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| Topic | Most omicron cases have hit the fully vaccinated. |
| adjl 12/12/21 12:00:17 PM #16 | Ogurisama posted... Another thing is, we dont know how many vaccinated people have come in contact with with infected people. Is it 100% of them getting it, or has there been 100s/1000s that have and only 34 have. In theory, a large enough sample size will tell us that without needing that specific data, since we can safely assume that their exposure rate has been the same as everyone else's. In practice, I expect there to be a discrepancy for quite some time due to travel restrictions and other limitations placed on the unvaxxed, but time will tell. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Most omicron cases have hit the fully vaccinated. |
| adjl 12/12/21 11:42:55 AM #13 | For further context, 34/43 is 79.1% of the cases, compared to a national vaccination rate of 60.7%. That sample size is too small to use a normal approximation (43*(1-.791)=9.0, which is less than 10), but if we do so anyway, we get a P value of 0.007 (that is, a 0.7% chance that this difference can be explained by random chance, well below the usual threshold of 5% that's used to determine significance). A proper analysis would involve comparing the incidence to local vaccination rates, rather than national (which would definitely be too small a sample size to conclude anything), but that does suggest that some factors are at play making vaccinated people more vulnerable to it. The most likely explanation I can think of is that vaxxed people are more likely to have travelled to the areas where Omicron has been spreading, given that so much travelling outright requires vaccination these days. Restaurant exposures are also going to overwhelmingly be fully vaccinated people if those are the only people allowed into restaurants. I can think of no mechanism by which, all of factors being equal, Omicron would be more likely to infect a vaccinated person than an unvaccinated one, so it's most likely some sort of confounding variable instead. JixHedgehog posted... It's not really a vaccine per se Why do people keep saying this? Absolutely nothing about it is true. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The silent crisis of male suicide. |
| adjl 12/12/21 10:49:32 AM #13 | shadowsword87 posted... I'm curious about attempts of suicide for men vs women. My understanding is that the attempt rate is fairly similar, but men are more likely to succeed, often because they just shoot themselves instead of trying something less messy. I don't know exactly how they compare, though, and it wouldn't surprise me if there is still a significant difference in attempt rate. The_tall_midget posted... And yet, much like homelessness, most of the available resources are for women victims, shocking nobody. Most suicide resources aren't really gendered. The issue is more that there's a stigma around men accessing mental health resources in general, because toxic masculinity's a bitch. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Treason |
| adjl 12/12/21 10:34:22 AM #32 | Revelation34 posted... Then tell me why they never attempted to arrest Trump. That's basically what the impeachment trial was, except he got off because everyone on the Republican side voted to acquit regardless of how guilty they felt he was, since they felt showing their loyalty to him and the party was more beneficial than holding him accountable (McConnell all but explicitly said as much). He could still be criminally prosecuted, potentially, but I suspect that would be a very hard charge to stick after he'd already been acquitted of it in a slightly different context. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you ever refused to do something in a video game specifically because... |
| adjl 12/12/21 10:30:42 AM #38 | The_tall_midget posted... Pretty much. I just want companies to realize that a "evil" option does not necessarily means that your character HAS to be an asshole to everyone. You can have a villain that is a nice person to most people, but is so dangerously pragmatic that his ability to empathize goes out the window the moment that the ends justifies the means. Tactics Ogre let us cling together actually does a good job of putting your character in a situation where he HAS to a villain to succeed no matter what; the circumstances in which his country is in basically forces him to. He's not a bad person, per se, but just being nice would never get the job done. Exactly. So often, morality systems boil down to a series of "Save puppy to be good, kick puppy to be evil, alternate between saving puppy and kicking puppy to be neutral," which is just dumb. Role-playing "evil" in a less restrictive context generally just means putting self-interest above that of NPC's, or caring less about how many people get hurt by your decisions. That can be interesting, but very few video games manage to properly capture that. In a way, actually, games without formal morality systems do that better than those with. Games like Elder Scrolls give you the option of simply deciding to murder people instead of trying to work around them to get things done, but rather than trying to have a broader impact on your overall "alignment," you see consequences attached (directly or indirectly) to that choice that affect your game experience moving forward. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Final Fantasy 7: Remake finally coming to PC next Week... |
