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captpackrat posted...

Small prizes ($2-10) on occasion, but not enough to break even.

That.
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OhhhJa posted...

Mob is a racist term now?

It's generally a derogatory term, which means using it preferentially to refer to one race more so than another would be considered racist.
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OhhhJa posted...

Mead posted...

where did you read that she wasn't even actually calling the police?

plus she said she's an ex cop when she isn't.

I think she said something about being a cop in the video of her outside, this article mentions that she lied about being a cop. Department claims they never received a call from her

https://www.theroot.com/cornerstore-caroline-finally-apologizes-for-falsely-acc-1829729708

Of course the media has to make it a race issue instead of just a random crazy lady issue

To be fair, based on what her neighbours and whatnot are saying, it sounds like she is absolutely a racist, and there's no need to try and shoehorn that motivation in here.
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

cloud saves get deleted if you stop subscribing

As I understand, they'll only be deleted if they start running out of room, rather than immediately when your subscription lapses. No idea how likely it is that they'll run out, but that does mean there's likely to be a bit of a grace period.
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Zeus posted...

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DPsx7 posted...

Meh, it's easy enough to not have sex without going through this whole spectacle.

It's quite a bit harder, however, to keep somebody else from having sex, which is what this father wants.

Kinda wonder if the results are any better for having the spectacle.

I have a feeling that contract won't be very enforceable.
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TomNook posted...

Understandable, $20 a year is almost an hour's wage

It's cheap, but there's no sense paying for it if you aren't going to use it.
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DPsx7 posted...

Meh, it's easy enough to not have sex without going through this whole spectacle.

It's quite a bit harder, however, to keep somebody else from having sex, which is what this father wants.
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If we're talking a small amount of snow, they're probably about even, with mowing the lawn being a bit better just because it's nicer to be outside in warmer weather. There's far, far more range for shoveling snow to get worse, though, plus shoveling is something that has to be done as soon as possible (whereas a lawn can be put off for a day or two if the weather's uncooperative). And, to top it off, shoveling is almost always going to be harder work. I really can't imagine this comparison going any other way than to say that shoveling is worse.
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You will have to pay for online to play online, yes. That went live a few weeks ago.
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Metalsonic66 posted...

Most of those things are better in World.

Yeah, my understanding is that World added a whole lot of major QoL improvements. Some people are uppity about that, because some people are purists, but I'm generally in favour of that, provided it doesn't make the game easier. MH has always struggled a bit with the line between genuine difficulty and tedium/unnecessary obscurity, even though it's been good at providing genuine challenges.

Metalsonic66 posted...

If you don't want to check a guide in certain things you can also just ask random players (though that is of course an "external resource".

Eh, I'd count asking another player that read a guide to be the same as consulting a guide myself. Less efficient even, since the in-game keyboard is a bit of a slow way to communicate.

Metalsonic66 posted...

You can play the game and play it really well without knowing any of that stuff precisely. Honestly that is part of the fun of the game, trying different qeapons and combos and seeing how they compare against certain monsters.

While true, I don't feel you really can compare them without more detailed information. Comparing a weapon with white sharpness and 300 raw to one with purple sharpness and 250 raw is impossible without knowing what the sharpness multipliers are, unless you craft both and run a series of time attacks with each to see which performs better (which is rather time-consuming and not altogether reliable). Same with comparing crit weapons to non-crit without knowing the crit multiplier and exactly how much crit you're getting from skills. You can find something that will do the job without doing any serious theorycrafting, but that's likely to be very suboptimal unless you do some research to find out which attacks are and aren't worth using.
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Golden Road posted...

adjl posted...

You should probably never head north if you think 15-20 is cold. A real winter would probably kill you.

There's a happy medium somewhere between "60 is cold" and "15 isn't cold." Like you sound like the stereotypical grandpa who talks about walking miles to school in the snow uphill both ways =P

No, I'm just using real degrees. 60F is roughly 15 real degrees. -10 would indeed be chilly enough for shorts to be unreasonable.
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Dunno. Surprise!
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Metalsonic66 posted...

I haven't played Generations, but MH4U explained pretty much everything you'd need to know.

