thebestaquaman
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- Comment on What will be the future of "Social Media Investigations"? Is every country gonna start checking for social media posts before permitting entry? 15 hours ago:
Saying Israel has no right to exist is covered in an isolated sense in every EU country I can think of. It only becomes a problem if you say or imply that committing genocide against Israelis is a “solution”, or otherwise advocate for violence or hate crimes.
Saying that “a two state solution can never work, Israel should be absorbed by Palestine and other neighbouring countries” is a legitimate political opinion that is protected by free speech.
- Comment on Everything you need is already inside of you. 4 days ago:
I mean, he has admitted to cheating online. People that know more about chess and statistics than myself say he’s probably cheated more than what he admits to.
Regardless, he comes off as such an asshole that I can’t help but enjoy it every time he gets his ass handed to him.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 5 days ago:
With what I’ve heard about the train infrastructure in the US, that doesn’t surprise me. Personally, I only ever use a car if I’m travelling into the mountains or transporting a lot of luggage. I never drive if I’m travelling between cities with little luggage, if only because it’s much less of a hassle to just hop on a train and get where I’m going.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 5 days ago:
Exactly this. People too often compare price and time of “train ride” vs. “flight”, which the flight often wins. You need to compare the full travel, and train travel has a lot less overhead, which means a train travelling 100-200 km/h usually wins on stretches below 500 km.
- Comment on Odds of rolling a 7 with a weighted die 6 days ago:
As mentioned by others: No matter how it’s weighed, and no matter what it lands on, there’s a 1/6 probability that the other dice will land on the number you need to get seven. The probability of getting seven is independent of the “first” dice.
- Comment on Odds of rolling a 7 with a weighted die 6 days ago:
You need to roll two dice to get a sum of seven. Consider two fair dice: No matter what the first dice lands on, there’s a 1/6 probability that the second dice lands on the number you need to get a total of seven.
Consider now that one dice is weighted such that it always lands on 6. After you’ve thrown this dice, you throw the second dice, which has a 1/6 chance of landing on 1, so the probability of getting seven is still 1/6.
Of course, the order of the dice being thrown is irrelevant, and the same argument holds no matter how the first dice is weighted. Essentially, the probability of getting seven total is unaffected by the “first” dice, so it’s 1/6 no matter what.
- Comment on NO KINGS! 1 week ago:
For prepaid cards, I’m talking about the kind you buy for cash at a store, that aren’t registered to your identity. Essentially an anonymous debit card that can’t be refilled, and can be used online. Don’t know if you have them where you are?
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 1 week ago:
“Managed” in the sense that crimes could only really be resolved if you had witnesses, and “managed” in the sense that it was far more common for people to be wrongly convicted. Photo and video evidence are pretty crucial to having modern crime resolution rates.
- Comment on NO KINGS! 1 week ago:
I’ll add on that a lot of (most?) modern cars have some kind of “phone home” capability that can likely be tracked. Park well away from your destination, and avoid using public transportation if there’s camera surveillance there.
Make sure to bring some cash and/or a prepaid card. You never know when you’ll wish you had it.
A plyboard sign doubles as a shield, a cardboard one does not.
Consider bringing earplugs and/or headphones in case flashbangs are thrown.
- Comment on Okay Hans. We're safe 1 week ago:
Something something swamp deutch
- Comment on Due to American politics I'm afraid of using high speed rail in Germany 1 week ago:
They do this in Norway too… they say that 70 % of trains are “on time”, but don’t mention that only 80 % of trains leave the station at all in the first place, and that the 70 % on time disregards those.
Note: I’m not quite sure about the numbers, the concept is the point.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
These to are grammatically equivalent to the English version though, because we use the “er/et”-ending in the verb instead of the English “is”. Without a subject it would just be “regner/regnet”.
- Comment on Anon gains a superpower 3 weeks ago:
Thanks! I knew it was some famous quote from some famous guy!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’ve used this kind of short-range FM receiver in an older car to get Bluetooth capability. Just set it to some available frequency and save the channel as “AUX” or something, then you can switch from the radio to Bluetooth by just switching to that channel. Works like a charm.
- Comment on I see your bred sheeran, and I raise you with my 3 weeks ago:
The most purebred of steeds, Mr. Sheeran is.
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- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 3 weeks ago:
I’m all for pointing out everything currently and historically wrong with any country, but you’re doing the “intellectually dishonest” thing. The question wasn’t whether you could point out a shitload of bad stuff, but whether you could see any good.
The British empire did a shitload of terrible stuff, that doesn’t mean leading the way in global industrialisation and bringing hundreds of millions out of starvation was one of them.
Germany has done terrible shit, but starting the predecessor to the EU and thereby heavily contributing to the most peaceful and prosperous eighty years western Europe has ever seen is usually seen as a good thing.