| adjl 12/12/21 10:04:54 AM #31 | SomeUsername529 posted... Since that's just cope for "wah wah, I want Steam. Epic is different so it's literally unusuable. Wah wah" it is exactly what I thought. It's more that Epic's launcher/store is unambiguously an inferior product. It's usable, certainly, but there's absolutely no reason for it to be as primitive as it is when Steam has had all of its missing features for over a decade. I appreciate that it's generally better for developers, but competing for my business by throwing money around to make Steam temporarily worse instead of trying to offer a comparable service does not endear me to them. I collect the free games whenever I remember them, because I have no reason not to, but I have no intention of spending money there until they commit to providing me with better service. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I think I want to get HRT therapy |
| adjl 12/11/21 9:18:03 PM #12 | MeadCore posted... yeah Im gonna talk to some professional brain people about it Professional brain people are indeed helpful when it comes to brainly matters. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you ever refused to do something in a video game specifically because... |
| adjl 12/11/21 7:23:55 PM #28 | ParanoidObsessive posted... Alpha Protocol does it better, where your options are basically to be professional, sarcastic, or aggressive. Or as they put it, you're choosing whether you're Jason Bourne, James Bond, or Jack Bauer. It's not really "good" or "evil", or even "nice"/"dick", as much as it is how you view missions and the best methodology for engaging. Of course, in Alpha Protocol, you're kind of a dick no matter what options you pick - there really isn't a "good guy" option. Indeed, I liked how that one worked (although it fell prey to the issue of dialogue options not really reflecting what the character would say, which is annoying). The Witcher was another one that I really liked in that regard. Mostly, trying to turn these choices systems into a binary morality rating tends to end up being weird and awkward, so it's much more organic to give choices with more direct consequences. Unbridled9 posted... The elevator scene in ME2 is fun as heck though to Renegade. I wouldn't know. I've actually still only ever played the first ME. It was entertaining enough, and I've meant to get 2 ever since I finished it, but I've just never gotten around to it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Trudeau has a Super Smash Bros poster |
| adjl 12/11/21 3:03:11 PM #27 | ReturnOfFa posted... no young person is going to be tricked into voting Liberal over NDP because of a Super Smash Bros poster, sorry. They probably aren't, no, but you underestimate the lengths to which politicians will go to appeal to the youth without actually understanding how to appeal to the youth. See that video Ajit Pai did with the fidget spinner and whatnot for a particularly cringe-worthy example. ReturnOfFa posted... bolded part is an assumption and a silly one at that I think it's a fairly safe assumption. Especially with a poster like that, which has relatively little intrinsic artistic merit beyond appealing to fans of the game, I wouldn't expect the kid(s) to be able to decorate common areas of the house with such specific personal interests. Their bedrooms? Sure. Whatever room all the gaming happens in (I'm presuming Trudeau can afford an extra TV room or two)? Sure. But an area that's not only used by everyone, but from which Trudeau would conduct an interview with the press? That seems unlikely to me. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you ever refused to do something in a video game specifically because... |
| adjl 12/11/21 2:34:10 PM #17 | The_tall_midget posted... Didn't like 90% of players picked paragon for their runs of Mass Effect? I tried doing a Renegade run after beating it as Paragon and quickly lost interest in the game because it just wasn't fun to be a dick for no reason like that. It can sometimes be entertaining to not be the good guy, but so much of that was just like "Hello! How are you?" "Eat shit and die.", which is so absurdly exaggerated that it's just kinda dumb. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you ever refused to do something in a video game specifically because... |
| adjl 12/11/21 1:54:48 PM #13 | Any time I play Majora's Mask, I try to make a point of beating the game after I reunite Anju and Kafei instead of playing the Song of Time. They want to greet the morning together, so I'm going to make sure they have a morning to greet, dammit. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I think I want to get HRT therapy |
| adjl 12/11/21 12:48:40 PM #5 | I think this is a decision you probably shouldn't be making in your current, rather chaotic mental state, but also it's a decision that you aren't going to be able to make overnight, so it's worth bringing up with your therapist to explore the possibility. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Treason |
