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DJquackquack posted...

I was with you up until this point. Why does the toilet flinging pee and poop around become the mans responsibility?

Because preventing that means closing the lid prior to flushing, which means whoever's in the bathroom at the time must do it. It's less that it's the man's responsibility and more than it's everyone's responsibility, which just happens to include men.

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Clench281 posted...

Work in metabolic cages suggests that feeding time induces changes in metabolism, which you may put under the heading of calories out.

Indeed. When thinking about the whole "calories out>calories in" thing, people have a tendency to assume that "calories out" consists primarily of active calories. Unless you're extremely active, though, most of that figure is your BMR, which isn't nearly as static as people tend to think it is. Adjusting feeding time can influence it, being active raises it (beyond the actual active calorie consumption; sedentary people just have lower BMR's), having a proper balance of micronutrients raises it, stress changes it, starvation lowers it... You can potentially lose weight without changing your activity level or how many calories you eat, just by altering when and what you eat.

If you're considering IF, though, as Clench said, I'd recommend just changing the schedule first and getting used to that, rather than trying to restrict on top of that. In making any dietary changes (or in any quasi-scientific process, really), it's a good idea to limit the number of variables you change at once so you can figure out what changes are actually making the difference. It's also a whole lot easier to accept and stick with the necessary lifestyle changes if you break them down into manageable chunks instead of letting yourself get overwhelmed by trying too many things at once.

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DrPrimemaster posted...

Probably only consuming 1000 calories a day.

This is an extremely bad idea. Don't do this. An actual IF diet incorporates the same number of calories as a normal day of eating, just condensed into 8 hours instead of spread out over the day. Without knowing your current height/weight/activity level and your target weight, I can't tell you exactly what your caloric target should be, but I can guarantee it's a lot more than 1000. At only 1000, you'll be starving yourself, which will interfere with attempted weight loss and put you in actual danger.

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fettster777 posted...

Ask people in the South if its made a huge comeback or not. Their hospitals in many areas are already filled to capacity, and in many areas there are more cases then there was last summer.

Sadly, aside from the health care workers trying desperately to keep up and some of the actual victims themselves, most would still say no. The people driving this wave are the ones that have been denying the significance of the pandemic from day 1. They've fought public health measures, they've refused vaccines, and they've been extra-reckless now that measures have started to relax (not that they're vaccinated enough to actually qualify for those relaxations). They'd never admit to creating this problem because they've never admitted there was even a problem in the first place.

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Revelation34 posted...

I meant a national news site.

Then why not say that? Better yet, why not go looking for yourself instead of demanding that everyone else do your research for you?

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Revelation34 posted...

Tag me if that is posted on a real news site instead.

@Revelation34

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THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

That's a moronic reasoning because COVID literally causes pneumonia.

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LeetCheet posted...

You can get pneumonia from other things too. Just sayin'.

You can, but generally speaking, you can find other explanations for pneumonia cases if one exists. There's no such explanation here, so odds are the otherwise-inexplicable uptick in fatal pneumonia cases can be attributed to the respiratory virus running rampant across the globe.

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Mead posted...

I dont agree with this. I think everyone that is able to do so should get the vaccine. But even if they didnt I dont think that mistake should mean they cant seek out help if they need it.

And beyond the basic humanitarian questions (which also extends into long-term financial savings because people are less likely to be permanently disabled if they seek treatment), unvaccinated people being hospitalized creates statistics that could potentially motivate hold-outs. People dying quietly at home hides the severity of the disease and keeps people complacent.

Reigning_King posted...

Good thing covid is so mild most people never have to go to the hospital in the first place, if they even realize they have it at all.

Which offers higher DPS?

1. 400 damage per hit, 0.1 attacks per second
2. 5 damage per hit, 35 attacks per second

The math is pretty easy: Your individual hits are quite weak with option 2, but because you're attacking so often, you still end up doing more overall damage. Similarly, individual Covid infections aren't likely to be bad, but because there are so many infections, the overall number of serious infections and deaths is much higher than it would be for a disease with a higher mortality rate that is less virulent (see: The 2014 Ebola outbreak, which had a ~40% CFR but only killed 12,000 people globally in 2.5 years).

People love to fixate on Covid's low mortality rate as though that means it's not a big deal. The personal risk for any given case is very low, but it is a massive public health problem.

Blow_My_Mind posted...

