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I tend to use it when the EMMI hears me. It'll go to investigate the sound, so I just put on the cloaking stuff and keep moving and pray.

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DocDelicious posted...

cheat
/CHt/
verb
1.
act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage, especially in a game or examination.

It is, by definition, cheating.

The streamers are publicly broadcasting information. It's not unfair or dishonest to use that. It would be if the snipers were, say, doing something wrong. But they're in fact doing what the streamers want (and get paid for), i.e., watching their stream.

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It's not very nice, and it's antifun. But it's definitely not cheating.

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pinky0926 posted...

i do like scientists, they are inquisitive, creative, curious people, and not interested (typically) in financial stuff.

Maybe I just find financial stuff dull.

My impression is that the whole "successful" identity is very closely related to "obsessed with your job". Like, it's one thing to be successful. It's something completely different to define yourself and identify with success. Maybe that's what that woman you dated did?

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DeadBankerDream posted...

I don't celebrate thanksgiving, so nah.

Same, I just reflect generally

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Did not care for the super soaker mechanics

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Gwynevere posted...

Kind of makes me question if I even want to commit to graduate school physics. I just wanted to study and learn about a field I deeply enjoy, and make some contributions to it. Going through that grind of churning out papers just because sounds like I'd end up hating it instead

There are good and bad sides to it. And it'll also vary a lot depending on where you end up.

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Speaking as someone in academia, it's fairly obvious that policy greatly affects what kinds of papers get written. And it's not an especially controversial thing to say.

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The whole publish or perish thing significantly contributes to this issue and it sucks

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I'm pretty mixed about it in the end. I played the 3DS remake of Samus Returns and liked it at first, but the melee counter mechanic felt pretty gimmicky after a while. So if that one plays a big role here in not sure if I'll wanna get it.

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radical rhino posted...

Metroid isnt built around speed running. Wtf? Nintendo doesnt make their games to cater to a <1% portion of the player base.

Pretty much every single 2D Metroid games features a bunch of shortcuts and sequence breaks deliberately put there for speedrunning.

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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

Jon Snow did abandon his post as Lord Commander and was going to forsake his vows as a member of the Night's Watch by riding to fight in Winterfell.

He was basically committing the worst sin possible for a Lord Commander of the Night's Watch when you think about it: Leading a massive army of Wildlings through the Wall in order to attack people of Westeros.

Yeah it makes perfect sense that the watch would kill him. He was already on thin ice letting the wildlings through. Then flipping on a dime, announcing he would march with them on Winterfell? That was the exact reason they were skeptical to let them through in the first place.

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Depends how you squeeze the numbers. I think if you look at accumulated emissions over time, the US should still be #1. But it's a pretty tricky thing to track in the first place, since a lot of environmental impact is being outsourced to third world countries.


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I'm curious if the wording on that question, "cut it lengthwise", is sufficient? Like, now that you explained I understand how to cut it, but is the way I thought not considered lengthwise? Is it "along the diagonal" instead or something?

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BL, I can't see most of your posts in this topic. Probably because I have Broseph on block/ignore and that seems to hide any post he's quoted in. I know you tagged me but I can't see the post :(

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Sweden did go through various neolib reforms in the '90s though, didn't they? That's when schools and healthcare were opened up for private actors, to pretty devastating effects. Today Gran Persson owns shares in Attendo. And not to mention Pr Nuder or Jan Emanuel :)

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AssultTank posted...

So I believe you just need Pythagorean theorem to get the length of the cut, sqrt(35^2+54^2), then simply add that to 35+54, and then just (35*54)/2 for the area of the cross section and multiply that by 35 if you want total volume...
Which would be
Perimeter; 153 inches
Area of the cross section; 945in^2
Volume of each piece; 33,075in^3
Right? <_< (I may have made a mistake somewhere, but...)

Not sure I understand the English here but the way I read it is that the cross section will be rectangular with one side being 35 and the other being the length of the cut. If you wanna mess around you could always just define two vectors that span the cross section and their cross product will describe the surface area.

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s0nicfan posted...