| adjl 12/11/21 12:45:42 PM #21 | Fierce_Deity_08 posted... Thats an insurrection and still relevant! says every leftist instead of investigating all the riots and fires in the summer of 2020. After conducting a thorough investigation, I have concluded that the riots and fires in the summer of 2020 were largely a product of angry people taking advantage of mob mentality and violent, chaotic situations to commit random acts of vandalism. It's likely that there were also some individuals committing false flag attacks to discredit the BLM movement, but there's no particular need to blame them exclusively because there were certainly other individuals just making a mess for the sake of making a mess. What does that have to do with a deliberate effort to overthrow the democratically elected government? Specifically, with the decision to label that an insurrection and consider it still relevant because the people that encouraged and funded it are still encouraging and funding similar efforts. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Trudeau has a Super Smash Bros poster |
| adjl 12/11/21 12:36:39 PM #22 | KodyKeir posted... If conservatives criticized him for actual things he has done, like continue the lawsuits against victims of residential schools, or his failure to enact recommendations on MMIW, then maybe they would have some actually credibility with Canadians. Hell, not only should he not be continuing lawsuits against IRS victims, he should be declaring the Catholic Church to be a terrorist organization for as long as the pope continues to refuse to issue an apology. If the official stance of the organization is that genocide is acceptable, that's not an organization that should be allowed to operate on Canadian soil. Of course, the official stance of most Canadian governments has also been that genocide is acceptable, so perhaps that's the first problem we should be solving. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Trudeau has a Super Smash Bros poster |
| adjl 12/11/21 12:34:01 PM #21 | The_tall_midget posted... Except for the part where every single time someone has been confronted with such action, they've always apologized Pretty much every other instance of blackface I can think of that's made headlines has involved them responding with "muh free speech!" and not any sort of actual apology. Granted, most of that impression comes from Duckbear topics, which are hardly an unbiased sample, but that nevertheless represents the majority of cases where a significant number of people are unsympathetic to the culprit (while also completely destroying your "every single time" premise, but I think everyone already knew that was a silly thing to say). In cases like Disney firing James Gunn, it's generally a very small vocal minority refusing to forgive them and the company making a knee-jerk reaction for PR's sake, rather than enough people having a problem to make a significant difference on the scale of an entire country's voter base. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I feel like people should be HAPPY about the omicron variant...? |
| adjl 12/11/21 9:08:30 AM #29 | BEERandWEED posted... The flu vaccine has been so effective for almost 100 years. Do you genuinely believe that saving an estimated 10-15,000 lives a year in the US alone *isn't* worthwhile? Dragooncancer_ posted... if this new variant is showing mild symptoms why the f*** is everyone freaking out so damn much? The jury's still out on just how much less dangerous it is, but beyond that, dodging vaccines means any immunity people get from being infected with it isn't necessarily going to help prevent infection from other variants, and in fact being infected may make people more vulnerable to secondary infection by another one. That also means it's going to spread very rapidly in regions that have relaxed their protective measures to account for vaccine protections, and even if those cases are relatively safe, that significantly increases the likelihood of seeing further variants emerge, all of which will have the same vaccine-dodging properties and some of which could be even more dangerous (especially if we get it hybridizing with Delta) because Covid's mortality rate is mostly selectively neutral (as I outlined earlier). Omicron itself may not be that dangerous (though again, the jury's still out on that), but it has considerable potential to set us back by months and potentially develop into something much more serious. That potential alone warrants taking extra measures to try to keep it under control, though it's probably too late to actually stop it because it was already known to be circulating through several different countries before South Africa had the integrity to identify it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I wanted to be surprised about Spider: No Way Homes villains.... |
| adjl 12/11/21 8:48:17 AM #25 | By and large, the world doesn't consider trailer contents to be spoilers (one notable exception being the Far From Home trailer that opened with an explicit spoiler warning for Endgame). You are free to, of course, but expecting all media to avoid spoiling trailer content for you is unreasonable and will inevitably be met by disappointment. DrYuya posted... I guess they could also have told everyone Loki is in the movie and gets revealed to be disguised as Odin, Odin dies, Thors super powered sister shows up, Mjolinir gets crushed,...maybe just 15-20 other things beyond that and it would have generated interest so more people would show up for ticket sales. Pretty sure the trailer did show Hela showing up and Mjolnir getting destroyed. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Trudeau has a Super Smash Bros poster |
