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Even ignoring any opinions I might have on whether or not he ought to keep being president, I kind of want to see Trump lose the election purely for the temper tantrum that will ensue when he comes up against a failure he can't sweep under the rug.

Zeus posted...

The history of the Civil War, duh.

I asked two questions in that post. You answered one. The second invalidates your answer to the first, unless you can satisfactorily answer it.

https://www.motor1.com/news/375313/dad-3d-prints-lambo-aventador/

Sure, it's not quite downloading the car, but close enough for the joke.

I choose to interpret the topic title as "my cat breaking my guitar has stressed me out enough that I want to smoke some pot."

I have nothing more valuable to contribute to this topic.

Muscles posted...

Its s***ty to not support family, I disagree with most of my family politically, but if any of them ran I would fully support them for the fact that family is more important than politics

Not really. If they're actively trying to make the world worse in my eyes, why would I support them? If we have conflicting views about how to improve the world, it would be foolish of me to support them in their efforts to take an approach I disagree with. That doesn't mean I can't enjoy a family dinner with them, but I'm certainly not going to change which political views I express publicly in order to avoid stepping on their toes, and I would expect the same from them.

Muscles posted...

I'm saying you can disagree about some stuff because 90% of political opinions aren't either good or bad

There's often no clear right or wrong, but even when the right choice isn't clear, political opinions do have consequences. Most differences in political opinion are the result of differences in how severe one feels those consequences are relative to the potential benefit, not an arbitrary subjective preference like which Star Wars movie is best. Dismissing that as "just a difference of opinions" that people should be able to put aside for the sake of maintaining the image of a happy family is myopic at best.

Revelation34 posted...

I think that's a common viewpoint.

It's becoming more common, but there's still a lot of categorical objection to incest even when it's consenting adults doing it and not reproducing.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

It's certainly a more commonly expressed kink now. Note that harm to unwilling participants and inbred babies have no demand.

That too. Implicit in that statement was the condition of "all other things being equal," and all other things certainly are not equal when people are harmed.

You think that rape and incest porn are as in-demand and available as lesbian?

The_tall_midget posted...

You'll see those idiotic feminist biases everywhere.

It's not really a feminist bias so much as it is "dude lesbians are hot." The relative availability and demand for a given variety of porn does a lot to influence how socially acceptable things are.

Clench281 posted...

The wording of "make your own yeast" is quite unfortunate

And that's why most people just call it a sourdough starter.

SunWuKung420 posted...

That's how lambics are made.

And most fermented beverages throughout history. Commercial yeast has really only been around for the last couple centuries. Prior to that, everything was made by spontaneous fermentation. One of the better-known beer purity laws (Reinheitsgebot) was passed in Bavaria in 1516 and stated that beer was only allowed to be made from water, barley, and hops, since they didn't know that yeast existed (the law has since been revised to include yeast).

I also grabbed a jar when it all started, though so far I've had no problem getting bread. I used it the other night to make some naan, so that was fun.

Lokarin posted...

In the sense that all the yeast is being kept in a store's storage and not being available for sale.

It's possible they're just sequestoring the yeast so the store can continue to make bread, but IDK

That's odd. I would expect the store to be getting their yeast wholesale instead of using their sale inventory, but I guess if there's enough of a shortage that wholesalers would focus on retail products instead, stores might have to rely on that.

Alpha218 posted...

Idiot protestors will be part of the reason stay at home is extended even longer

Eeyup. If they actually want this to end quickly, the best thing they can do is stay home and encourage everyone they know to do the same. Maybe also drive around and murder everyone they see walking around as well for good measure, but that might be a bit extreme.

Restricted in the sense that you're limited to one package per customer, or restricted in the sense that nobody's allowed to buy yeast? In the former case, it's because yeast is an item people have been buying en masse, presumably under the pretense of being able to have bread even if grocery stores don't have any available (flour's been pretty depleted for the same reason). In the latter, I haven't heard of that happening anywhere in Canada except the occasional First Nations community that has such a severe problem with alcoholism that they've enacted prohibition and need to limit access to yeast to prevent home brewing, and I haven't heard of it happening due to lockdown, but that could explain it.

