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GrabASnickers posted...

I mean applying usually costs money and for 8 schools that's probably at least $400 total

7 applications cost me about a grand when i applied.

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KFHEWUI posted...

But we will focus on making this a broader entertainment experience, rather than a hardcore horror game

Because, as we know, there are far too many games appealing to that demographic.


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If anything, the US culture that makes TC believe this is suspect is an issue.

Don't show your own children affection, lest people think you're a pedophile! In fact, any less than one blackeye per month puts you on the suspect list.

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ElatedVenusaur posted...

because momentum is absolutely a vital factor in primaries

Is it? Or is it the hot hand of elections?

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I dont think McDonlads has go far enough, tbh.

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kg88222 posted...

I have, in the past, been seriously worried about the well being of this poster.

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It's truly a gigantic shitstain on the legacy and future of the US.

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The sweet spot of drunkenness is when the two hemispheres of your brain are having a hard time integrating their streams of information, but you still understand what's going on in reality,

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008Zulu posted...

Do you have the DVDs, or are you using a particular streaming service?

Neither, though if either were a real option I would use it.

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MedeaLysistrata posted...

Sounds fun wish I was there we could play some Tekken 7 or Assassin's Creed or watch Avatar

The company would be nice, the last season is kinda bonkers so far!

MutantJohn posted...

I'm waiting for my wife to go into labor.

Covid proto in the maternity ward is so dumb

Congrats! My brother and his wife had their second child during COVID restrictions and it was super stressful. So I hope you're coping well.

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AldousIsDead posted...

There are worse shows to waste your time on, at least. How It's Made for example.

I absolutely endorse wasting time and the decompression that comes with it.

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Because I'm a fucking adult and that's what I can do.

I'm so lame

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You can't order to temp at fast food restaurants lmao.

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Hackers is one of my favorite movies. While a cult classic, it seems that people who don't like it think it's absolutely terrible.
*shrugs*

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People in the US have gone through a pedophile scare like the red scare over the past twenty years.

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Gobstoppers12 posted...

What a long wet fart.

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PoundGarden posted...

The Capitol attack along with the points you listed are serious to be sure, however hey were also very small groups of lunatics

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PoundGarden posted...

hey were also very small groups of lunatics

I don't think you can consider the Jan 6th Insurrection a small group.

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"That just makes me smart"
*shit eating grin*

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You aren't fooling anyone.

Look at yourself. Is this really what you want to be doing with your free time? Pretending to be dumb on a dying internet message board?

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idk, maybe it's particularly easy for me to adapt to accents, but like after a single lecture it was never an issue for me.

Not sure if people are just exaggerating the issues or if some people have a harder time adapting.

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This phrase is far too useful to not like.

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scar the 1 posted...

I actually don't think we have, you're probably confusing me with someone else.
I'm not convinced. I'm sure there would be some amplification, and the problem wouldn't just disappear, but I think the business model of social media is at the core of this issue.

Yeah, don't get me wrong, I think removing those influences will markedly reduce the problem, I just think what will be left will still be troublesome.

As long as you assume that the salience and novelty means greater adoption/share rate, and people who find similar things salient and novel are more likely to be connected to each other, you will get amplification.

I suppose the primary disagreement here is simply how bad the remaining amplification would be, and that's really just an empirical question.


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scar the 1 posted...

Not sure I entirely agree. I would rather reframe it as "we don't need algorithms that indiscriminately magnify content that make people angry for profit".

We've had this discussion before, but in case I'm misremembering:

I think it's very likely that even if you removed all algorithmic influences in people's feeds, you would still have an amplification of fake news, and it would probably amplify more within particular networks of people.

I just don't think there's a realistic way to solve it without just removing harmful material.

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Good.

Should have happened sooner. People creating and pushing fake news need to be silenced. We saw how well it has worked with removing Trump's voice.

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It's on Prime Video too (better option if you're not paying for no commercials on Hulu).

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Smashingpmkns posted...

It's weird how the media keeps track of these types of people years after.

I mean, it was headlining news in the US for years. "Poor young girl held captive by foriegn country's tyrannical justice system" plays well.

