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- Comment on Optimus Prime vs Megatron - "Transformers The Movie" (1986) 19 hours ago:
Oh, also this movie was Orson Welles’ last acting role (as Unicron) before his death. As he put it,
You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I’m destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.
- Comment on Optimus Prime vs Megatron - "Transformers The Movie" (1986) 23 hours ago:
People being shot with bullets -> inappropriate. Robots being shot with lasers -> appropriate.
There are no other relevant factors.
- Comment on Optimus Prime vs Megatron - "Transformers The Movie" (1986) 1 day ago:
That movie has many more disturbing scenes than I expected from a toy commercial. (This isn’t one of them, unless you count the talk of ripping out “optics”.)
- Comment on I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 1 day ago:
Being a believer in Pythagoreanism and considering irrational numbers blasphemous.
- Comment on I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 1 day ago:
But floating-point notation also can’t precisely represent irrational numbers…
- Comment on "You can't have our trash because we don't have a way to charge you for it" 2 days ago:
Separating the trimmings from the rest of the waste isn’t the only thing that requires effort. The management doesn’t want to give ordinary employees the authority to just give stuff away, which makes sense. Even if it isn’t a problem in this specific case, it can be a problem because employees won’t always be knowledgeable or honest. Having management review what is being given away involves overhead, and deciding how much to charge you because of that overhead involves more overhead. I probably wouldn’t bother with all that if I ran the supermarket unless I really hated throwing things out, because you probably wouldn’t be willing to pay enough to make it worth my time.
- Comment on Anon reaches encopenment. 4 days ago:
Sex with another person was in some ways disappointing when compared to masturbation and porn. I value emotional intimacy and you can’t get that by masturbating, but if OP is interested purely in physical pleasure then he may in fact be better off on his own. Obviously your mileage may vary - lots of other people do enjoy casual sex so I guess they must get a lot out of it.
- Comment on How would you forgive someone that poisoned your dog when they only offer bad faith apology ? 6 days ago:
Note that a dog would need to eat a surprisingly large amount of onions, garlic, or chocolate in order to get sick. According to the AKC:
Onion powder is in a surprisingly wide range of foods, from soups to baby food. It only takes 100 grams of onion (about the size of a medium onion) per 20 kilograms of a dog’s weight to cause toxic effects, which means that a 45-pound dog would only have to eat one medium-to-large onion to experience dangerous toxicity levels. Since most dogs would happily devour a bag of unattended onion rings or an onion casserole given the opportunity, this is a serious concern.
Scientific studies have found it takes approximately 15 to 30 grams of garlic per kilogram of body weight to produce harmful changes in a dog’s blood. To put that into perspective, the average clove of supermarket garlic weighs between 3 and 7 grams, so your dog would have to eat a lot to get really sick. However, some dogs are more sensitive to garlic toxicity than others, and consumption of a toxic dose spread out over a few days could also cause problems.
In simpler terms, that means a very concerning dose of chocolate is approximately one ounce of milk chocolate per pound of body weight. Since an average milk chocolate bar may be around 1.55 ounces, consuming even one chocolate bar can have serious consequences, especially for small dogs. Eating a crumb of chocolate cake or a very small piece of a chocolate bar, on the other hand, probably won’t kill your dog, especially if it is a larger breed.
One time my dog ate some chocolate and I was worried until I calculated that a dog his size (and he wasn’t a big dog) would have to eat an entire full-sized bar of dark chocolate before experiencing any symptoms at all. It’s probably best not to give dogs food containing small amounts of onions, garlic, or chocolate just in case, but there’s no need to worry if a dog eats human food containing small amounts of these ingredients.
- Comment on I'm an educator and have to tell my students the same lie every day. 1 week ago:
I didn’t mean to imply anything to the contrary of what you’re saying. I’m just reminded of the Simpsons episode where Smithers says
If Mr. Burns ever wants to see a stranger, he will observe him through a powerful telescope.
People are hidden from each other in plain sight.
- Comment on I'm an educator and have to tell my students the same lie every day. 1 week ago:
Posts like this are so weird to me. Clearly this is a common thing that a lot of people are going through, but in real life most people I know have succeeded through integrity (similar to kindness) and hard work. Not just kids from middle-class families, but immigrants, first-generation college students, etc. There must be some sort of filter creating a social bubble around me, like how I have met very few Trump voters (and don’t know any of them well) despite the fact that there are actually quite a lot of them.
- Comment on Do linux users have wives? 1 week ago:
heteronormative assumptions
You could still have a wife yourself, with whichever licensing agreement the two of you negotiate.
- Comment on Why can't someone create a public alternative to health insurance in the USA? 1 week ago:
Insurance company profits are already capped by law. I don’t think your ideal insurance company would be much better for the customer than the already-available options are.