The in-game controls list is pretty limited and generally doesn't cover important combos, you can't see past the next available upgrade for a given weapon (and therefore can't decide which weapons to pursue), there's often little concrete/quantitative information given on what exactly skills do (something like Attack Up, you can figure out by looking at stats before and after activating it, but that's decidedly suboptimal), it's not at all clear what parts need breaking/where you should be searching for some rarer materials (especially things like Commendations that only come from certain quests)... There's enough in the game to get started, but you're going to need external resources if you want to take it at all seriously.

Metalsonic66 posted...

As for the damage thing, it's honestly not important unless you feel the need to know exactly how many hits it will take to slay a monster.

The exact damage, not so much, but there's no reason they couldn't include the motion values for attacks, or quantitative information for multipliers like sharpness, CB's red shield, or GS/Bow charge levels. It's generally fairly intuitive which attacks hit harder, but more nuanced comparisons are basically impossible with the information provided in-game.
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Lokarin posted...

adjl posted...

Monster Hunter's been out for over a month.

I meant Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate - I haven't seen it in stores

August 28th. I've been playing it pretty extensively since then. I couldn't tell you if it's been in stores since then, since I bought a digital copy, but I did see some boxes on the shelves when I was in an EBGames a couple weeks before that (which was weird).
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Is that $1040 in face value, or $1040 in potential sale value?
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Monster Hunter's been out for over a month.
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It's basically just online play with a couple minor bonuses thrown in there. If you don't feel the need to play online, don't buy it.
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You should probably never head north if you think 15-20 is cold. A real winter would probably kill you.
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Zeus posted...

I'd like to think I'd raised him better than to be confused.

Apparently Zeus thinks transgenderism is purely the product of bad parenting.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

In almost all cases no is very clearly an option

And that, my friends, is exactly what the Hollywood arm of #MeToo in particular is aiming to address. Here? There was no power imbalance, so that particular caveat doesn't really apply (aside from the fact that a sleeping person can't say no and a drunk one may have difficulty doing so, but that's more about physical limitations than emotional comfort). In many real-world cases, though, there is a degree of power imbalance, and being cognizant of that when attempting to woo a subordinate is vital if you don't want to end up on the receiving end of an assault charge.

Xialoh posted...

Pretend we're not talking about this rape article. Pretend you're a...guidance counselor. Or a genius detective. All you have is a scenario: a guy and a girl go out to several bars and get drinks. The girl doesn't want to have sex - because she's intoxicated now. Incidentally, the guy is also intoxicated. The girl invites this random heterosexual drunken male to sleep off his problems with her in her bedroom overnight.

Would you have any concerns to voice over this scenario? Might you expect any undesirable outcomes, or has everything presented to you seemed reasonable, without need for adjustments?

There would indeed be concerns, but that doesn't excuse anything. Again, cultural norms don't matter, and consent can't be assumed. There's absolutely no reason a heterosexual guy can't sleep in his female friend's room without raping her, no matter how drunk he is. Trying to excuse his behaviour as being somehow expected is ignoring that he is the only one who did anything bad. The only reason she did anything unsafe is because he was not a good person. Ergo, he is to blame.
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Xialoh posted...

So let me get this straight. She goes to an "I-was-ALSO-raped-officer!" convention, meets a random guy, decides to drink alcohol with him, and then invites him back to her room to sleep over for the night. While they're both drunk.

I'm not even going to bother evaluating that any further.

You should. You can't assume consent, no matter what cultural norms might suggest.

RoboXgp89 posted...

also it sounds like she didn't say anything like 'no,'

That doesn't matter. Consent isn't simply not saying no. It's saying yes, specifically in a setting where saying no is very clearly an option.
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green dragon posted...

_AdjI_ posted...

I could get Excel to highlight only values that appear three or more times, but I think highlighting only every third one would indeed require some VBA.

Sorry I wasn't clear in my earlier posts, but yes, high lighting on the third (and after) time.

How would I go about doing so?

That'd be a VBA thing, then. I'm afraid it's beyond me.
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I don't usually count, but I'd say around 3-4 refills of the 650mL bottle I carry around with me pretty much everywhere. More if it's hot and/or I'm particularly active.
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I'd kind of like in on this, but realistically, my backlog's too big anyway, so I'll leave it for other people that might play it a little sooner. Happy birthday!
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TsC_PoLiTiKz posted...

