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| Topic | i've decided to throw out all my pots and pans so my roommate can't use them |
| adjl 08/23/22 7:30:17 AM #23 | Jen0125 posted... dude i have an 80+ year old cast iron skillet that he lets SOAK in water or stay wet after washing Fortunately, cast iron pans can take a ton of abuse before getting so bad that they actually can't be brought back. Unfortunately, having to restore them every two weeks because some idiot struggles to understand the words "don't leave water in it" is a massive pain in the ass and might qualify as valid justification for using said idiot's skull to demonstrate the hardness of cast iron. jiffdiff posted... Nope it's a you thing. It takes 5 minutes to learn how to properly use/care for pots and pans. Invest the time. Eeyup. Don't use metal on teflon pans (ceramic non-stick ones are more durable, but still try to avoid it), use an appropriate amount of oil to prevent whatever sticking you can, and don't make a habit of burning stuff. That's 99% of what you need to know; calling it a "guy thing" doesn't excuse not taking the time to learn that. Particularly tenacious burnt-on stuff can usually be dislodged by deglazing it (pour a small amount of water into a hot pan around it, then scrape it off as the rapidly-boiling water loosens it) or boiling soapy water in the pan while scraping at it. It may also take some soaking. Steel wool should never be used on anything finished (non-stick, enamelled, etc.), but it's okay for harder materials (mostly stainless steel). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Blood type |
| adjl 08/22/22 3:26:15 PM #17 | Garlands_Soul posted... I'm the exact opposite I'm told so I can take from most people. My blood is worthless to others though That means you're a universal donor for plasma, though, so that's something. AB+ platelets are also pretty versatile, though not as versatile as AB- ones (they're universal platelet donors). If you're interested in donating, your local collection clinic can advise you what you can donate to make the most impact. Odds are you can do at least something, even if you're not as useful as O- whole blood (but then nothing is as useful as O- whole blood, so that's an unfair comparison). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Is there a pokemon style game with robots? |
| adjl 08/22/22 3:13:07 PM #7 | DeltaBladeX posted... Came here to say this, I have Robopon: Sun Version :P I rented this one, many years ago. It was pretty nifty. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Area rugs, wall to wall carpet or hardwood floors |
| adjl 08/22/22 3:10:14 PM #27 | I feel like on that scale, you lose out on a lot of the "easier to clean" aspect. As much as carpet's a pain to clean, you can at least shampoo it relatively simply, whereas washing/drying a hundred rugs is quite an ordeal even if you stagger it by doing them in batches. It's not a completely crazy alternative, but I do think there's an upper limit to how much you can scale it up before it stops being worthwhile. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Area rugs, wall to wall carpet or hardwood floors |
| adjl 08/22/22 2:56:38 PM #25 | Carpet feels nicer on feet and is quieter, but pretty quickly gets dirty and is a pain to properly clean (and if you don't, it stops feeling so nice). Hardwood (along with most hard flooring options) is easier to clean and move furniture on (with appropriate precautions to avoid scratching), but is harder and colder. The result is that what's popular tends to flip back and forth between carpeting and hard flooring as enough time elapses that society forgets what they disliked about the other option and start to think it would be an improvement over what they currently have. Rugs are a nice happy medium. They feel nice underfoot and help to dampen noise, but are much easier to clean and replace as needed than full carpet would be. The downside is you can't have those benefits all the time (unless you buy a whole house's worth of rugs, but that's silly), but nothing's perfect. faramir77 posted... You could have laminate or vinyl planking installed 10 times for that same cost. I don't get the appeal to hardwood floor. Laminate in particular is pretty bad if you've got pets or small children or are otherwise likely to end up with occasional liquid spills on it, since it tends to soak up water and warp very easily. Vinyl's better for that, but is still less durable in a lot of ways than hardwood. I'm generally inclined to lean toward thinking hardwood's more expensive than it's worth, but there are benefits/drawbacks to pretty much any option. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | i broke my ankle lol |
| adjl 08/22/22 1:00:48 PM #14 | Redfeather posted... Don't you need a cast for it to heal. I don't know. Depending on the nature of the break, immobilizing it may do more harm than good. I broke my elbow a couple months back (non-displaced radial head fracture), and I just had to wear a sling for a couple weeks and take it easy from there (plus physio). There was a time when that would have needed a full-arm cast that held it at 90 degrees and kept my wrist from turning, but immobilizing the joint like that can cause it to seize up and become too stiff to move, which hurts recovery. So long as the bones aren't in immediate danger of shifting and undoing whatever healing has happened (whether because it's a stable non-displaced fracture or because it's been fixed surgically), you really just need to support it well enough to protect it from forces that might re-break it. Now, he definitely shouldn't be weight-bearing right now and I'm appalled that the hospital didn't give him crutches or direct him to get some. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I hate how spme games will sync daily crap with your login times. |
