extensive library of the middle ages, and it was long assumed that these 'barbarians' burnt a pillaged the whole place. The thing is, a few years after the fall of Baghdad, Hulegu established a complex in Maragheh, North West Iran. He built an observatory, a church, a buddhist temple, and... a Library, to be headed by one of the great Iranian thinkers, Nasir al-Din Tusi. Now libraries are a BITCH to fill up in the age before the printing press, with good-quality volumes ofthen taking YEARS to copy by hand. In the period just after the conquest, things were so chaotic that it is unlikely any peaceful little schools of calligraphers were able to copy out 5-10,000 odd volumes of text. So where did the books come from? Chances are, from the libraries in Baghdad and the ones in the Assassin capital in Alamut. The Mongols may not (at first) have known what to do with the combined knowledge of thousands of years of sedentary society (they soon learned, in the Ilkhanate in Iran and as the Yuan dynasty in China), but they knew it was important enough to protect and save.
>tl;dr; The Mongols were dicks, but not as massive dicks as people today assume. And chances are they made a conscious effort to save the knowledge and books of Baghdad from destruction
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cddvd5j | Fyi, the wiki is basically relying on the classical version of the story. Lines like "The Euphrates ran black with ink that day." are poorly sourced at best. If you really want to learn more I would suggest making a post on /r/AskHistorians.
This is a post by /u/alltorndown (a Mongol historian) that basically contradicts everything written above:
>By the time Baghdad was beseiged in 1258, Genghis was long dead. It was his grandson, Hulegu (badass name, badass guy) who made the 'river (in Baghdad - whether its the Tigris or Euphrates is not specified) run red with blood and then blue with ink' (from the books in the destroyed library.)
>contemporary chronicles say that 80,000 were killed in Baghdad, but there is a good chance that that's bullshit. Firstly, even in a town like Baghdad, it is unlikely that there were 80,000 citizens in the first place. Secondly, it is known that many people were allowed to live, craftsmen, christians, jews, and any muslims who lay down their arms. Some were slaughtered in the inevitable post-siege carnage, but it was few enough that the city was still an important centre a few decades later.
Lastly, the Mongols were active propagandists, and often exaggerated tales of their own baddassery, and tried to convince others to do the same. It was in their interest to make people think they'd killed everyone in Baghdad, as when they got to Damascus a few years later they could just go 'oi! you heard what happened in Baghdad? yeah, 80,000. just surrender.'
>And what of the library of Baghdad? Well, it was the most extensive library of the middle ages, and it was long assumed that these 'barbarians' burnt a pillaged the whole place. The thing is, a few years after the fall of Baghdad, Hulegu established a complex in Maragheh, North West Iran. He built an observatory, a church, a buddhist temple, and... a Library, to be headed by one of the great Iranian thinkers, Nasir al-Din Tusi. Now libraries are a BITCH to fill up in the age before the printing press, with good-quality volumes ofthen taking YEARS to copy by hand. In the period just after the conquest, things were so chaotic that it is unlikely any peaceful little schools of calligraphers were able to copy out 5-10,000 odd volumes of text. So where did the books come from? Chances are, from the libraries in Baghdad and the ones in the Assassin capital in Alamut. The Mongols may not (at first) have known what to do with the combined knowledge of thousands of years of sedentary society (they soon learned, in the Ilkhanate in Iran and as the Yuan dynasty in China), but they knew it was important enough to protect and save.
> | The Mongols were dicks, but not as massive dicks as people today assume. And chances are they made a conscious effort to save the knowledge and books of Baghdad from destruction |
233C | 21st century homosapiens telepathy: some chemical reactions in your brain lead your fingers to hit on a thing in a certain pattern, the pattern is converted by the thing into light and confirm by your eyes. the same information travels across the entire planet and is reproduced and transmitted to other eyes and brains, and generate some other chemical reactions and finger movements. thoughts are exchanged.
TL;DR: quantum mechanics therefore maxwell equations and chemistry, then biology and evolution = reddit. also electrons. | 21st century homosapiens telepathy: some chemical reactions in your brain lead your fingers to hit on a thing in a certain pattern, the pattern is converted by the thing into light and confirm by your eyes. the same information travels across the entire planet and is reproduced and transmitted to other eyes and brains, and generate some other chemical reactions and finger movements. thoughts are exchanged.
TL;DR: quantum mechanics therefore maxwell equations and chemistry, then biology and evolution = reddit. also electrons.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cddkv2w | 21st century homosapiens telepathy: some chemical reactions in your brain lead your fingers to hit on a thing in a certain pattern, the pattern is converted by the thing into light and confirm by your eyes. the same information travels across the entire planet and is reproduced and transmitted to other eyes and brains, and generate some other chemical reactions and finger movements. thoughts are exchanged. | quantum mechanics therefore maxwell equations and chemistry, then biology and evolution = reddit. also electrons. |
seawied | No. You became bitter rivals that will fight each other for the final slice. As you struggle, days will become weeks, weeks will become months, months will become years. Add aeons pass by, epic stories will be told of the two titans of pizza, and the lost island that was destroyed from the fury over peace, justice, and a damn good slice of pie. Your children will be treated like kings in life and gods after death. Your blood lines will be long and numerous and a new race will begin. Unfortunately, the same will be true for your villain as well. Eventually the two sides will form nation states in a religious struggle to eliminate each other. Soon a thermal nuclear war will happen and earth will become uninhabitable. No one truly knows who received the final slice, but historians believe it was the most satisfying slice in the history of the world.
**tl;dr:** gaaaaaaaaaaaaay | No. You became bitter rivals that will fight each other for the final slice. As you struggle, days will become weeks, weeks will become months, months will become years. Add aeons pass by, epic stories will be told of the two titans of pizza, and the lost island that was destroyed from the fury over peace, justice, and a damn good slice of pie. Your children will be treated like kings in life and gods after death. Your blood lines will be long and numerous and a new race will begin. Unfortunately, the same will be true for your villain as well. Eventually the two sides will form nation states in a religious struggle to eliminate each other. Soon a thermal nuclear war will happen and earth will become uninhabitable. No one truly knows who received the final slice, but historians believe it was the most satisfying slice in the history of the world.
tl;dr: gaaaaaaaaaaaaay
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cddmwoo | No. You became bitter rivals that will fight each other for the final slice. As you struggle, days will become weeks, weeks will become months, months will become years. Add aeons pass by, epic stories will be told of the two titans of pizza, and the lost island that was destroyed from the fury over peace, justice, and a damn good slice of pie. Your children will be treated like kings in life and gods after death. Your blood lines will be long and numerous and a new race will begin. Unfortunately, the same will be true for your villain as well. Eventually the two sides will form nation states in a religious struggle to eliminate each other. Soon a thermal nuclear war will happen and earth will become uninhabitable. No one truly knows who received the final slice, but historians believe it was the most satisfying slice in the history of the world. | gaaaaaaaaaaaaay |
KabelGuy | Seriously, what have they done? Is everybody just raving about the comment section? I turned those off a while ago, so I haven't really noticed anything to be outraged about.
TL;DR: Somebody ELi5 this for me. | Seriously, what have they done? Is everybody just raving about the comment section? I turned those off a while ago, so I haven't really noticed anything to be outraged about.
TL;DR: Somebody ELi5 this for me.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cddow1a | Seriously, what have they done? Is everybody just raving about the comment section? I turned those off a while ago, so I haven't really noticed anything to be outraged about. | Somebody ELi5 this for me. |
spartycubs | The internet, specifically Google.
We take this so much for granted now that we literally use google as a verb. But if you think about it, less than twenty years ago, if you wanted to do research you went to a library to look at books, and if you were lucky your college subscribed to the scientific journal that you needed. Now, we have Google Books with thousands of searchable books. We have Google Scholar that can search millions of scientific journals. Not to mention all of the information that you get from a simple Google search. Google/search engines/the internet in general is pretty much the best thing to ever happen to the scientific community.
tl;dr: Science made the internet, and it's just about the best thing science has ever done for itself. | The internet, specifically Google.
We take this so much for granted now that we literally use google as a verb. But if you think about it, less than twenty years ago, if you wanted to do research you went to a library to look at books, and if you were lucky your college subscribed to the scientific journal that you needed. Now, we have Google Books with thousands of searchable books. We have Google Scholar that can search millions of scientific journals. Not to mention all of the information that you get from a simple Google search. Google/search engines/the internet in general is pretty much the best thing to ever happen to the scientific community.
tl;dr: Science made the internet, and it's just about the best thing science has ever done for itself.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdduva1 | The internet, specifically Google.
We take this so much for granted now that we literally use google as a verb. But if you think about it, less than twenty years ago, if you wanted to do research you went to a library to look at books, and if you were lucky your college subscribed to the scientific journal that you needed. Now, we have Google Books with thousands of searchable books. We have Google Scholar that can search millions of scientific journals. Not to mention all of the information that you get from a simple Google search. Google/search engines/the internet in general is pretty much the best thing to ever happen to the scientific community. | Science made the internet, and it's just about the best thing science has ever done for itself. |
mysinsmakeme | The level of education that I have access to just for being born in the right place.
I can be in school for free from age 4-18, then for a greatly subsidized price have access to higher education and be accepted based solely on my academic merits? If I can't pay I can get approved for a Student Line of Credit, if I can't get a cosigner I can receive provincial loans and then get back 33% of my tuition?
Then again based off my academic merits I can learn even more? Medicine, Law, Psychology, Business? I can get paid for simply learning?!!
We live in an amazing time.
tldr: I'm procrastinating on an assignment :(
| The level of education that I have access to just for being born in the right place.
I can be in school for free from age 4-18, then for a greatly subsidized price have access to higher education and be accepted based solely on my academic merits? If I can't pay I can get approved for a Student Line of Credit, if I can't get a cosigner I can receive provincial loans and then get back 33% of my tuition?
Then again based off my academic merits I can learn even more? Medicine, Law, Psychology, Business? I can get paid for simply learning?!!
We live in an amazing time.
tldr: I'm procrastinating on an assignment :(
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cddw38p | The level of education that I have access to just for being born in the right place.
I can be in school for free from age 4-18, then for a greatly subsidized price have access to higher education and be accepted based solely on my academic merits? If I can't pay I can get approved for a Student Line of Credit, if I can't get a cosigner I can receive provincial loans and then get back 33% of my tuition?
Then again based off my academic merits I can learn even more? Medicine, Law, Psychology, Business? I can get paid for simply learning?!!
We live in an amazing time. | I'm procrastinating on an assignment :( |
Gotitaila | I came here to say that you can have a smartphone. I just recently received a Samsung Galaxy Proclaim from StraightTalk for free. It's a refurb, but in excellent condition.
I paid $0 for the phone, and I pay $45/mo. for unlimited text/talk/data. It's also prepaid, no contract. It's a mid-tier smartphone, but has almost everything a fancy iPhone would have.
TL;DR - Free SmartPhone, $45/mo. unlimited everything, no contract. | I came here to say that you can have a smartphone. I just recently received a Samsung Galaxy Proclaim from StraightTalk for free. It's a refurb, but in excellent condition.
I paid $0 for the phone, and I pay $45/mo. for unlimited text/talk/data. It's also prepaid, no contract. It's a mid-tier smartphone, but has almost everything a fancy iPhone would have.
TL;DR - Free SmartPhone, $45/mo. unlimited everything, no contract.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cddwenz | I came here to say that you can have a smartphone. I just recently received a Samsung Galaxy Proclaim from StraightTalk for free. It's a refurb, but in excellent condition.
I paid $0 for the phone, and I pay $45/mo. for unlimited text/talk/data. It's also prepaid, no contract. It's a mid-tier smartphone, but has almost everything a fancy iPhone would have. | Free SmartPhone, $45/mo. unlimited everything, no contract. |
PillowShip | I stopped by 7/11 for coffee this morning. On my way in, there was a gentleman outside asking for spare change. I've seen him before, and I figured I could save a few dollars for him, if I break a $10 bill. I went in, waited in an unusually long line, and a few seconds later, the gentleman steps inside and waits in line with a used 7/11 coffee cup that appears to be empty. I figure that this is my chance to be nice, and I pay for my coffee and wait off to the side with my change. Before the guy says a word, the 7/11 clerk begins to rip him a new lotto ticket, and the guy that was begging for money slips him a crumpled dollar bill, and proceeds to walk back outside to ask for more money. At that very moment, I was very disappointed in society.
TL;DR: Beggar spends handout money on lotto tickets. Sometimes you're better off giving math lessons instead of giving out a buck. | I stopped by 7/11 for coffee this morning. On my way in, there was a gentleman outside asking for spare change. I've seen him before, and I figured I could save a few dollars for him, if I break a $10 bill. I went in, waited in an unusually long line, and a few seconds later, the gentleman steps inside and waits in line with a used 7/11 coffee cup that appears to be empty. I figure that this is my chance to be nice, and I pay for my coffee and wait off to the side with my change. Before the guy says a word, the 7/11 clerk begins to rip him a new lotto ticket, and the guy that was begging for money slips him a crumpled dollar bill, and proceeds to walk back outside to ask for more money. At that very moment, I was very disappointed in society.
TL;DR: Beggar spends handout money on lotto tickets. Sometimes you're better off giving math lessons instead of giving out a buck.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cddyat9 | I stopped by 7/11 for coffee this morning. On my way in, there was a gentleman outside asking for spare change. I've seen him before, and I figured I could save a few dollars for him, if I break a $10 bill. I went in, waited in an unusually long line, and a few seconds later, the gentleman steps inside and waits in line with a used 7/11 coffee cup that appears to be empty. I figure that this is my chance to be nice, and I pay for my coffee and wait off to the side with my change. Before the guy says a word, the 7/11 clerk begins to rip him a new lotto ticket, and the guy that was begging for money slips him a crumpled dollar bill, and proceeds to walk back outside to ask for more money. At that very moment, I was very disappointed in society. | Beggar spends handout money on lotto tickets. Sometimes you're better off giving math lessons instead of giving out a buck. |
koopa69 | It's totally serious, I do the same thing. It costs a bit to get started, and you do have to replace your veggie fuel filter often (every ~2000-4000 miles with my system) but it is so nice for long commutes. You do have to use some diesel to start the car, and you want to switch back before stopping the car, but per gallon of paid gas, I get about 200 miles on average. Sometimes it is up to 800MPG, but only when doing consistent long trips.
TL;DR best paid pizza man ever. | It's totally serious, I do the same thing. It costs a bit to get started, and you do have to replace your veggie fuel filter often (every ~2000-4000 miles with my system) but it is so nice for long commutes. You do have to use some diesel to start the car, and you want to switch back before stopping the car, but per gallon of paid gas, I get about 200 miles on average. Sometimes it is up to 800MPG, but only when doing consistent long trips.
TL;DR best paid pizza man ever.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cde0gvd | It's totally serious, I do the same thing. It costs a bit to get started, and you do have to replace your veggie fuel filter often (every ~2000-4000 miles with my system) but it is so nice for long commutes. You do have to use some diesel to start the car, and you want to switch back before stopping the car, but per gallon of paid gas, I get about 200 miles on average. Sometimes it is up to 800MPG, but only when doing consistent long trips. | best paid pizza man ever. |
cshultz02 | well in all technicality he is right. We could have developed any different value for two and two to make four so if 5 really meant four then thats what it would be. Math is and can be tricky in the sense that it is initially based on our observations. Way back when the first time we began counting, we understood the simple math that 2+2=4, however this is only true because its the answer we consistently got. If for example they had two apples and they placed two more they collectively had 4. If they would have suddenly and consistently had 5 for some odd reason, and this was a physically reoccurring truth, then 2+2 would = 5. Although when talking about basic math like this that statement just sounds silly.
