What hill will you die on?
What hill will you die on?
Fancy cupcakes are 70% icing, really not that nice and a waste of money
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Had my boss bring over twinkies from the states because I was curious. Holy moly that stuff is sweet, it's like distilled sugar or something.
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Most people in the States don't like Twinkies either, I've got no clue who is buying them.
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It's not just the baked products either!
I just bought some lemon pepper seasoning.
Now you'd t think that the top ingredient would be either lemon, pepper, or salt right?
Well uh, no. It's sugar for some reason.
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Its not just baked goods, we put sugar/corn syrup in everything! sausages don't need to be sweetened! Vegetables don't need to be sweetened!
And then we add excessive amounts of salt to counterbalance the sweetness.
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As an American, yes they do and it sucks. Especially since I'm trying to lower my sugar consumption due to my family history of type 2 diabetes
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I posted a comment on Reddit telling about how the word racism really means a person who is a subscriber to the pseudoscience that is race.
Tons of people downvoted me then reddit admins removed the content for harassment, of all things. (None of it made sense to me)
I'm sad that people still think that people are different races, and to not be racist you just have to not put one over or under another, when the crux of the problem is fundamentally that people don't get that race was made up because long ago dumb people thought that people that looked different were a literal different species but couldn't prove it so made up the word race as a subcategory in the taxonomic system, but finally scientists realized it's complete bullshit since it's impossible to define, total bullshit, wildly inconsistent, and massively harmful... and I'm sad that people there literally couldn't comprehend that, and got so mad or offended that they censured the information and thought I was arguing against the existence of systemic racism or something that only a dumb piece of shit would misinterpret.
I linked the Wikipedia page for racism which explains all of it, including history and stuff.
I was triggered for like a week trying to figure out what I said wrong, and honestly still kinda bothered.
But, that is what race is: a bigoted idea that different people are different races and shouldn't/can't interbreed. And that's the stupidest bullshit that MOST people don't understand, and I'll die on this hill, explaining that we gotta stop all being racists. Yeah, fix the problems like systemic racism, but stop thinking of people with darker or lighter skin as different - they're just warm weather humans or cold weather humans, the same way buff or skinny humans are. Fuck. We're all literally just humans, an amazing species, capable of adaptation and survival.
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I think you're right, but imo the disagreement i feels like really stem from the way you put it, as you talk about race in a biological science while they think you're talking about ethnicity(social science?), and then there's this odd fixation with no compromise which kinda what caused the friction, even though i think both party might agree with each other.
Also reddit and online forum is mostly made up of weird people so idk.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)
Read the introduction. It's complicated but mostly race is arbitrary. But that's the whole discussion I want to bring to people for awareness of concept and language.
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We are all different, I don't know how you can deny that. And some differences can depend on where your ancestors are from.
If it's not "race" then is there another way of describing it?
In animals we call it breeds. Sounds weird.
I think as an advanced species we should be capable of ascending beyond the descriminating behaviour based on origin. I know it's possible as I can. Seeing other people first reactions to meeting people get described with race undertones is alien to me and feels disrespectful.
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Well the problem with trying to subdivide humans is that
A) it's actually really really hard to do, so hard in fact that it's impossible and is a pseudoscience B) it basically always results in comparison. Which gets bad REALLY quickly because suddenly there is a better or worse, an inferior and superior.
I'm not saying we aren't different, I'm not saying that.
But, as far as species, we ARE all the same. You, your sister, your neighbor, your great great great grandfather. We all have our differences and generic differences, but they're infinitesimally small, we are just VERY good at telling the differences because we're so used to staring at the same face over and over.
There's just so much crossover and mixing and volatility. People can change from one to the other or halfway and stuff, there's no clarity. Like, me, for example: I'm a mix that people look at me and get very wrong 95% of the time. And then if I have kids with somebody that doesn't have the exact same mixed heritage with me, it's like... Wtf do you even call me?
And then if you learn some anthropology and learn that long thin limbs and people are from hot climates close to the equator, and short ratioed people are from further (surface area to mass ratio, keeping warmth) away from the equator where it's cold.
Like.... You can be vague and descriptive a little about it, but when you realize that reality is just that we're all the same species, with no limits to interbreeding, it makes so much more sense.
Let's say you take a pale-ass white guy and strand them near the equator for ten years outdoors. Does that guy suddenly become a different breed or race or whatever you want to call it? No.. it's the same person, the same species, even if he looks different - he just adapted and his body is like "holy fuck it's hot and I'm trying my best to not get skin cancer and the right amount of vitamins from the sun".
And same thing for brown skinned people (let's just say Mexican natives). You take a young couple with darker brown skin, and move them to norway or somewhere cold with VERY little sun (latitude). They are going to lose melatonin in their skin and become paler. Let's say they have kids and you inbreed them for a few generations. They will get progressively more pale, and start to look more adapted to the region, likely even take on regional issues.
And the reason why is because we're all the same type of monkey. (Not actually monkey because that's a different offshoot, but primate; we're great apes!).
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You've never had infants around other infants.
We all have the same child. They all act the same behavior is the same.. Patterns are the same Etc..
Humans don't really start to develop in different directions and speed until they are like 18 months old.
Our coloring and physical features might not be the same.. but the basic operating system and internals are all the same across humanity.
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Breeds are defined by organizations that determine breed based on lineage, followed by conformation. They do not align across different countries. Dogs have the AKC, CKC in America. They don't follow the same definitions. It also causes lots of issues to classify things like this and leads to bad decision making by lots of people. Even as it is now, there's no clear definition for things like Pit Bulls. There's also a ton of health issues that arise from defining breeds and trying to follow this logic.
Humans are not controlled and bred based on these things so a Breed Standard would not be possible. There is simply a continuous line of people.
Perform a cluster analysis on dogs - they will kind of fall into clusters because we bred selectively for them. But humans, which have not been selectively bred even in smaller geographic regions, would not provide decent clustering results based on race categories.
Without good clustering, whatever groups you make have more inaccuracies than accuracies in your grouped statements. (Border collies are high energy, greyhounds are lazy > 65% true at best) this is because of the insane complexity of DNA and the lack of selective breeding artificially limiting the DNA diversity. Plus other stuff.
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Man.. I got banned from a kink community sub because I edited my comment with a automagical editor..
It replaced my text with gobbledygook and then was going to delete it..
The mod came across the text said something to the extent of "this makes no sense" and banned me under their "because we can" rule.
I sent the mod a message with links and an explanation.. he came back with your original post is gone. So you are too.
My reddit account is 14 years old..
It bothered me for a while too.. and still dones I guess since I'm here talking about it.. but honestly mods are gonna mod.. they are small people with a smidge of "power" you could have said hope "you folks have a great day!!" And gotten banned.
It happens. Sucks tho
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Yeah I'm stopping using Reddit because of how fascist things are now around the world, in hopes of keeping access to my similarly old account because there may be a lot of porn on there, but there's also a ton of good resources and important things.
Maybe if things turn around in a few years, I'll consider resume using reddit. But the more-intelligent-than-a-rock part of me knows otherwise.
Too many people getting banned for fascist and sketchy reasons. So instead of participate there, it's now just an archive to me.
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You are absolutely correct: “race” is a social construct that is created along artificial lines (pigment, facial features, etc).
The truth is that we share ~99.9% of our DNA with every other person, a gene pool so small that there is more diversity between troops of Chimpanzees.
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I've been thinking like that for a long time but recently I've been thinking about it in terms of internalized opposition. One of the most pernicious elements of the fight against stupid and bad ideologies is when their framings gain dominance even in the minds of their opponents.
At some point, someone said 'black people are blah, white people are bleh,' and the person next to them probably said 'What do you mean black people?' because the concept was new but the ideology of race turned into such a common one that people who were oppressed by it were forced to consider what the powerful thought about it, like an atheist prisoner being forced to think about how to convince a Christian jailer to be less awful to them. They internalized it. And now even people who are 'anti-racist' often treat 'blackness' and 'whiteness' as if they were real, and not just conceptually different in the same way you can live in a different country without moving because the lines on a map change. Even as they battle the concept, they try to do it from within the system, prisoners demanding to be free without acknowledging the world outside the prison walls.
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redditors
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Can't see what your original comment was, so missing a lot of context here.
I agree with what you said, but race as a biological thing is not how most people think of it. Most people interpret race in the context of skin color and ethnic groups, i.e. in a sociological context, and within that context it makes absolutely no sense to claim that race does not exist. It would be nice if it didn't exist, but that's not where we are right now as a society.
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If you're smart enough to know all that, you're smart enough to know that being suspicious of differences is how our species survived, and we're not going to evolve out of it anytime soon.
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God damn tomato slices in everything from hamburgers to toasted sandwiches as if everyone is supposed to like raw tomato by default is pure discrimination against the non tomato eating populace.
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Tomatoes are notorious for being impossible to remove from a burger. 6 children died last year trying to remove them. So many vegetable-adverse people put through incredible pain having to ask for it to be held. When will this injustice end?
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Imagine a world where all hamburgers are custom and properly made.
I want a burger now.
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Harvey’s baby!
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This, but about onions.
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Yeah. Tomato goes on pizza. Why the fuck are we not putting pineapple, something that doesn't belong on a pizza, on hamburgers instead?
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We do in Australia. You can get a hamburger with the lot that often includes an egg, bacon, beetroot and a pineapple ring.
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Depending on how the next four years go, probably Capitol.
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Nice
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Fondant isn’t icing and is cheating when making a cake. It also tastes gross.
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Fondant can be good, but it takes a hell of a baker to do so. A friend of mine's mom made my wedding cake and the fondant she made was fucking bomb as hell. I was really skeptical of the fondant until she made the test cake, and I'm disappointed every time I have anything with fondant because I know it will never live up.
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Ask her for the receipe and post it here, please.
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Respect pornstars.
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I pay ‘em my respect every other night, like a gentlemen.
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Those are rookie numbers! 😅
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Unless the post itself is a commentary, posters should put their own opinions in the comments, not the title or description.
That way they can be up/downvoted and discussed separately.
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Yep I should have thought
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No worries, it's just a hill I'll die on :)
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why not both? Put it into the post and the comments?
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Ironing clothes is stupid and useless and shouldn't be a thing. I haven't ironed any of my clothes for decades now and they never look any different than the clothes that were ironed. It's a scam! And humanity won't be able to progress if we keep doing it!!
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Ironing clothes became a thing when all clothes were made from 100% natural materials.
Today, unless you specifically go out of your way to make sure, chances are that none of your clothes are made from 100% natural materials.
One of the advantages of plastic fibers is that they don't wrinkle as much. -
I have a handheld clothes steamer! Changed ironing for me forever I fucking love it
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True for jeans and hoodies, not true if you need to wear nice pants, button down shirts and blazers to work.
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There's a hill I'll die on: screw that 19th century-ass business dress crap.
Nobody gives a crap outside of a bunch of boomers who are still arguing about how offended they'll be if you don't put on a monkey suit to sooth their egos, so like, we should just stop that crap.
Also: ties. Who the hell came up with the brilliant idea of wearing a noose?
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It really depends on the garment. I've rarely ever ironed my clothes, only random occasions where the item I want to wear got wrinkled and I didn't have the time to fix it any other way. I've also never had a job that required anything fancier than business casual, so that could be part of it.
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I've only ever ironed work clothes. I had an ex that used to iron my jeans. I thought it was insane but they enjoyed it.
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Nuclear energy is currently the best way to achieve energetic independence until we find out how to maintain a fusion core running for more than 20 minute.
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Solar started to beat out nuclear in terms of LCOE a few years ago. We should continue to operate all of our current nuclear reactors as long as it is safe to do so, but planning new builds today given how cheap solar is just doesnt make sense.
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We don't have the storage to use solar for base load energy yet.
Factories and mills and chip fabs and industrial refrigeration needs to run all the time, and needs reliable constant power.
Solar is -awesome- for distributed generation where loads peak based on insolation (classic example being a/c units). Residential power demand is also just generally higher during the day.
Nuclear for constant demand, solar for circadian and insolation-based needs is a pretty good mix to start, certainly a hell of a lot better than what we have now.
