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ParanoidObsessive posted...

This has kind of been common sense since day one.

It's been pointed out by multiple people that the main reason masks aren't 100% effective at protecting against infection is because you can be infected through other openings (ie, eyes and ears). So it seems relatively logical that giant glass shields in front of your eyes that minimize the ability of particulates to get into your juicy orbs could potentially help lower infection risk even more.

Pretty much. It's nice to have concrete evidence that that presumption is true (though n=276 is a bit on the small size, as was noted above), but this is a pretty intuitive, unsurprising finding.

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Judgmenl posted...

Kinda weird flex to relate fanboyism to corporate greed.

The explanation given does no such thing.

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likehelly posted...

except now, they shouldn't be doing any dumb s***, because this also means the disgusting zenimax board of directors should be gone.

One can hope. As much as exclusivity deals are generally bad for consumers, first- and second-party exclusives actually tend to be pretty good, since the platform owner is relying on them to convince people to buy their console and therefore tends to put more emphasis on making good games than on squeezing every penny they can get out of each release. A lot of Bethesda's recent bad PR has been a consequence of churning out their usual bug-laden messes, but without the decent games that are usually buried amidst those bugs because they were just trying to make cheap, heavily-monetized cash-ins. Get rid of that pressure to sacrifice quality for monetization, and maybe we'll see a return to the usual bug-laden messes that are still fun once some amateur fixes all of their problems for free three days after launch.

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Mead posted...

It actually might be. The whole console dynamic has changed a ton over the last few years

It's true. Microsoft has generally been pretty tight with Nintendo this generation, being considerably more willing than Sony to share IP's and establish cross-play. Of course, the Xbone has been pretty undeniably lagging behind the PS4, so that's probably less Microsoft actually looking for collaborative opportunities and more them not being as arrogant as companies tend to be when they're winning the console market (which we've seen with all three), and trying to make Sony's life more difficult. If they end up in a stronger position next gen, that dynamic may very well change.

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On one hand, they're unambiguously providing a lesser service, especially when you look at the more prestigious schools who can really only justify their inflated costs with the networking opportunities they aren't currently able to offer. On the other hand, though, their operating costs haven't really changed (they're saving some money because buildings aren't being used, but organizing online learning takes some extra resources, so I expect they roughly break even), so they still need normal amounts of revenue to sustain themselves.

So while online classes probably shouldn't cost the same amount as in-person ones, I can understand that the university kind of needs to charge the same amount, and to that end, I think it's okay. Provided students won't be penalized for skipping this year if they decide the online experience isn't worth the full cost, a solution to the problem is already available.

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JigsawTDC posted...

For my birthday this year (earlier this month) I went to a fancy pizza place and I got this pizza that had asiago, fig, balsamic vinegar, and prosciutto on it (no tomato sauce). It was really good, but I don't think it beats out classic pizza for me personally.

I always kind of feel that fancy pizza and classic pizza are two different types of food. They're just such different experiences that it's hard to make direct comparisons, even if they're both technically pizza.

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Noop_Noop posted...

Most likely he has (or had) a personal chef. They are expensive. I'm gonna guess that probably accounts for at least 2-3k a month.

That's still a solid ~3k worth of food per month, for a single guy. Is he snacking on truffles or something?

likehelly posted...

and how many f***ing clothes is this dude wearing in a day to have it cost that much

I'm guessing that's a consequence of having everything dry cleaned. Now, why one would have a full dry clean-only wardrobe, I don't know, because that just seems silly.

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Blightzkrieg posted...

It's f***ing stupid that he has to pay that much to his ex wife

As a percentage of his income, it seems quasi-reasonable, but that's still an absurd amount. It does not cost that much to raise a child. Plenty of single parents do it on that much per year. Rich people alimony is dumb. The point of alimony is to keep somebody who was dependent on their ex-spouse from being destitute, not to allow them to maintain the same lavish lifestyle they married into.

Blightzkrieg posted...

It's also f***ing stupid that he has that much money to begin with and still manages to spend it all

Eeyup. Even with that mortgage and those child support payments (the latter of which really should be reduced to reflect his lost income), a single 344k month should have been able to support him for ~6 months once it became apparent he wasn't going to be getting work and he should live a bit more frugally, let alone multiple months at that pay grade.