However when we are talking about physics that we hardly yet understand, our equations are typically based on observations that have been consistently true from our observation, this doesnt guarantee that every variable is accounted for or correct, but gets us an answer that is generally close to our given understanding. Its math like that that is changing, and new theories and equations are always coming up...Through some of these equations that we have come up with, we are even able to assume (mathematically) that some things we havent even seen or known to exist are possible and likely to.
tl:dr-anyways i dont care if you read this or not, just my own thoughts on math and what is held true in it. It is amazing, but equations are and have constantly been changed in the past when it and our understandings get more advanced. | well in all technicality he is right. We could have developed any different value for two and two to make four so if 5 really meant four then thats what it would be. Math is and can be tricky in the sense that it is initially based on our observations. Way back when the first time we began counting, we understood the simple math that 2+2=4, however this is only true because its the answer we consistently got. If for example they had two apples and they placed two more they collectively had 4. If they would have suddenly and consistently had 5 for some odd reason, and this was a physically reoccurring truth, then 2+2 would = 5. Although when talking about basic math like this that statement just sounds silly.
However when we are talking about physics that we hardly yet understand, our equations are typically based on observations that have been consistently true from our observation, this doesnt guarantee that every variable is accounted for or correct, but gets us an answer that is generally close to our given understanding. Its math like that that is changing, and new theories and equations are always coming up...Through some of these equations that we have come up with, we are even able to assume (mathematically) that some things we havent even seen or known to exist are possible and likely to.
tl:dr-anyways i dont care if you read this or not, just my own thoughts on math and what is held true in it. It is amazing, but equations are and have constantly been changed in the past when it and our understandings get more advanced.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cde5bkd | well in all technicality he is right. We could have developed any different value for two and two to make four so if 5 really meant four then thats what it would be. Math is and can be tricky in the sense that it is initially based on our observations. Way back when the first time we began counting, we understood the simple math that 2+2=4, however this is only true because its the answer we consistently got. If for example they had two apples and they placed two more they collectively had 4. If they would have suddenly and consistently had 5 for some odd reason, and this was a physically reoccurring truth, then 2+2 would = 5. Although when talking about basic math like this that statement just sounds silly.
However when we are talking about physics that we hardly yet understand, our equations are typically based on observations that have been consistently true from our observation, this doesnt guarantee that every variable is accounted for or correct, but gets us an answer that is generally close to our given understanding. Its math like that that is changing, and new theories and equations are always coming up...Through some of these equations that we have come up with, we are even able to assume (mathematically) that some things we havent even seen or known to exist are possible and likely to. | anyways i dont care if you read this or not, just my own thoughts on math and what is held true in it. It is amazing, but equations are and have constantly been changed in the past when it and our understandings get more advanced. |
prof0ak | You are right, I don't know your life story, I can only base my comments on what you wrote.
>Your body is dictated by genetics, your job is based off of the economy, and building relationships with anyone is largely out of your hands.
It might be a difference in our personalities, or perhaps the way we view the world, but I see something different than you do.
Your body is dictated by genetics, but you have diet, exercise, and your mental state to change and shape your body as you see fit.
Your job is based off of the economy, but this isn't communism, you can get a new job anywhere you want if you work hard enough.
Building relationships with anyone is not out of your hands, it is a team effort between you and the other person. If you put your best into relationships, then the only reason they should fail is if the other person doesn't care.
I'm glad things are looking up for you, and I never said taking control of your life is easy. In fact it is quite hard. But the best things in life take discipline and hard work.
If you *expect* to have amazing relationships, a beautiful body, and fantastic job just come to you as a reward for being lazy, you are sorely mistaken. Nice things take time and effort.
**tl;dr** : I call Bullshit. The best things in life are not handed to you, they are created by hard work. | You are right, I don't know your life story, I can only base my comments on what you wrote.
>Your body is dictated by genetics, your job is based off of the economy, and building relationships with anyone is largely out of your hands.
It might be a difference in our personalities, or perhaps the way we view the world, but I see something different than you do.
Your body is dictated by genetics, but you have diet, exercise, and your mental state to change and shape your body as you see fit.
Your job is based off of the economy, but this isn't communism, you can get a new job anywhere you want if you work hard enough.
Building relationships with anyone is not out of your hands, it is a team effort between you and the other person. If you put your best into relationships, then the only reason they should fail is if the other person doesn't care.
I'm glad things are looking up for you, and I never said taking control of your life is easy. In fact it is quite hard. But the best things in life take discipline and hard work.
If you expect to have amazing relationships, a beautiful body, and fantastic job just come to you as a reward for being lazy, you are sorely mistaken. Nice things take time and effort.
tl;dr : I call Bullshit. The best things in life are not handed to you, they are created by hard work.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdei67u | You are right, I don't know your life story, I can only base my comments on what you wrote.
>Your body is dictated by genetics, your job is based off of the economy, and building relationships with anyone is largely out of your hands.
It might be a difference in our personalities, or perhaps the way we view the world, but I see something different than you do.
Your body is dictated by genetics, but you have diet, exercise, and your mental state to change and shape your body as you see fit.
Your job is based off of the economy, but this isn't communism, you can get a new job anywhere you want if you work hard enough.
Building relationships with anyone is not out of your hands, it is a team effort between you and the other person. If you put your best into relationships, then the only reason they should fail is if the other person doesn't care.
I'm glad things are looking up for you, and I never said taking control of your life is easy. In fact it is quite hard. But the best things in life take discipline and hard work.
If you expect to have amazing relationships, a beautiful body, and fantastic job just come to you as a reward for being lazy, you are sorely mistaken. Nice things take time and effort. | I call Bullshit. The best things in life are not handed to you, they are created by hard work. |
marvelshoes | I'm fairly new as well, so someone may be able to back this up with more numbers and specific strategies, but any class could technically work.
One of the great things about the game is that any exile class can use any skill, equipment piece or passive build. The templar and marauder do have more natural access to tankier passives, but any exile can be built for survivability.
TL;DR: Pick either. You'll have a great time either way. They both will be tanky if you choose to build them so. | I'm fairly new as well, so someone may be able to back this up with more numbers and specific strategies, but any class could technically work.
One of the great things about the game is that any exile class can use any skill, equipment piece or passive build. The templar and marauder do have more natural access to tankier passives, but any exile can be built for survivability.
TL;DR: Pick either. You'll have a great time either way. They both will be tanky if you choose to build them so.
| pathofexile | t5_2sf6m | cddnnzm | I'm fairly new as well, so someone may be able to back this up with more numbers and specific strategies, but any class could technically work.
One of the great things about the game is that any exile class can use any skill, equipment piece or passive build. The templar and marauder do have more natural access to tankier passives, but any exile can be built for survivability. | Pick either. You'll have a great time either way. They both will be tanky if you choose to build them so. |
bli | I appreciate the LaTex.
However, I disagree with the analysis simply due to the fact that these results are based on your expected mitigation. That is, your damage taken on *average*. While this may be fine in standard modes, in hardcore modes, you are not worried about the average situation. You have to prepare for the *worst* possible situation.
Thus, while not better on average damage mitigation as shown in the discussion, IR is much more popular than acrobatics in HC *especially* against large hits for this simple reason: sometimes you get unlucky. And in HC you only need to get unlucky *once* for it to all be over. The 'worst possible situation' is always one where your dodge does not proc and you are left with half of your armor to defend yourself. Play this game long enough, and you'll run into a long enough string of non-procs where it can cost you your life.
**TL;DR** I don't agree with this analysis for hardcore modes. As Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein puts it, I spend 98% of my time worrying about things that happen with 2% probability. | I appreciate the LaTex.
However, I disagree with the analysis simply due to the fact that these results are based on your expected mitigation. That is, your damage taken on average . While this may be fine in standard modes, in hardcore modes, you are not worried about the average situation. You have to prepare for the worst possible situation.
Thus, while not better on average damage mitigation as shown in the discussion, IR is much more popular than acrobatics in HC especially against large hits for this simple reason: sometimes you get unlucky. And in HC you only need to get unlucky once for it to all be over. The 'worst possible situation' is always one where your dodge does not proc and you are left with half of your armor to defend yourself. Play this game long enough, and you'll run into a long enough string of non-procs where it can cost you your life.
TL;DR I don't agree with this analysis for hardcore modes. As Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein puts it, I spend 98% of my time worrying about things that happen with 2% probability.
| pathofexile | t5_2sf6m | cddzzid | I appreciate the LaTex.
However, I disagree with the analysis simply due to the fact that these results are based on your expected mitigation. That is, your damage taken on average . While this may be fine in standard modes, in hardcore modes, you are not worried about the average situation. You have to prepare for the worst possible situation.
Thus, while not better on average damage mitigation as shown in the discussion, IR is much more popular than acrobatics in HC especially against large hits for this simple reason: sometimes you get unlucky. And in HC you only need to get unlucky once for it to all be over. The 'worst possible situation' is always one where your dodge does not proc and you are left with half of your armor to defend yourself. Play this game long enough, and you'll run into a long enough string of non-procs where it can cost you your life. | I don't agree with this analysis for hardcore modes. As Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein puts it, I spend 98% of my time worrying about things that happen with 2% probability. |
bonafide10 | I think saying that any rule has "ruined college basketball" a week into the season is incredibly short-sighted.
The rule was made. Coaches have so far easily been able to adjust their offenses to take advantage of the rule. There has been far more driving to the hoop than there has been in the past decade. Players and coaches both know that driving will be rewarded more often than not because defenders are still getting used to the new rule.
Eventually, Coaches and players will adjust to the rule defensively and we will see a middle ground in terms of fouls and free throws between what we had and we've seen the past week.
TL;DR We all saw this coming. It's an adjustment period, give it time. | I think saying that any rule has "ruined college basketball" a week into the season is incredibly short-sighted.
The rule was made. Coaches have so far easily been able to adjust their offenses to take advantage of the rule. There has been far more driving to the hoop than there has been in the past decade. Players and coaches both know that driving will be rewarded more often than not because defenders are still getting used to the new rule.
Eventually, Coaches and players will adjust to the rule defensively and we will see a middle ground in terms of fouls and free throws between what we had and we've seen the past week.
TL;DR We all saw this coming. It's an adjustment period, give it time.
| CollegeBasketball | t5_2rj3j | cddz4zd | I think saying that any rule has "ruined college basketball" a week into the season is incredibly short-sighted.
The rule was made. Coaches have so far easily been able to adjust their offenses to take advantage of the rule. There has been far more driving to the hoop than there has been in the past decade. Players and coaches both know that driving will be rewarded more often than not because defenders are still getting used to the new rule.
Eventually, Coaches and players will adjust to the rule defensively and we will see a middle ground in terms of fouls and free throws between what we had and we've seen the past week. | We all saw this coming. It's an adjustment period, give it time. |
pogra | For me, Halo was my childhood. It's all me and my friends did since the summer of 5th grade. And then when people moved or we lost contact in high school everyone had Halo 3 and we continued playing. I was the most into Halo out of everyone though, I always got the legendary editions and DLC and had all the books. Halo 3 hold a special place in my memory, the nostalgia of it is crazy. I was really deep into Machinima with Halo 3 as well, and created some myself. I was deep into the community on Bungie.net and a lot of people looked up to me as a community leader. It was great. I made some lifelong friends online, that I still talk to to this day on Facebook and text sometimes.
Unfortunately, when Reach came out, everyone slowly stopped playing or moving to a different game. We all hit the college or upperclassman in high school age and the amount of play started decreasing altogether. Halo 4 had the potential to bring us all back together, and it did for about a month or so, but once again it went back to the drought. Nowadays when I have time to play I'm playing GTAV, and have yet to find an online community as great as Halo 2 or 3's. I miss it greatly.
TL;DR- Halo was to me like Andy's Toys from Toy Story. It was a huge part of my childhood and I have great memories of it, but now I don't play with those toys anymore.
PS- I want to get back to those old times. | For me, Halo was my childhood. It's all me and my friends did since the summer of 5th grade. And then when people moved or we lost contact in high school everyone had Halo 3 and we continued playing. I was the most into Halo out of everyone though, I always got the legendary editions and DLC and had all the books. Halo 3 hold a special place in my memory, the nostalgia of it is crazy. I was really deep into Machinima with Halo 3 as well, and created some myself. I was deep into the community on Bungie.net and a lot of people looked up to me as a community leader. It was great. I made some lifelong friends online, that I still talk to to this day on Facebook and text sometimes.
Unfortunately, when Reach came out, everyone slowly stopped playing or moving to a different game. We all hit the college or upperclassman in high school age and the amount of play started decreasing altogether. Halo 4 had the potential to bring us all back together, and it did for about a month or so, but once again it went back to the drought. Nowadays when I have time to play I'm playing GTAV, and have yet to find an online community as great as Halo 2 or 3's. I miss it greatly.
TL;DR- Halo was to me like Andy's Toys from Toy Story. It was a huge part of my childhood and I have great memories of it, but now I don't play with those toys anymore.
PS- I want to get back to those old times.
| halo | t5_2qixk | cde90wx | For me, Halo was my childhood. It's all me and my friends did since the summer of 5th grade. And then when people moved or we lost contact in high school everyone had Halo 3 and we continued playing. I was the most into Halo out of everyone though, I always got the legendary editions and DLC and had all the books. Halo 3 hold a special place in my memory, the nostalgia of it is crazy. I was really deep into Machinima with Halo 3 as well, and created some myself. I was deep into the community on Bungie.net and a lot of people looked up to me as a community leader. It was great. I made some lifelong friends online, that I still talk to to this day on Facebook and text sometimes.
Unfortunately, when Reach came out, everyone slowly stopped playing or moving to a different game. We all hit the college or upperclassman in high school age and the amount of play started decreasing altogether. Halo 4 had the potential to bring us all back together, and it did for about a month or so, but once again it went back to the drought. Nowadays when I have time to play I'm playing GTAV, and have yet to find an online community as great as Halo 2 or 3's. I miss it greatly. | Halo was to me like Andy's Toys from Toy Story. It was a huge part of my childhood and I have great memories of it, but now I don't play with those toys anymore.
PS- I want to get back to those old times. |
DaCrazyDingo | I live in WA a little ways north of there. This is stupid. Sad part is nothing will probably come of this. I had a tooth knocked out and another two pushed far out of place I was able to tell the cops who did it and everything and they didn't do anything. I can't afford the thousands of dollars it is to correct it.
I've seen thefts caught on camera at my work and still no action from our PD. My parents had guns and $1000 of other stuff stolen from a break in at our house and there was no action taken. I've had my truck broken into eight times in three years. Six of those were a block away from a police station. The police just apologize and say call your insurance provider.
TL;DR- NW Washington cops won't do anything. | I live in WA a little ways north of there. This is stupid. Sad part is nothing will probably come of this. I had a tooth knocked out and another two pushed far out of place I was able to tell the cops who did it and everything and they didn't do anything. I can't afford the thousands of dollars it is to correct it.
I've seen thefts caught on camera at my work and still no action from our PD. My parents had guns and $1000 of other stuff stolen from a break in at our house and there was no action taken. I've had my truck broken into eight times in three years. Six of those were a block away from a police station. The police just apologize and say call your insurance provider.
TL;DR- NW Washington cops won't do anything.
| news | t5_2qh3l | cde4w60 | I live in WA a little ways north of there. This is stupid. Sad part is nothing will probably come of this. I had a tooth knocked out and another two pushed far out of place I was able to tell the cops who did it and everything and they didn't do anything. I can't afford the thousands of dollars it is to correct it.
I've seen thefts caught on camera at my work and still no action from our PD. My parents had guns and $1000 of other stuff stolen from a break in at our house and there was no action taken. I've had my truck broken into eight times in three years. Six of those were a block away from a police station. The police just apologize and say call your insurance provider. | NW Washington cops won't do anything. |
thereaper73 | I'm American, I like the French. On occasion I'll make a joke about them surrendering, but I'm sure there are French folks who make jokes about us being fat and stupid. I will say this though, without France there might not be a United States. We owe them for that, and without a United States there might not be a France.
TL;DR French fries and burgers are just as good as Brie and Merlot. | I'm American, I like the French. On occasion I'll make a joke about them surrendering, but I'm sure there are French folks who make jokes about us being fat and stupid. I will say this though, without France there might not be a United States. We owe them for that, and without a United States there might not be a France.