| adjl 12/11/21 8:26:58 AM #15 | The_tall_midget posted... Which shows how two faced and hypocritical Canadians are. A person did black face once, 20 years ago, and posted it on social media? Destroy their life. That's the key point. Forgiving people that are willing to condemn their past behaviour and have since made amends is reasonable. Forgiving people that refuse to admit they've done anything wrong and insist that nobody should have a problem with their behaviour, less so. ReturnOfFa posted... he has kids I don't think many kids get to decorate parts of the house that aren't their own room with video game posters, and it seems unlikely that he'd do an interview in one of his kids' rooms. I think that explanation is less likely than that he either has it up because of his own interests or (more likely) put it up and staged the interview in view of it to make a subtle appeal to some of the younger demographic that is generally leaning more toward the NDP these days. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | holy shit rune factory 4 is on xbox |
| adjl 12/10/21 10:09:31 PM #48 | Surprise! --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | holy shit rune factory 4 is on xbox |
| adjl 12/10/21 10:04:35 PM #46 | Bulbasaur posted... fuckin what https://www.reddit.com/r/runefactory/comments/4icuqm/rf4_how_do_i_use_the_magnifying_glass/ Every square of soil on the farm has its own stats that you have to manage and gradually level up, which get depleted as you farm stuff on that tile. I'm sure you can get through the game just fine without paying much attention to that (the game isn't particularly hard), but it's another aspect you can min-max if you're looking to enjoy some more complex mechanics. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | holy shit rune factory 4 is on xbox |
| adjl 12/10/21 9:57:51 PM #44 | Bulbasaur posted... not sure how you feel like the farming is more deeper, they're both pretty the same Mostly the soil management. Having to rotate crops and/or put effort into managing specific parameters for each plot is quite a bit more involved than "put fertilizer on the tiles you use each season and you're done." Bulbasaur posted... crafting, sure, but i prefer Stardew for just ease of use And I prefer RF4 for its complexity, which gets back to the "Stardew is a more chill game" thing. Min-maxing my RF4 crafts involved teaching myself how to use VLOOKUP to put together an Excel sheet to keep track of rarity values (I never actually got around to expanding that to include all of the stats upgrades could provide, since that was quite a bit more work, but I kind of wanted to). Not everyone wants to do that, but I like having that kind of room to overengineer my way through complicated systems. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What do you think it would take for someone to completely build their own PC? |
| adjl 12/10/21 2:02:20 PM #10 | Blightzkrieg posted... Probably still the fastest way to get a new GPU tho Most likely. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | holy shit rune factory 4 is on xbox |
| adjl 12/10/21 1:45:27 PM #42 | helIy posted... i'd disagree, yeah RF4's farming and crafting mechanics were also generally much deeper and more interesting, despite the greater focus on combat. Stardew is indeed more chill, so if chill is what you want, you'll probably enjoy Stardew better, but I like being able to really sink my teeth into these games, mechanically. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Reviewing 'Outside' |
| adjl 12/10/21 9:04:56 AM #12 | Unbridled9 posted... Honestly, it became more and more fun to write it as I continued on. I think somewhere around the second paragraph I simply kept going because I was legitimately enjoying it regardless of the joke. Good on you, then. I'm glad you had a good time and don't feel like your time was wasted. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Eating food, I think we all need to chill a little bit |
| adjl 12/10/21 8:36:59 AM #7 | I like the three meal approach well enough. I'm generally eating as much as I need to eat, not more or less. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | You have been offered a free orchiectomy. |
| adjl 12/10/21 8:29:07 AM #6 | slacker03150 posted... But it's free and you don't even need a medical excuse to get it done. But I want a medical excuse to get it done. Or rather, I don't want to get it done without a medical excuse. I appreciate the offer, but it's not something I'm particularly interested in at the moment. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | holy shit rune factory 4 is on xbox |
| adjl 12/10/21 8:18:44 AM #39 | I'd say it's better than Stardew, but some may disagree. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What do you think it would take for someone to completely build their own PC? |
| adjl 12/10/21 8:17:19 AM #6 | To be capable of running any remotely modern software without being able to take advantage of machinery that can pack dozens of individual wires into a micrometer, you'd need an absolutely ridiculous amount of space and several years' worth of man-hours. Modern computing requires industrial production of components. There's really no way around that. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | As a system capitalism only serves some of the people |