| adjl 08/22/22 12:45:57 PM #6 | Krazy_Kirby posted... I like the ones that have a 20 hour reset. If you're going to make it timed, this is the way to do it, but defining a specific reset time is still generally better. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Anime, Manga, VN, JRPG, Related Things Discussion Topic XCIX |
| adjl 08/22/22 7:22:57 AM #286 | YoukaiSlayer posted... I was actually 78 in chapter 3. I always do all possible optional stuff before proceeding. If I'm going to be overleveled for any part of the game, I'd prefer it be the story even though it creates dissonance when I obliterate some moebeus in the gameplay in 20 seconds and then my party is getting it's ass kicked in the cutscene. Fair. Even at-level, I've had quite a few boss fights where I've successfully killed the boss with a chain attack, but then the cutscene has shown me losing to them, so I suspect some of the scripted boss fight triggers may not be overriding chain attacks the way they should. YoukaiSlayer posted... This is so much less of an issue than people make it out to be. At worst you warp to a grinding spot and max out the new class in like 15 minutes. Way faster if you don't mind dropping the difficulty to easy for the grinding (which I do mind, will never drop it from hard). Indeed. It means you actually have to deliberately grind classes, instead of getting a steady rotation of new playstyles organically as you play through the story (which I've been quite enjoying), but there's never really a shortage of at-level enemies if you go looking for them and grinding to 10 doesn't take all that long (and goes faster when enemy levels are higher anyway). Being able to de-level would be nice, but the issue is largely overstated. That said, from what I've heard, the best CP grinding method becomes available at/near endgame, with regular enemies that give 4-500 CP each and can be burst down in seconds with the right setup, which is much faster than charging up and sitting through chain attacks. Given that getting classes to 20 is mostly a matter of increasing power and not so much a matter of trying out new gameplay (outside of a couple strategies that rely on other classes' talent arts, like putting the Troubadour one on Mio as a Signifer to enable a trick that makes the whole party invincible), that's really not bad. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Alex Jones needs to be silenced |
| adjl 08/20/22 1:55:49 PM #29 | OhhhJa posted... Yeah... I'm not disagreeing with any of that. But you claimed he was peddling something he knew to be false but I think he genuinely believed it At the very least, he knew there was a significant possibility that it was false and chose to act as though there weren't. That's close enough that I would consider it to be a largely irrelevant distinction to trying to call his product "opposition or criticism." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I hate that mansplaining is a thing... |
| adjl 08/20/22 1:53:29 PM #31 | ParanoidObsessive posted... That may have been how the term originated, but it's rarely how it's used now - so its original meaning is almost... well... meaningless. Which is where this approach comes in: adjl posted... "This isn't mansplaining, you're just wrong." It's still a worthwhile concept to consider and try to avoid in one's daily life, regardless of whether or not it's being misused. Any such accusations should trigger a bit of introspection, even if the ultimate conclusion of that introspection is that there's no actual problem and you can settle on "no you're just wrong." ParanoidObsessive posted... Have you actually met any people? People get offended by having their knowledge questioned all the time. Again, it's the distinction between "questioning" in the sense of "doubting" and "questioning" in the sense of "you've made it clear to me that you want me to talk about this subject about which I know a lot, how much do you already know?" People don't get offended by that. At least, not more than they would by "I'm just going to assume you know nothing and talk to you accordingly," which is the alternative being presented. ParanoidObsessive posted... It's most pronounced on the Internet because it's easy to dismiss the qualifications of the person you're talking to without even knowing the qualifications of the person you're talking to ("What he says must be true, his dad works for Nintendo!"). But a habit of dismissing bad faith arguments has left a lot of people completely unwilling to listen to or even consider good faith arguments either. And to react with what is essentially ad hominem attacks to condemn the speaker without even judging their words. It's also more pronounced because being polite and understanding and making a genuine effort to help educate people on the Internet is substantially less common than just calling each other idiots for not believing what one already knows. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I hate that mansplaining is a thing... |