I'm sure people said the same thing when the rich had horses and other people didn't, or when the rich had cars and other people didn't, or when the rich could book flights and other people couldn't, etc etc.

To be fair, the mass production of cars and commercial air travel are two pretty massive contributors to why the planet is slowly dying.

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Ah, I think I was thinking of Switzerland. My bad.

You probably were thinking of Sweden. It's just that it's a bit of an outdated picture. Swedish labor unions were pretty powerful for quite a while. Wouldn't exactly say it was socialist though, but labor used to have a lot more influence than in various other capitalist states.

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

IIRC, Sweden has strong labor unions that are able to negotiate and dictate wages, which definifely follows leftist ideology.

https://twitter.com/fiskargubbe/status/1400758567498563586

Swedish labor unions have been weakened for several decades, to the point where predatory companies use collective agreements as PR. Sweden is neoliberal as heck.

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SoggyBottomBoy posted...

Seems to be the go-to. They never mention Sweden or Portugal.

Sweden is neoliberal as heck

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AOC walked with her "Tax the rich" dress so Grimes could run

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UnfairRepresent posted...

No that never happened

And you know that.

I don't know that, no. I don't follow all the "Let's disprove UR living in UK" topics very closely, so there's a lot of things I miss.

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Feline posted...

I already called him out on this. Like that time he posted pictures from a shop in the UK and it turned out it was from Australia.

Is this true UR? Did you claim that photo was yours?

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ssjevot posted...

It's also worth noting that as bad as poverty is in the Philippines, it's not as bad as you might believe in terms of starvation:
https://www.globalhungerindex.org/philippines.html

I think a lot of people who haven't been to countries have a stereotype that is either exaggerated or stuck in the past. We still have people on here constantly talking about how much suicide there is in Japan for instance when their rate is actually lower than the US now.

Yeah to be clear I'm not talking about Philippines, just responding to the hypothetical "if my country was struggling".

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I'd be hard pressed to trust a loan program offered by any superpower. But when the choice is between eating or starving, "trust" isn't really a big part of the equation.

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pogo_rabid posted...

What is your definition of "used"? What if I own a property, pay to have it maintained/continue to pay tax/utilities on it, what business of anyone's is it how I utilize the property?

Squatting is a thing because people lay claims to land/housing that they do not use, while others go homeless. Shelter is a basic human need and considered a human right. It's because of that conflict that squatting is even a thing

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Gamerguymass posted...

You are in your 30s. Are you honestly this immature and clueless of the world?

How do you know my age sir

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Solid Sonic posted...

You underestimate how flexible the interpretation of this is. Squatters have successfully overtaken homes that have never been lived in because they had yet to be closed on and the law protects them from forcible removal.

Then who was thrown out of their home?

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Squatting is generally defined as occupying an abandoned or otherwise unoccupied area. No squatter is going to throw someone out of their own home.

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What an absolute shock that the guy who performed a song about how no actually doesn't mean no would do something like this

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You should come to Sweden UR we still have freezers in our stores

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pick4six posted...

So these are now the conditions in Great Britain, this is messed up,

this goes beyond Brexit, Brexist isn't a cause of all this it's an effect of the ongoing problems that has plague the (once) great nation....

A lot of the current shortages can be traced pretty much with a straight line to Brexit...

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Bernie would never had had a friendly/receptive Congress, even if he'd have won bigly.

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VitalGetPrank posted...

That you think your candidate is so infallible that anything negative is just a smear campaign.

lol

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VitalGetPrank posted...

This is Trump levels of delusion.

What's the delusion? That liberal media outlets like CNN and MSNBC were doing their best to smear Bernie?

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That guy is definitely the right person to hold any sort of power over digital issues.

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I think we saw pretty clearly in both 2016 and 2020 how much the liberal media hates Bernie, and they would have actively sabotaged him if he'd managed to get the nomination. It's quite obvious if you compare for example their reaction to Buttigieg's stunt in Iowa with how they later reacted to Trump doing the same thing in the general election. They would fight tooth and nail to make sure Bernie lost, and I don't think he'd have prevailed.

