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My recently-deceased cat would do that. Scratch right above his tail, and he'd start compulsively licking his chest.
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Lightning Bolt posted...

Is adjl a doctor yet?
I thought he was a medical student like 8 years ago...

Nope, I was still in undergrad 8 years ago. Still not into med school.

RCtheWSBC posted...

plz be my gfaqs friend

I don't think I've ever had a request, and I don't see any unanswered requests now. Am I missing something?

wwinterj25 posted...

Mead posted...

Yeah it makes sense because when you get tired blood flows more easily into your donger

Something like this.

It's not tremendously well-understood (nothing about sleep is), but that's not far off of one of the theories. Counterintuitively, sexual arousal is triggered by the parasympathetic nervous system, and inhibited by the sympathetic, which is the opposite of how most physical arousal works. When you're tired enough to be nodding off, sympathetic activity is quite low, so you don't have that inhibition anymore and the body reverts to its default state of being sexually aroused.

Conversely, that's why it's hard to get it up when you're nervous or stressed. High sympathetic activity=inhibited sexual arousal, which makes sense because your body's all like "no we can't make sexytime now that tiger's going to eat us if we don't punch it."
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CountessRolab posted...

adjl posted...

Most of it stems from Trump's election. Nobody's really changed, it's just that people that didn't feel comfortable voicing their views before are having them validated by a prominent public figure, and further validated by the fact that enough people agreed with him to vote him into office. That amounts to a pretty considerable confidence boost.

Thats unfortunate. It feels like a step backwards socially.

It is and it isn't. It is actually good for everyone to get a chance like that to express their views, because otherwise they fester in secrecy until the opportunity arises to act on them. It's easy to forget that, say, there are still people who seriously think interracial marriage should be made illegal again, and if you pretend that opinion doesn't exist and shut down any attempt at discussing it, those holding it will be drawn to fringe extremist groups where they can feel validated. This way, the more harmful views are brought out into the open, allowing them to be identified and forcing proper discussion of them (even if they don't actually have any value, those holding them believe that they do, and that's a problem that can't be solved without engaging them).

A lot of these views are still very harmful, and given the power currently wielded by the Republican party it's going to be necessary to fight tooth and nail to keep them from causing harm, but this is still necessary to moderate the citizenry's views. That goes both ways, too. When nobody feels comfortable expressing one side, the other side feels reinforced by the illusion that there's no opposition. Echo chambers don't benefit anyone either.
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Most of it stems from Trump's election. Nobody's really changed, it's just that people that didn't feel comfortable voicing their views before are having them validated by a prominent public figure, and further validated by the fact that enough people agreed with him to vote him into office. That amounts to a pretty considerable confidence boost.
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REM sleep arousal. It's what causes morning wood; both men and women display the physical signs of sexual arousal during REM sleep (though obviously it's more noticeable in men). If you're tired and nodding off, your body is trying to drop directly into REM sleep, and that will sometimes cause spontaneous erections.
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Smarkil posted...

Should this not be the same for healthcare?

It should not, because health care isn't optional. You have far, far more control over how well you drive (or if you drive at all) than you have over how much health care you'll need. Yes, there are instances where somebody only needs health care because of something that is in their control, but on a larger scale, that is not the case.

Additionally, having it as a tax allows the fee to reflect the taxee's means. People with more money to pay for better insurance don't necessarily need better health care. Quite the opposite, in fact. Socioeconomic status is VERY strongly correlated with overall health levels, despite the fact that the quality of insurance available to people displays precisely the opposite of that correlation. A traditional insurance model with adjustable rates therefore cannot cover the actual needs of a health care system.
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Smarkil posted...

Should I be paying the same amount in insurance as a car that is identical in cost to mine but doesn't have that safety feature?

A number of insurance companies will reduce your premiums if you have those safety features, actually. Car insurance is fairly good for taking into account your risk level as a driver, and pushing more of the cost burden onto the higher-risk drivers.
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OhhhJa posted...

IAmNowGone posted...

bunch of nice guys in this tp. who hurt u? Lets find them and make them date u

Lol more than likely they haven't even had the opportunity to be hurt

Whoa whoa whoa.

Are you suggesting that the majority of these "nice guys that women don't like" haven't actually interacted with more than one or two women, and are basing their entire impression of the sex off of those experiences going sour due to them having no idea what they were doing?
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3 uncensored 5 me
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chaosbowser posted...

It'd be more accurate to say its a spectrum with 3 discrete approximations.

Or rather a spectrum with two discrete approximations and a bunch of fringe cases that can be lumped together under "other" for most people's purposes.
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OhhhJa posted...

