Rivalarrival
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Long ago, yes, but not by 1989.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Agreed. Seems we’re losing the distinction between “one-to-many” (broadcast) and “one-to-one” (streaming) transmission models.
- Comment on Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime 1 day ago:
File a new W4 with your employer. From the instructions:
Complete Form W-4 so that your employer can withhold the correct federal income tax from your pay. If too little is withheld, you will generally owe tax when you file your tax return and may owe a penalty. If too much is withheld, you will generally be due a refund.
If you feel the correct withholding is “$0.00”, W4 is how you tell your employer to not withhold anything for taxes.
- Comment on kya 3 days ago:
Self defense is predicated on the “reasonable person” standard. Anyone finding themselves (or another) imperiled by what they reasonably believe to be a machine gun is justified in doing anything they reasonably believe necessary to end the threat.
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 3 days ago:
So 20 miles per hour across 24 hours gets us a distance of 480 miles.
Going from Europe to the Americas by way of Scotland and Iceland is going to be a bit of a problem for that bird, as it can expect pretty consistent 10-20kt headwinds for the entire journey. America to Europe by that route is a comparatively easy trip.
I doubt that owls are capable of effective dynamic soaring, but that would drastically reduce the energy requirements.
- Comment on Finally I understand it 1 week ago:
Go back like generations, and see how many times people had to have fucked just to make you. 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16…
- Comment on Necessary post procedure care for vasectomy 1 week ago:
30, you say? Ok doc. See you Wednesday.
- Comment on Acetaminophen-American 1 week ago:
That might be the worst salute I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Say it slowly. 1 week ago:
Some context might provide the distinction.
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Adam: "Jane told me that he licked her asshole."
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- Jane: “I never said he licked my asshole.” <-- He never licked my asshole, and I never claimed that he did. Adam is lying about both parts.
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- Jane: “I never said he licked my asshole.” <-- He licked my asshole, but I never told anyone that he did. Adam learned about the asshole-licking from someone other than me.
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- Comment on Acetaminophen-American 1 week ago:
Saluting in the US, your hand should be rotated so that the palm of your hand is toward your own face. The person in front of you should be able to see the back of your hand, not your palm. Also, the tips of your fingers should be touching the outside corner of your eyebrow, or the outside corner of your glasses, or the corner of the brim of your cap. The middle of the forehead is right out.
- Comment on Say it slowly. 1 week ago:
I never said he licked my asshole. <-- Someone else said it. I never said he licked my asshole. <-- I was accused of having said it; I’ve never said it. I never said he licked me asshole. <-- He licked my asshole, but I didn’t talk about it. I never said he licked my asshole. <-- Someone licked my asshole, but it wasn’t him. I never said he licked my asshole. <-- He did something with my asshole, but it wasn’t licking. I never said he licked my asshole. <-- He licked an asshole, just not mine. I never said he licked my asshole. <-- He licked some part of me, just not my asshole.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 weeks ago:
Paracetamol" takes the “para” part, and then a few other random letters that don’t really make sence.
Because it actually comes from a different chemical name for the same compound: para-acetylaminophenol
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 weeks ago:
Americans know “paracetamol” about as well as you apparently know “acetaminophen”.
They are the same compound.
“Paracetamol” is the generic term used in Europe and Australia. “Acetaminophen” is the generic term commonly used in the Americas.
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 2 weeks ago:
A contradiction in terms.
- Comment on Don't get mad, get even 3 weeks ago:
I’m going to start putting those signs on public microwaves…
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 3 weeks ago:
Communism/socialism requires some mechanism to compel cooperation with the collective’s objectives. The greater the degree of central planning, the greater the authoritarianism required to implement it. When you reach a level of centralization sufficient to justify the “communism” label, you’re well into the “authoritarian” quadrants.
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 3 weeks ago:
Nor can communism.
- Comment on Don't miss this Lunar event! 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Clock logic 3 weeks ago:
Geometry.
The first clocks were sundials, which worked by putting a line on the ground. As soon as you comparing two different lines on the ground, you are doing geometry to represent time.
When you start messing around with geometry, you need an easy way to describe the angle of an equilateral triangle. 1/6th of a circle, or 1/3rd of a line. Trying to represent 1/3 or 1/6th in base 10 is fugly. Trying to divide a circle into 10 equal sections is just as fugly.
Dividing a circle into 6 equal sections is trivial: after you draw the circle with your compass, walk the compass around the perimeter. You have just inscribed a hexagon.
You’re still missing the angle of 1/4 of a circle: the angles of a square. Those are pretty important in geometry as well. It’s fairly trivial to draw another 6 points between the first 6 on your circle.
We use a 12-hour clock because of basic geometry. The 360-degree circle is the bastard child of basic geometry and a base-10 number system.
- Comment on Aged like milk 4 weeks ago:
Broken Clock.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 4 weeks ago:
That makes sense from an outside perspective, sure. But your criticism was about Americans turning a blind eye to the “cultural” problem.
Within the US, blaming gun violence on “culture” means pointing out that 13-17% of the population commits (and are the victims of) 55-65% of the murders. Blaming “culture” means pointing out that mass shooters are predominantly white, they also account for less than 1% of all murders.
The Americans broadly adopting your “cultural problem” argument are MAGAts. Normal Americans are turning a blind eye to that viewpoint, rather than being lumped in with those racist pricks.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 4 weeks ago:
We “tend to turn a blind eye to it” because “cultural problem” is primarily used as a racist dog whistle.
If your intention was to point at the underlying cause, you need to be talking about systematic impoverization, lack of generational wealth, devaluation of labor, etc.
- Comment on A conundrum 4 weeks ago:
The alternative is some variety of private mortgage insurance. The insurer bets that housing prices will rise, so that you won’t default. If you do default, they reimburse the lender on their losses associated with your default.
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 1 month ago:
Romeo and Juliet laws are fairly common. 24 states allow a 2 to 5 year age difference. AFAIK, federal law allows up to a 4-year age difference.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m guessing he owes about $1232 in employment taxes…
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 1 month ago:
This fork isn’t stamped out of sheet steel. It appears to have been forged out of a round bar stock. For that alone, it receives high marks, despite the unconventional appearance.
8/10.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 1 month ago:
Then we respect their personal agency.
- Comment on 🎶 picture this we we're both butt naked banging on the bathroom door 🎶 1 month ago:
Since shower water is a mixture of hot and cold, tank size, tank temperature, and cold water temperature are the predominant factors, at least initially.
For a given shower temperature, hot water consumption rate will increase at an exponential rate until tank temperature falls to shower temperature, then shower temperature will fall.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 1 month ago:
Laws are for generalities. Courts are for specificities. The situation you describe is resolved in the courts, not by legislation.
If the guardian is the problem, the courts assign a new guardian. That guardian can be another relative, or it could be a department of the state.
