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discodancer77 posted...

Theres a rate of diminishing returns where more spf doesnt really do anything for you beyond a certain point, but I forget the threshold. Google it

The SPF factor is basically the proportion less of UV you'll get from the Sun. SPF 30 blocks 96.7% of UVB light, so you can stay in the Sun 30 times as long as with no sunscreen. SPF 50 blocks 98% of UVB. SPF 100 blocks 99%.

It's also good to get one that blocks a higher proportion of UVA light too.

LordMarshal posted...

Its a red flag when i basically never hear anyone mention the gameplay. Like literally in this topic about if youve played a video game or not no one is mentioning the gameplay.

The gameplay's really good. I've heard complaints that it's basically not much different than the first game - maybe why it doesn't get talked about much - but the first one was near perfect, so no problems there.

Though I also thought the story was pretty unsatisfying, weirdly paced, anticlimactic etc, so it maybe almost makes it worse that the gameplay, graphics, sound etc were so good. Wasted potential for what it could have been with a better story.

What do you call it if you think that if everybody stopped wasting their time throwing around the same old tired polarising arguments which change nobodies minds, that if they all concentrated that energy instead on improving society in various ways (medical advancements, improving prosecution rates / prevention of rapists, furthering education on contraceptive use and invention of better ones or artificial wombs, improving socioeconomic equality, etc) then the vast majority of abortions could be prevented from ever having to happen in the first place? No forced births, much less killing of what's gonna be a baby. Win / win.

Seriously all this time wasted arguing on the internet is probably the reason we don't have flying cars yet.
(Electric flying cars, obviously)

Saw in Norway it's hit over US$10 per gallon recently (27kr / litre).

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

It's not explicitly 'expression', but pretty much implied.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Always rhetoric. No points

I mean, would you consider petty insults and repeating the "Scotland's too poor" myth a 'point'? I don't actually care what they decide to do as a country, but I'm sure they're better placed to educate you themselves than the english media you're getting your soundbites from.

Or you could just keep 'subsidising' their bagpipes and haggis and complain while you're doing it.

UnfairRepresent posted...

A complete regurgitation of south east English conservative mentality. "I dont understand it so it's bad".

UnfairRepresent posted...

Most of their opposition is just Scottish Nationalists who are crazy as conservatives are. Just less "stabby stabby die die" crazy and more "we don't understand how the economy, trade and healthcare works." crazy

You've got a very conservative understanding of Scottish politics

Funkydog posted...

We do need to change it, but sadly the Tories have no interest in that since the current one gives them a majority of power with minority votes and Labour hasn't wanted to give up their position in the past either. Hopefully they can change that with Lib Dem persuading in the future though.

Hopefully. I saw in the last election the conservatives got 365 seats with like 14 million votes, but the liberal democrats only got 11 with nearly 4 million. It's like you're allowed to vote for the liberal democrats, but your vote will only count for 1/8th as much.
Or look at the green party...

Why is it up to a bunch of scumbag conservatives to decide whether the biggest scumbag conservative is allowed to keep being a scumbag? Being a vote-share minority party too...

Seen plenty people saying how the monarchy is outdated and should be done away with now the Queen's turned 50,000, but surely that pseudodemocratic parliament system is ready to be trashed as well?

Could the rest of the US adopt their free healthcare, free college tuition and gun control as a condition of the union?

REmake was just an all round improvement over the original. Re2make I thought was roughly the same level as RE2, and RE3make was not as good, maybe with more development time it could have been. I hope RE4make reboots this trend.

Ask them both what the other one would say to determine who's telling the truth and who's the clone.

I get that with Kingdom Hearts, but not totally sure why. Maybe it's because when it came out, despite being fairly popular, no one I knew had heard of it and even local game stores weren't selling it so had to buy it online. So now it's cool when I find someone else who is into it, and they're typically nice people who like nice things.

(This only applies to IRL fans, and not your typical angry internet fan)

Leave or in water. Leave is the nicest ending, but in water seems to fit the vibe of the story better.

372 kcal in 30 mins is like 10 METs, that's pretty good. You're not exactly gonna be able to maintain 20 for that long. Weight wise, you'd burn an extra 10 kcal per pound of muscle, so you'd need to gain like 8 pounds of muscle to increase your metabolism to match the effect of 1 hour's cardio per week. It's pretty effective for weight loss.