| adjl 08/20/22 1:45:55 PM #30 | Kyuubi4269 posted... The irony here being that you accuse me of extremely narrow personal experience, while simulatenously saying you've never offended anybody by questioning their experience. I think you're using "questioning their experience" to mean "doubting their experience," which is not at all what I'm suggesting. Your failure to understand the difference between that and looking to establish a baseline for how much jargon is appropriate might be why you think this isn't a you problem. Think about it for even a second and you should realize how ridiculous your position is: You're literally suggesting that it's less common for people to be annoyed by somebody assuming they understand nothing than by somebody asking how much they understand. Nothing about that sounds even remotely plausible at any level. Kyuubi4269 posted... Does the majority of the world call people mansplainers? No? Then maybe you're confused because you're looking at irrelevant information. This is about the few people who use the term, not the general public. It's not especially difficult to spend your life without coming across these 70 and below IQ people. Protip: If you're going to tell everyone that you hold the attitude of "anyone who doesn't like me assuming they're stupid is just stupid," you're going to have a very difficult time convincing anyone that you don't assume people are stupid far more often than is appropriate. Kyuubi4269 posted... The important thing to remember is that if you constantly go through life with people questioning what you know, it's much more likely to be you not demonstrating competence than tHe SyStEm oppressing you. Most actual mansplaining happens in contexts where there hasn't yet been an opportunity to demonstrate competence. Kyuubi4269 posted... When people who make these claims actually back how they're being treated differently and how it isn't fair in these circumstances, we can have a conversation about avoiding it. There was a picture that circulated a year or so back of a woman shooting a pistol, and a very significant number of comments on it were men saying things like "she should be holding it with both hands" or otherwise providing completely unsolicited advice, obviously labouring under the assumption that the woman in question had no idea what she was doing. The woman in question was an olympic gold medalist, pictured at the olympics, competing in an event where her displayed technique was perfectly in line with the rules of the event. A friend of mine was once discussing makeup with a colleague, and when she mentioned highliighter, one of her male colleagues who happened to overhear interjected with "no, you're thinking of eyeliner, highlighters are markers." She was, in fact, talking about neither eyeliner nor markers. No, unsolicited bad advice is not exclusively a sexist thing, but it is something that women experience very often due to the prevailing attitude of "if I think a woman is making a mistake, she must be making a mistake." It's often not a deliberate act of sexism, but it is behaviour that's generally more tolerated in that form than vice versa, which is why there's a push to explicitly call it out. Kyuubi4269 posted... Until then, I'm going to treat it exactly as it is presented, presumptuous and ill-intended. Alternatively, you can try to resist the urge to offer unsolicited advice and/or make sure you understand the situation completely before thinking that you know what advice might be appropriate. Those are, after all, fairly simple adjustments to make that will improve pretty much everyone's experience whether they explicitly have a problem with your behaviour or not. I will never understand people who wilfully resist making trivial changes to themselves and their behaviour that will make them a better person and help improve the world around them. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Alex Jones needs to be silenced |
| adjl 08/20/22 1:15:50 PM #25 | OhhhJa posted... I'm pretty sure he really believed sandy hook was fake when he was going on about it years ago At best, you can claim he peddled conspiracy theories that he had not verified for personal profit with no regard for the impact that would have on the individuals he was explicitly attacking, which is only marginally better than knowingly committing such defamation. In his own words, he believes it happened now that he's met with parents, and that should really have been a very early step before reporting on the matter at all. He chose not to do that, so even if the beliefs he stated were genuine, he absolutely should be held accountable for the harms that followed that decision. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I hate that mansplaining is a thing... |
| adjl 08/20/22 11:41:34 AM #24 | Kyuubi4269 posted... I am completely confident it is because we move in different circles. I'm sure there are lots of reasonable people, and good on you on being in professions where you're surrounded by slow people who are high enough up to practice good social etiquette. I've moved in so many different circles (including the sort of tradespeople among which you count yourself) throughout my life that I'm completely confident that's baseless nonsense you're making up to pretend you didn't just try to generalize your extremely narrow personal experience. If you're giving somebody information that they want (or can at least see a clear benefit to receiving), they aren't going to mind you trying to get a feel for what they already know so you can give them a more useful explanation. If they mind, it's either because they don't care about what you have to say and are frustrated that you insist on talking at them anyway (since that's generally pretty annoying), or because you asked in a way that was insulting or otherwise needlessly disrespectful. Knowing how you be, I consider both possibilities substantially more likely than that every single person I've encountered has somehow been anomalously more open-minded than the majority of the world. Kyuubi4269 posted... The issue being with that, is that nobody says that they are mansplaining, a "victim" of it assigns that reasoning on to it, when they have no way of knowing it. It's a term by people who have been offended to retroactively change the narrative to feel justified in anger. It's thrown around a lot, but I don't think I've ever seen it justified or used in a non-heated circumstance. The takeaway for you is to try to be cognizant of when you're assuming ignorance inappropriately and to avoid being patronizing or condescending when explaining things