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Fission is the one we already do where unstable atoms come apart. Fusion is the one still in experimental stages.
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Energetic independence
Speaking as an American? Energetic Independence From who? The United States and Canada have big fossil fuel reserves. The US is even the biggest exporter of them. And I guess the rest of the West can count on Australian and Canadian fossil fuel exports. If anyone needs fossil fuel independence its China. And the west would profit from a slower transition to nuclear power there, as this allows to apply more external pressure by increasing oil prices.
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Probably a literal one, I like hillwalking and am clumsy
Metaphorically, it's guitar tonewoods. If you've got a solidbody electric guitar you can make the body out of a goddamn breezeblock and it'll sound absolutely fine. Whatever difference the body/neck material makes is negligible compared to strings, scale length, pickups, resistors, and amps. Acoustic guitars are another matter, but for solidbody electrics it is 99% delusion and marketing
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Worth saying that different woods can look really nice and that is probably worth something if youre not going with a paintjob.
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Oh for sure. I'm not against someone going for flame maple because it just looks great. That's still honest about what it is and why
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The Petty One: Optical Media is Bad. It has always been and always will be. We used it for as long as we did because there was no better choice. But when it came to music I went straight from tape to mp3 because I never trusted CD's, and I will continue not to trust CD's.
The Serious One That Might Ruffle Feathers: The entire school curriculum of every country should be wiped out -- And replaced with fifteen years of nothing but reading comprehension. We live in an era where information is extremely cheap but knowledge is priceless. And to go from information to knowledge, one needs to have a well developed reading ability and bullshit filter. There's no point memorising a bunch of nonsense when it is easier and faster to use technology -- We stopped doing recitations when we invented writing, you know? -- What IS important is understanding what you are seeing and recognising lies for what they are.
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Reading comprehension is incredibly important. Bullshit filter also sorely needed. I get very frustrated when I see people falling for obvious false information. I've been shown AI videos that are clearly fake but they believe it.
I think my favorite are conspiracy theories who won't believe something backed with like, facts, but will believe this 30 seconds tik Tok from someone they don't know quoting someone they also don't know.
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I don't think I can put into words how much worse my life would be if we followed your second suggestion. There are a great many things I never really wanted to learn about, but I'm incredibly glad I was still taught them - starting from basic stuff (like maths etc) over arts (especially poetry and literary analysis) to sciences (especially physics and chemistry).
I would understand far less about the world, I could never engage as deeply with media as I love to, and I couldn't have built so many things that require holistic insight into our world.
I'd be a far less developed version of myself, because I wouldn't be able to follow my interests the same way.
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I must wonder why not. Like, clearly those things are enriching to you, aren't they? Why wouldn't you have learned them on your own terms? Assuming nothing was stopping you? You seem not to be an incurious person? Again, information has never been cheaper, you just have to look for it.
Like I'm not trying to make fun of your explanation or even say you're wrong. Just... Genuinely wondering how come
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I would like to congratulate you on choosing the most assholish way you could have possibly phrased that :>
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Go on... so what's the right one? I can't understand why anyone would go to attack others without offering a superior alternative. Like, you may as well just not say anything, then. If you don't have a better idea, then theirs isn't worse because you didn't even provide a rebuttal.
I'm not even on the side of the person you responded to, but why would you not want to state what would work better? That's just trolling.
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That's correct. In school the most important thing you can possibly learn is to learn. Information is abundant and easily accessible, the school, university or even research labs are no longer gatekeepers of information. But knowing HOW to find resources, HOW to filter it, HOW to use it, HOW to sit your ass down and work with information in a meaningful way is a specialized and rare skill.
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Fahrenheit is a perfectly cromulent unit of measure when the use case is for referencing human comfort.
The rage it incites in others on the internet is just a side benefit. It's hilariously awe-inspiring just how wound up some people get over a personal preference for a unit of measure. Mr. Fahrenheit should be proud of what he accomplished.
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The issue is not in the accuracy, ease, and convenience of describing and being compatible with the human experience. It has never been that.
The issue is Fahrenheit's/imperial units' compatibility and division factor of 10's compatibility with other units, and all of those scales and units being consistent and predictable.
It's literally just two philosophies of going about seeing the world.
To disclose my bias, I was brought up with imperial units. The problem in most discussions of these two ideas facing off is that nobody discusses the real topic: The pros and cons of unification vs. the rote arbitrariness of the human existence and whether or not we want to stand behind yet again another self-centered description of the universe.
Measuring horses with hands is fucking weird, but because we experience horses from our own perspective, which is limited to our physical body, measuring in hands is a really easy way to understand that unit of measurement, as opposed to decimals of meters.
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However, I must point out, Celsius is not metric. It's been adopted as the step-child of SI, but it's not metric. You can't meaningfully multiply and divide degrees Celsius; 100°C is not ten times hotter than 10°C Celsius. Sure. you can use the metric prefixes, just like i could measure things in kiloinches, that doesn't make it metric. It's just as arbitrary as Fahrenheit, and people have to make arguments regarding water and life to try to pretend otherwise. True, it's officially defined in terms of Kelvin, but then, so is Fahrenheit.
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I was watching a video just before where an american measured two impact craters on a piece of steel, read off some gibberish fractional inches for each one then commented "my math isnt great, but i think that one is about double". My dude, your calipers read off approximately 5mm and 10mm, your life would be so much easier if you toggled it to metric units.
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The best is the one you're used to.
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Han Solo shot first.
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Isn’t this the original canon? Wasn’t there an edit in the 90s or early 00s that changed it? I feel like I remember downloading the original cut project that went around a while ago and in it Han shoots first. I think it was called the “Despecialized Edition”.
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Yes, in the original hon shot first later on in the 90s it was edited so Guido shot first then in the early2000s when it was released on DVD it was edited so they both shot almost at the same time and I believe it was edited again-to where it looked like Han shot slightly after and he also somehow managed to dodge The shot with his head. You can look it up on YouTube all of the edits and it’s hilarious. I love George Lucas, but sometimes I don’t know…
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Controversial
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Wrong. Greedo never shot. Han murdered him in cold blood.
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The world actually did end in 2012.
This is hell.
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"This is the best timeline" joke? Anyone?
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Things where better when the internet was one spot in your house. Not in your pocket at all times
Post made using Boost for mobile phone
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I've been very seriously considering a dumb phone.
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I recently got a small basked a little larger than my phone. I put my phone in it when I get home from work. It's a good example for my kids and it helps me to actually be present with my kids instead of being on my phone half of the time.
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Do it. Stop writing about what you would do on your phone.
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Here's an idea: get an old phone supported by lineageos and just don't install any apps or even f-droid. This is essentially a modern iphone 1(the first). Not totally dumb but dumb enough to not be a distraction.
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It should be illegal for vehicles so noisy that I can hear from kilometers away to drive inside cities and close to people.
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It is illegal in most places. Enforcement is the problem.
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Vinyl sounds shit. It reintroduces all the issues digital audio solved decades ago. I have heard vinyl rips made with equipment that costs as much as a new bmw and it has constant and frequent quality issues like static. It also has to downgrade audio sometimes to prevent the needle from physically flying out. It is impossible for vinyl to sound as good as the digital master or flac version of it that it was made from. It WILL always sound worse even thanks to the fact that physical world is very flawed and imprecise.
People arguing otherwise are either deaf or need to look in the mirror and accept the fact that they enjoy vinyl for the experience not the sound quality.
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Meh, the under lying extra noise is what those people are looking for and not the purity of the sound. Which supposedly ties back to the inherent sound of live music which isn't cleaned up digitally.
It's all potatoes no matter which kind of audiophile a person is.
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For Linux to be a considerable contender for the average user, they need to make it more simple and like a Windows or Mac os.
I used Windows my whole life pretty much. Switching to Mac for a 5 year period was easy. Switching to Linux was easy. Using it was not. Installing a different distro was easy, using it was not. Rinse and repeat 3 more times and hello windows 11, looks like I'm using spyware. Because it just works.
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My hill is that whatever os you're already familiar with, will always feel easiest. Everything that does something differently, will feel more difficult no matter which one is easier for someone who has no prior experience of either one.
I could tell you how painfull it was when I had to start using windows at work knowing pretty much only Linux beforehand, but that too would be just an useless anecdote.
I think the most effective approach to increasing Linux userbase would be to adopt the same strategy Microsoft is using: Push for using Linux in schools, so that it would be the familiar OS for new generations.
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Maybe. But switching from Windows to Mac, and again the opposite wasn't an issue. The learning curve was just changing the way my hands work with keyboard shortcuts. Functionality was so similar. Until Linux can get away from using terminal it'll be an issue. It may be anecdotal, but my anecdote is significantly more common than yours when you reach past Lemmy. Everything about Linux is awesome, except for the user experience itself and ease of use and it won't be mainstream until its structured in a way that makes it so. I'm very much pro FOSS and pro decentralization but I also only have so many hours in the day to be Sisyphus, pushing the rock up the hill of trying to understand Linux only to be in the same position and more frustrated than when I started.
And putting Linux as it is right now in schools will do no good. Kids are on phones. Right now, more than ever. They are used to and demand the easy os/app/website/etc.
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The problem has been that Intel and Microsoft engaged in anticompetitive strategic execution to ensure that each would be a winner over the course of most of our lifetimes. That’s why “Wintel” became a household term over the late 90s.
Now, if you’re building any sort of hardware, why would you pay developers to write drivers for Linux, a hobbyist operating system that had no money flowing around it? Absolute saints cobbled together drivers for video, audio, modem, and other hardware just to make things barely usable, often with buggy behavior. Without insider knowledge of the hardware and firmware design, nor the sheer manpower to do development, Linux floundered in graphical user environments for a long time.
There were proprietary codecs, browser plugins, winmodems, and all sorts of things tailored to Windows user environments that were difficult or impossible to get working on Linux. Linux experts became surly and inaccessible due to the heavy burden of helping newbies just get the system booted and their VGA settings properly set. And so, Linux remained a hobbyist operating system for a long time. User groups finally got companies like NVIDIA to help write drivers for their hardware, and now, getting to a working Ubuntu desktop is arguably simpler than Windows 11.
IMO the problem remains collaboration, engineering, and gaming. The new Winmodem is AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, and BG3. Until the Linux user base grows to a point that it can’t be ignored by the companies developing these products, it’ll remain a very niche OS.
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Oh, man, as the network admin for several hundred machines, "Windows" and "works" in the same sentence is hilarious.
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Yeah, that's fair haha. I'm talking home use for sure
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Analog media was better and more fair to artists, and easier to make money off of (why sell an album when people will stream it), and allowed people to become more intelligent and involved music fans. The digitization and non stop consumption of media cheapened it. Not to mention, I'd bet 90% of young Americans have never heard a good home stereo that actually represents how the music is supposed to sound.
And no, I'm not 80 years old!
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Not till next year right?
I'm going to add to this to call out earbuds, they suck. To truly experience some sound with headphones you need ear covering.
Also not 80.
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Haha!
Yeah unless you get good quad driver in ears, I'd rather have any speakers over headphones. I get that they take up space and not everyone can have them, but there's also so many good headphones out there i cringe so hard when I see people wearing sony or beats.
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First-past-the-post voting should be replaced so people can vote outside the two party system with no spoiler effect.
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There should be a general speed limit of 20mph/30kmh on city streets.
Also no parking on public space for any vehicle that isn't for deliveries, emergencies, trades, or people with disabilities.
If you want to park your car at home, or want your customers or employees to park near your business, you need to buy or rent space for parking privately.
Any citizen documenting a parking infraction with photo evidence should have the option of giving police their bank details and will then receive part of the paid fine.
Of course there will be valid exceptions, like a private emergency, moving, a woman in labor, and such.Just imagine what our cities could be like if there weren't long rows of cars parked along every street.
The freed space could be turned into bicycle lanes, wider sidewalks, outdoor seating for cafes, green lanes, urban gardens and so much more.
Car lanes could be separated from bike paths and sidewalks by hedges in most places.
