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| Topic | Trump Campaign Loses PA Appeal |
| realnifty1 11/27/20 2:54:14 PM #17 | metallica846 posted... Meh. Thats a freedom of religion thing. It was, but the court typically doesn't issue rulings on moot cases (the restrictions had already been lifted) and the logic behind the decision was absolutely befuddling comparing a place of worship to a liquor store while completely hand-waving the idea of transient traffic versus confined communal space. It was an activist ruling that conservatives supposedly hate from the judiciary and the paper thin logic does not bode well for the next 20 years or so while they wield this authority. |
| Topic | Trump Campaign Loses PA Appeal |
| realnifty1 11/27/20 2:46:05 PM #15 | They didn't even make a case, it is all just pretense to get something in front of the Supreme Court. Clearly they think having packed the court will prove enough, I really hope not, but that 5-4 decision against NY on churches makes me worried. |
| Topic | Batman with time to plan vs In Shape Thor with Mjolnir and Stormbreaker |
| realnifty1 11/24/20 2:15:49 PM #59 | Batman Batman's Plan:
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| Topic | Marvel comics seem to suck... is DC any better? |
| realnifty1 11/21/20 11:15:01 PM #29 | If you want something closer to the MCU you should look to the younger heroes, the MCU is mostly based on how those characters were 40 years or more ago. Look into Ms Marvel, Miles Morales: Spider-Man, Champions, and Strange Academy. If you have Marvel Unlimited it might be worth reading through Donny Cates Marvel work in order, it's very popcorn, greatest hits type stuff but makes for a fun read mostly. Real talk, stop reading Marvel and DC and start reading Boom Studios, Seven Secrets is shaping up nicely, We Only Find Them When They're Dead is cool so far, and Something is Killing the Children has been the scene hotness for like a year now. |
| Topic | Whataburger and Shake Shack will NEVER be at the level of In N Out |
| realnifty1 11/20/20 7:39:38 PM #19 | SaltyWet posted... Shake Shack is on another price level altogether. As long as you say the same thing about 5 Guys, because their foods are essentially the same price. |
| Topic | Cop: 'Lawyers have years to go over decisions we had seconds to make.' |
| realnifty1 11/19/20 12:40:56 PM #18 | Nobody is forcing you to be a cop, if you can't handle the responsibility and repercussions then go find a different similar job. Like being in the mob or maybe just a street gang. |
| Topic | For 15 Years Sweden Thought Enemy Submarines Were Invading Its Territory. |
| realnifty1 11/18/20 7:07:30 PM #3 | I read the whole thing for a `red herring` pun, I am most disappoint. |
| Topic | Amazon selling prescription drugs, members get huge discounts for no insurance |
| realnifty1 11/17/20 10:43:03 PM #20 | Eh, it actually will likely negatively affect people struggling with high medical bills. Particularly since no one here as thought about it yet, not using your insurance means that it doesn't count towards your deductible. So if you are counting on those maintenance prescriptions to eat up most of that, then you are still going to end up paying all that money back in through your visits. This also doesn't hurt the insurance company in any way, the make money from you paying a premium and then not having to pay as much out. If you sidestep them then they are getting more money. |
| Topic | What's your credit score (show some proof if you can) |
| realnifty1 11/10/20 6:55:50 PM #48 |  |
| Topic | Lindsay Graham: republicans must fight! We may never get another....... |
| realnifty1 11/09/20 11:58:11 AM #22 | Anyone thinking the Republicans are done is insane or lying on purpose(Graham). We just went through an objectively terrible four years, and while not all of it may have been Trump's fault directly he did nothing to heal or reconcile anything., Divisions within ourselves have deepened and or reputation abroad has plummeted. Even still, he nearly won again. If the Democrats can't figure out Congress and get some forward progress for people to get behind look for Biden to be out in 4 years. |
| Topic | Wow so we might know who won the election till late next week |
| realnifty1 11/06/20 12:36:32 PM #26 | I mean, we never really know the result until January 6th when Congress counts the Electoral College votes. It's just not close enough that any of this typically comes into play. Most States have until December 8th to decide and assign their electors, resolving any recounts or court issues up until that date. |
| Topic | Was Trump really "good for the economy" before the pandemic? |
| realnifty1 11/03/20 1:57:13 PM #64 | Trump was only truly successful at buoying the Stock Market as the idea of deregulation is like chum in the water for those sharks. Here are meaningful charts(GDP, Wages, and Jobs), you can see he didn't light the world on fire.Worth noting that bad news tends to be a little lagging on these as the government can do things to prop them up for a time before they crash, but it is much rarer for these to be artificially increased. https://www.statista.com/statistics/188165/annual-gdp-growth-of-the-united-states-since-1990/ https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2019/ https://seidmaninstitute.com/job-growth/year/ |