to people. In the event that somebody does call you out for it in the moment, listen to them. Start from the assumption that they have a valid point, and only conclude that they don't after determining for certain that they're just trying to deflect from being wrong. If you get called out retroactively, do the same thing. The important thing to remember is that, like most microaggressions, an individual instance of mansplaining generally isn't going to be a big deal. The analogy I see tossed around a lot is that microaggressions are like mosquito bites: One is annoying, but not really a big deal. By the time you get up to a few dozen, though, you're ready to personally rip the proboscis off of any mosquito that even looks at you. When somebody gets mad at you for mansplaining or any other microaggression, they're not mad at you for committing some grievous fault, they're mad at a broader problem that has been bothering them for a while and which you have become a part of. Rather than defending yourself and insisting that their response is unreasonable, try to stop being part of the problem and instead sympathize with their frustration. Insisting that you're only one straw isn't going to fix the camel's back. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I hate that mansplaining is a thing... |
| adjl 08/20/22 10:31:17 AM #17 | ParanoidObsessive posted... To be fair, the sort of people who use the term "mansplaining" unironically are generally terrible people whose opinions are pretty meaningless anyway. It's why you hear it pop up in places like Twitter or Tumblr more than anywhere else. That's not actual mansplaining, though. That's just people falling back on the term any time they don't want to listen to what a dude is saying. By definition, mansplaining is condescending and patronizing, rooted in the assumption that the woman doesn't know anything about the subject, in which case it's less "I don't need to listen to you because ad hominem" and more "listening to you is a miserable experience so please stop being such an asshole." Kyuubi4269 posted... That brings up the same issue, people get offended when asked what they know as it questions their knowledge on the subject. In 33 years of being smarter than pretty much everyone I've ever interacted with, I've never had a single person become offended or annoyed by me checking what understanding they have of a concept before I answer their question or try to explain something to them. If you have, I'm completely confident saying that it's because you were condescending or derisive in asking and that that is the reason people didn't like it. Meanwhile, I've had plenty of people get annoyed by having me tell them a bunch of things they already know, which is pretty understandable because that's a complete waste of their time. Kyuubi4269 posted... people who complain about mansplaining have a weak ego. Again, that's those that are falling back on the term to avoid having to confront being wrong. Actual mansplaining entails assuming that a woman doesn't know anything and needs it all explained to her, which is nothing to do with her ego. That's just an annoying waste of time that could be completely avoided by the guy being less wrapped up in his own ego and taking a moment to figure out whether or not she's actually as ignorant as he assumed. People don't get offended by having their knowledge questioned. They get offended by having their knowledge dismissed under the assumption that whatever they have is of no value. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Zangulus is in purgatory! |
| adjl 08/20/22 9:32:47 AM #11 | Itchy itchy. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I hate that mansplaining is a thing... |
| adjl 08/20/22 9:31:21 AM #13 | Kyuubi4269 posted... It's good practice to assume the person is ignorant Depends a lot on the context. Starting out with "how much background to you have?" before trying to explain a concept instead of just defaulting to assuming they know nothing can often save quite a lot of time and aggravation for everyone involved. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Estimate Tucker Carlson's IQ |
| adjl 08/20/22 9:28:59 AM #13 | Ozmose posted... I think your numbers are off by a good margin here. I landed at 144 on my last test, and that only places in the top 2%. I think the 99.9999 percentile would probably be more like 180+. There's usually only a handful of them in the world at a time. A group I used to be in had a specialized test for "super geniuses". They were ridiculous. I took a crack at it once, and I only got like 3 out of 30 correct. The scale is defined as a normal distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation 15, so 68% of the world falls between 85 and 115, 95% between 70 and 130, and 99.7% between 55 and 145. That means ~0.15% of people are above 145, which is clearly a lot more than 0.0001%. BlackScythe0 posted... People who prey on stupid people are generally not stupid themselves. He knows what he is doing and he isn't dumb for it, he's evil for it. He's at least 100 or higher imo. Pretty much this. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Zangulus is in purgatory! |
| adjl 08/20/22 8:51:29 AM #9 | Ozmose posted... No clue, but he probably deserved it. Somebody's butthurt over being held accountable for being bad at science. Somebody's also not wrong, because Zang pretty routinely says things that are clearly moddable and it's usually not surprising when he gets the axe, but that is in no way exclusive of being butthurt. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Alex Jones needs to be silenced |