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Daffadilio posted...

I learned very fast that it never worked out well for me or anyone I knew, and most girls I knew who never met up with ANYONE and just used tinder as a place to wate time/kill boredom would do this, just chat for weeks until the guy realized she would never actually meet up with him.
Anytime I was talking to people, no matter how cool whoever I was typing to seemed, if someone was cool on a date, that would take precedence over anyone else I would be talking to. Girls just have infinitely more options and being on the apps gets tiring so making an in person impression matters a lot, as someone else said.

if what youre doing works for you man, more power to you. Maybe you have a good system for it that others dont, idk. Im glad you like it. Guess Ill leave it at that.

Could be cultural differences between Sweden and the US. Could also be that I'm as picky as the girls I'm looking for, and am culling away a lot of girls that you and your friends would have had a great time with. Etc. I dunno I just think there are a lot of variables that go into dating in general and I'm pretty skeptic about blanket statements on how girls/women are, what they want etc.
I had a rough period for a while until I just gave up, stopped trying to force things, and started chatting with people just to have a nice conversation, and then two things happened:

1. I stopped being bothered by expectations running two high,
2. Girls started wanting to meet a lot more.

So essentially this mindset is a way for me to relax and act natural which I think helps a lot. It also means I'll be having a good time even if we're just chatting, which IMO is a positive thing.

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Daffadilio posted...

literally the only reason I replied to you is you said a week or two of chatting before wanting to meet up. That is excessive
ime it also worsens things in the long run cuz even if you do meet up, it wont match the hype of who youve built in your head, and it sucks if the date doesnt go well and you just stop talking to the person youve been messaging for hours a day for weeks. I grew up online, I consider having conversations with people one of my fav hobbies. It may be a preference but Im telling you succinctly as are other people, if you are on a dating site and want to use it to actually date/hook up, it is not to your benefit to wait weeks before setting up a date. Set it up quickly, then chat based on preference.
if someone asks me during the first convo, which happens often like in this case, and I cant get a feel for them, I will say I dont have a free day until next week, are we cool to chat until then? Some guys hate messaging and say theyll check back in closer to that time, some have asked to have a phone call or two, some gladly keep the convo going. That is the preference part, sure.

Yeah, a week or two is my preference, and I've had great success with it. Really weird to call it excessive when.. it's working fine? Yeah it'll suck if it doesn't match the hype, but that can just as well be a problem of setting unrealistic expectations.
You and other people are telling me succinctly that it's not to my benefit to do something that has been working out very well for me. Again, not really sure why you feel the compulsion to try and tell my why my preference is incorrect when my experience tells me it's pretty great.

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teep_ posted...

They did, but the vote is non-binding. All it guarantees is a discussion about the issue in the Berlin Senate

It's great if it ends up going through, but I wouldn't treat it as a done deal just yet

Sure, I was just listing a good thing that Germany did... for now.

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Daffadilio posted...

Statistically in these sites, the longer you chat without meeting up, the less likely you will ever meet up. The name of the game is speed. Often times you cant meet for a few days/til the weekend, or sometimes even the next week, in which case you have time to chat and can always cancel the date if some huge sign that it wont work out pops up. But honestly if you dont have solid plans to meet up with like a set day by the third day of chatting, its just not going anywhere.

I'm also not talking about chatting forever. I'm saying that how much you talk online before meeting up is a preference, not a rule for success. That goes for both men and women. It seems that both TC and the girl he matched with want to meet up right away, and that's great! Others want to chat for a while. It's pretty obvious that longer chats are correlated with less meeting up, for a lot of reasons.

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ThyCorndog posted...

Reading this topic made me more confused than the OP did

Are the blue checkmark people terfs? Is the medical journal politically motivated or is it just medical speak? I'm not sure how to interpret any of this lol

Just saying "bodies" on its own doesn't make me bat an eye. I recall black rights activists talking about "black bodies" a lot so I didn't think it was a particularly weird term

Yes, a lot of British blue checkmarks are TERFs. Yes, the journal is doing medical/scientific speak.

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