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Many, many years ago (like 20+), I had to pick a username for the account I was creating on lego.com, and my dad suggested just using my initials. It stuck, and has been my go-to ever since.

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Revelation34 posted...

I think there's court cases in America that ruled against the people instead of the restaurants.

When the customer has explained their allergies and asked if it's safe for them to eat there? I can see it for cases where the people assumed they'd be safe and ended up eating something they were allergic to because they didn't do their due diligence, but if they say "I'm allergic to X" and the restaurant still serves them X, I can't see how that would be on the customer. Willingly doing something that you know will endanger somebody's life rarely goes in your favour, after all.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

there's no reasonable expectation or obligation on the part of the propietor to expect perfectly normal foodstuffs to kill someone.

Eh, that's debatable. Food allergies are becoming quite common, such that anyone running a restaurant can reasonably expect that some of their customers will have allergies. To that end, it's pretty reasonable to expect them to proactively announce at least common allergens that are in their food, especially when those things aren't readily obvious (e.g. you can expect gluten in a loaf of bread, but you might not expect sesame oil or mustard seed). In Canada, food manufacturers are required to specifically identify certain common allergens (such as nuts, eggs, milk, and soy) in their ingredient list, which is really a pretty reasonable expectation to help customers with allergies make informed choices. Food service establishments aren't required to label their products like that, but when it's feasible (such as when there's extra space on the menu and they're in the process of redesigning it anyway), it seems reasonable to me to expect them to do so.

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wwinterj25 posted...

I never have and never will wear a mask in my house and practice social distancing at home.

You generally should if you've got anyone coming in to do work, like a plumber. Otherwise, it is pretty pointless to do such things around people you live with.

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Dikitain posted...

WTF, who goes that long without finishing? Sure, women like sex to be longer then men in most cases, but I can't imagine they want it to last THAT long.

It happens. I've had condoms break after going for like 30-40 minutes. That's certainly not going full speed the whole time, but with position changes and the occasional break for non-thrusting activities, it's pretty doable.

faramir77 posted...

I also got the "do condoms break easily" one "wrong". You need to be careful with them because holes CAN form in them quite easily.

Same. They're not so fragile that you generally have to worry about them breaking during normal use or while putting them on, but it's also not hard to compromise one with improper storage or (as alluded to above) by going for too long with it.

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

ive always been a firm believer that if you have a deathly food allergy, that's your f***ing problem, not the entire world's.

It's not uncommon for restaurants to turn people with serious food allergies away, but they do have the responsibility to do so if they can't/don't want to accommodate them. When restaurants do accommodate allergies, it's for the good PR/to keep people's business, not because they're forced to. If they are informed that a customer has allergies, and they neither refuse their business nor take reasonable precautions to avoid triggering said allergies, then they very much should be held liable for the ensuing reaction.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Great job ignoring the whole "they stay fresher, longer when whole just on the off chance I make zero part" of my post.

Yes, I did refrain from commenting on obvious common sense. Preparing whatever is possible to order to avoid preparing too much is something everyone who has ever tried to limit their food waste learned immediately upon starting to think about it. That's also not worth highlighting as though it's something special.

Of course, being a day or two old doesn't exactly make an appreciable difference when you're dealing with veggies that are getting cooked, especially in an oven (which tends to dry them out a bit anyway). Raw? Sure. But on that time scale, all that's going to happen to the pepper is some drying around the cut edges, which is completely negated if you cook moisture out of or into it. In a blind taste test, I can just about guarantee you couldn't tell the difference between a slice of pizza made with fresh-cut peppers and a slice made with ones that were cut yesterday. Trying to maximize the freshness of ingredients is still best practice (for FIFO purposes, if nothing else), but it doesn't always make a huge difference.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

I'm going to add that I slice those bell pepper rings to order and sell 6-9 a night, getting 2-3 pizza worth per pepper and keeping them whole is much fresher than pre-chopped peppers.