| adjl 08/20/22 8:49:20 AM #22 | Ozmose posted... Alex Jones needs to be silenced What exactly is Jones opposing or criticizing when he peddles conspiracy theories that he knows to be false for personal profit with no regard for the impact that will have on the individuals he's explicitly attacking? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The Canadian company that manages Circle K has an unpostable name |
| adjl 08/20/22 8:47:02 AM #20 | Huh. I always figured Irving owned them, given that they show up in every Irving gas station, but I guess they just partnered with them. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I hate that mansplaining is a thing... |
| adjl 08/20/22 8:45:20 AM #9 | "This isn't mansplaining, you're just wrong." Granted, the sort of person who defaults to complaining about mansplaining when they're legitimately ignorant and nothing about you explaining their error probably won't listen to that, but it's the best you can do. Even if mansplaining weren't a recognized concept, those people would still be finding other excuses to dismiss whatever you were saying. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Would you attend a PotD irl meet up? |
| adjl 08/19/22 1:46:23 PM #32 | Far-Queue posted... I have it on good authority that adjl is a cannibal I can confirm that I have eaten before. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Blood type |
| adjl 08/19/22 11:39:36 AM #2 | I got an A+ on my blood test. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | does Waluigi have his own game? |
| adjl 08/19/22 10:27:00 AM #2 | Nope. Closest is being presented as the main antagonist of Mario DDR, but it turns out that Bowser is the main one instead. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Would you attend a PotD irl meet up? |
| adjl 08/19/22 10:24:09 AM #17 | JigsawTDCII posted... a cool/fun locationJigsawTDCII posted... London (the Canadian one) These are mutually exclusive. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | When did they take away the edit feature? |
| adjl 08/19/22 9:58:45 AM #10 | Nice. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Anime, Manga, VN, JRPG, Related Things Discussion Topic XCIX |
| adjl 08/19/22 9:51:50 AM #276 | dragon504 posted... In chapter 7 of Xeno 2 and over 100 hours on my save file. I'm definitely finding this world more enjoyable than the first Xeno and looking forward to the third as well, though I don't have it yet. Chapter 7 is around when it starts actually getting good because the story isn't just "rawr give us ur girlfriend" "oh no please don't take my girlfriend." 2's core plot is pretty straightforward and unremarkable, but there are a lot of interesting revelations that come in the form of character development and world-building (especially around the villains; most of the party characters are just kind of there, including Rex) that make the whole thing really enjoyable, and most of those start rolling in during and after chapter 7. It's kind of unfortunate how back-loaded the exposition is, because it means the first ~75-80% of the game is pretty forgettable (chapter 7 is quite long, but 8-9-10 come very quickly), but overall it is quite good. It's also a little awkward because a ton of side quests (including quite a few blade quests) open up during those later chapters, but it's horribly inconsistent with the story to go do them instead of progressing, but that's not really anything unusual for JRPG's. Have you bought the DLC yet? I strongly recommend it just for Torna, which is not without its faults, but I absolutely loved because it added to much to that character- and world-building. Challenge Mode is also great because it gives you an actual incentive to try to make the combat system work in your favour, given that the base game is easy enough that you can generally just faceroll everything but the hardest superbosses. Revelation34 posted... Playing 1 right now. Was fighting a quest monster and a fucking level 80+ monster popped out of nowhere when I was about to beat the other one. Sounds about right. Pretty much all of them have some exceptionally powerful enemies roaming around lower-level areas. They can be a little annoying, but you learn to avoid them pretty quickly, and coming back later to punch Rotbart in the dick is immensely satisfying (especially with a party that's like level 60, just to rub it in). YoukaiSlayer posted... In xenoblade 3 I got to chapter 5 and can finally explore the new area and damn it feels like everything opened up. I was kind of disappointed with the locations up to this point but this makes me very excited to explore. You're 87 in chapter 5? I only just hit 60 in early chapter 7. Clearly you're taking a much less direct route than I did, though I've made a point of not doing too many sidequests so as to avoid overlevelling and tanking CP gains. I hope you've at least got Soul Hack available to take advantage of all the UM's you've been killing, though at least there's the option of fast travelling to tombstones if you want to take down one you've already done. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do people with two at once pitbulls seem like they can't control them? |