Okay I agree, but only once its FDA approved.

All vaccines available in the US are FDA approved. If they weren't, they wouldn't be available in the US.

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I was around 185-190, but some time in the past year or so I've dropped down to 165-170 for the first time since 2010. I mostly blame skimping on food because supporting two people on a single CERB was rough, and we're still recovering from the costs of moving amid all of that.

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Sarcasthma posted...

It's not roasted, but I'll admit that Bananas Foster is heavenly.

A lot of fruits are great if you prepare them like bananas foster. I did apples that way and put them in my oatmeal this morning, because I'm just that fancy.

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Zareth posted...

I have never, and will never, leave the toilet seat up. I always keep it closed all the way. Don't need that shit water stank getting in the air.

This. It's not about feminism, it's about aerosolized feces.

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Judgmenl posted...

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/K0ky6MX.png">
I am only Beginner 3, but I am not seeing how this is pay to win yet.

Judgmenl posted...

Dropped $10 and got the Battle Pass and Gengar.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Just to recap.

Troll posters make up lies about me

Correction: You got warned for talking about impregnating 12-year-old girls, then people that paid attention and didn't forget that time you went full pedo held you accountable for going full pedo.

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Reigning_King posted...

Close, but not quite.

A thoroughly uninformative response. You must be very confident in your position.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

there will always be an asterisk next to how many people it killed. they counted people as dieing from it, when it was actually people dieing with it

On what, exactly, are you basing that belief?

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Please go back and look at who you're talking to. That's basically a given.

Obviously, but he doesn't seem to know that. I feel like it's a given that I'm not explaining this to a more general audience.

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Reigning_King posted...

I've managed to avoid having a single message modded on this account but I'll risk that by just outright saying I tuthfully don't think this whole situation has been nearly as big of a deal as people have been making of it.

In just over a year, it's killed nearly as many Americans as the HIV epidemic killed in 40, despite unprecedented public health measures to keep it in check. At its peak, as many Americans were dying to Covid every day as died in 9/11. This is, without question, the worst public health crisis the world has faced in over a century, and if not for countermeasures implemented, it likely would have done an even better job of giving the 1918 flu pandemic a run for its money. It is a big deal. Anyone suggests that it isn't has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

Reigning_King posted...

I wrote out a long post but my phone ate it and I don't want to type it all out again but basically for me it isn't really about the number but the types of victims.

So... "it's mostly old people dying and I don't care about them." Got it.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

All things are fluid.

What? I thought we were just naming random scientific concepts without explaining their relevance to the context at hand, not devolving into pseudo-philosophical nonsense. This game's rules are too confusing.

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Reigning_King posted...

With the mortality rate still being sub 2% and of those dying most having one foot in the grave already or less than a decade of life left in them, not to mention that number being artificial bloated to begin with and the current situation and treatment being better anyways compared to the peak?

Nah.

The question was whether or not it's making a comeback, not whether it was inexplicably more lethal now than before or any other metric. Case numbers very obviously and measurably are surging. You can look at the graph yourself to see. What will the death toll be from this surge? Hard to say. We won't know that for another couple weeks, especially where we don't know where this surge will peak. I can, however, tell you that the slope of this surge looks steeper than the one that happened last summer, and that involved about a month of having over 1000 deaths a day on average. As you say, advances in treatment and whatnot may help keep it from getting that bad, as will vaccines (though it's primarily sporeading among the unvaccinated), but the proliferation of variants may also throw a wrench into the comparison in the other direction.

Reigning_King posted...

@ me when you can add another zero to your numbers and I might glance over.

What is your basis for that threshold? To my knowledge, no disease has ever managed to have over 820,000 new American cases in a day, so unless you're going to suggest that no disease in history has ever been worth worrying about the spread of (which would be utterly ludicrous), I'm really not sure what point you think you're making with that criterion.

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Zeus posted...

...47 y/o grandma? Geez >_< I guess the math isn't super-crazy, but that's still stupidly young... wait, she had ten grandkids at 47? Maybe that is super-crazy.

It's unusual, but not that implausible. To pull some hypothetical numbers out of nowhere, if she had her first kid at 20, having 4 by 25 is pretty feasible. Four children between the ages of 22 and 27 could pretty easily have produced a combined 10 grandchildren, since that's 2-3 each.

Again, that is indeed quite unusual, but it doesn't actually require any teen pregnancies at all to pull off, which is where I'd personally draw the line for "super-crazy."