The companies must spend at least 80 cents of every dollar they collect in premiums from small businesses and individuals on health care, and 85 cents per dollar for large employers. The remaining 15 to 20 percent is all they are allowed under the Affordable Care Act to spend on administrative costs like overhead and marketing and to keep as profit. Any additional revenues are to be returned to consumers in the form of rebates.
Note that the remaining 15 to 20 percent has to cover all the costs of actually running the company. It isn’t just profit.
Insurance companies do have to compete with each other on price. Employers who provide insurance want the cheapest insurance that their employees will tolerate. Healthy people want the cheapest insurance that they expect to protect them from sudden, catastrophic expenses. If your business plan is to spend more money than the existing insurance companies do, and your target market is people unhappy with their current insurance companies (these people are probably have expensive problems) then you’re not going to do too well…
- Comment on Anon dates a clown 2 weeks ago:
Imagine not having a clown fetish…
- Comment on [Meta] Some of y'all are way too sensitive for this community 2 weeks ago:
Deserves to get bullied.
Gets bullied.
How could this happen to OP?
- Comment on Anon plays spin the bottle 2 weeks ago:
Uh, what’s your secret to getting matches on Tinder? I can’t imagine trying to meet women in order to feel validated. I did online dating before apps, when people had to have written profiles and send messages. I thought I was writing thoughtful messages to women whose profiles made them seem like they might want to hear from me, but I got ignored so much that it was really hard on my self-esteem.
Am I ugly? My grandma says I’m not ugly…
- Comment on Anon plays spin the bottle 2 weeks ago:
It’s interesting how just a few instances of surprise rejection early in life can have a big effect on a person’s personality. I ended up paranoid, always assuming that no one could really like me and anyone who acted like he or she did was just pitying me or playing some cruel prank on me that I was too socially inept to see.
It got to the point that when I went to a school dance (I didn’t want to but my parents made me) and the prettiest girl in the class asked me to dance with her, I actually got upset. I said yes (it would have been rude to say no) but I couldn’t believe that she sincerely wanted to
- Comment on Anon can't win 2 weeks ago:
First [Goldilocks] tasted the porridge of the Great Big Bear, and that was too hot for her. Next she tasted the porridge of the Middle-sized Bear, but that was too cold for her.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 weeks ago:
I’m not making a value judgement. I’m explaining why New York City’s murder rate is so much higher than London’s. It’s because NYC has a population of white and Asian people who are as safe as Europeans and another, de facto segregated population of black and Hispanic people who are much less safe.
I presume that a big part of the reason why things are the way they are is that society places a higher value on white people’s lives, but I’m not doing that. Explaining isn’t the same as justifying.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 weeks ago:
New York’s murder rate (and the overall murder rate in the USA) is shaped by a history of race relations which London did not experience. A white person in New York is much less likely (and conversely a black or Hispanic person is much more likely) to be murdered than the overall murder rate for the city might lead someone to think.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 weeks ago:
Only 7 murders? The population of London was apparently about 400,000 back then so that’s half the murder rate of present day New York City (which is considered a relatively safe city). I don’t think that can be right…
- Comment on Woodlice 2 weeks ago:
I like a woman with armor plating.
- Comment on Muscle Chart 2 weeks ago:
So it’s not just me? Sometimes my body decides that I must keep my face pointed down and to the side, and these muscles are the enforcers.
- Comment on Pterosaurs 2 weeks ago:
I never thought about Mesozoic fauna having external ears. Birds don’t, so presumably their dinosaur ancestors didn’t. But maybe pterosaurs did?
- Comment on deez nuts 2 weeks ago:
He’s got a point… I didn’t spend this long in school in order to treat people who know less than I do without contempt.
- Comment on Why did the first people to settle in very cold climates decide to settle in such a harsh climate? 3 weeks ago:
The current era of excess is unprecedented in the history of the world. For most of human history, starvation was a serious threat and hungry people would go anywhere where there was food that wasn’t already claimed by someone stronger than them.
(The people in very cold climates would fight to defend their resources too! Ultimately there was no unclaimed land that people could survive in, except after major catastrophes.)
- Comment on Anon visits the Philippines 3 weeks ago:
Crocodile Dundee
thirst quenched by 650 ml
Pathetic. I will never respect an Australian again.
- Comment on So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. 3 weeks ago:
It’s not just the posts. The neighbor used nails that are way too long. IMO that’s a safety hazard.
- Comment on Is there any point for current US-based "skilled immigrants" to stay in the US? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see why I would be in any more danger than a native-born American citizen.
- Comment on Is there any point for current US-based "skilled immigrants" to stay in the US? 4 weeks ago:
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I don’t expect anything catastrophic to happen so suddenly that I won’t have time to flee.
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Everyone I know is here, including people who depend on me.
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I don’t want to learn another language.
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I feel a lot less connected to the USA than I did before, but I don’t feel more connected to any other country than I do to the USA. The one my family and I came from is a huge mess and I certainly don’t want to return to it.
I’m taking the idea of leaving the country much more seriously than I had before, but it still seems unlikely.
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