| adjl 12/09/21 11:56:44 PM #45 | CoorsLight posted... I'm also curious how you think crypto and NFTs are going to save us. People being lucky/shrewd enough to cash out on speculative investments isn't some new futuristic concept. How exactly is this going to scale, or get out us out of capitalism when people are already doing it under capitalism There's some merit in that crypto exchanges exist outside of the established regulatory framework of the traditional economy, which have generally been manipulated to serve those already in power (see: Robinhood shutting down trades when common folk were making a bunch of money selling Gamestop stock and the hedge funds got butthurt), plus it's a lot harder for governments to restrict their value and they aren't tied to any particular industry (see: what happens to the currency exchange rates of any country that depends heavily on oil when oil prices go down/up) but ultimately, crypto's just another medium for rich people to gamble within. It's fundamentally no different from foreign currency investment plans that have been around forever. It's just more unpredictable. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | As a system capitalism only serves some of the people |
| adjl 12/09/21 11:47:57 PM #37 | UnMead posted... This topic is a critique of capitalism not an open endorsement of socialism and/or communism It's kind of hard to critique capitalism without considering or commenting on the alternatives. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Snow. |
| adjl 12/09/21 11:46:57 PM #22 | adjl posted... We're expecting some this evening into tomorrow. The forecast is calling for 15-25 cm (6-10"), but who knows how much we'll actually get. We got well over a foot. That was a lot more shovelling than I was expecting. I'm going to be sore tomorrow. wpot posted... If I'm being argumentative (and I'm on an internet messageboard so of course I am) I would say that 20 degrees and windy feels like 20 and windy, not like 9 degrees without wind. The whole concept of "feels like" just doesn't make much sense to me, although - yes - wind of course makes cold much worse. It's roughly comparable in terms of how you should respond to the cold. Your frostbite risk is roughly the same whether the windchill is -30 or the ambient temperature is -30 with no wind, so you should cover up exposed skin either way. Similarly, if you want a jacket when it drops below 10, you'll probably also want a jacket when the windchill drops below 10. The only significant difference is that you can avoid windchill relatively easily by sheltering from the wind, while that's not going to help you much if it's just that cold everywhere. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Are you done Christmas shopping? |
| adjl 12/09/21 6:16:58 PM #11 | Mostly. A few things left to get, and several to make. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you feel you contribute to society? |
| adjl 12/09/21 5:57:13 PM #44 | Kyuubi4269 posted... If you have money left over after maintaining your existence, you contribute to society. Uhh, paying for subsistence also generates profit for somebody else. Often quite a bit, actually, since you can get away with charging higher margins than necessary because people don't have a choice but to pay you for them. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | As a system capitalism only serves some of the people |
| adjl 12/09/21 5:40:26 PM #31 | Kyuubi4269 posted... and how does homelessness benefit capitalism? You have literally and explicitly tried to convince me that the threat of homelessness is necessary to drive people to be as productive as possible. In no uncertain terms, in the context of you insisting that eliminating the risk of homelessness (specifically by providing housing to anyone that needed it) would be a bad thing. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | People didn't like Chrono Cross because it subverted expectations. |
| adjl 12/09/21 5:36:05 PM #9 | Gaawa_chan posted... "Subverting expectations" is not a positive or negative quality, though I'd say if that is your only qualifier when crafting something, it's probably going to be trash. For example, subverting your expectation that you'd get to play a good game is terrible. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | "Bro, it's not that hard to not shop at shitty companies." |
| adjl 12/09/21 5:31:06 PM #7 | Greenfox111 posted... i mean shit now i have to boycott nestle and kellogs, what is there left to eat, bread? Pretty sure they both own brands of bread, so you've even gotta be careful there. Mostly, though, you can avoid them by just keeping away from more processed foods. Fresh produce is generally a pretty safe bet, as is fresh meat and more local dairy options. Locally baked stuff can be a little hit-or-miss depending on whose ingredients they use, but you'll generally be fine if you aim for ingredients that are less processed (like butter over shortening). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | As a system capitalism only serves some of the people |
| adjl 12/09/21 3:02:54 PM #11 | Llamachama posted... You take what each system has good to offer and you leave out the oppressive shit and then when ten years goes by you rework it again. Pretty much, which is why we use a mostly capitalist system with socialist policies here and there to patch the holes. The problem arises when people buy into the "socialism is categorically evil in every way" propaganda and applaud the elites' efforts to erode the socialist protections so they can become even more powerful at the expense of everyone else. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | "Bro, it's not that hard to not shop at shitty companies." |