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Honestly, personal ownership of cars should just straight-up be illegal. Commercial vehicles are fine.
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Not really a fan of allowing corporations 'control over the means of transportation'.
I bet Marx could come up with a great explanation of why its a bad idea.
But i'm not him so i'm just gona go with Dennis Denuto's, "its the vibe".
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I am a farmer living on the edge of nowhere; this just wouldn't work in a lot of situations.
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I hate cars, but we've also allowed people to build developments in absolutely idiotic places that either need cars, or perhaps private bus systems. All because some idiot developer built a ton of grey, prefabbed houses 30+ miles away from the city in the middle of (what used to be) untouched forest.
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Sexuality is the point.
We spend a lot of time pursuing staggeringly and self-evidently pointless and stupid shit while suppressing and teaching being ashamed of sex and sexuality, to the point many just categorize their sexuality under potential trauma if engaged.
If we spent a lot less time grinding for nothing of import and more time fucking one another rather than fucking one another over for paper simulacra of supposed value, our species would be far more well adjusted. Even the difference between less prudish Europe and the puritanical US in general mental health is extremely apparent.
The way we treat sex, as something to shame behind close doors rather than celebrate, as we glorify plastic and silicon garbage, is beyond ridiculous and leads to shame and trauma in girls who become women and anger and resentment in boys that become men. We aren't economic value producing machines, we're fucking machines. We denied that at our peril, and now very few are happy with the state of things. Breathtakingly bad priorities.
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The point of what? Life? Humanity? Existing? Existence?
I get the anti-anti-sexuality, but doesn't this boil life down to.... Not even procreation, but ... Sex?
What about asexual people? What about... Wonderful moments or beautiful things or cake or socializing beyond sex? What about WORDS and complex thought and ideas and puns and coffee and art and adrenaline and naps and music?
I can't say I entirely disagree with you, but I also don't agree, primarily because I'm not sure exactly what the hill you're dying on is. Can you elaborate a bit to help me/us understand exactly what you're trying to say?
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I'm saying that human civilization, and especially puritanical societies of this civilization of which we are one in the US, have walled away the core of what we are, animals that want to fuck, trained us through a prism of shame to loathe that part of us, that we darkly call being civilized, and filled our days generating things that will provide us no meaning, as the closest thing to meaning that can be derived by our biology is getting as much dopamine and serotonin as possible through physical human connection, and we spend most of our time being told the greatest lever for that is shameful and harmful usually because it doesn't make strangers richer, which is ridiculous in an age where if we had the correct priorities we would be able to do for fun as procreation that comes as a result is now chemically optional.
My point is humanity spends a whole lot of its time being miserable, toiling for widgets, to pursue or accept sexual partners in a roundabout way because we've made that that a small, token, conditional cookie for doing the "important" stuff, which I find sad and fascinating to observe. The point being used as a bargaining chip for the pointless, and then all parties wondering why they're still anxious and depressed because they either didn't come to terms, or because they did and it turns out all the plastic, silicon, and tea in china can't provide even a passing shadow of the fulfillment of genuine, physical human connection can, and even that physical human connection is tarnished being turned into just another form of currency or coercion for stuff that doesn't matter at all. How much does humanity toiling for that does not matter instead of fucking?
Tldr humanity would be happier if we were trained to see sex as connection with one another and not that dirty, evil thing of which we rarely speak and if we do it is with the utmost sense of serious danger. It's too late for most existing humans though, as you can't go to full grown adults steeped in that cultural stigma and say "oops we fucked up, our sexuality isnt some taboo evil thing with no place in society." The damage is done. My hill is that shouldn't continue that harmful culture going forward, but I recognize I'll die on that hill as a tiny minority that sees the harm it does.
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DND is not a good universal game system. It's pretty good at being DND, but that's a particular beast that's mostly about resource management.
You can definitely use it for a game about social intrigue, or horror, or modern day anything, but it's not really good at any of that. Like using a hammer to put screws in, you'll probably get something done, and if you're hanging with your friends you'll probably have a good time. But it's a weird tool to reach for.
Personally, I don't think the core of the rules system is very good at all. Flat probability feels weird. Armor as all-or-nothing is weird. Hit and damage being split into two rolls is slow and weird. In the latest edition, making very few choices about your character often feels bad. Levels are a very coarse unit of growth. The magic system somehow manages to make magic not feel like magic- no wonder, no mystery, it's just safe and standardized. I could go on.
But it's mega popular and people are emotionally invested, so there's not much to be done about it. There are dozens of people playing the thousands of other games out there.
Also a lot of people have never played anything else, so their analysis and defense of it is often lacking. Like if I've only ever played baseball, and never even watched any other sports, I wouldn't feel qualified to talk about bowling. But you get people saying like "no you need to wear cleats that's a universal property of sports" when bowling comes up. Like, not every game has six stats. Not every game has attributes like that at all.
And again, if you're having fun with dnd then that's the primary goal achieved. We don't need to maximize fun and efficiency in all things all times. I just think that it would be a good experience to branch out more, even if it's scary, because that will lead to a richer experience overall.
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100%
Also, it is much less fun with really experienced players that genuinely focus on min-maxing.
Also also, the rules could be much clearer and concise. 3 (expensive) books for a brand new party of noobs is a needless barrier.
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I generally agree. For one shots, there are much slimmer systems out there.
I'm not sure I agree about splitting hit and damage feeling weird, but it definitely is slow. But overall, yeah. DnD is generally one of my least favorite systems to play in.
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I’m not sure I agree about splitting hit and damage feeling weird,
It feels weird to me when you roll a really big number to hit their AC, and then roll the minimum for damage. Or the other way, where you just barely roll their AC and then roll max damage. There are narrative ways you could justify it, but I don't see why you would want to. It's not adding anything worth having to the experience, imo. The game doesn't care if you beat the check by 0 or 20. It's just an extra step and the information is discarded.
I think pf2e fixes this.
Forgot in my original: DND 5e barely has a concept of degree of success
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Completely agree, D&D is overly crunchy and I have no interest in a tedious minis wargame in the middle of my roleplaying. The Basic system that Call of Cthulhu was based on is much easier for newcomers to understand with everything being simple percentages, and the system is open-ended enough to make combat as simple or crunchy as you would like - but either way, it's such a better way to facilitate a roleplay gaming session. It's just sad that the only people I know who play tabletop RPGs are so extremely invested in the D&D intellectual property that they won't even consider anything outside of it. I could give a shit less about D&D's worldbuilding and lore, it's not what I love about roleplaying - it's about the collective story we tell and the fun we had along the way.
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I feel there's plenty of interest in other RPGs if you go outside the core community. I have never been remotely interested in playing DnD, so I never got a "real RPG gamer" group, because why play anything if you can run Curse of Strahd for the 100th time.
Well, it just so happens that I got my SO to play some Mothership duet sessions with me and it was great. Then some uni friends who were fans of LOTR to play The One Ring... And now I have an ongoing TOR 2e table and a passionate duet player looking to play more horror games (we're starting Delta Green this week). The most common reasons for these people never having played RPGs? "Too many rules and stats" or straight up "DnD is too hard".
We sometimes talk about DnD as some sort of necessary evil, but it's honestly a hindrance. "Normies" get pretty excited about RPGs once they learn there's more than a fantasy setting designed to be the lowest common denominator and sell miniatures-
I do believe that DND is a poor first RPG, and creates a weird survivor bias in the hobby. Because it's so popular most people try it as their first RPG, and then some of them hate it. Some of them then think the whole hobby is like that, and then leave.
So the bulk of the people left in the hobby are people who like dnd, or at least tolerate it enough to stick around.
One of my friends has no real interest in fantasy, tactical combat (as much as DND is that), or resource management. They had no interest in DND. But they really liked Vampire.
I keep trying to get people to play fate, but all of these games struggle with finding people who will show up. Everyone seems to be just barely holding it together, and asking them to be creative and present once a week seems like a big request
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CDs are better than vinyl.
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Not true, everytime i put a cd on a record player, it ends up all scratched up.
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Spelling and grammar matter.
At least take a stab at doing it well.
Other than speaking to people, it’s how we interact with others. It can be professionally, casually, or with friends. Friends we can be pretty informal and slap emojis all over if that’s your style. But casually, even online interaction, people should favor more formal writing until “reading the room”. Professionally there’s no excuse, IDGAF how “brilliant” someone might be and suddenly they get a pass for whatever comes down the email pipeline (unless that brilliance comes attached to some bonafide neurodivergence or something), the awful writing I’ve seen come from some “professionals” is anything but.
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I want the bad-grammar version of Old English.