It might not be a bad idea to wear one going for groceries, but it's not like they're readily available at this point, and any I could get my hands on would be better donated to hospitals because they're horribly under-supplied. I'd also have to take my beard off to get any actual use out of one.

Not really. There are certain shows that will sometimes end up dominating conversations, but there's such a variety of content out there across all media that it usually isn't monopolized by any one thing that I'm missing out on.

OniRonin posted...

dammm, nintendo really structured those games to review well by making them fun. usually i like unfun games that take forever to get into, frequently dip in quality, and have glaring flaws. this is why im such a huge fan of mortal combat 11

Eh, you can have good games that take a while to get rolling and are enjoyable enough to overlook dips in quality and obvious flaws. Pretty much any game with significant character growth is going to have a slow start due to not having access to any of the customization that gives the game its depth, which can make them harder to review. There's something to be said for not showing your entire hand immediately.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Yeah, SMO is one of the highest rated games EVER, along with it's Galaxy brothers. It should be beating basically everything.

I mean, to be fair, all three of those are games that are structured to review extremely well. It takes very little time to get into them, they're consistently high-quality all the way through, no glaring flaws that a reviewer in the course of conducting their review... Compared to the experience most reviewers get of other games, they're easy 10's, even if other games might be more enjoyable in the experience of a regular player. That said, the user scores for all three are very close to the critical average, so really, they're just very likable games that nobody wants to rate poorly.

They're basically the Princess Bride of video games: Not necessarily the best ever, but thoroughly lovable and very hard to genuinely dislike.

Osu is by far my favourite, but that's a hard one to top because of the sheer volume of content and the fact that it's free (though I did buy a drawing tablet for it). I haven't played in ages, though. I've tried picking it up again a couple times, but it's hard to get back into it when I'm so much worse now than I was at my prime.

If a job asks you for a cover letter and you don't provide one, your resume will be thrown out. Period. Your cover letter should mostly consist of highlighting relevant parts of your resume and explaining how they make you well-suited for the job. Your accomplishments don't really feature into that; they belong more on your resume. If you don't have a lot of relevant experience (which can include school or volunteer activities as well as actual employment, if you need to flesh it out a bit), focus on your skills, how you've demonstrated them, and how they'll be applicable to the job you're seeking. Your cover letter is an opportunity to explain why you think you'll be a good fit for the job. You can highlight just about anything you want, provided you can tailor it to that end.

IMRavnos posted...

Your cover letter is often the MOST important part of getting your resume read.

More often than not, the resume gets read before the cover letter, despite what the name "cover letter" would suggest. Employers will often only bother reading the cover letter if the resume has enough interesting content that they expect that further elaboration will be worth their while, since it's pretty easy to skim a resume in a matter of seconds, whereas reading a cover letter takes quite a bit longer.

Monopoman posted...

It's already happened at least once back in 2015 the Orioles played a MLB regular season game with no fans the only people in the arena were media members and players+coaches.

The city was experiencing some riots due to some incident happening and they could not get the normal security for the MLB game so they just played it with 0 fans.

Yeah, as absurd as it seems, the ability to televise sportsball means you can still have very public games in empty arenas. That's going to be a very different experience for the players, which may result in a subpar viewing experience for the people watching at home, but you still don't actually need a live audience.

SunWuKung420 posted...

No concerts.

Basically, no fun, it might kill you.

More accurately, nothing that involves cramming large numbers of people into confined spaces while the world's facing an airborne pandemic. It's less about killing you and more about transmitting something potentially lethal to thousands of others. There are ample ways to have fun that don't involve high population density.

SunWuKung420 posted...

You can test positive for a number of things while being asymptomatic.

Sure, but you can't be symptomatic while being asymptomatic. The first post literally lists the symptoms they had.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

I mean, knowing someone could solve such difficult problems with such incredible ease, and yet they choose not because they don't have to is understandably a bit frustrating for the people with the problems. I don't really have problems with normal rich people but the people that actually have enough money to make a serious positive difference, and just don't, frustrate me. I guess because the science is so close in so many areas it's upsetting they don't chip in and give it that final push.