Uhh, slicing pepper rings to order isn't exactly worth boasting about. Cutting the half dozen you put on there should take about 10 seconds for anyone competent enough to know which edge of the knife to use.

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LinkPizza posted...

Im not sure if its changed as I got older, or was always this way and I didnt know/care as a kid, tbh. I just know as a kid, I was told ride on the sidewalk so I wouldnt get hit by a car. And other kids did, too. Also, kids in my current neighborhood do, too. But many places around here also dont have sidewalks, so...

It's usually waived for kids. I don't know of specific regulations to that effect, and in practice I think it is technically illegal and you get the occasional turbo-Karen calling the cops on kids riding their bikes on her sidewalk, but it's generally accepted that if you can't ride appreciably faster than a jogger would be going, the sidewalk's safe enough.

LinkPizza posted...

Well, even pedestrians shouldnt do that...

They shouldn't, but if they do, pedestrians are usually moving slowly enough that there's time to react. Bikes, on the other hand, typically move 3-5 times faster than pedestrians (at least on the sidewalk, since it's harder to go fast there), so if they do that, it's likely to cause some problems.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

Depends I suppose.

If cyclists have to go on the road, then yes, same road same rules.
If there is a separate cyclist lane, only if the sign is to the right of the cycling lane.

Signs between the road and the cyclist lane only apply to the road, unless I am completely misremembering for now.

Bearing in mind that the Netherlands generally have some of the most bike-friendly cycling laws in the world and actually have the infrastructure for separate signage to be reasonable. I can't say I've ever seen a stop sign in North America that explicitly didn't apply to the bike lane.

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Bread pudding is weird in that it really shouldn't look appetizing, given that it consists mostly of brown mush, yet somehow it does.

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Mead posted...

You can also cheat by putting unopened cans of condensed milk submerged in water in a slow cooker for a few hours

as long as youre okay with creamy caramel

If you're going that route, I know of at least one condensed milk brand (Eagle Brand, dunno what that landscape is like in the States) that just straight-up sells cans of dulce de leche (which is what that kind of caramel is called), so you can just use that and save yourself a few hours.

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I imagine it varies a bit from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but generally, bikes are required to obey all applicable traffic laws, including coming to a complete stop at stop signs. In practice, I personally end up doing rolling stops pretty frequently because it's kind of a pain to come to a complete stop on a bike, and the fact that I'm going relatively slowly and have no blind spots means I can pretty comfortably be certain that nobody is coming without having to fully stop. That is against the letter of the law, but it at least follows the spirit of it in that I do not ignore stop signs and I do yield right of way appropriately whenever I encounter one (I come to a complete stop if I can't go right away when I get there). You may be seeing cyclists doing that, in which case, it's probably altogether legal, but it is safe and I'd say that's okay.

Now, the ones that ignore stop signs and blow through them, cutting off people that have right of way? They're just terrible and don't belong on the road and give competent ones a bad name. Treat them accordingly.

LinkPizza posted...

Depends on if they are on the road or not. If they're on the sidewalk, I don't think the same rules apply. But on the road, they do...

I've never lived anywhere where bikes are even allowed on the sidewalk, though that very frequently gets ignored. If they are on the sidewalk, the expectation is that they dismount and walk across crosswalks according to the rules that govern pedestrians, so while it's not technically wrong to say they don't have to obey stop signs, they still are not permitted to ignore the intersection entirely and zip out with no regard for oncoming traffic (for obvious reasons).

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Far-Queue posted...

Saw a recipe that says I need a candy thermometer (which I don't have)

You can use pretty much any thermometer that goes up to 350F as a candy thermometer. It won't be quite as convenient as being able to clip it to the side of the pot and ignore it, and if the probe is on the shorter side you need to be extremely careful not to touch the hot sugar, but it'll do the job.

That said, you really don't need a candy thermometer for caramel. Other sugar boiling, sure, but with caramel, you're going primarily by colour/smell, and the window between starting to caramelize and burning is so short that taking the time to check a thermometer once you think it might be done is going to result in it burning while you're looking away (and nobody wants to clean burnt sugar out of the bottom of a pot). If you've got an appetizing amber colour, you're golden (pun not intended), no thermometer needed. If you get more practice, you'll start to get a feel for how different colours of caramel taste and adjust how you cook it accordingly, but for now, just trust that you know what colour caramel is supposed to be and stop the cooking at that point.

