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- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 6 days ago:
It feels so good when he stops.
- Comment on Why doesn't Daredevil just get 'good' rich people to pay off judges and the anti-vigilante task force police, or get them to make sure Fisk doesn't get into office? 6 days ago:
I have not seen it, so this is just based off of my general understanding of the daredevil universe.
If he believes it’s wrong, why would he do it? Classic comic books are like morality plays and the point of this arc is that voter manipulation is wrong. A real person might do it in return, but Daredevil is an archetype, not a person. He does The Right Thing™.
- Comment on girl, ruuuuunnnn 6 days ago:
If you don’t both feel like the lucky one, it’s not worth continuing
- Comment on Anon is Arthur Schopenhauer 2 weeks ago:
I’m an immigrant in Germany and my boss (from here) recently asked me if it was a jerk move to do laundry on a Sunday if she checked with her neighbors first.
It made me realize I’ve been such an unintentional asshole. I’ve been avoiding things like carpentry and band practice, not laundry. There’s a guy on my street who mows the lawn before nine in the morning on Sundays though, so I’m not the worst in my neighborhood.
- Comment on Glasses 2 weeks ago:
Same, although if I take them off or forget to put them on somewhere in public, I feel very naked
- Comment on wanna have a perfectly healthy guy take 1 recreationally so i can use him as a human dildo for hours 2 weeks ago:
I’d like to imagine they’re 71, just hoping patiently for that youthful libido to finally abate
- Comment on wanna have a perfectly healthy guy take 1 recreationally so i can use him as a human dildo for hours 2 weeks ago:
That feels like a valid poetic choice to me, but that “who’s” is getting to me,
- Comment on New gf 2 weeks ago:
The barbed wire fence is a nice touch
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
Awesome, thank you!
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
I have no idea how uncommon this is here and hope I’m not doxxing myself, but there’s only been one option (the city itself) in the ten+ apartments my husband and I have lived in in this city for water, electricity, and heat (though obviously there are options for using pellet stoves and similar things, but that doesn’t come up much in apartments), so I don’t know if I live in a weird place or if there’s just one city office exchange that serves as a middleman for multiple options.
Or I might just be misinterpreting you and you meant things like pellet stoves, fireplaces, etc. I guess I would have thought the Schornsteinfeger would have reported the heating method for your home to the city.
It’s not technically a student apartment, but it’s right next to campus and we’re definitely the first married couple to live there.
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
I’m not confusing it, that’s exactly what I’m talking about- they’re employed by the utility company in my city and contracted through the landlord.
The apartment is not actually a huge problem, slightly better than a standard student apartment, it’s more that the guy was just drive-by judging my life.
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
In Germany, not only do they know all of that, but they come out every year to check it. This year, they showed up several days before they said they were going to, but when the guy walked in, he looked around, and then gave us a bunch of information about dealing with slum lords, lol.
- Comment on Teenis 3 weeks ago:
Yes. People might always pronounce their names differently from normal phonetic rules, especially if they don’t speak German, but the word wiener is unrelated.
- Comment on Teenis 3 weeks ago:
In German words with ie or ei diphthongs, you pronounce the English name of the second letter. So wiener is pronounced veen-uh, and Weiner is vine-uh (both very roughly).
- Comment on I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years. 4 weeks ago:
That’s impressive as hell, tbh. I’m glad rehab centers focus on such useful, otherwise seemingly inaccessible skills
- Comment on Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing. 4 weeks ago:
Imo definitely common sense, which might not be a formal category of intelligence, but it follows from empathy, risk assessment, and understanding of consequences. Sociologists could probably do research to nail down an exact definition through and psychologists could probably measure it, though I suspect it would only really work intrademographically. What’s common sense for a rich, well spoken, fourteen year old white girl is different from common sense for a poor, uneducated sounding, twenty five year old black man, because they unfortunately face very different potential consequences for the same actions.
