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spinfip | I've been in two (One was military, the other was VA)
in my experience, the staff was very helpful and willing to assist you in whatever small ways you might need to get through the day. Once they know that you aren't going to slash your wrists the moment they turn their back on you, it's easy to get all manner of small favors from them.
For example, at the VA hospital I stayed at for a little while, there was no drinking fountain or anything like that. I always knew how important it was to stay hydrated, but their policy was that noone should have access to a large drinking vessel, since I guess they had some problems with people trying to kill themselves inside with an elaborate scheme of [OD'ing on water]( After I had been there a few days, and had talked reasonably with some of the staff, one of them let me borrow an old coke bottle to keep with me during the day. I had to keep it in the open areas of the ward, and give it back to that guy at the end of his shift, but it was still a nice gesture.
The biggest problem for me was a kind of claustrophobia. Knowing that these two hallways and one common area were the only places I could go to was maddening. That big metal door with the electromagnetic locks stood like a taunting golem, separating me and this little enclosed space from the rest of the world.
tl;dr: Try not to piss off the staff | I've been in two (One was military, the other was VA)
in my experience, the staff was very helpful and willing to assist you in whatever small ways you might need to get through the day. Once they know that you aren't going to slash your wrists the moment they turn their back on you, it's easy to get all manner of small favors from them.
For example, at the VA hospital I stayed at for a little while, there was no drinking fountain or anything like that. I always knew how important it was to stay hydrated, but their policy was that noone should have access to a large drinking vessel, since I guess they had some problems with people trying to kill themselves inside with an elaborate scheme of [OD'ing on water]( After I had been there a few days, and had talked reasonably with some of the staff, one of them let me borrow an old coke bottle to keep with me during the day. I had to keep it in the open areas of the ward, and give it back to that guy at the end of his shift, but it was still a nice gesture.
The biggest problem for me was a kind of claustrophobia. Knowing that these two hallways and one common area were the only places I could go to was maddening. That big metal door with the electromagnetic locks stood like a taunting golem, separating me and this little enclosed space from the rest of the world.
tl;dr: Try not to piss off the staff
| depression | t5_2qqqf | ca9za80 | I've been in two (One was military, the other was VA)
in my experience, the staff was very helpful and willing to assist you in whatever small ways you might need to get through the day. Once they know that you aren't going to slash your wrists the moment they turn their back on you, it's easy to get all manner of small favors from them.
For example, at the VA hospital I stayed at for a little while, there was no drinking fountain or anything like that. I always knew how important it was to stay hydrated, but their policy was that noone should have access to a large drinking vessel, since I guess they had some problems with people trying to kill themselves inside with an elaborate scheme of [OD'ing on water]( After I had been there a few days, and had talked reasonably with some of the staff, one of them let me borrow an old coke bottle to keep with me during the day. I had to keep it in the open areas of the ward, and give it back to that guy at the end of his shift, but it was still a nice gesture.
The biggest problem for me was a kind of claustrophobia. Knowing that these two hallways and one common area were the only places I could go to was maddening. That big metal door with the electromagnetic locks stood like a taunting golem, separating me and this little enclosed space from the rest of the world. | Try not to piss off the staff |
theriverrat | Personal opinion, while you are still under your parent's "watchful eye," you may want to focus on reading about Buddhism, perhaps books from the public library, and also Buddhist inspired fiction, like The Dharma Bums (Kerouac) and Siddhartha (Hesse). Find out about options in your general area, with the expectation that you may want to become more involved, and perhaps find a teacher, in a couple or so years. Best of Luck!
tl;dr - no rush. | Personal opinion, while you are still under your parent's "watchful eye," you may want to focus on reading about Buddhism, perhaps books from the public library, and also Buddhist inspired fiction, like The Dharma Bums (Kerouac) and Siddhartha (Hesse). Find out about options in your general area, with the expectation that you may want to become more involved, and perhaps find a teacher, in a couple or so years. Best of Luck!
tl;dr - no rush.
| Buddhism | t5_2qhnf | ca9ws00 | Personal opinion, while you are still under your parent's "watchful eye," you may want to focus on reading about Buddhism, perhaps books from the public library, and also Buddhist inspired fiction, like The Dharma Bums (Kerouac) and Siddhartha (Hesse). Find out about options in your general area, with the expectation that you may want to become more involved, and perhaps find a teacher, in a couple or so years. Best of Luck! | no rush. |
Bouda | Sorry, I meant Tualatin, not Turion. Tualatin is so hard to remember.
The coppermines were a bit slower
Keep raising the fsb by 1MHz increments and if the computer crashes or reboots than raise the core voltage by .025 volts until stable. You should be able to get to the 163MHz bus at 1.650 volts which is a 23% increase and give you 1712GHz. Good luck.
TLDR: Coppermines were 256k cache and Tualatins were 512k cache. It really shows in performance. | Sorry, I meant Tualatin, not Turion. Tualatin is so hard to remember.
The coppermines were a bit slower
Keep raising the fsb by 1MHz increments and if the computer crashes or reboots than raise the core voltage by .025 volts until stable. You should be able to get to the 163MHz bus at 1.650 volts which is a 23% increase and give you 1712GHz. Good luck.
TLDR: Coppermines were 256k cache and Tualatins were 512k cache. It really shows in performance.
| techsupportgore | t5_2tnbv | caa61f6 | Sorry, I meant Tualatin, not Turion. Tualatin is so hard to remember.
The coppermines were a bit slower
Keep raising the fsb by 1MHz increments and if the computer crashes or reboots than raise the core voltage by .025 volts until stable. You should be able to get to the 163MHz bus at 1.650 volts which is a 23% increase and give you 1712GHz. Good luck. | Coppermines were 256k cache and Tualatins were 512k cache. It really shows in performance. |
DigitalSpectrum | If I had a job where I would get in trouble for looking at a picture of a soldier with a little blood on him. I wouldn't work there anymore because I would quit.
TLDR - no need for the NSFW tag | If I had a job where I would get in trouble for looking at a picture of a soldier with a little blood on him. I wouldn't work there anymore because I would quit.
TLDR - no need for the NSFW tag
| pics | t5_2qh0u | caa2ea7 | If I had a job where I would get in trouble for looking at a picture of a soldier with a little blood on him. I wouldn't work there anymore because I would quit. | no need for the NSFW tag |
NetPotionNr9 | It's so weird. On one hand OP tries to make a connection between the dissociated and mentally deranged notion Americans have of war and the actual effects of battle; on the other hand the means in which he does it by using a picture of injuries that barely look any different than what you might see after a typical bar fight or street violence feels weirdly bleeding heart supremacist.
That picture does nothing to illustrate the horrors of war, in fact, the very problem why America is a pariah state that is the only one that truly terrorizes and threatens anyone and is the only country that has an addiction to killing and destruction is, precisely, because we haven't suffered the true consequences of war since the civil war. All our military engagements, no matter how dumb, bumbled, or lost; we never even suffered a fraction of the effects, devastation, and casualties the other side did. We bomb and destroy civilian lives with impunity, because we're the head mobster in a world without rule of law for the wealthy and powerful. We are now even more emboldened that we think we can just send in drones and special operators to solve everything because we have been fighting a bunch of sand monkeys and low-life's around the world with the pinnacle of our technological capabilities.
TL;DR: One of our guys getting a war boo-boo is not the real face of war; America has no fucking capacity to comprehend what war is. | It's so weird. On one hand OP tries to make a connection between the dissociated and mentally deranged notion Americans have of war and the actual effects of battle; on the other hand the means in which he does it by using a picture of injuries that barely look any different than what you might see after a typical bar fight or street violence feels weirdly bleeding heart supremacist.
That picture does nothing to illustrate the horrors of war, in fact, the very problem why America is a pariah state that is the only one that truly terrorizes and threatens anyone and is the only country that has an addiction to killing and destruction is, precisely, because we haven't suffered the true consequences of war since the civil war. All our military engagements, no matter how dumb, bumbled, or lost; we never even suffered a fraction of the effects, devastation, and casualties the other side did. We bomb and destroy civilian lives with impunity, because we're the head mobster in a world without rule of law for the wealthy and powerful. We are now even more emboldened that we think we can just send in drones and special operators to solve everything because we have been fighting a bunch of sand monkeys and low-life's around the world with the pinnacle of our technological capabilities.
TL;DR: One of our guys getting a war boo-boo is not the real face of war; America has no fucking capacity to comprehend what war is.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | caa2tly | It's so weird. On one hand OP tries to make a connection between the dissociated and mentally deranged notion Americans have of war and the actual effects of battle; on the other hand the means in which he does it by using a picture of injuries that barely look any different than what you might see after a typical bar fight or street violence feels weirdly bleeding heart supremacist.
That picture does nothing to illustrate the horrors of war, in fact, the very problem why America is a pariah state that is the only one that truly terrorizes and threatens anyone and is the only country that has an addiction to killing and destruction is, precisely, because we haven't suffered the true consequences of war since the civil war. All our military engagements, no matter how dumb, bumbled, or lost; we never even suffered a fraction of the effects, devastation, and casualties the other side did. We bomb and destroy civilian lives with impunity, because we're the head mobster in a world without rule of law for the wealthy and powerful. We are now even more emboldened that we think we can just send in drones and special operators to solve everything because we have been fighting a bunch of sand monkeys and low-life's around the world with the pinnacle of our technological capabilities. | One of our guys getting a war boo-boo is not the real face of war; America has no fucking capacity to comprehend what war is. |
therealtrypto | You're right. The soldier should have held the sister down so that the brother could slap her harder.
TL; DR: You are a fucking idiot. | You're right. The soldier should have held the sister down so that the brother could slap her harder.
TL; DR: You are a fucking idiot.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | caa5hal | You're right. The soldier should have held the sister down so that the brother could slap her harder. | You are a fucking idiot. |
GodOfAtheism | >the defaults are out of control.
Agree and disagree. Some defaults are completely out of control, some are relatively well done. /r/askreddit, while it is the source of a lot of stupid shit, has a pretty active and large team, as does /r/pics, as will /r/atheism in the future... I hope.
Part of the problem is lack of what many default mods view as qualified individuals for the job. If you run a 10k user sub you can recruit from the userbase, no biggy. Hell, that's how we got a lot of the mods here. Even at that size, you're still running into the same names a lot and can easily judge their character. Used to be I couldn't go a post without seeing /u/twentone_21's dumb ass for example.
100k user sub? Gets iffy. I've added mods in /r/ImGoingToHellForThis via recommendation from other mods there even if they don't have a lot of experience of their own. You can have a new dude or two and have them learn from you and make mistakes without any issue because the sub isn't so active that shit is going to boil over immediately if someone fucks up.
Million+ user sub? Now you *need* some street cred. It's the proverbial big time, and bringing on fresh meat that is totally untrained is going to slow everyone else down, and get regular users kind of pissed off as well, because why should they trust the judgment of this asshole? On top of that, it's harder for that asshole to justify themselves under that sort of scrutiny. Shit boils over fast so if someone is a bit clueless, that can quite easily cause ye olde shitstorm.
You definitely can't have slackers... even though the top end of most of the defaults is pretty fucking incestuous and in those kind of cases the mod is going to be paying *way* less attention then other non-incestuous mods.
Now this incest especially plays into /r/worldnews. Every mod there *without exception* mods another default sub. Speaking from the experience of modding a 100k+ sub (Two actually, though AutoMod does all the work in /r/circlejerk) as one of the most active (as in I had like 4,000 mod actions while the next highest had 2,000 in a three month period) mods that is a lot of fucking work.
Now imagine 10 times that activity. Even spread out between multiple mods, with the fact that they have modding of other subs of the same size as well tends to means that there simply aren't enough bodies to handle shit like the spamfilter, let alone actually go into comments and handle business.
All of that said: It's not going to get better because as far as I've seen, they're [losing mods faster then they gain them]( and I haven't seen anyone recruiting there at all.
I'm of two minds about that whole thing: As a mod of /r/circlebroke that is fucking great! We'll have boatloads of content simply because without mods handling business /r/worldnews will (>Implying it hasn't already) degenerate into a huge piece of shit. As a reddit user though, that's pretty fucking weak shit that I wish we could have something done about. As my two options in that regard are unsubbing and applying to be a mod, I've opted for the former.
I can't state all the reasons I don't want to mod /r/worldnews specifically because it involves privileged information (Privileged as in: No, I won't tell you, don't even bother to PM me about it.), but I don't want to mod defaults in general because:
1. That's too much fucking work. I come to reddit to look at dumb cat pictures and complain, not deal with several page long spam filters, /r/subredditdrama and huge pieces of shit I can't just ban because fuck them I'm done with their shit.
2. Fuck reddit witch hunts.
3. I don't feel like the admins would have my back in the event of 2. I'm sure /u/karmanaut or /u/davidreiss666 would be happy to elaborate on how much the admins have helped them in their individual witch hunts
Well I went a bit rambly there, but...
**TL;DR** /r/worldnews is bad and I'm pretty sure it won't get better. | >the defaults are out of control.
Agree and disagree. Some defaults are completely out of control, some are relatively well done. /r/askreddit, while it is the source of a lot of stupid shit, has a pretty active and large team, as does /r/pics, as will /r/atheism in the future... I hope.
Part of the problem is lack of what many default mods view as qualified individuals for the job. If you run a 10k user sub you can recruit from the userbase, no biggy. Hell, that's how we got a lot of the mods here. Even at that size, you're still running into the same names a lot and can easily judge their character. Used to be I couldn't go a post without seeing /u/twentone_21's dumb ass for example.
100k user sub? Gets iffy. I've added mods in /r/ImGoingToHellForThis via recommendation from other mods there even if they don't have a lot of experience of their own. You can have a new dude or two and have them learn from you and make mistakes without any issue because the sub isn't so active that shit is going to boil over immediately if someone fucks up.
Million+ user sub? Now you need some street cred. It's the proverbial big time, and bringing on fresh meat that is totally untrained is going to slow everyone else down, and get regular users kind of pissed off as well, because why should they trust the judgment of this asshole? On top of that, it's harder for that asshole to justify themselves under that sort of scrutiny. Shit boils over fast so if someone is a bit clueless, that can quite easily cause ye olde shitstorm.
You definitely can't have slackers... even though the top end of most of the defaults is pretty fucking incestuous and in those kind of cases the mod is going to be paying way less attention then other non-incestuous mods.
Now this incest especially plays into /r/worldnews. Every mod there without exception mods another default sub. Speaking from the experience of modding a 100k+ sub (Two actually, though AutoMod does all the work in /r/circlejerk) as one of the most active (as in I had like 4,000 mod actions while the next highest had 2,000 in a three month period) mods that is a lot of fucking work.
Now imagine 10 times that activity. Even spread out between multiple mods, with the fact that they have modding of other subs of the same size as well tends to means that there simply aren't enough bodies to handle shit like the spamfilter, let alone actually go into comments and handle business.
All of that said: It's not going to get better because as far as I've seen, they're [losing mods faster then they gain them]( and I haven't seen anyone recruiting there at all.
I'm of two minds about that whole thing: As a mod of /r/circlebroke that is fucking great! We'll have boatloads of content simply because without mods handling business /r/worldnews will (>Implying it hasn't already) degenerate into a huge piece of shit. As a reddit user though, that's pretty fucking weak shit that I wish we could have something done about. As my two options in that regard are unsubbing and applying to be a mod, I've opted for the former.
I can't state all the reasons I don't want to mod /r/worldnews specifically because it involves privileged information (Privileged as in: No, I won't tell you, don't even bother to PM me about it.), but I don't want to mod defaults in general because:
That's too much fucking work. I come to reddit to look at dumb cat pictures and complain, not deal with several page long spam filters, /r/subredditdrama and huge pieces of shit I can't just ban because fuck them I'm done with their shit.
Fuck reddit witch hunts.
I don't feel like the admins would have my back in the event of 2. I'm sure /u/karmanaut or /u/davidreiss666 would be happy to elaborate on how much the admins have helped them in their individual witch hunts
Well I went a bit rambly there, but...
TL;DR /r/worldnews is bad and I'm pretty sure it won't get better.
| circlebroke | t5_2tnz9 | caa2fun | the defaults are out of control.
Agree and disagree. Some defaults are completely out of control, some are relatively well done. /r/askreddit, while it is the source of a lot of stupid shit, has a pretty active and large team, as does /r/pics, as will /r/atheism in the future... I hope.
Part of the problem is lack of what many default mods view as qualified individuals for the job. If you run a 10k user sub you can recruit from the userbase, no biggy. Hell, that's how we got a lot of the mods here. Even at that size, you're still running into the same names a lot and can easily judge their character. Used to be I couldn't go a post without seeing /u/twentone_21's dumb ass for example.
100k user sub? Gets iffy. I've added mods in /r/ImGoingToHellForThis via recommendation from other mods there even if they don't have a lot of experience of their own. You can have a new dude or two and have them learn from you and make mistakes without any issue because the sub isn't so active that shit is going to boil over immediately if someone fucks up.
Million+ user sub? Now you need some street cred. It's the proverbial big time, and bringing on fresh meat that is totally untrained is going to slow everyone else down, and get regular users kind of pissed off as well, because why should they trust the judgment of this asshole? On top of that, it's harder for that asshole to justify themselves under that sort of scrutiny. Shit boils over fast so if someone is a bit clueless, that can quite easily cause ye olde shitstorm.
You definitely can't have slackers... even though the top end of most of the defaults is pretty fucking incestuous and in those kind of cases the mod is going to be paying way less attention then other non-incestuous mods.
Now this incest especially plays into /r/worldnews. Every mod there without exception mods another default sub. Speaking from the experience of modding a 100k+ sub (Two actually, though AutoMod does all the work in /r/circlejerk) as one of the most active (as in I had like 4,000 mod actions while the next highest had 2,000 in a three month period) mods that is a lot of fucking work.
Now imagine 10 times that activity. Even spread out between multiple mods, with the fact that they have modding of other subs of the same size as well tends to means that there simply aren't enough bodies to handle shit like the spamfilter, let alone actually go into comments and handle business.
All of that said: It's not going to get better because as far as I've seen, they're [losing mods faster then they gain them]( and I haven't seen anyone recruiting there at all.
I'm of two minds about that whole thing: As a mod of /r/circlebroke that is fucking great! We'll have boatloads of content simply because without mods handling business /r/worldnews will (>Implying it hasn't already) degenerate into a huge piece of shit. As a reddit user though, that's pretty fucking weak shit that I wish we could have something done about. As my two options in that regard are unsubbing and applying to be a mod, I've opted for the former.
I can't state all the reasons I don't want to mod /r/worldnews specifically because it involves privileged information (Privileged as in: No, I won't tell you, don't even bother to PM me about it.), but I don't want to mod defaults in general because:
That's too much fucking work. I come to reddit to look at dumb cat pictures and complain, not deal with several page long spam filters, /r/subredditdrama and huge pieces of shit I can't just ban because fuck them I'm done with their shit.
Fuck reddit witch hunts.
I don't feel like the admins would have my back in the event of 2. I'm sure /u/karmanaut or /u/davidreiss666 would be happy to elaborate on how much the admins have helped them in their individual witch hunts
Well I went a bit rambly there, but... | r/worldnews is bad and I'm pretty sure it won't get better. |
Whkat2000 | It's not the amount of work that will fluster a barista it's the friendliness of the customer. I can speak for my whole store on this one, if your nice when you come up we will all go out of our way to help you figure out what you like. If you want to try something but aren't sure, we will assure you that we will make your backup drink if you don't like it. Which is actually what should be done anyway. All stores have a "just say yes" policy. You don't like what you got bring it back we will remake it for you or even make you something totally different. It really comes down to however you act. Which by the sound of it you'll have no problem. I take pride in helping someone in your situation figure out an alternative that you'll like.
My recommendations based on what you like would be for a frozen drink an espresso frappachino with an extra shot. For hot, half the pumps of cinnamon dolce syrup might be right up your alley.
TL;DR don't be a dick and we will help the shit out of you. Just not literally help the shit out of you | It's not the amount of work that will fluster a barista it's the friendliness of the customer. I can speak for my whole store on this one, if your nice when you come up we will all go out of our way to help you figure out what you like. If you want to try something but aren't sure, we will assure you that we will make your backup drink if you don't like it. Which is actually what should be done anyway. All stores have a "just say yes" policy. You don't like what you got bring it back we will remake it for you or even make you something totally different. It really comes down to however you act. Which by the sound of it you'll have no problem. I take pride in helping someone in your situation figure out an alternative that you'll like.
My recommendations based on what you like would be for a frozen drink an espresso frappachino with an extra shot. For hot, half the pumps of cinnamon dolce syrup might be right up your alley.
TL;DR don't be a dick and we will help the shit out of you. Just not literally help the shit out of you
| starbucks | t5_2qwza | caa54qm | It's not the amount of work that will fluster a barista it's the friendliness of the customer. I can speak for my whole store on this one, if your nice when you come up we will all go out of our way to help you figure out what you like. If you want to try something but aren't sure, we will assure you that we will make your backup drink if you don't like it. Which is actually what should be done anyway. All stores have a "just say yes" policy. You don't like what you got bring it back we will remake it for you or even make you something totally different. It really comes down to however you act. Which by the sound of it you'll have no problem. I take pride in helping someone in your situation figure out an alternative that you'll like.
My recommendations based on what you like would be for a frozen drink an espresso frappachino with an extra shot. For hot, half the pumps of cinnamon dolce syrup might be right up your alley. | don't be a dick and we will help the shit out of you. Just not literally help the shit out of you |
Xavier_the_Great |
Unless a fundamental change in technology comes so that it would be impossible to be in poverty and classes/money are meaningless, there will always be people in poverty.
People have fundamentally different intelligence and strength, among other attributes. Intelligence is the most important and useful factor for determining the social class that one will eventually end up in.
There are people with very low IQ's. Something like 80 and below puts you at a very high risk of falling into poverty eventually. Those people with something like <70 IQ are, sadly, simply not intelligent enough to do but very menial jobs, which will not rescue them from the grip of poverty. Some, VERY FEW, can hardly do that. It's hard for them to get hired in the first place too.
Of course, the support of family members, if they have any(and if they are not very poor too, which is likely), and charity, can keep these people from falling under the horrible spell of poverty. But it is difficult. Some just aren't even that lucky. They just fundamentally cannot overcome their lack of wealth, and have none to help him.
Even worse is that it's likely that the people born mentally retarded are probably in a lower-than-average IQ and thus probably poor area in the first place, so that charities and supportive families are hard to come by.
Which is why I hope for a sort of technological revolution (possibly a singularity) that will mean none of us need suffer due to nature's cruel tale of scarcity very much, at least, not for a while.
TL;DR There will be poverty until a technological revolution. And then poverty again as everything in the universe dies. | Unless a fundamental change in technology comes so that it would be impossible to be in poverty and classes/money are meaningless, there will always be people in poverty.
People have fundamentally different intelligence and strength, among other attributes. Intelligence is the most important and useful factor for determining the social class that one will eventually end up in.
There are people with very low IQ's. Something like 80 and below puts you at a very high risk of falling into poverty eventually. Those people with something like <70 IQ are, sadly, simply not intelligent enough to do but very menial jobs, which will not rescue them from the grip of poverty. Some, VERY FEW, can hardly do that. It's hard for them to get hired in the first place too.
Of course, the support of family members, if they have any(and if they are not very poor too, which is likely), and charity, can keep these people from falling under the horrible spell of poverty. But it is difficult. Some just aren't even that lucky. They just fundamentally cannot overcome their lack of wealth, and have none to help him.
Even worse is that it's likely that the people born mentally retarded are probably in a lower-than-average IQ and thus probably poor area in the first place, so that charities and supportive families are hard to come by.
Which is why I hope for a sort of technological revolution (possibly a singularity) that will mean none of us need suffer due to nature's cruel tale of scarcity very much, at least, not for a while.
TL;DR There will be poverty until a technological revolution. And then poverty again as everything in the universe dies.
| Anarcho_Capitalism | t5_2qorf | caaajd8 | Unless a fundamental change in technology comes so that it would be impossible to be in poverty and classes/money are meaningless, there will always be people in poverty.
People have fundamentally different intelligence and strength, among other attributes. Intelligence is the most important and useful factor for determining the social class that one will eventually end up in.
There are people with very low IQ's. Something like 80 and below puts you at a very high risk of falling into poverty eventually. Those people with something like <70 IQ are, sadly, simply not intelligent enough to do but very menial jobs, which will not rescue them from the grip of poverty. Some, VERY FEW, can hardly do that. It's hard for them to get hired in the first place too.
Of course, the support of family members, if they have any(and if they are not very poor too, which is likely), and charity, can keep these people from falling under the horrible spell of poverty. But it is difficult. Some just aren't even that lucky. They just fundamentally cannot overcome their lack of wealth, and have none to help him.
Even worse is that it's likely that the people born mentally retarded are probably in a lower-than-average IQ and thus probably poor area in the first place, so that charities and supportive families are hard to come by.
Which is why I hope for a sort of technological revolution (possibly a singularity) that will mean none of us need suffer due to nature's cruel tale of scarcity very much, at least, not for a while. | There will be poverty until a technological revolution. And then poverty again as everything in the universe dies. |
Doc308 | Just A little food for thought; In the event you get a centerfire you don't *have to* shoot pricey match ammo when you're on the 100yd range. Now don't expect sub MOA groups but if you can find it [silver bear]( runs $0.52/round. [Here is something in a brass case]( for $0.71/round. There is even [this stuff]( now disclaimer time, I've never shot it, so can't speak on it's shootability but damn that's just $0.18/round. Certaintly a cheap way to get trigger time.
When I take guests to my 200yd range and they want to shoot one of my .308s I don't even bring match ammo, I've had first timers on 2moa targets with [silver bear]( just be ready to scrub the bolt face a bit more than usual.
I took my daughters half brother to the 1k range & got him to 800yds with [this]( He was 9yrs old at the time. We didn't get around to trying any farther.
Tl:dr Inexpensive ammo has its place, and may play a role in your solution. | Just A little food for thought; In the event you get a centerfire you don't have to shoot pricey match ammo when you're on the 100yd range. Now don't expect sub MOA groups but if you can find it [silver bear]( runs $0.52/round. [Here is something in a brass case]( for $0.71/round. There is even [this stuff]( now disclaimer time, I've never shot it, so can't speak on it's shootability but damn that's just $0.18/round. Certaintly a cheap way to get trigger time.
When I take guests to my 200yd range and they want to shoot one of my .308s I don't even bring match ammo, I've had first timers on 2moa targets with [silver bear]( just be ready to scrub the bolt face a bit more than usual.
I took my daughters half brother to the 1k range & got him to 800yds with [this]( He was 9yrs old at the time. We didn't get around to trying any farther.
Tl:dr Inexpensive ammo has its place, and may play a role in your solution.
| longrange | t5_2ts6o | caangwk | Just A little food for thought; In the event you get a centerfire you don't have to shoot pricey match ammo when you're on the 100yd range. Now don't expect sub MOA groups but if you can find it [silver bear]( runs $0.52/round. [Here is something in a brass case]( for $0.71/round. There is even [this stuff]( now disclaimer time, I've never shot it, so can't speak on it's shootability but damn that's just $0.18/round. Certaintly a cheap way to get trigger time.
When I take guests to my 200yd range and they want to shoot one of my .308s I don't even bring match ammo, I've had first timers on 2moa targets with [silver bear]( just be ready to scrub the bolt face a bit more than usual.
I took my daughters half brother to the 1k range & got him to 800yds with [this]( He was 9yrs old at the time. We didn't get around to trying any farther. | Inexpensive ammo has its place, and may play a role in your solution. |
coloradoraider | My friend has recently went from curvy to pregnant (gained 70) to pretty skinny. No matter which phase she was in, her boobs, which very clearly changed in size, always look awkward for her frame. They did seem more proportional to her when she had a bit of extra weight, but now that she is skinny, they make her chest twice the thickness as the rest of her body.
TL;DR some women just have big boobs. | My friend has recently went from curvy to pregnant (gained 70) to pretty skinny. No matter which phase she was in, her boobs, which very clearly changed in size, always look awkward for her frame. They did seem more proportional to her when she had a bit of extra weight, but now that she is skinny, they make her chest twice the thickness as the rest of her body.
TL;DR some women just have big boobs.
| loseit | t5_2rz8w | caanyl1 | My friend has recently went from curvy to pregnant (gained 70) to pretty skinny. No matter which phase she was in, her boobs, which very clearly changed in size, always look awkward for her frame. They did seem more proportional to her when she had a bit of extra weight, but now that she is skinny, they make her chest twice the thickness as the rest of her body. | some women just have big boobs. |
me_and_batman | Then you should know you won't be doing any engineering in the classical sense of design or planning. I'm speaking specifically about the army, but other branches will be structured similarly. (Maybe not the Navy, they are a more technical bunch, but in general)
If you enlist, you could learn a particular trade related to mechE such as welding, buuuuut, you won't learn much engineering past the basics to do that task.
If you get commissioned as an officer in the engineer branch, instead you MAY do some project management such as resourcing and coordinating for the unit to build something. Again though, no mechanical engineering specific stuff. Some officers down the line will get a chance to practice their engineering skills, but it's so far down the career path, that you don't want to join just for that. And it's also possible to be on that career path and still not get to that position.
It might seem odd, but for as much technical work the military does sometimes, the guys in the military don't ever see any of the engineering behind it. Joining military service is HUGE commitment and it WILL change your life. You should not join unless you've given it a lot of thought and talked to a LOT of people.
I remember being a high school senior and being both gung ho about joining the military as well as studying engineering. Looking back now I realize that I didn't know all that much about either. It's good that you have an idea what you want to do, but being 17-18 it's hard to grasp in your head what either profession does because you simply haven't had that exposure or experience to see it. I'd be happy to explain more in detail if you'd like.
TL;DR: Joining the military is a BIG decision, and you'd have to be incredibly lucky to land a future position that actually involves classical engineering. | Then you should know you won't be doing any engineering in the classical sense of design or planning. I'm speaking specifically about the army, but other branches will be structured similarly. (Maybe not the Navy, they are a more technical bunch, but in general)
If you enlist, you could learn a particular trade related to mechE such as welding, buuuuut, you won't learn much engineering past the basics to do that task.
If you get commissioned as an officer in the engineer branch, instead you MAY do some project management such as resourcing and coordinating for the unit to build something. Again though, no mechanical engineering specific stuff. Some officers down the line will get a chance to practice their engineering skills, but it's so far down the career path, that you don't want to join just for that. And it's also possible to be on that career path and still not get to that position.
It might seem odd, but for as much technical work the military does sometimes, the guys in the military don't ever see any of the engineering behind it. Joining military service is HUGE commitment and it WILL change your life. You should not join unless you've given it a lot of thought and talked to a LOT of people.
I remember being a high school senior and being both gung ho about joining the military as well as studying engineering. Looking back now I realize that I didn't know all that much about either. It's good that you have an idea what you want to do, but being 17-18 it's hard to grasp in your head what either profession does because you simply haven't had that exposure or experience to see it. I'd be happy to explain more in detail if you'd like.
TL;DR: Joining the military is a BIG decision, and you'd have to be incredibly lucky to land a future position that actually involves classical engineering.
| engineering | t5_2qhpi | cab8in9 | Then you should know you won't be doing any engineering in the classical sense of design or planning. I'm speaking specifically about the army, but other branches will be structured similarly. (Maybe not the Navy, they are a more technical bunch, but in general)
If you enlist, you could learn a particular trade related to mechE such as welding, buuuuut, you won't learn much engineering past the basics to do that task.
If you get commissioned as an officer in the engineer branch, instead you MAY do some project management such as resourcing and coordinating for the unit to build something. Again though, no mechanical engineering specific stuff. Some officers down the line will get a chance to practice their engineering skills, but it's so far down the career path, that you don't want to join just for that. And it's also possible to be on that career path and still not get to that position.
It might seem odd, but for as much technical work the military does sometimes, the guys in the military don't ever see any of the engineering behind it. Joining military service is HUGE commitment and it WILL change your life. You should not join unless you've given it a lot of thought and talked to a LOT of people.
I remember being a high school senior and being both gung ho about joining the military as well as studying engineering. Looking back now I realize that I didn't know all that much about either. It's good that you have an idea what you want to do, but being 17-18 it's hard to grasp in your head what either profession does because you simply haven't had that exposure or experience to see it. I'd be happy to explain more in detail if you'd like. | Joining the military is a BIG decision, and you'd have to be incredibly lucky to land a future position that actually involves classical engineering. |
TOLstryk | Military and civilian engineer here, I'm in the Army Reserve, I'm actually on a special team, called a FEST-A, that develops, plans, manages, and controls construction projects for an engineering battalion. If you are in college I'd wait til you finish graduation and look into OCS/Direct Commission. But right now, there's too many LT's out there it seems.
If you just straight join the military, your chances of doing anything engineering related is slim. MOS 12T is about the closest to actual civilian engineering-wise, but it's more civil engineering and surveying. There's a few MOS's (jobs) in 92-series that are maintenance and shop managers, but as an officer, you won't have much hands-on time.
TL;DR: Wait until you're done with college, see where you stand, look into Reserve forces. | Military and civilian engineer here, I'm in the Army Reserve, I'm actually on a special team, called a FEST-A, that develops, plans, manages, and controls construction projects for an engineering battalion. If you are in college I'd wait til you finish graduation and look into OCS/Direct Commission. But right now, there's too many LT's out there it seems.
If you just straight join the military, your chances of doing anything engineering related is slim. MOS 12T is about the closest to actual civilian engineering-wise, but it's more civil engineering and surveying. There's a few MOS's (jobs) in 92-series that are maintenance and shop managers, but as an officer, you won't have much hands-on time.
TL;DR: Wait until you're done with college, see where you stand, look into Reserve forces.
| engineering | t5_2qhpi | cacvokt | Military and civilian engineer here, I'm in the Army Reserve, I'm actually on a special team, called a FEST-A, that develops, plans, manages, and controls construction projects for an engineering battalion. If you are in college I'd wait til you finish graduation and look into OCS/Direct Commission. But right now, there's too many LT's out there it seems.
If you just straight join the military, your chances of doing anything engineering related is slim. MOS 12T is about the closest to actual civilian engineering-wise, but it's more civil engineering and surveying. There's a few MOS's (jobs) in 92-series that are maintenance and shop managers, but as an officer, you won't have much hands-on time. | Wait until you're done with college, see where you stand, look into Reserve forces. |
irishrose7777 | I was never forced, I asked my parents to do pageants at age 10 or so and they complied. I was in pageants for roughly 4 years. I met many amazing friends and continue to keep in contact with some of them
BEST: Probably the confidence and speaking skills I gained. A big part of pageants are the interview portions, in which contestants are supposed to get their ideas on controversial topics across in diplomatic ways. I think learning to do that so early really helped me in other areas as I got older
WORST: The majority of people I met in pageants were nice, but there were one or two I could do without. One pageant I ended up winning my division over a girl I'd been in a pageant or two with before. When I got to the dressing room afterwards to change, her mother was ranting about me winning, saying it was rigged, I didn't deserve it, ect. I honestly didn't care, and my mom didn't want to get involved so she was just trying to help me get out of there as soon as possible. Another mom told her to watch her mouth, and she flew off the handle. She started SCREECHING and ranting, calling me a bitch and all of that. My mom scurried me out of the room, and as we got to the door the other mom flung her daughter's trophy at me, missed, and it hit the wall so hard that the marble split in two. I actually saw the daughter at another pageant and a cheer competition, it was awkward.
