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Metalsonic66 posted...

I'm pretty sure if you gave someone a sweetened biscuit, they wouldn't go "wtf, this is a scone". The texture is more immediately apparent, even if you messed with the proportions.

Of course, I'm from the South, so we're more particular about our biscuits.

This is true. Formal definitions and practical definitions often don't really line up, especially when it comes to food (which invariably has tons of regional cultural norms surrounding it, which aren't going to be reflected in definitions being handed down by some "culinary authority" in another region).

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Yeah, indecent exposure only applies to places where people aren't explicitly permitted to be naked.

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jsb0714 posted...

A film that has motion, hence "movie".

And while they move, actors deliver story via dialogue. That sounds an awful lot like how story is delivered in a certain other medium...

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Geothermal energy is volcano power. "Volcano-powered" sounds cooler, but it doesn't misrepresent what's going on. I wouldn't call it clickbait at all.

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Revelation34 posted...

I guess so. Everybody knows it's normal for 6 year old girls to see penises.

Oh, it's not normal, because society is a bunch of prudes that freak out over any form of nudity (especially cross-sex exposure). "Normal" and "harmless" are two very different things, though.

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Muscles posted...

The people really getting screwed are the workers that have to work shorthanded because people aren't going back to work.

Do you really think it's reasonable to blame the people who don't want to return to miserable jobs for sub-living wages instead of the people that feel entitled to own a business despite not being able to pay a wage that adequately compensates for working conditions?

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Sahuagin posted...

would love to hear how this is okay

Because seeing a penis is inherently harmless.

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SirPikachu posted...

I have heard many people say they are not going back to work because they just want to get paid unemployment, even when they get a decent job offer.

And what exactly is your idea of a "decent job offer"?

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CinderLock posted...

That's weird

Yep.

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He disappeared shortly after a topic where he said it was odd that girls can start reproducing at the age of 12, but they aren't considered adults until 20+. Not sure what the current status is on his account, but the mods didn't take particularly kindly to him going full pedo.

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Perhaps the same can be said of all media.

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GastroFan posted...

Just because you have your shots doesn't mean that you can't spread Covid-19 to others who can't get the shots for medical reasons (such as cancer patients, etc.)

Actually, the primary takeaway from the CDC's announcement that fully-immunized people don't need masks is that that doesn't seem to be a major risk. There were a lot of questions about it, which kept them from updating recommendations sooner, but fully vaccinated people don't seem to have enough of a chance to transmit the disease for masking to be necessary (which is fantastic news).

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jsb0714 posted...

Scenes of excessive dialog don't necessarily constitute a story.

What do you think a movie is?

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Not necessarily (bear in mind that this is talking about "pudding" in the sense of pastries. I know the difference between cake and custard). Stuff like steamed puddings, certainly, but sticky toffee pudding is almost indistinguishable from any creamed cake recipe, and it's not the only example of that.

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The one I've never gotten a grasp on (though, admittedly, I haven't tried very hard) is the difference between puddings and cakes. Is it just whether or not it's served with a sauce?

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Mead posted...

I thought it had more to do with the amount of sugar

if it has a certain amount of sugar or more then its a cake

That's Irish laws regarding bread, which saw international recognition when they said Subway couldn't call its loaves "bread" because they were legally considered cake due to the amount of sugar in them.

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"Risotto" is a fairly broad concept. Whether or not the final product is any good is going to depend a lot on what kind it is and what else has gone in there. The basic method (cooking rice by serial reductions) is so versatile that it's hard to make blanket statements about it.

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Don't eat yellow snow.

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jsb0714 posted...

Is it?

Generally. Most IP's that are popular enough to be worth adapting have done enough world-building that it's not that hard to make a story that actually fits into the universe and forms a plausible part of the series. The Mario Bros movie was very much not a good adaptation, and part of that can be blamed on the fact that there's really no actual story to work with in Mario games (especially in 1993), but Mario RPG, Paper Mario, and M&L games have all shown that it's perfectly possible to tell an actual story without reinventing the universe. There's no reason a movie can't do the same.