Exactly... that was my point. A spectrum indicates some fluid range of possibilities. A few mutations doesn't a spectrum make

Sure it does. Bimodal distributions are a thing. Just because most people fall at one end or another of a spectrum doesn't mean there's no spectrum.
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I remember thinking the first Sims was absolutely huge because it took 300 MB.
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Smarkil posted...

Guess what? I have a problem with government enforced car insurance too.

That's a pretty reasonable requirement, actually. It makes sure other people on the road don't have to pay if you screw up. Given that you are not perfect and infallible, that's always a possibility. Even on the off chance you actually are, you're still going to want all the other people on the road that aren't to be able to pay for any of their screw-ups that affect you, and given that there's really no way to determine who's actually never going to do anything wrong, a blanket requirement is the best way to ensure that coverage.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

If you divert the flow of a river at its source, it can flow in a completely different way to the way it always did, that doesn't however change the fact that its original course was completely different before it was interfered with.

Why does the original course matter?
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wildstrike1516 posted...

why should a tax payer be forced to cover for their stupid action?

Because that taxpayer is paying like a hundredth of a cent for that broken arm, which is less than negligible, and in exchange for that perceived waste, hundreds of thousands of arms that were broken through more legitimate accidents are covered at the same rate, allowing all of those people to get back to work and live healthy, productive lives instead of having to go on disability because they couldn't get their broken arms treated.

The oppositions to a nationalized health care system are almost invariably extremely narrow-minded and short-sighted. Look at broad statistics, not individual hypothetical situations that you don't like the sound of.
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I believe the $20-25 I spent on Path of Exile to upgrade my stash. I was pushing 100+ hours by that point, so I figured GGG had earned my money. I've also spent like $10-12 on DotA 2, most of which was one of the battle passes. I think that's it.
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yutterh posted...

Probably some more stuff but it was a while ago, this guy pretty much passed everything but she still wasn't into him. She had a great time and dude sounded like a winner. Yet she still wasn't into him. Maybe he wasn;t enough of a badass or something.

Or maybe she just didn't end up having feelings for him. That is a thing, you know. Being able to check all the boxes for a quality mate doesn't automatically result in romantic attraction.
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OhhhJa posted...

Lol I'm seeing the (separate) quotes... and I'm failing to see how I said "your dick directly produces seed and your vagina directly produces eggs!" You're reaching fella

You do, however, say that's it's genitals alone that determine sex, and then also that gametes alone determine sex. The logical conclusion there would be that you believe genitals=gametes, which would indeed call your understanding of human reproductive anatomy into question.
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Pretty sure they'd have been charged with murder even if they killed the right man.
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Depends entirely on whether or not you've got friends that you'll want to play Mario Kart with, and whether or not you've already got the original MK8. Both are fantastic; you won't be going wrong either way.
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Smallville posted...

adjl posted...

Not counting parking? None. Counting parking? Two, I think, both for forgetting that I'd left the car parked on the street on street cleaning night.

is this in nyc? How much were your parking tickets?

Halifax. I think they were like $30. It largely only happens on residential streets, where there's one night a week where one side of the street will be no parking between midnight and 8 AM. It's not generally hard to avoid, since the other side of the street will be available and driveways are a thing, but forgetting happens.
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Not counting parking? None. Counting parking? Two, I think, both for forgetting that I'd left the car parked on the street on street cleaning night.
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"Dude"
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Zikten posted...

so this is what happens when people try to breed real life centaurs I guess. you end up with this

Or this:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/P1_FZ0v1DPB_DvOm90kdAjnKkHNIsLsaEtANlFThX6rxeVLn6Ewx8CeLlE45zMgA_Rc=h310
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Kimbos_Egg posted...

And i don't even like black pudding!

****ing sacrilege. Black pudding is delicious.
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Well, yes, it's obviously a bad idea. But I can understand the rationale.
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CountessRolab posted...

People need to realize that clothes like this are not designed to actually be worn in real life. They are forms of art.

Except those pictures were taken in real life. Real people had to give her a 10-foot radius at all times to avoid stepping on it. When art is that absurdly impractical, it loses whatever value it might have had.
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GameReviews posted...

In no scenario could I see just randomly assaulting a teenager being a help to your situation.

But it's not randomly assaulting a teenager. It's assaulting a very specific teenager for the purposes of teaching a very specific lesson about how death threats are serious ****ing business. The alternative would be to pursue criminal charges, but that's going to end up being a whole lot worse than anything TC's likely to do, so he's really taking the merciful route.
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Smarkil posted...

Lol they operate on the same f***ing principle. They only work when their customer is ignorant. No, it's not discrimination because it's colored pink.

Uhh, literally by definition, if it's singling out a subpopulation and treating them differently, it's discriminatory. When that discrimination doesn't have a valid basis, that's not cool.

