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- Comment on Dentist the Menace 4 days ago:
A concept doesn’t become acceptable just because the French have a term for it. Usually that’s a red flag.
- Comment on Journalist asking the hard questions 5 days ago:
Is commander in chief an active military position?
I think it’s specifically not a military position. The president being a civilian is how in theory the military must operate under civilian control.
- Comment on A Netflix exclusive 5 days ago:
I didn’t watch the whole thing but Paul’s shots didn’t even seem like they had any power behind them. He won on points obviously because Tyson was drained but it felt like even old man Tyson could have just stood there and tanked those weak-ass punches.
Disclaimer: all I know about boxing I learned from Rocky movies.
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 1 week ago:
JVM is like a gas. It expands to fit it’s container, however large that is.
- Comment on Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM 1 week ago:
Why on earth would you even for a moment think you’re allowed to do that?
Because OP actually lives in that building and the rest comes down to proving his intent which is extremely difficult in every situation.
- Comment on Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM 1 week ago:
Name the law.
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 2 weeks ago:
I think this is just a roundabout way of blaming the Jews.
- Comment on I bought a freeze dryer so you don't have to [1:00:14] 2 weeks ago:
Lol. In this case you don’t really need to take it apart since the guts of it are exposed on the bottom . Otherwise I think he would have.
- Comment on Anon cuddles with his first gf 3 weeks ago:
Well it involves dick so it’s gay in my book.
- Comment on Pee posting? 3 weeks ago:
Still a better love story than twilight.
- Comment on Mom of the year 4 weeks ago:
NGL if HBO made this into a 6 part miniseries I would watch. I would hate myself as I watched but I would watch.
- Comment on ‘Hysteria’ Star Bruce Campbell Calls Out Tom Cruise For Doing His Own Stunts: “It’s OK For Stunt Guys To Make Money, Too” | Decider 4 weeks ago:
It’s definitely true that if every actor did their own stunts, stunt workers wouldn’t get jobs. But here’s the thing - there’s not at all in danger of happening. More than that, Tom Cruise doing his own stunts, in many cases, makes his movies better. Hanging on the side of a plane or running on the Burj Khalifa - in both cases the shots they can get are far better than they otherwise would be if they have to obscure the stunt guys face and use camera trickery and CGI to take his face.
Not to mention that the other actors in his films use stunt doubles so making those films more successful keeps stunt workers employed. It’s not like there were no stunt doubles in the mission impossible films.
Overall I just don’t see how this is a real problem . Most actors, especially A-listers, like themselves too much to seriously attempt doing their own stunts. Most of their reactions to seeing what Tom Cruise does is “fuck no”. Tom Cruise has the commitment of an actual crazy person to do the shit he does. No other actors who “does his own stunts” does what he does. Are stunt doubles really in dangerous of becoming extinct as a profession?
Given this, I guess I find it hard to see this as an issue worth worrying about. Why must this one crazy guy’s obsession with stunts be squashed? Is there there really not room in the wide landscape of filmmaking for one obsessive dude doing his own stunts?
- Comment on Man Resigns on First Day After Indian Boss Expects Overtime Without Pay: Work-life Balance is 'Western Behaviour' - News18 1 month ago:
The battle for work-life balance is in a far better state in most western economies (including the US) than it is in many developing economies like India. The middle class in India is like 2 generations old. The grandparents of the current middle class are still around and they remember how poor they were and how much has changed. Basically , for many Indian workers, hard work and perseverance on its own (from their perspective at least) had actually been a path to a better life. That social contract hasn’t yet broken the way it has in the west.
The problem with this is that it results in the workplace culture in the private sector in India being utterly abysmal. Somewhat comparable to western economies a century ago.
There is awareness of this of course, but change on this scale takes time.
- Comment on I don't understand why underbaked borderline raw cookies are such a popular trend. 1 month ago:
Flour is flammable and light. If the fan makes a bunch of it fly around in your oven the heating element could ignite it. Search YouTube for “flour fire”.
Probably not super dangerous at if you’re just baking a sheet pan of flour, but good to be safe.
- Comment on I don't understand why underbaked borderline raw cookies are such a popular trend. 1 month ago:
If you bake dry flour , remember to NOT use convection.
- Comment on I don't understand why underbaked borderline raw cookies are such a popular trend. 1 month ago:
You can make safe edible cookie dough pretty easily . The eggs aren’t the only issue, it’s the flour itself. If you bake it at like 275F for 30 mins in a sheet pan it’ll sterilize it. For edible cookie dough that won’t be baked you don’t even need eggs.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Time Cube is much older than AI bruh .
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Here’s one for your time : en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Everytime he’s asked for any kind of reasoning or evidence he goes straight to victimhood and how “mainstream archeology” doesn’t want you to know the real truth.
- Comment on Anon isn't a fan of Judas 2 months ago:
Here’s the best possible history video on the topic:
- Comment on America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny 2 months ago:
Other countries will start removing 5 cent coins in a few decades too (I’m guessing 30-50 years) . It’s only natural when low but positive inflation is targeted by every modern economy.
- Comment on America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny 2 months ago:
It’s probably true of the bills as well.
Just FYI you can look up stuff like this at no cost. It’s not even close to being true. A Canadian polymer banknote costs about 20 cents to manufacture and the smallest denomination is $5. Coins cost a few cents to make (even $2 ones). It’s just the penny that lost so much of its value over time that it costs more to make than its worth.
- Comment on Anon enjoys hot chocolate 2 months ago:
I made my own hot chocolate once. I flew too close to the sun.
I kept adding chocolate (and cocoa powder) and sugar again and again. I wanted to see how much would be too much. Problem was I was tasting it after each iteration. By the time I realized my own taste perception was getting numbed, I had gone way , way too far. Nobody else could even drink it. Even I could only drink half a cup and I was buzzing.
Moral of the story: cleanse your palate kids. It could save your life.
- Comment on How to cut your energy bills by 30 per cent with a heat pump 2 months ago:
The problem with induction (including everything you cited there) is down to implementation, not the tech itself. The difference in UX between a bad induction stove and a good one is far far greater than the difference between a bad and good gas stove. A bad induction stove is just… really bad.
After using a great induction stove (with knobs, knobs are mandatory) I can’t ever go back. Yeah you get 5000 watts of heat with gas most of that just heats your kitchen, face, and pot handles. It only tangentially interacts with the food you’re trying to cook.
- Comment on ‘Hold them captive’: Australian billionaire boss aims to end staff going out for coffee 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure sharing step by step plans to make a guillotine don’t count.
- Comment on Diversity 2 months ago:
Id like to see if with less pixels, thanks.
- Comment on AAAAAAAAAA 2 months ago:
Don’t they also have to fuck at some point in those 4 weeks?
- Comment on Anon is a soyboy 2 months ago:
It’s also why the most deeply delusional MAGAs have to convince themselves that Tim Walz is gay - because a gun toting bird-hunting liberal does not compute for them.
- Comment on Check the facts 2 months ago:
Downvotes literally don’t affect your life at all so bravery really doesn’t come into it.
- Comment on Check the facts 2 months ago:
Gonna show your work or…?