| Topic | i have a couple simple questions about cell phone security |
| realnifty1 11/03/20 11:50:38 AM #6 | So worst case scenario, they can man in the middle you. Either host a fake wifi that you are connecting to or placing a machine between the wifi and the internet. This service would then accept all your incoming requests, inspect them and then forward them on to where you were sending them. Everything https is end to end encrypted, meaning they would not be able to see the content of your request or the content of the response. The would still be able to see where you are sending requests too and the size of requests and responses. If it is not https or otherwise encrypted they would be able to see everything about your requests and responses. All of this is very unlikely and needs a fair bit of technical know how, at least I've never seen a script kiddie toolbox for this anyway. |
| Topic | I found a meme that will shut you libs up FOREVER |
| realnifty1 10/30/20 2:49:24 PM #12 | Fluttershy posted... The right still can't meme, shocking I think he means in the sense of them being funny, entertaining, or meaningful. Not just a bunch of loser NEETS using them as cultural touch points for identifying one another. |
| Topic | LMFAO! My collection of ULTRA RARE Super Nintendo games grows by the day! |
| realnifty1 10/30/20 9:55:02 AM #16 | ssjevot posted... Should post my Super Famicom collection at some point. Obviously much cheaper to collect, but I only get them with box and instructions. My most valuable boxed games are almost all GBA games. I think the biggest thing I would worry about collecting in the US would be bootlegs. Last time I was in Japan I couldn't resist grabbing cib copies of FF6 and Chrono Trigger at ~$15 each. |
| Topic | A shy humble girl who is dominant in bed or an aggressive feminist who is a sub? |
| realnifty1 10/29/20 2:39:12 PM #4 | I'm just trying to get it in |
| Topic | I wanna dip my balls in it |
| realnifty1 10/26/20 5:00:55 PM #6 | Baba ganoush |
| Topic | Louisiana congressman posts bad tweet |
| realnifty1 10/23/20 4:13:48 PM #20 | Did she dream they were black? |
| Topic | Google Stadia guy thinks streamers should pay to stream games. |
| realnifty1 10/22/20 10:00:54 PM #12 | It would depend on the license that came with the game, I've never bothered to read one, but they could easily add some language similar to movie and music licenses that exist. They might have some difficulty in court over it depending on the judge (movies and music have value specifically derived through audio visual consumption, but most would argue a a games primary value is through the interaction) |
| Topic | Mel Brooks endorses Biden, says Trump isn't 'doing a damn thing' about corona |
| realnifty1 10/22/20 6:47:00 PM #28 | Machete posted... He also does stand up philosophy Oh, a bullshit artist. |
| Topic | Biden has decided on "court packing". He's punting |
| realnifty1 10/22/20 3:11:09 PM #20 | The Republicans already engaged in court packing. By refusing to hold hearings for Merrick Garland they effectively set the court to 8 jurists. When the field was to their advantage again they packed the court with a 9th jurist. As much as I hate the political hardball, Republicans have shown they are willing to do anything to hold on to their last remnants of control and power. I am OK with doing anything to reset the playing field. |
| Topic | Are you sexual or asexual? |
| realnifty1 10/22/20 2:54:45 PM #15 | Sexual, but don't tell my wife. |
| Topic | Your teenage son has suddenly become a far left socialist to impress a girl |
| realnifty1 10/22/20 12:58:10 PM #39 | that's not a socialist that's a communist |
| Topic | Which fast-food restaurant has the best biscuits? |
| realnifty1 10/20/20 1:09:36 PM #26 | WrestlinFan posted... Hardee's |
| Topic | PSA: The Beastie Boys' final concert is streaming on YouTube tonight |
| realnifty1 09/24/20 11:37:27 PM #11 | JACKBUTTMOMMY posted... I was there! Hey, so was I. |
| Topic | Going on this little to no carb diet is making me feel weird |
| realnifty1 09/14/20 12:30:42 PM #10 | Seems like you need to up your fat content for this to work. Without carbs fat becomes you main source of full and energy. Bacon is the easiest, but a lot of cheese and eggs could do the trick. |
| Topic | Going on this little to no carb diet is making me feel weird |
| realnifty1 09/14/20 12:20:42 PM #7 | Are you eating enough fat? Bacon and butter are your best friends for keto. |
| Topic | What happened to the person you lost your virginity to? |
| realnifty1 09/09/20 10:38:02 PM #28 | She dead |
| Topic | Majority of states reject Trump's latest attempt to artificially lower COVID #s |