| adjl 08/19/22 9:16:48 AM #25 | FatalAccident posted... This sounds totally made up Saying 3-4 times is a rough estimate on my part that that wasn't based on having the numbers in front of me, but I actually gathered the stats and did the math myself for an old topic on the matter. That was in the context of arguing whether banning dog breeds was comparable to racism and a number of people (I replied specifically to Jen, in this instance) expressed some concern about the notion of comparing violent animals to minorities. I took that a step further and compared violent animals to people of all races: Jen0125 posted... I didn't calculate an overall figure, but it's easy enough to do that now and arrive at 6395/310.8M=20.6 murders per million humans in the US. 20.6/6.0 is 3.43, conveniently in the middle of the range that I stated. While it was at least partially made up, it seems I got lucky and my rough recollection of the actual numbers was good enough for my estimate to be accurate. Go me, I guess. BigOlePappy posted... But they kill other people's pets... I have indeed not done the same analysis for injuries or pet deaths. Just to vaguely intuit it instead of collecting real data, I expect human injuries would work out pretty similarly, operating under the assumption that roughly as many dog attacks end up being fatal as assaults end up turning into murder. Pet deaths are probably higher, though. Personally, I just think the owner of any given pet (as well as whoever's supposed to be in control of them at the time) should be held liable for any crimes committed by their pet. Your dog kills someone? You're up for murder 2 (first-degree would be almost impossible to prove). Your dog injures someone? Assault causing bodily harm. Your dog kills someone's pet? Also murder 2. Some degree of exception would need to be made for trained rescuers who did their due diligence to prevent those outcomes and it just wasn't enough, but passing those charges on to whoever trained the dog to misbehave like that in the first place might be reasonable. That would at least act as a deterrent against training aggression into dogs and against people who don't know what they're doing trying to adopt a rescue that has the potential to turn dangerous if mishandled, without needing to go so far as to outright ban them. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | When did they take away the edit feature? |
| adjl 08/19/22 8:41:48 AM #8 | ParanoidObsessive posted... To prevent you from maliciously editing posts after the fact to try and make other users look bad. I know that's the official story, but an hour is plenty of time to do that and the edit history is so readily available that pointing out that the person did that is pretty immediately going to result in them being the one that looks bad. I don't think that's actually a major risk. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Oh haha I love the Nether it's so great it's my favorite thing in Minecraft |
| adjl 08/19/22 8:35:47 AM #27 | Metalsonic66 posted... If not, there should be Dunno about Vanilla, but I quite enjoyed the one world where I used the Grappling Hooks mod. rjsilverthorn posted... Minecraft is one of those games I keep trying because I feel like I should enjoy it and yet I never do. It didn't really hook me until I started running mods, but that did the trick. I found Vanilla (at least, Vanilla in the ~1.5-1.10 era, since a lot has been added since) was a little too open-ended for my liking and I never really had any build ideas that were ambitious enough to keep me playing for all that long. Adding a bunch of mods gave more concrete goals to work toward, though, and more flexible tools (especially in the redstone department) to help whatever I was working toward, and that's been enough to suck me into multiple 100+ hour worlds. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you still wear a mask due to Covid-19? |
| adjl 08/19/22 8:19:21 AM #26 | fishy071 posted... I still do when I'm going to indoor public places. This. Requirements being dropped is 100% a political thing that has nothing to do with sensible public health policy or the actual state of the pandemic. The number of people that think "people are just tired of having to worry about it" means the problem is actually solved is honestly pretty alarming, given how insanely delusional that line of thinking is. Wearing a mask costs me nothing, so why wouldn't I do my part to keep myself and everyone around me as safe as possible? MagicalPrincess posted... And even in hospitals, you can't legally actually be forced. They still have to help you regardless. But also if you go out of your way to endanger medical staff for no reason when they're trying to help you, you rank among the slimiest pieces of shit imaginable, so I strongly advise against taking advantage of that. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | When did they take away the edit feature? |
| adjl 08/18/22 5:42:06 AM #5 | I can still edit just fine, but only for an hour after making the post, which is how it's always worked. I'm not sure why they insist on that time limit or if there are any exceptions (stickies being an obvious case where an exception would be needed), but GameFAQs gonna GameFAQs. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The biggest problem I had with math in school was the fact that.... |
| adjl 08/17/22 2:29:27 PM #24 | faramir77 posted... I teach high school math. I make a point to show a real world career application for everything I teach. Some units are tricky to make that connection (like the unit we have on simplifying radical expressions). This is true. More so than most of the "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" pieces of information in science courses, the simple act of learning and doing math develops intellectual and problem-solving ability (much like reading/analyzing anything increased reading and comprehension skills) in ways that are applicable outside of actually doing math. The actual procedures used may not be applicable outside of school, but the process of learning, applying, and practicing them does exercise the brain in some very beneficial ways, the same way that lifting weights can benefit pretty much any physical activity. That said, given that so many people struggle with higher math concepts (whether because of formal dyscalculia or just because they've hit the limits of what comes easily to them) I think there's a lot of room to question teaching those higher concepts in non-optional classes and making them a prerequisite for graduating. Those that don't struggle with them need the opportunity to learn them to remain engaged, and a lot of the really advanced stuff is in optional high school classes anyway, but if the aim is just "do math to exercise your brain" then I think there's still a lot of room for improvement to make sure as many people as possible get that exercise. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Yes or No on this deal? |