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Sarcasthma posted...

Not as good as that stern talking-to adjl gave you!

Nah, roasted bananas are better than mere words could ever be.

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Being pedantic about the definition of "true berries," but missing the opportunity to include bananas? How disappointing.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Nature vs. Nurture.

Bernoulli's Principle.

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And yesterday saw 82,505 new cases, bringing the 7-day average to 49,856 (and still climbing). Are these numbers large enough to qualify as "impressive" now, @Reigning_King ?

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SunWuKung420 posted...

No and no.

But adult age children is huge, current problem.

Then what is the relevance of 12-year-olds' reproductive abilities to this problem to which you're trying to allude?

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

I know the locals are incapable of pronouncing the city name correctly

I'd argue that there is never a "correct" pronunciation of a place name except that which the locals use.

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wolfy42 posted...

So yeah, it's not just in history that kids are having sex at 12-13 sadly.

I'm generally inclined to give kids doing it a pass. It's a bad idea, certainly, but it can be chalked up to a stupid mistake on the part of both parties. It's when adults start impregnating kids that we have a problem, since that's just plain exploitative.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

In current society, no.

Yes or no: Do you believe that this is a problem with modern society? More specifically, do you think that a return to a culture where impregnating 12-year-olds was normal is something desirable?

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SunWuKung420 posted...

You are welcome to incorrectly infer all you want. It's a free country.

Yes or no: Do you believe that impregnating girls as young as 12 is a good thing?

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SunWuKung420 posted...

adjl posted...

And how, exactly, is the reproductive ability of 12-year-old girls relevant to that point?

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SunWuKung420 posted...

I'm not surprised adjl doesn't understand commentary regarding how society is wrong in allowing adults to behave like children, long after they should be adulting.

Why are you expecting anyone to conclude anything other than "Sunny thinks 12-year-olds should be reproducing" from these answers?

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SunWuKung420 posted...

I'm not surprised adjl doesn't understand commentary regarding how society is wrong in allowing adults to behave like children, long after they should be adulting.

And how, exactly, is the reproductive ability of 12-year-old girls relevant to that point?

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My first character ended up as a Whitill. If memory serves, it did have a couple not-useless unique drops, but nothing that was remotely useful for a Humar, and they were exceedingly rare drops (even by PSO standards).

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Clench281 posted...

I was checking random words for their section ID for a specific rare item drop in Phantasy Star Online and ended up with that. I don't remember what the ID or item was that I wanted

I just used trailing spaces to change ID as needed without having to change the name. That would still only give half of the possible ID's for a given base name (iirc, spaces had a value of 2, and the sum of all characters were used to determine what the ID was, so you'd need to throw an odd-valued character in there to access the other half), but it dramatically cut down on the necessary creativity.

That said, I never really liked the Section ID system. I get trying to promote trading by making it so a given player had to trade to get certain items (or make alts and play for longer), but the different ID's were never going to be balanced and that meant anyone going in blind had a pretty decent chance of being screwed out of getting personally-useful drops and not having anything worth trading.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Figure it out on your own.

I've tried, but I really cannot conceive of any interpretation of "In the wild, human females can reproduce as early as 12, but we don't treat them as adults until they're over 20" that doesn't imply it should be more socially acceptable to knock up teenagers. If you can't help me by explaining another possible interpretation, I (and everyone else) really have no possible course of action except to continue calling you out for advocating sex with 12-year-olds.

That's not "believing how others twist words," that's just straight up remembering what you said and interpreting it as it sounds.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Based on facts.

I'm going to need you to elaborate on that.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

I never said that. Stop believing how others twist words.

Then how would you suggest interpreting what you said?

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Mostly, she just values the headphones more as an accessory than as a listening device. As long as they meet a minimum standard of playing music well (which they do), she considers the potential for better sound quality to be secondary to how they look. It's just a matter of different priorities; she probably thinks you're just as dumb for sacrificing looks for the sake of optimizing the sound.

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Privilege isn't really "allotted" so much as it is "not revoked." It's not a matter of actively giving privilege to cishet white men, it's about treating other people in a manner that denies it to them.

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Mead posted...

okay you sandwich eater

Tough talk, coming from a bed sleeper.

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GanonsSpirit posted...

Woah. You're telling me someone was able to get a loan from a bank? Crazy stuff.