| realnifty1 09/02/20 10:49:56 AM #12 | Rathinor posted... That was actually just a conspiracy. Well that is a relief at least, I never got to really follow up on it, I just remember that Trump had retweeted it, but then again the Trump Twitter feed is not exactly known for factual content. |
| Topic | Majority of states reject Trump's latest attempt to artificially lower COVID #s |
| realnifty1 09/02/20 10:28:05 AM #7 | Turbam posted... Oh ok, that makes more sense then what I thought. They did that as well I believe. I believe they changed the death totals to only count people that died from Covid without other complications. So like, you have Covid, and that causes you to develop pneumonia and you die, not a Covid death. |
| Topic | Imagine if the one ring from Lord of the Rings was a cockring |
| realnifty1 08/29/20 10:09:20 PM #3 | It wasn't? |
| Topic | Bella Thorne scams her donators on OF, ruins it for other sex workers |
| realnifty1 08/28/20 10:46:47 AM #77 | When you buy something electronically the business pays a processing fee to the banks, which is a percent of the amount charged. When a charge-back is made you don't get the original processing fee back and there is often another fee for the charge-back as well. So the site is likely out thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars over this. If Bella broke the terms of service they could potentially dock her earnings to recoup losses, but either she may have not promised something she did not deliver or maybe they don't want to sour the relationship as she is still bringing in lots of new revenue and exposure. So in the end, they cap the max amounts to help limit their exposure in these types of events and it really only affects a handful of girls with the caps as most are rarely if ever seeing more than a $100 singular tip.More damaging would be the longer turn around time to get paid, but I know most cam/video sites were a month plus, so this could just be placing them more in line with the market. |
| Topic | Literally video footage of the rioters attacking the teen |
| realnifty1 08/27/20 2:50:55 PM #224 | YellowMustard69 posted... That's only if the illegal action itself played into why they were attacked. So you don't believe that him threatening them with a firearm led to the confrontation? They just randomly decided to go after a guy with a gun and not because they were in fear for their lives, clearly they needed to be? Shit, I got some beachfront property in Kansas at a sweet price if you think that. |
| Topic | Literally video footage of the rioters attacking the teen |
| realnifty1 08/27/20 2:42:20 PM #222 | In most states, but don't want to go look up for WI, you are unable to claim self defense if you committed an illegal action leading to the incident in which you are trying to claim self defense. Brandishing an illegal firearm seems like in most states it would prevent him from claiming self defense. |
| Topic | Why is NY, NJ, and Massachusetts deaths so high compared to their total cases? |
| realnifty1 08/24/20 1:59:42 PM #17 | I don't think any of the responses have touched on the real reasons. Surviving any illness usually comes down to three things, early detection, early treatment, and correct treatment. In the early days when this was ripping through the states you mentioned, it was because of their status as a major port and high population density. Because we took so long to start taking this seriously all three states already had significant outbreaks before we started taking it seriously. (Remember we only started caring once significant numbers started dying, but this thing has a 7-10 incubation and can take up to a month to kill, so it had a big headstart growing before there was a public reaction) Initially, we had basically no testing, we only knew people were ill once they were far enough along to need hospitalization basically, so we have basically lost early detection and early treatment already.So now to save lives it takes correct treatment, but in the early days there was no idea what did and didn't work. And even when something did was it anecdotal or broadly effective, you never knew. And even if you have some treatment you believe to be effective how do you communicate that out fast enough to save lives across the system. That is the reason the deaths per case for NY, NJ, and MA are so high. Until sometime in April a severe Covid reaction was essentially a death sentence and people either didn't know they had it or seek help until it was too late and even once they did the doctors had no effective gameplan against it. Now we have learnings and experience, we know what is and isn't effective, so we should not see any other state get to that high of a number unless they are just actively trying to kill people. |
| Topic | I wish Democrats weren't so anti-second amendment. |
| realnifty1 08/22/20 9:37:49 PM #11 | The 2nd is probably the most misinterpreted amendment. It doesn't even mean anything close to how the supreme court applies it. |
| Topic | Another Mandela Effect has appeared (new parallel universe merge) |