| adjl 08/17/22 11:01:13 AM #9 | params7 posted... "guardian of love and justice" Is... this the first time you're hearing about Sailor Moon? Because this reads like somebody who knows nothing about Sailor Moon and is basing their opinion off of the summary, rather than somebody who knows Sailor Moon and doesn't think it's worth watching. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The biggest problem I had with math in school was the fact that.... |
| adjl 08/17/22 10:58:43 AM #19 | adjl posted... Why shouldn't people who did well in school be able to criticize school curricula? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The biggest problem I had with math in school was the fact that.... |
| adjl 08/17/22 10:50:21 AM #16 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote] Why shouldn't people who did well in school be able to criticize school curricula? Judgmenl posted... Everything after that I could never wrap my head around. Algebra was the last math course I did well in. Anything calculus based just never resonated with me. My personal impression (though I don't know how it pans out empirically) is that people generally have a certain point after which math stops coming easily to them and they have to start really working to be good at it. For me, that came in second-year calculus: Up until then, I was excellent at math and never had any difficulty, but in that course I actually started to have trouble wrapping my head around concepts and had to actually study/practice to keep up, at which point I stopped taking any more math because I had no expectations that anything further would be useful enough to work for it (not that anything from the previous 4-5 years was particularly useful either). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | lOoK aT mE! iM a AtHiEsT! |
| adjl 08/17/22 10:35:03 AM #55 | wpot posted... True, but that wasnt my point. Religion does provide a space and time to think about what good/moral behavior would be (with others) which is something that doesnt really happen elsewhere. Religions are also right much more than theyre wrong about moral behavior: the problem is that the things they are wrong about (and the sects that are authoritarian/often wrong) get all of the attention. Which is why secular churches have kind of become a thing (or were a few years ago, I'm not sure where they stand now). The basic concept of "get together with a bunch of people to consider and discuss how to be better people" is inherently pretty appealing and beneficial, but a lot of people don't like getting that through the lens of personifying morality as a deity or dealing with the aggressive guilt tripping, manipulation, and other harmful behaviours found in many organized religions. To that end, you get churches popping up that satisfy that need while avoiding the less appealing stuff. Of course, the deity aspect aside, there isn't actually a shortage of congregations that don't do anything particularly objectionable or harmful. A lot of the parent organizations are pretty bad (the Vatican being perhaps the most notorious), but even within them, there are plenty of individual congregations that are perfectly pleasant and healthy to be a part of. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The biggest problem I had with math in school was the fact that.... |
| adjl 08/17/22 10:14:55 AM #10 | Judgmenl posted... Always had this issue and I am horrible at math. I rarely if ever use any math beyond basic arithmetic and I have a field where people act like you do. I mean, programming is heavily rooted in algebra, as a fundamental concept (take input variables, manipulate them, produce output variables), but pretty much all the algebra that's needed for it is covered by about grade 6/7, which is a whole lot less than anything that might qualify as "advanced." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Site keeps getting worse |
| adjl 08/17/22 10:06:48 AM #19 | They really were. hera posted... who is looking at game boxart here lmao Pretty much the only one I'd care to look up is the alt box art (from flipping the cover around) for the Wii version of the first Xenoblade, and that's not even here. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The biggest problem I had with math in school was the fact that.... |
| adjl 08/17/22 10:01:30 AM #7 | That's because math past basic algebra (that is, the concept of being able to plug numbers into a formula and some basic equation manipulation, with nothing past that) really doesn't get used in the real world. Pretty much all of it is taught "just in case" you end up in a field that uses it and for which that foundation will be helpful. Math is in a bit of a tricky position compared to other sciences in that it's something that you really need to practice to be good enough at it to use it professionally, so you can't just put off teaching higher-level material until the student actually needs it and expect them to be able to cram then, but there's still a lot of relatively advanced math taught non-optionally that could easily be shifted to later classes that are optional in favour of using that time for more universally useful information like broad scientific literacy and skills for running a household. This is also why the "why are you teaching our kids about sex instead of trigonometry?" argument against sex ed is particularly stupid. Sex ed is pretty much universally applicable. Almost every student will end up having sex at some point in their lives and benefiting from learning how to do so safely, and while some will figure it out without needing to rely on school, that's no less true of sex than of any other subject. Significantly fewer students will ever need to recite cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse, so forcing everyone to learn that (and be graded on and potentially failed because of it) makes significantly less sense, and Pythagoras (along with SOH-CAH-TOA) is probably the highest-level trig/geometry concept that can actually be useful for most people (and even then, you can often just take the measurement directly instead of having to calculate anything). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Florida court says girl too young to get an abortion |