Nah man, you don't get it. He got the loan by calling the bank! You can't make this stuff up!

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VeeVees posted...

right hand is for the mouse

Lefty mouse master race.

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Reigning_King posted...

Perhaps under your definition of the word racist you classify everyone who doesn't immediately deny being one with a simple one word response as a racist?

If your answer to "are you a racist?" includes "some people would consider me to be a racist" and not just "no," that's a pretty good sign that you actually are a racist and just aren't willing to admit to it.

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FrndNhbrHdCEman posted...

Do the calculations include electrical costs? Cause thats a bitch atm.

I would presume that's what's meant by "El. Costs" with a little lightning bolt next to it.

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Zeus posted...

To be fair, video game music has become a lot more legitimate in recent years. The industry has come a lot way from the midis from 8-bit and 16-bit games...

Oh.

>_>

Granted, they've got reasonably good music, I suppose.

Even looking at older themes, they often hold up well when fully orchestrated. The biggest thing that holds them back tends to be the fact that they're designed with relatively short loops in mind, so it's often necessary for an arranger to throw in some variations and come up with a way to end the song. In some ways, though, being so simple actually makes them easier to arrange, since there's a lot more room to embellish them and make them more interesting when you don't have to worry about conflicting with more complex parts.

Modern VG music, though, is indeed pretty indistinguishable from anything else in its genres, quality-wise. There's a lingering stereotype of it all being nothing but beeps and boops, but that's mostly just ignorant elitism.

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adjl posted...

Yesterday (July 21, 2021), it was 41,310, and given that there were 60,000 new cases yesterday, you can expect that today's 7-day average will be even higher once that data has been collected.

To follow up, yesterday's 7-day average was 45,351, and there were 63,877 new cases. As predicted, it continues to climb. Big surprise there.

Looking at the last 7 days (specifically at the difference between the daily count and the 7-day average), I'm not able to pick out a consistent trend that would allow me to predict that this surge is slowing down, so I can pretty confidently say that it isn't. I was hoping the difference would fit a trendline with an apparent x-intercept (when the 7-day average is roughly equal to the daily case counts, the wave has plateaued), but it doesn't.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

I think they tried that a bunch of times

Didn't they make a movie or two about that?

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LeetCheet posted...

Remember that lootbox controversy with EA a couple of years ago?

A couple years ago? EA's still doing all the same terrible stuff with lootboxes. People have just stopped caring.

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ForteEXE3850 posted...

I think they just don't have faith most people would be willing to pay AAA prices up front to play AAA games on their smartphones. The proven money making method for smartphone games is microtransactions and loot boxes/gatcha, and they work extraordinarily well.

While that is an issue (I think it was the devs behind The Banner Saga that talked about having huge problems trying to sell their game on mobile for even $5, despite selling it just fine on other platforms for much more than that), I'm not actually sure how relevant that is to the modern AAA market. Most AAA games are no less monetized than the average mobile game, such that the sale price is actually a fairly small minority of their total revenue. Really, the only reason they continue to have a sale price at all is because people are still willing to pay that and still pay for post-purchase monetization afterwards. The second that changes, AAA games will be going F2P.

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I'm guessing the actual legal requirement varies from place to place. I actually don't know whether it's formally required here or not. However,
Clench281 posted...

It literally takes more thought/effort to go through the evaluation process of deciding whether or not you should use your signal because you're in a designated turn lane.

Just use it every time you turn. There's no excuse.

This. The only time you should actually question using a turn signal is when turning it on might confuse people about your intentions, and that's very, very rare. I can't even think of an example. Every other time, if you're turning your vehicle, just signal it. Absolute worst case scenario, you use it unnecessarily and take 1-2 seconds off of that $2 bulb's 10,000 hour lifespan. Oh no.

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This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Ubisoft spent decades covering up widespread sexual harassment and assault issues to an extent comparable to the Vatican and continues to employ known abusers in high-level positions. These companies don't deserve your money.

Gaawa_chan posted...

That's how they want the world to be, so they get made when victims don't lie down and take it.

It's more an effort to reconcile the cognitive dissonance between wanting to keep enjoying the games the company sells and not wanting to support companies that do bad things. By pretending the companies aren't doing bad things (by whatever means are necessary), they get to keep enjoying the games. It's not so much an actual philosophy as a one-off comment that satisfies that need well enough for them to go back to ignoring the issue.

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