Studios' repeated failure to do that is not because it's impossible, it's because they'd rather just shoehorn a pre-existing story template into the IP they purchased and hope that brand recognition is enough to carry it to profitability.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's because most film directors have an innate sense of superiority and pretentious dismissal of "video games" as anything worthwhile, so they always feel like they can "improve" video game stories.

Pretty much. Toss in executives that have no understanding whatsoever of the source material that want certain things shoehorned in because they know they're popular, and you get something that's barely recognizable.

Mostly, this, at risk of TL;DW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qacb7ZQoeYQ

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mrduckbear posted...

For me in the training cycle, especially leading up to the trials, i didn't want to risk any days out because we do know that there are periods where, getting the vaccine, you have to deal with days off"

Honestly, I can respect this as a reason to avoid getting the shot (at least until after the Olympics). This close to the competition, Olympic athletes are in a position where taking a couple unplanned days off from training (especially days off that will consist mostly of lying around doing nothing) could completely undermine everything they've done to prepare over the last five years, and there's a good chance getting the shot (mostly the second one, but also possibly the first) will force them to do that. It's certainly suboptimal, public health-wise, but Olympians are such a tiny portion of the population that I don't think that's overly consequential.

They should, however, definitely be isolating for two weeks upon returning to their home countries if they aren't vaccinated. This is very high-risk travel.

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I'm gonna kick that virus right in the spike protein.

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Mead posted...

How could they have TWO ethic characters?!

I mean, not having seen Raya yet, I can still tell that she's also water-themed, and that the movie's central conflict involves her recognizing and acting against a growing threat that her traditionalist society isn't willing or able to deal with, partnering with a divine being who isn't as powerful as she expects and learning how to work with and around that limitation. The fact that they're both ethnic is pretty secondary to identifying them as similar.

Clench281 posted...

Coco is amazing

It really is. Criminally underappreciated movie, that one.

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TomNook posted...

Place we went to had a sign that masks were not required for vaccinated people. Probably about 30% of the people were wearing masks.

Which pretty much tells you everything you need to know about why the CDC's announcement was stupid. On that day, only around 30-31% of Americans were actually fully vaccinated. Obviously, your sample likely wasn't perfectly representative of the general population, but if everyone had listened to the converse of the CDC's announcement (that is, "everyone that isn't fully vaccinated needs to keep wearing masks"), you'd expect the exact opposite of what you saw.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

asymetrical sticks are crap

They make sense for most non-shooter games, where camera control is a secondary function to whatever the face buttons are doing and it's therefore ideal to have the face buttons in the most neutral position for the right thumb.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Sounds like you're trying to agree and disagree with me at the same time

Not inaccurate. Biscuits tend to be flakier than scones, but the underlying method is virtually identical and there's no reason you can't have a denser biscuit or a flakier scone, if that's the texture you want to go with your desired sweetness. The key difference in how they're defined is the sugar, not the texture.

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If you're meeting anyone that doesn't know where they're going and your building doesn't have any helpful signage, you should probably be waiting in the building's lobby for them regardless of how you number that floor.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

if someone says meet on the first floor, then you don't need to go up any stairs once you are in the building.

if you do, then they are wrong

My last apartment was on the first floor (by unit numbering, anyway), and to get there from the front door, I had to go up some stairs, then down even more because it was in the basement and the first two floors were handled like a split-level.

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Zeus posted...

The response to Biden is f***ing TAME compared to the #NeverTrump s***.

We're ignoring that whole part where an armed mob stormed the capitol in an effort to prevent Biden from being elected?

Zeus posted...

Keep in mind that you had elected Democrats suggesting that the electoral college go against the will of their states and try to overturn the election to put Hillary in office.

By comparison, this past election, you had the actual president suggesting they should do that so he could keep being president. Calling up governors to pressure them into "finding" votes for him, spreading lies about the election's integrity for pretty much his entire term... There were certainly aspects of Hillary's loss that were not handled gracefully, and more than a few examples of questionable and even outright corrupt behaviour surrounding it, but absolutely everything about Trump's loss was far, far worse.

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Orange + Licorice? I don't think I've tried it, but I expect I would. That sounds like a good combo.

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Oh good.

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Lokarin posted...

I hate the new 'more topics' algorithm... this top is a 6 day necro!

I completely forgot that that's how I got to it.

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Good ol' CRA.