Pretty much. Notre Dame burning really highlighted this: dozens of billionaires came out of the woodworks to throw enormous quantities of money at restoring it, money which they were easily able to spend on a whim. That kind of money could have done so much more good than restoring some old church (a magnificent piece of architecture, the loss of which was tragic, but nonetheless just an old church), at a similarly trivial personal cost, yet still the money accumulates in bank accounts instead of doing that good. It's only natural that people are going to resent people that could help but choose not to for basically no reason.

Muscles posted...

socialism is bad because its a step towards communism,

Hey look, brainwashing.

Muscles posted...

now thats not to say that all social programs are bad, but in the best society you don't need them anyways

"The best society" being one in which people just share everything voluntarily anyway? Because that's about the only way you could get rid of social programs, and that's not something you're ever going to get as long as "people" refers to anyone with any degree of self-interest.

Muscles posted...

A true, nonbastardized capitalist society is the best way to run a country, sadly we let corporations control laws over said corporations thanks to lobbyists

If left ungoverned, money concentrates, and power goes along with it. You've got to have money to make money, and the converse of that is that having money means it's a whole lot easier to make more money. If you thought corporate lobbying was bad now, with at least a small handful of laws in place to keep the corporate elite from completely screwing everyone over, you really don't want to see what would happen without those regulations. Goodbye democracy, hello corporate oligarchy.

Revelation34 posted...

No it can't.

People will absolutely fake being sick to avoid having to explicitly blow off a date they don't want to go on. That TC specified that he was fine to go means she absurdly overreacted, but that doesn't mean claiming sickness can't be seen as playing games.

Plenty of stuff.

wwinterj25 posted...

False advertising.

The thing is, false advertising is a crime because it creates the potential to manipulate customers into a purchase they would not have made if the product were not misrepresented, effectively swindling them. If an item's price is mislabeled, that's only going to happen if the difference is relatively minor, in which case the harm is also pretty minor and it's a lot harder to say they wouldn't have bought it if it were properly labeled. In a case like this, the guy lost nothing except the time and emotion he chose to invest into the matter, so you can't really say there's the potential for such harm.

I pretty much never watch any kind of sportsball, regardless of how big the episode is.

I hope his cell has a doorbell.

OoT, followed shortly by LA and then MM when it came out.

Zeus posted...

4 years at that age feels a lot more than 4 years at a later age, considering the percentage of life.

It also means they're at different stages of life, in many cases. The aforementioned 21 and 17 one is kind of weird to me, because 18-22 (typical university age) is an age range where people often mature quite dramatically due to being out on their own and making concrete decisions about their careers and futures. Being in a relationship with somebody who's still in high school therefor just seems odd to me. Of course, individuals vary and there's no shortage of couples in those ages ranges for whom the maturity difference isn't present, so that's hardly an absolute thing.

Sarcasthma posted...

For some reason my stupid brain was like, "Terry Crews is dead?!"

That's still a bummer, though.

Same.

iHateMutanTs posted...

That makes me want to cancel my pre-order so I can later order it on Steam. I ordered on GOG entirely to support CD Projekt Red as much as possible, but it's literally the only game I own on GOG which is kind of annoying(just about every other game is on Steam unless I don't have a choice).

It probably won't be an issue if you've only got a tiny handful of non-Steam games, but if you ever do start to find that keeping track of multiple libraries gets to be a hassle, the newest iteration of GOG's client (GOG Galaxy 2.0) has the ability to consolidate libraries from multiple clients into a single list. It's not perfect yet (namely, it lacks Steam's ability to organize games into categories), but it might be worth looking into.

EvilMegas posted...

So half of them play them same.

I mean, your initial point was suggesting that a different character would have been more sensible because they wouldn't play like the existing FE characters, so dialing that back to "only half of the existing FE characters play like each other and Byleth isn't going to be one of them" kind of eviscerates your position.

GanonsSpirit posted...

I don't get why so many people are hung up on who the DLC characters are, rather than how they play. The vast majority of Smash players probably don't main their favorite character.