| adjl 12/09/21 1:45:24 PM #3 | Nightwind posted... Kind of is. Pretty much. Food companies are particularly bad for this: If you want to do something like boycott Kellogg's for being a turd to its workers, it takes actual effort to research all of the food brands they own so you can avoid them. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | You have been offered a free orchiectomy. |
| adjl 12/09/21 11:46:06 AM #3 | I'm Canadian, so I'll get it for free if I ever actually need it, so pass. If not for that, I'd keep the offer around in case it came up, but I wouldn't take it right now. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The truth is that my wife left me |
| adjl 12/09/21 10:43:28 AM #45 | Based on Schmen's comments about his wife, I could believe that notschmen is her. By the sounds of things, he basically married a female version of himself and is really glad that he was able to find such a person because he's too misanthropic to stand being around anyone else. This would explain the clear similarities, despite the occasional stylistic difference. But then it could also just be somebody pretending. Who knows? It doesn't really matter. Alt-hunting has never really made much sense to me; there's no reason we can't just take accounts at face value and react to them according to the behaviour they directly display, rather than trying to ferret out some secret identity that can form the basis for further judgement than that. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you feel you contribute to society? |
| adjl 12/08/21 7:37:12 PM #24 | Zangulus posted... Yeah, 6 feet is easier to say than 72 inches, because thats how far down shes buried. You fucked a corpse bruh. That explains all the mud. (In all seriousness, sorry if I touched a sore spot with that. 'Twas never my intent) --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Reviewing 'Outside' |
| adjl 12/08/21 5:05:42 PM #7 | hockey7318 posted... Holy christ, that is a lot of writing. You can't expect people to actually read all of that, but good for you for spending the time to do all of that. Pretty much this. Kudos for committing to the joke, but I'm afraid that's way more effort than I'm willing to invest in a joke that's been pretty much exhausted for years. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Snow. |
| adjl 12/08/21 5:03:11 PM #18 | wpot posted... It clearly wouldn't be better to use the space to tell people how strong the wind will be so they can make their own judgments about what temperature it REALLY feels like. :) Eh, windchill's a reasonable thing to include. It's more intuitive to say "it's going to feel like X" than to try to remember how much a given wind speed cools things down, and windchill factors can be significant enough to warrant changes in how you dress and what outdoor activities you do. Most forecasts I've seen *also* include wind speed, so it's not like they're mutually exclusive. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you feel you contribute to society? |
| adjl 12/08/21 4:51:49 PM #18 | Zangulus posted... Yes, but can you measure your contribution to society with literal inches? I can measure my contribution to your mom with literal inches (though it'd be reasonable to simplify it to feet). DrPrimemaster posted... This is pretty cool, though does the beuarcracy drain you? Sometimes. There have been many instances where I've done everything I can on my end, but stuff still goes wrong or takes longer than it should because it gets caught up somewhere else. A lot of the stuff I'm handling is just things like processing invoices for payment, though, so while bureaucratic delays are frustrating when I just want to get the work done, I don't have to deal with the added stress of knowing that somebody's health is being jeopardized by having to wait. That would be a lot more draining, I would imagine, though my region is doing relatively well in that regard (at least compared to communities elsewhere in the country that haven't had potable water for 25 years or face suicide crises every other month). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Seriously, never be a landlord |
| adjl 12/08/21 4:40:26 PM #81 | Fam_Fam posted... something being made into a bad investment due to no fault or lack of planning is what i find unfair. That's the nature of real estate investments. Unless you're actively working to improve your property and increase its value (or causing significant damage to it), the vast majority of fluctuations - in either direction - are outside of your control and can't really be planned for. This is why many like HOA's so much: By exerting some degree of control over your neighbourhood, you take away some of the unpredictability inherent in property values. Again, that doesn't necessarily justify the government saying "lol get rekt, landlords" and completely destroying their investments without warning, but that also doesn't mean that "landlords will lose some money" should prevent the government from enacting the regulations that need to be enacted to ensure a stable housing market and avoid homelessness crises. Of course, that kind of falls apart when so many in government have real estate investments themselves, since that's a major conflict of interest and introduces a significant degree of bias in favour of investors, but government being invested in things it's supposed to be policing is a problem in every field, not just housing. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Seriously, never be a landlord |