You aren't going to get a partner of any kind, female OR male for that matter, if you announce that you live with your parents. Accept that and quit complaining or remove that line. Your decision.

Now, it is worth noting that this doesn't mean you can't get a partner while living with your parents. It's just something you're going to have to offset with other good qualities (in your case, even framing it as being a matter of you supporting them could be enough), which you aren't likely to be able to do in a Tinder profile. When they have nothing to go on but "he's kinda cute and he lives with his parents," as is going to be the case before actually meeting them, that's going to be pretty much an automatic pass.
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Blighboy posted...

adjl posted...

I legitimately don't know if he's being sarcastic or not.

adjl I didn't even know you understood sarcasm

I am the incarnation of the pagan god of sarcasm.

Judgmenl posted...

Why would I make a bio that would attract people I'm not interested in?

Because it will also attract people that you are interested in. You aren't going to hit a magical sweet spot where your profile attracts the attention of exactly one person with whom you immediately fall in love and spend the rest of your life. That's not how dating works, especially not online. You have to attract the attention of multiple people. Some of them, you won't care about. Some of them, you will care about, but they won't care about you. Some of them, you'll end up actually dating. The only way to tell the difference is to actually meet them (or at least interact online), and you're not going to do that if you're deliberately turning everyone off.

No girl is ever going to look at your profile and say "I'm sure he's really a great guy under all that unappealing stuff he put in his profile, maybe I'll give him a shot." They're going to swipe left and try matching with somebody just as good-looking who sounds like he might actually be fun. If you want any matches at all, you need to sound like you might actually be fun.

Also, I'm pretty sure you also have to select women you'd like to match with in order for them to match with you (I could be wrong. My flip phone does not Tinder). Are you doing that?
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DPsx7 posted...

I'm siding with Jen on this one. If they were the same we wouldn't have separate words.

Eh, I wouldn't say that. English is an utter cesspool of redundancy. There are a great many words that have no purpose except to be an alternative to other words, especially when you start looking at ones that are used as euphemisms for no-no words. The evolution of "gender" into its own term is very much a matter of erasing that redundancy, not anything that should suggest it's never been redundant.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

Ummm... no. It takes every fibre of my being not to punch couples who say "we're pregnant" in the face. Unless it's literally both of you carrying babies, like a lesbian couple who have both got one, shut the fuck up.

Eh, I'm fine with that. It's a little awkward, and I personally wouldn't say it, but it's basically the same as "we're expecting," making the point that they are both having a child and not foisting parenthood off on the mother. There are cringier things out there than that.
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Andromicus posted...

Yeah I came back to WoW after having not playing for years and suddenly all the different bars and info on screen was overwhelming, I still played but I felt like too much was going on for me to do anything but focus on health bars since I was healing

To be fair, you would have been introduced to that complexity very gradually when you first started out, since the game doesn't dump everything on you at once. There's a lot to learn, but abilities are added relatively slowly, as are short-duration buffs/debuffs you need to worry about keeping up, and anything else you have to worry about. Coming back to it after not playing for years, you'll have forgotten most of that, but you'll need to relearn all of it at once because it's all going to be relevant. (Disclaimer: I haven't actually played WoW in nearly a decade, so maybe the learning curve isn't as smooth as I remember).

A lot of it boils down to whether or not the game's designed well, really. Being really complex isn't a bad thing if the information's readily available, and navigating that complexity is fairly intuitive. There are plenty of examples of that being done wrong, though. I've been playing a lot of Monster Hunter GU lately, and you basically need a laptop with 3-4 tabs open if you want to figure anything out in that game. There's a lot to it, mechanically, and almost none of that information is provided in-game. The gameplay's very well-tuned to reward practice and patience, and it's certainly fun, but MH really is absolutely terrible for not sharing vital information, like the amount of damage attacks do.
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MannerSaurus posted...

Language doesn't evolve because a few "scare everybody" reporters and panicking Liberal moms want it to.

Correct. It evolves because the usage of the word changes as people want/need it to. Words only ever have the meaning that people give to them. If enough people start using a word a new way, that becomes a new definition for the word.