TL;DR French fries and burgers are just as good as Brie and Merlot.
| FoodPorn | t5_2rd9v | cdejoz9 | I'm American, I like the French. On occasion I'll make a joke about them surrendering, but I'm sure there are French folks who make jokes about us being fat and stupid. I will say this though, without France there might not be a United States. We owe them for that, and without a United States there might not be a France. | French fries and burgers are just as good as Brie and Merlot. |
adventuresinposting | There is a group of fairly vocal people who support Dean and Cas being together; they ship them very intensely and are adamant that situations and conversations in the show point towards Dean and Can being secretly in love with each other. In short, this is what is commonly referred to as Destiel. Sorry if this is information you already know, but I thought I'de be thorough.
So when Cas had sex with another woman, they were outraged. It reached the point of people harassing show runners, actors, and executives at the CW about it. One CW executive deleted his twitter account after making a more or less innocent remark regarding the possibility of Dean and Cas being in a relationship in the future. Osric Chau (Kevin) responded a few days after this happening with a very good response about being in a fandom. I can go find it if you like. Misha Collins said a few things about it at the con the weekend after that episode aired.
**TL;DR:** Destiel shippers were super pissed that Cas was with a woman and harassed the powers that be on twitter. | There is a group of fairly vocal people who support Dean and Cas being together; they ship them very intensely and are adamant that situations and conversations in the show point towards Dean and Can being secretly in love with each other. In short, this is what is commonly referred to as Destiel. Sorry if this is information you already know, but I thought I'de be thorough.
So when Cas had sex with another woman, they were outraged. It reached the point of people harassing show runners, actors, and executives at the CW about it. One CW executive deleted his twitter account after making a more or less innocent remark regarding the possibility of Dean and Cas being in a relationship in the future. Osric Chau (Kevin) responded a few days after this happening with a very good response about being in a fandom. I can go find it if you like. Misha Collins said a few things about it at the con the weekend after that episode aired.
TL;DR: Destiel shippers were super pissed that Cas was with a woman and harassed the powers that be on twitter.
| Supernatural | t5_2ql8e | cdf0tas | There is a group of fairly vocal people who support Dean and Cas being together; they ship them very intensely and are adamant that situations and conversations in the show point towards Dean and Can being secretly in love with each other. In short, this is what is commonly referred to as Destiel. Sorry if this is information you already know, but I thought I'de be thorough.
So when Cas had sex with another woman, they were outraged. It reached the point of people harassing show runners, actors, and executives at the CW about it. One CW executive deleted his twitter account after making a more or less innocent remark regarding the possibility of Dean and Cas being in a relationship in the future. Osric Chau (Kevin) responded a few days after this happening with a very good response about being in a fandom. I can go find it if you like. Misha Collins said a few things about it at the con the weekend after that episode aired. | Destiel shippers were super pissed that Cas was with a woman and harassed the powers that be on twitter. |
WILLSUCKDICK_4_KARMA | Lot of speculation going on here and no science to back it up... time to fix that.
DMT **is** physically safe to smoke everyday. DMT has an extremely short half-life because your brain eats that up like a diabetic in a candy store with one day left to live.
Now psychologically safe to smoke everyday depends on the mental health of the user. Some can be fine with it and notice no adverse changes in cognitive functioning/reasoning, while others can become psychotic and develop some very bizarre thoughts and beliefs.
Regarding naphtha, it's a pretty safe substance. It took scientists **4 hours of continuous naphtha fumes** to determine the LD50 for inhalation from various naphtha products. Also it is lighter fluid so it should be evaporated completely when smoking DMT. Unless his DMT is still liquidy and catches on fire when lit, naphtha is **not** the problem here.
From the MDMS regarding inhalation of naphtha:
"Vapors or mists from this material can irritate the nose, throat, and lungs, and
can cause signs and symptoms of central nervous system depression,
depending on the concentration and duration of exposure. Inhalation of high
concentrations may cause central nervous system depression such as dizziness, drowsiness, headache, and similar narcotic symptoms, but no long-term effects"
**Is your friend a dumbass?** Yes.
**Can he be less of a dumbass?** Yes.
Here's how:
1.) Use a bong or other water filtering device. This will eliminate any residual NaOH (lye) particles from entering your lungs.
Health problems occur from the NaOH particles, not the act of smoking dmt. **You cannot smoke NaOH with a household lighter, the bp of NaOH is 1388 C / 2530 F**
2.) Tell him to stop being impatient, take his time, and read more so he will get the best possible yield. It's the difference between shitty, blood-cough-inducing DMT and 1-hit breakthrough DMT.
3.) Moderation. The DMT machine elves will most likely fuck him over if he continues to trip too much. Speaking from anecdotal experience, and reading and other people who have binged on it.
**TL;DR** - DMT will mind rape you with the dick of satan until it cums unholy demonfire jizz in your unworthy bone cavity you call a skull if you binge on it for too long.
| Lot of speculation going on here and no science to back it up... time to fix that.
DMT is physically safe to smoke everyday. DMT has an extremely short half-life because your brain eats that up like a diabetic in a candy store with one day left to live.
Now psychologically safe to smoke everyday depends on the mental health of the user. Some can be fine with it and notice no adverse changes in cognitive functioning/reasoning, while others can become psychotic and develop some very bizarre thoughts and beliefs.
Regarding naphtha, it's a pretty safe substance. It took scientists 4 hours of continuous naphtha fumes to determine the LD50 for inhalation from various naphtha products. Also it is lighter fluid so it should be evaporated completely when smoking DMT. Unless his DMT is still liquidy and catches on fire when lit, naphtha is not the problem here.
From the MDMS regarding inhalation of naphtha:
"Vapors or mists from this material can irritate the nose, throat, and lungs, and
can cause signs and symptoms of central nervous system depression,
depending on the concentration and duration of exposure. Inhalation of high
concentrations may cause central nervous system depression such as dizziness, drowsiness, headache, and similar narcotic symptoms, but no long-term effects"
Is your friend a dumbass? Yes.
Can he be less of a dumbass? Yes.
Here's how:
1.) Use a bong or other water filtering device. This will eliminate any residual NaOH (lye) particles from entering your lungs.
Health problems occur from the NaOH particles, not the act of smoking dmt. You cannot smoke NaOH with a household lighter, the bp of NaOH is 1388 C / 2530 F
2.) Tell him to stop being impatient, take his time, and read more so he will get the best possible yield. It's the difference between shitty, blood-cough-inducing DMT and 1-hit breakthrough DMT.
3.) Moderation. The DMT machine elves will most likely fuck him over if he continues to trip too much. Speaking from anecdotal experience, and reading and other people who have binged on it.
TL;DR - DMT will mind rape you with the dick of satan until it cums unholy demonfire jizz in your unworthy bone cavity you call a skull if you binge on it for too long.
| Drugs | t5_2qh7l | cdeqb9w | Lot of speculation going on here and no science to back it up... time to fix that.
DMT is physically safe to smoke everyday. DMT has an extremely short half-life because your brain eats that up like a diabetic in a candy store with one day left to live.
Now psychologically safe to smoke everyday depends on the mental health of the user. Some can be fine with it and notice no adverse changes in cognitive functioning/reasoning, while others can become psychotic and develop some very bizarre thoughts and beliefs.
Regarding naphtha, it's a pretty safe substance. It took scientists 4 hours of continuous naphtha fumes to determine the LD50 for inhalation from various naphtha products. Also it is lighter fluid so it should be evaporated completely when smoking DMT. Unless his DMT is still liquidy and catches on fire when lit, naphtha is not the problem here.
From the MDMS regarding inhalation of naphtha:
"Vapors or mists from this material can irritate the nose, throat, and lungs, and
can cause signs and symptoms of central nervous system depression,
depending on the concentration and duration of exposure. Inhalation of high
concentrations may cause central nervous system depression such as dizziness, drowsiness, headache, and similar narcotic symptoms, but no long-term effects"
Is your friend a dumbass? Yes.
Can he be less of a dumbass? Yes.
Here's how:
1.) Use a bong or other water filtering device. This will eliminate any residual NaOH (lye) particles from entering your lungs.
Health problems occur from the NaOH particles, not the act of smoking dmt. You cannot smoke NaOH with a household lighter, the bp of NaOH is 1388 C / 2530 F
2.) Tell him to stop being impatient, take his time, and read more so he will get the best possible yield. It's the difference between shitty, blood-cough-inducing DMT and 1-hit breakthrough DMT.
3.) Moderation. The DMT machine elves will most likely fuck him over if he continues to trip too much. Speaking from anecdotal experience, and reading and other people who have binged on it. | DMT will mind rape you with the dick of satan until it cums unholy demonfire jizz in your unworthy bone cavity you call a skull if you binge on it for too long. |
AcacianAirship | I was at the Detroit show last month when they played the Fillmore. As an encore the Queens came out and played 3 songs, Song for the Dead being the last one. Well the crowd was starting to get rowdy and about half way through the song a security dude/usher rushes past me and seizes this guy in a white t-shirt who's going nuts, hitting people, throwing himself around. Anyway, another guard is also now on the scene and the two of them are dragging this man out to the side of the crowd. White shirt trys to break free so the guards each grab an arm and toss him into the wall, hard, head first. White shirt gets up, takes a swing at one of the guards, security throws him into the wall again, white shirt doesn't get up.
tl;dr: Saw I guy get the shit kicked out of him by security at a Queens show during this song | I was at the Detroit show last month when they played the Fillmore. As an encore the Queens came out and played 3 songs, Song for the Dead being the last one. Well the crowd was starting to get rowdy and about half way through the song a security dude/usher rushes past me and seizes this guy in a white t-shirt who's going nuts, hitting people, throwing himself around. Anyway, another guard is also now on the scene and the two of them are dragging this man out to the side of the crowd. White shirt trys to break free so the guards each grab an arm and toss him into the wall, hard, head first. White shirt gets up, takes a swing at one of the guards, security throws him into the wall again, white shirt doesn't get up.
tl;dr: Saw I guy get the shit kicked out of him by security at a Queens show during this song
| qotsa | t5_2sbyp | cdelscg | I was at the Detroit show last month when they played the Fillmore. As an encore the Queens came out and played 3 songs, Song for the Dead being the last one. Well the crowd was starting to get rowdy and about half way through the song a security dude/usher rushes past me and seizes this guy in a white t-shirt who's going nuts, hitting people, throwing himself around. Anyway, another guard is also now on the scene and the two of them are dragging this man out to the side of the crowd. White shirt trys to break free so the guards each grab an arm and toss him into the wall, hard, head first. White shirt gets up, takes a swing at one of the guards, security throws him into the wall again, white shirt doesn't get up. | Saw I guy get the shit kicked out of him by security at a Queens show during this song |
j_ly | Whether you intend to be a criminal or not, having a gun on you in the UK makes you a criminal.
Living in the United States I prefer the choice to carry without instantaneously becoming a criminal. The reason for that is that there are already (an estimated... nobody knows for sure) 300+ million guns "out there". If we could go back to the beginning and ban guns, we could rest assured that most criminals don't have guns. But history being what it is, if we were to do that, we'd be worshiping the same Queen, and keeping the King of England out of our back yard, after all, was the original motivation for the Second Amendment.
TL;DR: Shit's different here. | Whether you intend to be a criminal or not, having a gun on you in the UK makes you a criminal.
Living in the United States I prefer the choice to carry without instantaneously becoming a criminal. The reason for that is that there are already (an estimated... nobody knows for sure) 300+ million guns "out there". If we could go back to the beginning and ban guns, we could rest assured that most criminals don't have guns. But history being what it is, if we were to do that, we'd be worshiping the same Queen, and keeping the King of England out of our back yard, after all, was the original motivation for the Second Amendment.
TL;DR: Shit's different here.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cdf77ua | Whether you intend to be a criminal or not, having a gun on you in the UK makes you a criminal.
Living in the United States I prefer the choice to carry without instantaneously becoming a criminal. The reason for that is that there are already (an estimated... nobody knows for sure) 300+ million guns "out there". If we could go back to the beginning and ban guns, we could rest assured that most criminals don't have guns. But history being what it is, if we were to do that, we'd be worshiping the same Queen, and keeping the King of England out of our back yard, after all, was the original motivation for the Second Amendment. | Shit's different here. |
j_ly | But you see that's where you're wrong. I have more than enough firepower to defend my family from your retard friends. In fact my wife and kids are well versed in how to use a gun. Anyone breaks into my house, they die.
Of course I wouldn't expect anyone on the other side of the pond to understand this "protecting your family" concept. You have a long history of expecting someone else to do that for you.
TL;DR: Luck has nothing to do with it, mate. | But you see that's where you're wrong. I have more than enough firepower to defend my family from your retard friends. In fact my wife and kids are well versed in how to use a gun. Anyone breaks into my house, they die.
Of course I wouldn't expect anyone on the other side of the pond to understand this "protecting your family" concept. You have a long history of expecting someone else to do that for you.
TL;DR: Luck has nothing to do with it, mate.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cdfcrbv | But you see that's where you're wrong. I have more than enough firepower to defend my family from your retard friends. In fact my wife and kids are well versed in how to use a gun. Anyone breaks into my house, they die.
Of course I wouldn't expect anyone on the other side of the pond to understand this "protecting your family" concept. You have a long history of expecting someone else to do that for you. | Luck has nothing to do with it, mate. |
j_ly | Allow me to debunk this common misconception. First of all, I've seen your soccer (football) hooligans. There's no way you can tell me violence and revenge isn't a centerpiece of that culture, but I digress.
If you remove all of the violence related to our failed "war on drugs", you'd find that we actually have a violent crime rate lower than yours. Thousands of Americans die each year due to gun violence, but most of those die because of drug gang violence. In other words, they knew what was likely to happen to them before they got into it. To prove this point I'd ask you to look at Mexico. Mexico has strict laws against gun ownership, yet has a violent gun crime rate quadruple that of the United States.
You can also look at suicides. Supposedly having easy access to guns makes it a whole heck of a lot easier to end your life, yet our suicide rate is similar to yours.
The biggest difference between us is that the "greater good" trumps individual freedom in your culture. Your culture would harvest the organs of one perfectly healthy person to save 9 sick people. This way of thinking is what led to that unarmed police woman gunned down in your country. I see that as nothing short of a travesty because you pricks robbed her of her individual freedom to defend herself, leaving her without a fighting chance.
TL;DR: You're wrong. | Allow me to debunk this common misconception. First of all, I've seen your soccer (football) hooligans. There's no way you can tell me violence and revenge isn't a centerpiece of that culture, but I digress.
If you remove all of the violence related to our failed "war on drugs", you'd find that we actually have a violent crime rate lower than yours. Thousands of Americans die each year due to gun violence, but most of those die because of drug gang violence. In other words, they knew what was likely to happen to them before they got into it. To prove this point I'd ask you to look at Mexico. Mexico has strict laws against gun ownership, yet has a violent gun crime rate quadruple that of the United States.
You can also look at suicides. Supposedly having easy access to guns makes it a whole heck of a lot easier to end your life, yet our suicide rate is similar to yours.
The biggest difference between us is that the "greater good" trumps individual freedom in your culture. Your culture would harvest the organs of one perfectly healthy person to save 9 sick people. This way of thinking is what led to that unarmed police woman gunned down in your country. I see that as nothing short of a travesty because you pricks robbed her of her individual freedom to defend herself, leaving her without a fighting chance.
TL;DR: You're wrong.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cdg3bqb | Allow me to debunk this common misconception. First of all, I've seen your soccer (football) hooligans. There's no way you can tell me violence and revenge isn't a centerpiece of that culture, but I digress.
If you remove all of the violence related to our failed "war on drugs", you'd find that we actually have a violent crime rate lower than yours. Thousands of Americans die each year due to gun violence, but most of those die because of drug gang violence. In other words, they knew what was likely to happen to them before they got into it. To prove this point I'd ask you to look at Mexico. Mexico has strict laws against gun ownership, yet has a violent gun crime rate quadruple that of the United States.
