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- Comment on No one. 2 days ago:
What’s the maximum amount of money a person can actually earn in their life?
- Comment on Anon goes to the doctor 2 days ago:
It depends on the reason for their agitation. If they’re having a paranoid moment then you need ti tell them the truth to help them out of it.
If you lie they might pick up on it and that kills the trust they have in you.
You don’t have to press them to take meds they don’t want to take, but if you lie about why you’re stopping (“maybe you’re right”), instead of telling the truth about why you’re stopping (“I don’t want to break our therapeutic connection by pushing you”), it can make things backslide.
- Comment on My hobby 3 days ago:
Same here
- Comment on Anon plays spin the bottle 3 days ago:
Stop putting your comments in parentheses
- Comment on New report claims gamers spend more time watching videos about gaming than playing games 5 days ago:
Call of Duty Warzone already has in-game video. When you’re dead, you watch your teammate play until they can revive you. You see through their eyes and can talk to them.
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 6 days ago:
Which games?
- Comment on Get off my back! 1 week ago:
cold as fuck man
- Comment on Meal prep 1 week ago:
Or plastic
- Comment on Starbucks wants a Bachelor's degree for a barista 1 week ago:
That’s pretty cool
- Comment on Binary search 1 week ago:
Binary search requires splitting the search space into two halves, then asking “is it in that half?”
Normally the “is it in that half?” check involves a numerical comparison: test value versus target value. “higher or lower” here gets you to “is it in that half?”
So finding the midpoint seems like a core part of the process, but really that’s just a shortcut in the case of comparable values, that helps you split into two and check membership.
I admit I couldn’t think of that either: just alter half the items and check for effect.
- Comment on Shape of the Heart 1 week ago:
Dude your mom with a two chambered heart
- Comment on Shape of the Heart 1 week ago:
A true inflection point no doubt
- Comment on Shape of the Heart 1 week ago:
And maybe to share muscle power between different phases of the stroke. Two muscles that evolved to pump different chambers could both work on the same chamber when they’re folded over one another. Allow them to transfer force between the layers.
- Comment on Pterosaurs 1 week ago:
So far, it was working. The trail of possums stretched behind them. Where they’d just walked, possums sat hunched on the ground, munching contendedly. Further back, they slept.
The only problem was, they still had a long way to go.
“Taco check!”
“Three” “One” “I’m out”
“Me too”Halfway across the field, and they were down to just four tacos left. A new cloud ptossums erupted over the hill, bearing down faster than the group before.
“Switch to soakers!”
They all carried Super Soaker 50s — courtesy of the Toys R Us — filled with jim beam. Carl and Anne also had the two pistols they’d found, loaded with Peppermint Schnapps.
“Remember to pump!” was all Carl had time to cry out before the swarm was upon them.
- Comment on Pterosaurs 1 week ago:
A sort of battlefield drone used by the Raptor Legions. So called because you’d “ptossum” at the enemy where’d they’d wreak havoc
- Comment on No need to boil the ocean 1 week ago:
Mandela Effect time!
There’s never been a product called “InstaPot”. You just hallucinated that along with millions of other people. It’s called “Instant Pot”; always has been.
Other things that also never existed:
- Stouffer’s Stove-Top Stuffing (It’s always been Kraft)
- McDonalds hash browns orders with two patties (it’s one)
- Haas avocados (Hass, and always hass beeen)
- Comment on No need to boil the ocean 1 week ago:
We could use the skim milk for flushing toilets and washing cars. We needn’t shackle ourselves to these mutants forever.
- Comment on No need to boil the ocean 1 week ago:
In the book How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place, a team of economists finds the most effective use of money to improve humans’ lives is to buy and distribute vitamins in malnourished areas.
These are areas where people have sufficient calories, but lack certain nutrients in their local diets. It’s relatively cheap to just buy and distribute tons of vitamin supplements to fill in those gaps, allowing kids there to grow up without developmental deficiencies.
That book’s scope is the whole world, but I’m sure it would be very helpful to do the same in the US in food desert areas too.
- Comment on No need to boil the ocean 1 week ago:
Is our corn subsidy written in blood?
Has it spilled any blood by existing?
High fructose corn syrup’s pretty damn bad for people, and it’s everywhere because of government subsidies.
I guess the big question is: can government code cause death too? Or only prevent it? Are we always safer with more laws on the books?
- Comment on No need to boil the ocean 1 week ago:
Yeah imagine a government you design collectively and then opt into. Sounds horrible.
- Comment on Meal prep 1 week ago:
The air fryer either superheats or melts the mug, depending on its material. You either scald your hands picking it up like you would grab it from the microwave, or you burn your house down.
- Comment on Meal prep 1 week ago:
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of pop?
- Comment on Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot 1 week ago:
Orcs and Humans were put into direct conflict by the opening of a portal by evil wizards. To fight for their homeland doesn’t make them scumbags, just brave fighters doing their best to follow orders, stand in the right places at the right times, and chop down whatever stands between them and safety.
- Comment on Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot 1 week ago:
What’s GoG?
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 1 week ago:
Bit with a mad dog
This makes it seem like someone wielded the dog as a weapon
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 1 week ago:
If was the covid vaccine and you know it!
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 1 week ago:
That one guy that died of Sciatica 😣
- Comment on Canadian Town Fined and Mayor Sent for Compulsory Education After Failing to Hoist Pride Flag 1 week ago:
So because he didn’t want to be discriminatory, he got charges of discrimination.
Good job, Human Rights Tribunal
- Comment on I or my family does has a 3 year old mixed border collie. Is it to late to train him for something new? 1 week ago:
If he is conscious then he is capable of forming new connections in his brain. Yes he’s trainable.
- Comment on lewd noodles 1 week ago:
I happen to be a scaleless snake expert, as a result of my extensive experience.
The trick with hairless snakes is you have to keep them warm. Too little heat, and this guy will go completely rigid.
Imagine an icicle made of blood, with a snake built around it. That’s your hairless snake with too little heat.
Beyond that’s its basic hairless snake stuff: clothing, thermal tattoos, an endless supply of hairless rats, and little snakeweights to help them stay buff.
It’s not easy raising these special creatures, but it’s very rewarding once you get over the unmitigable horror of feeling them crawl around your shoulders, and their habit of whispering as you shudder.
Because of their lack of scales, they’re unable to vocalize, and hence they speak in a hoarse whisper.