| adjl 12/08/21 2:01:19 PM #72 | Fam_Fam posted... for most people, the price WOULD have to crash for them to afford it. As it stands now, yeah. With more affordable rents (allowing more money to be saved), lower prices across the board (meaning you need to save less to make a down payment), and maybe a minimum wage that isn't based on the cost of living in 1960, though, it becomes a lot more attainable, especially if there's also a push for all of those 2-4-unit houses to be eligible for individual sale (since that's the sort of home most lower-income renters would be interested in buying). There are also rent-to-own programs to consider, subsidies for first-time buyers, and plenty of resources that can help people improve their credit scores to be approved for a mortgage. It's certainly not going to happen overnight, but it's not insurmountable, by any means. Fam_Fam posted... The only fair way, imo, to have property owners not be screwed (having bought into/invested in a different system) would be for the government to buy them out and then lower the costs and take the losses themselves. drastically cutting the prices down through policy (for most renters to be able to buy themselves) screws over a ton of individuals whose assets will lose hundreds of thousands/millions of dollars, which I think is wrong/unfair. Ultimately, this isn't a problem that is going to be solved if "It's unfair for people to lose money on their investments" is going to be used as an excuse to avoid doing anything about it that might cause property values to go down. That's not to say any changes should completely disregard those investments, but in the end, investments in real estate are considered high risk for exactly this reason (that is, that the market fluctuates considerably in response to how the local situation changes), so anyone making such investments should be prepared for considerable losses (and I value people having homes over protecting the investments of people who can afford to lose them). Really though, real estate investment shouldn't even be a thing. Housing is a basic necessity for life. The fact that people treat it like a casino is all but single-handedly responsible for most of the increase in costs of living that have created such glaring wealth disparity. That's not to say that people shouldn't be able to buy and sell property as desired, and market fluctuations according to supply/demand are inevitable, but the investment market really needs some restrictions because it's a real problem for pretty much everyone that isn't among the handful of people profiting from it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Seriously, never be a landlord |
| adjl 12/08/21 11:29:34 AM #65 | Fam_Fam posted... still too much for people with little/no savings to pay for. people can't even pay their rent right now, how can they afford a down payment plus monthly mortgage? You'd need to take down prices A LOT (i.e., have it tax-funded) for most people to actually be able to afford buying. If that's the solution you are proposing...good luck with that. Which is why nobody's really proposing that solution. That's a bit too extreme. Solving the problem is going to entail making sure more affordable rentals are available and otherwise including regulations to keep the housing market from ballooning out of control (such as, like I said, limiting the number of properties a given entity can own in the region). That will drive prices down without completely crashing them, while providing suitable interim options for those that currently struggle with rent to amass some capital and eventually move into ownership. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you feel you contribute to society? |
| adjl 12/08/21 11:26:11 AM #5 | hockey7318 posted... Are you comfortable saying what part of the government you work for? I always find it interesting hearing from people in state/federal jobs because a lot of it mirrors the work I do with the university. We're like a smaller government that is only worth a couple billion dollars. I work with the First Nations and Inuit Health branch of the Canadian government, which is responsible for overseeing the allocation of FN monies to health provision in communities. I'm mostly doing administrative stuff at the moment, which is all very important to support the branch's work, but not as front-line as some of the other stuff that goes on, like environmental health sampling or running dental clinics. I'm going to be applying for a Masters of Public Health in the next year or two in hopes of being able to move into a more epidemiology-focused role, which will be be more interesting and impactful (not to mention paying better). I've also been doing some work with PHAC's (Canadian equivalent of the CDC) Covid response, which is similar back-end stuff that is important on paper, but doesn't feel as rewarding. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
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