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The asteroid will be deflected, but the impact will create a crack that reveals it to be the cocoon of a slumbering elder god who consumes the entire galaxy in a fit of rage over being so rudely awakened.

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Revelation34 posted...

How would the sun affect DNA?

When DNA is exposed to UV radiation, adjacent thymine molecules (the "T" of the "ACGT" used to refer to nucleotide bases) undergo what's called a dimerization reaction, linking them together more or less irreversibly (at least, so stably that they won't spontaneously repair) in a manner that causes the DNA strand to bend and become unreadable in that section. Cells are generally pretty good at detecting these dimers and repairing them (which entails chopping out the affected section and rewriting it), but any time DNA needs to be repaired, there's a chance that the repair ends up making a mistake and introducing a mutation into the genome.

If the damage is too extensive, the repair mechanisms may also be unable to fix it, which normally causes the cell to kill itself (apoptosis). If the mechanisms for detecting that are also broken, though, the cell will continue to replicate with its damaged genome, which can result in cancer.

Now, is there any basis for thinking that humanity's genome was once "perfect" and increased UV radiation has single-handedly spoiled that such that we can no longer live for centuries? No. There's absolutely no archaeological evidence to suggest that humans have ever lived appreciably longer than they do now (quite the contrary, in fact), nor is UV radiation the only reason humanity's genome has changed over time. The concept of "perfect genes" has always been ridiculous, given that fitness is so overwhelmingly dependent on one's environment and a the only way to actually maintain "perfection" (even with all possible sources of mutation eliminated) would be for everyone to be perfect clones of each other (since sexual recombination between differing genomes is inevitably going to result in deleterious combinations of alleles that were not present in their parents).

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Unbridled9 posted...

I still don't want to pass a verdict as to if he's guilty or innocent until after more information has arrived.

As much as it's good to avoid jumping to conclusions, I don't think there's much chance that he isn't guilty. Short of "I had a stroke and passed out at the wheel," there isn't much you can say to claim innocence after driving through a crowd of people and killing several. The question is going to boil down to the nuances of how premeditated it was, but whether he's got six counts of murder 1 or six counts of vehicular manslaughter, I think it's a given that he's going to be spending the rest of his life in prison.

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Zeus posted...

It is pretty fucking ridiculous, especially considering Floyd's criminal record. Jesus never did time for assault, he never robbed anybody, and never a weapon against a woman.

I mean, Jesus' criminal record resulted in him literally being publicly executed, so...

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Dikitain posted...

I make it with evaporated milk and eggs.

I'm not sure how I feel about macaroni custard >.>

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And here I thought the right was supposed to be all about that freedom of expression.

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rjsilverthorn posted...

Charged with five counts of first degree intentional homicide so far.

That might actually be harder to make stick. I'm surprised they went with Murder 1 when the number and severity of any other homicide charges would have functionally guaranteed the same sentence without needing to prove any sort of premeditation. Regardless, I don't see that it's particularly likely that he gets off with anything less than life, so I still don't think there's much to debate here.

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PyroBlade1985 posted...

So..can we go back to talking about Brooks? He's going to be in court today at 4 pm CT.

Presumably, guilty of aggravated assault/attempted murder for the stabbing, two counts (unless the number has changed) of dangerous driving causing death, a few more counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm, and a bonus charge of driving with an expired licence. Recommend life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years, what he'll actually end up with will depend on what else comes out about his life between now and the sentencing.

As unusual as this event was, there's really not much to debate. It's a pretty cut-and-dry case with little question of guilt and no particular need to explore the motives further.

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Nah, that was just a prank, bro.

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Veedrock- posted...

If you lump one group you gotta lump the other, it's only fair.

But then you just have two people making stupid overgeneralizations instead of one trying to correct the other's mistake.

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Zeus posted...

The problem with Amazon is you can't throw a big scene getting everybody's attention before asking to speak to their manager.

That's what speaker phones are for.

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PyroBlade1985 posted...

It wasn't the far right burning down neighborhoods or killing people in autonomous zone for months in 2020. And please don't say BS like the arsonists were undercover proud boys or something. Because even if they were, that's no excuse for the "peaceful protesters" to continue the carnage. Screw far leftists, and screw the red hats. You're all just making things worse. Good day.

And the rest of the protesters that didn't burn anything down or kill anyone (quite the contrary, they were protesting against killing people unnecessarily), yet still get lumped in with "extremists" because they had the audacity to suggest that maybe something about the current state of the world isn't okay?