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̴̫͉̪̟͖̯̩̝̹̖̄̏̅̍͗̉́̆̓̏͋̉̕͜ ̴͍͑̅̐͋̍̅̌̅̽̍͝ ̷̢̧̣̯̙̳̀̒̑̈́͐́͐̽̕̕͜͝ ̵̧̢̘̘̗̲̝̪͔̫̲̼̀͜͝ͅ ̶̧̯̘̲̲̠͚̙͔̫͓̓̉̀͠ ̴͔̫̞̳̹̥̱͚̙́́́̑͑̏Ş̴̢̛̰̫͙́́̀̇͋̓͌́̿͗p̶̗̀́͋͑͌̈̈͜e̵̘̮̜̖̫̙̤͂͑̅͆ļ̶̞͓̘͔̘̈́͋̈́l̸̨̪̭̤͍̮͎͚̣͙̣̀̔̓ͅy̸̤͔̯̙̖͍̌͋̐̋̓̄͑̒͒̏̿̕͝ń̴̻̺̘̯̗͙̈́͛ͅg̷̨̞̻̪̻̤̥̥͚͙̯̣͓̺̈̆͆͆̒͗̽̏́̈́̃̎͠͠͠ȩ̸̛̯̞͉͖̩̞̟̭̱̳͖̼͙͖̀̀̔͑ ̷̣̾̽͌̃̐͊̌͝͝ą̸̢̖̏̒́́͆̒̈́̐̇̃̈n̴̨̰̣̦͙̼̹̜̺̩̉d̴͙̤̥̭̠̜̦̲̗͇̖̦̠̗͈̈͋̽̄̕ ̶̨̧͙͈͈̣͎̯̽̀̎̕͝ģ̸̟͈̰̦̬͇̫̦̇̀̋͒̈͗̅͒͘r̵̬̼͉̘̮͇̟͖͛̽̽̃a̵̛͖̠̪͌̉̇̌̓̂̊̎̚͘m̵̛̛̛̦͍̃͌̂ȩ̶̛͇̮͓̱̜̣̟͔̤͕̇̋̌͊͑̃̽̑̽̐̄̒̈͆ͅr̴̡͖̗̣̞̙̙̥̰̥̯̂̍̑̾̄͑̊̃̾̆̓ͅͅe̸̘͔̖̠̳̙͋̽̊̽̒̂̎̈́̒̚͜͝ ̷̛̬̔̒̍̌̓͆͒̒̂̾̑̈́̚ͅb̸̨̞͙̯̤̣̮̒̇͌̿́̋̂̓̋͆͌̕̚͝͝ẹ̵̛̛͍̣̫̫̭̞̰̣̲̖̤̔̈́̈́̍̓͊̄̽̄̌̽͘̚ņ̵̼̥̲̻̹̩́̑͗́ͅͅ ̶̧̣̼̖̪̘̙̮͂̿͊̓̑͒̂͌̈́̄̎̅̓̐̉ǫ̴̗̦̻̦̤̭̲͍̯̱̬̉̒̿̔̎͆͐͐͘͜f̴̗͎̤͙̲͖̳̪̈́̀͐̊̀̂ͅ ̶̗̮̬̤̤̜̒̉̏̇̈́̊̈́̆̓͂͌́͋͠͝g̶̨̘̥̜͎̣̭̫͔͔̅̊͜r̵͖͇̗͙̓̓́̇è̷̝̐̎̀̈́̊͘͝͝e̸̢̠͕̜̩̤̖̻̣̼̜͎̋͆͆̓͆̈́̈́̃̈́̚͜͜͝t̷̜̲͊́͑ ̸̢̐͒̈́́͗͒̔͋̎̄̕͝i̸̡̙̟̰̱̯̙̍̌m̷̗͎̫̗̋̐̐͂̈̒͜͝p̸̢͙̥̗̘̞̠͎̙̜̗̻͎͂̚o̶̙̘͙͙̲͜͝r̷̡͐ţ̸̧̱̠̯̙̜̜͂̍̈͂͌͊̑̿̐̄͘͝͝ͅà̵̙͔̭̳͇̭͉̫̙͎̝̖̓̐̉̈́͛̐̈̌͠͝ų̸̼͖̺̅͑͋́n̶̞̙̙̫͐̎́͛̉̀̽̕c̵̟̔̈́̌͗̾͋̍͝͝e̵̛͎̜̗̮̹͎̘͊̽̑͂̍̀́́̍̎̆̚͘͜.̷̟͉͍̲̫̩̗̪̩͚̾ ̷̨͇͍̺̥̤̯̖̜̊́́̆̿͐͒̓̏̏͝ ̶̡̧̢̨͔̝̻͓̞̤͔̩͚̝̍͂̕ͅ ̸̝͎̥̥̜̘̎̓̑̇́̅͐̈́̊̈́̔̕͘ ̶̨̙̣͖̟̰̀͜ ̸̨̟̼̦̭͚̼̺̊́̑̔̋͆͌͑̉̓̓̋̿́͝ ̵̺̠̦͚̞̣͊̾̅̐̽Ạ̶̮̟̜̪̗̖͉̣̫̦͓̲̿t̶̡̧̡̬̻̭̩͍̺̲̊̔̈̎̈́̾͠ ̴̣̱̹͍͍͖̖̤̲͉͔̙̐̅̾̀͋t̵̡̧̜̝̯͖̼͙̓͂́̎̋́ͅḩ̸̱̲͈̹̯̤͛͊̾͑͑̎͒͆̍̒͂͗̌̚͜͜e̸͓̣̰̜̜̪̰̺̭̬̹̘̣͑̒̈͜ ̶̬̜̺͑̏́̑̉̉̋̿ļ̸̡̺͚̜͈̖̮̳̱̰̟̝͆͂̀̌̑͒͗̈́̿̋̕͝͝e̷̝̘̫̟͕͇̼̼̳̺̠̱͊̑̅͐̚͜e̶̼̜͍͓͓̖͔̦͕̭̱̅̿̓̎̎̎̉͝͝ͅs̷̢̢̛̲͉̬̮̗̯͙̹̥̑͐̋̒̀͌̾̒́͘͘͝ţ̷̛̬̜͇̞̈́̾̏́̍̃̒̈̈́͋̂̚͝e̸̡̟̦̭̬̊̓̿͜͠,̴̡̧̯̝̲͇̣̰̟͇̰͕̩̌̓̓̍͒̆̐̍̒̂́̏̐͘͜ͅ ̵̜̜̳̺̹͓͙̯͙̮͎̟̻̄̀̒̀͘͝͠à̸̢̱̩͚͇̰̖̊͊̿̑̓̈́̊͛͐̍͗̍̚ͅs̸̡͕̮̼̅s̴͈̻͔̊̋͂͑́̇̕͝͠͝a̸̢̡̙̖͈̪̥͕͚͔͙̗̒̋̆͐̌̓͒̕͠y̵̒̅̓̅̇͂̍̋̇̈́̚͜ę̴̜͎̱̙̜̫̦̥͇̊̋̔t̵̙͈̬̯͓̲̤̰́́́̀͂͐͝ͅh̶̡̧̢͕͍̺͓̟̬̖̬̱̻̬̗̽̈́͋̎̅̅̂͂̂̀̎̏͌̓͘ ̶̢̘̯͎̞͚̬̳̹̤̯̪̒̔̂͂͌̕̚͝ţ̸̱̘̝̠̬̀̿̇̀̚ó̶̢͚͕̲͎͍̖̙̤͉̰͕͌̉́͐͆ ̸̰̞̣̺͓͉̜̬̋̉̐̓̍̽͘͠d̷̢̛̼͍̳͕̥̙͈̯̤̯̲͍͗̀͗̓́͘͘͠o̷̗̣͚̾̈́̑̌̓̌̏̿̚o̷͕̼̦͐̑͛͑̈́̆̽͂͌̓̓̓̈́́̉n̴͍͎̊̅̓͊̇͗͒̀̍̋̃̌͆̐ ̴̺͍̖̣̙͍̰̪̪͈̬̮͑̊̽͊̈́͗͑̍͌̀̅̈́̚ḯ̵̱̻̓ţ̷͓̯̼̮̹̗̳͕̱̰̘̃̄̐͝ ̶̤̙͍́̎̓̅̈́͘ͅẘ̶̨̡̨̛͔̣͍̤͖̜̊͗̀̌͛̈́̂͝ḛ̵̡͖̎̈́͌̀͊̽̽̈́͂̐ĺ̶̢̢̧͖̣͍̯̘̺̰̦̝̈́͆͊̿͛̌̀͑̕͘͘͜͜͝.̷̢̨̤̲͈͚̣̝͖̝͙̜̱̥̠̔̉̃͆̃̈́̔̃͌̀̐ ̴̢̧͈̠̱͓̖͙̟̬͉͖̥̏̓ͅ ̴̗͍͇̻͖̺͎̱́͐̀ ̵̨͍̙̍̽͛̅̾̈͝͠ ̶̹̰̖̳̻͆̓͌͒̈́͋̋ ̶̧̲̱̮̣̜̦͖̙͍͚̳̈́̈́̊̑̆̀̓̽̓̈́̄͌̓͘͜͜͜ ̵̢̣̝͙̻̩͕͔̠̫̘̫̺̠͆̀̀̿ͅṢ̸̡̩̓͛̄̒̾̐̏̈́͝a̷͔̩͕̮͗̍͌͜v̷̨̨̮̫̜̖̻̥̤̜̼̈́̑͊́͒̊̓̂̆̏̔̚ͅe̴͈̹̮̗͕̰͑͒̒̀͂̌̓̃̑͛̀̿̔́̇ ̵̡̯͎̹̟͈̖̘̦̮͆͒͐̂̌̍̍͋͂͑͝ş̶̳͈̱͔͇͔̟͚̣͛̎̓̓͒̅͌͗͐͋͘͠p̵͕̱̠̼̼̥͇̭͆̿̈́͠è̵̠͕̼̦͇̈́̀̽̈̈́̿̂̏̐̄̌̑͝c̵̡̏͑̏̕h̷̡̢̛͍̯̳̲̩͕̬̝̤̎͐͌̅e̸̙̖̜͙̝͖̜͙͖͝ ̶͚̺͇̥̝̦̼̗͈͛̀̒̓̍̀̂̐̈́̕ͅw̶͎̰̘̫̤͎̫̗͉͉̄̔̊̉͠ͅi̴̙͒̊̃̈̅t̴̖͙͈͙͍̗̹͉̣̟͉̒̊̆̇̈h̸̛̳̪͕̆̍̑̓͆̃̏̓̎̈́̑̚̚̚ͅ ̴̖̮͙̩̰̠̺̞̞͇̮̏̾́̈́̕͘͝͠͝͝f̸̡̰͍̦͈̟̝̩̟̯̭̯̺̑͋̉̄̊̿͊͊͛͑̐͘͝͝ó̵͉̜̘̫̪͙̮͙̥̂̽̊̈͗́̏̒̚ͅl̵̨͍̣̞̟̺̟̥̯̘̬̿̌̇̈́͋k̴̠̦̜͔̱̥̒̓̋͊͑̽͂͐̅̿͒̈́,̷̛͕̫̳̮͎̠͛͌̾̍͋̚͠ ̴̨̲͕̪́̄̆͑̑͑͊̂͛͠͝i̵̙̻̙̩̦̬̹͊̑̽̓̋̏͠ṱ̴̩͍̗̺͎͉̝͉͗̔̉̋̓̑̇̿̅̅͐͐̃̇̕ ̷̖̘̲̳͍̰͓̭̙̪͖̫̬̹̱̓͊̑̈͋̎i̴̡͇̟͈̘̦̳͙͓̞͊̓̾̄̌̀̆̌͂̓̊͐͘͜͜͠ͅs̴̡̨̠̭͓̭̰͈͈̤̲̾͜ ̸̛̲̼̫̍̉͂̐͑̈́̐̈̊̒̂̽̕̕t̸̹̯̻̜̙͖͍͚̏̈́̄͂̓̌͌̋̅͐̿͌̿̓ḩ̴͈͎̊̾̃͐̽̃͒͑͘ͅę̷̨͓͈͈̥͚̲͎̏́̈́̔͑͐̋̅͋̏̍͊͌ ̵̥̫̜̺͕̊ͅm̶̧̮̝̉̐͆̓̇͋̿̍̅̅̀ä̴̧͉̠̳́͒̿̿͗͒̌͆̅̚̕n̷̛̤͊͌̏̍ę̷̢͍̩̮̹̩͕͉͍̖̟̼̬̈́̈́̅̍̑̒̾͒͋͌͆́̚r̷̡̧̛̮̰̫̾͑̅̿̎̂̇͛̽͆͒̍̕̕͜ȩ̵̧̢̛͍̦͔̰̬̮͇̣̬̰̐͒̏͂̎̆̋̈́̕͠ ̷̟̤̜̦̖͍͉̊̓ͅw̷̞̩̖͇̞͇̥̭̜͚͎̔̏͝h̴̢͈͓̟̟̻̙̖͚͇̞̬̺́̃͆͌̈͛̅͗͛̀̎̋̕͝ͅe̴̖̔̀͒̏͐̐̾̃̈̏̾͝͝͠r̴̛̩̞͋̾̒́̾̃̎̊̋̐̌̀͐ę̸̨͓̥̪̰̪̦̘͎̩̰͖̠̂͌͌̎͊͌̂͗͂͝ͅḅ̷̬̩̗̜̮͇̮̈́͛̊̿̅̆̐͛̉̐̕͘͝y̸̡̨̭̬̰̰͓̞̜͔̖̯͈̋̓̉͒͠ ̸̻̈́ẅ̶̖̙̤̬̻̟̲͙̼̼́̍̑e̴̱̣͚͙̳̻͈̠̠͈̣͊̈̓̓̑̈́̿̿̂̊͑̌͜ ̷͕͕̤̻̥͈̇͂̿͗͐͋͒͠ç̸͔̹̬̹̖̥̥̲̀̊̍̂͑̓͊̚o̸̥̥̔̀̈́̽̏͂̉̏̒̀̿̊m̷̛̘̝̖̻̻̰͎͓̩̙̈́͒͗̒̊̉̽͌̂͘̕m̶̧͚̼̱͛͐̂͒͛͗̏̾̔̈͑̽̚u̶̧̡̧̟̬̜̻͚̩̻̞̱̹̓̃͗̄̐̍͋̕ͅn̵̟̳̿͑̈́̽͒̒̀̾̎̓̏͝ę̴͓͈͙͖̅́̈́̐̓͑͗̈́͜ͅ ̸̢͓̦͍̯̩͈͒̆͑͜w̵̯̗̤̘̺̯͉̤̻̘̖̤͕̰̫̄i̴̧̛̘͔̞͙̫͉͇̲̋͗͌̓̏͋͆̑͜t̶̟̳͚͎͔̰͈̦̥̩̹̫͔̀́̇̇͜͜ȟ̷̨̛̛͓͇̖̅̏̍͛̉̅̔̈́̀͐̎̿ ̴̘̱̘̘̤̐͗͊͌̓̓͑̑̉̚͘͠o̷̰̘̝̗̯͇̯̩͂͝t̶̖͇͍͚̀̓ḫ̷̡̡͙̺̹̖̩͇̞̗͍͕̥̑͊̀̊ͅĕ̴̠̭̫̳̀̔̂̇͗̐̈́͛̈́͌̊r̸̡͕͖̜̮͂̈̈́̈̈́̔̚̚͠͠͝ȇ̶̙͖͈̘̟̻̲͓̮̖̙͓̮̹͐̂̕.