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thedeerzord posted...

That's exactly what having an abortion on a fetus that is 5+ months old is: The killing of another person.

Which is why most people don't advocate for abortions of fully-viable fetuses (although personhood generally doesn't get applied until delivery). At that point, you can just induce labour and put the kid up for adoption, really. Late-term abortion requests aren't exactly common anyway. Most people know within a few weeks of learning that they're pregnant whether or not they want to keep the baby.

That said, when there's a time limit placed on abortions, it's not uncommon for local governments that want abortion to be illegal to introduce a bunch of red tape people have to wade through to get them such that women spend 3-4 months just doing that. In that way, those governments are making it practically illegal, so while "it shouldn't be legal after this reasonable point" sounds reasonable on paper (and generally is), it's often used as a means of making abortions unavailable without explicitly making them illegal. That's something to watch out for.

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thedeerzord posted...

Don't wanna show up for jury duty, well I won't because its my body.

Jury duty is an obligation to which you agree by being a citizen. If you don't want to, you can always renounce your citizenship and leave. If you shirk it without doing so, then you're penalized not because you don't have a right to bodily autonomy, but because you failed to uphold your end of a contract.

thedeerzord posted...

Wanna do drugs? I can because its my body.

Sure, go for it. There's a fair amount of overlap between the pro-choice crowd and those in favour of decriminalizing drug use.

thedeerzord posted...

Don't wanna feed your new born baby? You don't have to because its your body your choice.

Except then you're killing another person. Harming other people is where bodily autonomy stops being respected.

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Until he's convicted, calling it "alleged" is pretty standard. Publicly presuming guilt without a fair trial can be considered defamation, even in such an obvious case. There may also be circumstances that could result in him not being convicted, though off-hand the only possibility I can think of would be mental health.

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"Freshly made" beer generally doesn't smell that great, nor is it readily apparent what sort of beer it is (the yeast smells tend to dominate). You need some aging to get to that point, and calling it "freshly made" at that point is kind of misunderstanding what those two words mean when paired together. That, or you're smelling it just as the hops have been added and are boiling, in which case it's a solid week out from being done and "freshly made" still isn't accurate (though you could identify it as an IPA).

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Only if you have very good soundproofing to go along with it.

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CarefreeDude posted...

Would you consider a girl doing something such as yoga positions that just happen to open her up a bit as no longer tasteful?

I imagine that would depend on how the picture was shot (or equivalent for other media). If she's doing the splits on top of a glass table and being photographed from underneath, that's obviously meant to be provocative and the focus is on the gaping chasm of love. If she's doing the splits and being photographed from the side such that you can easily see that her flesh curtains have parted if you look, but that's not the focus on the picture, I'd think it would qualify as more tasteful.

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Hospy posted...

Opening the floodgates for 100 dollar games.

That's been happening for a while. Ostensibly, the price of games hasn't increased, but the average revenue game companies are making per copy sold is well over $100 at this point for most AAA titles. Between carving games up to sell critical stuff as DLC (that's not all DLC, but the practice definitely happens) and long-term monetization strategies in the form of microtransactions and the like, games are not designed to merely cost $60 anymore. Those users that do resist the extra stuff and only spend $60 often end up with an inferior product for doing so, and there aren't enough of them to keep the whales from inflating the average.

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Then they mutate into sentient beings of pure swirling wind and begin to exact their turbulent vengeance on the world that spun them so. Hell hath no fury like the Coriolis effect.

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That sucks. Hopefully she pulls through.

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Revelation34 posted...

Conspiracy theories are stupid but calling something a conspiracy theory is a moronic reason to mod a thread.