Smarkil posted...

First of all, calling them scam victims is tantamount to insanity.

They're losing money because they've been deceived into thinking something's worth more than it is. That's pretty much the definition of being scammed. Nice job fixating on an aside, though.

Smarkil posted...

Second of all, yes the issue absolutely is that consumers should educate themselves.

No, it's not. That is an issue, certainly, but it's a separate one. The issue here is that some consumers need to do more to educate themselves than others, because of discriminatory marketing practices.

Smarkil posted...

When the amount of 'education' that's required is literally just taking a cheap item and an expensive item and putting them side by side to say, "Oh, the ingredients are the same", yeah I think we can safely place that onus on the f***ing 'victims' lol.

And you think it's okay to expect half of the population to do that while giving the other half a free pass?

Furthermore, it's rarely that simple. If you've ever cooked, you know that having the same ingredient list doesn't mean having the same product.

Smarkil posted...

Who cares if it's scummy? Vote with your dollar. Tell Herbal Essences that their bulls*** doesn't work by not buying it.

Herbal Essences doesn't really care about my dollar, because they have so many other dollars. Hence I'm targeting all those other dollars. Why you're refusing to accept that these practices are scummy and that word should be spread about them, I cannot fathom.

Smarkil posted...

If they're different, then the entire point of the argument is moot, init?

That's not her point at all. She was saying that, because some things are different and others aren't, keeping on top of which ones can be freely substituted is an unreasonable amount of work for most consumers, a fact which companies are more than happy to prey upon.

Smarkil posted...

But don't pretend the business is in the wrong for making money.

They're not in the wrong for making money. They're in the wrong for lying. You seem to be extremely reluctant to accept this, and I'm not sure why. I can't help but feel like you just said "RAWR I HATE FEMINISM YOU'RE ALL WRONG" and are letting that take the place of actually thinking about the issue at hand.
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TheWorstPoster posted...

adjl posted...

Eh? I'm not sure how to parse this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule

Oh, okay. I am not inside this joke, it would seem.
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Not too far off of my other cursive writing. Which means it's barely legible.
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That train takes up way too much room.
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Smarkil posted...

Apple markets to people who don't know s*** about computers

Beats (which I suppose is also apple) targets people who don't know anything about sound quality

Etc. etc.

And those aren't discriminatory marketing practices. They target people based on their understanding of the products, not anything else. Targeting people who don't understand what matters in toiletries, charging them for pointless stuff? That's fair game. Specifically targeting a subgroup of people within that demographic and aiming to have them pay more for literally no reason? Not so much, because that's discriminatory.

Smarkil posted...

Like, it's all demographic targeting. That's the point. They do it because it works. If customers are dumb enough to get duped by terrible marketing campaigns, then that's really their own problem.

Even ignoring the highly questionable logic of blaming a scam's victim instead of the one perpetrating the scam, the issue here isn't that consumers in general need to educate themselves to avoid falling for marketing campaigns. It's that certain consumers need to slough through more lies than others. I certainly don't expect female-targeted toiletries to be held to a higher standard of advertising honesty than others. I just don't think it's right for them to be held to a lower standard.

Also, again, the Pink Tax is far from the only example of discriminatory marketing practices. It's no less scummy when companies manipulate men into paying more for the same thing (though there aren't nearly as many examples of that). That doesn't make the Pink Tax okay, though. Two wrongs don't make a right.
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I think my suit was like $250. It's comfortable and it looks good. I'm pretty happy with it.
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TheWorstPoster posted...

the first 90% of the time.

TheWorstPoster posted...

The second 90% of the time

Eh? I'm not sure how to parse this.
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OhhhJa posted...

Then why does my gf always tell me she feels bad for men bc it's easier to find good deals as a woman?

That's a vague enough statement that I'm not going to be able to give you an answer unless you elaborate considerably.

OhhhJa posted...

If anyone's truly vulnerable to viral marketing campaigns it's the impoverished not women

Discriminatory marketing campaigns that target the poor are also really scummy (probably more so).
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Usually Chocolate Extreme, but I'll try out others from time to time. The best was Brownie Batter, but those aren't around anymore, to my considerable chagrin.
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Smarkil posted...

adjl posted...

Sure, women can just as easily buy the men's stuff to save money, but that doesn't change that there are multiple industries that pour sizable amounts of money into marketing that manipulates women into paying more for the same product. That's really not cool.

That's like...all of marketing. I mean, that's kinda the purpose of marketing as an industry. They're trying to convince you that an item has more value than it's actually worth.

In a general sense, yeah, but this is marketing that's targeting a specific demographic, such that that demographic needs to do more research in order to avoid being ripped off. That's not cool.