You can also look at suicides. Supposedly having easy access to guns makes it a whole heck of a lot easier to end your life, yet our suicide rate is similar to yours.
The biggest difference between us is that the "greater good" trumps individual freedom in your culture. Your culture would harvest the organs of one perfectly healthy person to save 9 sick people. This way of thinking is what led to that unarmed police woman gunned down in your country. I see that as nothing short of a travesty because you pricks robbed her of her individual freedom to defend herself, leaving her without a fighting chance. | You're wrong. |
malico4fr | Sorry am at work.
Anyway basically I was walking back to my car which was parked about a 1/2 mile away. I turned into a side street to the parking lot and a guy was walking towards me. When he got within about 6 feet he took out his knife and demanded my walled. I put my hands up and stepped back a few steps and said "Ok. Let me just get it from my pocket". I reached to my concealed holster (inside band type for those interested) and took out my Glock 32 .40 Compact.
He then dropped the knife and I called the PD. They were there, happily, in moments. He didn't try to run, just sat down waiting.
The police came, verified my concealed carry permit and took him away and told me to have a good night. Ill just have to testify whenever this goes to court.
tl;dr No one was hurt or killed, police were great and the guy got what he deserved, arrested. | Sorry am at work.
Anyway basically I was walking back to my car which was parked about a 1/2 mile away. I turned into a side street to the parking lot and a guy was walking towards me. When he got within about 6 feet he took out his knife and demanded my walled. I put my hands up and stepped back a few steps and said "Ok. Let me just get it from my pocket". I reached to my concealed holster (inside band type for those interested) and took out my Glock 32 .40 Compact.
He then dropped the knife and I called the PD. They were there, happily, in moments. He didn't try to run, just sat down waiting.
The police came, verified my concealed carry permit and took him away and told me to have a good night. Ill just have to testify whenever this goes to court.
tl;dr No one was hurt or killed, police were great and the guy got what he deserved, arrested.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cdezwj0 | Sorry am at work.
Anyway basically I was walking back to my car which was parked about a 1/2 mile away. I turned into a side street to the parking lot and a guy was walking towards me. When he got within about 6 feet he took out his knife and demanded my walled. I put my hands up and stepped back a few steps and said "Ok. Let me just get it from my pocket". I reached to my concealed holster (inside band type for those interested) and took out my Glock 32 .40 Compact.
He then dropped the knife and I called the PD. They were there, happily, in moments. He didn't try to run, just sat down waiting.
The police came, verified my concealed carry permit and took him away and told me to have a good night. Ill just have to testify whenever this goes to court. | No one was hurt or killed, police were great and the guy got what he deserved, arrested. |
XavierScorpionIkari | My concealed holster has no snap or latch. You simply pull the weapon out and point. My pistol as also loaded with a round in the chamber and the safety off while I have it on my person. It's quite effective. Concealed carry isn't the same as an open carry like a policeman would have. Their holsters are designed so that their weapon won't fall out or be easily taken if the officer is rendered unconscious or dead. Mine is hidden and therefore not advertised. You'll only know that I have it if you fuck up. So pulling it out is quite simple.
TL;DR Not every holster has latches and not every pistol has safeties. Nor do many people keep the safety on while carrying. | My concealed holster has no snap or latch. You simply pull the weapon out and point. My pistol as also loaded with a round in the chamber and the safety off while I have it on my person. It's quite effective. Concealed carry isn't the same as an open carry like a policeman would have. Their holsters are designed so that their weapon won't fall out or be easily taken if the officer is rendered unconscious or dead. Mine is hidden and therefore not advertised. You'll only know that I have it if you fuck up. So pulling it out is quite simple.
TL;DR Not every holster has latches and not every pistol has safeties. Nor do many people keep the safety on while carrying.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cdf1qdk | My concealed holster has no snap or latch. You simply pull the weapon out and point. My pistol as also loaded with a round in the chamber and the safety off while I have it on my person. It's quite effective. Concealed carry isn't the same as an open carry like a policeman would have. Their holsters are designed so that their weapon won't fall out or be easily taken if the officer is rendered unconscious or dead. Mine is hidden and therefore not advertised. You'll only know that I have it if you fuck up. So pulling it out is quite simple. | Not every holster has latches and not every pistol has safeties. Nor do many people keep the safety on while carrying. |
Mursz | Technically people with (some) mental disorders are not supposed to be able to own guns. We just do a fucking terrible job of identifying an treating mental sicknesses in the US.
Then there is also the whole issue of "how mentally sick do you have to be to not own a gun?". Obviously a bipolar person with a history of violent outbreaks shouldn't. But how about a bipolar person that isn't violent? Again, depressed people that have tried to hurt themselves probably shouldn't be able to, but then what about someone that got depressed for a while when their wife died and moved on without ever being a threat to themselves?
Unfortunately these are very tough questions to answer to begin with, and when you complicate that with how logistically impossible it would be to create laws regarding this and fairly enforce them it isn't hard to see how we haven't come up with a better solution yet.
TL;DR: Our cultures are massively different. What works for you may or may not work for us. Get off your high horse. | Technically people with (some) mental disorders are not supposed to be able to own guns. We just do a fucking terrible job of identifying an treating mental sicknesses in the US.
Then there is also the whole issue of "how mentally sick do you have to be to not own a gun?". Obviously a bipolar person with a history of violent outbreaks shouldn't. But how about a bipolar person that isn't violent? Again, depressed people that have tried to hurt themselves probably shouldn't be able to, but then what about someone that got depressed for a while when their wife died and moved on without ever being a threat to themselves?
Unfortunately these are very tough questions to answer to begin with, and when you complicate that with how logistically impossible it would be to create laws regarding this and fairly enforce them it isn't hard to see how we haven't come up with a better solution yet.
TL;DR: Our cultures are massively different. What works for you may or may not work for us. Get off your high horse.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cdf2cgs | Technically people with (some) mental disorders are not supposed to be able to own guns. We just do a fucking terrible job of identifying an treating mental sicknesses in the US.
Then there is also the whole issue of "how mentally sick do you have to be to not own a gun?". Obviously a bipolar person with a history of violent outbreaks shouldn't. But how about a bipolar person that isn't violent? Again, depressed people that have tried to hurt themselves probably shouldn't be able to, but then what about someone that got depressed for a while when their wife died and moved on without ever being a threat to themselves?
Unfortunately these are very tough questions to answer to begin with, and when you complicate that with how logistically impossible it would be to create laws regarding this and fairly enforce them it isn't hard to see how we haven't come up with a better solution yet. | Our cultures are massively different. What works for you may or may not work for us. Get off your high horse. |
TheDissoluteCity | There appears to be a coalition of gun advocates roaming through this thread and downvoting any voices of dissent, but independently of the gun control issue, the poster above me is one hundred percent correct about this explanation.
> I have a right to defend myself, and I don't think anyone should tell me how I'm allowed to do so.
OP assumes that "defending oneself" has a transparent and self-evident definition, when the reality is quite otherwise. The questions of what constitutes "defense," and how many collaterals are acceptable in carrying it out, are beyond ambiguous (see activities of U.S. Department of "Defense").
Below, OP uses a very circular definition of self-defense: it's what happens when you fend off an attack without inadvertently harming anyone else. That's circular because it addresses the *ends* of a *particular* case (did Mr. X harm someone other than his attacker in this case?) and not the *general* social/legal question of *means* (does a certain method of ensuring the citizens' ability to defend themselves put an undue number of his fellows at risk? also: is it easily abused? see: Trayvon Martin's death, while I'm airing unpopular opinions anyways).
TLDR that *was* a disingenuous explanation which might convince a five-year-old but does not, in fact, clarify what's at stake in the debate. | There appears to be a coalition of gun advocates roaming through this thread and downvoting any voices of dissent, but independently of the gun control issue, the poster above me is one hundred percent correct about this explanation.
> I have a right to defend myself, and I don't think anyone should tell me how I'm allowed to do so.
OP assumes that "defending oneself" has a transparent and self-evident definition, when the reality is quite otherwise. The questions of what constitutes "defense," and how many collaterals are acceptable in carrying it out, are beyond ambiguous (see activities of U.S. Department of "Defense").
Below, OP uses a very circular definition of self-defense: it's what happens when you fend off an attack without inadvertently harming anyone else. That's circular because it addresses the ends of a particular case (did Mr. X harm someone other than his attacker in this case?) and not the general social/legal question of means (does a certain method of ensuring the citizens' ability to defend themselves put an undue number of his fellows at risk? also: is it easily abused? see: Trayvon Martin's death, while I'm airing unpopular opinions anyways).
TLDR that was a disingenuous explanation which might convince a five-year-old but does not, in fact, clarify what's at stake in the debate.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cdf3i24 | There appears to be a coalition of gun advocates roaming through this thread and downvoting any voices of dissent, but independently of the gun control issue, the poster above me is one hundred percent correct about this explanation.
> I have a right to defend myself, and I don't think anyone should tell me how I'm allowed to do so.
OP assumes that "defending oneself" has a transparent and self-evident definition, when the reality is quite otherwise. The questions of what constitutes "defense," and how many collaterals are acceptable in carrying it out, are beyond ambiguous (see activities of U.S. Department of "Defense").
Below, OP uses a very circular definition of self-defense: it's what happens when you fend off an attack without inadvertently harming anyone else. That's circular because it addresses the ends of a particular case (did Mr. X harm someone other than his attacker in this case?) and not the general social/legal question of means (does a certain method of ensuring the citizens' ability to defend themselves put an undue number of his fellows at risk? also: is it easily abused? see: Trayvon Martin's death, while I'm airing unpopular opinions anyways). | that was a disingenuous explanation which might convince a five-year-old but does not, in fact, clarify what's at stake in the debate. |
WuBWuBitch | Wrong.
Stand Your Ground still requires proof of everything. The difference is states with Stand Your Ground laws (or similar) do not have to try to retreat first if possible.
Basically in this guy had shot the man who had the knife (if he were not in a state with a Stand Your Ground law) he would have to prove he did not have the ability to retreat or had already tried to retreat.
Basically without stand your ground laws you legally first have to try to run away BEFORE defending yourself IF POSSIBLE.
This is why in the George Zimmerman case for instance (the case that made talk about stand your ground common place) the law had no interaction with the case because Zimmerman had been tackled to the ground with Martin ontop of him (according to the evidence and the courts) meaning he had no realistic way to retreat so self defense was justified (if you believe the situation would be considered self defense).
This is why Zimmerman in the courts did not even talk about Stand Your Ground (even if the media did).
TL:DR
Stand You Ground laws have no interaction with the state proving your acted in self defense or not. They have to prove/dis-prove those claims regardless. Stand Your Ground means they just can't say it wasn't self defense because you didn't try to run away first. | Wrong.
Stand Your Ground still requires proof of everything. The difference is states with Stand Your Ground laws (or similar) do not have to try to retreat first if possible.
Basically in this guy had shot the man who had the knife (if he were not in a state with a Stand Your Ground law) he would have to prove he did not have the ability to retreat or had already tried to retreat.
Basically without stand your ground laws you legally first have to try to run away BEFORE defending yourself IF POSSIBLE.
This is why in the George Zimmerman case for instance (the case that made talk about stand your ground common place) the law had no interaction with the case because Zimmerman had been tackled to the ground with Martin ontop of him (according to the evidence and the courts) meaning he had no realistic way to retreat so self defense was justified (if you believe the situation would be considered self defense).
This is why Zimmerman in the courts did not even talk about Stand Your Ground (even if the media did).
TL:DR
Stand You Ground laws have no interaction with the state proving your acted in self defense or not. They have to prove/dis-prove those claims regardless. Stand Your Ground means they just can't say it wasn't self defense because you didn't try to run away first.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cdf43pz | Wrong.
Stand Your Ground still requires proof of everything. The difference is states with Stand Your Ground laws (or similar) do not have to try to retreat first if possible.
Basically in this guy had shot the man who had the knife (if he were not in a state with a Stand Your Ground law) he would have to prove he did not have the ability to retreat or had already tried to retreat.
Basically without stand your ground laws you legally first have to try to run away BEFORE defending yourself IF POSSIBLE.
This is why in the George Zimmerman case for instance (the case that made talk about stand your ground common place) the law had no interaction with the case because Zimmerman had been tackled to the ground with Martin ontop of him (according to the evidence and the courts) meaning he had no realistic way to retreat so self defense was justified (if you believe the situation would be considered self defense).
This is why Zimmerman in the courts did not even talk about Stand Your Ground (even if the media did). | Stand You Ground laws have no interaction with the state proving your acted in self defense or not. They have to prove/dis-prove those claims regardless. Stand Your Ground means they just can't say it wasn't self defense because you didn't try to run away first. |
Chowley_1 | I love when people try to bring up the 'well regulated militia' part thinking they've found the loop-hole in the 2nd Amendment. I have bad news for you:
US Code Section 311:
>(a) The militia of the United States consists of **all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age** and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
>(b) The classes of the militia are -
>>(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
>>(2)**the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia**. - See more at:
**TLDR:** If you're a male, US Citizen between the ages of 17-45 *you are part of the unorganized militia.* Also, the Supreme Court ruled in the Heller decision that the right to own guns is an individual right and has nothing to do with a militia. Your argument is invalid in every way. | I love when people try to bring up the 'well regulated militia' part thinking they've found the loop-hole in the 2nd Amendment. I have bad news for you:
US Code Section 311:
>(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
>(b) The classes of the militia are -
>>(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
>>(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia . - See more at:
TLDR: If you're a male, US Citizen between the ages of 17-45 you are part of the unorganized militia. Also, the Supreme Court ruled in the Heller decision that the right to own guns is an individual right and has nothing to do with a militia. Your argument is invalid in every way.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cdf5g0d | I love when people try to bring up the 'well regulated militia' part thinking they've found the loop-hole in the 2nd Amendment. I have bad news for you:
US Code Section 311:
>(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
>(b) The classes of the militia are -
>>(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
>>(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia . - See more at: | If you're a male, US Citizen between the ages of 17-45 you are part of the unorganized militia. Also, the Supreme Court ruled in the Heller decision that the right to own guns is an individual right and has nothing to do with a militia. Your argument is invalid in every way. |
Fitbear | Exercise effectiveness for muscle groups is not simply a product of weight used.
Biceps are used as an elbow and shoulder stabilizer in deadlifts. People regularly deadlift >500 lbs at "casual" gyms, but few people suggest that deadlifts are an exceptional bicep exercise.
To the matter at hand, Biceps Brachialis are used as elbow flexors in chin-ups. They are aided in this function by a large number of other elbow flexors (braciorad, coracobrach, brachialis). Their activity is supported and facilitated by torques induced by the rotation of the off-center load of the body by shoulder extending and adducting musculature like the rear deltoid, lats, and teres minor.
Trained individuals with EMG biofeedback can lift themselves out of the hanging, elbows-locked position simply by coordinating contraction of these shoulder extending muscle groups. No elbow flexors are really required until appx. 1/4 of the way through the exercise.
Ring curls? Practically all of the motive force is provided by a combination of shoulder flexors and elbow flexors. If the exercise is too easy, the individual can simply increase the depth of the exercise, laying closer to the ground at rest.
TL;DR: Try bicep curling a pull-up without using your lats. Lol nope. | Exercise effectiveness for muscle groups is not simply a product of weight used.
Biceps are used as an elbow and shoulder stabilizer in deadlifts. People regularly deadlift >500 lbs at "casual" gyms, but few people suggest that deadlifts are an exceptional bicep exercise.
To the matter at hand, Biceps Brachialis are used as elbow flexors in chin-ups. They are aided in this function by a large number of other elbow flexors (braciorad, coracobrach, brachialis). Their activity is supported and facilitated by torques induced by the rotation of the off-center load of the body by shoulder extending and adducting musculature like the rear deltoid, lats, and teres minor.