TL;DR: Lots of nice people, confidence and speaking ability gained, no regrets. A few crazy moms | I was never forced, I asked my parents to do pageants at age 10 or so and they complied. I was in pageants for roughly 4 years. I met many amazing friends and continue to keep in contact with some of them
BEST: Probably the confidence and speaking skills I gained. A big part of pageants are the interview portions, in which contestants are supposed to get their ideas on controversial topics across in diplomatic ways. I think learning to do that so early really helped me in other areas as I got older
WORST: The majority of people I met in pageants were nice, but there were one or two I could do without. One pageant I ended up winning my division over a girl I'd been in a pageant or two with before. When I got to the dressing room afterwards to change, her mother was ranting about me winning, saying it was rigged, I didn't deserve it, ect. I honestly didn't care, and my mom didn't want to get involved so she was just trying to help me get out of there as soon as possible. Another mom told her to watch her mouth, and she flew off the handle. She started SCREECHING and ranting, calling me a bitch and all of that. My mom scurried me out of the room, and as we got to the door the other mom flung her daughter's trophy at me, missed, and it hit the wall so hard that the marble split in two. I actually saw the daughter at another pageant and a cheer competition, it was awkward.
TL;DR: Lots of nice people, confidence and speaking ability gained, no regrets. A few crazy moms
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | caavtoi | I was never forced, I asked my parents to do pageants at age 10 or so and they complied. I was in pageants for roughly 4 years. I met many amazing friends and continue to keep in contact with some of them
BEST: Probably the confidence and speaking skills I gained. A big part of pageants are the interview portions, in which contestants are supposed to get their ideas on controversial topics across in diplomatic ways. I think learning to do that so early really helped me in other areas as I got older
WORST: The majority of people I met in pageants were nice, but there were one or two I could do without. One pageant I ended up winning my division over a girl I'd been in a pageant or two with before. When I got to the dressing room afterwards to change, her mother was ranting about me winning, saying it was rigged, I didn't deserve it, ect. I honestly didn't care, and my mom didn't want to get involved so she was just trying to help me get out of there as soon as possible. Another mom told her to watch her mouth, and she flew off the handle. She started SCREECHING and ranting, calling me a bitch and all of that. My mom scurried me out of the room, and as we got to the door the other mom flung her daughter's trophy at me, missed, and it hit the wall so hard that the marble split in two. I actually saw the daughter at another pageant and a cheer competition, it was awkward. | Lots of nice people, confidence and speaking ability gained, no regrets. A few crazy moms |
zialover10 | Not pageants, but I was in ballet for a long time. Honestly, it was horrible. I love the art of ballet and am still passionate about it as a hobby, but the industry/ people/ managers/ dancers/ lifestyle will drive anyone to madness if you pursue it seriously. I was called fat more times than I can count. I was called too-tall which I am for competitive dance. I was called ugly. I was called ungraceful. There is a lot of pressure, both subtle and direct, in that industry. My poor mom - all she wanted was a prima ballerina and instead got a football-loving, beer-drinking, down-to-earth, jeans-and-a-T-shirt gal.
TL;DR - I am still moved by the grace and beauty and talent of ballet, but see how dark the industry can really be. | Not pageants, but I was in ballet for a long time. Honestly, it was horrible. I love the art of ballet and am still passionate about it as a hobby, but the industry/ people/ managers/ dancers/ lifestyle will drive anyone to madness if you pursue it seriously. I was called fat more times than I can count. I was called too-tall which I am for competitive dance. I was called ugly. I was called ungraceful. There is a lot of pressure, both subtle and direct, in that industry. My poor mom - all she wanted was a prima ballerina and instead got a football-loving, beer-drinking, down-to-earth, jeans-and-a-T-shirt gal.
TL;DR - I am still moved by the grace and beauty and talent of ballet, but see how dark the industry can really be.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | caba483 | Not pageants, but I was in ballet for a long time. Honestly, it was horrible. I love the art of ballet and am still passionate about it as a hobby, but the industry/ people/ managers/ dancers/ lifestyle will drive anyone to madness if you pursue it seriously. I was called fat more times than I can count. I was called too-tall which I am for competitive dance. I was called ugly. I was called ungraceful. There is a lot of pressure, both subtle and direct, in that industry. My poor mom - all she wanted was a prima ballerina and instead got a football-loving, beer-drinking, down-to-earth, jeans-and-a-T-shirt gal. | I am still moved by the grace and beauty and talent of ballet, but see how dark the industry can really be. |
Ham_Planet | sorry to adivce something else, but i am deeply regretting spending around 80euros for practice amp when i started playing, because if you have active speakers it is much better to buy audio interface, if you have good speakers sound is infinitely better, and in software like guitar rig or amplitube you can mix lot of good sounds and use many effects, amps, ... and you can easily record yourself...
tl;dr sound of practice amp is bad compared to audio interface + softvare + good speakers | sorry to adivce something else, but i am deeply regretting spending around 80euros for practice amp when i started playing, because if you have active speakers it is much better to buy audio interface, if you have good speakers sound is infinitely better, and in software like guitar rig or amplitube you can mix lot of good sounds and use many effects, amps, ... and you can easily record yourself...
tl;dr sound of practice amp is bad compared to audio interface + softvare + good speakers
| Bass | t5_2qpc3 | caavmy1 | sorry to adivce something else, but i am deeply regretting spending around 80euros for practice amp when i started playing, because if you have active speakers it is much better to buy audio interface, if you have good speakers sound is infinitely better, and in software like guitar rig or amplitube you can mix lot of good sounds and use many effects, amps, ... and you can easily record yourself... | sound of practice amp is bad compared to audio interface + softvare + good speakers |
juma606 | I grew up in Chicago, and went to college a decade ago in Atlanta, so it's not new to me. As a man, I have mixed feelings. It's sexy as fuck -- but, watching ten year olds do that shit *every time* a song comes on is more than disturbing.
TL;DR: Fine for adults; kids leave it alone, please. | I grew up in Chicago, and went to college a decade ago in Atlanta, so it's not new to me. As a man, I have mixed feelings. It's sexy as fuck -- but, watching ten year olds do that shit every time a song comes on is more than disturbing.
TL;DR: Fine for adults; kids leave it alone, please.
| blackladies | t5_2vk9t | cabjk07 | I grew up in Chicago, and went to college a decade ago in Atlanta, so it's not new to me. As a man, I have mixed feelings. It's sexy as fuck -- but, watching ten year olds do that shit every time a song comes on is more than disturbing. | Fine for adults; kids leave it alone, please. |
WonTheGame | The local businesses do typically continue to operate, albeit at a a reduced level. No matter your clientele, there will be those that go to the lowest possible price. This results in substandard labor environments and a severe pay crunch for employees at smaller locations, leading to downsizings, exacerbating the issue of diminished ability to provide customer service.
This is a combined issue with walmart skirting around legal price fixing.
When walmart buys whole chickens from tyson, for example, the negotiator for walmart (yes, that's how purchasing works on a large scale) essentially tells the tyson representative assigned to corporate, "Look, walmart buys "blah" percentage of your total chicken sales for the year, so we want them at this price. Say no, and we'll go somewhere else for our birds."
This is typically a high enough price that, logistically, tyson can't refuse. In order to keep everything above board, tyson then makes a pricing chart to reflect walmarts' purchase size. Arguably, no single company is going to purchase as much as the number one company on the Fortune 500, so nobody else can legitimately get that same cost.
This is called the economy of scale. Get some friends together and shop for the lot of yourselves for a few months, you will quickly see how effective it is.
The legality of walmarts' abuse of the economy of scale is questionable, for obvious reasons, and remains legally untouched, also for obvious reasons.
If you would like more examples of walmart having gained individual sovereignty, look into the term "minor metropolitan super-saturation test site" in conjunction to walmart. The company conducts studies to find out how many walmarts can be crammed into an area before all of them operate at a negative net cost.
TL;DR
Walmart's bad, Mmk.
Every move they make to expand is deliberately designed to place a choke hold on the market. | The local businesses do typically continue to operate, albeit at a a reduced level. No matter your clientele, there will be those that go to the lowest possible price. This results in substandard labor environments and a severe pay crunch for employees at smaller locations, leading to downsizings, exacerbating the issue of diminished ability to provide customer service.
This is a combined issue with walmart skirting around legal price fixing.
When walmart buys whole chickens from tyson, for example, the negotiator for walmart (yes, that's how purchasing works on a large scale) essentially tells the tyson representative assigned to corporate, "Look, walmart buys "blah" percentage of your total chicken sales for the year, so we want them at this price. Say no, and we'll go somewhere else for our birds."
This is typically a high enough price that, logistically, tyson can't refuse. In order to keep everything above board, tyson then makes a pricing chart to reflect walmarts' purchase size. Arguably, no single company is going to purchase as much as the number one company on the Fortune 500, so nobody else can legitimately get that same cost.
This is called the economy of scale. Get some friends together and shop for the lot of yourselves for a few months, you will quickly see how effective it is.
The legality of walmarts' abuse of the economy of scale is questionable, for obvious reasons, and remains legally untouched, also for obvious reasons.
If you would like more examples of walmart having gained individual sovereignty, look into the term "minor metropolitan super-saturation test site" in conjunction to walmart. The company conducts studies to find out how many walmarts can be crammed into an area before all of them operate at a negative net cost.
TL;DR
Walmart's bad, Mmk.
Every move they make to expand is deliberately designed to place a choke hold on the market.
| funny | t5_2qh33 | cabaab7 | The local businesses do typically continue to operate, albeit at a a reduced level. No matter your clientele, there will be those that go to the lowest possible price. This results in substandard labor environments and a severe pay crunch for employees at smaller locations, leading to downsizings, exacerbating the issue of diminished ability to provide customer service.
This is a combined issue with walmart skirting around legal price fixing.
When walmart buys whole chickens from tyson, for example, the negotiator for walmart (yes, that's how purchasing works on a large scale) essentially tells the tyson representative assigned to corporate, "Look, walmart buys "blah" percentage of your total chicken sales for the year, so we want them at this price. Say no, and we'll go somewhere else for our birds."
This is typically a high enough price that, logistically, tyson can't refuse. In order to keep everything above board, tyson then makes a pricing chart to reflect walmarts' purchase size. Arguably, no single company is going to purchase as much as the number one company on the Fortune 500, so nobody else can legitimately get that same cost.
This is called the economy of scale. Get some friends together and shop for the lot of yourselves for a few months, you will quickly see how effective it is.
The legality of walmarts' abuse of the economy of scale is questionable, for obvious reasons, and remains legally untouched, also for obvious reasons.
If you would like more examples of walmart having gained individual sovereignty, look into the term "minor metropolitan super-saturation test site" in conjunction to walmart. The company conducts studies to find out how many walmarts can be crammed into an area before all of them operate at a negative net cost. | Walmart's bad, Mmk.
Every move they make to expand is deliberately designed to place a choke hold on the market. |
SomeguyinLA | 44% is actually higher than I expected. Quite frankly, that's pretty damn good. Your employer doesn't OWE you health insurance.
$10.10 an hour doesn't sound to bad to me.
I don't see any issue with the August 2006 statement. It makes sense that even if someone worked at Wal-Mart for 35 years, they wouldn't get paid $20 an hour to stock shelves. That's just crazy.
None of that justifies your statement that they are at the bottom of the barrel in terms of employee relations.
I was a manager at Target. It was a good place to work. Our best employees didn't even get 6% raises. Shit, you'd be lucky to get a 6% raise just about anywhere.
TL;DR You're being dramatic to fit the Wal-Mart hating narrative. | 44% is actually higher than I expected. Quite frankly, that's pretty damn good. Your employer doesn't OWE you health insurance.
$10.10 an hour doesn't sound to bad to me.
I don't see any issue with the August 2006 statement. It makes sense that even if someone worked at Wal-Mart for 35 years, they wouldn't get paid $20 an hour to stock shelves. That's just crazy.
None of that justifies your statement that they are at the bottom of the barrel in terms of employee relations.
I was a manager at Target. It was a good place to work. Our best employees didn't even get 6% raises. Shit, you'd be lucky to get a 6% raise just about anywhere.
TL;DR You're being dramatic to fit the Wal-Mart hating narrative.
| funny | t5_2qh33 | cac02op | 44% is actually higher than I expected. Quite frankly, that's pretty damn good. Your employer doesn't OWE you health insurance.
$10.10 an hour doesn't sound to bad to me.
I don't see any issue with the August 2006 statement. It makes sense that even if someone worked at Wal-Mart for 35 years, they wouldn't get paid $20 an hour to stock shelves. That's just crazy.
None of that justifies your statement that they are at the bottom of the barrel in terms of employee relations.
I was a manager at Target. It was a good place to work. Our best employees didn't even get 6% raises. Shit, you'd be lucky to get a 6% raise just about anywhere. | You're being dramatic to fit the Wal-Mart hating narrative. |
yeahMike | I picked up a note II recently (before the S4) even though the Note III is likely coming in December.
I'm starting to rather like picking up hardware that's already well supported by the community, has a stable kernel/radio setup, is already optimized on battery. Before I bought it, I was able to go back through forums and see anyone having problems.
Hardware is starting to slow it's roll a little bit. Just two years ago, Every new phone was dramatically faster than the last. I'm finally up to a quad core and 2GB of ram, i'm not dieing for the next processor that has a couple hundred more mhz. The newer graphic processors are pretty nice, but no game I've seen yet is swamping my current GPU.
tl;dr The next new shiny is a wildcard; buy good established phones and upgrade to the new shiny when everyone has worked out the kinks for you. | I picked up a note II recently (before the S4) even though the Note III is likely coming in December.
I'm starting to rather like picking up hardware that's already well supported by the community, has a stable kernel/radio setup, is already optimized on battery. Before I bought it, I was able to go back through forums and see anyone having problems.
Hardware is starting to slow it's roll a little bit. Just two years ago, Every new phone was dramatically faster than the last. I'm finally up to a quad core and 2GB of ram, i'm not dieing for the next processor that has a couple hundred more mhz. The newer graphic processors are pretty nice, but no game I've seen yet is swamping my current GPU.
tl;dr The next new shiny is a wildcard; buy good established phones and upgrade to the new shiny when everyone has worked out the kinks for you.
| Android | t5_2qlqh | cab2b3l | I picked up a note II recently (before the S4) even though the Note III is likely coming in December.
I'm starting to rather like picking up hardware that's already well supported by the community, has a stable kernel/radio setup, is already optimized on battery. Before I bought it, I was able to go back through forums and see anyone having problems.
Hardware is starting to slow it's roll a little bit. Just two years ago, Every new phone was dramatically faster than the last. I'm finally up to a quad core and 2GB of ram, i'm not dieing for the next processor that has a couple hundred more mhz. The newer graphic processors are pretty nice, but no game I've seen yet is swamping my current GPU. | The next new shiny is a wildcard; buy good established phones and upgrade to the new shiny when everyone has worked out the kinks for you. |
amijustafool | If you really don't enjoy Econ, then I think you should definitely take time to explore other majors. And if you're having a hard time exploring at Cal, then going to CC for some time is not a bad idea at all.
I just graduated with an Econ degree. However, I don't give two shits about Econ or 99% of the stuff that I learned while taking those classes. I felt out of place and unmotivated during my studies, so I got nothing out of Econ. I got stuck with it because I didn't know what else to do and the few times I tried exploring, I ended up finding things that I didn't enjoy. My degree only helps a bit with job searching because Econ stands out for a lot of businesses I guess, but they're all jobs that I really don't give much of a damn for and don't see myself actually being happy with. I really wish I took time to explore more, whether it was at Cal or at a CC because there's so much here that probably would've been more interesting to me.
What you study may or may not determine your career after you graduate. If you just want to go into business, you don't really need a particular major as long as you have some relevant internships/work experience under your belt when you apply, so you should study something you enjoy. If you want to go into academia or a STEM field, you're more likely to need to pick specific majors. That said though, you should pick a career-relevant major that you enjoy. Otherwise, you might feel like your just slaving away.
Also, you should find something that interests you for your own personal development. You're surrounded by bright people and have access to excellent resources here, so there's a lot to learn. You won't learn if you hate it and find no motivation to seek more knowledge. You should graduate college a brighter person with a better understanding of the world. You can achieve that by studying something you actually enjoy.
TL;DR Take your time to explore, even if it means going to a CC for some time. Do some soul searching so that you can find what's right for you. | If you really don't enjoy Econ, then I think you should definitely take time to explore other majors. And if you're having a hard time exploring at Cal, then going to CC for some time is not a bad idea at all.
I just graduated with an Econ degree. However, I don't give two shits about Econ or 99% of the stuff that I learned while taking those classes. I felt out of place and unmotivated during my studies, so I got nothing out of Econ. I got stuck with it because I didn't know what else to do and the few times I tried exploring, I ended up finding things that I didn't enjoy. My degree only helps a bit with job searching because Econ stands out for a lot of businesses I guess, but they're all jobs that I really don't give much of a damn for and don't see myself actually being happy with. I really wish I took time to explore more, whether it was at Cal or at a CC because there's so much here that probably would've been more interesting to me.
What you study may or may not determine your career after you graduate. If you just want to go into business, you don't really need a particular major as long as you have some relevant internships/work experience under your belt when you apply, so you should study something you enjoy. If you want to go into academia or a STEM field, you're more likely to need to pick specific majors. That said though, you should pick a career-relevant major that you enjoy. Otherwise, you might feel like your just slaving away.
Also, you should find something that interests you for your own personal development. You're surrounded by bright people and have access to excellent resources here, so there's a lot to learn. You won't learn if you hate it and find no motivation to seek more knowledge. You should graduate college a brighter person with a better understanding of the world. You can achieve that by studying something you actually enjoy.
TL;DR Take your time to explore, even if it means going to a CC for some time. Do some soul searching so that you can find what's right for you.
| berkeley | t5_2qh9w | cabku8m | If you really don't enjoy Econ, then I think you should definitely take time to explore other majors. And if you're having a hard time exploring at Cal, then going to CC for some time is not a bad idea at all.
I just graduated with an Econ degree. However, I don't give two shits about Econ or 99% of the stuff that I learned while taking those classes. I felt out of place and unmotivated during my studies, so I got nothing out of Econ. I got stuck with it because I didn't know what else to do and the few times I tried exploring, I ended up finding things that I didn't enjoy. My degree only helps a bit with job searching because Econ stands out for a lot of businesses I guess, but they're all jobs that I really don't give much of a damn for and don't see myself actually being happy with. I really wish I took time to explore more, whether it was at Cal or at a CC because there's so much here that probably would've been more interesting to me.
What you study may or may not determine your career after you graduate. If you just want to go into business, you don't really need a particular major as long as you have some relevant internships/work experience under your belt when you apply, so you should study something you enjoy. If you want to go into academia or a STEM field, you're more likely to need to pick specific majors. That said though, you should pick a career-relevant major that you enjoy. Otherwise, you might feel like your just slaving away.
Also, you should find something that interests you for your own personal development. You're surrounded by bright people and have access to excellent resources here, so there's a lot to learn. You won't learn if you hate it and find no motivation to seek more knowledge. You should graduate college a brighter person with a better understanding of the world. You can achieve that by studying something you actually enjoy. | Take your time to explore, even if it means going to a CC for some time. Do some soul searching so that you can find what's right for you. |
ElMachoBarracho | I was raised in Florida, New York and New Jersey and moved to Tennessee with my family about 7 years ago. I've lived in Chattanooga (which was a great little city), Nashville (eh), and now about an hour outside of Memphis (eh again). My experience here has been pretty positive overall. I work as a server in a restaurant and have met *a lot* of people over the years. Most people down here are very cool, down to earth and generally very nice.
However there is still a good chunk of the population that would be considered your "stereotypical southerner." Ignorant redneck assholes that wear camo hats, drive pickup trucks still decorated with "W" stickers from a decade ago, and drink lots of mountain dew. I deal with them on a daily basis. And they fucking suck. And they continually elect morons to government office, which is a pretty serious problem. That being said, it's still not that bad. Nearly everywhere I've been and lived has a population that most people find annoying. On the plus side, there is a noticeable absence of hipsters.
I've made lots of cool friends down here, but honestly most of them are also from outside the state. Lots of northerners and some Mexican immigrants I've worked with in the kitchens.
All in all, while the southern stereotype is still very much alive, I think this place is a lot better than what most people think. Out in eastern TN there are some absolutely beautiful mountains and all over there's much of the same shit to do as anywhere else. It's a good place to live for awhile but my girlfriend and I do plan on getting out of here in the next few years.
TL;DR: It's not as bad as people make it out to be | I was raised in Florida, New York and New Jersey and moved to Tennessee with my family about 7 years ago. I've lived in Chattanooga (which was a great little city), Nashville (eh), and now about an hour outside of Memphis (eh again). My experience here has been pretty positive overall. I work as a server in a restaurant and have met a lot of people over the years. Most people down here are very cool, down to earth and generally very nice.
However there is still a good chunk of the population that would be considered your "stereotypical southerner." Ignorant redneck assholes that wear camo hats, drive pickup trucks still decorated with "W" stickers from a decade ago, and drink lots of mountain dew. I deal with them on a daily basis. And they fucking suck. And they continually elect morons to government office, which is a pretty serious problem. That being said, it's still not that bad. Nearly everywhere I've been and lived has a population that most people find annoying. On the plus side, there is a noticeable absence of hipsters.
I've made lots of cool friends down here, but honestly most of them are also from outside the state. Lots of northerners and some Mexican immigrants I've worked with in the kitchens.
All in all, while the southern stereotype is still very much alive, I think this place is a lot better than what most people think. Out in eastern TN there are some absolutely beautiful mountains and all over there's much of the same shit to do as anywhere else. It's a good place to live for awhile but my girlfriend and I do plan on getting out of here in the next few years.
TL;DR: It's not as bad as people make it out to be
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cab5ppq | I was raised in Florida, New York and New Jersey and moved to Tennessee with my family about 7 years ago. I've lived in Chattanooga (which was a great little city), Nashville (eh), and now about an hour outside of Memphis (eh again). My experience here has been pretty positive overall. I work as a server in a restaurant and have met a lot of people over the years. Most people down here are very cool, down to earth and generally very nice.
However there is still a good chunk of the population that would be considered your "stereotypical southerner." Ignorant redneck assholes that wear camo hats, drive pickup trucks still decorated with "W" stickers from a decade ago, and drink lots of mountain dew. I deal with them on a daily basis. And they fucking suck. And they continually elect morons to government office, which is a pretty serious problem. That being said, it's still not that bad. Nearly everywhere I've been and lived has a population that most people find annoying. On the plus side, there is a noticeable absence of hipsters.
I've made lots of cool friends down here, but honestly most of them are also from outside the state. Lots of northerners and some Mexican immigrants I've worked with in the kitchens.
All in all, while the southern stereotype is still very much alive, I think this place is a lot better than what most people think. Out in eastern TN there are some absolutely beautiful mountains and all over there's much of the same shit to do as anywhere else. It's a good place to live for awhile but my girlfriend and I do plan on getting out of here in the next few years. | It's not as bad as people make it out to be |
daircrann | One of the most important things to realize in this case is that YOU HAVE VALUE.
Let us think of this instead as being self-cognizant. You understand your situation as though from the point of view of others. Few people develop this understanding at all.
You've gone through university, at least the first year, as I see from your post. You have the potential to have a career. A good one, likely, having the mental capacity to be as self-cognizant as you are.
You have not done anything purposefully wrong. You have a moral compass. You would have felt guilty about the train-jumping. You have tried to accommodate others' desires.
If I were to be coldly logical, I would say that you have the potential to contribute to society by continuing your life, and so you should not end it.
If I were to be more emotional, which I'm not very good at, I would say that you might look at the situation as a new start. You realize what you can improve upon, and you can go forth and do so, eventually improving yourself in ways that you see as desirable and anticipate that others will as well.
tl;dr - You are a person with value. You have potential. Think of what could be, and know that you can do it. | One of the most important things to realize in this case is that YOU HAVE VALUE.
Let us think of this instead as being self-cognizant. You understand your situation as though from the point of view of others. Few people develop this understanding at all.
You've gone through university, at least the first year, as I see from your post. You have the potential to have a career. A good one, likely, having the mental capacity to be as self-cognizant as you are.
You have not done anything purposefully wrong. You have a moral compass. You would have felt guilty about the train-jumping. You have tried to accommodate others' desires.
If I were to be coldly logical, I would say that you have the potential to contribute to society by continuing your life, and so you should not end it.
If I were to be more emotional, which I'm not very good at, I would say that you might look at the situation as a new start. You realize what you can improve upon, and you can go forth and do so, eventually improving yourself in ways that you see as desirable and anticipate that others will as well.
tl;dr - You are a person with value. You have potential. Think of what could be, and know that you can do it.
| confession | t5_2qo2a | cabhuci | One of the most important things to realize in this case is that YOU HAVE VALUE.
Let us think of this instead as being self-cognizant. You understand your situation as though from the point of view of others. Few people develop this understanding at all.
You've gone through university, at least the first year, as I see from your post. You have the potential to have a career. A good one, likely, having the mental capacity to be as self-cognizant as you are.
You have not done anything purposefully wrong. You have a moral compass. You would have felt guilty about the train-jumping. You have tried to accommodate others' desires.
If I were to be coldly logical, I would say that you have the potential to contribute to society by continuing your life, and so you should not end it.
If I were to be more emotional, which I'm not very good at, I would say that you might look at the situation as a new start. You realize what you can improve upon, and you can go forth and do so, eventually improving yourself in ways that you see as desirable and anticipate that others will as well. | You are a person with value. You have potential. Think of what could be, and know that you can do it. |
ajantis | I'm from Turkey and the protests against media insensitivity is somewhat right but the sole reason is not they are bribed or government-sided. They are talking about protests quite often actually but at same time they try to be cautious because they don't want this to spiral out of control more than it is now. They don't cover news until they are %100 sure it's true and confirmed by other sources; if they air every claim on social media like "police executing and shooting protesters" then the situation could turn to a full fledged civil war.
When Erdoğan threatens protesters with his usual bully attitude that he can gather 1 million people for every thousand protesters, he's sadly right. As far its known he didn't cheat at ballot and more than %50 of population really elected him (considering it's not two party system it's frigging huge). Lots of people (especially muslims) literally worship him and he's some kind of hero in their eyes. Consequently mainstream media is trying to avoid agitation and increasing the tension in an already tense situation. Also the journalist speaking to NPR isn't that far away from truth, nobody mentions it but Kurdish party leader did actually say that Kurds doesn't support the protests and they have no intention fighting alongside with racists and nationalists.
Tl; dr. Things aren't so black and white in Turkey. | I'm from Turkey and the protests against media insensitivity is somewhat right but the sole reason is not they are bribed or government-sided. They are talking about protests quite often actually but at same time they try to be cautious because they don't want this to spiral out of control more than it is now. They don't cover news until they are %100 sure it's true and confirmed by other sources; if they air every claim on social media like "police executing and shooting protesters" then the situation could turn to a full fledged civil war.
When Erdoğan threatens protesters with his usual bully attitude that he can gather 1 million people for every thousand protesters, he's sadly right. As far its known he didn't cheat at ballot and more than %50 of population really elected him (considering it's not two party system it's frigging huge). Lots of people (especially muslims) literally worship him and he's some kind of hero in their eyes. Consequently mainstream media is trying to avoid agitation and increasing the tension in an already tense situation. Also the journalist speaking to NPR isn't that far away from truth, nobody mentions it but Kurdish party leader did actually say that Kurds doesn't support the protests and they have no intention fighting alongside with racists and nationalists.
Tl; dr. Things aren't so black and white in Turkey.
| worldnews | t5_2qh13 | cabs6qv | I'm from Turkey and the protests against media insensitivity is somewhat right but the sole reason is not they are bribed or government-sided. They are talking about protests quite often actually but at same time they try to be cautious because they don't want this to spiral out of control more than it is now. They don't cover news until they are %100 sure it's true and confirmed by other sources; if they air every claim on social media like "police executing and shooting protesters" then the situation could turn to a full fledged civil war.
When Erdoğan threatens protesters with his usual bully attitude that he can gather 1 million people for every thousand protesters, he's sadly right. As far its known he didn't cheat at ballot and more than %50 of population really elected him (considering it's not two party system it's frigging huge). Lots of people (especially muslims) literally worship him and he's some kind of hero in their eyes. Consequently mainstream media is trying to avoid agitation and increasing the tension in an already tense situation. Also the journalist speaking to NPR isn't that far away from truth, nobody mentions it but Kurdish party leader did actually say that Kurds doesn't support the protests and they have no intention fighting alongside with racists and nationalists. | Things aren't so black and white in Turkey. |
Brigaragirabe | Once a really snappy, pushy lady came into the stamp store I worked at. We sold rubber stamps, especially custom stamps. An address stamp for ____ County Pregnancy Clinic, was what had brought this woman in. A couple weeks back, I had been talking with a friend who recently went down to our state's capitol to sit down with reps and senators about the _County Pregnancy Clinic lying to their "patients." But see, they weren't patients. Because the "Clinic" is not medically accredited, and they won't encounter a single doctor in the building, only every shred of false evidence that the ONLY CHOICE is carrying the baby to term. Advertising pregnancy services in downtown _____, a bus ride away from campus, closer than the nearest Planned Parenthood.
SO. This woman writes down clearly her name and address. I read it, slowly and loudly, for her: "____ County Pregancy **clinic**." Pause. **CLINIC.** I'm looking her dead in the forehead and her head rears up from her cellphone and she meets my eyes and says "Yes, Clinic," Harsh and fast because she detects my sass. The rest of the transaction was boring and I charged her a fair price, but DAMN did she suck.
TL;DR: I'm not Anonymous or anything, but I gave a woman stink-eye when she ordered a self-inking stamp.
| Once a really snappy, pushy lady came into the stamp store I worked at. We sold rubber stamps, especially custom stamps. An address stamp for County Pregnancy Clinic, was what had brought this woman in. A couple weeks back, I had been talking with a friend who recently went down to our state's capitol to sit down with reps and senators about the County Pregnancy Clinic lying to their "patients." But see, they weren't patients. Because the "Clinic" is not medically accredited, and they won't encounter a single doctor in the building, only every shred of false evidence that the ONLY CHOICE is carrying the baby to term. Advertising pregnancy services in downtown , a bus ride away from campus, closer than the nearest Planned Parenthood.
SO. This woman writes down clearly her name and address. I read it, slowly and loudly, for her: " __ County Pregancy clinic ." Pause. CLINIC. I'm looking her dead in the forehead and her head rears up from her cellphone and she meets my eyes and says "Yes, Clinic," Harsh and fast because she detects my sass. The rest of the transaction was boring and I charged her a fair price, but DAMN did she suck.
TL;DR: I'm not Anonymous or anything, but I gave a woman stink-eye when she ordered a self-inking stamp.
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | cabtphz | Once a really snappy, pushy lady came into the stamp store I worked at. We sold rubber stamps, especially custom stamps. An address stamp for County Pregnancy Clinic, was what had brought this woman in. A couple weeks back, I had been talking with a friend who recently went down to our state's capitol to sit down with reps and senators about the County Pregnancy Clinic lying to their "patients." But see, they weren't patients. Because the "Clinic" is not medically accredited, and they won't encounter a single doctor in the building, only every shred of false evidence that the ONLY CHOICE is carrying the baby to term. Advertising pregnancy services in downtown , a bus ride away from campus, closer than the nearest Planned Parenthood.
SO. This woman writes down clearly her name and address. I read it, slowly and loudly, for her: " __ County Pregancy clinic ." Pause. CLINIC. I'm looking her dead in the forehead and her head rears up from her cellphone and she meets my eyes and says "Yes, Clinic," Harsh and fast because she detects my sass. The rest of the transaction was boring and I charged her a fair price, but DAMN did she suck. | I'm not Anonymous or anything, but I gave a woman stink-eye when she ordered a self-inking stamp. |
dizzyinthehead | Yeah me and my girlfriend got tricked into going to one of there shithole christian anti abortion centers in akron, called Akron pregnancy services. Based on the name you would think they could point us in the right direction ..that direction being whats the quickest way to get an abortion? Not justifying it any way but as two educated college students we both knew that the $18,000 a year it cost to raise a new born baby wasn't exactly going to fit in with our 30k + student loan debt , life dreams etc you get the picture. So we call this place and all they say is that they cannot give out any information over the phone..So we made and appointment, showed up and the shit they pulled was the divide and conquer tactic. Also "we" never had an appointment, all they did was split us up in separate rooms, each with a counselor of the same sex (also super fucking christian) asked us loaded questions, trying to paint a picture that didn't exist.. Like which one of you wants the abortion? They pulled out this small rubber baby for both of us and was like…" This is how big your child is right now…" just a bunch of stupid shit to show and tell two atheists who want to get rid of a baby…At the end my girlfriend ended up tearing the female counselor a new asshole (using calm intuitive logic) and they got us both together and just tried so hard to get us to have a kid neither of us ever wanted..
tl:dr If an abortion clinic refuses to divulge abortion information over the telephone, don't go its a trap!!!!! | Yeah me and my girlfriend got tricked into going to one of there shithole christian anti abortion centers in akron, called Akron pregnancy services. Based on the name you would think they could point us in the right direction ..that direction being whats the quickest way to get an abortion? Not justifying it any way but as two educated college students we both knew that the $18,000 a year it cost to raise a new born baby wasn't exactly going to fit in with our 30k + student loan debt , life dreams etc you get the picture. So we call this place and all they say is that they cannot give out any information over the phone..So we made and appointment, showed up and the shit they pulled was the divide and conquer tactic. Also "we" never had an appointment, all they did was split us up in separate rooms, each with a counselor of the same sex (also super fucking christian) asked us loaded questions, trying to paint a picture that didn't exist.. Like which one of you wants the abortion? They pulled out this small rubber baby for both of us and was like…" This is how big your child is right now…" just a bunch of stupid shit to show and tell two atheists who want to get rid of a baby…At the end my girlfriend ended up tearing the female counselor a new asshole (using calm intuitive logic) and they got us both together and just tried so hard to get us to have a kid neither of us ever wanted..
tl:dr If an abortion clinic refuses to divulge abortion information over the telephone, don't go its a trap!!!!!