̸͈̜͂̈́ ̵̤̀̿I̶̳̖̩̎̑̂͊̔̾͊͘t̶̘͎̣̻͌͊͗̿̉́͌̆ ̷̟̪̺̦̤̣͕̩͙͚̜̰̣͒̊̇̌̌̍͆̓̓̕m̴̲̈́̌̅̆̋̇̊̎͝ą̵̡̆̂́̃͛͆̐̔̓̐̏̀̉͒͆y̸̹͎͖̓̎́́̒́͊͝͝͝ ̸͙͚̭̲̩̭͈͚̹̪͚̙̦́̂̈͜͜b̶̲͎͋̐͒͊̓̃͗̽̒̉͠ͅe̵̢͕̖̥̱̫̫̒̈́͑̈́͛̀͑̏̆̋̕͜ͅ ̵̙͌̾̽̽̈͑̅̈́̅̕i̴̧̿̓̓͑̔̊̋͑͠n̸̨̧̦̠̦̼͙̥̓̉͜ͅ ̸̜̥̘͇̤̲͉͙̪̝̮̖͑̂̏̌ͅc̵̙̰̗̤̬̔r̵̜̗͇̬͇͔͙̞̠̟̱̰̜̠͊̐̍̋ȧ̶̧̳͚̗̗̫͇̰͕̙͔̗̬̂̓͊̃̆̽̅̎̀͐̚̚̕͘f̷̢̡͓͉̪̮̻̪̦̭̭͎͎̽̔͐̅̑̈́̚͘͝ẗ̸̡̹̗̲̣͎͇̮̳̟́̈́̒̍̓͐͒͋͊̾̕͝ ̸̡̫̩̩͈̣̳͈̯̘̻̫͗̚(̷̛̰̩̭̠̩̋͑̽̀͊̏̓̋t̷̨̡͖̯̙̜͎̑̒͌̍͐̿̆̆̋ḫ̸̈̎͑̕͘̕͠͝a̵͈̖͇̪̦̲̥̱͔̭͓͐̿̎̈́̇͊͊͗̈́͂͘͝ẗ̴̛̛̗̗̺͙͚̫̪̦̦̮̤́̌̊̈̎̾͘̕͠ͅ ̴̧͍̖͎͇̀̇̄̇͐͒̈́̄͑͊̒ḯ̶̹̼̲̪̦͗͒͑̐̓̉̚͜ş̶̛̝̭̰͉̈́̍͐̾̎̽̃̇̽͝,̶̢̠̝̹͓̰͒̈́͋ ̴̨̤̪̻͕͍̫͚̳̣̻̝͕͋̾̔̀̔̄̔͂̇͑̀̃̾̈́ͅͅp̵̯̱͇̳͍͙̥̩̖̳̰̄͒̌̊̇̃̉̚ͅṛ̴̡͉̜̟͖͓̀͒̒̐͌̕ơ̸̢̢̧̳͚͕͔̠̫͍̇͗͐̋̓̈́̊̋̓̈́̈͘f̴͉̣̦̅̐̄̏̏͐̏̐̉͋͛̌̑͝e̵̛̤͆̑̔̒͗̄̀̄̾̎̕̚s̷̢͖͚͕͚̻͖͑̉̈́͋̈́̎͒̈̏̔̊̉͝s̴͈͇̭̲̻̠͐̈́͛͐̕į̶̥͈̗̰̬͇̜̤̳̺̆͆̿̓͆̇́̽͜͠ơ̸̬͎͍̬̬̻͙͙̩̏͑̋̈́̓́̿͂̐̈̀͝n̷̹̣̝̟͔̝͐̿͋͒͆͝à̷̛̻̖̹̗͙̳̈́̆͒̍̍̈͐̓͜ļ̸̹͖̙͙̲͖̹̱̰͌͂́̓̉́͒̊̏̊̄́̀̕̕ ̸̗̈͛̏̂̒̎̒̈́̐̇͘͝w̷̛̛͕̼̑͌͠͝ī̴̻͚̀͗̑͒͛̄̿s̷̨̛̝̬͓̳̲̘͎͕̅͌͊̊́̿͐̈͊́̽͆ë̸̡̨̖̯̳̣̼̖̲̭͈̝́̑̓̎̄)̶̨̣̟̰̣͍̦̝̆̀͐̎̓͂̄̎͂̐̑͐̚͝͝,̶͔̜͎͇̗͈̜̖̺̤͔͙̍̃̒ ̸̡̝̳̩̈́͊̒̈̉͒o̴͈̼̯͓̜̫̬̺͕̥͇̼̙̅̄̀͆͘̚͝r̶̨̩͉̊̇͑̒͘ ̸̢̦̽͒̈́̔͑̾̾̋̆̽̏͘͝ȉ̸͎̈̇͌̈́̇̑̈́̃͗́̂͌̂̎n̴̻͙͔͒̋̄͗̈́͆̚ ̶̛̹̪͎̖̬̳̟̃́͋̒͂́̉͌̏̽͝ľ̶̨͉͖͖̞̯̑̈́̈̈́̇͋͐ḭ̸̟̐̊͊͋͆͒͗̓̍g̸̨̧̖̬͍͍̘͋͐͗̈́̈́̐̚͠h̷̛͚̙̻̺͌̽̾̇̎̅̈̃̾͑͝ţ̴̯͔̥̗͓̝̹͍́̓̃̈́͂͊̓ͅn̶̙̞͔̺͖̻̙̪̮̻̟̪̈̑̓̓́̕͠ȩ̸͇̞͎̖̞̞̞͉͖̹͉̇͆͘s̶̰̊s̸̙̆́é̶̛͖̩̣͈̭͍͍̳̖͚̞͇̣̣̱̈̈́̊̓̉͗̓͠ ̷̞̐̾͌͒(̸̧̝̜̞̮͙̤̹̙̗̿̂̊͑̍̿̕c̵̡̛̥̳̙̥̭̬̞̟̼̱̟̀͌̇̕̚̕̕͝͠a̶̧̢̰̺͓̳͔̬͚̣͇̠̋̐̉͆̑́̊̕̕͜͝͠ş̵̛̛͚̭̱̯̂͐̊̓͋̃̏̓̑̅ư̴̦͉̹̭̩̞͔̟͖̥̘̿͗̒̊͒͛͆͑̍͠a̴̞̿͆̉̋́͋̌̒̊͆̐̈́̚͝l̶̢̨̲̯̱̤̺̻͈͉͎͎͕̜̣̂l̷̛̥̮̹̺̏̽͊̒̍͊͂̍͊̃̎̀ẏ̵̢̨͔̤͕̻̲͈͙͎̳͛͗́͒͝ͅ)̷̨̧͇̮̼̬͖̐͆̂̑̑͐̊͊͛̀̓̌̓͝͝,̶̨̟̖̲̰̠͚̳̖̘̉͒̐͒͐̍̈́͗̑̈́̓̈́͘ ̸̨̬̣̙̦̝̭̼́͜͜o̴̥̝̘̫̱͈͐̓́̌̆̏͊̉̚͘͝͠ř̶̨̨̳̰̬̙̞͔̬͌̈́́͌̉͑͋̔̀ ̴̢̧̳̦͈͔̲͍͎̳͎̗͋̒͒́̀w̶̨̢̯̣͖͎̳̞̲̮̩̙̯̆̐̏̍͆̀̿́̆͐̑͂͝ī̶͇̭̣̭̙̈t̴̡̛̬̙̝̭͉̰̳̟͍̿̓̄̃͛́̌̓̔͊̋͘̕͜͠h̸̝̞͝ ̶̫͗͋̏̽̓͋̌̈́̃̽̋̊f̸̥̔̔̾͒̑̀̌̃̎̀̀̕̕͝ē̶̛͙̘͓̗̟͕̪̘̺̼̣͐̾̀́̆̂̿̍͂̈̿͝l̸̨̗̯̠͓̂͒̆̈́̚ͅḁ̸̡̨̛̛̳̰̞͈͉̳̩̟̈́̃̓̈́̏̀̒̋̍̃̎̆́w̶̧͕͎͔̞̃̊̑͛͌̄̊͂͜͝é̵̖̦̖͚̼̩͇͙́̇̂̋̉̏͝ṣ̵͎̩̺̘̲̰̖̱́͛̄͆̓̈́̇͆͌̓͑͘͘̚͜ͅ ̷̮̪̜̪̥̰̖̤̬̰̬̫͇̒̎͐͐̄̑͗͘͜͝a̴̰̺̻͋͒̽̿͗́̍̉̈͘̚ͅņ̶̧͉͖̰̫̗͖͇̹̪͊̏̒̀͐d̸̛̛̛͖͕͓̫͍̩̋̐̍̈̊̚̚̚͠ ̷̢̖͍̥͚̮̱͈̩̰̰̬͆͛̀̋͛̋̉̍͂͌̔͝ͅf̵̳̈̐͐̿̂͆̆͠r̴̞̻̦͎̜͓͕̝̈̕̚͠ͅe̷̢̗͇͈̪̹̳̮̝͕̬̹͇̖̓́̚ͅn̵̡̬͔̠͈̮̘͕̞̘̹͚̳̠̈́̿̈̑̈́̀̅͑̑̇͘͜d̵̖͔̰̣͕͇̼̲̝͓̅͜e̶̛̳͋̉͌̾̈̇̅̌͊̏͘s̵͎̠͚̹̫͖̬͙̾̐̽͜ͅ.̷̨̪̻̮̥̹͑̽͛̀̽̌͝ ̴̯͚͈̳̘̬͖̰̱̠̊̒̈́̐͊̇̀̕ͅW̴̡̧̼̞̦̟̜͍̹̹̤͇͙͂͆̃͊̒̓̇̊̀̚͝ḭ̶͚̹̣̳́̄͜t̶̛͕͕͈̜͖͈̻̆̅̓̋̈́̋ͅh̴̢̢͇̰̯̪̳̖̼̮̥̞͊͂́̈̾̄̎ ̶̢̙͙͎͔̜̮̰̳͔͔͖͈̻̏͗̑̏f̴̰͍̀͊͌̀̏͗̂̎̅̅r̸̤̭̪̻̥̍̇́̏̽̊͆̕ę̷̧͖̲̉̾̓̂̐n̵̢̦̮̳̊̽̒̿̽́̈́̄̕̕͘͝͠d̸̢̡͕͇̔͑̉͗̈́̕͝͝e̴͚̾̄͋͐̄̕͝ś̸̘͌̆̂͑́̆̄̀,̷̪̲̩͉̙̤͎̝̰̯͔͒̊́͠͝ ̵̦͕̙̞̤͓͒͛͘m̵̡̛͉͈̘̳͚̞̭͙͖̺̱̉͋̆́̈́̊͂̂͆̔̚̕e̷͔̰̠̪̠͉͉̘̳̎͋̈́̽͐̑̅̋̾͗͗̚̚ͅn̶̛̛͎̟͎̬̘̺̫͈͈̂̓̓͗͋͌͜͠ ̶̪̓͑͐̌̀̽͐̽̓̈́̚͠m̷̥̘̠͖͙̣̘̩͚͔͔̣̝͎͂̍̅̔̌͂̋̕̕͝ͅo̴̧͈͑̒̈̽̉̓̃̆̋͠w̸͈̙̻̯̳̳͔̬͚̼̮̖͕̎ͅe̸̢̢̙̬̳͙̪͉̮͐͝ͅ ̴̢̛̰̭̳̞̤̭͙̍̋̔̎̐͆͊̎̕b̶̛̟̈́̓͛͜͜ͅe̴͉̫̺̣̼̬͚̟͙͚̾̂̇̀̇̔̋̅͆͑͘͝ ̶̬͕͕̖͉̞̘̝͙͖̟̄̓͑͛̉͜ͅf̶̧̡̢̦͉̮̹̼̹͙̜̩̪͚̱̊̀͌͘ṳ̴̢͚̥͖͎̼͔̖̲̻͇̺͖͌̽̾͑͊ͅl̵̤̠͔͖͎̱͍̖͙̓̑̉̒͛̂̅̏͂̂̾͋̇̍͝ ̵̧͎͙͇͙̪̈́̍̈͒͛̏́͌̕u̴̮̻̩̣̿͗͌̀̓̕͠n̷͓̗̦̮̞̙̜͍͋̋̂c̸̛̰̓͗̄̅̈̈́̌͗̋͛̚͠ͅe̵̡̡̧͔̝̺̱̻̞̯͕͉̔̀͗͆̅̃̇̓̄̂͐̅͊͘͝r̴̢̨̺̯̫͓̥͖̦̤͈̬͆̃̊̿͑̑̂̋́̋̽̚̚ȩ̶̨͕͓͓͇̓̿̂̆̿͂̓̀̔̇͘m̶̧̨̧̧̻̻̦̣̠̮̘̝͇͉̩̐͋̎̅̐̀̾̕̕̚͝ơ̸͉͐̍̃̃̚͝n̷̥͔̔̀ǐ̵̢̛̲̮̟͉̜̠̲̮̥͓͎̳͇͌ͅǒ̶̫̼͓͍̹̻̗̯͌̍̄̿̿̆̅̅̓̓͒͗̓̕ú̵̩̤̦͎͕̙̞͛̾̔̃͐̅̄́̇͂̈́͝s̶̨̜̯̻̲̪̼̝͖̭͖͈̠̓͌,̷͖̤̣̫́̈̉̒͑̿̾̇͝ ̷̲̻̺͙̟̩̺͐̄̌͂̓̀̀̚͜͠a̸̧̢̧͈̬̞͔͙̤̩͚͒̊͋̇͂̒̓͆̊͐͊͒̀͆n̶̞͐̎̋̈́͌̾̽̇̚ḍ̶̨͉̻͖͎̺̯̣͛́̋̌͊ ̸̫̜͙̭͔̝͖̳̺̜̖̮̤̑̂͗̅͂̃̽͋̕͜͜ỵ̵̲̹̘͕͙̩̠̈͂̔̓̐̀̈͆̋̉i̵̢̧̦̟̪͖̜̫̥͓̭̙̦͍̘͆̆̄͋̌̚͝ḟ̶̢̓̓̂͌͑͒́̄͘͝ ̸̢̨̹̮̰͍̻̱̲̻̾͐̾̍̓̕ï̷̛̘̹͖̿̆́̄͌̈́̕t̶͖̙͖̪̪͖̖̓̒ͅ ̷̡͖͈͖̬̣͍͔͇̥̪̜̰͚̿̏͂̈̎̎̿̀̈͒̈̍͠b̷̮̟͔͎̭̤͎͚̗͎̼̲̫̖̎͜ě̴̻̝̜̺͙̼͎̣̜͛̒͆͆̀̃̐̍̌̏̅̽ ̶̢̲̯̰͚̫̹̦̪̘͑̍̎͝t̴͈͈̀h̵͖͈̭̭̗̤͙̯̱̀̓̕̕͠ͅỳ̵͓͇̤̟ ̷̮͓̫̣̰̟̮͖͕̀̃̚w̴̛̟͙̤̮̟̝̙͕̓̊̾͐̍͒͛̐̕o̵̧̱̪̟̙̗̪̹̫̥̱͉̺̹̊̐̈̈́͒̓̽͠n̵̛̘̤͇̩̤̙̐̈́͂̎̉͌̿̅̏͗̃͛͜͜͝͠e̴̜͉͖̲͓̦͉̽,̶̨̛̦͚̫̜͕̙̥͆̿̍̀́̅̔̇͌̈́͗͘͝ ̵̛͇̝͇̆͑̈́̐̆͒̂̇̾̚̕͝ṯ̵̢̛̛̼͕̣̝̤̙̬̘͍̲̞̫͖͊̂̈́̃́̂ḫ̸̢̥̮͌̍́̑̏̋̿̆̍̏̚͠͝o̵̢̺̯̖͓̘͔̘̩͔̜̐̌̊u̷̢̲͚̜͔̰̱͙͖̼̺͛̈́̂ ̴͇̩̭̤̽m̸͇̉͆̄͋̚͜ì̵̭̤̳͖̆̉͜ḡ̴͔̳͚͒h̴̨̢̛͓̗͇̱̗͑͌̀̈́ţ̴̜̲̪͍͓̼̯̖̼̒̀̌̉̇̉̉̓̔̏͒̉͂͠ȩ̶̼̥̫̯̣̻̘̑̇̈̄̈́̓̄̅̽̾̀̇̀͌͘s̵̛̛̮̝̞̻̪͓͚͚͈̘̪̯̖̭̿̈͑͆́̈̑͝t̴̨͙̺̞̮͇̻̠̬̰̲̃̏̾͂̏̈́̀̎͘̚͜͠ ̷̧̛̜͖̞̄̓̕s̶͉̱̳̐̍̑̇͋͌̊͐̏̉̚͠t̴̛̬͍͕̬̙͎̤̤̺̹̅̆͑̃͌̅̍̂̒̽̚͝ṙ̴̛̯̟͖̗͚͖̟̼͈͈̒̓̅̃̚͝ͅó̶̤̫w̵͚͉͙̾̇͆̔̌̅̚͘̚ḛ̵̢̢̮̙͙̣̫̲̀̽̿́̓̇̽͂̉̌͂̽͋̕͘ ̵̨̡͓̪̹̅̅̔͘ẗ̶̨̗̟͔͖̪̙̝͔́̇̓͋h̸̪̲̺̤̬̦̺̹̤͍̋̊̔̑̂͂̈́̈́̍͒͘͝y̵̡̤͈͖̪̳͈̋ ̷͖̖̩͇̝̳̲̘̭̺̺̣͍̾ẅ̶̡̫͎͗̒̅́͠ŗ̴͚̰̜̯̱͈̻̞̤͈͑͌̀̂́̀̎̈́͌͋͐̚͝͝i̸̧̱̤̓͑̇̉̊̒̊͑̾͜t̶͎͎͙̼̑͐̊ ̷̣͓͉͍̐̀̊͆̈́̅̿ŵ̸̡̥͙̝̣͔̽̆̈̆̍͘͝ỉ̷̧̨̧̨̢̻͙̣͎̳͉̆̔̈́̉̇̓̒̎͝t̴̨̢̢̹͉͖̭̰̯̳͎̟͈͕̀͜͝ḥ̶̢̛̮̹̭̹͙̝̈́̀̈̈́͗̇̋́̄ ̶̡̬̥͛͌́̓̈́͐̀̃̐̃̕ś̶͚̳̙͔̝̟̖̫̫͚̳̼̩̮̻̎͆͂̓̿͘i̵͈̭͙̦͈͇͍̓g̵̝̏n̴̨̡͇̭͕̦̘̺̩̱̣̭̳̽̎̾̓̚͜͠e̷̱͎̺̻̯͔̱͛̄̂̿̄s̷̘̣̞̬̮̘̰͕͙̎͂̐̋͐̈̌ ̵͔̠͚̦̫͊ͅã̴̢̲̰̰͍̞̍͒͌̔͐̾̌͛͊͝n̸̝͉̪̻͖̺̥̍͑͂̂́́͐͆̎ͅd̶̩͇͉̳̭̰̠̭̹̯͔̍͋̈͗̑̀͊̌̈͆͆͝ͅ ̵̛̻̦̳̤̀̃̑́̑́̃̀̚̕͠ÿ̴̧͈͎̫̞̖͇̜͇̫͚͙͖̳̘́̀m̶͈͔̗͉͕͚̼͔̣̬͌̾͝a̵̧̡̛̖̞͓͚̜͙̳̯̖̰͖̳͌̔̋̈́̍̈́̽͝͠͝g̵̡̨̢̧̤̦̳͖͓̫͎̩͓̤̽͊́̈͛̽̓̆̒̍̿̄͝͠e̸͉͇̳͇̝͖̻̠͎̐̂ͅş̸̡͎̱̲̞͉̫̱̣̦̘̘̹͖̔ ̴̛̞̝̯̺̝̳̀̈̔̇̏́͘͘(̶̧̧̢̫̭̬̥̙̘̮͉̓́̍́͊̇͂̒e̸͚͔̔̉͌̂͠m̵͚̫̈́̎͑̉̈́̆̈́ǫ̵͙͕͔̯̼̬̹̫̩̼̗̅̌̃̋̄̎̿͆͗̇̐̌̀̒͘j̸͙̖̠̙͍̍̿̿̈́͘͘ḯ̶̡̝̙̞̹͉̌s̸̬͉̠̟̣̀̈́̃͂)̸͙̬̜̬̼̻̑̆̈́́̀̕̕.