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Topic | This is right here is EXACTLY what is wrong with America |
tiornys 07/15/20 8:11:53 PM #7 | Thus is one of the topics covered in Dark Money: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Money-History-Billionaires-Radical/dp/0307947904 |
Topic | Is this the only place on the Internet where people still use >_>? |
tiornys 07/14/20 8:58:45 PM #23 | Text emojis are great. ^_^ ^_~ >_> <_< T_T Q_Q (>")> edit: 0_o how could I forget O_O |
Topic | Is this the only place on the Internet where people still use >_>? |
tiornys 07/14/20 8:51:44 PM #15 | I use it in a variety of online places. |
Topic | My FWB wants to hookup but she doesnt take COVID seriously. What should I do? |
tiornys 07/06/20 1:59:02 PM #12 | How high is your personal risk level? Any pre-existing conditions or markers that indicate a higher than normal chance at having a bad case of covid-19? How many people do you have regular close contact with? Are you in close contact with people in highly vulnerable groups and/or who are caretakers of people in highly vulnerable groups? if your personal risk is low and you have minimal contact with others, go for it. If you're the primary caretaker of your elderly parents/grandparents who have asthma, a history of lung and heart diseases, and compromised immune systems, stay very very far away. |
Topic | The USA has 18,000,000 millionaires |
tiornys 07/06/20 1:54:20 PM #74 | There are lots of things you can do to improve your chances of becoming a millionaire. None of those things guarantee that you will become/stay a millionaire. You can do everything right and still have economic disaster. Also, none of those things are necessary for becoming a millionaire. You can do everything wrong and luck into economic success. It's a good thing to encourage people to work hard, learn and practice financial literacy, etc. It's not a good thing to judge people just for being poor. It's also not a good thing to venerate people just for being rich. |
Topic | Why do I see so many people demonize voting third party? |
tiornys 06/25/20 12:45:26 AM #7 | Given that we have a two party system, it is extremely difficult to rationally move towards more parties under a first past the post voting system. This is because even a strong push by a third party is likely to lose, and in the process they will probably cause the main party that is less aligned to their ideals to win because they're going to attract more voters from the party that is more closely aligned with them. The opposing party probably won't win a majority of voters, but they will win a plurality, and that's all that matters in first past the post. Real change is going to require the adoption of better voting methods. |
Topic | Arizona mega church to host Trump rally claims its air filters kills covid-19. |
tiornys 06/23/20 11:43:05 AM #8 | monkmith posted... they very well might. doesn't change the fact that before that sneeze hits the filtration system it lands on your face.Right? It doesn't even matter whether or not I believe that the filtering kills the virus. 10 minutes is a few orders of magnitude longer than it takes for newly dispersed virus to infect someone. |
Topic | What's the worst piece on traditional Chex Mix? |
tiornys 06/22/20 9:02:08 PM #32 | RedJackson posted... Ill give you all my breadsticks for your rye chipsWut? The breadsticks are boring without the rye chips. The rye chips are too strong without the breadsticks. Sadly there's usually not enough rye chips to balance the breadsticks. |
Topic | What's the worst piece on traditional Chex Mix? |
tiornys 06/22/20 8:58:28 PM #27 | Slaya4 posted... Whoa, whoa, whoa, people actually liked the rye chips?I'll give you all of my pretzels for all of your rye chips. |
Topic | confirm/deny: you use the "censor profanity" function |
tiornys 06/22/20 1:52:44 PM #20 | I use it to keep the site safe(r) for work. If not for that consideration I'd have it off. |
Topic | i like how redhats went from NO SHUTDOWN to PROTESTS BAD DEADLY to NO SHUTDOWN |
tiornys 06/19/20 3:43:52 PM #93 | Gobstoppers12 posted... but it's disingenuous to put so much effort into blocking a rally without also putting equal effort into blocking the protests.False equivalence. The rally as currently set up is much more dangerous than the protests are with regards to COVID-19. |
Topic | i like how redhats went from NO SHUTDOWN to PROTESTS BAD DEADLY to NO SHUTDOWN |
tiornys 06/19/20 3:12:17 PM #79 | The point of social distancing, masks, hand washing, etc. is to slow the spread of the virus so we don't overwhelm health systems. People who are protesting for George Floyd/BLM and otherwise observing safety guidelines are expanding their personal risk and the risk of other protestors, but are otherwise limiting the spread beyond protestors. If I thought most or all of the people who intend to attend the planned rally would otherwise be observing safety guidelines, I would worry less about it. If the planned rally didn't involve 10's of thousands of people, I would worry less about it. If the local health system near the rally had a lot of free capacity to deal with a potential spike in cases, I would worry less about it. None of these are the case. As for the earlier protests against the safety measures, it's clear those people had no interest in observing the safety measures outside the protests. Therefore they represent not just a nexus where the virus can easily move into different population groups but also a vector that will likely spread the virus within those (non-protestor) population groups. |