Is that always a good thing? Of course not. Like any natural evolutionary process, there's no end goal. That doesn't change that it's going to happen, though, and you need to deal with that. If the direction it's evolving is bad, or less efficient, you can resist that, but if you try to resist it by pretending it's not happening, you're just going to end up communicating poorly because you're ignoring how words are used.
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MannerSaurus posted...

Webster recently updated "assault rifle" to include semi-automatic weapons, when, they are not. Assault rifles have an exact definition, no matter what the Liberal hysteria after Sandy Hook caused Webster to change the definition of, "assault rifle" is not a semi-automatic weapon and has an exact definition.

And that definition includes semi-automatic weapons now. Languages evolve, deal with it.

Well, except for adding "virtually" as a definition for "literally." That particular bit of linguistic evolution can go fellate a goat while sodomizing itself with a cactus. English does not need another word that is its own antonym.
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kangolcone posted...

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

This is just about the difference between (physical) sex and (mental) gender.

Nope. They are synonyms. It is the "gender wage" gap. In engineering you ask what gender a plumbing or electrical connection is, Male or Female. A few quack Liberal psychologists say you can identify as an attack helicopter, but in science, gender and sex are the same fucking thing, and we are a binary species. End of discussion.

Good thing we are discussing gender as a social construct and not the end of electrical connections then, isnt it?

Except that the human race and most (if not all) mammals are sexually handled the same way as electrical connections, whether you like it or not. I can racially identify as black, socially, and guess what? Tough shit. I'm not black.

Who defines what black is though? Since you are so educated on matters of science, I would think you would understand that there are no biological markers distinguishing between black humans and white humans.

It's actually not a bad example. He's not going to be physically black, no, but he could certainly be sufficiently involved in the culture of a black community as to count himself among them. That's a very real and practical reason to think of himself as being black, though in doing so he has to bear in mind that he is going to miss out on some of that experience simply because he won't be treated as a visible minority by others (much like a trans woman isn't going to experience any of the troubles associated with having periods). The concept of communities having honorary members like that is certainly nothing new, even if those communities are largely drawn along visible physical lines.
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MannerSaurus posted...

There's only two sex organs. There is receive and give. Sperm and egg. On or off. Dark or light. In and out. We. Are. A. Binary. Species.

But that's not binary, because there are intermediates. They're typically called "ambiguous genitalia," resulting from any number of aberrations in the sexual differentiation process. That's also ignoring that there are more factors involved than just genitals. Hormones, gonads, external genitalia, internal reproductive organs, bone structure, secondary sexual characteristics, neurological makeup... Typically, they all line up with one sex or the other, but as I said, it's not at all unheard of for one or more of them to deviate. And that's even without considering the psychological aspects.

If it is possible to exist somewhere between the two extremes, then, by definition, it's not a binary system.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

_AdjI_ posted...

Not really. There's a fairly broad range of conditions that can result in some degree of hermaphroditism

My male body isn't a physical affliction, hermaphroditism is.

Keep reading, the last sentence of the post addresses that.

MannerSaurus posted...

Facts do not care about your feelings.

They do if you're making factual statements about your feelings. It is factually accurate to state that I feel happy right now. It is also factually accurate to state that I feel masculine right now. Why would it be any less factually accurate for somebody else to make the same statement?
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Blighboy posted...

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Joshs Name posted...

What's your bio

I actually have an intentionally bad bio that is designed to turn off people, including a part where I say I hate social media and that I live with my parents.

What

I legitimately don't know if he's being sarcastic or not.
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Chewster posted...

Yes and no.

In terms of it being too early, it's absolutely not. I knew a lot of people who got jobs lined up in the fall/winter when they didn't graduate until the next summer. Even if you weren't a senior they can still be a good idea to attend.

But on the other hand, they are a lot of work for you to truly get anything out of. It's not just attending but also spending time prepping and learning about the companies so you don't just walk up to every one going "So what does your company do?". If you didn't feel like you had the time for it, then don't feel too bad, but if you had nothing better to do it couldn't have hurt to attend.

Lastly, they aren't really all they're cracked up to be in my experience. Everyone would just tell you to apply online, which is precisely what I went to the career fair to avoid having to do. I don't know what it's like at your school but the on-campus interviews and info sessions companies would have after the career fair (and to a lesser extent throughout the year) were way more useful

I would consider this to be a comprehensive answer.
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streamofthesky posted...