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | cabvb0x | Yeah me and my girlfriend got tricked into going to one of there shithole christian anti abortion centers in akron, called Akron pregnancy services. Based on the name you would think they could point us in the right direction ..that direction being whats the quickest way to get an abortion? Not justifying it any way but as two educated college students we both knew that the $18,000 a year it cost to raise a new born baby wasn't exactly going to fit in with our 30k + student loan debt , life dreams etc you get the picture. So we call this place and all they say is that they cannot give out any information over the phone..So we made and appointment, showed up and the shit they pulled was the divide and conquer tactic. Also "we" never had an appointment, all they did was split us up in separate rooms, each with a counselor of the same sex (also super fucking christian) asked us loaded questions, trying to paint a picture that didn't exist.. Like which one of you wants the abortion? They pulled out this small rubber baby for both of us and was like…" This is how big your child is right now…" just a bunch of stupid shit to show and tell two atheists who want to get rid of a baby…At the end my girlfriend ended up tearing the female counselor a new asshole (using calm intuitive logic) and they got us both together and just tried so hard to get us to have a kid neither of us ever wanted.. | If an abortion clinic refuses to divulge abortion information over the telephone, don't go its a trap!!!!! |
dizzyinthehead | Yeah they hit us with pamphlets and all of these random bullshit facts that we had already educated ourselves on. If the place was called "Akron pregnancy services of latter day saints" we would have taken the hint...
tl:dr Numbers do not lie, people do "Penn Jillette" | Yeah they hit us with pamphlets and all of these random bullshit facts that we had already educated ourselves on. If the place was called "Akron pregnancy services of latter day saints" we would have taken the hint...
tl:dr Numbers do not lie, people do "Penn Jillette"
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | cabw3up | Yeah they hit us with pamphlets and all of these random bullshit facts that we had already educated ourselves on. If the place was called "Akron pregnancy services of latter day saints" we would have taken the hint... | Numbers do not lie, people do "Penn Jillette" |
AriaDee | I went to a CPC when I thought I was pregnant because of the free testing/ultrasound. I ended up being pregnant, so they asked me to come back in a couple days to get an ultrasound. I came back, found out I was 8 weeks pregnant, so they asked if I'd stick around to speak with a counselor (my choice), and I said yes since I was pretty scared. They brought me into a room, and in the room was information for RU 486, child rearing, and other pamphlets on spousal abuse. The counselor came in and asked me a series of questions, and together we made a pro and con list. After a while, they brought in my boyfriend, and we all talked together. They have a list of doctors they give you, both OBGYNs and abortion clinic docs. Not once did I feel "guilted", I felt nothing but support from our counselor Pam. She even sat with us during the ultrasound and held the hand my boyfriend wasn't. The CPC I went to made sure to let you know right away on the information registration forms and their brochures that they had private funding and in no way had any government involvement, and you do sign a privacy statement. You don't even have to give them your real information if you don't want to. I think this place was a safe haven, and not the monster that SOME people are making these places out to be. They even offer coping classes if you choose abortion, parenting classes, daddy support, to-be-mom support, etc. Maybe the centers in Texas do things differently, since these are privately owned and ran. But please, do not look up CPCs and start picketing them, because I would gladly recommend this place to anyone in need.
TL; DR some of these CPCs are really amazing, don't go picket them just because a few centers are assholes. | I went to a CPC when I thought I was pregnant because of the free testing/ultrasound. I ended up being pregnant, so they asked me to come back in a couple days to get an ultrasound. I came back, found out I was 8 weeks pregnant, so they asked if I'd stick around to speak with a counselor (my choice), and I said yes since I was pretty scared. They brought me into a room, and in the room was information for RU 486, child rearing, and other pamphlets on spousal abuse. The counselor came in and asked me a series of questions, and together we made a pro and con list. After a while, they brought in my boyfriend, and we all talked together. They have a list of doctors they give you, both OBGYNs and abortion clinic docs. Not once did I feel "guilted", I felt nothing but support from our counselor Pam. She even sat with us during the ultrasound and held the hand my boyfriend wasn't. The CPC I went to made sure to let you know right away on the information registration forms and their brochures that they had private funding and in no way had any government involvement, and you do sign a privacy statement. You don't even have to give them your real information if you don't want to. I think this place was a safe haven, and not the monster that SOME people are making these places out to be. They even offer coping classes if you choose abortion, parenting classes, daddy support, to-be-mom support, etc. Maybe the centers in Texas do things differently, since these are privately owned and ran. But please, do not look up CPCs and start picketing them, because I would gladly recommend this place to anyone in need.
TL; DR some of these CPCs are really amazing, don't go picket them just because a few centers are assholes.
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | cabxu0w | I went to a CPC when I thought I was pregnant because of the free testing/ultrasound. I ended up being pregnant, so they asked me to come back in a couple days to get an ultrasound. I came back, found out I was 8 weeks pregnant, so they asked if I'd stick around to speak with a counselor (my choice), and I said yes since I was pretty scared. They brought me into a room, and in the room was information for RU 486, child rearing, and other pamphlets on spousal abuse. The counselor came in and asked me a series of questions, and together we made a pro and con list. After a while, they brought in my boyfriend, and we all talked together. They have a list of doctors they give you, both OBGYNs and abortion clinic docs. Not once did I feel "guilted", I felt nothing but support from our counselor Pam. She even sat with us during the ultrasound and held the hand my boyfriend wasn't. The CPC I went to made sure to let you know right away on the information registration forms and their brochures that they had private funding and in no way had any government involvement, and you do sign a privacy statement. You don't even have to give them your real information if you don't want to. I think this place was a safe haven, and not the monster that SOME people are making these places out to be. They even offer coping classes if you choose abortion, parenting classes, daddy support, to-be-mom support, etc. Maybe the centers in Texas do things differently, since these are privately owned and ran. But please, do not look up CPCs and start picketing them, because I would gladly recommend this place to anyone in need. | some of these CPCs are really amazing, don't go picket them just because a few centers are assholes. |
foldingchairfetish | I had an IUD for years and I was constantly told I was aborting each month by pro-lifers. They do consider preventing implantation as abortion. Apparently I am going to hell because I aborted a fetus a month for about 5 years.
TLDR: I am the Joseph Mengele of fetuses. | I had an IUD for years and I was constantly told I was aborting each month by pro-lifers. They do consider preventing implantation as abortion. Apparently I am going to hell because I aborted a fetus a month for about 5 years.
TLDR: I am the Joseph Mengele of fetuses.
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | caby2fq | I had an IUD for years and I was constantly told I was aborting each month by pro-lifers. They do consider preventing implantation as abortion. Apparently I am going to hell because I aborted a fetus a month for about 5 years. | I am the Joseph Mengele of fetuses. |
itsme10082005 | I'm not sure if you're just looking for a reaction, or for me to back track, or what. This is what it comes down to, and it will be the last time I state it:
1) I PERSONALLY believe that abortion is the murder of a human being. Let's be honest, without a person intervening, there is greater than a 50% chance that it will be brought to term.
2) States recognize the rights of women to terminate a pregnancy. They have determined a period that they deem legal to have an abortion.
3) NONE OF THAT MATTERS when it comes to my views. I am not the woman having the abortion. I am also not the lawmakers that determine the cutoff dates.
4) I refuse to tell someone what they should or should not do. If you ask me, I'll tell you that I disagree with it. If you don't ask me, it's not my place to tell you. It's not my place to tell you you shouldn't have an abortion, or to try and make you feel guilty for having one.
TL;DR, I am in charge of me. You are in charge of you. What I think is right is not what you think is right. That's ok. It's called human nature. Don't be a dick and assume that I should agree with you just because you have your beliefs and I should automatically believe them too. | I'm not sure if you're just looking for a reaction, or for me to back track, or what. This is what it comes down to, and it will be the last time I state it:
1) I PERSONALLY believe that abortion is the murder of a human being. Let's be honest, without a person intervening, there is greater than a 50% chance that it will be brought to term.
2) States recognize the rights of women to terminate a pregnancy. They have determined a period that they deem legal to have an abortion.
3) NONE OF THAT MATTERS when it comes to my views. I am not the woman having the abortion. I am also not the lawmakers that determine the cutoff dates.
4) I refuse to tell someone what they should or should not do. If you ask me, I'll tell you that I disagree with it. If you don't ask me, it's not my place to tell you. It's not my place to tell you you shouldn't have an abortion, or to try and make you feel guilty for having one.
TL;DR, I am in charge of me. You are in charge of you. What I think is right is not what you think is right. That's ok. It's called human nature. Don't be a dick and assume that I should agree with you just because you have your beliefs and I should automatically believe them too.
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | cacdx4g | I'm not sure if you're just looking for a reaction, or for me to back track, or what. This is what it comes down to, and it will be the last time I state it:
1) I PERSONALLY believe that abortion is the murder of a human being. Let's be honest, without a person intervening, there is greater than a 50% chance that it will be brought to term.
2) States recognize the rights of women to terminate a pregnancy. They have determined a period that they deem legal to have an abortion.
3) NONE OF THAT MATTERS when it comes to my views. I am not the woman having the abortion. I am also not the lawmakers that determine the cutoff dates.
4) I refuse to tell someone what they should or should not do. If you ask me, I'll tell you that I disagree with it. If you don't ask me, it's not my place to tell you. It's not my place to tell you you shouldn't have an abortion, or to try and make you feel guilty for having one. | I am in charge of me. You are in charge of you. What I think is right is not what you think is right. That's ok. It's called human nature. Don't be a dick and assume that I should agree with you just because you have your beliefs and I should automatically believe them too. |
Nopskillz | Well the most important part of this game really comes down to knowing when you can build workers and when you need to build fighting dudes.
If your scouting is good enough to know your opponent is playing passive, you should be taking extra bases, building lots of workers with chrono, not getting supply blocked, keeping worker count at each base even... all that good stuff.
Even if you get good at that, you can totally screw up the part about... ok hey now it's time to build an army.
Let's say you play greedy at the start in the sense of building a fast expand and a ton of workers without building much of a starting army because you know your opponent is playing passive.
Ok so you've got 26 workers at each base, you're going to stop building workers now and get an army. Now you are no longer spending money on workers, so you need to plop down the number of unit producing buildings that you can sustain based on your economy. This takes time to learn but this is the part most people screw up as they march from bronze->Masters.
Great, you played greedy and got that extra base and alot of workers. But if you screw up the part about making sure you plop down X amount of gateways, and either a robo/stargate... whatever your tech choice is... if you don't do that step immediately after you cut workers, your money will soar and your macro is immediately subpar.
If you remember to get the right amount of gateways/robos/stargates as soon as you stop building workers, then your job gets easier. All you need to do now is warp in units as your warp gate cooldown comes up and continuing to use your robo/stargate. And of course, don't forget pylons so you don't get supply blocked.
TLDR: Alot of people don't get the timing right when you must create additional unit producing facilities. There is at least one or two leagues here alone that you can go up if you get this part right.
At the end of the day, you need to spend your money and keep it low. If you get this part wrong, you can never spend your money properly. | Well the most important part of this game really comes down to knowing when you can build workers and when you need to build fighting dudes.
If your scouting is good enough to know your opponent is playing passive, you should be taking extra bases, building lots of workers with chrono, not getting supply blocked, keeping worker count at each base even... all that good stuff.
Even if you get good at that, you can totally screw up the part about... ok hey now it's time to build an army.
Let's say you play greedy at the start in the sense of building a fast expand and a ton of workers without building much of a starting army because you know your opponent is playing passive.
Ok so you've got 26 workers at each base, you're going to stop building workers now and get an army. Now you are no longer spending money on workers, so you need to plop down the number of unit producing buildings that you can sustain based on your economy. This takes time to learn but this is the part most people screw up as they march from bronze->Masters.
Great, you played greedy and got that extra base and alot of workers. But if you screw up the part about making sure you plop down X amount of gateways, and either a robo/stargate... whatever your tech choice is... if you don't do that step immediately after you cut workers, your money will soar and your macro is immediately subpar.
If you remember to get the right amount of gateways/robos/stargates as soon as you stop building workers, then your job gets easier. All you need to do now is warp in units as your warp gate cooldown comes up and continuing to use your robo/stargate. And of course, don't forget pylons so you don't get supply blocked.
TLDR: Alot of people don't get the timing right when you must create additional unit producing facilities. There is at least one or two leagues here alone that you can go up if you get this part right.
At the end of the day, you need to spend your money and keep it low. If you get this part wrong, you can never spend your money properly.
| allthingsprotoss | t5_2tkqb | cabyz4l | Well the most important part of this game really comes down to knowing when you can build workers and when you need to build fighting dudes.
If your scouting is good enough to know your opponent is playing passive, you should be taking extra bases, building lots of workers with chrono, not getting supply blocked, keeping worker count at each base even... all that good stuff.
Even if you get good at that, you can totally screw up the part about... ok hey now it's time to build an army.
Let's say you play greedy at the start in the sense of building a fast expand and a ton of workers without building much of a starting army because you know your opponent is playing passive.
Ok so you've got 26 workers at each base, you're going to stop building workers now and get an army. Now you are no longer spending money on workers, so you need to plop down the number of unit producing buildings that you can sustain based on your economy. This takes time to learn but this is the part most people screw up as they march from bronze->Masters.
Great, you played greedy and got that extra base and alot of workers. But if you screw up the part about making sure you plop down X amount of gateways, and either a robo/stargate... whatever your tech choice is... if you don't do that step immediately after you cut workers, your money will soar and your macro is immediately subpar.
If you remember to get the right amount of gateways/robos/stargates as soon as you stop building workers, then your job gets easier. All you need to do now is warp in units as your warp gate cooldown comes up and continuing to use your robo/stargate. And of course, don't forget pylons so you don't get supply blocked. | Alot of people don't get the timing right when you must create additional unit producing facilities. There is at least one or two leagues here alone that you can go up if you get this part right.
At the end of the day, you need to spend your money and keep it low. If you get this part wrong, you can never spend your money properly. |
echoflight | I recently started a campaign*.
*All of us are new players, so I can't compare our experience to anything else.
I picked up a Red Box, DM Kit, Monster Vault, and my players picked up the 2 "Heroes of ..." essentials books.
Building characters using the Red Box seemed pretty basic to me - probably too basic, so I got them to use the "Heroes of" books, and also the DnD Insider "Character Creator" (specifically "Build a Custom D&D Character" > "Forgotten Realms"). I told them not to feel limited by what was meant to be "essentials".
We started with the Red Box campaign and everyone had a blast. In terms of balance between custom heroes and the Red Box, it seems pretty good to me. The first encounter was easy enough, but 1 of them still hit 0 HP, and they blew through all of their heals. The second encounter they could have wiped- they used all their heals, their tank had failed 2 death saves (they came very close to running away and leaving him behind), but eventually they did prevail (once they started to understand how each other's characters worked, tactics started to come into play).
As a new DM I found the Red Box campaign very useful to read. I haven't done anything like this before, so to have something laid out and explained to me was great. It goes through all of the options to start with. "If the players came to this room from Encounter 1, explain the environment like this: ...". It also gives you an encounter that can be completed in multiple ways (fight, bluff, negotiate, etc). It's given me an idea of what I should look to do when I start to write my campaign.
I will however point out that if you do get the Red Box, the "chess room", is dumb as hell. I decided to rewrite that encounter with a puzzle room.
Again, I can't compare our experience to any other D&D starting point, but so far it's all been very successful.
TL;DR - My experience with the Red Box (as a beginner) has been very good. I would recommend it to anyone who is in the same position. | I recently started a campaign . All of us are new players, so I can't compare our experience to anything else.
I picked up a Red Box, DM Kit, Monster Vault, and my players picked up the 2 "Heroes of ..." essentials books.
Building characters using the Red Box seemed pretty basic to me - probably too basic, so I got them to use the "Heroes of" books, and also the DnD Insider "Character Creator" (specifically "Build a Custom D&D Character" > "Forgotten Realms"). I told them not to feel limited by what was meant to be "essentials".
We started with the Red Box campaign and everyone had a blast. In terms of balance between custom heroes and the Red Box, it seems pretty good to me. The first encounter was easy enough, but 1 of them still hit 0 HP, and they blew through all of their heals. The second encounter they could have wiped- they used all their heals, their tank had failed 2 death saves (they came very close to running away and leaving him behind), but eventually they did prevail (once they started to understand how each other's characters worked, tactics started to come into play).
As a new DM I found the Red Box campaign very useful to read. I haven't done anything like this before, so to have something laid out and explained to me was great. It goes through all of the options to start with. "If the players came to this room from Encounter 1, explain the environment like this: ...". It also gives you an encounter that can be completed in multiple ways (fight, bluff, negotiate, etc). It's given me an idea of what I should look to do when I start to write my campaign.
I will however point out that if you do get the Red Box, the "chess room", is dumb as hell. I decided to rewrite that encounter with a puzzle room.
Again, I can't compare our experience to any other D&D starting point, but so far it's all been very successful.
TL;DR - My experience with the Red Box (as a beginner) has been very good. I would recommend it to anyone who is in the same position.
| DnD | t5_2r9ei | cabo90i | I recently started a campaign . All of us are new players, so I can't compare our experience to anything else.
I picked up a Red Box, DM Kit, Monster Vault, and my players picked up the 2 "Heroes of ..." essentials books.
Building characters using the Red Box seemed pretty basic to me - probably too basic, so I got them to use the "Heroes of" books, and also the DnD Insider "Character Creator" (specifically "Build a Custom D&D Character" > "Forgotten Realms"). I told them not to feel limited by what was meant to be "essentials".
We started with the Red Box campaign and everyone had a blast. In terms of balance between custom heroes and the Red Box, it seems pretty good to me. The first encounter was easy enough, but 1 of them still hit 0 HP, and they blew through all of their heals. The second encounter they could have wiped- they used all their heals, their tank had failed 2 death saves (they came very close to running away and leaving him behind), but eventually they did prevail (once they started to understand how each other's characters worked, tactics started to come into play).
As a new DM I found the Red Box campaign very useful to read. I haven't done anything like this before, so to have something laid out and explained to me was great. It goes through all of the options to start with. "If the players came to this room from Encounter 1, explain the environment like this: ...". It also gives you an encounter that can be completed in multiple ways (fight, bluff, negotiate, etc). It's given me an idea of what I should look to do when I start to write my campaign.
I will however point out that if you do get the Red Box, the "chess room", is dumb as hell. I decided to rewrite that encounter with a puzzle room.
Again, I can't compare our experience to any other D&D starting point, but so far it's all been very successful. | My experience with the Red Box (as a beginner) has been very good. I would recommend it to anyone who is in the same position. |
TheFargo | Interestingly, I've been really drawn into the TV series even having read the books. For some reason knowing all the events doesn't make me feel "spoiled."
There's other benefits - characters that didn't really jump out of the page at me take on a new life in the TV series. And vice-versa - characters that seem relatively minor in the series are really deep, wonderful characters in the books. It's like you get to see the same events from all sorts of different perspectives.
TL;DR: Read up! | Interestingly, I've been really drawn into the TV series even having read the books. For some reason knowing all the events doesn't make me feel "spoiled."
There's other benefits - characters that didn't really jump out of the page at me take on a new life in the TV series. And vice-versa - characters that seem relatively minor in the series are really deep, wonderful characters in the books. It's like you get to see the same events from all sorts of different perspectives.
TL;DR: Read up!
| gameofthrones | t5_2rjz2 | cabp40d | Interestingly, I've been really drawn into the TV series even having read the books. For some reason knowing all the events doesn't make me feel "spoiled."
There's other benefits - characters that didn't really jump out of the page at me take on a new life in the TV series. And vice-versa - characters that seem relatively minor in the series are really deep, wonderful characters in the books. It's like you get to see the same events from all sorts of different perspectives. | Read up! |
Meonspeed | I told my first serious boyfriend that I was a virgin when I wasn't. My first time was rape, so it's a bit different-but the point is, it was an awful experience and I hated the fact that I had lost my virginity that way. So I told myself it didn't count, and that my REAL first time was with my then-boyfriend, which was a very romantic and special thing. I still kind of think of it that way.
So...Maybe she did lose her virginity to this guy, and regrets it. Maybe she contemplated but never went through with it. Maybe it's some weird inside joke that you are reading too much into. Regardless it sounds like your first time together was special and meaningful **for her**, whether or not it was her first time. That's really all that should matter.
So no, I don't think you should bring this up. You violated her privacy to get this information, and it's 2 years old. And honestly, her sexual history before she met you is really none of your business.
That said, her giving you shit about having had sex with other girls isn't OK either. *But it's not OK regardless of her being a virgin or not when she met you.*
**TLDR: You BOTH seem waaaaay too concerned with each others sexual histories. Focus on the relationship you have NOW, and leave the past in the past.** | I told my first serious boyfriend that I was a virgin when I wasn't. My first time was rape, so it's a bit different-but the point is, it was an awful experience and I hated the fact that I had lost my virginity that way. So I told myself it didn't count, and that my REAL first time was with my then-boyfriend, which was a very romantic and special thing. I still kind of think of it that way.
So...Maybe she did lose her virginity to this guy, and regrets it. Maybe she contemplated but never went through with it. Maybe it's some weird inside joke that you are reading too much into. Regardless it sounds like your first time together was special and meaningful for her , whether or not it was her first time. That's really all that should matter.
So no, I don't think you should bring this up. You violated her privacy to get this information, and it's 2 years old. And honestly, her sexual history before she met you is really none of your business.
That said, her giving you shit about having had sex with other girls isn't OK either. But it's not OK regardless of her being a virgin or not when she met you.
TLDR: You BOTH seem waaaaay too concerned with each others sexual histories. Focus on the relationship you have NOW, and leave the past in the past.
| relationships | t5_2qjvn | cabqk83 | I told my first serious boyfriend that I was a virgin when I wasn't. My first time was rape, so it's a bit different-but the point is, it was an awful experience and I hated the fact that I had lost my virginity that way. So I told myself it didn't count, and that my REAL first time was with my then-boyfriend, which was a very romantic and special thing. I still kind of think of it that way.
So...Maybe she did lose her virginity to this guy, and regrets it. Maybe she contemplated but never went through with it. Maybe it's some weird inside joke that you are reading too much into. Regardless it sounds like your first time together was special and meaningful for her , whether or not it was her first time. That's really all that should matter.
So no, I don't think you should bring this up. You violated her privacy to get this information, and it's 2 years old. And honestly, her sexual history before she met you is really none of your business.
That said, her giving you shit about having had sex with other girls isn't OK either. But it's not OK regardless of her being a virgin or not when she met you. | You BOTH seem waaaaay too concerned with each others sexual histories. Focus on the relationship you have NOW, and leave the past in the past. |
sed_base | I know I'm going to be hated to say this here but I really don't think most of the vitriol Obama faces is because of his race. I'm not old enough to witness the treatment of Bill Clinton or Carter during his presidency but from what I've read he faced a lot of opposition on a lot of things especially after Gingrich became the house leader.
The Republicans spent more money on investigating and trying to impeach Clinton than they did on investigating 9/11. The Benghazi attack which lead to 4 Americans being tragically killed faced 9 congressional hearings but during the Bush administration there were 54 attacks on US diplomatic outposts & embassies which lead to 13 American deaths but only garner 3 hearings total.
This cognitive dissonance although seemingly racially motivated could actually be because of the fact that President Obama appears to be liberal. His opposition to many of the core conservative ideals combined with his popularity makes him a easy target to incite anger among the masses who are a loud minority most of whom are characteristically individualistic and bigoted.
TL;DR: Republicans: Not racists but popular among racists (The Simpsons) | I know I'm going to be hated to say this here but I really don't think most of the vitriol Obama faces is because of his race. I'm not old enough to witness the treatment of Bill Clinton or Carter during his presidency but from what I've read he faced a lot of opposition on a lot of things especially after Gingrich became the house leader.
The Republicans spent more money on investigating and trying to impeach Clinton than they did on investigating 9/11. The Benghazi attack which lead to 4 Americans being tragically killed faced 9 congressional hearings but during the Bush administration there were 54 attacks on US diplomatic outposts & embassies which lead to 13 American deaths but only garner 3 hearings total.
This cognitive dissonance although seemingly racially motivated could actually be because of the fact that President Obama appears to be liberal. His opposition to many of the core conservative ideals combined with his popularity makes him a easy target to incite anger among the masses who are a loud minority most of whom are characteristically individualistic and bigoted.
TL;DR: Republicans: Not racists but popular among racists (The Simpsons)
| politics | t5_2cneq | cabzco5 | I know I'm going to be hated to say this here but I really don't think most of the vitriol Obama faces is because of his race. I'm not old enough to witness the treatment of Bill Clinton or Carter during his presidency but from what I've read he faced a lot of opposition on a lot of things especially after Gingrich became the house leader.
The Republicans spent more money on investigating and trying to impeach Clinton than they did on investigating 9/11. The Benghazi attack which lead to 4 Americans being tragically killed faced 9 congressional hearings but during the Bush administration there were 54 attacks on US diplomatic outposts & embassies which lead to 13 American deaths but only garner 3 hearings total.
This cognitive dissonance although seemingly racially motivated could actually be because of the fact that President Obama appears to be liberal. His opposition to many of the core conservative ideals combined with his popularity makes him a easy target to incite anger among the masses who are a loud minority most of whom are characteristically individualistic and bigoted. | Republicans: Not racists but popular among racists (The Simpsons) |
spinlock | I just looked at some of those plans on eHealthInsurance.com and they suck. All of the plans near $100 have $5k deductibles. That's basically the same as the catastrophic plan under Obamacare.
Just to give you an example of how fucking horrible those plans are, I fell skiing this winter and cut open my chin. I needed 6 stitches at the emergency room to close it up. The ER doc did it -- not a plastic surgeon even though it was on my face. I have a scar. The ER charged $500 ... per stitch. Their bill was $3k for 15 minutes. I had to pay $100 for the ER visit because i have real insurance (that I pay way more than $100 per month for). Under **all** of the eHealthInsurance plans that are <$200 per month, you would pay the entire cost of that ER visit.
tl;dr: this is more FUD. It's total bullshit. | I just looked at some of those plans on eHealthInsurance.com and they suck. All of the plans near $100 have $5k deductibles. That's basically the same as the catastrophic plan under Obamacare.
Just to give you an example of how fucking horrible those plans are, I fell skiing this winter and cut open my chin. I needed 6 stitches at the emergency room to close it up. The ER doc did it -- not a plastic surgeon even though it was on my face. I have a scar. The ER charged $500 ... per stitch. Their bill was $3k for 15 minutes. I had to pay $100 for the ER visit because i have real insurance (that I pay way more than $100 per month for). Under all of the eHealthInsurance plans that are <$200 per month, you would pay the entire cost of that ER visit.
tl;dr: this is more FUD. It's total bullshit.
| politics | t5_2cneq | cac0701 | I just looked at some of those plans on eHealthInsurance.com and they suck. All of the plans near $100 have $5k deductibles. That's basically the same as the catastrophic plan under Obamacare.
Just to give you an example of how fucking horrible those plans are, I fell skiing this winter and cut open my chin. I needed 6 stitches at the emergency room to close it up. The ER doc did it -- not a plastic surgeon even though it was on my face. I have a scar. The ER charged $500 ... per stitch. Their bill was $3k for 15 minutes. I had to pay $100 for the ER visit because i have real insurance (that I pay way more than $100 per month for). Under all of the eHealthInsurance plans that are <$200 per month, you would pay the entire cost of that ER visit. | this is more FUD. It's total bullshit. |
NeiliusAntitribu | Florida I'm looking at YOU.
Was visiting the area when I had a tonic-clonic seizure (formerly called grand mal), paramedics and EMTs were dispatched, ambulance drove me 7 minutes to hospital, CAT, EKG, was left in the hallway on a gurney for 2 hours... finally the doctor talked to me for 5 whole minutes, and said I fainted, but to see a neurologist when I got back to my home state.
No big deal I think, I actually have Medicaid.
Here is where it gets... interesting. I personally received separate bills from: EMT, Paramedic, Ambulance, Nurse, CAT tech, EKG tech, and finally the doctor. Each billing out from different billing locations. None will even attempt to process my Medicaid ID#.
Now I have ~$20k in debt I will never be able to pay back to people who actually did provide some emergancy services to me.
Here is the kicker... aside from each billing location not attempting to process my Medicaid to receive payment, they along with the subsequent debt collectors they passed my accounts to all told me something astonishing: Medicaid doesn't cover you when you leave your home state. WTF?
I actually found that to be a blatant lie from my Medicaid adminstrator. My Medicaid covers *me* wherever *I* might happen to travel.
**TL;DR Florida refuses to process non-Florida Medicaid, buries me in $20k debt after life threatening emergency**
NinjaEdit: a word | Florida I'm looking at YOU.
Was visiting the area when I had a tonic-clonic seizure (formerly called grand mal), paramedics and EMTs were dispatched, ambulance drove me 7 minutes to hospital, CAT, EKG, was left in the hallway on a gurney for 2 hours... finally the doctor talked to me for 5 whole minutes, and said I fainted, but to see a neurologist when I got back to my home state.
No big deal I think, I actually have Medicaid.
Here is where it gets... interesting. I personally received separate bills from: EMT, Paramedic, Ambulance, Nurse, CAT tech, EKG tech, and finally the doctor. Each billing out from different billing locations. None will even attempt to process my Medicaid ID#.
Now I have ~$20k in debt I will never be able to pay back to people who actually did provide some emergancy services to me.
Here is the kicker... aside from each billing location not attempting to process my Medicaid to receive payment, they along with the subsequent debt collectors they passed my accounts to all told me something astonishing: Medicaid doesn't cover you when you leave your home state. WTF?
I actually found that to be a blatant lie from my Medicaid adminstrator. My Medicaid covers me wherever I might happen to travel.
TL;DR Florida refuses to process non-Florida Medicaid, buries me in $20k debt after life threatening emergency
NinjaEdit: a word
| politics | t5_2cneq | cac1f3k | Florida I'm looking at YOU.
Was visiting the area when I had a tonic-clonic seizure (formerly called grand mal), paramedics and EMTs were dispatched, ambulance drove me 7 minutes to hospital, CAT, EKG, was left in the hallway on a gurney for 2 hours... finally the doctor talked to me for 5 whole minutes, and said I fainted, but to see a neurologist when I got back to my home state.
No big deal I think, I actually have Medicaid.
Here is where it gets... interesting. I personally received separate bills from: EMT, Paramedic, Ambulance, Nurse, CAT tech, EKG tech, and finally the doctor. Each billing out from different billing locations. None will even attempt to process my Medicaid ID#.
Now I have ~$20k in debt I will never be able to pay back to people who actually did provide some emergancy services to me.
Here is the kicker... aside from each billing location not attempting to process my Medicaid to receive payment, they along with the subsequent debt collectors they passed my accounts to all told me something astonishing: Medicaid doesn't cover you when you leave your home state. WTF?
I actually found that to be a blatant lie from my Medicaid adminstrator. My Medicaid covers me wherever I might happen to travel. | Florida refuses to process non-Florida Medicaid, buries me in $20k debt after life threatening emergency
NinjaEdit: a word |
PublicPool | Living alone, and one night as I was going to bed, I was aware of a lower backache. No big deal, I had done a yard work that day, i know I'd be fine the next day. Well, I slept for about 2 hours, and awoke with a much more severe ache, just on the left side of my lower back. Well, okay, it's worse that I thought, but I pop a couple Advil and head back to bed.
2 more hours pass, and I awake to a sharp pain in the same area. I roll on my side, and curl up in to the fetal position, because I think this helps. But the pain is relentless, and occasionally stabbing too. I also feel like there's a wire going from my lower back down thru me to my left nut, and someone is plucking that wired really hard. I got my ass up and tried to 'walk it off' but soon I was in my car trying to navigate the 10 miles to the ER.
tl:dr Bad kidney stone attacks in the night. | Living alone, and one night as I was going to bed, I was aware of a lower backache. No big deal, I had done a yard work that day, i know I'd be fine the next day. Well, I slept for about 2 hours, and awoke with a much more severe ache, just on the left side of my lower back. Well, okay, it's worse that I thought, but I pop a couple Advil and head back to bed.
2 more hours pass, and I awake to a sharp pain in the same area. I roll on my side, and curl up in to the fetal position, because I think this helps. But the pain is relentless, and occasionally stabbing too. I also feel like there's a wire going from my lower back down thru me to my left nut, and someone is plucking that wired really hard. I got my ass up and tried to 'walk it off' but soon I was in my car trying to navigate the 10 miles to the ER.
tl:dr Bad kidney stone attacks in the night.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cabyncv | Living alone, and one night as I was going to bed, I was aware of a lower backache. No big deal, I had done a yard work that day, i know I'd be fine the next day. Well, I slept for about 2 hours, and awoke with a much more severe ache, just on the left side of my lower back. Well, okay, it's worse that I thought, but I pop a couple Advil and head back to bed.
2 more hours pass, and I awake to a sharp pain in the same area. I roll on my side, and curl up in to the fetal position, because I think this helps. But the pain is relentless, and occasionally stabbing too. I also feel like there's a wire going from my lower back down thru me to my left nut, and someone is plucking that wired really hard. I got my ass up and tried to 'walk it off' but soon I was in my car trying to navigate the 10 miles to the ER. | Bad kidney stone attacks in the night. |
Nessie_Monstah | I was that child. I swear that this is a true story and while I don't expect people to change their views, I saw what I saw.
When I was in sixth grade, my friend Roger (not a real name...well, it is a real name, but it's not Roger's real name) had a sleep-over birthday party at an abandoned hotel that was rumored to be haunted. The owner of the hotel was Roger's dad's college roommate, so this was not a normal thing that people got to do. Roger was really into ghosts, UFO's, sasquatch (he still goes on squatch hunts), and other paranormal stuff.
Anyway, the hotel was a masterpiece in its day and was still a really cool piece of architecture. The rumors are that the hauntings involve the people that died in several mysterious "accidents" over the years. A woman jumped to her death from her 8th story window; a busboy was decapitated in a freak elevator accident, a little boy was poisoned by his father, and a dance floor collapsed in the 1950s, killing about 80 people.
We set up camp on the dance floor and after about an hour of waiting for something to happen and nothing happening, we decided to play hide and seek.
We had been playing for about an hour when Roger's little brother David (his real name...screw David) was it. Being several years younger than the rest of us, he was terrible to play with. He was slow and the "hiding" went on for ever. I finally decided that I was going to let David catch me so we could move on, but I decided to scare the crap out of him first by sneaking up on him and yelling as loud as I could. I waited inside one of the guests rooms near the stairwell and waiting for David to come that way. I heard him coming up the stairs and as he skipped my floor, I started following him up. I thought I was moving quickly, but I lost David somewhere on the stairwell. At the 8th floor, I peek out and see David standing at the end of the hallway. I move stealthily from doorway to doorway, trying to get to him before he hears me. As I get to him, I put my hand on his shoulder and scream "BOOOOOOO!" as loud as I can. David doesn't flinch. Also, I'm not touching David. I should be...my hand is where David's shoulder should be, but there is no solid contact. Just air. It's not like a scary movie or anything, the boy didn't turn around and look at me. He just vanished. I had never seen anything like it and I probably would have stood there, stunned, for hours if hadn't heard Roger screaming "HELP!"