Topic | i like how redhats went from NO SHUTDOWN to PROTESTS BAD DEADLY to NO SHUTDOWN |
tiornys 06/19/20 1:43:13 PM #36 | karlpilkington4 posted... But they didnt follow those guidelines... tiornys posted... especially if we follow safety guidelines outside of the protest". |
Topic | i like how redhats went from NO SHUTDOWN to PROTESTS BAD DEADLY to NO SHUTDOWN |
tiornys 06/19/20 1:29:30 PM #32 | DevsBro posted... It's stupid but it's not necessarily hypocritical."Economic damage from shut downs is bad but unchecked Covid spread would be worse" isalso a real perspective, and is not incompatible with "gathering to protest is a reasonable risk to run if the cause is important enough, especially if we follow safety guidelines outside of the protest". |
Topic | Why does college brainwash people into becoming liberal? |
tiornys 06/19/20 1:19:10 PM #58 | onedarksoul posted... No argument here with that overall statement, though thats not the point of the platitude. But left of current right wing doesn't automatically mean "left" as in democrat/progressive.In an objective sense, I agree. In terms of the current Republican platform and major politicians vs. the current Democratic platform and major politicians, I disagree. What do you think is the point of the comment? (leaving aside semantic arguments about what type of comment it is) I personally do not think reality can be defined in political terms.Thus why it is neutral. The cookie cutter conservative that watches fox news and which you probably think represents all of the right? That isn't reality, sure. But there are more varieties of conservative than that.I'm not talking about individuals. I would love for conservatives as traditionally defined to take back control of the Republican party from current leadership. |
Topic | i like how redhats went from NO SHUTDOWN to PROTESTS BAD DEADLY to NO SHUTDOWN |
tiornys 06/19/20 1:08:48 PM #14 | https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/01/health/protests-coronavirus-spread-concerns/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/us/la-county-protest-coronavirus-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/health/cdc-protesters-tested-coronavirus-trnd/index.html What's that about CNN ignoring COVID during the protests again? |
Topic | Why does college brainwash people into becoming liberal? |
tiornys 06/19/20 12:49:03 PM #51 | onedarksoul posted... Reality has no bias. Its just reality. Platitudes like these expose the inability to rub two brain cells together.It's a quip, not a platitude. The point is that the modern US right wing has drifted so far to the right that it's lost touch with the center. Since reality tends to be neutral--i,e, centered--with regards to the whole left-wing/right-wing spectrum, it lands significantly left of current US right wing ideology. |
Topic | Trump supporter kicked off flight for refusing to wear face mask |
tiornys 06/18/20 5:28:07 PM #21 | Christian RULES posted... I'm not a fan of the wearing mask on the plane also. What happens when you wear a mask then take it off once they are high enough? It's not like they're gonna turn around and make emergency landing right?Assuming the flight attendants instruct you to keep the mask on, you will be violating federal law if you don't comply and will likely be arrested once the plane lands. To be clear, this is not a law about masks, this is a law about complying with flight attendants. That's what the guy in the article apparently failed to understand. There might not be a law about wearing masks in planes, but he still violated the law by not complying with the request to wear one. Anticyclonic posted... It doesn't have to be the law. Airline companies are a business and you abide by their terms when using the business. I thought Trump supporters had a hard on for big business being able to do whatever they want.True, but as noted above flight attendants have even more authority than that. While working onboard they are federal agents. |
Topic | Think of a male and a female video game character. |
tiornys 06/18/20 2:04:04 AM #11 | Ganondorf and Mother Brain. I uh ... uh ... |
Topic | Lord of chaos (book 6 of the wheel of time). |
tiornys 06/14/20 1:43:20 PM #7 | Book six is the start of the infamous "slog". It's not that nothing happens--every book has major happenings--but the ratio of character moments+sideplot vs. main plot goes way up. The pace starts to pick back up in book 11; Sanderson gets a lot of credit for speeding up the pace, but really he just continued what Jordan had already started. The middle is slow because all of the strands of the story are spread to their widest point and it takes more pages to cover e.g. a week with 10 different groups than with 3 different groups. Book 10 is perhaps the epitome of this. Book 11 starts to pull the strands back in and weave them together (pun intentional) in preparation for the push to Tarmon Gai'don. edit: not to take anything away from Sanderson; he did a fantastic job with a nearly impossible task. |