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How else would he know it was me?

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He is, but he's flirting with "genuinely unhinged and potentially dangerous" territory to enough of an extent that I'm almost uncomfortable laughing at how entertaining he is.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

That art isn't attempting to debate theory. It's making fun of people who make false equivalencies to attempt justifying horrible positions. A common thing on this board.

See also: "MTG and AOC have equally crazy ideas," as though wanting a livable minimum wage and to redistribute the tax burden to those that can more comfortably afford it are just as ridiculous as believing that forest fires are cause by Jewish space lasers.

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They tried to cook it in a brick oven, but forgot the "oven" part.

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Because the cookie expired.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

cream of mushroom soup

Can also be bechamel based. If you're using a can, it probably is, because it's quite a bit cheaper to thicken milk with flour and/or cornstarch than to use actual cream.

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I should really play that one. It was among the last games I bought from the Wii Shop before it shut down.

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Raze_Razel posted...

that its Darwinism.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that your definition of "Darwinism" has nothing to do with actual biology, and instead is more along the lines of "people I don't like dying."

Raze_Razel posted...

"Thanos is right"; I think 50-75% of us need to go, and let the righteous remain.....

Thanos didn't pick and choose who to kill, though. His position was based purely on ensuring the population didn't exceed the carrying capacity of the universe, not on any sort of (self-fellating) moral judgement.

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PeterPumpknhead posted...

bechemel isnt gravy. Its more of a cream sauce, add some cheese to it for some bomb ass Mac and cheese

... People make mac and cheese without a bechamel base? Might as well open a box of KD at that point.

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Ricotta's pretty meh on its own, but it mixes very well with a lot of other stuff. It's a very subtle cheesy flavour that complements a lot of other flavours nicely, even in some desserts.

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Guys, I hate to jump to conclusions, but I'm starting to get the sense that helly doesn't like ricotta very much.

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Zeus posted...

The GBA Monster Rancher games were notorious for their batteries burning out because of the nature of the MR games where you'd reload on failures which put a strain on the battery.

MRDS (which didn't have this as an issue, but repeated saves damage the cart) got around this by punishing you for saving/reloading

That also kind of came up with PSO. If you were farming rare versions of enemies (which happened a lot), a common strategy was to repeatedly teleport back and forth between the "town" and the field, since any enemies that had spawned could reload as a rare variant. In extreme cases, though, the repeated loading of the same area resulted in people's discs being burned to the point of being unreadable.

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Calzones predate hot pockets, so hot pockets are calzones.

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Tiporeal posted...

And that's how you made a fallacy, see, because you answered it as if it was part of the first paragraph, it come across as if I didn't got the first part at all and contradicting myself, even though I was responding to someone that was simply establishing that "no one would care" by simply quote-mining that single part from your comment. However, what really come across from your comment was that "no one would care CURRENTLY" since you gave some directions as to what path to follow to reach that goal.

Not at all. You see, nobody's ever actually going to care about your collection. Even if you become sufficiently famous that people will care enough to watch a video, that's because they care about you and want to learn more in a weird celebrity worship sort of sense, not because they actually care about your collection.

Tiporeal posted...

I'm gonna be gone soon, here's the thing, I leave whenever I want, not when someone forces me to, is that clear for you?

You certainly can leave whenever you want, buy you should expect to be laughed at when you say you're leaving and then don't.

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Tiporeal posted...

The second part wasn't directed at you,

Welcome to public fora: Where people will respond to the things you say even if you aren't specifically talking to them.

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Autocorrect is silly.

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Tiporeal posted...

Thanks for the constructive criticism, congrats on being the only average human being around here, it only took 4 pages.

I mean, everyone else giving sarcastic answers mostly boiled down to "nobody's going to care so I'm going to take this opportunity to be silly."

Tiporeal posted...

Me looking at multiple 1 million views videos on YT. Ok pal, you got me there.

And how many followers did the creators of those videos have at the time they were uploaded? People watch collection videos because they already care about the person uploading them and want to learn more about their life. Nobody cares about collection videos from a complete stranger.

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rexcrk posted...

Jeeeez wtf

Id be super pissed if that happened to me. Like, having to start a game over from scratch definitely sucks but its no biggie.

Completely fucking up an entire console though? F*** that.