̸̖͉͛͌̍̍̒̿̂̑̇̆́̎̾̎́͜ ̷͖̤̬̘̗̆͛̈́̍͝͝Ǹ̵̢̧̨̦̻͎̬̥̺͇̙̲͒͊͒̽́ͅa̵͖͔̬͔̘̩̙̩̯̪͔̣̺͎̓͗͋͆͌̊̆̔́̚̚͜͝͠͠t̵̛̳̣̙̞̣̫̤͓̎̇͛h̵̨̺͔̖̦̅̎̑̋͆̕e̸̡̱͆̋̎ľ̵̡̧̛̠̗͎̤͈̬͖̋͠ę̷̧̡̣̥̻̱͇͎̘̪͈̯̼́̽̃͆͆̅̆̔̈́̌̎̂̕ͅs̶̬̰̰̰̝̙̩̼͎͖̝͖̈́͠s̴̨̬̯͕͐͌̽͝,̴̝̥̺̩̳͕͉̋͐̀̿͊̓̈̔͐̾̔͘̕͠͝ͅ ̶̧̢̣͙̪̹̅́̌̉̉͗̐͜ͅͅî̵͕̜̝̥͈̥̳̞͖̈́̈́̂̌͊̏̽̽̕͠n̶̨̡̨̛͎̰̰͔̺̖͑́ͅ ̵̨̧̮͖̼̜͕̟͕̓̄͐̔́͗́̎̿̓̒͘̚͠c̶͇̙̮̺̺͖̱̤̳͔͖̝̻̟̃̈́̿͊͒͗̅͘̚̕͜͝͠͝ą̷̛͇̝̟͉̝̖̠̠̾̽͗͐̃̾̑͌͆̎͠ͅs̷̛̞̼̞̦̪͇̖̳͓̯̍̿̃͛́̓̎͊̏̇͆̀̔̚ư̴̦̖̥͖̭̣̯̱̯̇͐̑̿̓̐͋͜á̷̟̐̀̋̊́̈́̌̃̃̄̈́͋͐͘l̸̙͉̫̾̿̎̈́́̂͗̏̕͘͘ ̸̡̹͉͇͐̉w̴̼͚͖̺̣̹̟͙̱̹͆̊̆̑̎̎͋̈́̓̿i̴̟̻̩̤̩͙̠̝̟̣͎̯̞̎̚͜s̶̗͎̮̰͍͓̝̻̦̎̓̾́̍́̓̓̐̋͗̿͘͘e̸̛̮̝͔̙̫̿͗͊͆́̆̂͌͐,̵̧̨͍͎̬̬̗̭͙͋̊ ̸̖̳͇͉͖͍̓̊͊̀̋͊̔͊̀̒͒͠e̵̛̳͍̪̗̝̝̱̯͉̒͋̋́̎̍͠é̸̯͈̲͋̾̈́̉̽̂̀̅̅̌̈́̃̕k̸̢͓͚̻̼͖̝͈͂̌̊͒̌̇̊̿̄̀̅̄̉̐ͅ ̶̛̛̰̦̣͛̋́͆́̿́̿͊͊̏î̷͖̪̞̹̺̞̯̞̟̀̄͐ͅṇ̶̤͙̦͖̣̩̖̠̣̎̽̂͜ ̶̰͎͔̪̭͎͉͎̺͍͇̈́͋̈́͋̿̚w̶̡̛̜̠̘̤̪̺͇̭̎̊͛̽̅͆̀̅̓͝ȓ̵̡͔̜͕̜̞̚i̷̧̨̗̘̞̟̠̺͝t̵̟̐̈͋̈́̑͌̄̑̈́͑̐͘̚̚͝ę̶̻̳̥͔̜̤͙̥̺̪̺̭̖̲̋͛̉͊̊̓̏͝n̵̢̪͓͔̝̮͕͒͜ͅ ̶͈̭͚̟̣͉̦͂͒̂̍͋̆͜w̴̝͒o̴̱͋̐̋̇̒̋͌͜r̴̛͇̪͎̩̺͓̜̗̙̘̿̀̂̈́́̏̓̐͛̆̽̕̕ḍ̸̿̃̔̆͠è̷̢͓͖̻̜̬̻̦͖̳̃͆͌̍̓̀̄͛͒͛͒̍̕̕s̵̼̲͚̐̾͂̈͑̍͊̈́̚ ̶̗̹͚̙͚̙͚̩̺̗̩̿̀̈̊̄͐̎̅͘͜͝u̸̢̖̣̬̳̹͒́͋͛́͛̄̓̀̒̈́ṗ̵ͅo̴̫̻͙̺̰̬̟̲̅̌̔͂n̵͈̞̫̙͕̬͍͓̘̏̆̎̉͗̃̊̽͋̍̿͆͐̿͜ͅͅ ̶̧̟̺̦̖̫̩̼̫͓͕̹̬̲̍̽̍̄̂͑̔͜t̴̨̡̢͕̘͔̞̩͉̫̹̲̄̃̌̇͂͆̇̕̕h̶͓̥̯͖͙͆̀͊̎̿̍͑̓͒͑̚͜͝e̷̡̗̰̖͎̣̱̼͎̤̲͐́̃͗̓̿̋̌͛̐̄̌̃ ̸̨̝̦̈͐̋͗̌͜n̷̨̗͉̳̭̝̻͍͉͚͎̆̀͐e̶̡̨̘̩̫̦̰̒̅́̋̔͆̈́͆͋̀́͘ͅt̶̳͈̺̬̫̯̎͛̂̐,̶͚̱́͆̋̽̀̅̄̍̋̉͘ ̸̫͖̣͖̓͛̾͆̔̈͂̿̆̍̀̽̍͌̐͜f̶͍̬̤͗̐͊͗̏̈͂͂̈́͗̀͒͜ͅo̸̧̧̩̞̮̳͇̬͔̣͗̓l̷̘̻̤̲̤̗̊̾̂̃̓̏̒̋͘͘͝ͅk̶̢̧̭̙͉̠̙̃̑͌̐̀̾̓͘̚͠ͅ ̶̨̧̛̳̭̪̯͈̈̄̓̄͆̈͛͆͛̄̃̃̆̀ŏ̵̦̮̖͈̮͖̥̫̟͙̣͊̃͋̅̽ư̴̪̦̱̇͊͂̀̈́̃͌͋͒̀̿̈́̍͠ͅg̴͍͐̃̎̍̄̀̈͒͗̎̚͠ḩ̵̛̭͕̗͋̂̌̒̃̋͗͂̈́͊̔̐̚̚t̵̡̧̛̤͓̥͍̯͔̘̗̟͍͆̇͌̂̾̄͛̚é̵̢̩̮͕̠̯̗̎͛ņ̴̢̧͙͍̲̦̼͉̙͆̒̍̕ ̷͇̖̭̌̐̎̅̈͋͗̐̕͘͜f̵̨̺͎̠͈̜̹̊̎̆́̎͋͊̌̅̈̋̓̽́̕͜͜i̶̦̼̪̒͒̃̌́͑̕͝r̶̛̹̖̔̽̊̓̏̇̐̾́͝s̷̬̩͕͖̝͉̗͐̒͆͂͐̉̅̊̽͐̌͠͝t̸̢̻͙̣̗̪̝͙͙̠̟̜͒̽̊̄̄̔͆̍̀̕͝ͅ ̴̧̳̤͓̜̺̤̫̀͌̀͘͠ͅt̶͍̅͆̀̌̂͘ơ̶̭̈̉̋͂̀̓́̑̑͂̓͘ ̷͇̟͕̦̮́̋͂̒̐́̓̽ự̶̹̻̝̱̮̖̍̃̀͑̈́̈́̊͌̈́̓̿̆ṡ̵̤͕͎̼̗̪̇͒̒ͅe̵̮͆͒̓̐̎̒̅̇̆̃̔̀̌n̴̨̲̭͇͍͂̓̊̅̆̎̏̂̔͘͝͠ ̷̡̹̲̹̺̺̙͉͓̭̜̠̆̇̂ͅm̸̱̾̋̃͛̾̑̒̀̂̚͝o̵̻͗̊͐̋r̷̡̜̻̗̰͉̰̘͍̠͖͌̔͜ę̵̞̰͚̐̔̆̅͂̒͝ ̶̢̛̼̖̦͕͂̎̐̌̈́̍̈́̈͗f̴̛͇̠̪̲̮̖̦̫͔͉̟͕̪̜̈̉̀͋̓̃̊͋͑̒̎̎̋̔͜ơ̵̛̰̼̙̳͈͔̬̗͙͓̜̼̝͌͊̍̋͂̿̐͂̾̊r̷̡̤͖̭͈̗̹̠͗͗̏͜͝͠m̴̲̝̖̮͍͇̓̈́̕͘͠a̴͇̼̳̜̩̜̺̲̋̔̔̍̅͗̍̾́̎́͜͠ļ̷̡͇̜̞͕̙̪̗̥̞̣̻̘̉͌͊̐̅̓͒ ̶̧̻̝̙̙͓̟̣̗̃̾̍̽̏s̸̡̨͕͇͇̪̘̠͎͇̻̞̮̅͜͝͝t̵̹̓i̴͓̱͓͓̦͈̐l̵̹̱͇̣̱̝̰̟͌͜e̴̛̯̹̻͓͔̼͍̳̙̒̌̂̔͜,̸̫͉͔̈́̿͗̅̋̍̿̀̄̈́̓̋̈́̊ ̵͙͐͛̄̒̈́͌͋͊͜t̸̪̼̂͘ǐ̷̭͓͚͖̙̳͔͆̑̂̑̃͐̓͆͑͘͘͝l̸̢̢̛̪̯̀͋́́̉̿͜ ̷͉̬̗͍̣̠̪͍̮̝̀͊̒̐́̉̚̕͜͝ť̸̢̗̮͉̗͕̥̻͇͍̗̬̺͊͛̀̌̋̃̀̎͒̍h̷̢̢͔͚͙̯̺̭̖͉̰̆̈́̑ͅê̵̹̫̰̦̘̼̐̈̂́̌́̏͒̌̑̚ẙ̷̠̬̹́ ̷̦̬̯̜̳͍͍̦̥̟͖̜̾͑͒̈́̂̈̀͗̉̅͘ͅȟ̵̨̡̨̢̧̝͈̭͈̬̹̣͙̑̌̐͗̀̑́̈́̈́͐̓̓ͅȁ̴͔̲̱̲̯̠͙̮̭̪͋̒̑̕͝n̷̡̧̦̜̯̩͎̭̥͔͑̈͋̐̉͑̄̀̈́̉̅͝͠ ̴̟̬͕̙̩̝̎͛̑̐͒̉̍͝ỷ̴̧̯͖̙̂̔͋͗͗̂͑̈́̑̀̄͠͠ͅ-̶̰͎͖̹͍̝́͌̈̑͐̆ḙ̵̢̗̹͔̿̋̐͊̒́̕͜͜s̷̛͎̼̘̫̈̎̎͝͝p̷̢̧̮̠̳͈͚̮̹̫̱̠̳̤̖̄̀̈́̓̀͌̏̕͠͠i̸̛̲͉̒̎͌̾̈̑̈́̔̀̅͆ę̶̥͍̬̬̌d̷̛̛̗̹̝̬͖̠̺̞̳̣͋͆̈̒̀͗͂́͋̑͋̔̕ͅ ̶̧̧̭̲͉̝͉͔̖̪͉̆t̸̪̬̭̗̐̃̓̽͘͠ͅh̶̝̫̉͛̽͑̐̎̏́͛̅̚̚̚ę̷̢̢͍̬̞̞͇̜̯̦̳̗͆̑́̃͌̀̄̂̚͜͜͝͝ ̵̧̮͕̤͛͛̊͋m̵̡̫̥͚̠̩̮͚͓͔͔̄̈̍̉o̶͍͠o̴̘͈̤̯̫͒͜d̷̢̮̹̱̔́̈́̅͂͌͌̀͋̔̋̕̚ ̸̡̢̡̢̱͕̫̤͉̲̪͈͖̓͛̊̋́̔̊͆̎ͅơ̷͋̊̂̿̈́̇̈͑́
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Your example is the very reason there were attempts to standardize the language.
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Reminds me of Stephen Fry's Language monologue.
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I once complained about people saying “would of” instead of “would’ve” and my comment got deleted because it was ableist.
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Starship Troopers isn't a smart movie pretending to be a dumb movie, it's a moderately intelligent movie with pretensions of being a smart movie pretending to be a dumb movie.
Robocop, on the other hand, is a masterpiece.
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Branston beans are superior to Heinz beans.
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Fuck Heinz in general. They don't make things taste like actual things, just sweet crap.
Their tomato sauce is terrible. Tomatoes taste tangy, not sweet.
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This is the first I've heard of Branston beans, but now I'm excited to try them when I'm back in England in a couple of weeks.
I was there for Christmas and bought a relatively huge jar of pickle before I remembered I wasn't going to be able to fly with it. A lot of pork pie was eaten that day.
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Yes!!! I have some Branston beans, always chosen over Heinz any day.