Topic | What 3D, offline main series Final Fantasy has the steepest learning curve? |
tiornys 06/14/20 12:15:05 PM #8 | Tactics is probably the steepest learning curve in any FF period. |
Topic | What 3D, offline main series Final Fantasy has the steepest learning curve? |
tiornys 06/14/20 12:12:00 PM #5 | XII and VIII have the steepest learning curves to competence (and Tactics is even worse but it's not main series). XIII has the steepest curve to mastery. |
Topic | Ever play obscure card games? |
tiornys 06/12/20 9:20:54 PM #18 | Ruvan22 posted... I could never find anyone to play V:TES against...Yeah, it was pretty well designed and quite a bit of fun, but it was best played with 4-5 people and a typical game would take hours. There was a year or so where I could regularly get a decent game at our local game shop, but after that it faded pretty fast. |
Topic | Ever play obscure card games? |
tiornys 06/12/20 9:00:32 PM #10 | Some of the less well known ccgs I've played include Netrunner, Legend of the Five Rings, and Jyhad ( |
Topic | What are some good Sci fi/Fantasy worlds with deep lore? |
tiornys 06/11/20 2:37:13 AM #25 | Add another mention of Stormlight and Wheel of Time, and I'll also mention The Wars of Light and Shadow. |
Topic | Texas reports a record number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients |
tiornys 06/11/20 12:06:38 AM #31 | DoctorPiranha3 posted... The further we drag this pandemic on, the worse the economy will be, and the longer it will take to get back to normal. It's simple logic, but dipshits like our governor can't grasp it.If only there were some measures that our national government could take to help mitigate the costs of being shut down and to help mitigate the risks of opening back up. |
Topic | TPD Major: Police Shoot Black Americans 'Less Than We Probably Ought To' |
tiornys 06/10/20 10:57:57 AM #32 | BallroomBetch posted... This is begging the question; you're starting with the framework that systemic racism against blacks exists and results in cops "hunting" minorities. But I think it's fair to "extrapolate" the following conclusions:I absolutely agree that the media skews our perceptions, but that's frankly an entirely different topic. Why are there increasing rates of crime in some areas? What could be done about the problems related to protected classes? Are those problems worth the benefits of having protected classes? |
Topic | TPD Major: Police Shoot Black Americans 'Less Than We Probably Ought To' |
tiornys 06/10/20 10:35:26 AM #27 | wackyteen posted... That obviously it doesn't exist and all officers are innocent, misunderstood saints that have such a hard job and we must respect them at all times.Luckily you've already posted several times in this topic so I don't have to wonder whether or not Poe's Law is in play. |
Topic | TPD Major: Police Shoot Black Americans 'Less Than We Probably Ought To' |
tiornys 06/10/20 10:30:12 AM #25 | Ok. Let's say I'm willing to accept these stats as fact (I don't have any particular reason to dispute them since I haven't done any research). Stats are useless without interpretation. What can we extrapolate from these stats about the issue of systemic racism? |
Topic | TPD Major: Police Shoot Black Americans 'Less Than We Probably Ought To' |
tiornys 06/10/20 9:42:08 AM #13 | Assuming he's saying this because statistics show something about black Americans committing more crimes by percentage or similar, he's missing the forest for the trees. In short, it matters WHY you think black Americans might commit more crimes by percentage. |
Topic | [MTG] This new card is so stompy |
tiornys 06/09/20 8:20:36 PM #124 | kirbymuncher posted... I had them both in my EDH deck in highschool <_<My favorite (not best) EDH deck ran Progenitus as the general, and I ran 0 single-color cards in that deck. All artifacts in the deck either had more than one color of mana symbol on them somewhere or were capable of generating any color mana/fetching any color land. All of the lands were multi-color excepting 1 of each basic. Sadly, that deck walked off at some point. Probably because it had all of the original duals, and all of the shocklands, and all of the (good) fetchlands. |
Topic | [MTG] This new card is so stompy |
tiornys 06/09/20 4:46:30 PM #41 | Questionmarktarius posted... After a decade or so of becoming "Creatures: The Blocking", MTG badly needs a removal renaissance.I doubt it'll happen. MTG went this direction intentionally, apparently because their market research said that most players like strong creatures and interactive combat. |
Topic | Good chess books? |
tiornys 06/07/20 8:09:13 PM #10 | The list from that blog looks excellent. Question: how many of the basic mates (K+Q, K+R, K+2B, K+B+N) can you do consistently? |
Topic | How did people even take road trips before GPS navigation? |