| realnifty1 08/11/20 9:20:08 AM #46 | MC_BatCommander posted... The Mandela effect is stupid Truly a testament to how myopic, self-centered, and stubborn humans are. When presented with facts that I have misremembered or was unaware of something should I A: Admit I was wrong and then go forward a little more knowledgeable about the world around me Or B: Claim that I am from a different reality merged into this one because there is no possibility of me being incorrect |
| Topic | So the Magnificent Mile in Chicago got looted hard last night |
| realnifty1 08/10/20 2:54:13 PM #24 | It's almost like when you go around setting up a bunch a powder kegs then occasionally an accidental spark is going to cause an out-sized reaction. People are happy to point out how they exploded over wrong information, but no one wants to talk about why they would be so ready to accept that wrong information or why they would be so ready to boil over and tear down the city around them. |
| Topic | UK office workers slower to return to offices after Covid compared to Europe |
| realnifty1 08/10/20 9:30:14 AM #4 | Aren't all of those countries in a much better state currently than the UK? |
| Topic | Aurora police arrest black family and hold them at gunpoint by mistake |
| realnifty1 08/04/20 3:37:46 PM #3 | I'm sure they "fit the description" and the police were just "doing their job". |
| Topic | Rejected vanity plates in California |
| realnifty1 08/04/20 1:19:40 PM #14 | Not all of them were rejected, and the ones they let through are a confusing as some of the ones they denied: Allowed: HOTNSXE GETNBSY GAYMUR S8TAN Denied: TUNAFSH FSHBALL Apparently they just have something against fish. |
| Topic | Trump says TikTok sale can go through but only if the US gets a cut |
| realnifty1 08/04/20 11:13:51 AM #20 | Questionmarktarius posted... Probably, but it's the same "you owe America! because!!" end result, from two different directions. Without context sure, but they are vastly different in context. Obama is saying that companies benefit from public infrastructure and therefore should help bear the burden in supporting those things, primarily through various forms of taxation. Trump is claiming that since the value derived is based public infrastructure that America deserves some stake in in the sale of it, as if America had an ownership stake. |
| Topic | How do you feel about lingerie pictures in shop windows, of fat women? |
| realnifty1 07/23/20 8:07:53 AM #5 | I don't, because I'm not some snowflake that just needs to get worked up about everything. |
| Topic | Rand Paul absolutely destroys Dr. Fauci |
| realnifty1 07/22/20 2:59:56 PM #31 | Rand Paul again showing that trademark inability to hold two thoughts in his head at once for a comparison. It is, of course to any rational minded person, possible to do everything correctly and still have it be a shit show. It's just absolutist Ayn Rand drivel where the "correct" action must have "positive" outcomes. |
| Topic | Sweden's economy "the least harmed in Europe". |
| realnifty1 07/21/20 7:53:00 PM #14 | Sweden has 559 deaths per million, seventh worst in the world with European countries UK(669 dpm), Spain(608 dpm), and Italy(580 dpm) are worse (Spain and Italy were already over the edge before the world really started reacting though). For reference population density in Europe for that group UK(9th), Italy(14th), Spain(6th), and Sweden (44th). Similar European countries for density would be Finland, Norway, and Belarus who have deaths per million ~50. So you know, just 10 times as many deaths to save ~2% of GDP. If you want to go see a successful country, go study what Germany did, they have a ridiculously low 110 deaths per million despite being the 11th most dense European country. |
| Topic | can someone help me understand how 'mechanical time' is specific to 'whiteness'? |
| realnifty1 07/20/20 6:48:06 PM #108 | philsov posted... Redlining was done along racial lines. Low income whites got home loans while middle class blacks did not. Absolutely, as I said, the outcomes we have today are indeed born of racist policy that strove for the outcome we have today. I do think it is important to understand where all this came from, but I think we do ourselves ill good to attribute the secondary effects to the racist origins. Making allowances for lateness do to race isn't going to solve racism or the reasons why they are being late. For progress we need to address the actual problem and and not just what lead us on this path. Trying to figure out how to stop a meteor from causing an ice age isn't going to bring the dinosaurs back and fixing racism isn't going to solve the actual current issue that is economic disparity. |
| Topic | Hooked up with a girl, but now I'm ghosted. |
| realnifty1 07/20/20 5:54:40 PM #112 | Your story makes you sound like a creep who pressured her into sex. You should just drop it, move on, and hope no sexual assault charges come your way. You got one off, now go get another one, but just don't be so creepy this time. |
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