OhhhJa posted...

But but... the poor women's! They must be coddled because they can't make informed decisions due to their smaller brains! They need gallant knights like adjl to save them from evil men's manipulation!

I mean, you can look at sales data and the fact that these pricing differences continue to exist as proof that the manipulation works just fine, so yes, obviously some sort of intervention is needed to prevent it (whether by forbidding the difference or by doing more to prevent the spread of misinformation). That'd be true regardless of which demographic was being exploited; the Pink Tax just happens to be one of the more widespread and egregious examples of discriminatory marketing practices. I don't particularly object to expecting consumers to make informed decisions to ensure their money is being spent wisely, but when a subset of a product's user base has to sift through more lies to make those informed decisions than the rest of the user base, that's not okay.
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Smarkil posted...

shadowsword87 posted...

RCtheWSBC posted...

Exactly! I buy a 2-pack of Degree for men for $5.49, while one stick of Degree for women costs $5.79. It's bulls***.

There are some fun stats according to this podcast (and apperently an article too)

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/undertheinfluence/guys-and-dolls-gender-marketing-1.4068879

It's a real shame that women are segregated from purchasing the items that men typically purchase. Otherwise this would be a moot point. Damn gender laws. Forcing women to buy shit they don't need.

Sure, women can just as easily buy the men's stuff to save money, but that doesn't change that there are multiple industries that pour sizable amounts of money into marketing that manipulates women into paying more for the same product. That's really not cool.
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Troll_Police_ posted...

ok, so i just want to point out to all of you complaining that this would be like planned parenthood pulling support from an anti-abortion activist group. the only reason you dont like it is because they dont hold YOUR view point and you are hypocrites.

Come now, Schmen, you're smarter than this. You know that Planned Parenthood does more than just provide abortions, and that your analogy is fatally flawed.
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Dikitain posted...

Plus with biking you can basically use it as an easier form of transportation. For example, instead of driving 5 minutes to the farmer's market, bike instead. Or bike to work, save on gas.

That's the biggest thing. Running may be better exercise, but you have to dedicate time to exercising in order to run. Biking allows you to get a non-trivial amount of exercise just by adding a couple minutes to your commutes and errand runs, which makes it far, far easier to integrate it into your life.
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Zangulus posted...

We don't. But each service wants to make money directly rather than indirectly. It's usually more profitable.

Eeyup. It's not meant to make things easier for the consumers, it's all about which companies buy which distribution licenses. Some services make exclusive distribution deals, and shows disappear as licenses are allowed to expire (whether because there isn't enough demand to justify them or to prompt users to explore other content).
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Smarkil posted...

Wait, does it matter if your razor has rust on it? I just rinse it off and shave anyway.

Am I gonna get tetanus?

Rust itself doesn't cause tetanus. Conditions that favour rust formation, however, tend to also favour growth of Clostridium tetanii, so the two often end up correlated.
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wolfy42 posted...

Cheapest bike they have is $450


So not paying that much.

Realistically, if you're looking for something decent, you should probably be looking in the $400-600 range for a new one. There's a sizable jump in quality from the $100-300 range to that one. Cheaping out on a Walmart Special will do the job, but it's not necessarily going to be a particularly comfortable ride (even with an aftermarket saddle upgrade; there's a lot more to bicycle ergonomics than how comfy the seat is), nor a particularly fast/efficient one, nor a particularly durable one. Cheaping out on this first bike to see how you like having one makes enough sense, but you're probably going to want to upgrade if you end up using it a lot.

If nothing else, free parking that you don't have to spend time searching for is huge. If you're taking your bike downtown on a regular basis, you'll fairly quickly save enough time and money to justify splurging a bit. Don't go for a $4000 one, obviously (even aside from the cost, those tend to be full-carbon frames, which are bad to put in bike racks because of how susceptible they are to impacts from other bikes), but you really don't need to be scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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I love how they just don't move after being put on the track at the end.
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Dikitain posted...

So you are fine with people being charged money for having a relative die?

But they aren't being charged money for having a relative die. If they were charged money, then they'd have less money after the relative died than before (which funeral expenses actually do, but that's another discussion). Instead, they're being paid money for having a relative die. Having the estate taxed just means they get paid less than they would if not for the tax.
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Zeus posted...

The estate tax may be stupid given the absurd number of times that money has already been taxed, but how do you make up for the shortfall?

That's the biggest thing. Whatever gripes you may have with the concept, if it didn't exist, that tax revenue would still be needed, and other taxes would be raised or added to make up for it.
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By the time you're old enough to be considering PAD, it'll probably be legal in the US.
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It's asking about your organization, not your media of choice.
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