Eh, I think it's fair, in this case. There's so much misinformation flying around about Covid that pretty much every form of social media has some responsibility to combat it, including moderating anyone that tries to insist it doesn't actually exist. Discussing the merit of the various control strategies? Sure. Discussing the nuances of statistics? Sure. Insisting that there is no pandemic and everyone who accepts the narrative that there is one is a gullible fool who needs to wake up and realize that the government is out to get them and has orchestrated this colossal scheme for exactly that purpose? Not so much.

Noop_Noop posted...

i mean s***, i barely get modded anymore, and if i can do it so can you geniuses

Eeyup. It's not a matter of political affiliation. It's not even a matter of being nice to people. It's a matter of not being stupid in not being nice to people. Avoiding moderations is very, very easy.

Noop_Noop posted...

5 or more years ago, when the mods truly were just throwing out the "moderator discretion" copout on most of their moderations i may have agreed with you.

I think I've had something like two Mod Discretion mods in my time here, and each time I just kind of laughed at them because I knew they were completely warranted. It is a copout, and its overuse highlighted the ToU's failures to properly outline unacceptable behaviour, but I'm generally fine with it being used in cases that amount to "This doesn't technically violate any rules, but it clearly doesn't belong here."

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Apparently this is the second time in recorded history that we've seen three Atlantic storms show up in the same day. The last time was in 1893. Wild.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

It's funny how all these shit talkers think I need their approval.

What else are they supposed to think when you create a topic specifically to announce that you've accomplished some allegedly awesome thing (that you then refuse to elaborate on to enough of an extent to allow anyone to point out that it might not be that great)?

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Noop_Noop posted...

neither, i have a PC

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zebatov posted...

I mean I never use them. Clean, no kids.

You never use any form of birth control at all? That's just plain stupid, unless you're sterile or want kids. Or, I guess, never having sex, but abstinence can be counted as birth control in this context.

zebatov posted...

And yeah, if youre worried at all about a virus, go 100%.

Did... you just miss the 15-odd posts of people openly mocking you for how absurd that suggestion was with analogies and explicit explanations that unambiguously proved that? You're just going to double down on your obvious nonsense?

zebatov posted...

People wearing masks that barely do anything

A position which you've yet to defend beyond "dust masks don't keep out all the drywall dust," despite many people who are obviously more knowledgeable than you explaining that that means basically nothing. You might wanna work on that.

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RedPixel posted...

If you're scared, stay home.

How well do you think that works for immunocompromised cancer patients that have to make regular hospital visits for bloodwork and oncology appointments?

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LinkPizza posted...

Is 20 even a lot? I was reading about one couple who said they normally make 60 a day, but they only serve pizza during lunch, which I think was like 2 hours. And actually pizza chains serve like probably hundreds a day or something... Though, most of the food is pizza, and thats all day. And a chain, so...

It varies a lot by the size of the establishment, how many other options there are on the menu, and what sort of restaurant it is. For a small place that isn't focused on pizza, especially with covid restrictions on seating, 20 on a Wednesday night isn't bad.

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LinkPizza posted...

Though, I think it probably looks weirder when someone is picking a lock that hacking one. Like, with a smart lock, my neighbors might think I have someone access to my house rather than someone hacking. But if they see someone picking the lock, that might give them more pause...

As I understand, hacking a smart lock mostly consists of waiting nearby until somebody uses it, then intercepting the bluetooth signal sent between the lock and the "key" and replicating it to make a key of your own. Once you've got that, you can walk in without looking like you're doing anything nefarious at all, you just might arouse some suspicion sitting in your car while you wait for the opportunity to clone the key.

Suspicion aside, that does bring up a very important difference in the locks' relative insecurities: If you want to break into a smart lock, you have to commit to doing so. That's not going to be a casual, opportunistic "hey let's see if I can break into this house," it's going to be a targeted decision to break into a specific house, which is much rarer than opportunistic break-ins. That helps to make them more secure, even if the break-in itself isn't going to arouse as much suspicion.

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If Elon Musk followed basic public health guidelines, he'd be Elon Mask.

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captpackrat posted...

The track currently has it ultimately hitting Nova Scotia in Canada, though probably only at Category 1 or 2.

Yeah, people here are starting to get concerned about it. It's been a while since a hurricane has made landfall here while still at hurricane status. It's expected to hit us on Tuesday.