Trained individuals with EMG biofeedback can lift themselves out of the hanging, elbows-locked position simply by coordinating contraction of these shoulder extending muscle groups. No elbow flexors are really required until appx. 1/4 of the way through the exercise.
Ring curls? Practically all of the motive force is provided by a combination of shoulder flexors and elbow flexors. If the exercise is too easy, the individual can simply increase the depth of the exercise, laying closer to the ground at rest.
TL;DR: Try bicep curling a pull-up without using your lats. Lol nope.
| Fitness | t5_2qhx4 | cdf8jjy | Exercise effectiveness for muscle groups is not simply a product of weight used.
Biceps are used as an elbow and shoulder stabilizer in deadlifts. People regularly deadlift >500 lbs at "casual" gyms, but few people suggest that deadlifts are an exceptional bicep exercise.
To the matter at hand, Biceps Brachialis are used as elbow flexors in chin-ups. They are aided in this function by a large number of other elbow flexors (braciorad, coracobrach, brachialis). Their activity is supported and facilitated by torques induced by the rotation of the off-center load of the body by shoulder extending and adducting musculature like the rear deltoid, lats, and teres minor.
Trained individuals with EMG biofeedback can lift themselves out of the hanging, elbows-locked position simply by coordinating contraction of these shoulder extending muscle groups. No elbow flexors are really required until appx. 1/4 of the way through the exercise.
Ring curls? Practically all of the motive force is provided by a combination of shoulder flexors and elbow flexors. If the exercise is too easy, the individual can simply increase the depth of the exercise, laying closer to the ground at rest. | Try bicep curling a pull-up without using your lats. Lol nope. |
Antiochli | > As soon as he was able to play again, he hops on, enters the codes, and starts taking land left and right. This irks me to no end. Here's this challenging game that I'd finally gotten the hang of and it almost seems tainting that he'd go and cheat his way to accomplish the same thing that took me several days of scheming to accomplish.
I'm definitely in your camp, with using cheats, but your pre-occupation with how your Dad chooses to enjoy the game is unnecessary and a bit immature. What affect does his actions, with respect to how he plays the game, have on any other individual? So he's cheating in a single player video game to kill a few hours of his day, what does that have to do with the way that you play the game? What he's doing affects no one but himself.
Let me just say that there are things that people do that annoy me to a certain degree, but I'm capable of analyzing what they're doing and realizing that it only effects me as much as I allow it. So I'm talking to a friend about a book we both just read, and she tells me that she skimmed over a few chapters and peeked ahead before she was finished with the novel. I wouldn't do this in a million years, and if asked by her for my opinion I'd advise her against it. But her decision to do it only effects her, it has nothing to do with my experience with the book. So my friend is telling me how him and his wife have been watching "Breaking Bad" from beginning to end in the evenings before they go to bed, and than he tells me that his wife looked up the story line of the internet to see what happens in the end. (!!) Again, this has no rational effect on my enjoyment of the same material. So my brother tells me how his best friend plays all his video games on Very Easy mode and cheats whenever possible because he wants to experience the story and not have to deal with the potential frustrations of actually playing the game . . .
TL;DR: Everyone is gonna do what they want to do, let them, it doesn't effect you. | > As soon as he was able to play again, he hops on, enters the codes, and starts taking land left and right. This irks me to no end. Here's this challenging game that I'd finally gotten the hang of and it almost seems tainting that he'd go and cheat his way to accomplish the same thing that took me several days of scheming to accomplish.
I'm definitely in your camp, with using cheats, but your pre-occupation with how your Dad chooses to enjoy the game is unnecessary and a bit immature. What affect does his actions, with respect to how he plays the game, have on any other individual? So he's cheating in a single player video game to kill a few hours of his day, what does that have to do with the way that you play the game? What he's doing affects no one but himself.
Let me just say that there are things that people do that annoy me to a certain degree, but I'm capable of analyzing what they're doing and realizing that it only effects me as much as I allow it. So I'm talking to a friend about a book we both just read, and she tells me that she skimmed over a few chapters and peeked ahead before she was finished with the novel. I wouldn't do this in a million years, and if asked by her for my opinion I'd advise her against it. But her decision to do it only effects her, it has nothing to do with my experience with the book. So my friend is telling me how him and his wife have been watching "Breaking Bad" from beginning to end in the evenings before they go to bed, and than he tells me that his wife looked up the story line of the internet to see what happens in the end. (!!) Again, this has no rational effect on my enjoyment of the same material. So my brother tells me how his best friend plays all his video games on Very Easy mode and cheats whenever possible because he wants to experience the story and not have to deal with the potential frustrations of actually playing the game . . .
TL;DR: Everyone is gonna do what they want to do, let them, it doesn't effect you.
| truegaming | t5_2sgq6 | cdfg60a | As soon as he was able to play again, he hops on, enters the codes, and starts taking land left and right. This irks me to no end. Here's this challenging game that I'd finally gotten the hang of and it almost seems tainting that he'd go and cheat his way to accomplish the same thing that took me several days of scheming to accomplish.
I'm definitely in your camp, with using cheats, but your pre-occupation with how your Dad chooses to enjoy the game is unnecessary and a bit immature. What affect does his actions, with respect to how he plays the game, have on any other individual? So he's cheating in a single player video game to kill a few hours of his day, what does that have to do with the way that you play the game? What he's doing affects no one but himself.
Let me just say that there are things that people do that annoy me to a certain degree, but I'm capable of analyzing what they're doing and realizing that it only effects me as much as I allow it. So I'm talking to a friend about a book we both just read, and she tells me that she skimmed over a few chapters and peeked ahead before she was finished with the novel. I wouldn't do this in a million years, and if asked by her for my opinion I'd advise her against it. But her decision to do it only effects her, it has nothing to do with my experience with the book. So my friend is telling me how him and his wife have been watching "Breaking Bad" from beginning to end in the evenings before they go to bed, and than he tells me that his wife looked up the story line of the internet to see what happens in the end. (!!) Again, this has no rational effect on my enjoyment of the same material. So my brother tells me how his best friend plays all his video games on Very Easy mode and cheats whenever possible because he wants to experience the story and not have to deal with the potential frustrations of actually playing the game . . . | Everyone is gonna do what they want to do, let them, it doesn't effect you. |
Apachea | 1-2 players (depending on total amount of players) craft a scenario in which they try to guide another group of players to their demise in various situations. Vice versa is a group of players that must try to navigate (I say navigate though I dont think there will be a board) this created scenario and get to some sort of end.
example from my post is they use the Lady in Red and Lights Out to try and get the players to go into the room. If they continue down the hall they encounter more stuff set up but if they go through the door they start a minigame style something that ends with them surviving it or losing and taking damage.
TLDR - Two teams: one tries to build a scenario in which the other team, playing through the scene, falls victim to using a bunch of randomly drawn cards. | 1-2 players (depending on total amount of players) craft a scenario in which they try to guide another group of players to their demise in various situations. Vice versa is a group of players that must try to navigate (I say navigate though I dont think there will be a board) this created scenario and get to some sort of end.
example from my post is they use the Lady in Red and Lights Out to try and get the players to go into the room. If they continue down the hall they encounter more stuff set up but if they go through the door they start a minigame style something that ends with them surviving it or losing and taking damage.
TLDR - Two teams: one tries to build a scenario in which the other team, playing through the scene, falls victim to using a bunch of randomly drawn cards.
| tabletopgamedesign | t5_2szh7 | cdf5w7j | 1-2 players (depending on total amount of players) craft a scenario in which they try to guide another group of players to their demise in various situations. Vice versa is a group of players that must try to navigate (I say navigate though I dont think there will be a board) this created scenario and get to some sort of end.
example from my post is they use the Lady in Red and Lights Out to try and get the players to go into the room. If they continue down the hall they encounter more stuff set up but if they go through the door they start a minigame style something that ends with them surviving it or losing and taking damage. | Two teams: one tries to build a scenario in which the other team, playing through the scene, falls victim to using a bunch of randomly drawn cards. |
Sinner_NL_ | Of you tow a car in an online session, it will freeze the
Playstation consoles of any other player in that session
if you come near them. If I see you (or anyone else)
doing this, I **will** report you to
[email protected]
and you **will** get banned the next day. The ban is a
"full ban" BTW, not just some crappy "bad sports" note.
TLDR;
Don't tow anything, as it freezes other players consoles.
As long as you don't tow anything, nothing bad happens.
| Of you tow a car in an online session, it will freeze the
Playstation consoles of any other player in that session
if you come near them. If I see you (or anyone else)
doing this, I will report you to
[email protected]
and you will get banned the next day. The ban is a
"full ban" BTW, not just some crappy "bad sports" note.
TLDR;
Don't tow anything, as it freezes other players consoles.
As long as you don't tow anything, nothing bad happens.
| GTADupe | t5_2yypg | cdflctl | Of you tow a car in an online session, it will freeze the
Playstation consoles of any other player in that session
if you come near them. If I see you (or anyone else)
doing this, I will report you to
[email protected]
and you will get banned the next day. The ban is a
"full ban" BTW, not just some crappy "bad sports" note. | Don't tow anything, as it freezes other players consoles.
As long as you don't tow anything, nothing bad happens. |
L33tminion | Two reasons why diamonds are a poor choice to stick in your vault and sell in the future:
* Diamonds are actually pretty common. [One cartel]( controls the supply and keeps the price inflated at the point of production. That comes at the cost of preventing diamonds from coming into wide circulation, so few people will be buying for monetary use when you're selling. The resale value kind of sucks, and the liquidity is worse.
* Synthetic diamonds are quite cheap. If buying diamonds to stick in vaults became a trend, a lot more synthetic diamonds would be produced, driving the price down. (Anti-counterfeiting is way easier for bars of gold than for natural diamonds.)
While it is a matter of self-reinforcing trends, there's a core of rational thought underlying those trends about how some new thing might be a better monetary standard. Restandardizations do happen sometimes, when there's good reason.
There's a [follow-up essay]( (I know, you didn't want to read the first, but the follow-up is more directly about Bitcoin) which goes into what properties make for a good monetary standard. Basically, the monetary premium of an asset is all about ability to "hold a bubble". (Which is why "is bitcoin a bubble?" questions boil down to "will it be successful at monetary restandardization or not?") That's why gold beats silver in that regard. If people start selling gold and buying silver, the price of silver rises a bit and the production of silver goes through the roof (there are a lot of currently-idle but _almost_ profitable silver mines). That brings the price down again.
Basically, Bitcoin will succeed if and only if there's a monetary restandardization from some thing or things to Bitcoin. And if it does succeed, expect it to gain much of the value of those things (that is, assets held for future sale, at least most of the value of the world's gold supply). As long as it seems that Bitcoin will do better than gold, the rational thing to do is to sell gold and buy Bitcoin. (It won't be _all_ the value because there will always be some dissent and hedging.)
(Long for a tl;dr, I know, but you've seen what I'm working with.) | Two reasons why diamonds are a poor choice to stick in your vault and sell in the future:
Diamonds are actually pretty common. [One cartel]( controls the supply and keeps the price inflated at the point of production. That comes at the cost of preventing diamonds from coming into wide circulation, so few people will be buying for monetary use when you're selling. The resale value kind of sucks, and the liquidity is worse.
Synthetic diamonds are quite cheap. If buying diamonds to stick in vaults became a trend, a lot more synthetic diamonds would be produced, driving the price down. (Anti-counterfeiting is way easier for bars of gold than for natural diamonds.)
While it is a matter of self-reinforcing trends, there's a core of rational thought underlying those trends about how some new thing might be a better monetary standard. Restandardizations do happen sometimes, when there's good reason.
There's a follow-up essay which goes into what properties make for a good monetary standard. Basically, the monetary premium of an asset is all about ability to "hold a bubble". (Which is why "is bitcoin a bubble?" questions boil down to "will it be successful at monetary restandardization or not?") That's why gold beats silver in that regard. If people start selling gold and buying silver, the price of silver rises a bit and the production of silver goes through the roof (there are a lot of currently-idle but almost profitable silver mines). That brings the price down again.
Basically, Bitcoin will succeed if and only if there's a monetary restandardization from some thing or things to Bitcoin. And if it does succeed, expect it to gain much of the value of those things (that is, assets held for future sale, at least most of the value of the world's gold supply). As long as it seems that Bitcoin will do better than gold, the rational thing to do is to sell gold and buy Bitcoin. (It won't be all the value because there will always be some dissent and hedging.)
(Long for a tl;dr, I know, but you've seen what I'm working with.)
| Bitcoin | t5_2s3qj | cdfe7i2 | Two reasons why diamonds are a poor choice to stick in your vault and sell in the future:
Diamonds are actually pretty common. [One cartel]( controls the supply and keeps the price inflated at the point of production. That comes at the cost of preventing diamonds from coming into wide circulation, so few people will be buying for monetary use when you're selling. The resale value kind of sucks, and the liquidity is worse.
Synthetic diamonds are quite cheap. If buying diamonds to stick in vaults became a trend, a lot more synthetic diamonds would be produced, driving the price down. (Anti-counterfeiting is way easier for bars of gold than for natural diamonds.)
While it is a matter of self-reinforcing trends, there's a core of rational thought underlying those trends about how some new thing might be a better monetary standard. Restandardizations do happen sometimes, when there's good reason.
There's a follow-up essay which goes into what properties make for a good monetary standard. Basically, the monetary premium of an asset is all about ability to "hold a bubble". (Which is why "is bitcoin a bubble?" questions boil down to "will it be successful at monetary restandardization or not?") That's why gold beats silver in that regard. If people start selling gold and buying silver, the price of silver rises a bit and the production of silver goes through the roof (there are a lot of currently-idle but almost profitable silver mines). That brings the price down again.
Basically, Bitcoin will succeed if and only if there's a monetary restandardization from some thing or things to Bitcoin. And if it does succeed, expect it to gain much of the value of those things (that is, assets held for future sale, at least most of the value of the world's gold supply). As long as it seems that Bitcoin will do better than gold, the rational thing to do is to sell gold and buy Bitcoin. (It won't be all the value because there will always be some dissent and hedging.)
(Long for a | I know, but you've seen what I'm working with.) |
kenfagerdotcom | Diffraction? Diffraction.
TL;DR: Diffraction. | Diffraction? Diffraction.
TL;DR: Diffraction.
| photography | t5_2qh2a | cdfv2l9 | Diffraction? Diffraction. | Diffraction. |
BeardRider | I'd just gone through a bad break up and my friend invited me out to a dinner and dancing night. Sounded legit. Turned out it was an Alpha Course event (evangelical Christians) and I'm a confirmed atheist. So, I get sat next to this born again Christian guy (let's call him Mark, because that was his name) who's just come out of jail and we're chatting about our shared love of metal and generally getting on swimmingly. Even if Mark does keep bringing up that he'll never have sex again until he gets married. So the dinner ends and everyone seems intent on going home but I insist we go get some booze and party. Mark has a free house and it ends up being just us at his, with far too much wine and some pantera DVDs. Somewhere halfway through the 3rd bottle of wine he comes on to me. I ask him a couple of times if he's sure about this, and although a little guilty already he's physically ripping my tights off at this point. So then we screwed.
TL:DR I banged a born again Christian who I picked up at a church dinner. | I'd just gone through a bad break up and my friend invited me out to a dinner and dancing night. Sounded legit. Turned out it was an Alpha Course event (evangelical Christians) and I'm a confirmed atheist. So, I get sat next to this born again Christian guy (let's call him Mark, because that was his name) who's just come out of jail and we're chatting about our shared love of metal and generally getting on swimmingly. Even if Mark does keep bringing up that he'll never have sex again until he gets married. So the dinner ends and everyone seems intent on going home but I insist we go get some booze and party. Mark has a free house and it ends up being just us at his, with far too much wine and some pantera DVDs. Somewhere halfway through the 3rd bottle of wine he comes on to me. I ask him a couple of times if he's sure about this, and although a little guilty already he's physically ripping my tights off at this point. So then we screwed.
