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Maybe you’re under reacting.

I’m transverse reacting by mirroring your reaction.

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I was making a joke about directions; under, over, transverse; entirely unserious.

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Isn’t that the Qatar money the above comment was talking about?

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Spending on missile defense is one of the only parts of the military budget I’m alright with. Heck, why not expand it, intercept every missile targeting civilians regardless of who fired it.

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True Polymorph can turn people into objects.

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Only if it’s the 4th level version, which is impermanent anyway. 9th level polymorph has rules for objects: roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/True Polymorph#conten…

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Eh, back in 2e Polymorph worked a lot like True Polymorph does in 5e, in 3e it was called Polymorph Any Object. I think a lot of players just call it Polymorph, even though there’s a level four spell with the same name, especially if the context of the situation makes it clear which spell is being used. At least that’s how it goes at my table, but every group is different.

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Why waste the oil? Turn it into gravy, or mayonnaise, or store it to sell to a recycling center that will turn it into biofuel.

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It really depends on what it was used for. I almost always turn bacon grease into gravy or mayo, for oil/butter from cooking meat dishes I make pan sauces, but for frying oil I recycle.

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The article is about events in Canada.

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It’s gotten to the point where incel just means “a guy who believes men and women should be equal”.

No, that’s not even remotely true, and it’s not what your previous comment was saying either.

Incels are essentially misogynists with a sexual fixation. Like classical misogynists tend to be more occupied with women having jobs or holding positions of power, while incels tend to be more upset about women’s sexual habits, but both are preoccupied with hating on women they deem to be misbehaving.

I think the part of your previous comment that gave the most ‘incel vibes’ was the bit about women begging for attention after ‘hitting the wall’ in their 20s. Maybe you intended it as a comment on women who regretted not taking relationships more seriously in their 30s, but it came off as a sort of fantasy where the women who transgressed your model of how ladies should act get their just desserts.

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Then why does going faster also make it easier to balance on something without steering, like a snowboard?

My assumption is that when you’re standing still relative to the ground you can fall in many directions, but once you start moving momentum limits the directions you can fall to the ones in line with your motion. So the faster you’re moving the fewer directions you need to worry about.

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They explode on penetration, breaking off from the drone, causing him to die soon after.

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Worker bees are all genetically diverse, but the drones are masculinized clones of the queen. The queen’s flying dicks.

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Splitting the vote allows an opening for fascists to take control with a minority of support, like they do.

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Roku has a rechargeable backlit remote with remappable buttons. It’s called something like ‘remote pro’

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They said toilet in every comment. Read better.

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That’s a good point. A little tip-rinse after going is just good hygiene.

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And they compared your idea to toilets in Japan, then you got upset because it wasn’t literally identical to your idea.

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There’s evidence, but I don’t know enough of the science to tell how conclusive it is: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7139786/#:~:….

I legitimately want to run Linux as my desktop OS, please tell me how to meet my requirements.

Okay, all you who post on every post “you should just switch to Linux”. Here’s your chance. I’m someone who really does want to run Linux on the desktop. I run Linux servers at home, was a Unix sysadmin for years running Linux on the desktop in the ‘90s. But now I’m in sales and run Windows at work (actually very...

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The only things that are holding me on Mac are the specific features I’ve mentioned.

Isn’t that the vendor lock part?

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Those dang anti-theists, with all their crusades, and inquisitions, and molestation scandals. At least when theists isolate you from your friends and family for being gay, or leaving an abusive relationship, it’s done in the name of God. What’s the anti-theists excuse?

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How is it misrepresented?

The Global Health Security and Biodefense unit — responsible for pandemic preparedness — was established in 2015 by Barack Obama.

In May 2018, the team was disbanded and its head Timothy Ziemer, top White House official for leading U.S. response against a pandemic, left the Trump administration.

Republicans have claimed it was ‘streamlining’ as opposed to elimination, since some members of the team were reassigned to other roles related to pandemic response, but the team was disbanded under the trump administration, that’s just a fact.

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Harris is working to end the genocide right now. She’s fighting for a permanent ceasefire and two state solution. That might not be your preferred way to resolve the conflict, but it would stop the carnage and give Palestine more leverage to negotiate on the world stage.

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She can’t end all weapon supplies to Israel, she’s the vice president.

Even Biden couldn’t do it, he paused shipments and Congress passed a bill forcing them to resume. The power of the president is limited, especially when a super majority of Congress are firmly committed to sending weapons to Israel.