I remember back during the days of PSO, because the game was a bit buggy, there was an ever-present threat of encountering FSOD - the frozen screen of death. Most of the time, that was just annoying and you'd just have to restart the game and lose all your progress since the last save, but if it happened during a save, it could corrupt the entire memory card. Worse, there were various ways you could trigger an FSOD for other players during online play, so that was a constant fear, especially given how many thousands of hours it took to get anywhere in that game. Fortunately, that was just the memory card, not the entire system.

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Realistically, nobody's going to care unless you've already got their attention. If you had an existing following on Youtube, Twitch, Instagram, or a similar service, posting a video tour of your collection on the corresponding platform would pique some of your followers' interests. Start a Youtube channel or whatever just to show it off, however, and you shouldn't expect anyone to bother checking it out, especially if it ends up taking multiple videos to wade through it all. The only way you're going to get anyone caring at all is if you join a collecting community and post your collection on their forums.

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rjsilverthorn posted...

We don't, which is why it says 'possible' terrorist attack. The most recent update I've seen says they believe the suspect was fleeing another from another incident and drove into the parade route.

Well that didn't go too well for him. It's a lot easier to believe that he accidentally left his license behind in that case, though, than that he did so after planning and carrying out a terrorist attack.

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I don't see that there's any basis for suing Tim's. They've done everything they reasonably could to prevent this from happening, including firing the employee as soon as she showed a propensity for giving customers what they deserve. Going after the employee would be justifiable, specifically filing assault charges, but obviously suing a 16-year-old girl isn't going to be very lucrative.

Full Throttle posted...

is now "permantnly disfigured"

Full Throttle posted...

though refused medical treatment

Sounds like any disfigurement is on her, if she refused treatment that might have prevented it.

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Zeus posted...

I feel like that claim about it being the deadliest year can't possibly be right, given the very long history of violence and constant danger that was so much more prevalent even *twenty* years ago, without even getting to the 60s and 70s where those murders often weren't even investigated and law enforcement often actively participated in violence towards the LGBT community.

A quick bit of digging found this:
https://www.hrc.org/resources/fatal-violence-against-the-transgender-and-gender-non-conforming-community-in-2021

Looks like the HRC has only been specifically tracking trans murders since 2013, so that wouldn't capture more historical data. It's likely that data doesn't actually exist, given that even this data is likely underreported even with strong efforts to ensure as many instances of anti-trans violence are identified as possible.

That said, the data they provide indicates that the number averaged between 20 and 25 from 2015 to 2019. 2020 saw 44 such murders, 2021 has already seen 47, almost double the average of the previous 5 years. Two data points don't necessarily indicate a trend, and that may be partially explained by the uptick in domestic violence seen due to pandemic isolation over the last two years, but that's also coincided with increasingly aggressive anti-trans rhetoric leading up to the 2020 election (since restricting trans rights is apparently a major election platform), on which the right has doubled down since losing.

It may not be as bad as when police were literally forming death squads to hunt down trans people (though we'll never know the actual figures involved in that), but that doesn't mean there isn't a deeply alarming trend that a whole lot of very bad people seem far too excited about. That shouldn't be ignored, and it certainly shouldn't be accepted just because it's "not as bad as it used to be."

PeterPumpknhead posted...

I dont its a coincidence that his public criticism of an already vulnerable group is leading to a real increase in violence against trans people

It's fairly unlikely that Chapelle has had an appreciable impact on the uptick in violence. His comments are tone deaf and insensitive given how vulnerable their subject population is, and represent a broader culture of ignorance (voluntary or otherwise) of trans people's plight. but I wouldn't specifically blame him for violence. He's just part of the problem (for what he can and should be held accountable), not a root cause of it.

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aHappySacka posted...

Why are people celebrating Christmas in November?

Because if they wait until December, they end up competing with too many other organizations vying for attention on those scant few pre-Christmas weekends.

That said, Advent starts next Sunday, so we're not even that far out from Christmas.

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Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

Never underestimate the stupidity of some people. Its possible for this to happen.

Possible, sure, but I'm kind of inclined to believe this is a false flag before believing that somebody was genuinely that stupid. That said, I guess some people might leave their license in their car (especially an expired one) instead of carrying it on their person, so this could be less a matter of "he dropped his license as he fled" and more "he forgot that his license was somewhere in the car that he left behind." Realistically, there'd also be a registration and proof of insurance in there, so it's not like the license is the only possible indicator of his identity.

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Revelation34 posted...