As an example
When I was the former in the US, I used to seek out and make conversation with cops if I was planning to buy or carrying (well sealed and odorless) weed at an event, because I figured they’d think I was less likely to do that if I was committing a crime, so they’d be less suspicious of me/give me more leniency if they caught me (because police corruption is a fractal: any amount of positive or negative interaction with them confers exactly that amount of forbearance or spite in future interactions). That’s terrible common sense for the latter demographic, but it worked very well for me and most of the white stoner girls I knew. Even the same demographic but older has different ideas of sensibleness. I would never seek out a cop like that today, because: A) I know that the real reason it used to work probably has more to do with us having been young teenage girls recognizing their authority than with us seeming more innocent (though the corruption bit was right), and wouldn’t apply to a woman as old as I am anymore*; and B) what works best for my current demographic is just blending in (or I guess getting way closer to a cop, but that’s both skin crawling and a much longer game than I am willing to play).
/* I’d argue it’s partial credit for common sense there and partially luck that my theory had positive consequences in common with reality, but this exemplifies the problem of letting each demographic decide for themselves what constitutes “common sense,” and use it as a metric for correct behavior /** (I’m sorry about the footnote within a footnote, my ADHD meds just kicked in on a day when I have nothing to do for the first time in over two months, after just finishing teaching a six week long German intensive course, teaching the same group for four hours every weekday, and the fediverse is the victim of my hyperfocus today). Common sense might convince an adult not to trust the extremely rare sketchy-seeming but totally genuine opportunity, but it might also convince a teenager to trust the teacher or other adult entrusted with their safety who’s willing to buy them alcohol and nicotine products. However, if we allow people to weigh in for all of their younger demographic counterparts, we would risk making common sense impossible for all but the most mature people, thus making it no longer the metric we’re looking for. /** it’s not really an issue for our definition or measurement of it though, it doesn’t really change things if common sense is sometimes wrong - Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 4 weeks ago:
Solo esos gatos gordos pueden pagar una leche cuarta.
Fuck do I need to practice my Spanish.
- Comment on A/B: Part Duex 4 weeks ago:
He does look strikingly similar to Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort, like this looks like the real guy Voldemort might have been based on, but I can’t tell if that’s really what his head looks like or if it’s just from photoshopping the hair out and accidentally shortening the forehead.
- Comment on How do I even orient this? 4 weeks ago:
For a allein bottle, it’s pretty fucking groß
- Comment on Birthing pains 4 weeks ago:
I was aware of much of that, but somehow never considered that other cats have multiple births, so hyenas probably do too…
- Comment on Polymarket bet: Will Trump praise Allah again by April 15? 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact: no!
I mean, I’d argue the emoluments clause should apply here, because poly market isn’t limited to Americans, but given that the sources of counter bets are not really public, I can see why it might not. Damn, I guess the ToS of polymarket?
- Comment on In reference to kitchen wrap (aluminum, paper or plastic), do you prefer to tear up against the lid, or down against the box? 4 weeks ago:
Plastic up, the others down
- Comment on not the ichor of long forgotten gods I promise 5 weeks ago:
This guy would like Octavia Butler
- Comment on Emissions go brrrr 5 weeks ago:
Imagine paying for gas or electricity.
This meme brought to you by the pedestrian/bicycle gang.
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 5 weeks ago:
Unternehmer/undertaker is also fun
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 5 weeks ago:
How would I feel? Uncomfortable. What would I do with that feeling if it’s based on exclusively my knowledge of their ages? Nothing.
When I was 28, I dated a 43 year old and it was a fine relationship. He agreed to stay in shitty hotels when we traveled because it was all I could afford and I didn’t want to take his money. He was definitely more emotionally mature and experienced than I was though and that’s what made us ultimately incompatible.
- Comment on Love at first sight! 5 weeks ago:
When it works, I bet it works well.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 1 month ago:
I can’t digest pork well (it runs right through me and frequently causes vomiting), so I don’t l eat it, but if I were to follow a diet with 500 calories of pork in it, I might get 100 from it. On the other hand, I digest beans and lentils incredibly well, with no noticeable gas. I can imagine that I might actually get 110 calories from a “100 calorie serving.” It is possible to determine your caloric intake despite this variation, but because people aren’t well educated about it, they see a mismatch in the math and reality and think it’s pointless to calculate it at all instead of realizing they need to adjust it for their specific digestive system.
- Comment on New klee err 1 month ago:
That’s probably survivorship bias
/s everyone knows the real preparation is community building
- Comment on it really do be like that 1 month ago:
Linen and simple cuts