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  1. That was the aim of some crusades, there were also the northern crusades which had the goal of slaying pagans and forcibly converting people to Christianity. Obviously not all war comes from religion, but Christianity does seem to have a penchant for interfaith violence.
  2. Not only have there been an out sized number of sex abuse scandals involving christian churches (most prominently the Catholic church) there’s been a clear pattern of retaliation, cover-ups, and defense of abusers. When there’s a scandal in a public school, the offender is fired and indicted. The church has routinely shielded offending priests, shuffling them around to avoid accountability.
  3. Nazi Germany was theistic, 98.5% of Nazis were Christians. Their belt buckles had “God is with us” inscribed on them. There has been more violence waged against theists by other theists than by anti-theists. Interfaith wars, sectarian violence, pogroms, inquisitions, forced conversions, over a thousand years of history shows clear patterns of religious violence. The USSR was anti-theistic (at least originally), and their persecution of religious people was wrong, but pretending that every anti-theist supports violent purges of the faithful is absurd. I am not an anti-theist, but I have friends who are, and they just want to be left alone.
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  1. Yes, Islam and Christianity both have a penchant for holy wars.
  2. There are many large organizations that don’t put so much effort into shielding abusers.
  3. Anyone who called out the evils of the Nazi regime was persecuted, including atheists who were often labeled ‘Russian supporters’ due to their lack of faith. ‘Godless’ communists were the first targets of Nazism.

I think most modern anti-theists aren’t interested in forcibly converting anyone, they see the rise of atheism as inevitable. They want to remove religion from schools and public life, stop posting the ten commandments everywhere, stop putting ‘god’ on money, etc. at least that’s what I hear about.

I don’t think anti-theists need to be advocates of forcing people to stop being religious, they can simply be opposed to theism. Like I’m opposed to the smoking of tobacco, but I’m not interested in prohibiting it, I just think it’s unhealthy and the world would be a better place if there was less of it. I think that’s how many anti-theists feel about religion. At least that’s the impression that I get from talking with them.

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A lot of asexuals who masturbate don’t do it with a sexual mindset, it’s more like an exercise to relieve stress or get a little boost of dopamine.

It would be like asking “what do people without food fetishes think about when eating?” Idk, whatever is on their mind. They might think about how good it feels, but they could also be thinking about something totally unrelated.

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Guided missiles are usually guided by laser or gps, this missile sounds like it’s more of a fly by wire remote control situation, like a fpv drone.

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I knew a guy who used that exact same reasoning to play female characters. It’s funny how the way you want to look in a videogame can sort of tap into subconscious desires sometimes.

“Obviously I couldn’t dress like that IRL because of gender rules, but since I can choose my gender in this game…”

It’s sort of like The Button thought experiment.

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I don’t really want us to get any further into the murder-drone business than we already are, but it does seem to be the way conflicts are going.

Maybe war could just become entirely drones, so instead of people dying it could be a giant game of BattleBots.

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I’m not sure that fire-with-fire strategy is the most effective. At least historically it seems to have mixed results. I think going after their economy makes the most sense: sanctions, refinery attacks, sabotage; hit them in the wallet, break their capacity to continue the carnage.

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Like a reverse Enders Game, where the fighters believe they’re fighting a war but it’s actually a simulation. I think there was a Star Trek episode about that, A Taste of Armageddon.

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Look at me, I am your database now.

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Well, not 100%, Rittenhouse didn’t face a day of jail time. Though I guess he killed two people instead of burning a house down.

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You don’t think she faced an imminent need of self defense in the house of the man who abused and trafficked her? We don’t know the details, but that seems like a pretty threatening situation to me. We can say that she put herself in that situation, but so did Rittenhouse.

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And if you don’t get caught you can use the money for food, housing and healthcare.

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Only 10% of bank robberies fail, and 80% of stolen bank money is never recovered.

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But it just might be a lunatic that seat is for.

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Trains are way easier to make self driving too, we’ve had autonomous trains since the 60s.

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They usually only use the horn at crossings. Automated trains are grade separated. The SkyTrain rolls through Vancouver all night and you can hardly hear it.

JD Vance Awkwardly Retreats After Bizarre Attempt to Storm Harris’ Empty Plane (www.thedailybeast.com)

JD Vance briskly marched up to Air Force 2, Kamala Harris’ plane, planning to give political reporters a show as he confronted the vice president uninvited on Wednesday. His power-play dreams, like most of his chaotic veep run, were immediately thwarted once he realized Harris was not present. “I just wanted to check out my...

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Couches on Air force Two

Not bad for a plane 😏

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Pretty sure it’s the previous model which is now a museum exhibit.

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Pi picos are pretty good for iot projects like that. ESP are more power efficient, but a pi can be more self sufficient. I think it depends on the project.

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Ah, that’s just overkill.

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Was Obama the first black president? He’s half white, I don’t remember which race he picked on mixed race choosing day.

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Good point, that’s more accurate. I just wanted to get specific with the type of right wing nonsense I’ve seen from him.

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