TL:DR I banged a born again Christian who I picked up at a church dinner.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdfkzpt | I'd just gone through a bad break up and my friend invited me out to a dinner and dancing night. Sounded legit. Turned out it was an Alpha Course event (evangelical Christians) and I'm a confirmed atheist. So, I get sat next to this born again Christian guy (let's call him Mark, because that was his name) who's just come out of jail and we're chatting about our shared love of metal and generally getting on swimmingly. Even if Mark does keep bringing up that he'll never have sex again until he gets married. So the dinner ends and everyone seems intent on going home but I insist we go get some booze and party. Mark has a free house and it ends up being just us at his, with far too much wine and some pantera DVDs. Somewhere halfway through the 3rd bottle of wine he comes on to me. I ask him a couple of times if he's sure about this, and although a little guilty already he's physically ripping my tights off at this point. So then we screwed. | I banged a born again Christian who I picked up at a church dinner. |
Towboat2013 | I was 17 and my best friend at the time had a smoking hot mom. Like SMOKING HOT!!! She was the first MILF I ever thought about (besides porn, of course) well she was divorced and I was young so... I stay the night at his house and I am not good at falling asleep at all. So I am up watching tv and she comes home mildly drunk and what I presume was some type of horny. It was kind of different to me as at the time I had only been with girls my age (and not very many). So we get to talking she asks "what are you still up for" to which i replied "making sure you got home safe". She thought I was the sweetest ( I played my cards right) asked how her night was told me she got hit on by a bunch of older bald guys. So I then start telling her how my night was. She offered me a drink( to which I took) and I drank a few with her. Then that's when things got forbidden persay. I had some liquid courage and told her how sexy I thought she was and she made a joke about me being "cute". I wasn't the best looking guy damn sure wasn't the worst either. So I found my opportunity and kissed her. She kissed me and then stopped me. I said I'm sorry I had a buzz and she said that no one could ever find out. I agreed so there I am making out with the sexiest MILF I have ever touched. I started taking her clothes off. And she takes mine off. BEST SEX EVER IN MY LIFE. We finish up and she repeats that no one can find out. Needless to say I stayed at his house more often and we had a "thing" for about 6-7 months until she finally got a boyfriend.
TL;DR had sex with my best friends mom. | I was 17 and my best friend at the time had a smoking hot mom. Like SMOKING HOT!!! She was the first MILF I ever thought about (besides porn, of course) well she was divorced and I was young so... I stay the night at his house and I am not good at falling asleep at all. So I am up watching tv and she comes home mildly drunk and what I presume was some type of horny. It was kind of different to me as at the time I had only been with girls my age (and not very many). So we get to talking she asks "what are you still up for" to which i replied "making sure you got home safe". She thought I was the sweetest ( I played my cards right) asked how her night was told me she got hit on by a bunch of older bald guys. So I then start telling her how my night was. She offered me a drink( to which I took) and I drank a few with her. Then that's when things got forbidden persay. I had some liquid courage and told her how sexy I thought she was and she made a joke about me being "cute". I wasn't the best looking guy damn sure wasn't the worst either. So I found my opportunity and kissed her. She kissed me and then stopped me. I said I'm sorry I had a buzz and she said that no one could ever find out. I agreed so there I am making out with the sexiest MILF I have ever touched. I started taking her clothes off. And she takes mine off. BEST SEX EVER IN MY LIFE. We finish up and she repeats that no one can find out. Needless to say I stayed at his house more often and we had a "thing" for about 6-7 months until she finally got a boyfriend.
TL;DR had sex with my best friends mom.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdfm1pw | I was 17 and my best friend at the time had a smoking hot mom. Like SMOKING HOT!!! She was the first MILF I ever thought about (besides porn, of course) well she was divorced and I was young so... I stay the night at his house and I am not good at falling asleep at all. So I am up watching tv and she comes home mildly drunk and what I presume was some type of horny. It was kind of different to me as at the time I had only been with girls my age (and not very many). So we get to talking she asks "what are you still up for" to which i replied "making sure you got home safe". She thought I was the sweetest ( I played my cards right) asked how her night was told me she got hit on by a bunch of older bald guys. So I then start telling her how my night was. She offered me a drink( to which I took) and I drank a few with her. Then that's when things got forbidden persay. I had some liquid courage and told her how sexy I thought she was and she made a joke about me being "cute". I wasn't the best looking guy damn sure wasn't the worst either. So I found my opportunity and kissed her. She kissed me and then stopped me. I said I'm sorry I had a buzz and she said that no one could ever find out. I agreed so there I am making out with the sexiest MILF I have ever touched. I started taking her clothes off. And she takes mine off. BEST SEX EVER IN MY LIFE. We finish up and she repeats that no one can find out. Needless to say I stayed at his house more often and we had a "thing" for about 6-7 months until she finally got a boyfriend. | had sex with my best friends mom. |
Jrobcabrera | The average lifespan back then was 30 for other reasons. Babies would often die at birth. (Origin of child birth being thought of as a miracle) So when you add in all those 0's to your average, it drops it down really low. There were always old people.
Tl;Dr: Our average lifespan didn't go up because we're living longer, it went up because technology made childbirth more succeful. | The average lifespan back then was 30 for other reasons. Babies would often die at birth. (Origin of child birth being thought of as a miracle) So when you add in all those 0's to your average, it drops it down really low. There were always old people.
Tl;Dr: Our average lifespan didn't go up because we're living longer, it went up because technology made childbirth more succeful.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdfsdxn | The average lifespan back then was 30 for other reasons. Babies would often die at birth. (Origin of child birth being thought of as a miracle) So when you add in all those 0's to your average, it drops it down really low. There were always old people. | Our average lifespan didn't go up because we're living longer, it went up because technology made childbirth more succeful. |
Zagorath | OK let me start of by stating that I'm saying this from an Australian perspective, which is somewhat different from the US one, although it shares key details. Like the US, Australia is a federation, where states are given power through the federal government to enact legislature.
The difference here is that the concept of "states' rights" has never really taken hold, and I feel that this is a good thing.
Even here, where states have much less power than they do in the US, there are massive problems with differences and incompatibility of the education system, road laws, alcohol and drug laws, etc. These can cause some pretty serious issues if someone who has grown up in one area wants to ever move to another area, unless they go to the effort of reading up in detail all the differences in laws between the two states.
With a more powerful federal government, if someone moves to another state they don't have to worry about being fined for doing something that was perfectly legal in their home state. For example: in my state it is perfectly legal for a cyclist to ride on the footpath, but many other states do not have this law. I so happen to know about it mainly because it came up in discussion, but were I not a frequent internetian, I would have never discovered that. There's a fairly high chance that I'll live in another state at some point, and as an avid cyclist I would undoubtably have ridden on the footpath just *assuming* that it was legal, because it was back home. And yet it isn't, so I face the risk of a fine, and at the very least an uncomfortable encounter with a police officer. Similarly, there are currently disparities in laws regarding prostitution, alcohol purchase and consumption, and even marijuana. These would all result in much more serious problems if someone were to misunderstand the local law.
For children moving, it's even worse. If the educational system doesn't match up, one student might have missed out on key information that was taught earlier in the state that they move to. Having missed this earlier on can have massive knock-on effects to their education, causing them to slip behind in their education. There are studies documenting this effect, though I can't think of the appropriate key words to search for a source. Now, obviously this can happen even with an identical curriculum, because different schools take different approaches to things etc., but at the very least we should attempt to minimise harm.
It also creates inefficiencies in areas such as fire, medicine, and police agencies, due to having (likely) a federal agency, as well as individual ones for each of the states, and probably many local ones as well. Leaving this at just a single federal one plus local ones is a great way to increase efficiency.
***TL;DR*** this is a bad idea because of: **different laws**, **educational knock-on effects**, and **inefficiencies**.
I would propose significantly minimising the power of state governments and widely increasing the power of both federal and local government. | OK let me start of by stating that I'm saying this from an Australian perspective, which is somewhat different from the US one, although it shares key details. Like the US, Australia is a federation, where states are given power through the federal government to enact legislature.
The difference here is that the concept of "states' rights" has never really taken hold, and I feel that this is a good thing.
Even here, where states have much less power than they do in the US, there are massive problems with differences and incompatibility of the education system, road laws, alcohol and drug laws, etc. These can cause some pretty serious issues if someone who has grown up in one area wants to ever move to another area, unless they go to the effort of reading up in detail all the differences in laws between the two states.
With a more powerful federal government, if someone moves to another state they don't have to worry about being fined for doing something that was perfectly legal in their home state. For example: in my state it is perfectly legal for a cyclist to ride on the footpath, but many other states do not have this law. I so happen to know about it mainly because it came up in discussion, but were I not a frequent internetian, I would have never discovered that. There's a fairly high chance that I'll live in another state at some point, and as an avid cyclist I would undoubtably have ridden on the footpath just assuming that it was legal, because it was back home. And yet it isn't, so I face the risk of a fine, and at the very least an uncomfortable encounter with a police officer. Similarly, there are currently disparities in laws regarding prostitution, alcohol purchase and consumption, and even marijuana. These would all result in much more serious problems if someone were to misunderstand the local law.
For children moving, it's even worse. If the educational system doesn't match up, one student might have missed out on key information that was taught earlier in the state that they move to. Having missed this earlier on can have massive knock-on effects to their education, causing them to slip behind in their education. There are studies documenting this effect, though I can't think of the appropriate key words to search for a source. Now, obviously this can happen even with an identical curriculum, because different schools take different approaches to things etc., but at the very least we should attempt to minimise harm.
It also creates inefficiencies in areas such as fire, medicine, and police agencies, due to having (likely) a federal agency, as well as individual ones for each of the states, and probably many local ones as well. Leaving this at just a single federal one plus local ones is a great way to increase efficiency.
TL;DR this is a bad idea because of: different laws , educational knock-on effects , and inefficiencies .
I would propose significantly minimising the power of state governments and widely increasing the power of both federal and local government.
| changemyview | t5_2w2s8 | cdgansm | OK let me start of by stating that I'm saying this from an Australian perspective, which is somewhat different from the US one, although it shares key details. Like the US, Australia is a federation, where states are given power through the federal government to enact legislature.
The difference here is that the concept of "states' rights" has never really taken hold, and I feel that this is a good thing.
Even here, where states have much less power than they do in the US, there are massive problems with differences and incompatibility of the education system, road laws, alcohol and drug laws, etc. These can cause some pretty serious issues if someone who has grown up in one area wants to ever move to another area, unless they go to the effort of reading up in detail all the differences in laws between the two states.
With a more powerful federal government, if someone moves to another state they don't have to worry about being fined for doing something that was perfectly legal in their home state. For example: in my state it is perfectly legal for a cyclist to ride on the footpath, but many other states do not have this law. I so happen to know about it mainly because it came up in discussion, but were I not a frequent internetian, I would have never discovered that. There's a fairly high chance that I'll live in another state at some point, and as an avid cyclist I would undoubtably have ridden on the footpath just assuming that it was legal, because it was back home. And yet it isn't, so I face the risk of a fine, and at the very least an uncomfortable encounter with a police officer. Similarly, there are currently disparities in laws regarding prostitution, alcohol purchase and consumption, and even marijuana. These would all result in much more serious problems if someone were to misunderstand the local law.
For children moving, it's even worse. If the educational system doesn't match up, one student might have missed out on key information that was taught earlier in the state that they move to. Having missed this earlier on can have massive knock-on effects to their education, causing them to slip behind in their education. There are studies documenting this effect, though I can't think of the appropriate key words to search for a source. Now, obviously this can happen even with an identical curriculum, because different schools take different approaches to things etc., but at the very least we should attempt to minimise harm.
It also creates inefficiencies in areas such as fire, medicine, and police agencies, due to having (likely) a federal agency, as well as individual ones for each of the states, and probably many local ones as well. Leaving this at just a single federal one plus local ones is a great way to increase efficiency. | this is a bad idea because of: different laws , educational knock-on effects , and inefficiencies .
I would propose significantly minimising the power of state governments and widely increasing the power of both federal and local government. |
sweetSvetlana | I think this is a legit question. had similar problems, skills didnt go off although i knew i pressed the damn button. and like you, i suspected my keyboard.
after some research i bought a mechanical keyboard! and this COMPLETLY changed the feel of the game for me. suddenly my god damn skills did trigger. and it really was my old god damn keyboard!!!
mechanical keyboards are more expensive than regular rubber dome keyboards. but they are also superior in every aspect: precision, typing speed, satisfaction, comfort, (acoustic) feedback (in terms of: did it register my button press) etc etc.
**tl:dr** BUY A MECHANICAL KEYBOARD. | I think this is a legit question. had similar problems, skills didnt go off although i knew i pressed the damn button. and like you, i suspected my keyboard.
after some research i bought a mechanical keyboard! and this COMPLETLY changed the feel of the game for me. suddenly my god damn skills did trigger. and it really was my old god damn keyboard!!!
mechanical keyboards are more expensive than regular rubber dome keyboards. but they are also superior in every aspect: precision, typing speed, satisfaction, comfort, (acoustic) feedback (in terms of: did it register my button press) etc etc.
tl:dr BUY A MECHANICAL KEYBOARD.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cdgdzsj | I think this is a legit question. had similar problems, skills didnt go off although i knew i pressed the damn button. and like you, i suspected my keyboard.
after some research i bought a mechanical keyboard! and this COMPLETLY changed the feel of the game for me. suddenly my god damn skills did trigger. and it really was my old god damn keyboard!!!
mechanical keyboards are more expensive than regular rubber dome keyboards. but they are also superior in every aspect: precision, typing speed, satisfaction, comfort, (acoustic) feedback (in terms of: did it register my button press) etc etc. | BUY A MECHANICAL KEYBOARD. |
Dr_Wernstrom | So we moved into my grandparents house and my mom was saving money to buy a house. My grandpa would always tell my mom she needed to get out and date more ( this was 2 years after ). But she never really had time. We would often hang out at work after daycare with my mom to save money and I would always play in the break room.
There was this really nice guy who would always let me watch people out of his window in his office and let me have chocolate chocolate donuts with chocolate milk. It was as you could guess the most damn amazing thing in the world for a 5 year old.
I invited him over to dinner all the time but my mom always said no, So much so that he offered to take us all out to dinner one night. So when we get the restaurant refuse to sit at the same table with them and go sit at the one next to them pull out my coloring book and tell them I have a lot of work I need to get done and to not bother me.
2 weeks later I put on a play for him which involved me and my sister pretending to be them and getting married. 4 months after that he helped me out at a T-ball game and met up with my mom and sister at a restaurant. We sat at the bar to wait for them. He ordered a drink and ordered me a kiddy cocktail " cherry juice and 7up " I told him all business like that he was really good at baseball and pretending to be my dad, someone had asked and he just said yes. But I told him it would be much easier if he actually was my dad. 2 months later they got married in the back yard of our new house and I was his best man.
TLDR: 5 year old me hooked my mom up with her boss. | So we moved into my grandparents house and my mom was saving money to buy a house. My grandpa would always tell my mom she needed to get out and date more ( this was 2 years after ). But she never really had time. We would often hang out at work after daycare with my mom to save money and I would always play in the break room.
There was this really nice guy who would always let me watch people out of his window in his office and let me have chocolate chocolate donuts with chocolate milk. It was as you could guess the most damn amazing thing in the world for a 5 year old.
I invited him over to dinner all the time but my mom always said no, So much so that he offered to take us all out to dinner one night. So when we get the restaurant refuse to sit at the same table with them and go sit at the one next to them pull out my coloring book and tell them I have a lot of work I need to get done and to not bother me.
2 weeks later I put on a play for him which involved me and my sister pretending to be them and getting married. 4 months after that he helped me out at a T-ball game and met up with my mom and sister at a restaurant. We sat at the bar to wait for them. He ordered a drink and ordered me a kiddy cocktail " cherry juice and 7up " I told him all business like that he was really good at baseball and pretending to be my dad, someone had asked and he just said yes. But I told him it would be much easier if he actually was my dad. 2 months later they got married in the back yard of our new house and I was his best man.