| adjl 08/17/22 8:45:52 AM #7 | FatalAccident posted... Havent read the article but is it possible theyre trying to prevent the physical and emotional trauma of having the abortion? That's presumably what they're telling themselves. These people tend to latch on to whatever nebulous reasons they can find to believe that abortion is worse for everyone involved than actually having the kid, while completely disregarding any sort of problems associated with the processes of pregnancy, childbirth, and unplanned parenthood. Their self-righteous circle jerk is more comfortable that way. FatalAccident posted... Having said that, there's probably more trauma going through the pregnancy and having to give up the baby though. Without question. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do people with two at once pitbulls seem like they can't control them? |
| adjl 08/17/22 8:38:37 AM #20 | jiffdiff posted... 2/3 of human fatalities from dog attacks are the result of pitbulls and they kill countless numbers of other people's pets. Maybe it's the breed, maybe it's that the breed has a weird propensity to attract huge numbers of shit owners, maybe it's some combination of the two. I don't give a fuck. There are plenty of awesome breeds out there that don't tend to murder people even if they're trained poorly. Adopt some of those and ban pitbulls. You're roughly 3-4 times more likely to be murdered by a randomly selected human than killed by a randomly selected pit bull. Just saiyan. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Which free MMORPG are you still playing? |
| adjl 08/16/22 3:37:03 PM #8 | Idleon, if that counts. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do people with two at once pitbulls seem like they can't control them? |
| adjl 08/16/22 3:33:45 PM #12 | Very few people are strong enough to hold back two pit bulls at once, given that each can pull somewhere in the range of 150 pounds, so the reason they seem like they can't control them is because they can't. That's why training is so important, since proper training minimizes the risk of being in a situation where you have to physically restrain them. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Experts say climate change could unleash mega flooding in California |
| adjl 08/16/22 3:03:13 PM #23 | Depends how long the fight is. That'd be an awful lot of almonds to eat in a single sitting. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Experts say climate change could unleash mega flooding in California |
| adjl 08/16/22 12:53:39 PM #20 | Revelation34 posted... An individual almond is small. A burger is smaller than 600 almonds. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Anime, Manga, VN, JRPG, Related Things Discussion Topic XCIX |
| adjl 08/16/22 12:51:01 PM #267 | So the ending of chapter 5/beginning of 6 in Xenoblade 3 is quite possibly one of the best story moments in the entire series. I genuinely lost sleep because I went to bed after the chapter end save and didn't find out what happened in chapter 6 until the next day and that was such a massive cliffhanger. I think there's a lot of room to criticize the story pacing because so many of these cutscene sequences are so long, to the point where I'm not sure this should even be a video game story instead of an anime or whatever series of its own, but holy shit that was an amazing "episode." That's all. YoukaiSlayer posted... skells isn't a word at all. It's just truncated from "exoskeleton," which I felt fit pretty well in context (that is, military engineers saying "we just developed this exoskeleton and we need a one-syllable colloquial name but we're engineers so we're just going to pull a syllable from the word 'exoskeleton' instead of being really creative" and a bunch of soldiers saying "hey that sounds cool" and that being the end of it). "Dolls" would also have worked, but that's got enough of a juvenile/feminine connotation in the west that it would have felt kind of weird and out of place in the context of a serious sci-fi military, so I can understand changing it even though it was contextually appropriate. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | helly please stop trying to add me to your secret Discord server |
| adjl 08/16/22 12:18:51 PM #2 | Speaking as one of those young, single, interested women, I am deeply offended that you would think so little of me and demand and immediate, sincere apology. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Are there any detective shows where the case is the whole season? |
| adjl 08/16/22 11:47:36 AM #35 | Monster arguably fits the bill, but that's a single case that lasts the full series and I don't think calling it a "detective show" is quite accurate. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Trump alleging the FBI seized his passport |
| adjl 08/16/22 11:17:01 AM #6 | papercup posted... They wont let him flee the country after committing treason :( Such hardship. Very oppress. Sad. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
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