I heard Roger's screams and ran down five flights of stairs until I found him in the middle of the hallway with his foot stuck in the floorboards. He said he wasn't hurt, but he couldn't get his foot out. I asked him how I could help him and he said, "Can I get tree fiddy?" It was at this time that I realized Roger was actually 8-stories tall and a crustacean from the Paleozoic era.
TL;DR: "GAWD DAMN YOU, LOCH NESS MONSTAH, I AINT' GIVIN' YOU NO TREE FIDDY!" | I was that child. I swear that this is a true story and while I don't expect people to change their views, I saw what I saw.
When I was in sixth grade, my friend Roger (not a real name...well, it is a real name, but it's not Roger's real name) had a sleep-over birthday party at an abandoned hotel that was rumored to be haunted. The owner of the hotel was Roger's dad's college roommate, so this was not a normal thing that people got to do. Roger was really into ghosts, UFO's, sasquatch (he still goes on squatch hunts), and other paranormal stuff.
Anyway, the hotel was a masterpiece in its day and was still a really cool piece of architecture. The rumors are that the hauntings involve the people that died in several mysterious "accidents" over the years. A woman jumped to her death from her 8th story window; a busboy was decapitated in a freak elevator accident, a little boy was poisoned by his father, and a dance floor collapsed in the 1950s, killing about 80 people.
We set up camp on the dance floor and after about an hour of waiting for something to happen and nothing happening, we decided to play hide and seek.
We had been playing for about an hour when Roger's little brother David (his real name...screw David) was it. Being several years younger than the rest of us, he was terrible to play with. He was slow and the "hiding" went on for ever. I finally decided that I was going to let David catch me so we could move on, but I decided to scare the crap out of him first by sneaking up on him and yelling as loud as I could. I waited inside one of the guests rooms near the stairwell and waiting for David to come that way. I heard him coming up the stairs and as he skipped my floor, I started following him up. I thought I was moving quickly, but I lost David somewhere on the stairwell. At the 8th floor, I peek out and see David standing at the end of the hallway. I move stealthily from doorway to doorway, trying to get to him before he hears me. As I get to him, I put my hand on his shoulder and scream "BOOOOOOO!" as loud as I can. David doesn't flinch. Also, I'm not touching David. I should be...my hand is where David's shoulder should be, but there is no solid contact. Just air. It's not like a scary movie or anything, the boy didn't turn around and look at me. He just vanished. I had never seen anything like it and I probably would have stood there, stunned, for hours if hadn't heard Roger screaming "HELP!"
I heard Roger's screams and ran down five flights of stairs until I found him in the middle of the hallway with his foot stuck in the floorboards. He said he wasn't hurt, but he couldn't get his foot out. I asked him how I could help him and he said, "Can I get tree fiddy?" It was at this time that I realized Roger was actually 8-stories tall and a crustacean from the Paleozoic era.
TL;DR: "GAWD DAMN YOU, LOCH NESS MONSTAH, I AINT' GIVIN' YOU NO TREE FIDDY!"
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cabyw85 | I was that child. I swear that this is a true story and while I don't expect people to change their views, I saw what I saw.
When I was in sixth grade, my friend Roger (not a real name...well, it is a real name, but it's not Roger's real name) had a sleep-over birthday party at an abandoned hotel that was rumored to be haunted. The owner of the hotel was Roger's dad's college roommate, so this was not a normal thing that people got to do. Roger was really into ghosts, UFO's, sasquatch (he still goes on squatch hunts), and other paranormal stuff.
Anyway, the hotel was a masterpiece in its day and was still a really cool piece of architecture. The rumors are that the hauntings involve the people that died in several mysterious "accidents" over the years. A woman jumped to her death from her 8th story window; a busboy was decapitated in a freak elevator accident, a little boy was poisoned by his father, and a dance floor collapsed in the 1950s, killing about 80 people.
We set up camp on the dance floor and after about an hour of waiting for something to happen and nothing happening, we decided to play hide and seek.
We had been playing for about an hour when Roger's little brother David (his real name...screw David) was it. Being several years younger than the rest of us, he was terrible to play with. He was slow and the "hiding" went on for ever. I finally decided that I was going to let David catch me so we could move on, but I decided to scare the crap out of him first by sneaking up on him and yelling as loud as I could. I waited inside one of the guests rooms near the stairwell and waiting for David to come that way. I heard him coming up the stairs and as he skipped my floor, I started following him up. I thought I was moving quickly, but I lost David somewhere on the stairwell. At the 8th floor, I peek out and see David standing at the end of the hallway. I move stealthily from doorway to doorway, trying to get to him before he hears me. As I get to him, I put my hand on his shoulder and scream "BOOOOOOO!" as loud as I can. David doesn't flinch. Also, I'm not touching David. I should be...my hand is where David's shoulder should be, but there is no solid contact. Just air. It's not like a scary movie or anything, the boy didn't turn around and look at me. He just vanished. I had never seen anything like it and I probably would have stood there, stunned, for hours if hadn't heard Roger screaming "HELP!"
I heard Roger's screams and ran down five flights of stairs until I found him in the middle of the hallway with his foot stuck in the floorboards. He said he wasn't hurt, but he couldn't get his foot out. I asked him how I could help him and he said, "Can I get tree fiddy?" It was at this time that I realized Roger was actually 8-stories tall and a crustacean from the Paleozoic era. | GAWD DAMN YOU, LOCH NESS MONSTAH, I AINT' GIVIN' YOU NO TREE FIDDY!" |
PackmanR | It's less expensive than buying everything individually. As for the value you're getting, I suppose the Dawnguard questline feels pretty organic to the main game. Dragonborn is clearly an expansion/add-on, though. Mostly it's still the same stuff, I don't remember any revolutionary new dungeon layouts or enemies. I never bought Hearthfire so I couldn't tell you about that.
TL;DR: the pricing is fine, the value of the content is something that depends on the person playing it | It's less expensive than buying everything individually. As for the value you're getting, I suppose the Dawnguard questline feels pretty organic to the main game. Dragonborn is clearly an expansion/add-on, though. Mostly it's still the same stuff, I don't remember any revolutionary new dungeon layouts or enemies. I never bought Hearthfire so I couldn't tell you about that.
TL;DR: the pricing is fine, the value of the content is something that depends on the person playing it
| skyrim | t5_2s837 | cac108t | It's less expensive than buying everything individually. As for the value you're getting, I suppose the Dawnguard questline feels pretty organic to the main game. Dragonborn is clearly an expansion/add-on, though. Mostly it's still the same stuff, I don't remember any revolutionary new dungeon layouts or enemies. I never bought Hearthfire so I couldn't tell you about that. | the pricing is fine, the value of the content is something that depends on the person playing it |
ProsperYouplaBoom | On ne peut meme pas parler d'article.
On est tous d'accord qu'il faut faire des reformes parce que le système actuel ne fonctionne pas.
Par contre, là ou se trouve la division est sur la manière de réformer le systeme.
Par exemple, pour schématiser, prenons la réforme des retraites :
Constat : les caisses sont vides, et ca risque de durer
2 solutions :
1) reverser moins d'argent
2) faire rentrer plus d'argent
Forcément, un retraité considerera qu'il a rempli sa part du contrat social, et donc qu'il a le droit au montant de sa retraite tel que spécifié lorsqu'il a quitté son activité professionnelle. Et donc qu'il faut faire rentrer plus d'argent.
Un actif ou une entreprise par contre, considerera qu'il faut reverser moins d'argent.
TL/DR : Les francais sont toujours pour les réformes. Mais attention, il ne faut surtout pas qu'ils soient concernés. | On ne peut meme pas parler d'article.
On est tous d'accord qu'il faut faire des reformes parce que le système actuel ne fonctionne pas.
Par contre, là ou se trouve la division est sur la manière de réformer le systeme.
Par exemple, pour schématiser, prenons la réforme des retraites :
Constat : les caisses sont vides, et ca risque de durer
2 solutions :
1) reverser moins d'argent
2) faire rentrer plus d'argent
Forcément, un retraité considerera qu'il a rempli sa part du contrat social, et donc qu'il a le droit au montant de sa retraite tel que spécifié lorsqu'il a quitté son activité professionnelle. Et donc qu'il faut faire rentrer plus d'argent.
Un actif ou une entreprise par contre, considerera qu'il faut reverser moins d'argent.
TL/DR : Les francais sont toujours pour les réformes. Mais attention, il ne faut surtout pas qu'ils soient concernés.
| france | t5_2qhjz | cacj56c | On ne peut meme pas parler d'article.
On est tous d'accord qu'il faut faire des reformes parce que le système actuel ne fonctionne pas.
Par contre, là ou se trouve la division est sur la manière de réformer le systeme.
Par exemple, pour schématiser, prenons la réforme des retraites :
Constat : les caisses sont vides, et ca risque de durer
2 solutions :
1) reverser moins d'argent
2) faire rentrer plus d'argent
Forcément, un retraité considerera qu'il a rempli sa part du contrat social, et donc qu'il a le droit au montant de sa retraite tel que spécifié lorsqu'il a quitté son activité professionnelle. Et donc qu'il faut faire rentrer plus d'argent.
Un actif ou une entreprise par contre, considerera qu'il faut reverser moins d'argent. | Les francais sont toujours pour les réformes. Mais attention, il ne faut surtout pas qu'ils soient concernés. |
chunkyks | We have parking under our building at work. All the spots near the elevator on the first floor are "reserved", for the president of the company and the like.
I actually get a better spot than them; the building is a weird shape, so *right* by the elevator is a funny shaped bit that's marked off as not for cars, but that's where all the motorcyclists park.
TL;DR: I get better parking, closer to the elevator than upper management, in a highly secure garage. | We have parking under our building at work. All the spots near the elevator on the first floor are "reserved", for the president of the company and the like.
I actually get a better spot than them; the building is a weird shape, so right by the elevator is a funny shaped bit that's marked off as not for cars, but that's where all the motorcyclists park.
TL;DR: I get better parking, closer to the elevator than upper management, in a highly secure garage.
| motorcycles | t5_2qi6d | cac5vsv | We have parking under our building at work. All the spots near the elevator on the first floor are "reserved", for the president of the company and the like.
I actually get a better spot than them; the building is a weird shape, so right by the elevator is a funny shaped bit that's marked off as not for cars, but that's where all the motorcyclists park. | I get better parking, closer to the elevator than upper management, in a highly secure garage. |
Corallia | I normally pump 3x a day at work and go home with 12-14 ozs. Last month, I was required to go on a 5-day boat training. Although these were day trips and I was able to BF my baby when I got home, I could only pump at lunch due to the nature of the training. The following week, I resumed my normal pumping schedule at work and only expressed 8 ozs at the end of the day. I regained my supply back to 12-14 ozs the following week. So being unable to pump as frequently DID affect my supply, but not extensively, nor permanently.
TLDR: Only pumped once a day (but BF'd baby at night) for 5 days. Supply decreased but went back to normal after a week.
Ninja edit: Baby just turned 5 months | I normally pump 3x a day at work and go home with 12-14 ozs. Last month, I was required to go on a 5-day boat training. Although these were day trips and I was able to BF my baby when I got home, I could only pump at lunch due to the nature of the training. The following week, I resumed my normal pumping schedule at work and only expressed 8 ozs at the end of the day. I regained my supply back to 12-14 ozs the following week. So being unable to pump as frequently DID affect my supply, but not extensively, nor permanently.
TLDR: Only pumped once a day (but BF'd baby at night) for 5 days. Supply decreased but went back to normal after a week.
Ninja edit: Baby just turned 5 months
| boobsandbottles | t5_2v6p4 | cacgs30 | I normally pump 3x a day at work and go home with 12-14 ozs. Last month, I was required to go on a 5-day boat training. Although these were day trips and I was able to BF my baby when I got home, I could only pump at lunch due to the nature of the training. The following week, I resumed my normal pumping schedule at work and only expressed 8 ozs at the end of the day. I regained my supply back to 12-14 ozs the following week. So being unable to pump as frequently DID affect my supply, but not extensively, nor permanently. | Only pumped once a day (but BF'd baby at night) for 5 days. Supply decreased but went back to normal after a week.
Ninja edit: Baby just turned 5 months |
HotelCoralEssex | 1) No.
2) You are right and he is wrong. Feel free to assert this in any way that you see fit. I, of course, recommend that you do so within the bounds of state and local law.
tl;dr - Naming inanimate objects is silly. | 1) No.
2) You are right and he is wrong. Feel free to assert this in any way that you see fit. I, of course, recommend that you do so within the bounds of state and local law.
tl;dr - Naming inanimate objects is silly.
| guns | t5_2qhc8 | cace8pw | 1) No.
2) You are right and he is wrong. Feel free to assert this in any way that you see fit. I, of course, recommend that you do so within the bounds of state and local law. | Naming inanimate objects is silly. |
MewtwoStruckBack | I don't hate competitive play as a whole, but I dislike the lengths the tournament communities go through to have a wide skill gap between a "good" player and a "great" one.
I personally like that the luck element can have a player who's been playing for one year have a fair shot at beating a player who's been playing for ten and knows the game inside and out; I remember seeing a video of an official tournament with...I think something with Sand Veil and other evasion boosting going on where the Pokemon just could not be hit and the player ended up winning a game the otherwise certainly would have lost. People on Smogon were bitching about that battle went - I want to see Worlds end like that. I want to see Ray Rizzo get lucksacked in the finals on a lucky critical or OHKO move.
I do understand that with Smogon's additional bans, that a greater number of Pokemon become viable for their OU metagame. My issue here is that if you're going to claim that the purpose of tiers is to expand upon the number of playable Pokemon, then there need to be an equal number of tournaments offered for each tier, and there needs to be equal prize support given for each tier - regardless of number of entrants. The best Ubers player in the world should be getting the same perks and prizes as the best OU player, as the best UU player, etc. - I'd love to see a legendary-centric tournament offered at the official World Championships. (How long has it been since Mewtwo has directly earned a player a tournament win? That's something the competitive players during 1st-gen, and I believe even 2nd-gen, got to experience that I want to see return.)
tl;dr; competitive play is good but stop allowing luck to be reduced as a factor, and if you want to support tiers, support equal tier tournaments. | I don't hate competitive play as a whole, but I dislike the lengths the tournament communities go through to have a wide skill gap between a "good" player and a "great" one.
I personally like that the luck element can have a player who's been playing for one year have a fair shot at beating a player who's been playing for ten and knows the game inside and out; I remember seeing a video of an official tournament with...I think something with Sand Veil and other evasion boosting going on where the Pokemon just could not be hit and the player ended up winning a game the otherwise certainly would have lost. People on Smogon were bitching about that battle went - I want to see Worlds end like that. I want to see Ray Rizzo get lucksacked in the finals on a lucky critical or OHKO move.
I do understand that with Smogon's additional bans, that a greater number of Pokemon become viable for their OU metagame. My issue here is that if you're going to claim that the purpose of tiers is to expand upon the number of playable Pokemon, then there need to be an equal number of tournaments offered for each tier, and there needs to be equal prize support given for each tier - regardless of number of entrants. The best Ubers player in the world should be getting the same perks and prizes as the best OU player, as the best UU player, etc. - I'd love to see a legendary-centric tournament offered at the official World Championships. (How long has it been since Mewtwo has directly earned a player a tournament win? That's something the competitive players during 1st-gen, and I believe even 2nd-gen, got to experience that I want to see return.)
tl;dr; competitive play is good but stop allowing luck to be reduced as a factor, and if you want to support tiers, support equal tier tournaments.
| pokemon | t5_2qmeb | cacn8zk | I don't hate competitive play as a whole, but I dislike the lengths the tournament communities go through to have a wide skill gap between a "good" player and a "great" one.
I personally like that the luck element can have a player who's been playing for one year have a fair shot at beating a player who's been playing for ten and knows the game inside and out; I remember seeing a video of an official tournament with...I think something with Sand Veil and other evasion boosting going on where the Pokemon just could not be hit and the player ended up winning a game the otherwise certainly would have lost. People on Smogon were bitching about that battle went - I want to see Worlds end like that. I want to see Ray Rizzo get lucksacked in the finals on a lucky critical or OHKO move.
I do understand that with Smogon's additional bans, that a greater number of Pokemon become viable for their OU metagame. My issue here is that if you're going to claim that the purpose of tiers is to expand upon the number of playable Pokemon, then there need to be an equal number of tournaments offered for each tier, and there needs to be equal prize support given for each tier - regardless of number of entrants. The best Ubers player in the world should be getting the same perks and prizes as the best OU player, as the best UU player, etc. - I'd love to see a legendary-centric tournament offered at the official World Championships. (How long has it been since Mewtwo has directly earned a player a tournament win? That's something the competitive players during 1st-gen, and I believe even 2nd-gen, got to experience that I want to see return.) | competitive play is good but stop allowing luck to be reduced as a factor, and if you want to support tiers, support equal tier tournaments. |
randomb0y | Whoa, this is pretty thick for someone still struggling to learn the language... TL;DR, who do I vote for come next election? | Whoa, this is pretty thick for someone still struggling to learn the language... TL;DR, who do I vote for come next election?
| swedents | t5_2slem | cacltmi | Whoa, this is pretty thick for someone still struggling to learn the language... | who do I vote for come next election? |
Veteran4Peace | You seem to think that official channels never had a chance to make the right choice, but they had several months before the encryption key for Manning's Wikileaks-dump was *accidentally* released by a journalist.
And "official channels" aren't typically going to do the right thing in the military. Official channels exist to protect the status quo and cover the asses of higher-ups. Even rape victims in the military are typically re-victimized by "official channels" rather than assisted in any way.
tl;dr, *The military bureaucracy is a playground for psychopaths.* | You seem to think that official channels never had a chance to make the right choice, but they had several months before the encryption key for Manning's Wikileaks-dump was accidentally released by a journalist.
And "official channels" aren't typically going to do the right thing in the military. Official channels exist to protect the status quo and cover the asses of higher-ups. Even rape victims in the military are typically re-victimized by "official channels" rather than assisted in any way.
tl;dr, The military bureaucracy is a playground for psychopaths.
| technology | t5_2qh16 | cacwqfa | You seem to think that official channels never had a chance to make the right choice, but they had several months before the encryption key for Manning's Wikileaks-dump was accidentally released by a journalist.
And "official channels" aren't typically going to do the right thing in the military. Official channels exist to protect the status quo and cover the asses of higher-ups. Even rape victims in the military are typically re-victimized by "official channels" rather than assisted in any way. | The military bureaucracy is a playground for psychopaths. |
Comrade_Ducky | The MRA who thought it was a great idea to use a post about a little girl whose father died to make his point isn't furthering gender equality. He's just making everyone like him look like a shed full of douchecanoes. Same thing goes for the feminists who see something innocuous and start freaking out over the use of a certain word.
tl;dr: Selective Service is fucked up, but that doesn't justify being a fuckass. | The MRA who thought it was a great idea to use a post about a little girl whose father died to make his point isn't furthering gender equality. He's just making everyone like him look like a shed full of douchecanoes. Same thing goes for the feminists who see something innocuous and start freaking out over the use of a certain word.
tl;dr: Selective Service is fucked up, but that doesn't justify being a fuckass.
| cringepics | t5_2va9w | cadbr6a | The MRA who thought it was a great idea to use a post about a little girl whose father died to make his point isn't furthering gender equality. He's just making everyone like him look like a shed full of douchecanoes. Same thing goes for the feminists who see something innocuous and start freaking out over the use of a certain word. | Selective Service is fucked up, but that doesn't justify being a fuckass. |
Thoughtful_American | I've got a '68. Mine is basically a daily driver this time of year except that I don't take it out when it's raining. I have a to-do list of things that I intend to work on on the car and that list is several years long.
But in the meantime, even though it's not a show car, it's still fun to drive every day. Sure I'll be happy when I get the rear windows to roll up and down straight without having to guide them by hand. Sure I'll be happy when I get the quarter panel patch panel welded in to remove the cancer spot. (Etc)
But the truth is that while I like working on improving the car, since it's already on the road it's not like these things are weighing on me. Instead they're just things to do if I've got a pleasant afternoon and a six pack pf beer.
And like *Jeepftw* said, the parts are very, very inexpensive. On what other car can you replace both bumpers for $200 total? On what other car can you get replacement quarter panels for under $100?
TL;DR: As long as your car is on the road, inspected and driveable you can choose to work on your car all the time or not at all, it's entirely up to you. | I've got a '68. Mine is basically a daily driver this time of year except that I don't take it out when it's raining. I have a to-do list of things that I intend to work on on the car and that list is several years long.
But in the meantime, even though it's not a show car, it's still fun to drive every day. Sure I'll be happy when I get the rear windows to roll up and down straight without having to guide them by hand. Sure I'll be happy when I get the quarter panel patch panel welded in to remove the cancer spot. (Etc)
But the truth is that while I like working on improving the car, since it's already on the road it's not like these things are weighing on me. Instead they're just things to do if I've got a pleasant afternoon and a six pack pf beer.
And like Jeepftw said, the parts are very, very inexpensive. On what other car can you replace both bumpers for $200 total? On what other car can you get replacement quarter panels for under $100?
TL;DR: As long as your car is on the road, inspected and driveable you can choose to work on your car all the time or not at all, it's entirely up to you.
| Mustang | t5_2qqel | cadav7i | I've got a '68. Mine is basically a daily driver this time of year except that I don't take it out when it's raining. I have a to-do list of things that I intend to work on on the car and that list is several years long.
But in the meantime, even though it's not a show car, it's still fun to drive every day. Sure I'll be happy when I get the rear windows to roll up and down straight without having to guide them by hand. Sure I'll be happy when I get the quarter panel patch panel welded in to remove the cancer spot. (Etc)
But the truth is that while I like working on improving the car, since it's already on the road it's not like these things are weighing on me. Instead they're just things to do if I've got a pleasant afternoon and a six pack pf beer.
And like Jeepftw said, the parts are very, very inexpensive. On what other car can you replace both bumpers for $200 total? On what other car can you get replacement quarter panels for under $100? | As long as your car is on the road, inspected and driveable you can choose to work on your car all the time or not at all, it's entirely up to you. |
Drumm- | Couldn't find a comment already matching my concerns, so I thought I would chuck these out here.
The article mentions DNS-level blocking, but my ISP (BT) and I *believe* Virgin do not use DNS blocking. This can be proved by trying to access TPB, I use Google DNS and still cannot access it. So let's assume that another system is used. A lot of schools/councils/libraries use URL and Web content based filtering. This means I cannot get to because in there is sEx. Or Sex.
Even worse, as a few others have raised. How does a site get blacklisted. When is it removed from that blacklist. If my site is hacked, and porn is posted, am I blacklisted forever more? If I deal with user uploaded content (Reddit) am I blacklisted for that? If a site teaches how pregnancy works, and shows diagram? Is some overzealous employee at X ISP going to prevent me from accessing that?
I saw something on TV the other day where people were demanding that software is written to detect porn and other such offensive material automatically. Pretty much they wanted software to look at pictures and determine if they were child porn. What... are you thick? People don't understand the upper and lower boundaries of technology at all. People don't think that they can filter their internet, but it's more than plausible that I can write a program which can enter your dreams and build islands...
What about small ISPs? (Less common in the UK admittedly, but regardless) They may not be able to provide these services if made compulsory by the gov't and will go under. Making a very unbalanced playing field.
Finally, don't think that this isn't just a ploy. First it's protect the children. Then it's protect the copyright. Then it's [censored]
tl;dr This law is stupid. People are stupid. Blocking is stupid. This is just the gov't using the "protect the children" to censor the internet. Once the availability is there, don't think it won't go further. | Couldn't find a comment already matching my concerns, so I thought I would chuck these out here.
The article mentions DNS-level blocking, but my ISP (BT) and I believe Virgin do not use DNS blocking. This can be proved by trying to access TPB, I use Google DNS and still cannot access it. So let's assume that another system is used. A lot of schools/councils/libraries use URL and Web content based filtering. This means I cannot get to because in there is sEx. Or Sex.
Even worse, as a few others have raised. How does a site get blacklisted. When is it removed from that blacklist. If my site is hacked, and porn is posted, am I blacklisted forever more? If I deal with user uploaded content (Reddit) am I blacklisted for that? If a site teaches how pregnancy works, and shows diagram? Is some overzealous employee at X ISP going to prevent me from accessing that?
I saw something on TV the other day where people were demanding that software is written to detect porn and other such offensive material automatically. Pretty much they wanted software to look at pictures and determine if they were child porn. What... are you thick? People don't understand the upper and lower boundaries of technology at all. People don't think that they can filter their internet, but it's more than plausible that I can write a program which can enter your dreams and build islands...
What about small ISPs? (Less common in the UK admittedly, but regardless) They may not be able to provide these services if made compulsory by the gov't and will go under. Making a very unbalanced playing field.
Finally, don't think that this isn't just a ploy. First it's protect the children. Then it's protect the copyright. Then it's [censored]
tl;dr This law is stupid. People are stupid. Blocking is stupid. This is just the gov't using the "protect the children" to censor the internet. Once the availability is there, don't think it won't go further.
| unitedkingdom | t5_2qhqb | cadgx51 | Couldn't find a comment already matching my concerns, so I thought I would chuck these out here.
The article mentions DNS-level blocking, but my ISP (BT) and I believe Virgin do not use DNS blocking. This can be proved by trying to access TPB, I use Google DNS and still cannot access it. So let's assume that another system is used. A lot of schools/councils/libraries use URL and Web content based filtering. This means I cannot get to because in there is sEx. Or Sex.
Even worse, as a few others have raised. How does a site get blacklisted. When is it removed from that blacklist. If my site is hacked, and porn is posted, am I blacklisted forever more? If I deal with user uploaded content (Reddit) am I blacklisted for that? If a site teaches how pregnancy works, and shows diagram? Is some overzealous employee at X ISP going to prevent me from accessing that?
I saw something on TV the other day where people were demanding that software is written to detect porn and other such offensive material automatically. Pretty much they wanted software to look at pictures and determine if they were child porn. What... are you thick? People don't understand the upper and lower boundaries of technology at all. People don't think that they can filter their internet, but it's more than plausible that I can write a program which can enter your dreams and build islands...
What about small ISPs? (Less common in the UK admittedly, but regardless) They may not be able to provide these services if made compulsory by the gov't and will go under. Making a very unbalanced playing field.
Finally, don't think that this isn't just a ploy. First it's protect the children. Then it's protect the copyright. Then it's [censored] | This law is stupid. People are stupid. Blocking is stupid. This is just the gov't using the "protect the children" to censor the internet. Once the availability is there, don't think it won't go further. |
Upgradeable | Turn around a lot. Usually if spies see that you're just holding w then they'll just run up to you and stab you in the back. It would help of you learned how to rocket jump so you could travel faster as soldier and and randomly jump, turn around and fake spin up as this will scare spies into thinking you heard them. If you see someone walking around with their melee or not shooting when you think they should, usually they're spies. it's everyones job to spycheck. The more you play the better you'll get at noticing these type of things also it is EXCELLENT if you pay attention to sound. You can hear someone getting back stabbed begin you and gives you enough time to turn around before they kill you. You can also hear people getting frozen by the spycicle and hear the your eternal reward impact sound. Go with your gut, use your ears. Play spy and learn how they need to play in order to get skills. Lean how to counter these methods. The longer you stay alive, the damage you put out. Damage > Frags you want to stay alive so you can push out damage (even chip damage) because then the enemy will retreat and your team can gain territory and push up.
Sorry for rambling
TL;DR turn around a a lot. | Turn around a lot. Usually if spies see that you're just holding w then they'll just run up to you and stab you in the back. It would help of you learned how to rocket jump so you could travel faster as soldier and and randomly jump, turn around and fake spin up as this will scare spies into thinking you heard them. If you see someone walking around with their melee or not shooting when you think they should, usually they're spies. it's everyones job to spycheck. The more you play the better you'll get at noticing these type of things also it is EXCELLENT if you pay attention to sound. You can hear someone getting back stabbed begin you and gives you enough time to turn around before they kill you. You can also hear people getting frozen by the spycicle and hear the your eternal reward impact sound. Go with your gut, use your ears. Play spy and learn how they need to play in order to get skills. Lean how to counter these methods. The longer you stay alive, the damage you put out. Damage > Frags you want to stay alive so you can push out damage (even chip damage) because then the enemy will retreat and your team can gain territory and push up.
Sorry for rambling
TL;DR turn around a a lot.
| NewToTF2 | t5_2rbtk | cadh625 | Turn around a lot. Usually if spies see that you're just holding w then they'll just run up to you and stab you in the back. It would help of you learned how to rocket jump so you could travel faster as soldier and and randomly jump, turn around and fake spin up as this will scare spies into thinking you heard them. If you see someone walking around with their melee or not shooting when you think they should, usually they're spies. it's everyones job to spycheck. The more you play the better you'll get at noticing these type of things also it is EXCELLENT if you pay attention to sound. You can hear someone getting back stabbed begin you and gives you enough time to turn around before they kill you. You can also hear people getting frozen by the spycicle and hear the your eternal reward impact sound. Go with your gut, use your ears. Play spy and learn how they need to play in order to get skills. Lean how to counter these methods. The longer you stay alive, the damage you put out. Damage > Frags you want to stay alive so you can push out damage (even chip damage) because then the enemy will retreat and your team can gain territory and push up.
Sorry for rambling | turn around a a lot. |
CliffSnow | There are a few things you can do if playing against a team with a lot of or just very skilled spies. One is to travel with someone whose role is more inclined to be able to spy check: pyro, etc. The other more important thing since you can't always rely on teammates is just to learn to spy check better. Look for obvious signs (if they're disguised) such as not firing weapon, running the wrong way, trying to position themselves behind you, etc. Also just spy check everyone regardless of your class. Playing as soldier? Pop out your shotgun and shoot at anyone around you because worst case you waste a few rounds which isn't going to affect you in the long run. Or try running head first into them. A lot of (mediocre or bad) spies will panic and stab you in the front which all but seals their death since the knife is weak as hell. Lastly try to make your movements unpredictable; with soldier you have your rocket jumping which can make you damn near impossible to backstab. For Heavies and all classes I guess, pull random 180s as you're walking. You'd be surprised how often you can catch a spy running behind you if you just randomly turn.
Realistically when playing heavy, medic, or another high priority target, you're going to have to rely on your teammates who have more of a role in spy checking to protect you from spies when in any sort of team fight.
tl;dr But as for getting to the objective, just constantly spy check for yourself and make your movements as random as possible if you're constantly getting backstabbed.
| There are a few things you can do if playing against a team with a lot of or just very skilled spies. One is to travel with someone whose role is more inclined to be able to spy check: pyro, etc. The other more important thing since you can't always rely on teammates is just to learn to spy check better. Look for obvious signs (if they're disguised) such as not firing weapon, running the wrong way, trying to position themselves behind you, etc. Also just spy check everyone regardless of your class. Playing as soldier? Pop out your shotgun and shoot at anyone around you because worst case you waste a few rounds which isn't going to affect you in the long run. Or try running head first into them. A lot of (mediocre or bad) spies will panic and stab you in the front which all but seals their death since the knife is weak as hell. Lastly try to make your movements unpredictable; with soldier you have your rocket jumping which can make you damn near impossible to backstab. For Heavies and all classes I guess, pull random 180s as you're walking. You'd be surprised how often you can catch a spy running behind you if you just randomly turn.
Realistically when playing heavy, medic, or another high priority target, you're going to have to rely on your teammates who have more of a role in spy checking to protect you from spies when in any sort of team fight.
tl;dr But as for getting to the objective, just constantly spy check for yourself and make your movements as random as possible if you're constantly getting backstabbed.
| NewToTF2 | t5_2rbtk | cadgs3o | There are a few things you can do if playing against a team with a lot of or just very skilled spies. One is to travel with someone whose role is more inclined to be able to spy check: pyro, etc. The other more important thing since you can't always rely on teammates is just to learn to spy check better. Look for obvious signs (if they're disguised) such as not firing weapon, running the wrong way, trying to position themselves behind you, etc. Also just spy check everyone regardless of your class. Playing as soldier? Pop out your shotgun and shoot at anyone around you because worst case you waste a few rounds which isn't going to affect you in the long run. Or try running head first into them. A lot of (mediocre or bad) spies will panic and stab you in the front which all but seals their death since the knife is weak as hell. Lastly try to make your movements unpredictable; with soldier you have your rocket jumping which can make you damn near impossible to backstab. For Heavies and all classes I guess, pull random 180s as you're walking. You'd be surprised how often you can catch a spy running behind you if you just randomly turn.
Realistically when playing heavy, medic, or another high priority target, you're going to have to rely on your teammates who have more of a role in spy checking to protect you from spies when in any sort of team fight. | But as for getting to the objective, just constantly spy check for yourself and make your movements as random as possible if you're constantly getting backstabbed. |
collosalvelocity | In 100% honestly, we LOVE Hayter voicing Snake because
1) He DOES have a unique voice and
2) Mr. Kojima created two of the greatest characters of all time in Solid Snake and Big Boss.
Trust me, if it was NEVER Hayter who voiced Snake, and someone with a less distinct voice, this would not bother you at all.
Believe me when I say this, you love the character, not just the voice. People saying they are not buying the new Metal Gear because of this are ridiculous, Mr Kojima hand crafted these characters who you have grown to love and now because they have a different voice you'd just as soon leave the series behind!
I've never bought Metal Gear Solid for David Hayter, I've bought it because it is by far the greatest game series of all time, it has flaws but it more than makes up for it with its ingenious plot twists and story arch's and cinematic beauty.
Not to mention if in Metal Gear Solid 3, when Big Boss was first introduced, he was voiced by someone other than David Hayter, it would still be my favourite game of all time.
Anyone who is seriously considering ditching the series because of this needs to re-evaluate their decision entirely, this game is going to be absolutely fantastic, and you'll be the ones missing out!
TL;DR
If you seriously don't buy the new Metal Gear because David Hayter isn't voicing Snake, you're not realising it's not just the voice you loved, but the character. | In 100% honestly, we LOVE Hayter voicing Snake because
1) He DOES have a unique voice and
2) Mr. Kojima created two of the greatest characters of all time in Solid Snake and Big Boss.
Trust me, if it was NEVER Hayter who voiced Snake, and someone with a less distinct voice, this would not bother you at all.
Believe me when I say this, you love the character, not just the voice. People saying they are not buying the new Metal Gear because of this are ridiculous, Mr Kojima hand crafted these characters who you have grown to love and now because they have a different voice you'd just as soon leave the series behind!
I've never bought Metal Gear Solid for David Hayter, I've bought it because it is by far the greatest game series of all time, it has flaws but it more than makes up for it with its ingenious plot twists and story arch's and cinematic beauty.
Not to mention if in Metal Gear Solid 3, when Big Boss was first introduced, he was voiced by someone other than David Hayter, it would still be my favourite game of all time.
Anyone who is seriously considering ditching the series because of this needs to re-evaluate their decision entirely, this game is going to be absolutely fantastic, and you'll be the ones missing out!
TL;DR
If you seriously don't buy the new Metal Gear because David Hayter isn't voicing Snake, you're not realising it's not just the voice you loved, but the character.
