Cuberoot

@Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  when you have to piss while shitting, do you stand up turn around and piss on your shit and then sit back down to finish shitting?

  Clearing both lower ports from a sitting position isn’t a problem. The problem is when one feels simultaneous urges to defecate and vomit. I’m fortunate enough for this to be a rare occurrence personally, but I do keep a mop bucket within reach of the toilet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come it seems for the past decades the Catholic Church has been plagued with sex crimes especially among young boys? How long has this been going on? Or did I just miss something up.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Historically, it’s been alleged that some ‘celibate’ Catholic bishops fucked women. When the resulting bastard children grew up, they were rewarded with coveted Church appointments. If anyone noticed the apparent favoritism, they blamed the adultery on their brother, saying the appointee was a nephew (it: nipote) rather than the priest’s own illegitimate son. Thus the origin of the term nepotism.

  Probably some of them had different tastes and realized that fucking boys leaves less evidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone define "liberal" (in its use as an insult) for me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Phil Ochs says it better than I can:

  In every American community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects, ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally.

  The issues have changed slightly from the 1960s, but his song’s accusations of hypocrisy and NIMBYism among those who publicly espouse progressive causes still hit close enough to home.

• Why do Olympic medalists bite their medals?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electoral College and The Numbers | USA question⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard to predict this in advance, since it’s sensitive to things like voter turnout in non-competitive states. For instance, a blizzard in New England could affect the popular vote without impacting the electoral college vote. So I’ll just tell you how to calculate it.

  First, identify the tipping point state. Some guys think it might be Michigan this year. Meaning either candidate can win by winning Michigan and every state more favorable to them than Michigan. Other good guesses are Pennsylvania and maybe Arizona. Then take the difference between a candidate’s margin in Michigan verses their national average.

  2020: The tipping point state was Wisconsin. Biden won WI by 0.6% and nationally by 4.5% representing a 3.9% electoral college advantage to the Republican. 2012: The tipping point state was Colorado. Obama won CO by 5.4% and nationally by 3.9% representing a 1.5% electoral college advantage to the Democrat.

  So the electoral college doesn’t intrinsically benefit the Republicans, but it probably will this year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pick your side⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Science (incl math) is green. Blue is geography. Orange is sports. Pink is Entertainment. Art and Literature apparently can be either purple or brown. You’re still missing yellow for history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨madlad⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There isn’t much math to do really. Take as axioms that the obvious way to balance 2 or 3 tubes is in fact balanced, and that if you add a balanced arrangement of tubes to an already balanced arrangement, the result is still balanced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do companies get out of rewards programs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re trying to capture the consumer surplus. Normally, a seller can have either high margins and low volume, or low margins and high volume. The retailers wet dream is to get the benefits of both. If the reward program profiles you as someone who buys coffee at $4.00, but not at $6.00, you’ll get coupons for coffee that the people who buy coffee every week regardless of price won’t get.

  FWIW, I’ve found stores that don’t even have rewards cards frequently have lower prices than their competitors’ reward card sale prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨English, old⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s Chaucer era.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you drink breast milk if it was commercially available?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I assumed the only reason we don’t already is because of the ethical issues with subjecting human women to the practices that make bovine milk economical.