Eeyup. Most of the people clamoring for any given character probably won't actually end up playing them enough to justify the purchase cost even if they do get in. A token Classic run and a few Vs. matches to try them out, sure, but unless the playstyle clicks or the character's stupidly overpowered, they're going to go back to whoever they already liked. The novelty of getting to play as a given character just doesn't last that long.

EvilMegas posted...

They really do though with the exceptions of corrin and ike

That's... exactly what I said. Actual clones (that is, Marth/Lucina/Roy and Ike/Chrom) play the same (there's some room for debate around Roy in his SSBU incarnation, but we'll put that aside), the rest are unique.

EvilMegas posted...

I honestly forget he existed.

That sounds like a you problem.

EvilMegas posted...

Yeah, they'd play just like the 6 other FE lords. Wait no they wouldn't.

I mean, most of the other FE lords don't play like each other, with the exception of the actual clones (of which Byleth is obviously not one), so...

JebronLames posted...

do you feel the same way about those famous artificial sweeteners?

Aspartame is gross (regardless of health controversies), sucralose is well-known to have issues (mostly tricking the body into feeling hypoglycemic so you crave actual sugar), no strong feelings on stevia. I'm mostly just fine with using actual sugar for stuff and eating a reasonable amount of it. Artificial sweeteners really aren't my thing.

zebatov posted...

The salt comes from the naturally occurring acid, so please explain how that means the salt isnt also naturally occurring.

Literally everything comes from something naturally occurring. That doesn't mean literally everything is naturally occurring.

LinkPizza posted...

If it's called a "High sodium diet", that sounds like you're eating a lot of it. Not like a normal amount. Too much of many healthy things could be bad for you. Technically, you can drink too much water. as well...

It's considerably easier to have too much sodium in your diet than too much water, though. You basically have to try to give yourself water poisoning, whereas you probably are eating too much sodium unless you make a point of avoiding processed foods. You're not wrong to point out that toxicity is always dose-dependent, but if you're going to make a comparison like that, you need to consider the doses people are likely to receive. Comparing the toxicity of likely doses to the toxicity of unlikely doses is comparing apples to oranges.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Recommended sodium intake is highly dependent on water intake.

Recommended sodium intake is based on recommended water intake. You can limit sodium's absorption by drinking enough water to keep everything nice and isotonic, but then you risk diluting every other water-soluble nutrient you've got in there and missing out on absorbing them. It's far better to just eat a reasonable amount of everything than to play a ridiculous game of catch-up after eating way too much of one nutrient.

CarefreeDude posted...

I had sex with a cousin accidentally. I hooked up with a girl and over a year later I found I had family locally and it turns out it was my aunts daughter.

I know a married couple that only realized they were first cousins when they started inviting relatives to their wedding and realized they were inviting the same people. The marriage was allowed because she's infertile, though.

Amuseum posted...

the major issue with metric is base ten. Which is terrible for common fractional math, as above.

Not really. There's no reason you can't talk about a quarter of a litre, if that's what you need. The mere existence of smaller unit subdivisions doesn't mean you have to use them in place of a convenient fraction.

OhhhJa posted...

Also I believe in fighting a trade war against a country that run sweatshops personally because morals matter to some people

That's not wrong, but Trump's tariffs didn't target immoral labour practices. There's absolutely no reason he couldn't have singled out specific businesses or products that are known to rely on sweatshops, or instituted a certification process that identifies businesses that meet certain labour standards and banned any products without that certification. Instead, he just picked out an assortment of products that he wanted to impose tariffs on with no regard for what impact that would actually have on labour practices.

Trump's trade war has never been anything more than a dick-waving contest, and trying to make yourself feel better about that by saying that China has it coming because there are sweatshops in the country isn't fooling anyone but you.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

That's untrue, though. Anyone working out of a base 10 system (i.e., basically everyone) is almost naturally going to be more comfortable with a 0-100 range, which absolutely applies to weather temperature and automobile speed ranges. It's just easier to conceptualize.