Gentle reminder:

The church higher-ups criticizing Francis for knowing about the abuse and doing nothing...also knew about the abuse and did nothing.
They don't like his more moderate social positions and are trying to use this issue (which has been an issue for many decades and many prior popes) to pressure him into resigning, so a new pope w/ more hard-line positions (maybe even...one of them....) can take power.

Hopefully Catholics don't fall for it, but....they probably will.

The criticisms aren't without merit, but this is important to remember. The scandal broke like 2-3 popes ago; Francis is complicit in the continued coverup and defense of those involved, but he's far from the only higher-up responsible, and in fact bears a fairly small portion of that responsibility.

Zeus posted...

And, of course, Francis very frequently takes positions antithetical to the church such as promoting homosexuality.

Papal infallibility means that homophobic people are actually the ones taking positions antithetical to the church. Get with the times, bro. Gay people are fine now.
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Ogurisama posted...

adjl posted...

Ogurisama posted...

The problem is in 100 generations will our ways of communicating the dangers of the sight still be valid to the new generations.

I don't think that's all that much of a problem. Our language will change, yes, but that won't happen overnight. If the standards for signage change, the signs can be updated by whoever's administering the site. The radiation symbol is also universal enough in pop culture that I don't foresee any major changes to it.

The worry is, that it will be forgotten as symbol of danger in the future. Symbols change meaning. The video posted explains that

While true, such a facility wouldn't just be ignored for thousands of years. There'd be people responsible for maintaining it, including updating signage as needed to communicate with contemporaries. So long as adequate records are kept, future people will always be able to know what past people did.
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Ogurisama posted...

The problem is in 100 generations will our ways of communicating the dangers of the sight still be valid to the new generations.

I don't think that's all that much of a problem. Our language will change, yes, but that won't happen overnight. If the standards for signage change, the signs can be updated by whoever's administering the site. The radiation symbol is also universal enough in pop culture that I don't foresee any major changes to it.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

pipebomb_phil posted...

taking Vitamin D straight from the sunlight

Sunlight stimulates the body to make vitamin D, you don't absorb it from the sun.

Even then, though, the frequency with which we shower in the modern world means we tend to wash off the vitamin D that gets generated before it can be absorbed. Supplementing is a good idea even if you do get some sun.
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

What else can he say? "We allow child molesters to run amok in Catholocism"?

More accurately, "we actively helped child molesters to run amok because we thought it'd keep us from looking bad." That is the truth, after all. Making amends for what they did wrong requires them to admit the truth of their wrongdoing.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

Let the priests have consensual sexual relationships.

They are forced to repress their sexual desires. That's terribly unhealthy.

Pedophilia actually has a lower incidence among priests than among the general population. It's just that priests are, collectively, in positions of great trust, so having them abuse that trust made for some very high-profile cases.

Solid Sonic posted...

I actually don't really have a problem with the Pope himself. It's not like the president can be blamed for the Ft. Hood shooting. However once it's out there, it should be all hands on deck to make sure that the problem is resolved, not just thrown behind closed doors to be dealt with in a non-transparent way. To do that is, again, something that man would do, not the servants of God. It would "make the church look bad" to confront it head on when the reality is "it casts shame on your entire belief system and turns people away".

Pretty much. As horrible as the actual act of molestation is, it can at least be blamed on a mental illness. Covering it up, though? That is a sound-minded decision made for no other reason than self-interest, and that is unquestionably evil.
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Solid Sonic posted...

they need to own up to it and say they will try to improve as imperfect people trying to carry out the will of a perfect Lord.

Catholics aren't so big on the whole "acknowledging that the grand poobahs aren't perfect" thing.
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LinkPizza posted...

adjl posted...

#4, the tissue's healthy and I'd have consent, but that scenario would be cause for questioning their mental health, meaning that consent would not be competently given.

Well, there was that guy who had to get his foot amputated. And then him and some friends ate the foot together... It was a topic on this very board. Doctor_Foxx was the one who made it, IIRC...

I'd lump that in under #3. Needing to amputate healthy tissue is pretty uncommon. In the case that it was completely healthy tissue being amputated, and after the amputation the person wanted to share it, that's about the only case where I feel it'd be okay.
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IronicFool posted...

You need help too, sicko.

I'm simply stating facts. Not my fault we're made of meat.