TLDR: 5 year old me hooked my mom up with her boss.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdgfvkv | So we moved into my grandparents house and my mom was saving money to buy a house. My grandpa would always tell my mom she needed to get out and date more ( this was 2 years after ). But she never really had time. We would often hang out at work after daycare with my mom to save money and I would always play in the break room.
There was this really nice guy who would always let me watch people out of his window in his office and let me have chocolate chocolate donuts with chocolate milk. It was as you could guess the most damn amazing thing in the world for a 5 year old.
I invited him over to dinner all the time but my mom always said no, So much so that he offered to take us all out to dinner one night. So when we get the restaurant refuse to sit at the same table with them and go sit at the one next to them pull out my coloring book and tell them I have a lot of work I need to get done and to not bother me.
2 weeks later I put on a play for him which involved me and my sister pretending to be them and getting married. 4 months after that he helped me out at a T-ball game and met up with my mom and sister at a restaurant. We sat at the bar to wait for them. He ordered a drink and ordered me a kiddy cocktail " cherry juice and 7up " I told him all business like that he was really good at baseball and pretending to be my dad, someone had asked and he just said yes. But I told him it would be much easier if he actually was my dad. 2 months later they got married in the back yard of our new house and I was his best man. | 5 year old me hooked my mom up with her boss. |
stanleyfarnsworth | ^^^ This motherfucking dude.
Here's the deal. To be good at comebacks you have to do a few things. First you have to enter into a mindset that each interaction is a potential conflict. Second you have to start mentally breaking down everything. Third you have to practice your timing, intonation and composition so all these things flow to appear natural and be devastating. You have to pretty much do all these things all the time. For years. And years. Long enough for it to change who you are. So you do this constantly and unconsciously.
Source: When I was a kid my hero was Bill Murray from Stripes. I wanted to be just like him. Fast forward thirty years. I am hilarious. But I am also an asshole.
We want to be good at them because they represent power. But being funny is a superficial type of power as opposed to the ability to take shit and laugh it off.
TL;DR - Comebacks are for assholes. Don't worry about them. Just live your life and be happy. | ^^^ This motherfucking dude.
Here's the deal. To be good at comebacks you have to do a few things. First you have to enter into a mindset that each interaction is a potential conflict. Second you have to start mentally breaking down everything. Third you have to practice your timing, intonation and composition so all these things flow to appear natural and be devastating. You have to pretty much do all these things all the time. For years. And years. Long enough for it to change who you are. So you do this constantly and unconsciously.
Source: When I was a kid my hero was Bill Murray from Stripes. I wanted to be just like him. Fast forward thirty years. I am hilarious. But I am also an asshole.
We want to be good at them because they represent power. But being funny is a superficial type of power as opposed to the ability to take shit and laugh it off.
TL;DR - Comebacks are for assholes. Don't worry about them. Just live your life and be happy.
| IWantToLearn | t5_2rjo5 | cdgq4h0 | This motherfucking dude.
Here's the deal. To be good at comebacks you have to do a few things. First you have to enter into a mindset that each interaction is a potential conflict. Second you have to start mentally breaking down everything. Third you have to practice your timing, intonation and composition so all these things flow to appear natural and be devastating. You have to pretty much do all these things all the time. For years. And years. Long enough for it to change who you are. So you do this constantly and unconsciously.
Source: When I was a kid my hero was Bill Murray from Stripes. I wanted to be just like him. Fast forward thirty years. I am hilarious. But I am also an asshole.
We want to be good at them because they represent power. But being funny is a superficial type of power as opposed to the ability to take shit and laugh it off. | Comebacks are for assholes. Don't worry about them. Just live your life and be happy. |
Arlgm | I know I shouldn't because I'm terrible with all sorts of social communication, but I feel like I should respond in some way. You say you don't know how to be happy, but really, you don't *need* to be immediately to move on. It's all about finding what you want to do for the rest of your Life that you know you won't mind or maybe even enjoy. I know that's your trouble right now, you don't know what that is yet, it's just that you're at least still trying. That's the best possible thing you can be doing still. I'm proud of you for that, I really am.
I also understand your 'misery' and how it feels like the best option would be if you just died. That you're not completely depressed or suicidal tells me that there is, in fact, some Hope left in there, your mind. You may not be able to consciously feel it right now, but you need to hold onto it because it's also your Will. These two things will take you to places you may or may not want to be, and the best thing about the latter is that if you try hard enough, it can lead you to where you do.
I'm in a similar situation as you, but under different circumstances. I am, in fact, a lazy piece of shit in almost every sense. I don't consciously make the decision to take inaction, but that I fail to try and find my own motivation and Will tells me that I'm not trying at all. So by definition... anyway. I don't really know who I am, what I'm doing, or where I'm going, and none of it seems to be in a good direction for many reasons.
For example, I dropped out of High School, got a GED, and could go to even something like a Technical School, but social anxiety and the thought of ending up with a job I'm not going to Love make me shut in. I don't have a job, a hobby, or even a real interest or passion. I'm a statue of myself that won't be going anywhere soon. Though, you have the ability to go somewhere, anywhere. There are many more possibilities for you than there is for me, and a lot of them seem to not be preferable from where you're standing, but take a step in the direction you think you want to go and see where it takes you. It doesn't have to be a fork in the road, you should be able to go back to where you started if it's not right for you.
This probably isn't helping you, and I'm so sorry that you feel unappreciated, but I can tell you that I appreciate you. If not you, then the idea of you. You're part of something I don't think I ever can be, and that's being Brave. I Love you for that. I really do. I can't promise definitively that you'll end up in a good place any time soon, but I Hope you do, and I Hope you find your way Home, wherever that may end up being. I'm sorry that words that may lose their meaning are all that I can offer.
**TL;DR:** Just don't stop moving or trying, Brother, and I'll keep Hoping for you. | I know I shouldn't because I'm terrible with all sorts of social communication, but I feel like I should respond in some way. You say you don't know how to be happy, but really, you don't need to be immediately to move on. It's all about finding what you want to do for the rest of your Life that you know you won't mind or maybe even enjoy. I know that's your trouble right now, you don't know what that is yet, it's just that you're at least still trying. That's the best possible thing you can be doing still. I'm proud of you for that, I really am.
I also understand your 'misery' and how it feels like the best option would be if you just died. That you're not completely depressed or suicidal tells me that there is, in fact, some Hope left in there, your mind. You may not be able to consciously feel it right now, but you need to hold onto it because it's also your Will. These two things will take you to places you may or may not want to be, and the best thing about the latter is that if you try hard enough, it can lead you to where you do.
I'm in a similar situation as you, but under different circumstances. I am, in fact, a lazy piece of shit in almost every sense. I don't consciously make the decision to take inaction, but that I fail to try and find my own motivation and Will tells me that I'm not trying at all. So by definition... anyway. I don't really know who I am, what I'm doing, or where I'm going, and none of it seems to be in a good direction for many reasons.
For example, I dropped out of High School, got a GED, and could go to even something like a Technical School, but social anxiety and the thought of ending up with a job I'm not going to Love make me shut in. I don't have a job, a hobby, or even a real interest or passion. I'm a statue of myself that won't be going anywhere soon. Though, you have the ability to go somewhere, anywhere. There are many more possibilities for you than there is for me, and a lot of them seem to not be preferable from where you're standing, but take a step in the direction you think you want to go and see where it takes you. It doesn't have to be a fork in the road, you should be able to go back to where you started if it's not right for you.
This probably isn't helping you, and I'm so sorry that you feel unappreciated, but I can tell you that I appreciate you. If not you, then the idea of you. You're part of something I don't think I ever can be, and that's being Brave. I Love you for that. I really do. I can't promise definitively that you'll end up in a good place any time soon, but I Hope you do, and I Hope you find your way Home, wherever that may end up being. I'm sorry that words that may lose their meaning are all that I can offer.
TL;DR: Just don't stop moving or trying, Brother, and I'll keep Hoping for you.
| offmychest | t5_2ranw | cdgm5nx | I know I shouldn't because I'm terrible with all sorts of social communication, but I feel like I should respond in some way. You say you don't know how to be happy, but really, you don't need to be immediately to move on. It's all about finding what you want to do for the rest of your Life that you know you won't mind or maybe even enjoy. I know that's your trouble right now, you don't know what that is yet, it's just that you're at least still trying. That's the best possible thing you can be doing still. I'm proud of you for that, I really am.
I also understand your 'misery' and how it feels like the best option would be if you just died. That you're not completely depressed or suicidal tells me that there is, in fact, some Hope left in there, your mind. You may not be able to consciously feel it right now, but you need to hold onto it because it's also your Will. These two things will take you to places you may or may not want to be, and the best thing about the latter is that if you try hard enough, it can lead you to where you do.
I'm in a similar situation as you, but under different circumstances. I am, in fact, a lazy piece of shit in almost every sense. I don't consciously make the decision to take inaction, but that I fail to try and find my own motivation and Will tells me that I'm not trying at all. So by definition... anyway. I don't really know who I am, what I'm doing, or where I'm going, and none of it seems to be in a good direction for many reasons.
For example, I dropped out of High School, got a GED, and could go to even something like a Technical School, but social anxiety and the thought of ending up with a job I'm not going to Love make me shut in. I don't have a job, a hobby, or even a real interest or passion. I'm a statue of myself that won't be going anywhere soon. Though, you have the ability to go somewhere, anywhere. There are many more possibilities for you than there is for me, and a lot of them seem to not be preferable from where you're standing, but take a step in the direction you think you want to go and see where it takes you. It doesn't have to be a fork in the road, you should be able to go back to where you started if it's not right for you.
This probably isn't helping you, and I'm so sorry that you feel unappreciated, but I can tell you that I appreciate you. If not you, then the idea of you. You're part of something I don't think I ever can be, and that's being Brave. I Love you for that. I really do. I can't promise definitively that you'll end up in a good place any time soon, but I Hope you do, and I Hope you find your way Home, wherever that may end up being. I'm sorry that words that may lose their meaning are all that I can offer. | Just don't stop moving or trying, Brother, and I'll keep Hoping for you. |
AllUrMemes | Rutgers is about as racially diverse a school gets:
The overwhelming majority of students are open and inclusive of different races, sexual orientation, religion, etc. Most social gatherings you go to will have all these groups represented.
Like anywhere else, you do have some small groups of people who harbor racist beliefs (quietly, definitely not openly). Maybe part of that has to do with crime in New Brunswick which is disproportionately committed by blacks and latinos- like many cities in America. These aren't students committing the crimes, it's just random people from the bad New Brunswick areas. So usually any racism you hear is directed at non-student blacks in the city.
The other racial issue that occasional is a bit tense on campus is the Israel-Palestinian issue. We've got a huge Jewish presence on campus, and while they are awesome and I love them, some of the people that go on Birthright trips to Israel over the summer come back a little... radicalized isn't the right word, but sorta. The pro-Palestinian groups get understandably upset when, without fail, some young Jewish kid puts his foot in his mouth about Palestine. Again, this isn't something that is a big issue 99% of the time, especially if you don't have a horse in the race.
I don't know too much about latino student groups, other than that I always see the latin student house having lots of activity and they have a lot of bake sales and stuff, seem active and friendly.
But I would definitely 100% encourage you to apply to Rutgers based on its awesome diversity. I was the quintessential white suburban kid and I didn't really care about diversity statistics when I applied. Over the years at Rutgers though it did make a huge impact on my life. You get to know people of all sorts of religions, races, economic backgrounds, geographic areas, etc. This includes students and professors.
TL;DR: Rutgers has a super-diverse student body. Mostly that is an awesome thing and people get along but like any place else there are a few idiots. If you are looking specifically to immerse in latino culture, I don't know too much, but if you are looking for a place that is diverse and accepting of everybody this is a great place to come. | Rutgers is about as racially diverse a school gets:
The overwhelming majority of students are open and inclusive of different races, sexual orientation, religion, etc. Most social gatherings you go to will have all these groups represented.
Like anywhere else, you do have some small groups of people who harbor racist beliefs (quietly, definitely not openly). Maybe part of that has to do with crime in New Brunswick which is disproportionately committed by blacks and latinos- like many cities in America. These aren't students committing the crimes, it's just random people from the bad New Brunswick areas. So usually any racism you hear is directed at non-student blacks in the city.
The other racial issue that occasional is a bit tense on campus is the Israel-Palestinian issue. We've got a huge Jewish presence on campus, and while they are awesome and I love them, some of the people that go on Birthright trips to Israel over the summer come back a little... radicalized isn't the right word, but sorta. The pro-Palestinian groups get understandably upset when, without fail, some young Jewish kid puts his foot in his mouth about Palestine. Again, this isn't something that is a big issue 99% of the time, especially if you don't have a horse in the race.
I don't know too much about latino student groups, other than that I always see the latin student house having lots of activity and they have a lot of bake sales and stuff, seem active and friendly.
But I would definitely 100% encourage you to apply to Rutgers based on its awesome diversity. I was the quintessential white suburban kid and I didn't really care about diversity statistics when I applied. Over the years at Rutgers though it did make a huge impact on my life. You get to know people of all sorts of religions, races, economic backgrounds, geographic areas, etc. This includes students and professors.
TL;DR: Rutgers has a super-diverse student body. Mostly that is an awesome thing and people get along but like any place else there are a few idiots. If you are looking specifically to immerse in latino culture, I don't know too much, but if you are looking for a place that is diverse and accepting of everybody this is a great place to come.
| rutgers | t5_2risk | cdgxjz6 | Rutgers is about as racially diverse a school gets:
The overwhelming majority of students are open and inclusive of different races, sexual orientation, religion, etc. Most social gatherings you go to will have all these groups represented.
Like anywhere else, you do have some small groups of people who harbor racist beliefs (quietly, definitely not openly). Maybe part of that has to do with crime in New Brunswick which is disproportionately committed by blacks and latinos- like many cities in America. These aren't students committing the crimes, it's just random people from the bad New Brunswick areas. So usually any racism you hear is directed at non-student blacks in the city.
The other racial issue that occasional is a bit tense on campus is the Israel-Palestinian issue. We've got a huge Jewish presence on campus, and while they are awesome and I love them, some of the people that go on Birthright trips to Israel over the summer come back a little... radicalized isn't the right word, but sorta. The pro-Palestinian groups get understandably upset when, without fail, some young Jewish kid puts his foot in his mouth about Palestine. Again, this isn't something that is a big issue 99% of the time, especially if you don't have a horse in the race.
I don't know too much about latino student groups, other than that I always see the latin student house having lots of activity and they have a lot of bake sales and stuff, seem active and friendly.
But I would definitely 100% encourage you to apply to Rutgers based on its awesome diversity. I was the quintessential white suburban kid and I didn't really care about diversity statistics when I applied. Over the years at Rutgers though it did make a huge impact on my life. You get to know people of all sorts of religions, races, economic backgrounds, geographic areas, etc. This includes students and professors. | Rutgers has a super-diverse student body. Mostly that is an awesome thing and people get along but like any place else there are a few idiots. If you are looking specifically to immerse in latino culture, I don't know too much, but if you are looking for a place that is diverse and accepting of everybody this is a great place to come. |
andoyo | BoC was a great read, and I completely concur that a great deal of attention is paid to characters being unable to exercise free-will. I feel your question is difficult to answer since Vonnegut dealt with the issue of determinism in his novels and not in non-fiction works.
Since he presented these considerations in fiction, it is difficult to discern the author's opinion on the subject. I believe that since these fictional works were his construct, he brought the process of constructing the fate of his characters into the foreground.
Also, Vonnegut was an avid Humanist. This philosophy seems incompatible with Determinism since it stresses secularization and the significance of decision making.
TL;DR
Vonnegut was a Humanist, but deals with issues of determinism in his fiction | BoC was a great read, and I completely concur that a great deal of attention is paid to characters being unable to exercise free-will. I feel your question is difficult to answer since Vonnegut dealt with the issue of determinism in his novels and not in non-fiction works.
