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- Comment on You can't argue with his logic 2 days ago:
Also, at least officially, the reason they baptize teenagers with the names of your dead ancestors is because they believe baptism of a physical body is necessary for salvation, AND that they will continue to pester said dead ancestors to convert to Mormonism in heaven’s waiting room.
If some random little shit who lied to his local bishop about cranking it three times a week will get dunked when they read the right name, apparently that helps with the backlog or something, and White Jesus really wants them to get right on that, I assume because his dad is up his ass about TPS Reports or something.
- Comment on A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, nine rings were gifted to the galaxy of man... 6 days ago:
Look, sir, NAZGUL!
- Comment on May not buff out 6 days ago:
Fair enough. I’ve checked levels on a good number of transmissions over the years but never a fancy BMW’s. Possibly also power steering fluid.
- Comment on May not buff out 6 days ago:
It doesn’t look like a 1967 Impala…
- Comment on May not buff out 1 week ago:
Dude is very possibly a boomer, or I guess Gen X, douchebag, but he’s not necessarily much past 60. He looks like hell because he just totaled his midlife crisis car in memeworthy fashion and had half a dozen airbags explode in his face.
- Comment on May not buff out 1 week ago:
Everybody else has cc already said, but the transmission fluid in particular is why it’s red.
- Comment on Is there any other meats that are a good comparison for the taste of venison? 1 week ago:
I’ve had it pounded and pan fried. It was like a somewhat tougher, gamier chicken-fried steak or wienerschnitzel.
It was… okay. Wouldn’t turn it down, but also wouldn’t seek it out.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah. I don’t think this is too hard to parse, nor is it likely to be some cogent political protest.
- New flat surface attracts graffiti.
- Within a short time, someone else breaks the glass to get access to the balls because they can’t or won’t use the app.
There could easily be an element of “fuck that app,” but the “reward” here is access to a basketball while at the park, I think Occam’s razor is an appropriate initial framework.
It also looks like the city was prudent and avoided a major investment of tax money.
- Comment on Trailer love, trailer life 2 weeks ago:
It’s old American military officer housing, rented out as low income housing for several decades, then after it accidentally lasted long enough to appeal to locals, it was refurbed into a kitschy/artsy commercial area to indulge in Americana through a a Japanese lens.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Same, girl. Same.
Mmmm fried gravy!
- Comment on I’m putting together a team 2 weeks ago:
Flashbacks to some of my first days on the Fediverse. God what a cluster OceanGate was.
- Comment on fruit flavor without the fruit 3 weeks ago:
I would just about bet the texture is similar, but maybe more uniform. I think the goal is to make a goopy sweet and tart syrup reduction barel vaguely reminiscent of what a proper fruit pie filling would be like, and then construct a cobbler the usual way.
- Comment on How come soccer and tennis never caught on in the states? Also why hasn't there been an NFL team vs a Soccer Team and vice versa. Just to prove which is the better sport? Details inside. 3 weeks ago:
There are so many. Some highlights though:
- There’s a salary cap of $6.5M, which is actually more “League One” than Championship, but there are loopholes to exploit (Beckham rule and its offspring most predominant among them), and MLS is full of Americans and Western Hemisphere players who are good but would never get UK work permits so their wages are a bit depressed compared to second and third tier British players.
- Maximum senior roster of 30 players, of which 10 are (nominally) supposed to be on the equivalent of 1800 pounds/week. Exceptions here as well, but in broad strikes the bottom of the roster is WAAAY cheaper than even the middle.
- Several of them are supposed to be 24 or younger, further limiting the pool.
- There is an internal market to trade them around, but teams can only have an average of 8 non-domestic players. Rules slightly vary for the cc US teams versus Canadian.
- The league is legally one business, and holds all contracts. The “owners” are investors in the league who have a contractual agreement to manage a team. It happens much less often than it used to, but you occasionally see things that appear to be league office meddling in player movement.
- Comment on How come soccer and tennis never caught on in the states? Also why hasn't there been an NFL team vs a Soccer Team and vice versa. Just to prove which is the better sport? Details inside. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, no worries. One of the beauties of soccer is that playing it is not hard, but playing it competently is, and playing it at a high level is insanely difficult.
Don’t get me wrong though, in spite of the perfectly good reasons not to be, I still love American football, and you’re right that the other way around would be a literal bloodbath.
- Comment on How come soccer and tennis never caught on in the states? Also why hasn't there been an NFL team vs a Soccer Team and vice versa. Just to prove which is the better sport? Details inside. 3 weeks ago:
The NFL team would be miserable and probably have soft-tissue injuries, and eventually would not be able to stop the soccer players from navigating around them like cones, assuming they ever could. Assuming they could learn the byzantine rulebook in a reasonable timeframe, the soccer players would be instantly broken into little pieces. No one would enjoy either contest, and we would learn nothing.
As for why they didn’t catch on, first I’m not so sure they didn, as tennis in particular has always had its place in the American culture, though its association with the “country club” class may have limited its ceiling. American soccer has its issues, and it is not pressuring the “traditional” American team sports, but attendances are healthy, sponsorships are good, and quality of play is decent, with a starting 11 being roughly comparable to the bottom half of the English second division. Roster rules would mean an MLS club would quickly get ground into dirt in that English second division, but matchday 1 might be pretty competitive. Taking your question more generously, though, competition from baseball, followed by organizational disarray, followed by competition from college gridiron football, followed by competition from professional gridiron football, with the “not invented here” syndrome left it seen as a sport for immigrants and then as a safe yet cheap option for suburban children.