IronicFool posted...

You guys are the ones talking about pica, I'm just saying that the mechanical sensation of fullness is desirable when combating hunger without access to food.

Desirable, sure, but you're trying to say that indiscriminately eating inedible material to feel mechanically full is reasonable behaviour.

Nade Duck posted...

i'm not saying i'm down with cannibalism but i'd probably give it a go once just to try it.

Given a chance, I'd try it, but the problem is that trying human meat requires one of the following to happen:

1. I kill a person and eat them
2. Somebody else kills (or dismembers) a person and I eat (part of) them
3. A person dies (or loses a limb) due to natural causes and I eat (part of) them
4. A person voluntarily dismembers themselves and I eat part of them

#1's obviously bad, and I would not have their consent to eat them. In case #2, I'm unlikely to be able to acquire consent to eat them immediately before their death (and I don't think prior consent is really sufficient here). In case #3, I could potentially acquire consent, but the cause of death/dismemberment makes it unlikely that eating them will be healthy. In case #4, the tissue's healthy and I'd have consent, but that scenario would be cause for questioning their mental health, meaning that consent would not be competently given.

It's not just something that I see being possible to do safely and consensually.
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EightySeven posted...

_AdjI_ posted...

You seem like a pleasant person.

It's odd that you would say that because I got the opposite impression. Quite odd indeed.

APRIL FOOLS.
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captpackrat posted...

The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed 50 to 100 million people, or 3 to 5% of the world's population at the time! Most of the victims were otherwise perfectly healthy adults.

To be fair, that particular strain of flu was an anomaly in that it most strongly affected healthy people due to prompting a particularly aggressive immune response. H1N1 was the same way, which is why it was considered to be such a big deal. In most cases, it's not healthy adults that are in serious danger from the flu, it's children, the elderly, or anyone else that's particularly vulnerable (immunocompromised people, people with respiratory problems, etc.).
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The_tall_midget posted...

And just in case this is too confusing for you, the offer was made to adjl and it remains to adjl only.

And because you aren't important enough to show up in my inbox, I nominated a number of proxies, from which you are free to choose. For the purposes of that exchange, Helly and Rev *are* me, and you may treat them accordingly. Carry on.

The_tall_midget posted...

Once again: peons do NOT get to make demands.

People who are losing and trying to run away don't get to make demands. At best, you can offer something to make your surrender more appealing and cut your losses, but certainly not make demands. That's reserved for winners.

The_tall_midget posted...

Kapiche?

Capiche*

The term's rooted in Italian, which doesn't use K's outside of loanwords.
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Full Throttle posted...

or you can coddle up to plenty of other white nationalists that you will find incarcerated"

This is something that I think really needs to be addressed in dealing with extremists like this. Locking them up is important to keep society safe, but locking them up with a bunch of other like-minded individuals stands a good chance of reinforcing their ideals, rather than correcting them. There really needs to be some degree of organization in dealing with extremists to keep them isolated from each other.
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I've heard "KD" used to refer to any boxed instant mac & cheese, but legitimate mac & cheese is always mac & cheese.
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KJ StErOiDs posted...

Unless I informed them ahead of time, I show up out of respect for them and, like RoboX said, so I don't possibly burn bridges.

Pretty much. I committed to working there. Even if I don't think I'm going to need the connection moving forward, I'm not going to abandon a commitment for one day off, especially if I've got 3 more days off before starting my next job.
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IronicFool posted...

rogerskg1979 posted...

Human flesh is food. It's meat.

Get help, you're sick.

He's not wrong. Human meat lacks essential amino acids (if we could produce them ourselves, they'd be in our meat), so it's not a viable staple protein for a long-term basis, but it's still very much food. Just not food that you can legally or morally obtain.

IronicFool posted...

Also how else do you explain how people with anorexia eat ice to satiate hunger pains?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18803173

It provides a mechanical sensation of fullness (esophageal and stomach stretching) while being completely edible. Eating ice does not qualify as pica, despite the lack of nutrition.

TallTamryu posted...

I feel like I'm reading DPs's posts. I keep looking at the username but it's not that. Weird.

I could be wrong, but I think this might be SleepingKing. That or one of the alts made to troll him. That or somebody entirely unrelated to that.
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