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I am appalled
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The M&S own brand beans are the best I've had. I found Heinz to taste too artificially sweet.
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I'll have to give them a go!
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I really hate services that use 2FA but the app runs on your phone. Like the android app for ms teams still wants me to enter a 2FA code that I recieve on the same phone! This adds zero extra security, the teams app should just directly ask for my fingerprint if that is even necessary.
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I hate that soooo much. It's the scummiest companies that do this to force you to use their app. Even banks do it.
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I hate how companies act like our mommies and daddies needing to protect us. I should be able to make my password “coolguy” or “password” (not that I ever would) and if I get hacked that’s MY fault. It’s so annoying how it gets more and more complex as time goes on. I hate having to make it 90 characters long with 3 social securitiy numbers 10 special characters 3 katakana and 5 hiragana characters and at least 2 characters in Cyrillic
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honestly computer security has the mindset of authoritarians, you can tell how much law enforcement and legal compliance influences the field
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Spanish food sucks! Although I think I already died in that hill today.
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That's at least a very controversial opinion! Wanted to downvote you so bad ;-)
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You don’t like tapas?
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Oh crikey that's controversial
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Being neuroatypical isn't a fashion accessory. Growing up in the 80s and 90s and not being "normal" was marginalising and hard for everyone around. You're not special or trendy because you self-diagnosed autism using an online questionnaire in 2023, you're just an unbearable twat and you want to not have to take accountability for your own shitty attitude.
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like honestly, maybe you have some trauma to work on?
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Not being normal is still marginalizing, the culture has absolutely not shifted to the place where being neurodivergent is trendy or cool. Just because some minority internet subcultures have flipped the association and they value neurodivergence as trendy, special, cool, etc. doesn't mean neurodivergent people don't still struggle to keep jobs and function in daily life in a society that absolutely does not value them and was not built with them in mind.
I understand frustration with people who fake neurodivergence to feel special (there's a whole subreddit dedicated to that kind of cringe), but that doesn't mean everyone who takes pride in being neurodivergent or who self-diagnoses using online intake questionnaires are wrong, or are just trying to feel special but are actually just shirking responsibility and being annoying.
Unless you are a clinician trained to diagnose people, gatekeeping whether others are neurodivergent is not your role, no matter how frustrating or how doubtful you might feel about some people. Again, I am sympathetic to your perspective (I can feel all the same ways), but I think there might be some toxicity in how it is getting expressed.
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I will never play a game that needs admin elevation to run, I don't care how good it allegedly is.