Televised World Cups and Pele started to erode that some, but more organizational disarray left the country without a proper professional league from 1984 until 1995, and when it was restarted it was intentionally done in a manner to control costs and favor management, which it ironically was able to do because it could always argue the players could seek employment in other countries.
- Comment on How come soccer and tennis never caught on in the states? Also why hasn't there been an NFL team vs a Soccer Team and vice versa. Just to prove which is the better sport? Details inside. 3 weeks ago:
NFL athletes would have the conditioning and stamina to at the very least compete in a soccer match
A few might not be utterly exhausted and wishing for death, but running around attempting to play soccer for ninety minutes is not the same as succeeding. Even Wide Receivers and Defensive Backs with some soccer experience aren’t going to hang with any professional team; that’s just not what they train for. Then there’s the skill issue. It would be like asking which Indy car would do better in the America’s Cup. ;-)
- Comment on battlecheat 3 weeks ago:
High risk, high reward.
- Comment on You need to think long term 3 weeks ago:
A couple of years ago, I was applying for a work visa, and they needed my college transcripts. Despite matriculating in 19somethingsomethingoldold, my class was one of the first to use an online system that was able to be migrated into multiple subsequent generations of registrar systems, so they needed to have my school email ID, which I hadn’t thought about eleventymilliongetoffmylawn years, so THAT meant placing a call to campus IT, and providing enough personal information for them to look it up.
And that, my online friends, is when you are forced to viscerally confront that you were a deeply cringe knowitall who spent way too much time thinking your personality flaws were edgy superpowers and that knowing the name of a random reference in a Bertrand Russell book you barely understood proved how smart you were.
- Comment on I vaguely remember these but forgot what they were for 4 weeks ago:
That’s just reckless! You’re a maverick who doesn’t play by the rules! I’m too old for this shit!
I actually do think the point is there more as an alignment guide for a potentially sloppy stack of punched paper (see also the manila envelopes with brads built in), but I would be lying if I said I never skipped the hole punch when it was just a couple of sheets.
- Comment on I vaguely remember these but forgot what they were for 4 weeks ago:
More or less. Nominally they were for quickly binding paper that had been through a 2- or 3-hole punch.
Really, they were for making badass clocks in kindergarten.
- Comment on When you are proud to get a diploma while being illiterate 5 weeks ago:
I get it. We skew older here, but somebody playing around on the fuzzy edges of spelling a gen-z meme is not illiteracy. To be clear, I am also a clueless old, but I thought I’d look it up before piling on.
- Comment on Rhymes, motherfucker 1 month ago:
“What’s worse than lies but not as bad as statistics?”
“DAMNED LIES, MOTHERFUCKER.”
- Comment on Cultural impact 1 month ago:
At this point, I think its most lasting cultural impact is everyone’s opinion on how little cultural impact it had.
- Comment on What character is the king of plot armor? 1 month ago:
That’s a fair take, but for me it just went past the point of willing suspension of disbelief, and I don’t find that meta-narrative compelling. It may well be a reason for me to re-evaluate it though, to decide if I think it’s poorly done versus something where what they wanted to do simply didn’t connect with me.
- Comment on What character is the king of plot armor? 1 month ago:
I recently finished Blue-Eyed Samurai, and Mizu’s increasingly powerful plot armor comes very close to ruining the whole show.
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They make a point of inflicting fairly realistic injuries, and of showing the required treatment, and in the early going they even need time to heal, but the farther we get into the plot, the more intense and more frequent the injuries, while at the same time the less time it takes for Mizu to heal enough to function at a superhuman level. The arrow through the ankle is one that comes to mind. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with power-fantasy anime (or anime-adjacent animation), but it felt like a bait and switch, especially since no one else seems to have it so the stakes end up yawningly low.
- Comment on Why dogs are better pets than cats - The Brock Press 1 month ago:
This is definitely the right community, LOL. I am absolutely a dogs>cats person, but this junior-high school-paper article has me questioning 20 years of a catless house.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
So many rainbow explosions…
- Comment on Here I come! 1 month ago:
Show what you know! In most parts of the US, there is no train!
- Comment on How do abortions work exactly? I get you lose the kid or whatever. My ex rapist used to tell me if I ever got pregnant he would RU486 me. Wouldn't a person rather go to a doc instead of a pill? 1 month ago:
I agree, but ol’ Don is, if nothing else, a curator of interesting writing prompts.
- Comment on Not even a big melon 1 month ago:
The DeBeers-ish sentimental marketing is also a bit of a scam, which ends up working nicely with the cost being a scam. I am very happy with my 25 year old English Lit degree; it was was what I was able to get through with where I was discipline-wise, and I did learn all those critical thinking and life skills, and it even opened adequate doors, career-wise. I reckon my grades were inflated somewhat by my professors’ sheer relief that I was engaging with the material and, for all their flaws, my papers were obviously my own work. Still, I think my memories would be very different if I had graduated with $180k of student loan debt from a bucolic college somewhere in the New England hills instead of a $2k balance on a Discover Card, incurred over 4.25 years of nonsense at local state U.
I’m all for college, and not just STEM and business. Frankly some our current generation of tech leaders could use to have taken a few more philosophy classes (except for Peter Thiel… oh my) or at least smoked a few more bowls with the liberal arts kids. Still, people need to be clear-eyed about what a degree will and won’t do, and they need to understand that you absolutely can and should put a price-tag on the experiences.