It's true that 0-100 is more intuitive, but being more intuitive means nothing when it's something you deal with on a daily basis. People spend their entire lives knowing what numbers mean hot and what numbers mean cold. They don't have to rely on the temperature scale being intuitive.

LinkPizza posted...

Doesnt bringing in decimals mean that Fahrenheit is even more precise in that case.

For any given number of decimal places, yes, but the existence of decimals means any unit can be used to express any level of precision you want (provided your measurement device is that precise, of course).

LinkPizza posted...

While not everybody is that sensitive. I know quite a few people that are. And keep their house at a very specific temperature. And cant do anything if its off even a little. Celsius would probably drive them crazy if they couldnt get it in that exact temp...

I'd be willing to wager that most of them would be fine if somebody recalibrated their thermostat to be off by 1F and didn't tell them (i.e. they set it to 70 but it's secretly actually 71). Most of that isn't people genuinely being that sensitive, it's just being overdramatic. Even when it is, though, most metric thermostats increment in half degrees C, which are virtually identical to whole degrees F (9/5 is less than 0.5, but not by an appreciable amount for something as approximate as ambient temperature).

LinkPizza posted...

Or in the case of cooking, I usually have measuring cups that have both measurements on it, IIRC. But Id rather not have to take my phone out constantly to do the conversion.

In a world where metric was standard, your recipes would be given in metric and you wouldn't have to do conversions. That's not really a major concern long-term.

wolfy42 posted...

The problem is, the parm ALSO melts and sticks to the bowl. This might not normally be a big deal, but, by the time you have finished eating the parm has cooled and now is stuck to the bowl like glue. A normal sponge won't get it off, you can't wipe it off with a paper towl etc. You have to use brillo or a rough sponge to get it off.

I've put parmesan (which then melted) on countless pasta dishes and never once had it stick to the bowl so badly that I couldn't easily take it off by wiping with a simple dish cloth. I've cooked spaghetti carbonara in a stainless steel pan and not had any issues removing the parmesan that I melted in the pan on the stovetop (the egg was another matter, and why I prefer to use my cast iron pan for it). I don't know what you're doing with your parmesan that's making it stick so badly you can't remove it without destroying your scrubbing tool, but it's definitely not a problem I've ever heard of anyone having.

CTLM posted...

Fingerprint and pin/passcode

This.

EvilMegas posted...

Well, might as well fire all the smelly people too.

I mean, that kind of does happen. People are often talked to about BO problems that are interfering with their ability to do their job (with disciplinary action happening if nothing changes, unless it's an unavoidable medical problem), and if you show up to an interview smelling like you haven't showered in a month, odds are you won't be getting the job. It's not an explicit "do this or you're fired" requirement, but hygiene is widely considered to be an important element of professionalism. Extending that to smoking is a pretty easy step of logic.

EvilMegas posted...

How close are you to these people that the smell is so strong it bothers you?

The smell of cigarettes doesn't have to be particularly strong to bother me. It's a very unpleasant smell at any concentration, and the smell wafting off of smokers' clothes is often easily enough to reach that threshold. The smell is also usually on their breath (for obvious reasons), which is very relevant and noticeable when they're talking to me.

If you're burning the cheese onto the bowl so badly that you can't remove it without ruining the tool you use, you're cooking the cheese way too long. Sprinkle it on after everything else has been warmed up and give the whole thing an extra 20-30 seconds in the microwave to melt the cheese.

Sounds fair, provided there's some leniency for people that are genuinely trying to quit. In particular, existing employees should be given a grace period in which to show that they're making that effort, since quitting cold turkey isn't easy. Smoking is an addiction, and those trying to get over it do deserve some sympathy for the challenge they're facing. The ones that aren't trying, though? Sucks to be them.

EvilMegas posted...

I don't smoke, but how is it gonna create a healthier work environment? Are they smoking in the store?

https://www.healthline.com/health/thirdhand-smoke

More significantly, it helps the store smell better. Smokers are smelly and make everything around them smelly. I don't think it's ever full-on deterred me from visiting a business again, but I've definitely had times when I've been looking to buy something and wished I had a non-smoking employee helping me do so because of how unpleasant it was to interact with the smoker.