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | cado02m | In 100% honestly, we LOVE Hayter voicing Snake because
1) He DOES have a unique voice and
2) Mr. Kojima created two of the greatest characters of all time in Solid Snake and Big Boss.
Trust me, if it was NEVER Hayter who voiced Snake, and someone with a less distinct voice, this would not bother you at all.
Believe me when I say this, you love the character, not just the voice. People saying they are not buying the new Metal Gear because of this are ridiculous, Mr Kojima hand crafted these characters who you have grown to love and now because they have a different voice you'd just as soon leave the series behind!
I've never bought Metal Gear Solid for David Hayter, I've bought it because it is by far the greatest game series of all time, it has flaws but it more than makes up for it with its ingenious plot twists and story arch's and cinematic beauty.
Not to mention if in Metal Gear Solid 3, when Big Boss was first introduced, he was voiced by someone other than David Hayter, it would still be my favourite game of all time.
Anyone who is seriously considering ditching the series because of this needs to re-evaluate their decision entirely, this game is going to be absolutely fantastic, and you'll be the ones missing out! | If you seriously don't buy the new Metal Gear because David Hayter isn't voicing Snake, you're not realising it's not just the voice you loved, but the character. |
Palmar | This post is excellent because it underlines the importance of how this needs to be approached. If you can name 5 players of the position that are better than your suggestion, you probably shouldn't be suggesting it.
Evan Mathis and LeSean McCoy are the only players that come to mind, and even McCoy might be on the fringe if this is only based on last season. I think he should be in though. I'm thinking he might lose out to 5 players in this group: Peterson, CJ Spiller, Marshawn Lynch, Ray Rice, Jamaal Charles and Matt Forte. Although it's a really close race, and my heart says Shady is actually better than them all except CJ and AP.
I think Mathis is a lock, almost no guards in the league I remember are better than him. Logan Mankins is good, and so is Marshal Yanda. SF's duo is awesome too (that inside line was beastly)
I'm not quite sure if this is career accomplishment for said player, or just how good he is today (nfl.com's list is quite unclear on this too). If it's career I think you could make an argument that Jason Peters could have a shot. But he's not a top 5 left tackle at the moment until he proves he's 100%.
DJ is of course a big name, but there's just so many WR's that are better than him, I can probably name 10 right off my here without any kind of reading... let's try:
Fitzgerald, Andre Johnson, megatron, AJ Green, Brandon Marshall, Roddy White, Julio jones, wes welker... that's 8 right now. I'm probably forgetting some. In any case DJ is sadly not making it.
Maybe Cox? I don't know enough about defenses really, need to get more familiar with players around the league on defense. I'd have to do research to decide if he has a shot. He's probably the only defensive player that should be considered at all.
TL;DR Mathis and McCoy | This post is excellent because it underlines the importance of how this needs to be approached. If you can name 5 players of the position that are better than your suggestion, you probably shouldn't be suggesting it.
Evan Mathis and LeSean McCoy are the only players that come to mind, and even McCoy might be on the fringe if this is only based on last season. I think he should be in though. I'm thinking he might lose out to 5 players in this group: Peterson, CJ Spiller, Marshawn Lynch, Ray Rice, Jamaal Charles and Matt Forte. Although it's a really close race, and my heart says Shady is actually better than them all except CJ and AP.
I think Mathis is a lock, almost no guards in the league I remember are better than him. Logan Mankins is good, and so is Marshal Yanda. SF's duo is awesome too (that inside line was beastly)
I'm not quite sure if this is career accomplishment for said player, or just how good he is today (nfl.com's list is quite unclear on this too). If it's career I think you could make an argument that Jason Peters could have a shot. But he's not a top 5 left tackle at the moment until he proves he's 100%.
DJ is of course a big name, but there's just so many WR's that are better than him, I can probably name 10 right off my here without any kind of reading... let's try:
Fitzgerald, Andre Johnson, megatron, AJ Green, Brandon Marshall, Roddy White, Julio jones, wes welker... that's 8 right now. I'm probably forgetting some. In any case DJ is sadly not making it.
Maybe Cox? I don't know enough about defenses really, need to get more familiar with players around the league on defense. I'd have to do research to decide if he has a shot. He's probably the only defensive player that should be considered at all.
TL;DR Mathis and McCoy
| eagles | t5_2qi5w | cadpz4p | This post is excellent because it underlines the importance of how this needs to be approached. If you can name 5 players of the position that are better than your suggestion, you probably shouldn't be suggesting it.
Evan Mathis and LeSean McCoy are the only players that come to mind, and even McCoy might be on the fringe if this is only based on last season. I think he should be in though. I'm thinking he might lose out to 5 players in this group: Peterson, CJ Spiller, Marshawn Lynch, Ray Rice, Jamaal Charles and Matt Forte. Although it's a really close race, and my heart says Shady is actually better than them all except CJ and AP.
I think Mathis is a lock, almost no guards in the league I remember are better than him. Logan Mankins is good, and so is Marshal Yanda. SF's duo is awesome too (that inside line was beastly)
I'm not quite sure if this is career accomplishment for said player, or just how good he is today (nfl.com's list is quite unclear on this too). If it's career I think you could make an argument that Jason Peters could have a shot. But he's not a top 5 left tackle at the moment until he proves he's 100%.
DJ is of course a big name, but there's just so many WR's that are better than him, I can probably name 10 right off my here without any kind of reading... let's try:
Fitzgerald, Andre Johnson, megatron, AJ Green, Brandon Marshall, Roddy White, Julio jones, wes welker... that's 8 right now. I'm probably forgetting some. In any case DJ is sadly not making it.
Maybe Cox? I don't know enough about defenses really, need to get more familiar with players around the league on defense. I'd have to do research to decide if he has a shot. He's probably the only defensive player that should be considered at all. | Mathis and McCoy |
DebutanteHarlot | In my experience, religion rarely came up in the social settings. The other kids just didn't care--it wasn't important to them at all. And I swear, catholic school kids party and whatnot wayyyyy harder than public school kids. At the time I was neopagan/agnostic and always got in to theological discussions/debates with the religion teachers/priests and they always encouraged and indulged me. Most of the time I was arguing for women's rights within the Church. It's interesting too bc most of them agreed with me. You'll find that a lot of priests who are teachers are a lot more open minded than you think. All in all, personally I wouldn't trade in my Catholic school time for anything--some of the best and most fun years of my life, and I'm sure you'll do great :-)
TL;DR: You'll be fine.
Edit: typo | In my experience, religion rarely came up in the social settings. The other kids just didn't care--it wasn't important to them at all. And I swear, catholic school kids party and whatnot wayyyyy harder than public school kids. At the time I was neopagan/agnostic and always got in to theological discussions/debates with the religion teachers/priests and they always encouraged and indulged me. Most of the time I was arguing for women's rights within the Church. It's interesting too bc most of them agreed with me. You'll find that a lot of priests who are teachers are a lot more open minded than you think. All in all, personally I wouldn't trade in my Catholic school time for anything--some of the best and most fun years of my life, and I'm sure you'll do great :-)
TL;DR: You'll be fine.
Edit: typo
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | cadr1fd | In my experience, religion rarely came up in the social settings. The other kids just didn't care--it wasn't important to them at all. And I swear, catholic school kids party and whatnot wayyyyy harder than public school kids. At the time I was neopagan/agnostic and always got in to theological discussions/debates with the religion teachers/priests and they always encouraged and indulged me. Most of the time I was arguing for women's rights within the Church. It's interesting too bc most of them agreed with me. You'll find that a lot of priests who are teachers are a lot more open minded than you think. All in all, personally I wouldn't trade in my Catholic school time for anything--some of the best and most fun years of my life, and I'm sure you'll do great :-) | You'll be fine.
Edit: typo |
captain_awesomesauce | Gah. Reddit ate my first reply. I was nice and polite the first time but I can't remember everything I said. I'll break it down into bullets. FYI, not trying to be rude, just frustrated with the reply that got eaten.
* Intel switching to Tick-Tock has sped up releases at the expense of smaller differences between releases. IE: In the 5% - 10% you see now corresponds to the 20% in the past. (look at Nehalem -> Sandy Bridge -> Haswell; skip Westmere and Ivy Bridge)
* We *do* have 12 cores (and more). But they don't really give an advantage to desktop users so they stick to servers.
* Even in the desktop, we *do* have lots of cores. Haswell isn't just a quad core CPU. It's a quad core CPU with an additional 40 compute units that are accessible via OpenCL.
* The main push for mainstream processors is no longer performance but performance per watt. And it makes sense to do this as the majority of their users are wanting better battery life. I don't care about mobile and I think you don't either, but tons of other people do.
* Very little is CPU limited any more. And the problems that *are* CPU limited can generally take advantage of more cores. IF that's the case, upgrade to a proper workstation with 2 or more processors and you're good to go.
**TL;DR** The increases we have from Intel look like less because we see intermediate steps that weren't here in the past. Additionally, most of the performance increases are going to Servers instead of Desktops as desktop users don't really need more performance. | Gah. Reddit ate my first reply. I was nice and polite the first time but I can't remember everything I said. I'll break it down into bullets. FYI, not trying to be rude, just frustrated with the reply that got eaten.
Intel switching to Tick-Tock has sped up releases at the expense of smaller differences between releases. IE: In the 5% - 10% you see now corresponds to the 20% in the past. (look at Nehalem -> Sandy Bridge -> Haswell; skip Westmere and Ivy Bridge)
We do have 12 cores (and more). But they don't really give an advantage to desktop users so they stick to servers.
Even in the desktop, we do have lots of cores. Haswell isn't just a quad core CPU. It's a quad core CPU with an additional 40 compute units that are accessible via OpenCL.
The main push for mainstream processors is no longer performance but performance per watt. And it makes sense to do this as the majority of their users are wanting better battery life. I don't care about mobile and I think you don't either, but tons of other people do.
Very little is CPU limited any more. And the problems that are CPU limited can generally take advantage of more cores. IF that's the case, upgrade to a proper workstation with 2 or more processors and you're good to go.
TL;DR The increases we have from Intel look like less because we see intermediate steps that weren't here in the past. Additionally, most of the performance increases are going to Servers instead of Desktops as desktop users don't really need more performance.
| hardware | t5_2qh18 | cae3nbw | Gah. Reddit ate my first reply. I was nice and polite the first time but I can't remember everything I said. I'll break it down into bullets. FYI, not trying to be rude, just frustrated with the reply that got eaten.
Intel switching to Tick-Tock has sped up releases at the expense of smaller differences between releases. IE: In the 5% - 10% you see now corresponds to the 20% in the past. (look at Nehalem -> Sandy Bridge -> Haswell; skip Westmere and Ivy Bridge)
We do have 12 cores (and more). But they don't really give an advantage to desktop users so they stick to servers.
Even in the desktop, we do have lots of cores. Haswell isn't just a quad core CPU. It's a quad core CPU with an additional 40 compute units that are accessible via OpenCL.
The main push for mainstream processors is no longer performance but performance per watt. And it makes sense to do this as the majority of their users are wanting better battery life. I don't care about mobile and I think you don't either, but tons of other people do.
Very little is CPU limited any more. And the problems that are CPU limited can generally take advantage of more cores. IF that's the case, upgrade to a proper workstation with 2 or more processors and you're good to go. | The increases we have from Intel look like less because we see intermediate steps that weren't here in the past. Additionally, most of the performance increases are going to Servers instead of Desktops as desktop users don't really need more performance. |
ithilkir | It's ok so long as it's not spamming, once at start, once at end in my opinion is fine (same with streaming messages) but when the mechs are powered up and until the last mech drops I personally think it's just good manners to not post such messages as the focus should be on the action.
TLDR It's fine so long as it's not spamming during the game | It's ok so long as it's not spamming, once at start, once at end in my opinion is fine (same with streaming messages) but when the mechs are powered up and until the last mech drops I personally think it's just good manners to not post such messages as the focus should be on the action.
TLDR It's fine so long as it's not spamming during the game
| mwo | t5_2t1w0 | cae6ab9 | It's ok so long as it's not spamming, once at start, once at end in my opinion is fine (same with streaming messages) but when the mechs are powered up and until the last mech drops I personally think it's just good manners to not post such messages as the focus should be on the action. | It's fine so long as it's not spamming during the game |
darthelmo | So, you're okay with forcing a Muslim to deal with pork, a Hindu with beef, or ordering a pacifist to kill? It's exactly the same conceptually.
> ...they don't have a right to let that code influence their job.
This is so much bullshit. Putting your morals aside, your ethics aside is why the world we live in is so very fucked up. Morals aren't a piece of clothing to be donned to or discarded on a whim. They're a part of the person, a part of the whole. Anyone who can willingly put aside his/her moral framework (this does *not* mean true moral dilemmas like only having the means to save one life and having to choose which life continues) would, I suspect, be considered a sociopath. However, I am not a psychiatrist, so take it with a grain of salt.
Bottom line, returning specifically to a pharmacist and Plan B, there are any number of situations where a pharmacist would be not only correct, but *right* to refuse to sell the product. Consider: if a pharmacist sells to a male customer, how does s/he know the product will be administered with the woman's consent, that he's not giving to his last sex partner, she being completely unaware?
TL;DR–If you haven't been in that place, don't presume to write the tour book. | So, you're okay with forcing a Muslim to deal with pork, a Hindu with beef, or ordering a pacifist to kill? It's exactly the same conceptually.
> ...they don't have a right to let that code influence their job.
This is so much bullshit. Putting your morals aside, your ethics aside is why the world we live in is so very fucked up. Morals aren't a piece of clothing to be donned to or discarded on a whim. They're a part of the person, a part of the whole. Anyone who can willingly put aside his/her moral framework (this does not mean true moral dilemmas like only having the means to save one life and having to choose which life continues) would, I suspect, be considered a sociopath. However, I am not a psychiatrist, so take it with a grain of salt.
Bottom line, returning specifically to a pharmacist and Plan B, there are any number of situations where a pharmacist would be not only correct, but right to refuse to sell the product. Consider: if a pharmacist sells to a male customer, how does s/he know the product will be administered with the woman's consent, that he's not giving to his last sex partner, she being completely unaware?
TL;DR–If you haven't been in that place, don't presume to write the tour book.
| tifu | t5_2to41 | caez2ef | So, you're okay with forcing a Muslim to deal with pork, a Hindu with beef, or ordering a pacifist to kill? It's exactly the same conceptually.
> ...they don't have a right to let that code influence their job.
This is so much bullshit. Putting your morals aside, your ethics aside is why the world we live in is so very fucked up. Morals aren't a piece of clothing to be donned to or discarded on a whim. They're a part of the person, a part of the whole. Anyone who can willingly put aside his/her moral framework (this does not mean true moral dilemmas like only having the means to save one life and having to choose which life continues) would, I suspect, be considered a sociopath. However, I am not a psychiatrist, so take it with a grain of salt.
Bottom line, returning specifically to a pharmacist and Plan B, there are any number of situations where a pharmacist would be not only correct, but right to refuse to sell the product. Consider: if a pharmacist sells to a male customer, how does s/he know the product will be administered with the woman's consent, that he's not giving to his last sex partner, she being completely unaware? | If you haven't been in that place, don't presume to write the tour book. |
lunaap33 | You do realize it could have been a broken condom or she forgot to take her birth control pill right? Fuck people like you, things malfunction sometimes and people make mistakes. She understood that she didn't have what she needed to risk bringing a human being into the world so she did the RESPONSIBLE thing and got he morning after pill. It's not an abortion.
Tldr: my jimmies were rustled. | You do realize it could have been a broken condom or she forgot to take her birth control pill right? Fuck people like you, things malfunction sometimes and people make mistakes. She understood that she didn't have what she needed to risk bringing a human being into the world so she did the RESPONSIBLE thing and got he morning after pill. It's not an abortion.
Tldr: my jimmies were rustled.
| tifu | t5_2to41 | cafayjb | You do realize it could have been a broken condom or she forgot to take her birth control pill right? Fuck people like you, things malfunction sometimes and people make mistakes. She understood that she didn't have what she needed to risk bringing a human being into the world so she did the RESPONSIBLE thing and got he morning after pill. It's not an abortion. | my jimmies were rustled. |
Smyly | I've been waiting here for about 1 1/2 hours, all I need is an admin that can join US9 Pub and kick "Smyly" and "Smyly9" from the server so I can join. I keep trying to join and it says "Please wait 29 seconds 27 seconds, etc".
I believe what caused this is I tried to log inside of the air, after I got shot off of Eillom.
TL;DR: HALP | I've been waiting here for about 1 1/2 hours, all I need is an admin that can join US9 Pub and kick "Smyly" and "Smyly9" from the server so I can join. I keep trying to join and it says "Please wait 29 seconds 27 seconds, etc".
I believe what caused this is I tried to log inside of the air, after I got shot off of Eillom.
TL;DR: HALP
| MineZ | t5_2ubcv | cae7v7h | I've been waiting here for about 1 1/2 hours, all I need is an admin that can join US9 Pub and kick "Smyly" and "Smyly9" from the server so I can join. I keep trying to join and it says "Please wait 29 seconds 27 seconds, etc".
I believe what caused this is I tried to log inside of the air, after I got shot off of Eillom. | HALP |
travelingmama | I would handle them as they come up. I would never say "if you cheat on me, I will divorce you" (ok I'm married so break up just sound's weird) because if he gets dissatisfied, he may look for an out so that I'm the one that breaks it off. Make sense? So if cheating came up I would never say it's a deal breaker. I would say it depends on the situation. Whether it is a deal breaker or not, you don't know how you'll feel at the time it happens. I would have thought smoking would be a deal breaker for me, but in my case, my husband wanted to try it one day, did it once, threw up, and never wanted to do it again. He told me about it and it didn't have to be anything because I felt like he wasn't going to keep doing it habitually. Had I said it was a deal breaker and then I didn't do anything about it, how valid would I seem? And then he wouldn't have been honest with me about it either.
tl;dr I stay away from stating out loud that anything is a deal breaker! | I would handle them as they come up. I would never say "if you cheat on me, I will divorce you" (ok I'm married so break up just sound's weird) because if he gets dissatisfied, he may look for an out so that I'm the one that breaks it off. Make sense? So if cheating came up I would never say it's a deal breaker. I would say it depends on the situation. Whether it is a deal breaker or not, you don't know how you'll feel at the time it happens. I would have thought smoking would be a deal breaker for me, but in my case, my husband wanted to try it one day, did it once, threw up, and never wanted to do it again. He told me about it and it didn't have to be anything because I felt like he wasn't going to keep doing it habitually. Had I said it was a deal breaker and then I didn't do anything about it, how valid would I seem? And then he wouldn't have been honest with me about it either.
tl;dr I stay away from stating out loud that anything is a deal breaker!
| AskWomen | t5_2rxrw | caemnz5 | I would handle them as they come up. I would never say "if you cheat on me, I will divorce you" (ok I'm married so break up just sound's weird) because if he gets dissatisfied, he may look for an out so that I'm the one that breaks it off. Make sense? So if cheating came up I would never say it's a deal breaker. I would say it depends on the situation. Whether it is a deal breaker or not, you don't know how you'll feel at the time it happens. I would have thought smoking would be a deal breaker for me, but in my case, my husband wanted to try it one day, did it once, threw up, and never wanted to do it again. He told me about it and it didn't have to be anything because I felt like he wasn't going to keep doing it habitually. Had I said it was a deal breaker and then I didn't do anything about it, how valid would I seem? And then he wouldn't have been honest with me about it either. | I stay away from stating out loud that anything is a deal breaker! |
tommysmuffins | Unless you have a compromised immune system, I don't think you *ever* have to sterilize a safety razor. The only exception would be if you buy one from somebody you don't know, who may have some sort of blood-borne disease. Even then the lifetime of such diseases on a dry surface is short.
You have to remember that your entire environment is *swarming* with bacteria, some of them harmful to human health if they get out of hand. That's true, *even right after you sanitize a surface.* In much smaller numbers, but they're always there, unless you use an autoclave or something like that.
And in fact, even the inside of your body (your intestinal tract) is literally awash with foreign bacteria and fungi. Some non-trivial portion of your body weight is comprised of foreign micro-organisms. Don't even get me started on what's growing *outside* your skin.
tldr; don't sweat the small stuff.
| Unless you have a compromised immune system, I don't think you ever have to sterilize a safety razor. The only exception would be if you buy one from somebody you don't know, who may have some sort of blood-borne disease. Even then the lifetime of such diseases on a dry surface is short.
You have to remember that your entire environment is swarming with bacteria, some of them harmful to human health if they get out of hand. That's true, even right after you sanitize a surface. In much smaller numbers, but they're always there, unless you use an autoclave or something like that.
And in fact, even the inside of your body (your intestinal tract) is literally awash with foreign bacteria and fungi. Some non-trivial portion of your body weight is comprised of foreign micro-organisms. Don't even get me started on what's growing outside your skin.
tldr; don't sweat the small stuff.
| wicked_edge | t5_2s46m | caesio0 | Unless you have a compromised immune system, I don't think you ever have to sterilize a safety razor. The only exception would be if you buy one from somebody you don't know, who may have some sort of blood-borne disease. Even then the lifetime of such diseases on a dry surface is short.
You have to remember that your entire environment is swarming with bacteria, some of them harmful to human health if they get out of hand. That's true, even right after you sanitize a surface. In much smaller numbers, but they're always there, unless you use an autoclave or something like that.
And in fact, even the inside of your body (your intestinal tract) is literally awash with foreign bacteria and fungi. Some non-trivial portion of your body weight is comprised of foreign micro-organisms. Don't even get me started on what's growing outside your skin. | don't sweat the small stuff. |
MechDigital | >I've been waiting for a reasonably priced eGPU solution
Here's a Vaio Z using a custom Light Peak connector(not thunderbolt really) for a GPU:
tl;dr: please don't ever try to game on laptops.
| >I've been waiting for a reasonably priced eGPU solution
Here's a Vaio Z using a custom Light Peak connector(not thunderbolt really) for a GPU:
tl;dr: please don't ever try to game on laptops.
| hardware | t5_2qh18 | caell1o | I've been waiting for a reasonably priced eGPU solution
Here's a Vaio Z using a custom Light Peak connector(not thunderbolt really) for a GPU: | please don't ever try to game on laptops. |
RandomSwearing | I read through a good portion of what the first mall ninja wrote and he made war veterans and bonafide police officers look like 4 year olds with boo boos. The reason i stopped reading that is because i got mad. I got mad because sure his job does involve risk but he's no soldier, fireman or police officer. Those people voluntarily risk their lives to save people and children while this mall ninja goes all 'Call Of Duty' for a missing granola bar. I'm not saying mall security doesen't involve a risk but the people he disrespected run a much higher risk for their safety.
TLDR; this bitch nigga need to learn not to diss the people who protect his mall ninja ass from mall crackheads.
PS: Sorry for the language and grammar, I'm European. | I read through a good portion of what the first mall ninja wrote and he made war veterans and bonafide police officers look like 4 year olds with boo boos. The reason i stopped reading that is because i got mad. I got mad because sure his job does involve risk but he's no soldier, fireman or police officer. Those people voluntarily risk their lives to save people and children while this mall ninja goes all 'Call Of Duty' for a missing granola bar. I'm not saying mall security doesen't involve a risk but the people he disrespected run a much higher risk for their safety.
TLDR; this bitch nigga need to learn not to diss the people who protect his mall ninja ass from mall crackheads.
PS: Sorry for the language and grammar, I'm European.
| mallninjashit | t5_2wsnn | caevsiq | I read through a good portion of what the first mall ninja wrote and he made war veterans and bonafide police officers look like 4 year olds with boo boos. The reason i stopped reading that is because i got mad. I got mad because sure his job does involve risk but he's no soldier, fireman or police officer. Those people voluntarily risk their lives to save people and children while this mall ninja goes all 'Call Of Duty' for a missing granola bar. I'm not saying mall security doesen't involve a risk but the people he disrespected run a much higher risk for their safety. | this bitch nigga need to learn not to diss the people who protect his mall ninja ass from mall crackheads.
PS: Sorry for the language and grammar, I'm European. |
Duke_of_Cool17 | I have a similar story. Once, I went to the Bannered Mare and asked Hulda if she had any work. She gave me a bounty letter, like I was pretty sure she would. I read it to see where I was headed. It was just my luck that it pointed me toward a giant. I usually venture alone, and I did the same on this run.
When I arrived at the giant's camp, there were actually two of them there. I dipped my arrows in poison and snuck up close to the giant with the objective marker over him. I let fly the arrow and it hit him pretty solidly, as he staggered for a moment. He immediately spotted me and charged full speed. I ran until I got a good distance between us and shot another dozen arrows at him. His health was about half down at this point. I continued firing when he got close enough to hit me. I trusted in my Orcish armor and braced for impact.
I was sent flying quite a ways. I was clearly in pain as I chugged about fifteen potions. I got back up when suddenly a dragon started circling overhead. It went after the Whiterun stables and the surrounding farms. The giant was still coming after me, but I knew I had to save the people from the dragon. The dragon landed and was being fought off by the head of the stables. He was no match, however, with no armor and a simple iron sword. I ran over and took out most of the dragon's health. The dragon then took off and turned its attention toward the giant.
The giant was almost immediately mowed down by the power of an Ancient Dragon. I rushed over and finished the dragon in a sort of dramatic execution scene with my trusty Dawnbreaker. I then had a dead giant and a dead dragon on my hands. Through all of this, I had forgotten about the second giant, who was charging at me. The giant nearly crushed me in half as I dodged and made a run for it.
I made it back to Whiterun, claimed my bounty, and took a well-deserved rest in the Breezehome.
TL;DR I was given a bounty letter for a giant, when a dragon showed up and everything was destroyed except for the second giant at the camp. | I have a similar story. Once, I went to the Bannered Mare and asked Hulda if she had any work. She gave me a bounty letter, like I was pretty sure she would. I read it to see where I was headed. It was just my luck that it pointed me toward a giant. I usually venture alone, and I did the same on this run.
When I arrived at the giant's camp, there were actually two of them there. I dipped my arrows in poison and snuck up close to the giant with the objective marker over him. I let fly the arrow and it hit him pretty solidly, as he staggered for a moment. He immediately spotted me and charged full speed. I ran until I got a good distance between us and shot another dozen arrows at him. His health was about half down at this point. I continued firing when he got close enough to hit me. I trusted in my Orcish armor and braced for impact.
I was sent flying quite a ways. I was clearly in pain as I chugged about fifteen potions. I got back up when suddenly a dragon started circling overhead. It went after the Whiterun stables and the surrounding farms. The giant was still coming after me, but I knew I had to save the people from the dragon. The dragon landed and was being fought off by the head of the stables. He was no match, however, with no armor and a simple iron sword. I ran over and took out most of the dragon's health. The dragon then took off and turned its attention toward the giant.
The giant was almost immediately mowed down by the power of an Ancient Dragon. I rushed over and finished the dragon in a sort of dramatic execution scene with my trusty Dawnbreaker. I then had a dead giant and a dead dragon on my hands. Through all of this, I had forgotten about the second giant, who was charging at me. The giant nearly crushed me in half as I dodged and made a run for it.
I made it back to Whiterun, claimed my bounty, and took a well-deserved rest in the Breezehome.
TL;DR I was given a bounty letter for a giant, when a dragon showed up and everything was destroyed except for the second giant at the camp.
| skyrim | t5_2s837 | caey7we | I have a similar story. Once, I went to the Bannered Mare and asked Hulda if she had any work. She gave me a bounty letter, like I was pretty sure she would. I read it to see where I was headed. It was just my luck that it pointed me toward a giant. I usually venture alone, and I did the same on this run.
When I arrived at the giant's camp, there were actually two of them there. I dipped my arrows in poison and snuck up close to the giant with the objective marker over him. I let fly the arrow and it hit him pretty solidly, as he staggered for a moment. He immediately spotted me and charged full speed. I ran until I got a good distance between us and shot another dozen arrows at him. His health was about half down at this point. I continued firing when he got close enough to hit me. I trusted in my Orcish armor and braced for impact.
I was sent flying quite a ways. I was clearly in pain as I chugged about fifteen potions. I got back up when suddenly a dragon started circling overhead. It went after the Whiterun stables and the surrounding farms. The giant was still coming after me, but I knew I had to save the people from the dragon. The dragon landed and was being fought off by the head of the stables. He was no match, however, with no armor and a simple iron sword. I ran over and took out most of the dragon's health. The dragon then took off and turned its attention toward the giant.
The giant was almost immediately mowed down by the power of an Ancient Dragon. I rushed over and finished the dragon in a sort of dramatic execution scene with my trusty Dawnbreaker. I then had a dead giant and a dead dragon on my hands. Through all of this, I had forgotten about the second giant, who was charging at me. The giant nearly crushed me in half as I dodged and made a run for it.
I made it back to Whiterun, claimed my bounty, and took a well-deserved rest in the Breezehome. | I was given a bounty letter for a giant, when a dragon showed up and everything was destroyed except for the second giant at the camp. |
mediaboy | Report anything you see that is rulebreaking. If I load a thread before they post, I don't see it and I don't read every comment normally anyway. I skimread a lot.
I also appear on threads a lot through the modtools and new messages function, both of which send me directly to specific comments so even if I'm commenting on a thread, I may not actually see comments that you think I should be removing :)
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Having got the attention of another mod or three, I can actually talk about the accounts you mentionde and why it was handled as it was.
/u/chessmaster4lyfe wasn't banned, and hasn't been banned because he is now going inactive as the owner is leaving reddit (see other threads). This is because **as far as anyone on the modteam saw and was told** /u/cheesemaster4lyfe was fine with it, amused by it and generally was willing to go along with it. In the absence of a complaint, we were happy to trial leaving these accounts to die by themselves or get banned when impersonation became degradation.
Given the amount of confusion it caused, it's unlikely that we will adopt this policy in place of our current one.
The second account you mentioned, /u/mediaboyalt was one that I chose to trial another potential policy: using flair to identify that various accounts were *not* the originals (in this case, myself.. and obviously, I can choose whether or not to complain about these accounts and monitor them closely to decide their fate). As it was, I was also interested in confirming my suspicions as to the owner. These suspicions were proven accurate and the owner and I have had a chat. They aren't going to be using that account in future.
Once again, the new system of using flair didn't avoid confusion to the level that I wanted (though this probably helped by my actual flair) and letting accounts continue confusing users helps no one. We have no plans to implement this into our policy.
The final account /u/chesemaster4lyfe was dealt with as per expectations (I hope?). An account created with the intent to confuse, a complaint from the original account holder (see this comment tree, near the top), and it gets instantly banned.
To answer a few expected questions, we constantly trial new policy where and when useful (we have an entire unbanning policy which we're currently playing with, for instance, due to an awareness that we've decreased the requirements for moderators to ban users) in an attempt to continue to improve the service that the modteam provides.
We try to avoid it infringing upon normal users redditing but - obviously - in the case of things like this, it's unavoidable. The fact that it has caused confusion is exactly why we won't be implementing the things I was trying out, and we'll stick with the current system.
If an account is impersonating you, please contact us. We will ban them - excepting in the few cases where two apparently legitimate users have very similar names, in which case we'll provide flair etc. and track both accounts for a couple of weeks.
This hasn't actually happened yet, so I have to admit that we haven't had a chance to check that our system works, but I've been playing with some ideas that I'd love to try out sometime in case it doesn't :D
**tl;dr: Trying out a couple of new ideas as owners of the accounts being impersonated didn't complain anywhere that we saw. They weren't an improvement, so we're sticking with what we have.** | Report anything you see that is rulebreaking. If I load a thread before they post, I don't see it and I don't read every comment normally anyway. I skimread a lot.
I also appear on threads a lot through the modtools and new messages function, both of which send me directly to specific comments so even if I'm commenting on a thread, I may not actually see comments that you think I should be removing :)
Having got the attention of another mod or three, I can actually talk about the accounts you mentionde and why it was handled as it was.
/u/chessmaster4lyfe wasn't banned, and hasn't been banned because he is now going inactive as the owner is leaving reddit (see other threads). This is because as far as anyone on the modteam saw and was told /u/cheesemaster4lyfe was fine with it, amused by it and generally was willing to go along with it. In the absence of a complaint, we were happy to trial leaving these accounts to die by themselves or get banned when impersonation became degradation.
Given the amount of confusion it caused, it's unlikely that we will adopt this policy in place of our current one.
The second account you mentioned, /u/mediaboyalt was one that I chose to trial another potential policy: using flair to identify that various accounts were not the originals (in this case, myself.. and obviously, I can choose whether or not to complain about these accounts and monitor them closely to decide their fate). As it was, I was also interested in confirming my suspicions as to the owner. These suspicions were proven accurate and the owner and I have had a chat. They aren't going to be using that account in future.
Once again, the new system of using flair didn't avoid confusion to the level that I wanted (though this probably helped by my actual flair) and letting accounts continue confusing users helps no one. We have no plans to implement this into our policy.
The final account /u/chesemaster4lyfe was dealt with as per expectations (I hope?). An account created with the intent to confuse, a complaint from the original account holder (see this comment tree, near the top), and it gets instantly banned.
To answer a few expected questions, we constantly trial new policy where and when useful (we have an entire unbanning policy which we're currently playing with, for instance, due to an awareness that we've decreased the requirements for moderators to ban users) in an attempt to continue to improve the service that the modteam provides.
We try to avoid it infringing upon normal users redditing but - obviously - in the case of things like this, it's unavoidable. The fact that it has caused confusion is exactly why we won't be implementing the things I was trying out, and we'll stick with the current system.
If an account is impersonating you, please contact us. We will ban them - excepting in the few cases where two apparently legitimate users have very similar names, in which case we'll provide flair etc. and track both accounts for a couple of weeks.
This hasn't actually happened yet, so I have to admit that we haven't had a chance to check that our system works, but I've been playing with some ideas that I'd love to try out sometime in case it doesn't :D
tl;dr: Trying out a couple of new ideas as owners of the accounts being impersonated didn't complain anywhere that we saw. They weren't an improvement, so we're sticking with what we have.
| teenagers | t5_2rjli | caf0ah8 | Report anything you see that is rulebreaking. If I load a thread before they post, I don't see it and I don't read every comment normally anyway. I skimread a lot.
I also appear on threads a lot through the modtools and new messages function, both of which send me directly to specific comments so even if I'm commenting on a thread, I may not actually see comments that you think I should be removing :)
Having got the attention of another mod or three, I can actually talk about the accounts you mentionde and why it was handled as it was.
/u/chessmaster4lyfe wasn't banned, and hasn't been banned because he is now going inactive as the owner is leaving reddit (see other threads). This is because as far as anyone on the modteam saw and was told /u/cheesemaster4lyfe was fine with it, amused by it and generally was willing to go along with it. In the absence of a complaint, we were happy to trial leaving these accounts to die by themselves or get banned when impersonation became degradation.
Given the amount of confusion it caused, it's unlikely that we will adopt this policy in place of our current one.
The second account you mentioned, /u/mediaboyalt was one that I chose to trial another potential policy: using flair to identify that various accounts were not the originals (in this case, myself.. and obviously, I can choose whether or not to complain about these accounts and monitor them closely to decide their fate). As it was, I was also interested in confirming my suspicions as to the owner. These suspicions were proven accurate and the owner and I have had a chat. They aren't going to be using that account in future.