tiornys 06/07/20 7:12:42 PM #22 | I had a temp job once quick-delivering products that were being sold over the phone by some telemarketing company. They'd hire locals in whatever city they were calling because the locals had the knowledge of where things were in that city. These days they'd just have some traveling employees use Google Maps (or just use Amazon, but whatever). |
Topic | Billie Eilish joins the protest |
tiornys 06/07/20 5:50:32 PM #49 | NeonOctopus posted... If you're going into medicine to see hot bodies, you'll quit within a week by all the gross bullshit you gotta deal with >_>Trust me, I wouldn't go into medicine. Too much gross bullshit to deal with. (reference: I have two relatives who work healthcare) |
Topic | Billie Eilish joins the protest |
tiornys 06/07/20 5:43:22 PM #44 | NeonOctopus posted... Dude, have you ever worked a day in medicine? 99% of the nudity I see is either flopping dicks or granny titties >_> I can count on 1 hand how many actual hot titties I've seen on this job out of probably 10,000 patients I've had.Yeah, that doesn't surprise me a bit. I still think that's what Conflict was referring to. |
Topic | Billie Eilish joins the protest |
tiornys 06/07/20 5:40:25 PM #41 | Smackems posted... That's not allowed, your job must define everything about youI suspect it's less about his job defining him and more about his working a field where he has some level of exposure to nudity on the part of people who aren't choosing it. |
Topic | Neil Gaiman is a magnificent son of a gun (Sandman spoilers) |
tiornys 06/06/20 12:07:51 PM #5 | Sandman is awesome. My favorite part of The Wake is catching up with Robert. |
Topic | So lemme get this straight (Covid and protesting) |
tiornys 06/06/20 12:03:56 PM #39 | There are plenty of words being written out there about the dangers these protests present because of COVID-19. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/coronavirus-spread-risk-protests.html https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-cases-were-already-rising-before-the-george-floyd-protests/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/world/coronavirus-updates.html#link-2e3a74e8 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/live-blog/2020-06-06-coronavirus-news-n1226456 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/protests-carry-risk-even-when-theyre-justified/612652/ https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/06/cdc-warns-protests-and-covid-19-spread Seriously, just google "covid protests" or similar. |
Topic | Really? Modded for that Mace Windu poll? For no spoiler warning? |
tiornys 06/05/20 8:05:19 PM #41 | I post on several sites that care about spoilers, old or new. Because age is no excuse for unmarked spoilers. https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ten_thousand.png |
Topic | Trump faces unprecedented revolt. Most Military Leaders HATE HIM |
tiornys 06/05/20 5:51:25 PM #96 | guesswho33 posted... All you have to know about the media is that they said that he said Mexicans are rapists and they left it at that. Simply listen to his clip and he said "some" illegal ones and he even said some are good people. But the media left that totally out. Everything is twisting by them.I don't know what media you're looking at. The media I consume all include the full quote. |
Topic | Can I start daytrading high risk penny stocks with $1,000? |
tiornys 05/28/20 11:48:32 PM #12 | Can you? Yes. Should you? Probably not. |
Topic | why do people claim things like "I was doing thing when I was 1!" |
tiornys 05/28/20 4:18:06 PM #5 | Babies develop at different rates. I don't think it's out of the question, especially if it's more like 23 months "1 year old" than 12.5 months "1 year old". |
Topic | Really though, how do we KNOW the elements are real? |
tiornys 05/28/20 11:49:40 AM #21 | Jabodie posted... Since you keep coming back with genuine responses I feel the need to say this is a joke topic.Still useful to discuss what science actually is and how it works. Blind faith in science isn't much better than blind faith in any given religion. But good to know you don't actually hold that view. |
Topic | Really though, how do we KNOW the elements are real? |
tiornys 05/28/20 11:39:44 AM #17 | From: https://www.nsta.org/publications/news/story.aspx?id=51054 Scientific explanations often make use of things we cannot see or feel, such as protons, electrons, and quarks. Do these things really exist? If so, how do we know they exist? |
Topic | Really though, how do we KNOW the elements are real? |
tiornys 05/28/20 10:46:30 AM #12 | Some made up concepts are more useful than other made up concepts. The sciences are basically a collection of the most useful made up concepts. A scientist believes those concepts are a good approximation of reality (inasmuch as "reality" is a thing) because we can use them to predict what happens in reality. |
Topic | Really though, how do we KNOW the elements are real? |
tiornys 05/28/20 10:42:27 AM #9 | Tests that you can replicate. Tests that you can devise based on the predictions of scientific theory. |
Topic | Really though, how do we KNOW the elements are real? |
tiornys 05/28/20 10:40:10 AM #7 | Ancient occult mysticism didn't build computers and cell phones. Science holds up to critical testing far better than the Bible does. |
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