Since he presented these considerations in fiction, it is difficult to discern the author's opinion on the subject. I believe that since these fictional works were his construct, he brought the process of constructing the fate of his characters into the foreground.
Also, Vonnegut was an avid Humanist. This philosophy seems incompatible with Determinism since it stresses secularization and the significance of decision making.
TL;DR
Vonnegut was a Humanist, but deals with issues of determinism in his fiction
| books | t5_2qh4i | cdgzauu | BoC was a great read, and I completely concur that a great deal of attention is paid to characters being unable to exercise free-will. I feel your question is difficult to answer since Vonnegut dealt with the issue of determinism in his novels and not in non-fiction works.
Since he presented these considerations in fiction, it is difficult to discern the author's opinion on the subject. I believe that since these fictional works were his construct, he brought the process of constructing the fate of his characters into the foreground.
Also, Vonnegut was an avid Humanist. This philosophy seems incompatible with Determinism since it stresses secularization and the significance of decision making. | Vonnegut was a Humanist, but deals with issues of determinism in his fiction |
chamora | Free will and the ability to make decisions are not mutually exclusive.
I don't think anyone (reasonable) disapproves of apparent free will, which is a person's perceived agency. What people who don't believe in free will argue is that agency is an illusion rather than a fundamental property of the universe. The main basis of this argument is that all physical processes in the universe as we understand them are either stochastic or random.
Furthermore, free will implies that there is some "you" independent from your body capable of making decisions in spite of the physical state of your brain, for which there is growing evidence against as well.
All this is not to say that people can't still feel in control of their own lives and indeed make decisions. The decisions of these people are however entirely determined by their biological make-up and environment. Humanism is then the school of thought devoted to trying to make a better environment for humans to inspire also better actions by humans.
TL;DR Free will != decision-making | Free will and the ability to make decisions are not mutually exclusive.
I don't think anyone (reasonable) disapproves of apparent free will, which is a person's perceived agency. What people who don't believe in free will argue is that agency is an illusion rather than a fundamental property of the universe. The main basis of this argument is that all physical processes in the universe as we understand them are either stochastic or random.
Furthermore, free will implies that there is some "you" independent from your body capable of making decisions in spite of the physical state of your brain, for which there is growing evidence against as well.
All this is not to say that people can't still feel in control of their own lives and indeed make decisions. The decisions of these people are however entirely determined by their biological make-up and environment. Humanism is then the school of thought devoted to trying to make a better environment for humans to inspire also better actions by humans.
TL;DR Free will != decision-making
| books | t5_2qh4i | cdhi40x | Free will and the ability to make decisions are not mutually exclusive.
I don't think anyone (reasonable) disapproves of apparent free will, which is a person's perceived agency. What people who don't believe in free will argue is that agency is an illusion rather than a fundamental property of the universe. The main basis of this argument is that all physical processes in the universe as we understand them are either stochastic or random.
Furthermore, free will implies that there is some "you" independent from your body capable of making decisions in spite of the physical state of your brain, for which there is growing evidence against as well.
All this is not to say that people can't still feel in control of their own lives and indeed make decisions. The decisions of these people are however entirely determined by their biological make-up and environment. Humanism is then the school of thought devoted to trying to make a better environment for humans to inspire also better actions by humans. | Free will != decision-making |
LetoFeydThufirSiona | Sorry, was just kinda breezing through. I am not a tax accountant, but I'm fully with Codyave, it's very safe and reasonable to treat it as capital gains right now. If you bought them as an individual, and then sold them at a higher value, it's going to be capital gains. If you haven't sold them, and thus haven't realized a gain, you don't owe anything and shouldn't have to report anything.
If IRS decides it's something different and/or that you owe more, they'll let you know, but they're not going to arrest you or fine you.
Things obviously get more complicated if you mined them or were paid them for services. Would definitely talk to a CPA if one had sold a significant amount of BTC from either of those sources.
tl;dr - Definitely don't overpay to play it safe, but definitely pay CG on realized gains. | Sorry, was just kinda breezing through. I am not a tax accountant, but I'm fully with Codyave, it's very safe and reasonable to treat it as capital gains right now. If you bought them as an individual, and then sold them at a higher value, it's going to be capital gains. If you haven't sold them, and thus haven't realized a gain, you don't owe anything and shouldn't have to report anything.
If IRS decides it's something different and/or that you owe more, they'll let you know, but they're not going to arrest you or fine you.
Things obviously get more complicated if you mined them or were paid them for services. Would definitely talk to a CPA if one had sold a significant amount of BTC from either of those sources.
tl;dr - Definitely don't overpay to play it safe, but definitely pay CG on realized gains.
| Bitcoin | t5_2s3qj | cdh0qi6 | Sorry, was just kinda breezing through. I am not a tax accountant, but I'm fully with Codyave, it's very safe and reasonable to treat it as capital gains right now. If you bought them as an individual, and then sold them at a higher value, it's going to be capital gains. If you haven't sold them, and thus haven't realized a gain, you don't owe anything and shouldn't have to report anything.
If IRS decides it's something different and/or that you owe more, they'll let you know, but they're not going to arrest you or fine you.
Things obviously get more complicated if you mined them or were paid them for services. Would definitely talk to a CPA if one had sold a significant amount of BTC from either of those sources. | Definitely don't overpay to play it safe, but definitely pay CG on realized gains. |
nanbullen | One of my exes got a a close friend of mine pregnant about a year after we broke up. We were all 19. She's a sweet girl, but not very bright, and she absolutely adored him even though he was clearly only interested in her as a way to make me jealous.
She was immediately ecstatic when she found out, started picking out names, full blown mommy mania. My ex humored her for awhile, but ended up coming to me for help. At first he just wanted to end things and let her have the kid, and she was fine with that.
I'm not proud of it, but being a jealous 19 year old, I pointed out that he would still end up paying child support, no way around it. He freaked out and decided he wanted her to have an abortion, which she refused. I spent the next few weeks subtly manipulating her and coaching my ex on exactly what buttons to push. Somehow, it worked. She had the abortion, and they broke up a month later.
My ex and I never got back together, and I lost contact with my friend for several years. Recently, we started chatting on Facebook. She told me she never wanted to have the abortion and felt like my ex had forced her to do it, describing it as the one thing she truly regretted. She dropped out of college and went through the downward spiral of alcoholism and abusive boyfriends. Once she even got drugged and carjacked by some 'friends,' and awoke tied up behind a grocery store. She is currently dating a loser and living in a camper behind his parents' house.
She also told me that she wished we'd stayed friends, and from what I can tell has no idea of the part I played in the event that sent her spiraling out of control. I've never felt more like a piece of shit.
tl;dr I accidentally a life. | One of my exes got a a close friend of mine pregnant about a year after we broke up. We were all 19. She's a sweet girl, but not very bright, and she absolutely adored him even though he was clearly only interested in her as a way to make me jealous.
She was immediately ecstatic when she found out, started picking out names, full blown mommy mania. My ex humored her for awhile, but ended up coming to me for help. At first he just wanted to end things and let her have the kid, and she was fine with that.
I'm not proud of it, but being a jealous 19 year old, I pointed out that he would still end up paying child support, no way around it. He freaked out and decided he wanted her to have an abortion, which she refused. I spent the next few weeks subtly manipulating her and coaching my ex on exactly what buttons to push. Somehow, it worked. She had the abortion, and they broke up a month later.
My ex and I never got back together, and I lost contact with my friend for several years. Recently, we started chatting on Facebook. She told me she never wanted to have the abortion and felt like my ex had forced her to do it, describing it as the one thing she truly regretted. She dropped out of college and went through the downward spiral of alcoholism and abusive boyfriends. Once she even got drugged and carjacked by some 'friends,' and awoke tied up behind a grocery store. She is currently dating a loser and living in a camper behind his parents' house.
She also told me that she wished we'd stayed friends, and from what I can tell has no idea of the part I played in the event that sent her spiraling out of control. I've never felt more like a piece of shit.
tl;dr I accidentally a life.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdh1p2x | One of my exes got a a close friend of mine pregnant about a year after we broke up. We were all 19. She's a sweet girl, but not very bright, and she absolutely adored him even though he was clearly only interested in her as a way to make me jealous.
She was immediately ecstatic when she found out, started picking out names, full blown mommy mania. My ex humored her for awhile, but ended up coming to me for help. At first he just wanted to end things and let her have the kid, and she was fine with that.
I'm not proud of it, but being a jealous 19 year old, I pointed out that he would still end up paying child support, no way around it. He freaked out and decided he wanted her to have an abortion, which she refused. I spent the next few weeks subtly manipulating her and coaching my ex on exactly what buttons to push. Somehow, it worked. She had the abortion, and they broke up a month later.
My ex and I never got back together, and I lost contact with my friend for several years. Recently, we started chatting on Facebook. She told me she never wanted to have the abortion and felt like my ex had forced her to do it, describing it as the one thing she truly regretted. She dropped out of college and went through the downward spiral of alcoholism and abusive boyfriends. Once she even got drugged and carjacked by some 'friends,' and awoke tied up behind a grocery store. She is currently dating a loser and living in a camper behind his parents' house.
She also told me that she wished we'd stayed friends, and from what I can tell has no idea of the part I played in the event that sent her spiraling out of control. I've never felt more like a piece of shit. | I accidentally a life. |
HerOwnGallifrey | I almost killed my sister.
I was 9 and she was 8 at the time. In West Wales there is a theme park called oakwood. We used to caravan near by. They have one ride called the waterfall. You sit on a plastic tray and go down water slide from about 100 ft up.
She had never been on it before and I convinced her that, as they had two slides I would go on the same time as her and it would be fine. We raced to the top, finally get to the front of the queue. While sitting on the red trays waiting for the guy to push the release button I decided I didn't want to go. Told the attendant quietly and an Asian gentleman took my place. So I made my way back down the steps, just as my sister turn to look at me they guy pushed the release button.
She knew I wasn't an adult asian man. I was in fact at the time a skinny white kid. Her fist reaction was to let go of the handles. As she did this, she started to come away from the board and her skirt blew up into her face. Rather than everyone see her knickers she grabbed her skirt and pulls it down. As she is doing so she managed to grab hold of the board and regains control.
I make it down the bottom to see my soaked sister in tears a very pissed mum and some panicked workers.
20 years later she still won't go on the ride.
TL:DR. Tricked my sister on to a ride and she almost died. | I almost killed my sister.
I was 9 and she was 8 at the time. In West Wales there is a theme park called oakwood. We used to caravan near by. They have one ride called the waterfall. You sit on a plastic tray and go down water slide from about 100 ft up.
She had never been on it before and I convinced her that, as they had two slides I would go on the same time as her and it would be fine. We raced to the top, finally get to the front of the queue. While sitting on the red trays waiting for the guy to push the release button I decided I didn't want to go. Told the attendant quietly and an Asian gentleman took my place. So I made my way back down the steps, just as my sister turn to look at me they guy pushed the release button.
She knew I wasn't an adult asian man. I was in fact at the time a skinny white kid. Her fist reaction was to let go of the handles. As she did this, she started to come away from the board and her skirt blew up into her face. Rather than everyone see her knickers she grabbed her skirt and pulls it down. As she is doing so she managed to grab hold of the board and regains control.
I make it down the bottom to see my soaked sister in tears a very pissed mum and some panicked workers.
20 years later she still won't go on the ride.
TL:DR. Tricked my sister on to a ride and she almost died.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdh1tib | I almost killed my sister.
I was 9 and she was 8 at the time. In West Wales there is a theme park called oakwood. We used to caravan near by. They have one ride called the waterfall. You sit on a plastic tray and go down water slide from about 100 ft up.
She had never been on it before and I convinced her that, as they had two slides I would go on the same time as her and it would be fine. We raced to the top, finally get to the front of the queue. While sitting on the red trays waiting for the guy to push the release button I decided I didn't want to go. Told the attendant quietly and an Asian gentleman took my place. So I made my way back down the steps, just as my sister turn to look at me they guy pushed the release button.
She knew I wasn't an adult asian man. I was in fact at the time a skinny white kid. Her fist reaction was to let go of the handles. As she did this, she started to come away from the board and her skirt blew up into her face. Rather than everyone see her knickers she grabbed her skirt and pulls it down. As she is doing so she managed to grab hold of the board and regains control.
I make it down the bottom to see my soaked sister in tears a very pissed mum and some panicked workers.
20 years later she still won't go on the ride. | Tricked my sister on to a ride and she almost died. |
Leap_ | Me and my girlfriend don't live together and i quite often have to lie about what im doing later to get her to leave so i can have some time to myself.
This sounds bad but lets say we go out for a date on Friday, she will stay with me all the way until Monday morning (when we both have to go to work/school) unless i have some excuse. Now i cant exactly say on Sunday morning "Mind if i take you home now i kinda want to play video games and eat jaffa cakes all day, maybe even scratch my balls if im feeling particularly energetic" because she gets upset and it sounds like im just trying to get rid of her (in a mean way). So instead of being truthful and honest nowadays i have to lie saying im going shopping or have work to do.
I just like my alone relaxing time.
TLDR: Stage 5 clinger
Edit: I have read a lot of your comments and while i have come to see that my situation is not unique, it is also not healthy and will probably lead to one of us being upset sometime in the future. Just for clarification we are both 21 and and she goes to university while i have just finished and now go to work. We have been together for 5 years. I love her as much as anyone could love someone and this is quite literally the only problem I have with the relationship. I will attempt to bring the topic up more before we move further in the relationship to remove the risk of one of us getting hurt. Thanks for the advice.
Second Edit: I also use the term "Stage 5 clinger" in jest. She really isn't that bad. | Me and my girlfriend don't live together and i quite often have to lie about what im doing later to get her to leave so i can have some time to myself.
This sounds bad but lets say we go out for a date on Friday, she will stay with me all the way until Monday morning (when we both have to go to work/school) unless i have some excuse. Now i cant exactly say on Sunday morning "Mind if i take you home now i kinda want to play video games and eat jaffa cakes all day, maybe even scratch my balls if im feeling particularly energetic" because she gets upset and it sounds like im just trying to get rid of her (in a mean way). So instead of being truthful and honest nowadays i have to lie saying im going shopping or have work to do.
I just like my alone relaxing time.
TLDR: Stage 5 clinger
Edit: I have read a lot of your comments and while i have come to see that my situation is not unique, it is also not healthy and will probably lead to one of us being upset sometime in the future. Just for clarification we are both 21 and and she goes to university while i have just finished and now go to work. We have been together for 5 years. I love her as much as anyone could love someone and this is quite literally the only problem I have with the relationship. I will attempt to bring the topic up more before we move further in the relationship to remove the risk of one of us getting hurt. Thanks for the advice.
Second Edit: I also use the term "Stage 5 clinger" in jest. She really isn't that bad.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cdh4z4f | Me and my girlfriend don't live together and i quite often have to lie about what im doing later to get her to leave so i can have some time to myself.
This sounds bad but lets say we go out for a date on Friday, she will stay with me all the way until Monday morning (when we both have to go to work/school) unless i have some excuse. Now i cant exactly say on Sunday morning "Mind if i take you home now i kinda want to play video games and eat jaffa cakes all day, maybe even scratch my balls if im feeling particularly energetic" because she gets upset and it sounds like im just trying to get rid of her (in a mean way). So instead of being truthful and honest nowadays i have to lie saying im going shopping or have work to do.
I just like my alone relaxing time. | Stage 5 clinger
Edit: I have read a lot of your comments and while i have come to see that my situation is not unique, it is also not healthy and will probably lead to one of us being upset sometime in the future. Just for clarification we are both 21 and and she goes to university while i have just finished and now go to work. We have been together for 5 years. I love her as much as anyone could love someone and this is quite literally the only problem I have with the relationship. I will attempt to bring the topic up more before we move further in the relationship to remove the risk of one of us getting hurt. Thanks for the advice.
Second Edit: I also use the term "Stage 5 clinger" in jest. She really isn't that bad. |
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