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I don't seem to have had anything in line 14500 on mine, so I can't help you figure out which figure that should be. I'm afraid that's the extent of my usefulness.

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Fair, next.

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CDC: "Fully vaccinated people don't have to wear masks anymore"
*30.9% of US was fully vaccinated at the time of this announcement*
*46.8% of US is currently fully vaccinated*
Everyone: "Nobody has to wear masks anymore!"

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Blightzkrieg posted...

It's when your hair sticks out from the top of your head like an antenna

Those two words really are far too similar.

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What if it was someone's drag mom?

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Mead posted...

I think its a mobile only title so probably not your thing.

It's on Steam, though it's clearly designed for mobile.

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Clench281 posted...

Plz stop using biology to defend incel talking points, it's good for no one

Eeyup. Protip: Sexual selective pressure is applied by the sex with the greater reproductive investment. Humans practice biparental care, so there's relatively little difference in reproductive investment, plus reproductive investment is irrelevant to non-reproductive sex. Biology has very little to do with girls having an easier time getting laid. That comes almost entirely from centuries of social norms that demean and punish women for extramarital sex while giving men a free pass.

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Is it not available online? Most of my tax documents are, at least for the past few years.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

No people literally just responded to the awful things he did every day.

Eeyup. That's not forming an identity out of hating Trump, that's already having an identity that consists of hating awful things, and responding accordingly to somebody that routinely did them.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Biden hasn't even done anything controversial yet.

Really, he's barely done anything at all, but that's another issue.

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Bumper stickers have been a thing forever, but things like flying giant flags are relatively new.

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Solid Sonic posted...

How the heck can Dale Gribble not pronounce "Pfizer" correctly but "placebo" with no issue?

The "pf" sound is a fairly unusual, tricky one, but "placebo" is pretty phonetically straightforward and a reasonably common word. I'd say it's understandable.

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Huh. I totally forgot that other people chimed in. Disregard me, then.

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Clench281 posted...

Did he delete his post out of embarrassment?

He's warned, so presumably it got modded for flaming.

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To be fair, he's currently warned, which limits his ability to respond to such requests.

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I mean, people everywhere pretend that floor 13 is floor 14 or that floor 4 is floor 5, so I don't think we should be getting too uppity about whether or not floor counts include the ground level. It's not like any of us are ever going to be looking for the Xth floor of a building and have to count that ourselves instead of relying on elevator buttons or signs on doors.

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Hejiru posted...

Either that or a fundamental misunderstanding of how vaccines work.

Let me guess, "I don't want to weaken my immune system by relying on vaccines"?

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OhhhJa posted...

Well, vaccines typically are studied for 2 years minimum.

So right off the bat, you're walking back that "5 years" figure. Good to know.

Typically, vaccines (and other drugs) progress through the stages of clinical trials in sequence. Given the urgency of these vaccines, those stages were overlapped and conducted at least partially in parallel, which saved a large amount of time. These vaccines were also able to move much, much faster than normal through the processes of securing funding and finding participants for their studies, since funding was readily available and there was no shortage of volunteers. And then when it came time for actual approval, rather than having to wait in line behind thousands of other hopeful products while the bureaucrats worked their way through the obligatory red tape, vaccine candidates have been rushed to the front of the line and treated as higher-priority than everything else.

Yes, the timeline has been accelerated, but pretty much all of that has been a result of streamlining the administrative side of things, not cutting corners in the science. Every metric that is normally met for approving a drug has been met here. That data is available, if you want to evaluate it for yourself.

I also feel that I should point out that development began on the mRNA vaccines last January, meaning a solid 18 months has passed between that and when you received yours. That's not actually that far shy of the two years you're treating as the minimum.

OhhhJa posted...

What about potential auto immune conditions? Is it out of the realm of possibility that could manifest after a couple years?

What makes you think that they could?

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OhhhJa posted...

Yeah I hope we're all still laughing 5 years from now

Can you name even a single product on the market now that had 5 years of longitudinal studies to confirm it had no long-term effects before it was approved for sale? Never mind that "long-term effects" usually translates to "cancer," which generally takes decades to manifest after exposure and also I haven't heard anything about there being anything in these vaccines that is carcinogenic at these doses.

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