There's plenty ways to make cardio more fun. The gains killing thing is a myth. Running strengthens the knees and actually prevents arthritis. Keeps you in shape for running from all the pitbulls too.

I live in a cold country where we dont have air conditioning, but I do have an app that plays relaxing noises to help you sleep, and the air conditioner noise is definitely the most effective one.

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It's kinda sad it's turned out that way. It seemed like a bit of a silver lining 2 years ago that, besides the anti-vaxers, most people actually seemed to care. But 15 million dead people later...

For the wedding, best just to stay sensible - vaccines, masks where appropriate, ventilated open spaces, clean hands etc.
With the variants, the current Omicron BA.2 is about on par in terms or severity with the original virus, but both less deadly than the delta variant. And vaccines obviously diminishing them all further.

Also, congratulations!

I'm sad that Hercules isn't cool anymore.

I mean it's not the least weird thing, but it's maybe gathering more opinions because she's so famous.

(The real weird thing is how successfully instagram culture has managed to convince people that flashing their parts for other's approval = free and empowering)

It's kinda offputting though, the unnatural poses, blank expression, poor quality pictures. Are those really the best shots that she would choose to post herself, or is it her bf / husband posting them instead?

I really liked it, I'd maybe put it same level as Skyfall, below Casino Royale and above the other two.

The settings were great, Matera at the start, the forest chase in Norway, and I do enjoy a classic bog standard evil villain lair at the end - even if the villain could've been better utilised. I know it's a long film, but I wouldn't have minded if they added another half hour to expand that further.

Maybe controversially, I didn't like the bit in Cuba, just all of Spectre happened to be there at the same time? Blofeld's eyeball? And Ana de armas was just a ditzy dumbass who might as well have had superpowers, she didn't fit the vibe of the film at all.

I'm also surprised the ending wasn't more widely spoiled in 2020 when it was released for a couple of weeks.

FortuneCookie posted...

In an ideal world, nobody would become a parent unless they were willing and able.

Totally, I think the actual solution to abortion is for society to improve all round to the extent it's no longer (or extremely rarely) necessary.

I mean, forcing women to have babies, or otherwise killing the unborn babies, neither or those is a good option. If everyone saved their energy arguing about these and instead focused it on bettering education on contraception and risk, or inventing more effective types of contraception, continuing pre-natal medical advancements, improving law enforcement, and bettering socioeconomic equality, getting everyone out of poverty / UBI etc, we all could probably stop most would-be abortions from ever needing to take place. People would be better able to choose if and when they wanted children.

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I've seen a few Youube videos like this, women pretending to be men thinking they know what other women want, it'll be easy etc, then getting a surprise.

I'm surprised dating apps have managed to cling on to so many users as long as they have. Both with the majority of users being dudes and the majority of those not having any luck, but also women who have it considerably easier also seem to hate using them. Surely their popularity will crash and burn at some point?

GawainNerevar posted...

Did you even read the post I was quoting? He was talking about conservationism, conserving the planet etc.

That wasn't the intention but can see why you'd read it that way, although sure, the environment is one of the things they probably should be looking to conserve - everyone should.
In modern conservative fashion though, there's not a lot of support for anything that might improve the various environmental problems going on.

Not American, but still obviously no, conservatives are terrible everywhere. But interesting you mention about defining the term, being conservative should be all about conservation, leaving the world and society in at least as good a state as what was inherited - I wonder why they've all collectively decided to do the opposite?

It would be interesting to see the difference in opinion between parents and non parents about what Joel did.
Seems obvious if someone's gonna kill his daughter, for any reason, he's gonna try and stop them, bearing any consequence. Especially after failing to save Sarah, and carrying that and hating everything for 20 years.
Also Ellie's like 14, he's obviously gonna lie and not tell her at the end, you can't drop the weight of something like that on a child.

Last of Us 2 is worth playing to see what happens I suppose. It's a high quality game, but the story is a different vibe. Some people love it, some hate it, to me it seems like fanfiction, I think most people from all sides probably agree it's not quite as good as the first one.

Yeah, why say lot word when few word do trick

It is good

The earth being 6000 thing has always been a fringe belief, even among Christians. It's also a much more recent thing than Christianity itself.