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Sarcasthma posted...

You should probably say something really cool like, "The wind has no destination."

So... it has come to this.

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

I know I just kinda wanted to highlight how surprisingly easy it is to pick really heavy duty seeming locks in like 10 seconds with pretty basic tools.

It's why I kind of have to laugh at the paranoia surrounding smart locks and whatnot. People freak out that anyone with access to $50 software can intercept the bluetooth transmission while the lock is being opened and use that information to break in, while ignoring that anyone with access to a $20 set of lockpicks and a bit of practice can already get into a tumbler lock just as easily. That's been true for literally centuries. Yes, the two aren't completely comparable, particularly in that it's generally a bit easier to crack a smart lock without drawing attention to yourself, but the extent to which people act like smart locks aren't secure at all while cowering behind tumbler locks is still pretty silly.

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He could always adopt a kid and keep it in the garage. He gets kids, you don't have to be involved. Win-win (as long as nobody calls CPS)!

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zebatov posted...

Pretty sure work wants to avoid a lost-time injury on their record and I dont blame them. Im still relatively new there as well. I took a hard road through the mountains to get to a delivery and jarred my thumb pretty bad on wheel. The washboard gravel caused by logging trucks made the road awful to drive. I lost the stick and the wheel, and the truck wasnt stopping because the tires were skipping off the ground. It wasnt fun at all.

Honestly, that doesn't even sound like it would actually warrant a worker's comp claim, except possibly for time lost going to the ER (which your work could just pay you for if they ant to avoid the blemish on their record). Presumably, you didn't have to pay to get it checked out, treatment is just splinting it and being careful for the next couple weeks, and it's unlikely you'll suffer any serious long-term consequences, so I wouldn't expect much by way of monetary costs. It's probably still not a bad idea to get the forms filled out so the whole incident is documented if you do develop long-term issues and need to seek compensation somewhere down the line, but I wouldn't think there's much rush on that.

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Even brakes aren't 100% effective. Better stop putting them in cars, I guess.

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Clench281 posted...

Even a moderate reduction, well below 100%, would spell the difference between a disease that spreads like wildfire and one that dies out on its own without a vaccine.

Heck, even a 5% reduction would become significant in the long run, due to the exponential nature of viral spread. A 5% reduction per iteration turns into a 40% reduction by the time you reach 10 iterations (0.95^10=0.5987), which for this virus would be approximately 2-3 months. That's huge (at current US death rates, a 40% reduction over 2-3 months would save ~10 times as many lives as were lost in 9/11), and 5% is well below what empirical data (i.e. people actually looking at what's happening and not just watching one video that shows that sneezes leak around the edges) indicates masks are able to do.

Quite simply, the notion that anything less than 100% protection is pointless is insanely idiotic. No protective measure can ever provide 100% protection, short of completely avoiding the thing you're trying to be protected from. Protective measures exist to reduce risks to acceptable levels such that we can conduct the corresponding activities in reasonable safety, not to eliminate those risks entirely. Masks are no different: the only way to truly be 100% protected from Covid is to stay away from all people and never do anything, but wearing masks and maintaining distancing while in public can provide enough safety to allow people to not be hermits indefinitely.

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Aerial GS in MHGU was pretty wild. Very much not optimal compared to Valor GS due to how horribly hard it was to aim charged hits, but really satisfying to play whenever the stars aligned properly to let it work well.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

Is the broadsword still slow enough to leave the room to get a beverage while the attack animates?

Presumably. That's kind of the point of GS: you rely on charged attacks that require predictive skills and careful positioning to land reliably. Honestly, as much as attacks in MH feel slow when you first start out and you're trying to chase down small monsters, once you get into the proper fights and get used to it, it's really not a slow game.

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Worker's comp often covers time lost seeking medical attention, too, so if you have to take time off work to get to your doctor, I would expect that to be reimbursed. Again, though, I'd suggest contacting them directly to get that information from a more reliable source.

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zebatov posted...

Anything less than 100% is basically pointless.

If somebody offers to shoot you on the spot or let you flip a coin and only get shot if you get heads, which option would you choose?

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