I've missed out on playing several games with friends due to this stance. Star Wars: The Old Republic was the first I can remember. Marvel Rivals is the most recent.
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Cubic meters and tonnes suck when you’re talking about numbers bigger than 1000, which is pretty much every time. Just use liters or grams and slap on whatever SI prefix that makes the most sense for the order of magnitude you’re dealing with.
Who wants to see numbers like 7900000000 W, 500000 V or 0.00001 g. Nobody, that’s who! Use SI prefixes to make the numbers easier to read and understand. We’re already doing that in many places. It’s not that hard.
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If we're using SI prefixes, shouldn't we be dropping usage of litres in favour of cubic decimetres (or whichever prefix is appropriate for the volume you have)?
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Square and cubic units are not making my life easier. Quite the opposite.
For example, when you jump from square kilometers to square megameters, the surface area just explodes even though there’s plenty of interesting and useful stuff going on in between the two. You would end up having a stupid number of digits which totally defeats the purpose of having prefixes in the first place. Same applies to cubic units, but the problems are just even bigger.
That’s why I prefer to use ml, l, kl, Ml, Gl, Tl etc. for volumes. We could do the same with surface area too. Maybe dig up the archaic are unit and start using sensible prefixes to make calculations easier.
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Don’t debate on things we have little to no expertise/personal experience in. [insert really divisive issue here], I am not [this group of people], [other group of people], and don’t have the legal/medical/[insert other relevant thing] background to comment on this issue.
If you ignore those hot issues, you can focus on the important things that matter in life. Like what’s for breakfast tomorrow morning.
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Touchscreen laptops, and by extension "two-in-one" laptops, are an absolute abomination of a form factor that should not exist.
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its been almost 20 years now that people have been using smartphones where touching the screen is the only way you can do anything. when you notice fingerprints on your phone's screen you just wipe them off. why would that suddenly be an issue when it comes to laptop screens?
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Mostly agree, but my thinkpad x220t with the full spin and flip screen and stylus is just fun to use!!
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Store brand is as good or better than A-brands in about 90% of all cases.
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I have had enough times in which this was not the case, so dispute the percentage. But this can be the case, yes.
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Except cheap macaroni
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They only got the Predator's mandibles right in the first movie.
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The really steep one that'll give me a heart attack.
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Anything more than the bearst hint of icing is not for me, personally.
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Motorcycles are the best means to go camping.
When you're travelling, you are outside. Open the visor, breathe in the pine wood air. Unlike a car where you're effectively disconnected from your surroundings, you're much more in them. You can also reach much more secluded places, so you can just go to "that spot" and spend the night there. It's almost as good as bicycles or hiking in that regard but unlike those two, you can also cover distances, spontaneously deciding to just hit the road for a day and sleep 1000 km further south the next night.
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I live near the A7, a North/South directed highway in Germany going all the way from DK to AT and I also live near a motorcycle hotspot/meetup point.
In the summer, there are so many Scandinavians doing just that, making long distance travels with motorcycles, sometimes even with these small motorcycle trailers attached. They go camping in my town and continue the next day further south (or back up north respectively).I don't have a bike nor do I like camping, but I love seeing these guys every time :D
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The big Costco muffins were 1000x better than the new ones.
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I miss those bad boys so much. Especially the chocolate ones
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Systemd is a pile of shit that is actively ruining Linux.
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Keeping a girlfriend/wife is easy. Just eat pussy. It's like the skeleton key to women's hearts and minds.
If you're consistent and eat with joy, even after breakups...you will find they want you back. The simple reason is....the other guys just don't eat like you did.
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Peach is favorite food!
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Someone gets it!
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Unless you marry a prude. Oops.
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Modern flip phones (e.g. Samsung Fold) are stupid and tacky and will never be as good as previous gen flip phones. Just won't. Sorry not sorry.
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What isn't as good about them?
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Calling Buddhism or Confucianism not a religion is a political claim which the speakers usually have zero knowledge of and I’m sick of it. The history of what is religion in China from the republic onwards with the very Protestant understanding of what is a world religion is very important to understand this question. But most people either claim this for their hippy means or to be derogatory
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I mean, it really comes down to how you define religion. A lot of people's conception of religion is grounded in the Abrahamic traditions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam), and other traditions don't fit neatly into that framework. It's useful to identify the Christian/Abrahamic lens through which various traditions have been historically seen and to reexamine whether the actual reality is in line with the picture we have of them. Whether such traditions are ultimately classified as religions or not is semantic, but it's worthwhile to examine them as they are and to question assumptions about them.
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You’re 100% right. Religious studies went through exactly what you described. Thinking of religion as Abrahamic, opening up to world religions through the former lens, opening up to more that would have been considered cults or bad, then now I think quite open to most religions. Defining religion is a boring but important part of the field that many monographs feel it’s their duty to do.
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Ketchup has no place in the world except to cover the taste of spoiled meat.
Especially in the US, a third of the bottle is sugar. Hot dogs? Put ball park mustard on it, the spices in the mustard complement the dog.
Ketchup is a fascist condiment. You start with a little, then it drowns out and dominates everything you put it on and all you’re left with is a sugary tomatoey bullshit taste in your mouth.
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Ketchup is used quite often in asian cuisine.
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I would mostly agree, but Currywurst (grilled sausage with, usually, ketchup and curry is an absolute banger of A dish.
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good hill, but the acidity of the mustard and the sweetness of tom sauce on a dog is dream like
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Yes but the icing is what i want.
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Percentile dice (two ten-sided ones) are read with one die representing the 10s digit, the other the ones digit.
00 and 0 = 100
10 and 0 = 10
The shit people come up with as alternatives to reading the results are wrong
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That is the correct way and is even given as examples. What is wrong with people
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How else are people reading them?
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A guy I played with in university's read them as addition, which is the same as reading them as digits with the exception of the tens.
00 + 0 was 10 (because the "0" on a d10 is usually read as 10)
10 + 0 was 20
90 + 0 was 100
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CROCKS AND SOCKS ARE PEAK FOOTWARE! I WILL STILL WARE THEM AND YOU CANT STOP MEEEEE!
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You do you! I respect that
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Puddles
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Socks and sandals is awesome.
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Hard agree on crocs being optimal footwear. I only add socks situationally.
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The "phones are bad and suck your life away" crowd has gotten way too big. Yes, it's easy to waste time on them, but that's just something you gotta learn, like not watching TV series all night. You're a grown up, deal with it. Also maybe you feel bad for spending all that time on your phone just because feeling bad for that feels cool? It's actually your life you can spend it however you want. You don't need to be productive or successful to be a worthy human. Be a lazy shit that plays stupid phone games while on a train to work.
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Techno killing all the other music genres + its not underground anymore! It's not combining techno with house or trance, but making techno tracks with some house/trance elements in it. Not to mention that since it was played in big festivals, it lost its label underground.
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are you talking about EDM? Because techno certainly isn't mainstream.
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Yes I'm talking about Electronic Music, and Techno is mainstream, don't you see it? it's being played everywhere, adapted by every genre.
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Whipped cream sucks.
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Modern medicine, no matter how smart and clever we think we are, still mostly involves doing things that just keep the patient amused while letting nature take it's course.
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Ah yes, titanium joints and donor organs just magically grow in people that need them, the surgeons just play jazz while you’re asleep
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I can only 15% agree, this is true for certain things like cancer where we have found ways to mitigate the risk of death but haven't cured it, as well as certain other chronic illnesses. But for plenty of things you would go to a doctor for, they have a solution.
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Hahahaha thanks for the laugh
What your talking about is homeopathy, chiropractors etc.
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Nah. Give RFK a few years to really implement "let nature take its course" and you'll change your tune (assuming you don't get a brain worm).
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You say 70% icing like it's a bad thing
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It doesn't matter which side you put the toilet paper in. I'm poly-dextrous and it is the way
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That this question has been posted every single day for the last week.
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If the ingredient of whatever snacks/dessert you're making is mostly chocolate, only use couverture or don't even try. There's place for compound but not here.
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The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (not Sonic the Hedgehog/SatAM) cartoon 4 year old version of Tails is absolute peak Tails.
As a pretty big Tails fan, I really like this very childish Tails who has little to no filter when he speaks, sometimes.
Have yet to play forces, but I've seen the cutscene where Tails calls out for Sonic's help and I absolutely love it because it reminds me of that cartoon version of Tails who at times is just absolutely helpless and needs Sonic to come rescue him.
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Testosterone is the devil.
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What? How so?
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Anger enhancer.
Things I dislike about being male stem from this cunt chemical. Mostly macho shit and aggression. It often feels like going against your nature.
Could be talking mad shit from my personal experience of depression manifesting as anger. 🤷
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People will all change. In the past, I strongly opposed my wife's purchase of luxury goods, such as LV handbags. And we even quarreled because of such matters. Looking back now, it really wasn't necessary at all. So, people's concepts will indeed change.
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Bootstrap CSS is the cancer of web development and its use implies a misunderstanding and ignorance of your craft.
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The contemporary disdain for postmodernism was a Psy op designed to completely destroy philosophy from the inside. And the supposed replacements for post modernism (metamodernism or whatever) were just pop culture millennial distractions that just took attention away from the philosophical issues of the inadequacies of language and crisis of our communications systems. We became stuck in limbo. Cultural conversation dumbed down by useless culture wars articulated in low attention span pop culture commentary and therapy speak.
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yeah but if you're clever you can come to the conclusion that postmodernism is the way to go
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People that tell you to use *nix are so limited in a technical sense, they cannot be trusted
It's just a tool, it's like somebody telling you that you need to use a certain brand of Philips head screwdrivers because they're the best tool
It's revelatory that the person does not have a robust understanding of technology really
And before you come at me, I spent more than two decades in tech, two of them were professional game developer and web startup dude, don't even try me.
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The KISS (keep it simple, stupid) philosophy often results in *nix being the best tool for the job (philosophically speaking). Other OSs obviously have their merit, but when the goal is simplicity (in terms of "moving parts") then LFS, DSL, or Gentoo are going to be the simplest (in terms of moving parts) options for most tasks.
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You have proven my point, you don't seem to understand that *nix and all it's variants, and all the FOSS built on top of it it's just one set of tools in a gigantic suite of available tools, and there are specific uses, and it's totally inappropriate to ever talk about it as the best tool for anything, ever.
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Quickly gets lost in definitions, but the reason men are at the "top" of all societies, is because men are biologically advantaged to do so
You're not going to tell me 2 million years of human evolution doesn't know what it's doing
It does not mean that women or any other group are not valuable, it's just that nature has slotted us in our places
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Yeah, that's a stupid ignorant opinion. Provably incorrect, I might add, but frankly not worth my time
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Walpurgis is Homura's witch
Icing is the best part of the cupcake OP 🤌 come on!
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The icing is the only part I like - I literally eat the cake separately so that I can maximize the icing-to-cake ratio in a single bite.
This is mostly because frosting is "wet" and offsets how dry the cake is. I dislike the dryness of the cake so much I prefer to eat most of it in one go and get over it, and then enjoy the rest of the cupcake with my preferred 9:1 proportion of icing to cake. 😆
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We should be using soap and water after popping, toilet paper alone is barbaric
Bum gun or Bidet. The humane way to toilet.
I have yet to experience one but bidets seem like the dream.
Tf is a bum gun
You just gave me a really good idea for a portable bidet actually. I normally use a little squeeze lotion bottle but it doesn't have the required water power... Now I gotta find some of those tiny water guns we used to have as kids.
Oh no, I’m not washing my ass with soap every time, but I commend you for commitment to the cause.
I sort of agree, but I also poop 5times a day. That would take up a lot of my time.
Have you checked with a doctor?
That doesn't sound healthy
... I don't think that's normal bud
Would it? Paper is nice and dry but washing your ass at the bathroom sink and towel drying is faster in my experience. It's just more of a hassle, but it does feel a lot cleaner.
Colitis Ulcerosa? My sympathies.
No idea if it's barbaric but it certainly is not as clean as it should be. At least, I think so.
Had a bidet. Had to get rid of it.
The toddler thought it was hilarious.