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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we so afraid of cockroaches?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought I read it before posting. Sigh… I’m such a bot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone have access to academic articles? i need a research paper⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Every single time I think I know where I stand on fucking sharks…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Feel free to down vote me and called me a sleazeball douchebag troll.

  To late! You already said we could execute and shun you (though I think the former sort of precludes the latter).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever purchased or rented TV shows on Prime Video by season?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If it can be taken away, it’s not ownership.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we so afraid of cockroaches?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That is truly horrifying. I’ve had a yellowjackett wasp crawl in my ear and sting me repeatedly. I’d prefer the yellowjackett.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we so afraid of cockroaches?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I lived in an apartment building with a big pipe leading to the septic tank. Cockroaches were always visible crawling in and out of the gaps between the concrete and pipe, living in the literal shithole. They carry so many germs!!!

  At night, that’s scale the building and come visit us. I woke up one night to my cat staring slightly above my head. I moved a tiny bit, and a big mind cockroach jumped of my headboard onto my face, then onto the blankets, where my cat swiftly executed it (with no small level of skill and reflexes). That night left an impression on me.

  I hope this explains both fear and being spooked by them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buy me Custom Shop Gibson Les Paul Junior?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Futurama never gets old or loses applicability

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel for you. That sucks to have your life thrown into chaos for a decimal number on the balance sheet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Truth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to install a distro directly from online ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost every linux distro is better on RAM than Windows. That said, application memory management has gotten pretty sloppy over the past decade or so. I boot into MX linux (KDE) on my 16GB RAM laptop, and I am using about 2GB after boot. Once I load my password manager and open my browser (Librewolf with 18 tabs) I am sitting at 5.4GB used.

  But! Even when this laptop had only 4GB RAM, it always ran MX fast and never complained about low memory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to install a distro directly from online ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sort of like GrapheneOS does, right? I don’t actually have GOS, but I thought the installer worked like that. Otherwise, there’s always the WSL that I think is how I installed Ubuntu (just as a test!!! I haven’t used Ubuntu since 2009) inside Windows 10 a few years back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely hate commuting. If there’s one thing I learned in the spring/summer of 2020, it’s that not driving to work is awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This. If I take another 1st shift job, I will make sure it’s 10hr shifts with the same week day off weekly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a person goes "missing" and never found. How long does it take for life insurance to kick in and bank accounts resort back to the family?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice try, murderous relative!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would like to play a calm game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks very cool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would like to play a calm game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Life is strange was a fun series for me and my SO. We’re glass we played the oldest ones first, too.

  OP, Do you like civilization or other “builder/planner” style games, like Cities Skylines, or Surviving Mars. Raji was kind of fun and laid back, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is giving only formula long term "healthy" for a baby?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was fed formula. I have no allergies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We are in agreement

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a historian, but wasn’t that boom hugely from war profiteering and the fact that none of the bombs went off in the USA? Our factories were all spun up and ready to go while most of Europe was rebuilding. Oh, and the decimation of German and Japanese industrial or technical powers.

  But to your point, many graphs showing how much wages have flattened disproportionate to production do show that the period in question was a better time for the average worker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a spreadsheet that doesn't mess with the data I enter?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Format your cells to be text and there should be no data related behavior like you describe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because a rock falls down doesn’t mean it “naturally follows” that some rocks fall upward too. There is no way to invoke a system that stores excess energy as fat if there is no excess. Could some energy that is actually needed get stored as fat? Okay, but… Not for long, as the body would need energy, since it isn’t getting calories. Unless it is getting calories from food.

  I went from 175lbs to 125lbs in four months during divorce proceedings. My metabolism didn’t change. I wasn’t on a new miracle drug. I was depressed and didn’t eat, and I took up running a 3.2mi circuit around the bay where I live.

  To your point, I bet OP’s diet would help you bulk up, just not likely with muscle. Chow a few gallons of ice cream each week. Eat American fast food three to ten times a week. Put cheese on everything. Ignore the “added sugars” part of the nutrition label. My weekly intake fits in a single shopping bag. I doubt OP can say the same. They weigh 2.5 times my weight.

  Willpower is much harder to muster for a whole year, and its exceedingly difficult to avoid bad calories in this country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And our bodies are just machines. We can’t create fat if were using the calories we consume. I don’t really get anyone who “tries” to lose weight for years. If you keep putting more food in your body than you need, your body converts it to fat. The idea of since “strange reason” that a body won’t lose weight is silly. There’s just no way for a body to keep weight on unless they are taking in more calories than they are using. So if OP can’t bear to eat less, they need to get really active. There really isn’t a mystery here. Its math. If you only add to the equation, the figure only increases. This is a willpower issue. … Or maybe we found the one obese American whose body defies caloric mathematics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw the same “barely” articles you mentioned that reference the CST as a source. They didn’t actually describe the event the way your discussion partner did. She supposedly stepped in front of his car, and his grabbing her arm seems more out of frustration. He didn’t save her from an accident. He was the driver of the car that would have hit her. He avoided an accident, got out of his car, grabbed the girl and “lectured” her. Seems like a slightly harsher consequence than necessary, but it does sound like an assault of some degree.

  That said, I help people – and even in public!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is kissing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This. Try not to get hot and bothered from a kiss. I fail this test every time.

  Be like, “I’ll just do this quick thing – oh wait! Suddenly I’m breathing harder. Oh! Their hands are all over me now. IT’S ON!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you change your towels?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. Burns my nose and feels gross, like leaving conditioner in my hair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanted this to be false but I see that there is currently a minimum renunciation fee of $2,350. I assume there are likely other consulate fees that may bring or closer to $2,500 at the very least. What a scam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the one where Fry and Bender join the army for gum and get sent to fight balls

  The Elders tell of a young ball much like you. She bounced three meters in the air. Then she bounced 1.8 meters in the air. Then she bounced four meters in the air. Do I make myself clear?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m lucky! Mine (2015 pro) has been awesome, except for when it was going through a Demon AVR. Its fine when direct to the TV or through the Onkyo. It has flaked out before though, and I never updated to the “experience” version that introduced ads on the home screen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s the same OLED I have. B7 or C7. It’s starting to band on red, but I got at least… 7 (?) years out of it, and the bands are only mildly annoying. Similarly, I have never connected it to the internet, and don’t use any of the apps.

  It’s not very bright, but I’ll take that over washed out or blotchy blacks. I’ll shop for a used OLED like this when I’m ready.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t yet. Actually, the corrupt bureaucracy has withheld residency status so far without bribes. That said, here was the path I thought I was on when I moved.

  The idea is to have been in the country for most of the year (no less than 14 days out of country), at which time you can apply for residency. Once you have residency, you must maintain it for 5yrs.

  Citizenship for Permanent Residence Holders

  1. You have been a holder of Permanent Residence for a minimum of 5 years.
  2. You have been resident continuously in Belize, this means that upon being granted Permanent Residency you have not resided outside Belize for periods that exceed thirty consecutive days or accumulate to a total of three months in any twelve month period.

  I didn’t want to muddy the waters with the reality of what happened once I moved, as the OP was about motivating factors. Power corrupts. And ultranationalism is infectious to other countries.