I misread that as "close combat".

That's likely to be accurate in a considerable number of cases.

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BEERandWEED posted...

Sucks you got it and why didn't vaccine prevent it?

Because reducing the risk of infection is not the same as eliminating that risk entirely. How many times am I going to have to explain this to you?

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PeterPumpknhead posted...

neither do you

There's a considerable difference between running an organization and refusing to use the power inherent in that position to solve the problem of members of that organization molesting children, and just not taking it upon oneself to become a vigilante pedo hunter. Especially when that power is actually being used to cover up molesters instead of holding them accountable and removing them from the positions they abused.

To paraphrase spider-man, with great power comes great responsibility. Having the power to do good and choosing not to use it is a failure to live up to that responsibility.

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Zeus posted...

...because it's no different than any other day in retail? The crowding might be a little worse, but everything else is the same.

I like how you say this, yet immediately acknowledge that fatal stampedes happen. Literal fatal stampedes qualify as "the crowding might be a little worse"?

Zeus posted...

And in terms of impact, family gatherings are going to have a MUCH larger effect than Black Friday sales.

This, however, is probably true. Black Friday sales will draw more people, but they'll be in larger, better-ventilated spaces for less time where they don't spend long in close quarters with any given person (outside of those that they line up in front of/behind, which will cap at 4 people total), and many of those people will be masked (depending on the area). Family gatherings will be almost completely maskless and involve spending several hours in close contact with people.

Of course, the fact that family gatherings will be happening right before Black Friday sales means the two effects will likely end up combining to be even worse than they might otherwise be on their own. But hey, at least people have the freedom to buy a bunch of discount stuff they don't need and have a big family dinner on the arbitrary day they want. Because apparently that's what's important.

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Action53 posted...

Noah must have really trusted the two termites he brought on the ark

I mean, two termites aren't going to be able to do much on their own (especially where one would have to be a queen and therefore not be doing any damage), and 40 days isn't going to be enough time to form enough of a colony to pose a real threat. Bringing just two members of a eusocial species on board is kind of odd, though. They don't exactly form "couples."

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Ferarri619 posted...

This is from a fb page so not sure how accurate but:

https://imgur.com/cs6vxFe

https://imgur.com/ESPxPYz

Guy named Darrell Brooks is the suspect

I kind of have to question "the culprit accidentally left behind a photo ID with his name and address after fleeing the scene." That seems like a pretty implausible mistake that's also way too convenient.

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OoT's Water Temple had an issue where using your small keys in the wrong order could prevent you from getting all of the keys you need to progress through the dungeon.

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Partially yes, partially it's a matter of having mostly designed the cities after the invention of the automobile and therefore taking it into account. Efforts to improve transit or make small changes to alleviate the car-centricity of cities tend to be hamstrung by the rather wealthy oil and auto lobbies.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

Need?

Well, you know, he has just suffered a major career setback. Sure, it was entirely of his own making and he could very easily have avoided it in one of several different ways, but why should that stop certain individuals from feeling sorry for him?

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

If I said I expect them to then that would matter. I hope for things independently of that.

adjl posted...

While we're at it, we might as well hope that the next time he enters his home, he finds a magical cookie machine there that dispenses a limitless supply of delicious fresh cookies on demand.

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There may be an element of SAD involved, in which case light therapy might help.

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Entity13 posted...

Also: look at how Sunny chooses not to provide evidence or answers, but rather call everyone else incorrect. This gives me deja vu.

Is it really deja vu if you can conclusively remember that this is just exactly what's happened every other time he's disagreed with people?

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Muscles posted...

That's so stupid though, ceos aren't why people buy goods/services.

They are, however, why companies shift their focus away from producing quality games and into producing addictive "live services" with predatory monetization schemes woven throughout them to exploit whatever vulnerable people they can sink their teeth into. And *that* is what's made Activision so many buttloads of money.

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Actually, nothing you said was a response to what you quoted.

"I hope they refund his tuition."
"There's no basis for a refund because X."

That's one of only two possible broad responses to what I quoted (the other being "I agree"). What on earth are you talking about?

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I still hope they refund his tuition regardless of policy.

Why would they go against their own policies to refund money they rather like having to somebody that deliberately antagonized them to the point where police needed to be involved? While we're at it, we might as well hope that the next time he enters his home, he finds a magical cookie machine there that dispenses a limitless supply of delicious fresh cookies on demand.

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