But yeah, by the 1800s gelogic time scales were starting to be discovered, along with the discovery and taxonomy of various dinosaurs, with the Mesozoic, and Triassic, Jurassic etc being determined around 1840. Around then most estimates for the age of the earth were about 10 - 100 million years old, so dinosaur timescales were kinda just guesses.

As mentioned above, radioactivity was discovered in 1896, and the concept of half life in 1907. By the mid 1910s the determined age of the Earth had jumped to be at least 1.5 billion, and refined to 4.5 billion by the 1950s, with more accurate dinosaur timescales determined too.

Everyone guessed he was gonna die from the first teaser trailer, so it shouldn't have been a surprise. Although the later trailers tried to fake him being in later parts of the game he wasn't actually in.

For the ab machine, do hold it at the top. For getting some muscle tone you'd want to do like a quick one second burst to the top, hold for two seconds then slowly drop down for three seconds.

And with the exercise bike, do both, go hard for a minute, then go fast for a minute, swap them up.

Rayman2943 posted...

Like, they are the aggressors, and they are wrong.

But a lot of the loudest feminism is great type liberals are also the most vocal war with Russia types lol

I don't think every issue has to be assigned one side to be for and the other to be against.

Actually, now's as good a time as any to get rid of the whole liberal / conservative split and find some 21st century cults to divide people instead. Imagine instead of having 'feminism is great' type liberals and 'feminism is not great' type conservatives, everyone instead spent that energy doing maths and stats to quantify and close gender pay gaps etc, and their arguments were all about the most accurate calculation methodologies or something.

It seems like Put's plan to wreck Ukraine, killing thousands and displacing millions will probably end up doing the same amount of damage as a nuke or two anyway, so it's maybe not beyond him. I mean starting the war at all doesn't seem like a sane or rational thing to have done.

Problem is how any other country who'd be able to stop it happening would manage to do that without the nuclear risk moving from very low to only kinda low.

Cocytus posted...

What is it normally where you're at, generally speaking?

Was about $6.30 a year ago, and a quick google says it hasn't been as low as $3.50 since 2002. I knew US gas prices were generally lower, but didn't actually know it was as big a gap.
Also just saw Norway's is up at $8.66 just now.

$7.70 equivalent. Those US gas prices are pretty cheap, even with the recent rises.

I think most people would agree the first one was better, that was a masterpiece and anything would've been even a little disappointing coming after it, but the second was really, extremely polarising. I'd guess probably 90%+ of the scores are 9/10s or 1/2s.
I wonder what reception it would've had if it was somehow a standalone game and not a sequel?

Butterfiles posted...

Good time to remind people that electric cars won't solve climate change

They would definitely help though

The first one would be right if the 6 was a 9. Maybe they meant to post both and it was a typo? Still strange.

That's ridiculous, you could get a 5 star luxury hotel for 1/20th of that. I wonder how much it actually costs them, and how much is profit?

Sexypwnstar posted...

Just going to be another regret in my life

So pathetic

It's not pathetic, it's totally normal to like someone, and totally normal to be worried about asking them out too. But meeting through work is one of the most common ways couples get together, so yeah should be fine to ask. Like mentioned above though, just keep it light and easygoing, act like it's no big deal if she's not interested.

It's like Russia thinks that Ukraine joining NATO is effectively the West invading Ukraine (including some regions in the east that they think should be part of Russia), so they're 'proactively defending' themselves.

This is a google translate from part of Put's address from ria.ru:

As for the military sphere, modern Russia, even after the collapse of the USSR and the loss of a significant part of its potential, is today one of the most powerful nuclear powers in the world and, moreover, has certain advantages in a number of the latest types of weapons. In this regard, no one should have any doubts that a direct attack on our country will lead to defeat and dire consequences for any potential aggressor.

Fade2black001 posted...

Why do they even keep a king and queen anymore when they hold no power?

She technically does have quite a lot of power, she's like a house of parliament all by herself, but she's never tried to use it, probably either respects democracy or can't be bothered.
Effectively she's a non-political leader that makes the UK appear much better to the rest of the world than some stupid clown that's supposedly the prime minister.
But yeah, there's no one to come after her that would have that same charisma.

Did you miss the part where that's your problem?