The US has done terrible shit, as you point out. Being a catalyst and inspiration for the global spread of democracy is usually seen as a positive. Being a core actor in the formation of the UN, helping build a post-WWII rule-based world order is usually also seen as a positive. US aid contributing hundreds of millions of people getting access to education, vaccines, medicine, and catastrophe-release is usually also seen in a positive light.
- Comment on Anon gains a superpower 3 weeks ago:
Some other comment mentiones how it makes Frodo more influential and intimidating as they approach Mordor, allowing him to control Gollum with just his presence and voice. This isn’t very well portrayed in the movies. There is also mention of how a bunch of Orcs are scared off at the sight of Sam’s shadow when he is carrying the ring, as it appears to them as the shadow of a powerful elf lord.
As with other magic in Tolkiens universe, it is very diffuse. It grants the user great power, but the details of how it does so are very hard to pin down. We only get subtle hints.
- Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes 3 weeks ago:
They’re not in a situation that they don’t know better.
I would like to draw your attention to this truckload of stupid shit teenagers have done despite knowing better. Let’s not underestimate the capacity of the developing mind in making bad decisions despite having all information necessary to evaluate exactly how bad the decisions are.
- Comment on Anon gains a superpower 3 weeks ago:
Advanced technology is, to the uninitiated, indistinguishable from magic.
Some famous quote or something, can’t remember where I read it.
- Comment on Anon gains a superpower 3 weeks ago:
I seem to remember that a blizzard is also attributed to Saruman at one point. What I love though is that it’s not Saruman waving his arms and chanting some formula to cause the blizzard, but rather a situation where a blizzard was already possible and Saruman kind of “nudging” nature to ensure the blizzard hits in the right place and is especially violent. In a sense, it feels like the blizzard happens just because Saruman wants it to happen.
I seem to remember that it’s also implied that the ride of the Rohirim to Helms Deep should have been near impossible, but because Gandalf was with them they had the speed and stamina to make it. He doesn’t explicitly do anything, but kind of “wills” them to be faster.
- Comment on Anon gains a superpower 3 weeks ago:
This is one of the things I like about Tolkiens approach to magic: It’s very diffuse.
We understand that Gandalf and Saruman are powerful, but it is very unclear exactly how they use their power. We don’t see them bringing down castle walls or throwing lightning bolts. Some rare examples are when Gandalf breaks the bridge the Balrog is on, and when he breaks Sarumans staff. None of these are feats of magic that would lead you to think they are by far among the most powerful beings in middle earth.
When Gandalf battles the Balrog, the books state something like “they battled for three days”, without specifying how a physically frail (at least by appearance) Gandalf could defeat a Balrog.
With the ring(s), we just learn that they “grant the user immense power”, without ever learning exactly how Sauron would become unstoppable if he had the ring. I think it makes the story great, because it makes the story inherently character-driven, with magic being a diffuse “force” in the background rather than concrete abilities someone like Gandalf could use to teleport, shield someone, or set a building of fire.
- Comment on Literally 3 weeks ago:
“Do you need to” != “Have you”
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 4 weeks ago:
I think that’s part of what made the series so popular though. She did a great job at letting the characters in the books grow up alongside the readers. Someone who read the first book when they were 7 could enjoy the last book when they were 14.
I haven’t re-read the books since I finished them sometime around that age, so I won’t comment on the world-building or writing outside of recalling that I was completely absorbed and fascinated when I read them.
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 4 weeks ago:
Helicopters leave the ground because God has gazed upon them, and became angered when He saw them among His beasts, on the lands of His creation. God then decided to expel the helicopters from His earthly kingdom to flutter helplessly in His skies. God did this to punish Man, whose hubris led him to climb into the unholy creation. The Lord would then strike down the abomination fluttering in His skies, condemning the heretics that had climbed aboard, in the belief that they could fool Him.
Thus the name “Jesus nut”.
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know how you got to “culture war and homophobia”? It’s literally a meme phrase that’s used (often sarcastically) in response to stories on the internet. Saying something is “fake and gay” is literally shitposting, I think interpreting any deeper meaning into it is a bit of a stretch.
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 4 weeks ago:
No, thats the helicopter. It’s said that it does not fly, but is repulsed by the earth because it is the hubris of man manifest.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Exactly! I’m sick of people being labelled as racist because they’ve said some keyword that someone has decided makes them racist, even when their intents and opinions are clearly not racist.
Saying it’s “uncivilised” to publicly beat someone to death because they <insert whatever>, cannot be racist, because you’re not concerned with “race” in any way. Going further and saying that a country that allows such practices is uncivilised is, again, inherently not racist, because the reason for calling them uncivilised has nothing to do with the “race” of the people involved.
- Comment on Grieve with me 4 weeks ago:
I honestly enjoy it when this happens. It’s so satisfying getting to pull obscenely large wads of lint out of the port
- Comment on Anon discovers a cheat code 5 weeks ago:
But anon even said they were straight, so this might actually be the first true and straight greentext.