Once again, the new system of using flair didn't avoid confusion to the level that I wanted (though this probably helped by my actual flair) and letting accounts continue confusing users helps no one. We have no plans to implement this into our policy.
The final account /u/chesemaster4lyfe was dealt with as per expectations (I hope?). An account created with the intent to confuse, a complaint from the original account holder (see this comment tree, near the top), and it gets instantly banned.
To answer a few expected questions, we constantly trial new policy where and when useful (we have an entire unbanning policy which we're currently playing with, for instance, due to an awareness that we've decreased the requirements for moderators to ban users) in an attempt to continue to improve the service that the modteam provides.
We try to avoid it infringing upon normal users redditing but - obviously - in the case of things like this, it's unavoidable. The fact that it has caused confusion is exactly why we won't be implementing the things I was trying out, and we'll stick with the current system.
If an account is impersonating you, please contact us. We will ban them - excepting in the few cases where two apparently legitimate users have very similar names, in which case we'll provide flair etc. and track both accounts for a couple of weeks.
This hasn't actually happened yet, so I have to admit that we haven't had a chance to check that our system works, but I've been playing with some ideas that I'd love to try out sometime in case it doesn't :D | Trying out a couple of new ideas as owners of the accounts being impersonated didn't complain anywhere that we saw. They weren't an improvement, so we're sticking with what we have. |
digitaldrummer | Searing Spear, sure.
RDW - My LGS has Pro Tour players who netdeck like crazy. They pilot stupidly expensive decks, and I run things like Epic Experiment, Keyrunes, Primordial Hydra, etc. Guess what? I still win. If I hadn't misplayed newbie-style last night I would've gone 4-1 with a Gruul Midrange I slapped together a few hours before playing.
TL;DR - Play what you want, fuck the haters. You'll still win if you make the right calls. | Searing Spear, sure.
RDW - My LGS has Pro Tour players who netdeck like crazy. They pilot stupidly expensive decks, and I run things like Epic Experiment, Keyrunes, Primordial Hydra, etc. Guess what? I still win. If I hadn't misplayed newbie-style last night I would've gone 4-1 with a Gruul Midrange I slapped together a few hours before playing.
TL;DR - Play what you want, fuck the haters. You'll still win if you make the right calls.
| Magicdeckbuilding | t5_2sv87 | caf0el9 | Searing Spear, sure.
RDW - My LGS has Pro Tour players who netdeck like crazy. They pilot stupidly expensive decks, and I run things like Epic Experiment, Keyrunes, Primordial Hydra, etc. Guess what? I still win. If I hadn't misplayed newbie-style last night I would've gone 4-1 with a Gruul Midrange I slapped together a few hours before playing. | Play what you want, fuck the haters. You'll still win if you make the right calls. |
DubberRucky4 | Alright. So I should use the RDW at a standard event I'm going to tomorrow? And no offense, but why did you TL;DR a 5 sentence comment?
| Alright. So I should use the RDW at a standard event I'm going to tomorrow? And no offense, but why did you TL;DR a 5 sentence comment?
| Magicdeckbuilding | t5_2sv87 | caf0lzl | Alright. So I should use the RDW at a standard event I'm going to tomorrow? And no offense, but why did you | a 5 sentence comment? |
EnzaPone | They're not always trying to abuse the system.
They just fall for silly scams.
Most people just assume that because someone on their friend-list sent them the link, it must be legit. Even though there have been people getting hacked and saying "i got sent this link from someone on my friend-list".
It's literally mainly down to people clicking links without reading them, or after they've opened the link they just glance at it, see it looks vaguely like the official LoL website and wants them to log-in, and then just try to login without even thinking about it.
Most people want an authenticator, because then it's there to wipe their ass for them so they don't have to bother thinking or paying attention.
**TL;DR: People are lazy and stupid and thinking is too hard or too much effort.** | They're not always trying to abuse the system.
They just fall for silly scams.
Most people just assume that because someone on their friend-list sent them the link, it must be legit. Even though there have been people getting hacked and saying "i got sent this link from someone on my friend-list".
It's literally mainly down to people clicking links without reading them, or after they've opened the link they just glance at it, see it looks vaguely like the official LoL website and wants them to log-in, and then just try to login without even thinking about it.
Most people want an authenticator, because then it's there to wipe their ass for them so they don't have to bother thinking or paying attention.
TL;DR: People are lazy and stupid and thinking is too hard or too much effort.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cafj839 | They're not always trying to abuse the system.
They just fall for silly scams.
Most people just assume that because someone on their friend-list sent them the link, it must be legit. Even though there have been people getting hacked and saying "i got sent this link from someone on my friend-list".
It's literally mainly down to people clicking links without reading them, or after they've opened the link they just glance at it, see it looks vaguely like the official LoL website and wants them to log-in, and then just try to login without even thinking about it.
Most people want an authenticator, because then it's there to wipe their ass for them so they don't have to bother thinking or paying attention. | People are lazy and stupid and thinking is too hard or too much effort. |
maximumhippo | I'm Fairly neutral on LoK. I didn't like it as much as TLA but that is more or less to be expected right? The sequel is never as good as the first. I feel Like LoK gets a lot of flak because of the pacing. They tried to fit way too much into 13 episodes. It's not something people would necessarily recognize right away as a source of a problem. If the season had been 20-23 episodes long a lot of people's complaints would probably disappear, because the crew would have had longer to develop the characters, to work on plot points, etc. There is the pacing issue but there's also Korra herself. Korra is great, she's a great character and has a lot of great qualities, but, at the end of the day, She isn't Aang. A major thing I hear is "ugh, how could such a violent and unrefinded girl have been the avatar after Aang. She's so different." Well yeah, compare Aang to Roku, Kuruk or Kiyoshi. Aang was an exception to the rule. If anything, Korra is more like her predecessors than Aang was, and people weren't expecting it.
TL;DR LoK moved too fast and Korra was too different from Aang. | I'm Fairly neutral on LoK. I didn't like it as much as TLA but that is more or less to be expected right? The sequel is never as good as the first. I feel Like LoK gets a lot of flak because of the pacing. They tried to fit way too much into 13 episodes. It's not something people would necessarily recognize right away as a source of a problem. If the season had been 20-23 episodes long a lot of people's complaints would probably disappear, because the crew would have had longer to develop the characters, to work on plot points, etc. There is the pacing issue but there's also Korra herself. Korra is great, she's a great character and has a lot of great qualities, but, at the end of the day, She isn't Aang. A major thing I hear is "ugh, how could such a violent and unrefinded girl have been the avatar after Aang. She's so different." Well yeah, compare Aang to Roku, Kuruk or Kiyoshi. Aang was an exception to the rule. If anything, Korra is more like her predecessors than Aang was, and people weren't expecting it.
TL;DR LoK moved too fast and Korra was too different from Aang.
| TheLastAirbender | t5_2rybx | cafkbpc | I'm Fairly neutral on LoK. I didn't like it as much as TLA but that is more or less to be expected right? The sequel is never as good as the first. I feel Like LoK gets a lot of flak because of the pacing. They tried to fit way too much into 13 episodes. It's not something people would necessarily recognize right away as a source of a problem. If the season had been 20-23 episodes long a lot of people's complaints would probably disappear, because the crew would have had longer to develop the characters, to work on plot points, etc. There is the pacing issue but there's also Korra herself. Korra is great, she's a great character and has a lot of great qualities, but, at the end of the day, She isn't Aang. A major thing I hear is "ugh, how could such a violent and unrefinded girl have been the avatar after Aang. She's so different." Well yeah, compare Aang to Roku, Kuruk or Kiyoshi. Aang was an exception to the rule. If anything, Korra is more like her predecessors than Aang was, and people weren't expecting it. | LoK moved too fast and Korra was too different from Aang. |
caffeineandentropy | Want to know something? When I was in high school I considered whether I was a lesbian, but then realized that because I loved dresses and was feminine, I *couldn't* be gay. Seriously. *Seriously.*
At the time, I remember reflecting on the only publicly out girls in my school I was aware of, who were all (1) super butch, (2) sort of outcasted, and (3) sort of burnouts. I was an academically rigorous feminine girl who ran in the popular circles, and at the time, wanted the same.
I've been out of high school for five years now, and about a year ago, started looking for all of the other now-queer people from my school. There are like ten of us I found who I would have been really attracted to at the time if only I'd known!
You find more feminine lesbians as you get older, because us feminine lesbians might struggle with the intersection of femininity + sexuality for a while. By the time you get to college, you'll have the opposite problem -- lots of pretty, feminine women who want to make out with girls - not all of them actually gay.
*TL;DR* There are more feminine gaymos in your school than you (or they) realize, but just you wait, lady. | Want to know something? When I was in high school I considered whether I was a lesbian, but then realized that because I loved dresses and was feminine, I couldn't be gay. Seriously. Seriously.
At the time, I remember reflecting on the only publicly out girls in my school I was aware of, who were all (1) super butch, (2) sort of outcasted, and (3) sort of burnouts. I was an academically rigorous feminine girl who ran in the popular circles, and at the time, wanted the same.
I've been out of high school for five years now, and about a year ago, started looking for all of the other now-queer people from my school. There are like ten of us I found who I would have been really attracted to at the time if only I'd known!
You find more feminine lesbians as you get older, because us feminine lesbians might struggle with the intersection of femininity + sexuality for a while. By the time you get to college, you'll have the opposite problem -- lots of pretty, feminine women who want to make out with girls - not all of them actually gay.
TL;DR There are more feminine gaymos in your school than you (or they) realize, but just you wait, lady.
| actuallesbians | t5_2rch0 | caftxfb | Want to know something? When I was in high school I considered whether I was a lesbian, but then realized that because I loved dresses and was feminine, I couldn't be gay. Seriously. Seriously.
At the time, I remember reflecting on the only publicly out girls in my school I was aware of, who were all (1) super butch, (2) sort of outcasted, and (3) sort of burnouts. I was an academically rigorous feminine girl who ran in the popular circles, and at the time, wanted the same.
I've been out of high school for five years now, and about a year ago, started looking for all of the other now-queer people from my school. There are like ten of us I found who I would have been really attracted to at the time if only I'd known!
You find more feminine lesbians as you get older, because us feminine lesbians might struggle with the intersection of femininity + sexuality for a while. By the time you get to college, you'll have the opposite problem -- lots of pretty, feminine women who want to make out with girls - not all of them actually gay. | There are more feminine gaymos in your school than you (or they) realize, but just you wait, lady. |
conceitedcake | The best way to start meeting people, regardless of age, is to pursue an interest of yours in some group setting. Whether it be a high school or college club, or even just a group meeting in your local area. Finding a public group to engage your interests should be your first step. If you don't have such a hobby, start experimenting with new hobbies. Though the internet isn't the best place to foster lasting friendships, it can provide some inspiration for activities where you can meet such people.
Once you do manage to find such a group, focus on enjoying the activity with the others around you. Talk about your shared interest. Generate small talk. Ask about what they do outside of the group or what else they enjoy. With the interaction over time, you'll start to gravitate towards people that 'mesh' with you. The key point will be if a potential friend asks you to do something with them outside of the group (have a beer, go see a sports game, etc.). A key indicator of a friendship is being to be able to do multiple activities with a person and still enjoy their company. Also, if you enjoy someone's company in your group, you could also try to invite them to do something.
However, the problem appears to be that your standard of people you would want to befriend excludes the people you know. There are people that fit snuggly into these descriptions you've listed, but there are more people that once you get to know them have alot more depth past these cookie-cutter stereotypes that you have identified. The fact of the matter is that you will never find the 'friend' that will meet all your criteria. You're friends will be the select few that you are willing to make allowances for, people that may not live up to your expectations but are great enough that you will see past their flaws. The only way to meet such people is to try, try, try. Not every interaction with a potential friend will end with one being made. But, what do you lose in the scheme of things by trying? No skin off your back if you try and it doesn't work out. You just keep having to make such attempts until it does pay off.
You also make the request that people forgive you for being imperfect, that request is a two-way street. You have to be willing to forgive others for their flaws for them to be willing to do the same for you. You need to internalize that idea, because people will always fall flat of some expectation eventually.
so,
tl;dr - find groups for hobbies you enjoy, chat it up with people there, try activities outside of group, understand no one is perfect and make allowances for them and they will do the same for you. | The best way to start meeting people, regardless of age, is to pursue an interest of yours in some group setting. Whether it be a high school or college club, or even just a group meeting in your local area. Finding a public group to engage your interests should be your first step. If you don't have such a hobby, start experimenting with new hobbies. Though the internet isn't the best place to foster lasting friendships, it can provide some inspiration for activities where you can meet such people.
Once you do manage to find such a group, focus on enjoying the activity with the others around you. Talk about your shared interest. Generate small talk. Ask about what they do outside of the group or what else they enjoy. With the interaction over time, you'll start to gravitate towards people that 'mesh' with you. The key point will be if a potential friend asks you to do something with them outside of the group (have a beer, go see a sports game, etc.). A key indicator of a friendship is being to be able to do multiple activities with a person and still enjoy their company. Also, if you enjoy someone's company in your group, you could also try to invite them to do something.
However, the problem appears to be that your standard of people you would want to befriend excludes the people you know. There are people that fit snuggly into these descriptions you've listed, but there are more people that once you get to know them have alot more depth past these cookie-cutter stereotypes that you have identified. The fact of the matter is that you will never find the 'friend' that will meet all your criteria. You're friends will be the select few that you are willing to make allowances for, people that may not live up to your expectations but are great enough that you will see past their flaws. The only way to meet such people is to try, try, try. Not every interaction with a potential friend will end with one being made. But, what do you lose in the scheme of things by trying? No skin off your back if you try and it doesn't work out. You just keep having to make such attempts until it does pay off.
You also make the request that people forgive you for being imperfect, that request is a two-way street. You have to be willing to forgive others for their flaws for them to be willing to do the same for you. You need to internalize that idea, because people will always fall flat of some expectation eventually.
so,
tl;dr - find groups for hobbies you enjoy, chat it up with people there, try activities outside of group, understand no one is perfect and make allowances for them and they will do the same for you.
| MyLittleSupportGroup | t5_2u1cu | cagcimq | The best way to start meeting people, regardless of age, is to pursue an interest of yours in some group setting. Whether it be a high school or college club, or even just a group meeting in your local area. Finding a public group to engage your interests should be your first step. If you don't have such a hobby, start experimenting with new hobbies. Though the internet isn't the best place to foster lasting friendships, it can provide some inspiration for activities where you can meet such people.
Once you do manage to find such a group, focus on enjoying the activity with the others around you. Talk about your shared interest. Generate small talk. Ask about what they do outside of the group or what else they enjoy. With the interaction over time, you'll start to gravitate towards people that 'mesh' with you. The key point will be if a potential friend asks you to do something with them outside of the group (have a beer, go see a sports game, etc.). A key indicator of a friendship is being to be able to do multiple activities with a person and still enjoy their company. Also, if you enjoy someone's company in your group, you could also try to invite them to do something.
However, the problem appears to be that your standard of people you would want to befriend excludes the people you know. There are people that fit snuggly into these descriptions you've listed, but there are more people that once you get to know them have alot more depth past these cookie-cutter stereotypes that you have identified. The fact of the matter is that you will never find the 'friend' that will meet all your criteria. You're friends will be the select few that you are willing to make allowances for, people that may not live up to your expectations but are great enough that you will see past their flaws. The only way to meet such people is to try, try, try. Not every interaction with a potential friend will end with one being made. But, what do you lose in the scheme of things by trying? No skin off your back if you try and it doesn't work out. You just keep having to make such attempts until it does pay off.
You also make the request that people forgive you for being imperfect, that request is a two-way street. You have to be willing to forgive others for their flaws for them to be willing to do the same for you. You need to internalize that idea, because people will always fall flat of some expectation eventually.
so, | find groups for hobbies you enjoy, chat it up with people there, try activities outside of group, understand no one is perfect and make allowances for them and they will do the same for you. |
4rt3mis | Hey I just wanted to chime in because the same sort of thing happened to me at the end of April. I started working out March and was going strong through April, and really loving what I was doing.
Then at the end of April someone ran a red light and smashed into my car, spinning me around and causing me to hit the car next to me. My car was totalled, the car I hit was totalled and the car that hit me (which was a fucking truck while I was driving a Kia rio) was not in good shape.
Like you I was able to walk away from my car, and thank god so were my dogs who were sitting in the back seat. I have had no lasting injuries although we thought my hand might've been broken (xrays said I was fine though).
I took a week off from lifting at all, I was sore and woke up stiff and I was just so tired. When I finally went back my lifts weren't great and I found some new places I was sore. I started back slowly, instead of every day/every other day, I only went 2 or 3 times a week.
Then I got sick. I had a fever and sore throat which turned into a terrible cough. It wouldn't go away, the cough stuck around and stuck around. After a week started to go away, but I still couldn't do any strenuous activity without turning into some emphysema patient. Another week to week and a half later my cough finally went away and I could work out again.
I basically ended up taking all of May off, unless you count moving for a week as a workout lol. I finally started to get back at it in the last week or two. I've been getting antsy from not lifting heavy things and I finally got a new car (a badass Jeep ;) ) so things are starting to be semi-normal.
TL;DR: I was in a car wreck a month ago and ended up taking almost a month off from working out, but now I'm back and after easing into it I've lifted heavier than I did before. | Hey I just wanted to chime in because the same sort of thing happened to me at the end of April. I started working out March and was going strong through April, and really loving what I was doing.
Then at the end of April someone ran a red light and smashed into my car, spinning me around and causing me to hit the car next to me. My car was totalled, the car I hit was totalled and the car that hit me (which was a fucking truck while I was driving a Kia rio) was not in good shape.
Like you I was able to walk away from my car, and thank god so were my dogs who were sitting in the back seat. I have had no lasting injuries although we thought my hand might've been broken (xrays said I was fine though).
I took a week off from lifting at all, I was sore and woke up stiff and I was just so tired. When I finally went back my lifts weren't great and I found some new places I was sore. I started back slowly, instead of every day/every other day, I only went 2 or 3 times a week.
Then I got sick. I had a fever and sore throat which turned into a terrible cough. It wouldn't go away, the cough stuck around and stuck around. After a week started to go away, but I still couldn't do any strenuous activity without turning into some emphysema patient. Another week to week and a half later my cough finally went away and I could work out again.
I basically ended up taking all of May off, unless you count moving for a week as a workout lol. I finally started to get back at it in the last week or two. I've been getting antsy from not lifting heavy things and I finally got a new car (a badass Jeep ;) ) so things are starting to be semi-normal.
TL;DR: I was in a car wreck a month ago and ended up taking almost a month off from working out, but now I'm back and after easing into it I've lifted heavier than I did before.
| xxfitness | t5_2ryzy | cagn4ez | Hey I just wanted to chime in because the same sort of thing happened to me at the end of April. I started working out March and was going strong through April, and really loving what I was doing.
Then at the end of April someone ran a red light and smashed into my car, spinning me around and causing me to hit the car next to me. My car was totalled, the car I hit was totalled and the car that hit me (which was a fucking truck while I was driving a Kia rio) was not in good shape.
Like you I was able to walk away from my car, and thank god so were my dogs who were sitting in the back seat. I have had no lasting injuries although we thought my hand might've been broken (xrays said I was fine though).
I took a week off from lifting at all, I was sore and woke up stiff and I was just so tired. When I finally went back my lifts weren't great and I found some new places I was sore. I started back slowly, instead of every day/every other day, I only went 2 or 3 times a week.
Then I got sick. I had a fever and sore throat which turned into a terrible cough. It wouldn't go away, the cough stuck around and stuck around. After a week started to go away, but I still couldn't do any strenuous activity without turning into some emphysema patient. Another week to week and a half later my cough finally went away and I could work out again.
I basically ended up taking all of May off, unless you count moving for a week as a workout lol. I finally started to get back at it in the last week or two. I've been getting antsy from not lifting heavy things and I finally got a new car (a badass Jeep ;) ) so things are starting to be semi-normal. | I was in a car wreck a month ago and ended up taking almost a month off from working out, but now I'm back and after easing into it I've lifted heavier than I did before. |
BonoboUK | You need a small state of inflation. Stagnation (neither of the two) is not as bad as rapid inflation (hyperinflation) or deflation, but you still really want your money to be worth a tiny bit less next year than it was this year (i.e. small inflation).
If this wasn't the case then as I said before, why would you spend £100,000 on a two bedroom house, when if you take the cash out of the bank and leave it under your pillow, you could buy a 3 bedroom house in a year?
Unfortunately everyone thinks like that, meaning nobody buys anything expensive as they're sure it will be cheaper in a while. Meaning your economy is fucked.
The opposite is obviously scary as well - if you're money is worth 50% less next year , why are you going to save any of it? Why wouldn't you buy a 2 bedroom house now, when if you save it you'll only get a 1 bedroom house next year? This was one of the major causes of WW2 (domestically at least for Germany), I believe their inflation rate was in the tens of thousands of percent every year. Imagine you've saved a million pounds over 30 years. Then in one year it's worth what £100 was a year ago.
I'm rambling a bit but TL:DR Most governments aim for an inflation rate of around 2%, which is considered healthy. | You need a small state of inflation. Stagnation (neither of the two) is not as bad as rapid inflation (hyperinflation) or deflation, but you still really want your money to be worth a tiny bit less next year than it was this year (i.e. small inflation).
If this wasn't the case then as I said before, why would you spend £100,000 on a two bedroom house, when if you take the cash out of the bank and leave it under your pillow, you could buy a 3 bedroom house in a year?
Unfortunately everyone thinks like that, meaning nobody buys anything expensive as they're sure it will be cheaper in a while. Meaning your economy is fucked.
The opposite is obviously scary as well - if you're money is worth 50% less next year , why are you going to save any of it? Why wouldn't you buy a 2 bedroom house now, when if you save it you'll only get a 1 bedroom house next year? This was one of the major causes of WW2 (domestically at least for Germany), I believe their inflation rate was in the tens of thousands of percent every year. Imagine you've saved a million pounds over 30 years. Then in one year it's worth what £100 was a year ago.
I'm rambling a bit but TL:DR Most governments aim for an inflation rate of around 2%, which is considered healthy.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cagezsq | You need a small state of inflation. Stagnation (neither of the two) is not as bad as rapid inflation (hyperinflation) or deflation, but you still really want your money to be worth a tiny bit less next year than it was this year (i.e. small inflation).
If this wasn't the case then as I said before, why would you spend £100,000 on a two bedroom house, when if you take the cash out of the bank and leave it under your pillow, you could buy a 3 bedroom house in a year?
Unfortunately everyone thinks like that, meaning nobody buys anything expensive as they're sure it will be cheaper in a while. Meaning your economy is fucked.
The opposite is obviously scary as well - if you're money is worth 50% less next year , why are you going to save any of it? Why wouldn't you buy a 2 bedroom house now, when if you save it you'll only get a 1 bedroom house next year? This was one of the major causes of WW2 (domestically at least for Germany), I believe their inflation rate was in the tens of thousands of percent every year. Imagine you've saved a million pounds over 30 years. Then in one year it's worth what £100 was a year ago.
I'm rambling a bit but | Most governments aim for an inflation rate of around 2%, which is considered healthy. |
robble_bobble | It's probably just a time traveler, but here's my alternate theory:
P is the Philadelphia mint. The Philadelphia mint is also where they produce the master die, and the national design and engraving departments are also there. Some employees went to make a die, fucked up and made 2067 instead of 2007, and cranked out some nickels before they realized the mistake.
Most of them were destroyed, but one made it into the pocket of an employee. This employee went on to pass this on to his son and it became an heirloom to be passed down for generations. After hundreds of years, the possessor came on very hard times and realized he'd have to part with the nickel, which by this point had become quite valuable.
However he realized that the poor condition would make it less valuable. He also realized that an old nickel is valuable, but an older nickel is far more valuable. With that he traveled back in time (quite affordable by this time) and walked into the first 7-11 he saw and traded the 2067 nickel with a 2001 nickel from the 'take a penny, leave a penny' tray, leading to quite a profit.
Later that night the cashier realized there was a nickel in the tray (easy money) and pocketed it. When the Coke machine at the DMV wouldn't take the coin, he looked closer and realized the nickel is dated 2067. That cashier is the OP.
TL;DR: yup, time travel after all. | It's probably just a time traveler, but here's my alternate theory:
P is the Philadelphia mint. The Philadelphia mint is also where they produce the master die, and the national design and engraving departments are also there. Some employees went to make a die, fucked up and made 2067 instead of 2007, and cranked out some nickels before they realized the mistake.
Most of them were destroyed, but one made it into the pocket of an employee. This employee went on to pass this on to his son and it became an heirloom to be passed down for generations. After hundreds of years, the possessor came on very hard times and realized he'd have to part with the nickel, which by this point had become quite valuable.
However he realized that the poor condition would make it less valuable. He also realized that an old nickel is valuable, but an older nickel is far more valuable. With that he traveled back in time (quite affordable by this time) and walked into the first 7-11 he saw and traded the 2067 nickel with a 2001 nickel from the 'take a penny, leave a penny' tray, leading to quite a profit.
Later that night the cashier realized there was a nickel in the tray (easy money) and pocketed it. When the Coke machine at the DMV wouldn't take the coin, he looked closer and realized the nickel is dated 2067. That cashier is the OP.
TL;DR: yup, time travel after all.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cagcay2 | It's probably just a time traveler, but here's my alternate theory:
P is the Philadelphia mint. The Philadelphia mint is also where they produce the master die, and the national design and engraving departments are also there. Some employees went to make a die, fucked up and made 2067 instead of 2007, and cranked out some nickels before they realized the mistake.
Most of them were destroyed, but one made it into the pocket of an employee. This employee went on to pass this on to his son and it became an heirloom to be passed down for generations. After hundreds of years, the possessor came on very hard times and realized he'd have to part with the nickel, which by this point had become quite valuable.
However he realized that the poor condition would make it less valuable. He also realized that an old nickel is valuable, but an older nickel is far more valuable. With that he traveled back in time (quite affordable by this time) and walked into the first 7-11 he saw and traded the 2067 nickel with a 2001 nickel from the 'take a penny, leave a penny' tray, leading to quite a profit.
Later that night the cashier realized there was a nickel in the tray (easy money) and pocketed it. When the Coke machine at the DMV wouldn't take the coin, he looked closer and realized the nickel is dated 2067. That cashier is the OP. | yup, time travel after all. |
cantrevealmytrueself | I have the answer.
I am sorry to break the dream of time traveling, but that coin has been severely damaged by fire. When nickels are burnt, their colors turn darker. When nickels are burnt, the writing on it (different metals) start to melt off or even evaporate to a certain point.
TL;DR 2007 year nickel got in a fire and coincidentally looked like 2067 or 2667. | I have the answer.
I am sorry to break the dream of time traveling, but that coin has been severely damaged by fire. When nickels are burnt, their colors turn darker. When nickels are burnt, the writing on it (different metals) start to melt off or even evaporate to a certain point.
TL;DR 2007 year nickel got in a fire and coincidentally looked like 2067 or 2667.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | caghmak | I have the answer.
I am sorry to break the dream of time traveling, but that coin has been severely damaged by fire. When nickels are burnt, their colors turn darker. When nickels are burnt, the writing on it (different metals) start to melt off or even evaporate to a certain point. | 2007 year nickel got in a fire and coincidentally looked like 2067 or 2667. |
systemstheorist | Don't start any of those:
Such a subreddit would become a venue for Anthropological Scientists to shame Postmodern Anthropologists. The PoMos will argue against anyone claiming anthropology is a scientific discipline. The Cultural Materialists will ridicule any one adhering to a "Eclectic" perspectives of culture. The Evolutionary Psychologists will flood the subreddit and accuse us of being "Cultural determinists" as if our discipline had not advanced since the 1940s. The Linguistic Anthropologists will complain about Chomskyan reductionism while posting dozens of links from /r/Linguistics. The Archaeologists will debate whether to split /r/badarchaeology into its own subreddit. Any mention of Margret Meade or Napoleon Chagnon which does not mention their vindication will be argued about ad nauseam.
TL:DR: No one does tribal warfare like Anthropologists | Don't start any of those:
Such a subreddit would become a venue for Anthropological Scientists to shame Postmodern Anthropologists. The PoMos will argue against anyone claiming anthropology is a scientific discipline. The Cultural Materialists will ridicule any one adhering to a "Eclectic" perspectives of culture. The Evolutionary Psychologists will flood the subreddit and accuse us of being "Cultural determinists" as if our discipline had not advanced since the 1940s. The Linguistic Anthropologists will complain about Chomskyan reductionism while posting dozens of links from /r/Linguistics. The Archaeologists will debate whether to split /r/badarchaeology into its own subreddit. Any mention of Margret Meade or Napoleon Chagnon which does not mention their vindication will be argued about ad nauseam.
TL:DR: No one does tribal warfare like Anthropologists
| badhistory | t5_2wo26 | cagogjx | Don't start any of those:
Such a subreddit would become a venue for Anthropological Scientists to shame Postmodern Anthropologists. The PoMos will argue against anyone claiming anthropology is a scientific discipline. The Cultural Materialists will ridicule any one adhering to a "Eclectic" perspectives of culture. The Evolutionary Psychologists will flood the subreddit and accuse us of being "Cultural determinists" as if our discipline had not advanced since the 1940s. The Linguistic Anthropologists will complain about Chomskyan reductionism while posting dozens of links from /r/Linguistics. The Archaeologists will debate whether to split /r/badarchaeology into its own subreddit. Any mention of Margret Meade or Napoleon Chagnon which does not mention their vindication will be argued about ad nauseam. | No one does tribal warfare like Anthropologists |
ChronicGusher | I just got a software engineer role so maybe I can give some suggestions. I also had a lot of self taught experience, but I also took classes.
I would definitely work on communication and empathy the most. People want to work with others they can get along with. Make sure you don't flip out or get too disheartened if you can't solve a problem. It's just a question, however, don't just give up. Also make sure to be honest about who you are and what you are looking for.
For the algorithm stuff I think just the basic sorts and searches are good enough unless you're interviewing at Google or Facebook. They might ask you puzzle questions so you can look some up. Even if you don't do these things it's OK. Just be clear and communicate well with the interviewer. Tell them your thoughts and ask them to clarify constraints for the problem at hand. They will solve the problem with you, especially if they like you.
tl;dr be likable and talk with the interviewer | I just got a software engineer role so maybe I can give some suggestions. I also had a lot of self taught experience, but I also took classes.
I would definitely work on communication and empathy the most. People want to work with others they can get along with. Make sure you don't flip out or get too disheartened if you can't solve a problem. It's just a question, however, don't just give up. Also make sure to be honest about who you are and what you are looking for.
For the algorithm stuff I think just the basic sorts and searches are good enough unless you're interviewing at Google or Facebook. They might ask you puzzle questions so you can look some up. Even if you don't do these things it's OK. Just be clear and communicate well with the interviewer. Tell them your thoughts and ask them to clarify constraints for the problem at hand. They will solve the problem with you, especially if they like you.
tl;dr be likable and talk with the interviewer
| learnprogramming | t5_2r7yd | cagnnjg | I just got a software engineer role so maybe I can give some suggestions. I also had a lot of self taught experience, but I also took classes.
I would definitely work on communication and empathy the most. People want to work with others they can get along with. Make sure you don't flip out or get too disheartened if you can't solve a problem. It's just a question, however, don't just give up. Also make sure to be honest about who you are and what you are looking for.
For the algorithm stuff I think just the basic sorts and searches are good enough unless you're interviewing at Google or Facebook. They might ask you puzzle questions so you can look some up. Even if you don't do these things it's OK. Just be clear and communicate well with the interviewer. Tell them your thoughts and ask them to clarify constraints for the problem at hand. They will solve the problem with you, especially if they like you. | be likable and talk with the interviewer |
seupac | i thought this was going to be about studying and sc2! back when i played other games it was easy to procrastinate when i was really tired and fall behind on school, but now that its sc2 i get home too tired to concentrate on the game and just relax and do homework till im feeling it.
tl;dr sc2 brought my gpa up by .7 so far :p | i thought this was going to be about studying and sc2! back when i played other games it was easy to procrastinate when i was really tired and fall behind on school, but now that its sc2 i get home too tired to concentrate on the game and just relax and do homework till im feeling it.
tl;dr sc2 brought my gpa up by .7 so far :p
| starcraft | t5_2qpp6 | cagwvty | i thought this was going to be about studying and sc2! back when i played other games it was easy to procrastinate when i was really tired and fall behind on school, but now that its sc2 i get home too tired to concentrate on the game and just relax and do homework till im feeling it. | sc2 brought my gpa up by .7 so far :p |
Dishpenzor | Well you can't explain it here. I will be honest 90 % of people here are terrible, racist, gay and lesbian hating beings. We are like one of the worst countries ever. Even tv here is either cops or detectives doing shit ( I can name at lest 15 shows and all of them lasted like for 9 seasons.), Soldier life or some sort of love/hate/whatever story with crappy actors, Russian take on world wide shows like House , Friends. And you know what? I think it was 5 episodes of our version of house. Maybe less. There are loads of racist jokes or stereotypes. A few days ago there was something and guess who was the bad drug dealer? THE ONLY BLACK GUY IN THE SHOW. And you want to make a society better when there are only 2 child cartoons with only one on tv and everything else is filled with stuff I described above? I won't even talk about the streets and people there. You got robbers and bandits and gangs? Roughly translated we call them junior high schoolers. No one here gives a shit about people, especially government. Oh that playground near kindergarten has sharp metal edges on everything? Paint will fix it! I am pretty sure everyone here had seen meanwhile in Russia posts with big polls of dirt at the end of the slide. Well that's the life in Russia. First few month while you can't walk it's ok but then it all goes to shit. I mean every little child here first is a crybaby then a total bitch, with close to no exceptions. And there is no one to correct them. Caring parents are rare here. And how can we become a good country with no culture no good people or government?
TL;DR As a Russian I can say that Russia sucks so hard on so many levels that there is no way to fix it. | Well you can't explain it here. I will be honest 90 % of people here are terrible, racist, gay and lesbian hating beings. We are like one of the worst countries ever. Even tv here is either cops or detectives doing shit ( I can name at lest 15 shows and all of them lasted like for 9 seasons.), Soldier life or some sort of love/hate/whatever story with crappy actors, Russian take on world wide shows like House , Friends. And you know what? I think it was 5 episodes of our version of house. Maybe less. There are loads of racist jokes or stereotypes. A few days ago there was something and guess who was the bad drug dealer? THE ONLY BLACK GUY IN THE SHOW. And you want to make a society better when there are only 2 child cartoons with only one on tv and everything else is filled with stuff I described above? I won't even talk about the streets and people there. You got robbers and bandits and gangs? Roughly translated we call them junior high schoolers. No one here gives a shit about people, especially government. Oh that playground near kindergarten has sharp metal edges on everything? Paint will fix it! I am pretty sure everyone here had seen meanwhile in Russia posts with big polls of dirt at the end of the slide. Well that's the life in Russia. First few month while you can't walk it's ok but then it all goes to shit. I mean every little child here first is a crybaby then a total bitch, with close to no exceptions. And there is no one to correct them. Caring parents are rare here. And how can we become a good country with no culture no good people or government?