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Lol, do they each play a particular segment of the music? What a shitty question lmao.

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BilalPowell posted...

It's probably a median

Yeah, TC misspoke.

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I'm not gonna click a Facebook link to a DailyMail post.

Lmao.

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Simp posted...

a pedant?

Psychologists, generally. Lol.

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Nope, not even remotely close to accurate lol.

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These videos are pretty wild, tbh.

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I've seen the same documentaries you have bro.

Literally you need to make an argument here about reasonable expectation of risk, and if that expectation was violated, for it to be a rational argument here and that's literally not done here.

So this facetious point:

Balrog0 posted...

you know coffee is hot so everyone should

Is literally the argument you have to make, that it's not reasonable to expect customers to know that spilling a hot liquid in their lap and not being able to remove it instantly could be bad.

Buying a circular saw and accidentally sawing off your thumb doesn't seem to implicate the saw company, because we all acknowledge the risk of accident here.

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shockthemonkey posted...

Have you looked up the details of the case yet? Or are you just pretending that youre smarter than everyone?

Nope, u be smarter than i.

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Balrog0 posted...

Great argument, fantastic. Really using that logic

We're literally talking about two different things. Like, what if she wore tear away hydrophobic pants!? Then there's no risk at all. McDonalds obv. wins.

What literally happened in this case is a 79-year-old woman got out of the car to rectify the situation. That's a very long exposure time.

Can you show me what temperature of coffee is safe for an exposure time of a minimum of 30 seconds, but extending to like 2 minutes? I suppose that requires you to select a standard for what type of injury is acceptable, so why don't you do that too.

I mean, if 180-190 is denoted unsafe, then we obviously know what safe is, right?

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Balrog0 posted...

You can lift your hips up and pull down pajama pants

Hahaha.

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K dude. Like, idk what to tell you.

Hot water down at any reasonable temperature can result in 3rd degree burns with extended exposure time, and if you imagine an elderly lady being able to get out of a car and take her pants off on the order of seconds rather than minutes, idk what to tell you.

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Balrog0 posted...

It's so bizarre to me that you can say that without imagining maybe they don't need to do that at 150 or 160 instead of 180 or 190. I'm not even saying that's the case, you just haven't even acknowledged the possibility.

Sure, possibly, but on average? Probably not.

But, like, do you really think people don't know that spilling a cup of coffee on their lap and leaving it there for an extended period of time is a risk of serious injury? Like is it unreasonable to expect an average person to know this?

Sure, McDonald's shitty ass coffee can sit in the vat maintained at some lower temperature. But it sure would suck if that was the only way you could buy coffee!

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Balrog0 posted...

It definitely seems like 20 or 30 degrees could make a big difference depending where exactly it is

This is an elderly woman in a car, spilling the coffee on her absorbent pants. There's no way contact time wouldn't yield serious injury, of the same magnitude.

IIRC, they had to cut her pants off at the hospital, so the contact time was not on the order of seconds. Which is why her injuries were so bad to begin with.

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Balrog0 posted...

I've read that one of the facts used against McDonald's in the case was that it's coffee was held at hotter temperatures than other fast food franchises.

I don't think that matters so much for reasonable expectation, and I believe you would suffer the same type of injuries even at those other temps if exposed in the same way, anyway.

*shrugs*

People love their narratives, which is why the frivolous lawsuit narrative gained so much, and why the corporate america narrative followed.

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I think he probably only has the power to cancel federal loans, though I'm not sure why that doesn't extend to federal loans given to people at private universities (perhaps they're just a rare case?).

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At some point the narrative about this case became "McDonalds coffee case was just corporate America pulling wool over your eyes".

Which is true in a lot of respects, but doesn't mean that there's no reasonable expectation about the temperature of coffee and it's danger...

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For the claim that 180-190 degrees is abnormally hot for coffee to pass the smell test, you must not know that coffee is brewed at boiling or near boiling temps.

You have to claim that no business establishment serves fresh coffee, but rather waits for coffee to come down to temp before serving.

If any of that makes sense to you, I can assume you don't drink coffee regularly.

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