TL;DR As a Russian I can say that Russia sucks so hard on so many levels that there is no way to fix it.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cah0nb4 | Well you can't explain it here. I will be honest 90 % of people here are terrible, racist, gay and lesbian hating beings. We are like one of the worst countries ever. Even tv here is either cops or detectives doing shit ( I can name at lest 15 shows and all of them lasted like for 9 seasons.), Soldier life or some sort of love/hate/whatever story with crappy actors, Russian take on world wide shows like House , Friends. And you know what? I think it was 5 episodes of our version of house. Maybe less. There are loads of racist jokes or stereotypes. A few days ago there was something and guess who was the bad drug dealer? THE ONLY BLACK GUY IN THE SHOW. And you want to make a society better when there are only 2 child cartoons with only one on tv and everything else is filled with stuff I described above? I won't even talk about the streets and people there. You got robbers and bandits and gangs? Roughly translated we call them junior high schoolers. No one here gives a shit about people, especially government. Oh that playground near kindergarten has sharp metal edges on everything? Paint will fix it! I am pretty sure everyone here had seen meanwhile in Russia posts with big polls of dirt at the end of the slide. Well that's the life in Russia. First few month while you can't walk it's ok but then it all goes to shit. I mean every little child here first is a crybaby then a total bitch, with close to no exceptions. And there is no one to correct them. Caring parents are rare here. And how can we become a good country with no culture no good people or government? | As a Russian I can say that Russia sucks so hard on so many levels that there is no way to fix it. |
bananalammadingdong | You are right codependency can happen that way. But that is also where interdependency happens. Interdependency is healthy. It is when you allow mutual neediness at times without making them responsible for your word and your feelings all the time.
I didn't mean to imply going to sleep is being dismissive - context is important, as I said. Your behavior doesn't sound dismissive. When OP's boyfriend says he can't stay awake and rolls *away from her* (nonverbally communicating rejection) and the next day doesn't seem at all concerned about her feelings, communicating rejection again by going to do some other thing without at least trying to understand better - that does sound a little dismissive.
I would call it that way regardless of my past because that is how it reads juxtaposed against the response of a concerned partner, since he had a chance to show a little concern after a full night's sleep.
It does not matter if he believes he was wrong. When you love someone it matters if they hurt and you try to show understanding even if you think they are being [insert judgmental adjective here]. To not do so will look dismissive to me.
I do not hold my SO responsible for my emotional state. But it is nice to know if I don't have it all together one evening he isn't going to freak out on me.
TL;DR There are people for whom a more independent and at-times dismissive style works well. That's great. Not everyone will be compatible with it though. That should be okay too.
OP I don't think it is childish to want comfort or be offended at a lack of support in an SO's reaction. It is human. Kicking him out was a bit childish but the initial desire was valid. | You are right codependency can happen that way. But that is also where interdependency happens. Interdependency is healthy. It is when you allow mutual neediness at times without making them responsible for your word and your feelings all the time.
I didn't mean to imply going to sleep is being dismissive - context is important, as I said. Your behavior doesn't sound dismissive. When OP's boyfriend says he can't stay awake and rolls away from her (nonverbally communicating rejection) and the next day doesn't seem at all concerned about her feelings, communicating rejection again by going to do some other thing without at least trying to understand better - that does sound a little dismissive.
I would call it that way regardless of my past because that is how it reads juxtaposed against the response of a concerned partner, since he had a chance to show a little concern after a full night's sleep.
It does not matter if he believes he was wrong. When you love someone it matters if they hurt and you try to show understanding even if you think they are being [insert judgmental adjective here]. To not do so will look dismissive to me.
I do not hold my SO responsible for my emotional state. But it is nice to know if I don't have it all together one evening he isn't going to freak out on me.
TL;DR There are people for whom a more independent and at-times dismissive style works well. That's great. Not everyone will be compatible with it though. That should be okay too.
OP I don't think it is childish to want comfort or be offended at a lack of support in an SO's reaction. It is human. Kicking him out was a bit childish but the initial desire was valid.
| relationships | t5_2qjvn | cagyc6l | You are right codependency can happen that way. But that is also where interdependency happens. Interdependency is healthy. It is when you allow mutual neediness at times without making them responsible for your word and your feelings all the time.
I didn't mean to imply going to sleep is being dismissive - context is important, as I said. Your behavior doesn't sound dismissive. When OP's boyfriend says he can't stay awake and rolls away from her (nonverbally communicating rejection) and the next day doesn't seem at all concerned about her feelings, communicating rejection again by going to do some other thing without at least trying to understand better - that does sound a little dismissive.
I would call it that way regardless of my past because that is how it reads juxtaposed against the response of a concerned partner, since he had a chance to show a little concern after a full night's sleep.
It does not matter if he believes he was wrong. When you love someone it matters if they hurt and you try to show understanding even if you think they are being [insert judgmental adjective here]. To not do so will look dismissive to me.
I do not hold my SO responsible for my emotional state. But it is nice to know if I don't have it all together one evening he isn't going to freak out on me. | There are people for whom a more independent and at-times dismissive style works well. That's great. Not everyone will be compatible with it though. That should be okay too.
OP I don't think it is childish to want comfort or be offended at a lack of support in an SO's reaction. It is human. Kicking him out was a bit childish but the initial desire was valid. |
NeinoSc | Sitting here writing paragraphs on why I disagree with one decision says something about how good this show is imo :p
Didn't say he wasn't in character doing it, I'm saying Vincent is trying to be good, and in the end they executed a person who didn't realistically have a choice, who was a victim herself for no reason but anger over Tudagub.
Abigael tried to stop them, she's off the hook.
Bregor has never tried to be good per se, he does what he thinks benefits them the most. Extra work in terms of imprisoning for a time etc is nonbeneficial, with no downside to killing her but the moral one
Now, I just wanna say my intention is not ripping on Geoff here, he can play the character however he wants and I think he's a great part of the party. BUT, I am under the impression that Vincent Longborn keeps trying to come off as a good person. He's the one who stops most immoral actions in the party, he helped in the church in his sparetime, he does shirtless montages for the benefit of all the female NPCs in town. Yet he decides to kill her.
I just didn't agree with the reasoning! As far as I rememeber there were two points:
1 - She could do it again, she's a threat
2 - In his lands they execute traitors.
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1 - As mentioned earlier, they could just lock her up untill they dealt with the ship, then she'd have no reason to betray them again. Also, when she did, they were a party of 4 vs what, in total 8-9 giants and dozens of ogres? On their turf. Betting the life of your family on those odds is just not a good move. 2 giants on a boat? That you can do. But it's irrelevant, lock her up for a couple of days, problem solved.
2 - So traitors are executed. Lets draw a parallel here.
Yiela comes to the party and requests help saving people. Party travels with Yiela to Island. Yiela hands them off to giants because she realistically had no choice, she's in fear of the life of her family.
Party comes to Oris and requests help saving people. Oris travels with Party to town. Party hands him off to scary wizard because they realistically had no choice, they're in fear of the life of their "family"
So... If the laws from there makes him hate betrayal that much, why the hell did he argue doing the same thing. Only conclusion I can draw: Bullshit reasoning for hateful and evil deed. Not saying it's bad roleplaying, I said I wish they didn't kill her, because it is morally not a sound conclusion for a character who wants to be good.
Now, you made it to the end. Impressive. No, I don't do TL;DRs, they're stupid, draw your own conclusion if you're too lazy to read!
Again I want to say I don't think anyone is doing a poor job of roleplaying at all, I really like the players, the DM and the characters, which is why I bother to argue about a choice that is imo only a moral issue, just for two of the characters even. End of wall | Sitting here writing paragraphs on why I disagree with one decision says something about how good this show is imo :p
Didn't say he wasn't in character doing it, I'm saying Vincent is trying to be good, and in the end they executed a person who didn't realistically have a choice, who was a victim herself for no reason but anger over Tudagub.
Abigael tried to stop them, she's off the hook.
Bregor has never tried to be good per se, he does what he thinks benefits them the most. Extra work in terms of imprisoning for a time etc is nonbeneficial, with no downside to killing her but the moral one
Now, I just wanna say my intention is not ripping on Geoff here, he can play the character however he wants and I think he's a great part of the party. BUT, I am under the impression that Vincent Longborn keeps trying to come off as a good person. He's the one who stops most immoral actions in the party, he helped in the church in his sparetime, he does shirtless montages for the benefit of all the female NPCs in town. Yet he decides to kill her.
I just didn't agree with the reasoning! As far as I rememeber there were two points:
1 - She could do it again, she's a threat
2 - In his lands they execute traitors.
1 - As mentioned earlier, they could just lock her up untill they dealt with the ship, then she'd have no reason to betray them again. Also, when she did, they were a party of 4 vs what, in total 8-9 giants and dozens of ogres? On their turf. Betting the life of your family on those odds is just not a good move. 2 giants on a boat? That you can do. But it's irrelevant, lock her up for a couple of days, problem solved.
2 - So traitors are executed. Lets draw a parallel here.
Yiela comes to the party and requests help saving people. Party travels with Yiela to Island. Yiela hands them off to giants because she realistically had no choice, she's in fear of the life of her family.
Party comes to Oris and requests help saving people. Oris travels with Party to town. Party hands him off to scary wizard because they realistically had no choice, they're in fear of the life of their "family"
So... If the laws from there makes him hate betrayal that much, why the hell did he argue doing the same thing. Only conclusion I can draw: Bullshit reasoning for hateful and evil deed. Not saying it's bad roleplaying, I said I wish they didn't kill her, because it is morally not a sound conclusion for a character who wants to be good.
Now, you made it to the end. Impressive. No, I don't do TL;DRs, they're stupid, draw your own conclusion if you're too lazy to read!
Again I want to say I don't think anyone is doing a poor job of roleplaying at all, I really like the players, the DM and the characters, which is why I bother to argue about a choice that is imo only a moral issue, just for two of the characters even. End of wall
| itmejp | t5_2v9r5 | cakgb3a | Sitting here writing paragraphs on why I disagree with one decision says something about how good this show is imo :p
Didn't say he wasn't in character doing it, I'm saying Vincent is trying to be good, and in the end they executed a person who didn't realistically have a choice, who was a victim herself for no reason but anger over Tudagub.
Abigael tried to stop them, she's off the hook.
Bregor has never tried to be good per se, he does what he thinks benefits them the most. Extra work in terms of imprisoning for a time etc is nonbeneficial, with no downside to killing her but the moral one
Now, I just wanna say my intention is not ripping on Geoff here, he can play the character however he wants and I think he's a great part of the party. BUT, I am under the impression that Vincent Longborn keeps trying to come off as a good person. He's the one who stops most immoral actions in the party, he helped in the church in his sparetime, he does shirtless montages for the benefit of all the female NPCs in town. Yet he decides to kill her.
I just didn't agree with the reasoning! As far as I rememeber there were two points:
1 - She could do it again, she's a threat
2 - In his lands they execute traitors.
1 - As mentioned earlier, they could just lock her up untill they dealt with the ship, then she'd have no reason to betray them again. Also, when she did, they were a party of 4 vs what, in total 8-9 giants and dozens of ogres? On their turf. Betting the life of your family on those odds is just not a good move. 2 giants on a boat? That you can do. But it's irrelevant, lock her up for a couple of days, problem solved.
2 - So traitors are executed. Lets draw a parallel here.
Yiela comes to the party and requests help saving people. Party travels with Yiela to Island. Yiela hands them off to giants because she realistically had no choice, she's in fear of the life of her family.
Party comes to Oris and requests help saving people. Oris travels with Party to town. Party hands him off to scary wizard because they realistically had no choice, they're in fear of the life of their "family"
So... If the laws from there makes him hate betrayal that much, why the hell did he argue doing the same thing. Only conclusion I can draw: Bullshit reasoning for hateful and evil deed. Not saying it's bad roleplaying, I said I wish they didn't kill her, because it is morally not a sound conclusion for a character who wants to be good.
Now, you made it to the end. Impressive. No, I don't do | s, they're stupid, draw your own conclusion if you're too lazy to read!
Again I want to say I don't think anyone is doing a poor job of roleplaying at all, I really like the players, the DM and the characters, which is why I bother to argue about a choice that is imo only a moral issue, just for two of the characters even. End of wall |
Rawin | Dont try to convince me, im buying ur game AS SOON AS YOU ACCEPT MY MONEY AND LET ME PLAY PRE-WHATEVER D:
**tl;dr: shut up and take my money ;_;** | Dont try to convince me, im buying ur game AS SOON AS YOU ACCEPT MY MONEY AND LET ME PLAY PRE-WHATEVER D:
tl;dr: shut up and take my money ;_;
| dayz | t5_2ty3s | cahcswt | Dont try to convince me, im buying ur game AS SOON AS YOU ACCEPT MY MONEY AND LET ME PLAY PRE-WHATEVER D: | shut up and take my money ;_; |
Hero_john | LOL peta
Okay so a few things explained from working with animals.
Chickens are mean nasty awful animals and deserve to die. you will never convince me or any person who has been around chickens that they are smart, cute, or unworthy of death. people who work with chicken but don't eat them do so because chickens are disgusting. you know what a chickens favorite food is? chicken breast. you know what it's second favorite is? eggs. they love the protein. I'm not kidding cannibalism is the leading cause of death among laying hens. beyond that chicken are just stupid and mean they are one of the few animals that will just attack you without cause.
as for the cow stabbing, congratulations on finding an isolated case of animal cruelty. unlike chickens dairy cows are really friendly. they are the kind of animals that run up to meet the farmer. they're sorta like big dumb dogs. a lot of farmers I know don't use cattle prods because they like cows. and most will keep cows even after they stop giving milk. dairy cows live a long happy life with farmers because sad cows don't make good milk. (again not kidding) so stabbing or hitting a cow is the exact opposite of what farmers want to do. they want a large number of very happy cows that make good milk.
tail docking of cattle (cutting cows tails off) It is widely believed that dirty tails can contaminate udders, increasing the incidence of mastitis a painful disease of the udder
taking calves away from their mothers: this is actually to help the recovery of the mother. it give the mother time to recuperate without having to worry about her calf. also letting the newborn drink milk milk strait from it's mothers teats increases the chance of infection in the newborn(dirty teats or an infected mom).
TL;DR chicken deserve to die, most of the cow pictures are for the cows own good or isolated incidents that would be extremely uncommon in farms at large. | LOL peta
Okay so a few things explained from working with animals.
Chickens are mean nasty awful animals and deserve to die. you will never convince me or any person who has been around chickens that they are smart, cute, or unworthy of death. people who work with chicken but don't eat them do so because chickens are disgusting. you know what a chickens favorite food is? chicken breast. you know what it's second favorite is? eggs. they love the protein. I'm not kidding cannibalism is the leading cause of death among laying hens. beyond that chicken are just stupid and mean they are one of the few animals that will just attack you without cause.
as for the cow stabbing, congratulations on finding an isolated case of animal cruelty. unlike chickens dairy cows are really friendly. they are the kind of animals that run up to meet the farmer. they're sorta like big dumb dogs. a lot of farmers I know don't use cattle prods because they like cows. and most will keep cows even after they stop giving milk. dairy cows live a long happy life with farmers because sad cows don't make good milk. (again not kidding) so stabbing or hitting a cow is the exact opposite of what farmers want to do. they want a large number of very happy cows that make good milk.
tail docking of cattle (cutting cows tails off) It is widely believed that dirty tails can contaminate udders, increasing the incidence of mastitis a painful disease of the udder
taking calves away from their mothers: this is actually to help the recovery of the mother. it give the mother time to recuperate without having to worry about her calf. also letting the newborn drink milk milk strait from it's mothers teats increases the chance of infection in the newborn(dirty teats or an infected mom).
TL;DR chicken deserve to die, most of the cow pictures are for the cows own good or isolated incidents that would be extremely uncommon in farms at large.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cahippb | LOL peta
Okay so a few things explained from working with animals.
Chickens are mean nasty awful animals and deserve to die. you will never convince me or any person who has been around chickens that they are smart, cute, or unworthy of death. people who work with chicken but don't eat them do so because chickens are disgusting. you know what a chickens favorite food is? chicken breast. you know what it's second favorite is? eggs. they love the protein. I'm not kidding cannibalism is the leading cause of death among laying hens. beyond that chicken are just stupid and mean they are one of the few animals that will just attack you without cause.
as for the cow stabbing, congratulations on finding an isolated case of animal cruelty. unlike chickens dairy cows are really friendly. they are the kind of animals that run up to meet the farmer. they're sorta like big dumb dogs. a lot of farmers I know don't use cattle prods because they like cows. and most will keep cows even after they stop giving milk. dairy cows live a long happy life with farmers because sad cows don't make good milk. (again not kidding) so stabbing or hitting a cow is the exact opposite of what farmers want to do. they want a large number of very happy cows that make good milk.
tail docking of cattle (cutting cows tails off) It is widely believed that dirty tails can contaminate udders, increasing the incidence of mastitis a painful disease of the udder
taking calves away from their mothers: this is actually to help the recovery of the mother. it give the mother time to recuperate without having to worry about her calf. also letting the newborn drink milk milk strait from it's mothers teats increases the chance of infection in the newborn(dirty teats or an infected mom). | chicken deserve to die, most of the cow pictures are for the cows own good or isolated incidents that would be extremely uncommon in farms at large. |
thatguy1314 | So I work on a small mix farm operation and the images in these Gifs are far from the normal practices in the industry. What most people fail to understand, not by any fault of their own, is that images like this represent the very extreme. People have become so distant from their food production that what actually goes on with is can be very confusing to understand. This is made all the more difficult by organizations like PETA whose business model is based on donations. In order for PETA to stay profitable they need to keep the money flowing in and they do this by attempting to drive a wedge between actual producers and the consumer. To a point that these organizations will send in undercover "reporters" in groups of two or three and film themselves abusing livestock in order to "inform" the public of these happenings. I can't provide any proof to back up this claim but it is the rumor that has begun to circulate. I have spent my entire life working in agriculture and its not only insulting to have images like this paraded around but also rather depressing to see how many people are quick to believe them.
As best as I can I will try and clarify what is happening in the Gifs
- In the image of the chickens being bled out, this is something that's done with all meat when its killed, the neck is always slit to allow blood to flow out, anyone who has had a steak or a fillet with blood in it can tell you why its better that way. Also most chickens are killed with electricity so they would more than likely be dead before this.
- I can't speak much for this "grinder" its just important to note that broiler chickens (chickens used for meat) and Laying Hens are two totally different breeds, that are radically different from each other and as such they can't be used for each other purpose
- There are four images here that fall under kinda the same idea, the guy with the pitch fork, the two with calves being punched or grabbed, and the guy loading chickens (they actually look more like turkeys). Very simply this people are sadists. They do this because they enjoy torturing animals and any respectable farmer would not only fire them on the spot for actions like this there's a very good chance they would beat them to death. The animals we work with are our livelihood and an assault on them is an assault on us.
- The image of the Bull being castrated isn't actually that shocking, this one is include just because of the divide between consumers and producers, judging by how calm that bulls is, it is more than likely under anesthetic. There are a couple ways that famers castrate steers, the two main ones are cutting out the nuts (shown in the gif) or castration bands. its about 50/50 as to which farms use which method. With banding its a little rubber band about the size of a cheerio, it cuts of circulation and in about 2 weeks there are no nuts to speak of. With cutting the testicles are left on till the steers are several months of age, this is done primarily to promote growth with out the use of hormone implants. They are then cut out using a scalpel and increasingly local anesthetic. On average it takes about 10 minutes for both methods before they are back doing their regular thing.
- This applies to both the cow being slaughtered and the pigs near the bottom. They are dead when this happens, in slaughter plants cattle are killed with a captive bolt gun, it fires a retractable pin through the skull of the cow and severs the spinal column, they are dead instantly. Pigs are also killed this way and as far as I know they can also be killed with electricity. In both cases they are more than dead, the movement that you see in the Gif's is actually stray electrical pulses from neurons. This is also why the necks are slit right after they are killed, when the spinal column is severed the heart stops as well so the only that forces the blood out of the animal is these muscle contractions.
- As far as the Cow that's having its tail cut, that's called tail docking and in dairy cattle it just doesn't happen much anymore. The cows have tails to keep flies off of them and when you take that away it actually creates more issues with disease, namely pink eye.
- The "Genetically modified" chickens is complete bullshit. These are sick animals that need to be treated or euthanized. its an unfortunate part of working with animals that not all of them make it but we all do our best to save as many as possible. The part of this gif that is incredibly ignorant is the genetically modified part in the title. They just are not, to the best of my knowledge they have not released any sort of GMO livestock, with the exception of fish.
- And lastly the images of the piglets, this is called dashing them. When done correctly it snaps their neck and they are dead instantly. Its a practice that's going to the way side because it can be pretty brutal is done incorrectly. The pig Barns I know of use primarily electricity to euthanize piglets. What also goes unmentioned in images like this is that farmers don't just go around killing baby animals for fun. The last resort is to euthanize an animal and its done because we have exhausted every means by which to save them and to let them suffer through a long drawn out death is inhumane.
Tl;Dr These are very extreme images that in no way represent what the industry actually practices or condones. And we as farmers encourage you to come out and learn where your food comes from, we love our jobs and wouldn't have them if it wasn't for the consumer. | So I work on a small mix farm operation and the images in these Gifs are far from the normal practices in the industry. What most people fail to understand, not by any fault of their own, is that images like this represent the very extreme. People have become so distant from their food production that what actually goes on with is can be very confusing to understand. This is made all the more difficult by organizations like PETA whose business model is based on donations. In order for PETA to stay profitable they need to keep the money flowing in and they do this by attempting to drive a wedge between actual producers and the consumer. To a point that these organizations will send in undercover "reporters" in groups of two or three and film themselves abusing livestock in order to "inform" the public of these happenings. I can't provide any proof to back up this claim but it is the rumor that has begun to circulate. I have spent my entire life working in agriculture and its not only insulting to have images like this paraded around but also rather depressing to see how many people are quick to believe them.
As best as I can I will try and clarify what is happening in the Gifs
In the image of the chickens being bled out, this is something that's done with all meat when its killed, the neck is always slit to allow blood to flow out, anyone who has had a steak or a fillet with blood in it can tell you why its better that way. Also most chickens are killed with electricity so they would more than likely be dead before this.
I can't speak much for this "grinder" its just important to note that broiler chickens (chickens used for meat) and Laying Hens are two totally different breeds, that are radically different from each other and as such they can't be used for each other purpose
There are four images here that fall under kinda the same idea, the guy with the pitch fork, the two with calves being punched or grabbed, and the guy loading chickens (they actually look more like turkeys). Very simply this people are sadists. They do this because they enjoy torturing animals and any respectable farmer would not only fire them on the spot for actions like this there's a very good chance they would beat them to death. The animals we work with are our livelihood and an assault on them is an assault on us.
The image of the Bull being castrated isn't actually that shocking, this one is include just because of the divide between consumers and producers, judging by how calm that bulls is, it is more than likely under anesthetic. There are a couple ways that famers castrate steers, the two main ones are cutting out the nuts (shown in the gif) or castration bands. its about 50/50 as to which farms use which method. With banding its a little rubber band about the size of a cheerio, it cuts of circulation and in about 2 weeks there are no nuts to speak of. With cutting the testicles are left on till the steers are several months of age, this is done primarily to promote growth with out the use of hormone implants. They are then cut out using a scalpel and increasingly local anesthetic. On average it takes about 10 minutes for both methods before they are back doing their regular thing.
This applies to both the cow being slaughtered and the pigs near the bottom. They are dead when this happens, in slaughter plants cattle are killed with a captive bolt gun, it fires a retractable pin through the skull of the cow and severs the spinal column, they are dead instantly. Pigs are also killed this way and as far as I know they can also be killed with electricity. In both cases they are more than dead, the movement that you see in the Gif's is actually stray electrical pulses from neurons. This is also why the necks are slit right after they are killed, when the spinal column is severed the heart stops as well so the only that forces the blood out of the animal is these muscle contractions.
As far as the Cow that's having its tail cut, that's called tail docking and in dairy cattle it just doesn't happen much anymore. The cows have tails to keep flies off of them and when you take that away it actually creates more issues with disease, namely pink eye.
The "Genetically modified" chickens is complete bullshit. These are sick animals that need to be treated or euthanized. its an unfortunate part of working with animals that not all of them make it but we all do our best to save as many as possible. The part of this gif that is incredibly ignorant is the genetically modified part in the title. They just are not, to the best of my knowledge they have not released any sort of GMO livestock, with the exception of fish.
And lastly the images of the piglets, this is called dashing them. When done correctly it snaps their neck and they are dead instantly. Its a practice that's going to the way side because it can be pretty brutal is done incorrectly. The pig Barns I know of use primarily electricity to euthanize piglets. What also goes unmentioned in images like this is that farmers don't just go around killing baby animals for fun. The last resort is to euthanize an animal and its done because we have exhausted every means by which to save them and to let them suffer through a long drawn out death is inhumane.
Tl;Dr These are very extreme images that in no way represent what the industry actually practices or condones. And we as farmers encourage you to come out and learn where your food comes from, we love our jobs and wouldn't have them if it wasn't for the consumer.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cahjcst | So I work on a small mix farm operation and the images in these Gifs are far from the normal practices in the industry. What most people fail to understand, not by any fault of their own, is that images like this represent the very extreme. People have become so distant from their food production that what actually goes on with is can be very confusing to understand. This is made all the more difficult by organizations like PETA whose business model is based on donations. In order for PETA to stay profitable they need to keep the money flowing in and they do this by attempting to drive a wedge between actual producers and the consumer. To a point that these organizations will send in undercover "reporters" in groups of two or three and film themselves abusing livestock in order to "inform" the public of these happenings. I can't provide any proof to back up this claim but it is the rumor that has begun to circulate. I have spent my entire life working in agriculture and its not only insulting to have images like this paraded around but also rather depressing to see how many people are quick to believe them.
As best as I can I will try and clarify what is happening in the Gifs
In the image of the chickens being bled out, this is something that's done with all meat when its killed, the neck is always slit to allow blood to flow out, anyone who has had a steak or a fillet with blood in it can tell you why its better that way. Also most chickens are killed with electricity so they would more than likely be dead before this.
I can't speak much for this "grinder" its just important to note that broiler chickens (chickens used for meat) and Laying Hens are two totally different breeds, that are radically different from each other and as such they can't be used for each other purpose
There are four images here that fall under kinda the same idea, the guy with the pitch fork, the two with calves being punched or grabbed, and the guy loading chickens (they actually look more like turkeys). Very simply this people are sadists. They do this because they enjoy torturing animals and any respectable farmer would not only fire them on the spot for actions like this there's a very good chance they would beat them to death. The animals we work with are our livelihood and an assault on them is an assault on us.
The image of the Bull being castrated isn't actually that shocking, this one is include just because of the divide between consumers and producers, judging by how calm that bulls is, it is more than likely under anesthetic. There are a couple ways that famers castrate steers, the two main ones are cutting out the nuts (shown in the gif) or castration bands. its about 50/50 as to which farms use which method. With banding its a little rubber band about the size of a cheerio, it cuts of circulation and in about 2 weeks there are no nuts to speak of. With cutting the testicles are left on till the steers are several months of age, this is done primarily to promote growth with out the use of hormone implants. They are then cut out using a scalpel and increasingly local anesthetic. On average it takes about 10 minutes for both methods before they are back doing their regular thing.
This applies to both the cow being slaughtered and the pigs near the bottom. They are dead when this happens, in slaughter plants cattle are killed with a captive bolt gun, it fires a retractable pin through the skull of the cow and severs the spinal column, they are dead instantly. Pigs are also killed this way and as far as I know they can also be killed with electricity. In both cases they are more than dead, the movement that you see in the Gif's is actually stray electrical pulses from neurons. This is also why the necks are slit right after they are killed, when the spinal column is severed the heart stops as well so the only that forces the blood out of the animal is these muscle contractions.
As far as the Cow that's having its tail cut, that's called tail docking and in dairy cattle it just doesn't happen much anymore. The cows have tails to keep flies off of them and when you take that away it actually creates more issues with disease, namely pink eye.
The "Genetically modified" chickens is complete bullshit. These are sick animals that need to be treated or euthanized. its an unfortunate part of working with animals that not all of them make it but we all do our best to save as many as possible. The part of this gif that is incredibly ignorant is the genetically modified part in the title. They just are not, to the best of my knowledge they have not released any sort of GMO livestock, with the exception of fish.
And lastly the images of the piglets, this is called dashing them. When done correctly it snaps their neck and they are dead instantly. Its a practice that's going to the way side because it can be pretty brutal is done incorrectly. The pig Barns I know of use primarily electricity to euthanize piglets. What also goes unmentioned in images like this is that farmers don't just go around killing baby animals for fun. The last resort is to euthanize an animal and its done because we have exhausted every means by which to save them and to let them suffer through a long drawn out death is inhumane. | These are very extreme images that in no way represent what the industry actually practices or condones. And we as farmers encourage you to come out and learn where your food comes from, we love our jobs and wouldn't have them if it wasn't for the consumer. |
the_glass_gecko | "Both [rumen and silage fermentation] systems have the same substrate available and tend to be anaerobic; however, the silo presents the characteristics of a poorly buffered batch culture. The dominating feature of its fermentation is the growth of organisms that compete for control of the substrate. Under ideal conditions in the silo (or those plastic tubes I mentioned), the lactic acid-producing bacteria will drive down pH so as to shut out other competitors for the substrate. No cellulose is fermented in a normal silage, whereas cellulose digestion is a dominant feature in a normal rumen (aka cow tummy). Silage fermentation is characterized by low efficiency and microbial yield. The higher microbial yield characteristic of the rumen is important in supplying the host animal with microbial protein. What is optimal for the silage preservation is reversed in the case of the rumen. The important point here is that the more energy is expended in silo fermentation, the less there is for the rumen. Fermentation acids other than lactic acid contain no energy for the rumen bacteria to use." - From "Nutritional Ecology of the Ruminant" by Peter J. Van Soest.
TL;DR: Both cow stomachs and silage are fermenting, but different bacterias and different types of fermentation are occurring. Bacteria in rumens are targeting the breakdown of cellulose, freeing up nutrients in grasses we humans cannot access. Fermentation in silage is not so consistent. It makes perfect sense that cows fed what they have evolved eating (grasses) will be healthier than cows fed silage. | "Both [rumen and silage fermentation] systems have the same substrate available and tend to be anaerobic; however, the silo presents the characteristics of a poorly buffered batch culture. The dominating feature of its fermentation is the growth of organisms that compete for control of the substrate. Under ideal conditions in the silo (or those plastic tubes I mentioned), the lactic acid-producing bacteria will drive down pH so as to shut out other competitors for the substrate. No cellulose is fermented in a normal silage, whereas cellulose digestion is a dominant feature in a normal rumen (aka cow tummy). Silage fermentation is characterized by low efficiency and microbial yield. The higher microbial yield characteristic of the rumen is important in supplying the host animal with microbial protein. What is optimal for the silage preservation is reversed in the case of the rumen. The important point here is that the more energy is expended in silo fermentation, the less there is for the rumen. Fermentation acids other than lactic acid contain no energy for the rumen bacteria to use." - From "Nutritional Ecology of the Ruminant" by Peter J. Van Soest.
TL;DR: Both cow stomachs and silage are fermenting, but different bacterias and different types of fermentation are occurring. Bacteria in rumens are targeting the breakdown of cellulose, freeing up nutrients in grasses we humans cannot access. Fermentation in silage is not so consistent. It makes perfect sense that cows fed what they have evolved eating (grasses) will be healthier than cows fed silage.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cahn15k | Both [rumen and silage fermentation] systems have the same substrate available and tend to be anaerobic; however, the silo presents the characteristics of a poorly buffered batch culture. The dominating feature of its fermentation is the growth of organisms that compete for control of the substrate. Under ideal conditions in the silo (or those plastic tubes I mentioned), the lactic acid-producing bacteria will drive down pH so as to shut out other competitors for the substrate. No cellulose is fermented in a normal silage, whereas cellulose digestion is a dominant feature in a normal rumen (aka cow tummy). Silage fermentation is characterized by low efficiency and microbial yield. The higher microbial yield characteristic of the rumen is important in supplying the host animal with microbial protein. What is optimal for the silage preservation is reversed in the case of the rumen. The important point here is that the more energy is expended in silo fermentation, the less there is for the rumen. Fermentation acids other than lactic acid contain no energy for the rumen bacteria to use." - From "Nutritional Ecology of the Ruminant" by Peter J. Van Soest. | Both cow stomachs and silage are fermenting, but different bacterias and different types of fermentation are occurring. Bacteria in rumens are targeting the breakdown of cellulose, freeing up nutrients in grasses we humans cannot access. Fermentation in silage is not so consistent. It makes perfect sense that cows fed what they have evolved eating (grasses) will be healthier than cows fed silage. |
trias_e | First of all, I think rights are imaginary human inventions. If you have a case for why they are not so, please make it.
I do think there is a barrier between a human and a cow. However, it not magical at all. Human beings are nothing like cows or chickens. Every word I post here is human at it's core. Cows have no concept of rights, morality, future, identity, history, anything that makes human beings worthy of being called agents. Other animals are not agents like human beings are, and that agenthood (or perhaps potential agenthood) is the only thing that matters when it comes to 'rights' to life. What is the difference between a cow and a tree? The only moral difference is that a cow can suffer. They don't have the historical/psychological complexity necessary to be anything else.
You use the word 'being' as if the being of a cow and a human are in any way comparable. The being of a cow is as comparable to the being of a human as the being of the cow is to that of a tree. As in, not comparable whatsoever.
There is no right to life for animals. This is a human invention. Does the lion believe the gazelle has a right to life? Certainly not.
If you believe that animals truly have a right to life, how can you stand by while carnivores devour other animals? Would you stand by while a person killed other people? Would you not wish to put an end to it? Is your solution to imprison all carnivorous species, like you would criminals in human society? I would hope this is absurd on it's face, and I also hope it shows how absurd arbitrarily extending human conventions onto animals is.
TLDR: I have no idea how you can arbitrary decide that animals cannot be property, but plants can be property, without identifying some property within animals and plants to make that distinction. The only property I can find to do that with is the capability of suffering. If we eliminate suffering for animals, then there is no problem.
I have two challenges for you: First, justify why it is ok for human beings to own plants, and not cows or chickens. Second, justify why you would not eliminate/imprison all carnivores on the planet, just like you would murderers in human society. | First of all, I think rights are imaginary human inventions. If you have a case for why they are not so, please make it.
I do think there is a barrier between a human and a cow. However, it not magical at all. Human beings are nothing like cows or chickens. Every word I post here is human at it's core. Cows have no concept of rights, morality, future, identity, history, anything that makes human beings worthy of being called agents. Other animals are not agents like human beings are, and that agenthood (or perhaps potential agenthood) is the only thing that matters when it comes to 'rights' to life. What is the difference between a cow and a tree? The only moral difference is that a cow can suffer. They don't have the historical/psychological complexity necessary to be anything else.
You use the word 'being' as if the being of a cow and a human are in any way comparable. The being of a cow is as comparable to the being of a human as the being of the cow is to that of a tree. As in, not comparable whatsoever.
There is no right to life for animals. This is a human invention. Does the lion believe the gazelle has a right to life? Certainly not.
If you believe that animals truly have a right to life, how can you stand by while carnivores devour other animals? Would you stand by while a person killed other people? Would you not wish to put an end to it? Is your solution to imprison all carnivorous species, like you would criminals in human society? I would hope this is absurd on it's face, and I also hope it shows how absurd arbitrarily extending human conventions onto animals is.
TLDR: I have no idea how you can arbitrary decide that animals cannot be property, but plants can be property, without identifying some property within animals and plants to make that distinction. The only property I can find to do that with is the capability of suffering. If we eliminate suffering for animals, then there is no problem.
I have two challenges for you: First, justify why it is ok for human beings to own plants, and not cows or chickens. Second, justify why you would not eliminate/imprison all carnivores on the planet, just like you would murderers in human society.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | caimwau | First of all, I think rights are imaginary human inventions. If you have a case for why they are not so, please make it.
I do think there is a barrier between a human and a cow. However, it not magical at all. Human beings are nothing like cows or chickens. Every word I post here is human at it's core. Cows have no concept of rights, morality, future, identity, history, anything that makes human beings worthy of being called agents. Other animals are not agents like human beings are, and that agenthood (or perhaps potential agenthood) is the only thing that matters when it comes to 'rights' to life. What is the difference between a cow and a tree? The only moral difference is that a cow can suffer. They don't have the historical/psychological complexity necessary to be anything else.
You use the word 'being' as if the being of a cow and a human are in any way comparable. The being of a cow is as comparable to the being of a human as the being of the cow is to that of a tree. As in, not comparable whatsoever.
There is no right to life for animals. This is a human invention. Does the lion believe the gazelle has a right to life? Certainly not.
If you believe that animals truly have a right to life, how can you stand by while carnivores devour other animals? Would you stand by while a person killed other people? Would you not wish to put an end to it? Is your solution to imprison all carnivorous species, like you would criminals in human society? I would hope this is absurd on it's face, and I also hope it shows how absurd arbitrarily extending human conventions onto animals is. | I have no idea how you can arbitrary decide that animals cannot be property, but plants can be property, without identifying some property within animals and plants to make that distinction. The only property I can find to do that with is the capability of suffering. If we eliminate suffering for animals, then there is no problem.
I have two challenges for you: First, justify why it is ok for human beings to own plants, and not cows or chickens. Second, justify why you would not eliminate/imprison all carnivores on the planet, just like you would murderers in human society. |
gnarcissus | Well I'm just going to ignore the "killing animals for good is good" idea. It's an ethical question, which is harder to show empirical evidence for. But there are [possible connections between violence to animals and antisocial behaviors, including violence.](
As far as environmental impact, [here is one study evaluates various diets with different means of production]( The tl;dr of it is a vegan diet has the lowest environmental impact of the diets studied. There's plenty of different studies on the environmental impact of our food production, and it always come down to the less meat you eat, the less negative impact you'll have. | Well I'm just going to ignore the "killing animals for good is good" idea. It's an ethical question, which is harder to show empirical evidence for. But there are [possible connections between violence to animals and antisocial behaviors, including violence.](
As far as environmental impact, [here is one study evaluates various diets with different means of production]( The tl;dr of it is a vegan diet has the lowest environmental impact of the diets studied. There's plenty of different studies on the environmental impact of our food production, and it always come down to the less meat you eat, the less negative impact you'll have.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | caho6a9 | Well I'm just going to ignore the "killing animals for good is good" idea. It's an ethical question, which is harder to show empirical evidence for. But there are [possible connections between violence to animals and antisocial behaviors, including violence.](
As far as environmental impact, [here is one study evaluates various diets with different means of production]( The | of it is a vegan diet has the lowest environmental impact of the diets studied. There's plenty of different studies on the environmental impact of our food production, and it always come down to the less meat you eat, the less negative impact you'll have. |
theotherpointofview | The reason the chickens are cut while still alive is for the next step of the process. From there they go into a huge pool of hot water. The chickens are 'mostly' alive when they reach the water, causing them to gasp in shock when they hit it. This hot water on the inside of their lungs helps to remove them easier further down the line.
**tl;dr: don't worry. chicken wont have to suffer with neck bleeding for long!**
source: maintenance worker at a plant, until I grew too disgusted. | The reason the chickens are cut while still alive is for the next step of the process. From there they go into a huge pool of hot water. The chickens are 'mostly' alive when they reach the water, causing them to gasp in shock when they hit it. This hot water on the inside of their lungs helps to remove them easier further down the line.
tl;dr: don't worry. chicken wont have to suffer with neck bleeding for long!
source: maintenance worker at a plant, until I grew too disgusted.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cahfl2p | The reason the chickens are cut while still alive is for the next step of the process. From there they go into a huge pool of hot water. The chickens are 'mostly' alive when they reach the water, causing them to gasp in shock when they hit it. This hot water on the inside of their lungs helps to remove them easier further down the line. | don't worry. chicken wont have to suffer with neck bleeding for long!
source: maintenance worker at a plant, until I grew too disgusted. |
kaj519 | Slitting an animal's throat is still the primary method of humanely killing an animal in tons of countries. It's necessary for meat to be Halal or Kosher (from my understanding, some of the guidelines may have modernized). Slitting the throat represents a desire to eat meat while causing as little suffering as possible. Every year during Eid al Adha (Muslim holiday), millions of Muslims around the world slaughter sheep (or other livestock), and it's often a family affair. Sure it's bloody, and those industrial versions in the gifs would be borderline Halal/Kosher, but that's just how it is.
TL;DR Just because you're not desensitized to animal slaughtering doesn't mean it's always barbaric and cruel. | Slitting an animal's throat is still the primary method of humanely killing an animal in tons of countries. It's necessary for meat to be Halal or Kosher (from my understanding, some of the guidelines may have modernized). Slitting the throat represents a desire to eat meat while causing as little suffering as possible. Every year during Eid al Adha (Muslim holiday), millions of Muslims around the world slaughter sheep (or other livestock), and it's often a family affair. Sure it's bloody, and those industrial versions in the gifs would be borderline Halal/Kosher, but that's just how it is.
TL;DR Just because you're not desensitized to animal slaughtering doesn't mean it's always barbaric and cruel.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cahfz4h | Slitting an animal's throat is still the primary method of humanely killing an animal in tons of countries. It's necessary for meat to be Halal or Kosher (from my understanding, some of the guidelines may have modernized). Slitting the throat represents a desire to eat meat while causing as little suffering as possible. Every year during Eid al Adha (Muslim holiday), millions of Muslims around the world slaughter sheep (or other livestock), and it's often a family affair. Sure it's bloody, and those industrial versions in the gifs would be borderline Halal/Kosher, but that's just how it is. | Just because you're not desensitized to animal slaughtering doesn't mean it's always barbaric and cruel. |
Noltonn | Yeah, this is what bothers me when people tell me I should switch to more morally safe products. The problem is, first of all, animal slaughter is never pretty. These pictures are the extremes, but I've seen people talk about "extreme animal cruelty" and show (pretty gross) pictures of pretty humane and normal procedures in your every day farm (like the farmer said, the bull didn't flinch at the castration, that wasn't "cruel"). They're disturbing if you're not used to it, but that's like saying a coal mine is dirty. It's part of the necessary procedure and doesn't have to be the same as animal cruelty.
Second, if we all bought at small local farms we wouldn't be able to sustain our population. I'm going to be very honest, if you make me choose between cutting down a large portion of our population (and that includes the possibility of you or me being in there) to starve to death or use some pretty damn efficient large scale methods to kill animals and keep us alive... I'm gonna sling that chicken in the grinder myself.
Now I'm not saying that animal cruelty isn't an issue. We should have a lot of rules and regulations in place that stop *unnecessary* cruelty. But in the end, we are killing them, by the metric fuckton. It's hardly a pretty process whatever way we do it, assuming we want to be efficient.
The same goes for pesticide free food, for instance. Sure, some pesticides might not be good for you, but I'd rather we have a teensy bit more chance of a third nut than have half the crops die each year.
TL;DR: Animal cruelty is bad, but there is a balance between cruelty and efficiency. To survive we need to be efficient. We can't do this by cuddling them to death. | Yeah, this is what bothers me when people tell me I should switch to more morally safe products. The problem is, first of all, animal slaughter is never pretty. These pictures are the extremes, but I've seen people talk about "extreme animal cruelty" and show (pretty gross) pictures of pretty humane and normal procedures in your every day farm (like the farmer said, the bull didn't flinch at the castration, that wasn't "cruel"). They're disturbing if you're not used to it, but that's like saying a coal mine is dirty. It's part of the necessary procedure and doesn't have to be the same as animal cruelty.
Second, if we all bought at small local farms we wouldn't be able to sustain our population. I'm going to be very honest, if you make me choose between cutting down a large portion of our population (and that includes the possibility of you or me being in there) to starve to death or use some pretty damn efficient large scale methods to kill animals and keep us alive... I'm gonna sling that chicken in the grinder myself.
Now I'm not saying that animal cruelty isn't an issue. We should have a lot of rules and regulations in place that stop unnecessary cruelty. But in the end, we are killing them, by the metric fuckton. It's hardly a pretty process whatever way we do it, assuming we want to be efficient.
The same goes for pesticide free food, for instance. Sure, some pesticides might not be good for you, but I'd rather we have a teensy bit more chance of a third nut than have half the crops die each year.
TL;DR: Animal cruelty is bad, but there is a balance between cruelty and efficiency. To survive we need to be efficient. We can't do this by cuddling them to death.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cahg2w8 | Yeah, this is what bothers me when people tell me I should switch to more morally safe products. The problem is, first of all, animal slaughter is never pretty. These pictures are the extremes, but I've seen people talk about "extreme animal cruelty" and show (pretty gross) pictures of pretty humane and normal procedures in your every day farm (like the farmer said, the bull didn't flinch at the castration, that wasn't "cruel"). They're disturbing if you're not used to it, but that's like saying a coal mine is dirty. It's part of the necessary procedure and doesn't have to be the same as animal cruelty.
Second, if we all bought at small local farms we wouldn't be able to sustain our population. I'm going to be very honest, if you make me choose between cutting down a large portion of our population (and that includes the possibility of you or me being in there) to starve to death or use some pretty damn efficient large scale methods to kill animals and keep us alive... I'm gonna sling that chicken in the grinder myself.
Now I'm not saying that animal cruelty isn't an issue. We should have a lot of rules and regulations in place that stop unnecessary cruelty. But in the end, we are killing them, by the metric fuckton. It's hardly a pretty process whatever way we do it, assuming we want to be efficient.
The same goes for pesticide free food, for instance. Sure, some pesticides might not be good for you, but I'd rather we have a teensy bit more chance of a third nut than have half the crops die each year. | Animal cruelty is bad, but there is a balance between cruelty and efficiency. To survive we need to be efficient. We can't do this by cuddling them to death. |
Kriefhelm | I had a teacher in high school who grew up on a farm. Loved by almost all students. One day in class he, for whatever reason, starts telling us a story from when he was a kid that goes... When he was young he was forced to feed the cows (get hay in their food container, etc.) and it was always a big annoyance with moving and dealing with the cows eating it as he deposits it and everything. So, one time he's doing it and the cows are eating it as fast as he shovels it with his pitchfork. He gets so annoyed he yells at them to stop and hurls the pitchfork. It gets lodged into one of their arms, and he panics as they are standing around mooing angrily.
You could tell that despite that being his last year before retirement (~60-65 years old), it still really got to him that he had hurt the cow that way when he was a child.
tl;dr I totally didn't answer the real question | I had a teacher in high school who grew up on a farm. Loved by almost all students. One day in class he, for whatever reason, starts telling us a story from when he was a kid that goes... When he was young he was forced to feed the cows (get hay in their food container, etc.) and it was always a big annoyance with moving and dealing with the cows eating it as he deposits it and everything. So, one time he's doing it and the cows are eating it as fast as he shovels it with his pitchfork. He gets so annoyed he yells at them to stop and hurls the pitchfork. It gets lodged into one of their arms, and he panics as they are standing around mooing angrily.
You could tell that despite that being his last year before retirement (~60-65 years old), it still really got to him that he had hurt the cow that way when he was a child.
tl;dr I totally didn't answer the real question
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cahghp4 | I had a teacher in high school who grew up on a farm. Loved by almost all students. One day in class he, for whatever reason, starts telling us a story from when he was a kid that goes... When he was young he was forced to feed the cows (get hay in their food container, etc.) and it was always a big annoyance with moving and dealing with the cows eating it as he deposits it and everything. So, one time he's doing it and the cows are eating it as fast as he shovels it with his pitchfork. He gets so annoyed he yells at them to stop and hurls the pitchfork. It gets lodged into one of their arms, and he panics as they are standing around mooing angrily.
You could tell that despite that being his last year before retirement (~60-65 years old), it still really got to him that he had hurt the cow that way when he was a child. | I totally didn't answer the real question |
Leetwheats | I haven't attacked the vegetarian in the slightest - but no, they aren't making a difference in the meat industry you dunce.
If they are disgusted by the pictures & don't want to eat a burger - then that's their fucking prerogative to not eat that burger. But guess what? There's thirty to fifty other fat shits who will enjoy that burger.
It has nothing to do with you thinking I'm insecure - ya stupid fuck.
Reactionary vegetarians are ridiculous - they change nothing.
TL;DR - stop wasting my time
| I haven't attacked the vegetarian in the slightest - but no, they aren't making a difference in the meat industry you dunce.
If they are disgusted by the pictures & don't want to eat a burger - then that's their fucking prerogative to not eat that burger. But guess what? There's thirty to fifty other fat shits who will enjoy that burger.
It has nothing to do with you thinking I'm insecure - ya stupid fuck.
Reactionary vegetarians are ridiculous - they change nothing.
TL;DR - stop wasting my time
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cahgpni | I haven't attacked the vegetarian in the slightest - but no, they aren't making a difference in the meat industry you dunce.
If they are disgusted by the pictures & don't want to eat a burger - then that's their fucking prerogative to not eat that burger. But guess what? There's thirty to fifty other fat shits who will enjoy that burger.
It has nothing to do with you thinking I'm insecure - ya stupid fuck.
Reactionary vegetarians are ridiculous - they change nothing. | stop wasting my time |
the_mighty_moon_worm | For what it's worth, most of these are just improper practice or out of context.
There are humane ways of disposing of unwanted livestock, and if you don't follow those regulations, you'll be fired when someone finds out.
The grinder is a pretty instantaneous death, so they really don't suffer.
Anyone just going around hurting animals would get fired, companies don't put up with that shit because they can get huge lawsuits if an employee is found mistreating animals.
Animals are already dead before they slit their throats, and if they aren't, someone will get fired. They slit their throats to bleed out the carcass, not kill them.
Castration can be done with a rubber band, but it puts the animals in a lot of stress over a long time, versus a lot all at once. It's a toss up in my opinion, but I can see how the band is more humane.
The GM chickens are probably caused by assholes shaking the eggs. Again, they would get fired.
TL;DR: everyone in that video would get fired. | For what it's worth, most of these are just improper practice or out of context.
There are humane ways of disposing of unwanted livestock, and if you don't follow those regulations, you'll be fired when someone finds out.
The grinder is a pretty instantaneous death, so they really don't suffer.
Anyone just going around hurting animals would get fired, companies don't put up with that shit because they can get huge lawsuits if an employee is found mistreating animals.
Animals are already dead before they slit their throats, and if they aren't, someone will get fired. They slit their throats to bleed out the carcass, not kill them.
Castration can be done with a rubber band, but it puts the animals in a lot of stress over a long time, versus a lot all at once. It's a toss up in my opinion, but I can see how the band is more humane.
The GM chickens are probably caused by assholes shaking the eggs. Again, they would get fired.
TL;DR: everyone in that video would get fired.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cahgrd1 | For what it's worth, most of these are just improper practice or out of context.
There are humane ways of disposing of unwanted livestock, and if you don't follow those regulations, you'll be fired when someone finds out.
The grinder is a pretty instantaneous death, so they really don't suffer.
Anyone just going around hurting animals would get fired, companies don't put up with that shit because they can get huge lawsuits if an employee is found mistreating animals.
Animals are already dead before they slit their throats, and if they aren't, someone will get fired. They slit their throats to bleed out the carcass, not kill them.
Castration can be done with a rubber band, but it puts the animals in a lot of stress over a long time, versus a lot all at once. It's a toss up in my opinion, but I can see how the band is more humane.
The GM chickens are probably caused by assholes shaking the eggs. Again, they would get fired. | everyone in that video would get fired. |
DoctaMag | Do people think that slaughterhouses are all fun and games or something?
Out of those pictures, some were straight up abuse, and that's wrong. Unequivocally.
However, the chicken assembly line, the castration, the pig falling. those are just part of the process of industrialized meat production. Shockingly, most animals have survival instincts.
If you enjoy meat, this is the cost. Is that really so relatively disturbing?
tl;dr The abuse is wrong, but animals die for meat. And bacon is delicious. | Do people think that slaughterhouses are all fun and games or something?
Out of those pictures, some were straight up abuse, and that's wrong. Unequivocally.
However, the chicken assembly line, the castration, the pig falling. those are just part of the process of industrialized meat production. Shockingly, most animals have survival instincts.
If you enjoy meat, this is the cost. Is that really so relatively disturbing?
tl;dr The abuse is wrong, but animals die for meat. And bacon is delicious.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cahh3h4 | Do people think that slaughterhouses are all fun and games or something?
Out of those pictures, some were straight up abuse, and that's wrong. Unequivocally.
However, the chicken assembly line, the castration, the pig falling. those are just part of the process of industrialized meat production. Shockingly, most animals have survival instincts.
If you enjoy meat, this is the cost. Is that really so relatively disturbing? | The abuse is wrong, but animals die for meat. And bacon is delicious. |
Seferis | The fucked up thing about some of this is the whole "Halal" meat BS.
"Dhabīḥah (ذَبِيْحَة) is the prescribed method of slaughtering all meat sources, excluding fish and other sea-life, per Islamic law. This method of slaughtering animals consists of using a well-sharpened knife to make a swift, deep incision that cuts the front of the throat, the carotid artery, windpipe, and jugular veins. The head of an animal that is slaughtered using halal methods is aligned with the qiblah. In addition to the direction, permitted animals should be slaughtered upon utterance of the Islamic prayer "in the name of God.""
TLDR:Islam requires the animal to be bled alive... | The fucked up thing about some of this is the whole "Halal" meat BS.
"Dhabīḥah (ذَبِيْحَة) is the prescribed method of slaughtering all meat sources, excluding fish and other sea-life, per Islamic law. This method of slaughtering animals consists of using a well-sharpened knife to make a swift, deep incision that cuts the front of the throat, the carotid artery, windpipe, and jugular veins. The head of an animal that is slaughtered using halal methods is aligned with the qiblah. In addition to the direction, permitted animals should be slaughtered upon utterance of the Islamic prayer "in the name of God.""
TLDR:Islam requires the animal to be bled alive...
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cahmcc9 | The fucked up thing about some of this is the whole "Halal" meat BS.
"Dhabīḥah (ذَبِيْحَة) is the prescribed method of slaughtering all meat sources, excluding fish and other sea-life, per Islamic law. This method of slaughtering animals consists of using a well-sharpened knife to make a swift, deep incision that cuts the front of the throat, the carotid artery, windpipe, and jugular veins. The head of an animal that is slaughtered using halal methods is aligned with the qiblah. In addition to the direction, permitted animals should be slaughtered upon utterance of the Islamic prayer "in the name of God."" | Islam requires the animal to be bled alive... |
Awesomebox5000 | As someone who doesn't really care about strip clubs but is good friends with a guy who basically grew up in one I think I can offer a perspective that may or may not change your mind but hopefully help derive why you feel the way you do regardless:
With the same logic you're applying to strip clubs, you shouldn't enjoy going to a movie or fiction books because the actors are just pretending to be other people or don't exist; you should go do the things *portrayed* in those stories and make *real* relationships. Most of us don't have the time to live all those vastly different lives so we pay money to be entertained for a time then go back to our regular lives. The same is true about strip clubs; lots of people like conversation for the sake of conversation and touch for the sake of touch. If you like the intimacy that a relationship can provide but don't want to put in the effort, you can pay a woman (or man) to sex it up a notch and show you a good time for more than a cheap date but less than an expensive one. You can be as shallow as you want, not have to have *any* game whatsoever, and you'll still be only marginally less successful than the best pickup artist in the world.
I still have cigarette burns from my friend's stripper ex-girlfriends, trust me; you're not paying them money to pretend to be nice to you, you're paying them money to go away when you or they are done. Most of them only pretend to be nice in their real lives and are exactly as intelligent as you'd make them out to be in a 3-5 minute conversation in the club or a bar.
TL;DR If you go to a strip club to have a sexy good time, you'll have fun. If a sexy good time isn't your idea of fun, you won't.
| As someone who doesn't really care about strip clubs but is good friends with a guy who basically grew up in one I think I can offer a perspective that may or may not change your mind but hopefully help derive why you feel the way you do regardless:
With the same logic you're applying to strip clubs, you shouldn't enjoy going to a movie or fiction books because the actors are just pretending to be other people or don't exist; you should go do the things portrayed in those stories and make real relationships. Most of us don't have the time to live all those vastly different lives so we pay money to be entertained for a time then go back to our regular lives. The same is true about strip clubs; lots of people like conversation for the sake of conversation and touch for the sake of touch. If you like the intimacy that a relationship can provide but don't want to put in the effort, you can pay a woman (or man) to sex it up a notch and show you a good time for more than a cheap date but less than an expensive one. You can be as shallow as you want, not have to have any game whatsoever, and you'll still be only marginally less successful than the best pickup artist in the world.
I still have cigarette burns from my friend's stripper ex-girlfriends, trust me; you're not paying them money to pretend to be nice to you, you're paying them money to go away when you or they are done. Most of them only pretend to be nice in their real lives and are exactly as intelligent as you'd make them out to be in a 3-5 minute conversation in the club or a bar.
TL;DR If you go to a strip club to have a sexy good time, you'll have fun. If a sexy good time isn't your idea of fun, you won't.
| DoesAnybodyElse | t5_2r5vt | cahox5z | As someone who doesn't really care about strip clubs but is good friends with a guy who basically grew up in one I think I can offer a perspective that may or may not change your mind but hopefully help derive why you feel the way you do regardless:
With the same logic you're applying to strip clubs, you shouldn't enjoy going to a movie or fiction books because the actors are just pretending to be other people or don't exist; you should go do the things portrayed in those stories and make real relationships. Most of us don't have the time to live all those vastly different lives so we pay money to be entertained for a time then go back to our regular lives. The same is true about strip clubs; lots of people like conversation for the sake of conversation and touch for the sake of touch. If you like the intimacy that a relationship can provide but don't want to put in the effort, you can pay a woman (or man) to sex it up a notch and show you a good time for more than a cheap date but less than an expensive one. You can be as shallow as you want, not have to have any game whatsoever, and you'll still be only marginally less successful than the best pickup artist in the world.
I still have cigarette burns from my friend's stripper ex-girlfriends, trust me; you're not paying them money to pretend to be nice to you, you're paying them money to go away when you or they are done. Most of them only pretend to be nice in their real lives and are exactly as intelligent as you'd make them out to be in a 3-5 minute conversation in the club or a bar. | If you go to a strip club to have a sexy good time, you'll have fun. If a sexy good time isn't your idea of fun, you won't. |
Thomasgetajob | I have been to strip clubs twice in my life.
Once when I was about 21, I went to a place in our major metropolitan area, as part of a bachelor party with a few people I knew. Don't know how it is now, but as I recall, it had quite a few dancers, not too many fake tits (hate them). You paid $20 up front, then you got a card worth a few drinks. Lap dances were $20. Drink prices were not too bad, really.
I paid for a lap dance from a girl with very small breasts, which I normally enjoy, but she did a lap dance that involved shaking her breasts.... which just plain didn't make any damn sense. Had to keep your arms at your side, and stuff.
I wasn't much of a drinker then, and I kind of felt like OP before I went in. Didn't have that great of a time, mostly went to say that I went, and to celebrate with a friend before his wedding. Having 5 dudes who mostly play Xbox together go to a strip club, when we never even go to bars with each other.... it just wasn't our element. I had no desire to go back to another strip club, and I didn't for 5 years.
The next time I went to a strip club, I originally didn't plan on going. I actually went with my local redditor friends, and they had voted for a date that just happened to land right on my birthday. The girlfriend was also out of town at the time, and she gave me permission to go. The stars pretty much aligned with that one.
Well, they chose a place right outside a nearby college town. You had to go by farms on gravel roads to get there, but not too far from the highway. I will admit, the place was small, and felt kind of backwater. However, the reddit group decided to dress fancy for the evening, so it was time for me to suit up.
It's technically a club, with a $20 fee to enter (for men). However, they can not sell alcohol. Instead, they let you bring it in. So, birthday + cooler of alcohol + group of friends = good time. Strip club just happened to be our entertainment. The girls did not have dead eyes. They weren't depressing. They weren't disgusting (though most of the white girls had boob jobs). They were just people, doing a job. Many were probably working there way through college, and will go on to lead more traditional lives when they are done.
People keep talking about how you're paying for what you can get from porn or from one night stands, etc. You are not. You are not paying just to see them naked. You are paying them, because that let's you know exactly what this is. It's purely about sex and money. There is no anxiety, there is no pressure, there are no emotions to get in the way. And it's not just porn. You can smell them. You can feel them. It's extremely different than just porn.
For people like me, you are just there to feel pure lust. You aren't going there to cum. You aren't getting your dick wet. You aren't cheating on your loved one. You just want to feel horny for hours, feel the adrenaline, and enjoy the way your dick feels in your pants (sweat pants not allowed, btw).
Now, the girls in our reddit group.. a few are bi. Every girl got lap dances. A few girls got 3-4 each. One girl was basically creaming herself. Shit got wild. Somebody was kind and gave me a birthday lap dance. It was not at all like the lapdance I got at the other place. Hands could basically go anywhere. The girl was much better at it, and she really worked for it. It was nice.
So, I might do it again someday. I would love it if my girlfriend came next time, but not really her scene.
tl;dr: I went to two strip clubs in my life. First time sucked, felt like OP. Second time was more about the social scene, and understanding what it was I was paying for, and it rocked. | I have been to strip clubs twice in my life.
Once when I was about 21, I went to a place in our major metropolitan area, as part of a bachelor party with a few people I knew. Don't know how it is now, but as I recall, it had quite a few dancers, not too many fake tits (hate them). You paid $20 up front, then you got a card worth a few drinks. Lap dances were $20. Drink prices were not too bad, really.
I paid for a lap dance from a girl with very small breasts, which I normally enjoy, but she did a lap dance that involved shaking her breasts.... which just plain didn't make any damn sense. Had to keep your arms at your side, and stuff.
I wasn't much of a drinker then, and I kind of felt like OP before I went in. Didn't have that great of a time, mostly went to say that I went, and to celebrate with a friend before his wedding. Having 5 dudes who mostly play Xbox together go to a strip club, when we never even go to bars with each other.... it just wasn't our element. I had no desire to go back to another strip club, and I didn't for 5 years.
The next time I went to a strip club, I originally didn't plan on going. I actually went with my local redditor friends, and they had voted for a date that just happened to land right on my birthday. The girlfriend was also out of town at the time, and she gave me permission to go. The stars pretty much aligned with that one.
Well, they chose a place right outside a nearby college town. You had to go by farms on gravel roads to get there, but not too far from the highway. I will admit, the place was small, and felt kind of backwater. However, the reddit group decided to dress fancy for the evening, so it was time for me to suit up.
It's technically a club, with a $20 fee to enter (for men). However, they can not sell alcohol. Instead, they let you bring it in. So, birthday + cooler of alcohol + group of friends = good time. Strip club just happened to be our entertainment. The girls did not have dead eyes. They weren't depressing. They weren't disgusting (though most of the white girls had boob jobs). They were just people, doing a job. Many were probably working there way through college, and will go on to lead more traditional lives when they are done.
People keep talking about how you're paying for what you can get from porn or from one night stands, etc. You are not. You are not paying just to see them naked. You are paying them, because that let's you know exactly what this is. It's purely about sex and money. There is no anxiety, there is no pressure, there are no emotions to get in the way. And it's not just porn. You can smell them. You can feel them. It's extremely different than just porn.
For people like me, you are just there to feel pure lust. You aren't going there to cum. You aren't getting your dick wet. You aren't cheating on your loved one. You just want to feel horny for hours, feel the adrenaline, and enjoy the way your dick feels in your pants (sweat pants not allowed, btw).
Now, the girls in our reddit group.. a few are bi. Every girl got lap dances. A few girls got 3-4 each. One girl was basically creaming herself. Shit got wild. Somebody was kind and gave me a birthday lap dance. It was not at all like the lapdance I got at the other place. Hands could basically go anywhere. The girl was much better at it, and she really worked for it. It was nice.
So, I might do it again someday. I would love it if my girlfriend came next time, but not really her scene.
tl;dr: I went to two strip clubs in my life. First time sucked, felt like OP. Second time was more about the social scene, and understanding what it was I was paying for, and it rocked.
| DoesAnybodyElse | t5_2r5vt | cahu77h | I have been to strip clubs twice in my life.
Once when I was about 21, I went to a place in our major metropolitan area, as part of a bachelor party with a few people I knew. Don't know how it is now, but as I recall, it had quite a few dancers, not too many fake tits (hate them). You paid $20 up front, then you got a card worth a few drinks. Lap dances were $20. Drink prices were not too bad, really.
I paid for a lap dance from a girl with very small breasts, which I normally enjoy, but she did a lap dance that involved shaking her breasts.... which just plain didn't make any damn sense. Had to keep your arms at your side, and stuff.
I wasn't much of a drinker then, and I kind of felt like OP before I went in. Didn't have that great of a time, mostly went to say that I went, and to celebrate with a friend before his wedding. Having 5 dudes who mostly play Xbox together go to a strip club, when we never even go to bars with each other.... it just wasn't our element. I had no desire to go back to another strip club, and I didn't for 5 years.
The next time I went to a strip club, I originally didn't plan on going. I actually went with my local redditor friends, and they had voted for a date that just happened to land right on my birthday. The girlfriend was also out of town at the time, and she gave me permission to go. The stars pretty much aligned with that one.
Well, they chose a place right outside a nearby college town. You had to go by farms on gravel roads to get there, but not too far from the highway. I will admit, the place was small, and felt kind of backwater. However, the reddit group decided to dress fancy for the evening, so it was time for me to suit up.
It's technically a club, with a $20 fee to enter (for men). However, they can not sell alcohol. Instead, they let you bring it in. So, birthday + cooler of alcohol + group of friends = good time. Strip club just happened to be our entertainment. The girls did not have dead eyes. They weren't depressing. They weren't disgusting (though most of the white girls had boob jobs). They were just people, doing a job. Many were probably working there way through college, and will go on to lead more traditional lives when they are done.
People keep talking about how you're paying for what you can get from porn or from one night stands, etc. You are not. You are not paying just to see them naked. You are paying them, because that let's you know exactly what this is. It's purely about sex and money. There is no anxiety, there is no pressure, there are no emotions to get in the way. And it's not just porn. You can smell them. You can feel them. It's extremely different than just porn.
For people like me, you are just there to feel pure lust. You aren't going there to cum. You aren't getting your dick wet. You aren't cheating on your loved one. You just want to feel horny for hours, feel the adrenaline, and enjoy the way your dick feels in your pants (sweat pants not allowed, btw).
Now, the girls in our reddit group.. a few are bi. Every girl got lap dances. A few girls got 3-4 each. One girl was basically creaming herself. Shit got wild. Somebody was kind and gave me a birthday lap dance. It was not at all like the lapdance I got at the other place. Hands could basically go anywhere. The girl was much better at it, and she really worked for it. It was nice.
So, I might do it again someday. I would love it if my girlfriend came next time, but not really her scene. | I went to two strip clubs in my life. First time sucked, felt like OP. Second time was more about the social scene, and understanding what it was I was paying for, and it rocked. |
Benisreallycool | Downvote me to hell I don't give a fuck, go to the strip club with the owner, everything's on the house, its the single greatest place I've ever been, the equivalent of a real life candy land.. blah blah blah respect the bitches!?! Fuck that sometimes your the dog and sometimes your the tree they had a choice they made it and they can leave when they want. And they are smoking hot and its always every dancers birthday
Tldr: go fuck yourself
P.s especially grammar Nazis, double fuck yourself WE ARE SPARTA | Downvote me to hell I don't give a fuck, go to the strip club with the owner, everything's on the house, its the single greatest place I've ever been, the equivalent of a real life candy land.. blah blah blah respect the bitches!?! Fuck that sometimes your the dog and sometimes your the tree they had a choice they made it and they can leave when they want. And they are smoking hot and its always every dancers birthday
Tldr: go fuck yourself
P.s especially grammar Nazis, double fuck yourself WE ARE SPARTA
| DoesAnybodyElse | t5_2r5vt | cahsmjs | Downvote me to hell I don't give a fuck, go to the strip club with the owner, everything's on the house, its the single greatest place I've ever been, the equivalent of a real life candy land.. blah blah blah respect the bitches!?! Fuck that sometimes your the dog and sometimes your the tree they had a choice they made it and they can leave when they want. And they are smoking hot and its always every dancers birthday | go fuck yourself
P.s especially grammar Nazis, double fuck yourself WE ARE SPARTA |
_transatlantique | I'm still amazed that the transfer at Washington/Lake was never free until they shut down half the red line. That has always been where I have transferred (you just go upstairs, cross through Block 37 and go back down) and I've had people argue with me about the existence of it. To me its a much easier transfer than Jackson, plus if you are heading north on the blue it makes a lot more sense.
TLDR, the CTA is weird. | I'm still amazed that the transfer at Washington/Lake was never free until they shut down half the red line. That has always been where I have transferred (you just go upstairs, cross through Block 37 and go back down) and I've had people argue with me about the existence of it. To me its a much easier transfer than Jackson, plus if you are heading north on the blue it makes a lot more sense.
TLDR, the CTA is weird.
| chicago | t5_2qh2t | cahoy8i | I'm still amazed that the transfer at Washington/Lake was never free until they shut down half the red line. That has always been where I have transferred (you just go upstairs, cross through Block 37 and go back down) and I've had people argue with me about the existence of it. To me its a much easier transfer than Jackson, plus if you are heading north on the blue it makes a lot more sense. | the CTA is weird. |
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