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Clench281 posted...

And when you say 1 day, those deaths were due to ~4 hours of activity, making it even more concentrated violence

I had to laugh when Zeb brought out that comparison graphic that cited something like 20 shooting deaths associated with BLM protests over 7 months versus 1 shooting death in four hours at the Capitol, attempting to portray the BLM protests as being more violent and terrible than the Capitol attack. Apparently concentration/density is a hard concept for some people to grasp.

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Far-Queue posted...

I thought your last name was 0125

Am I even alive? What is truth?!

It's actually a somewhat obscure computer science pun. "Stack" is a relatively uncommon term used to refer to 125 bytes (or 1000 bits), a figure that's often expressed with the leading zero due to how common four-digit displays were at the time it was in use. My understanding is that Jen picked that up during one of her computer science electives many years ago and felt like incorporating it into her username.

Disclaimer: Literally none of what I just said is true.

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ReturnOfFa posted...

Also, I can't find sources for any of the quotes from that article you posted. I can't find videos, or those sentences literally anywhere else.

"This is a slight break in tradition but it's necessary because Biden is just so incredibly popular and loved by the people," said Nancy Pelosi.

Like, dude. I also dislike Pelosi. A lot. But this quote is beyond sus.

You have fallen into the Sar Chasm. You hear a persistent whooshing noise somewhere over your head. Exits are N and S.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Also, there was already enough reason to not support taco bell, but this ugly sexism and sex shaming is disgusting.

To be fair, Taco Bell is very much not unique in this. The culture of "you did porn we don't want to be associated with you" is extremely pervasive, such that many companies will do the same thing. I feel that society is starting to get a clue in that regard, but corporations are lagging behind because they don't want to risk the potential bad PR of pissing off a customer that still cares.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Would a man have been fired?

Were the situation exactly the same aside from the employee's sex? Probably. In practice, though, hypothetically changing the sex of the employee also requires a cascade of other changes in order to keep the hypothetical situation plausible, all of which would likely amount to a different outcome. Some examples:

-If the employee were male and the customer that complained were a gay male, odds are he wouldn't have complained because the LGBT generally has a lot less of the Christian fundamentalist sex-negativity that drove the customer to complain in the first place

-If the employee were male and the customer were female, her watching porn (much less admitting to it so publicly) would be less likely because Christian fundamentalist sex-negativity is generally much less permissive of women acting on or speaking about their sexuality than it is of men doing the same thing, so the customer likely either wouldn't have been aware of the porn or wouldn't have been comfortable acknowledging that she were

-If the employee were male, regardless of the sex/orientation of the customer, because Christian fundamentalist sex-negativity is generally a lot more permissive of men acting on their sexuality than women, a fundie customer would be less likely to take issue with the fact that he did porn, making it less likely that the customer would have complained

Et cetera. It's not implausible that the dude might end up fired anyway, but it's not so simple a situation that you can just swap the sex of the employee and not expect anything else to change. Sexism is generally a lot more complex and nuanced than "men=good women=bad."

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Zeus posted...

Taco Bell cares? Many -- if not most -- companies have clauses in their employment agreements about this kind of stuff.

Generally speaking, people asking "who cares?" in this sort of context are not literally asking which specific entities have an opinion on this, but rather asking why anyone feels this is worth caring about to the point of compromising somebody's livelihood. The question is not "does Taco Bell have a clause in their employment agreement about this," it's "*should* Taco Bell have such a clause?".

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Muscles posted...

That's not ironic, I just think it's silly to like or dislike something specifically because of its popularity or lack thereof

If you like something you should just admit it even if it's not popular and shouldn't pretend to like something even if it's the popular thing to do

And, more often than not, the people who dislike popular beer don't dislike it because it's popular, they dislike it because it sucks. Especially in the US, given what a laughing stock American macrobrewing is to the rest of the beer-drinking world (American microbrewing, however, has been doing quite well for itself and produced plenty of quality products).

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Blightzkrieg posted...

Also as I've aged I've kind of begun to think the whole open world idea is dated/over rated anyway.

I don't think it's overrated so much as it's overexploited. A good open-world game can still be excellent. The problem is that so many open-world games are just soulless cash-ins on the trend rather than games that are being made open-world because the studio had good ideas that legitimately needed an open world to execute. It's the modern equivalent to the multiplayer modes that got tacked on to everything in the mid-2000's: Don't stop to ask if it works, the executives just want it in there because that's what focus testing says is popular.

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GrabASnickers posted...

Fortunately we don't have anyone like that here

No, certainly not.

JigsawTDC posted...

I'm imagining adjl as a hipster irl and using this line anytime someone questions his hipstering lol

Nah, I've pretty much always just done my own thing without regard for trends, rather than actively opposing them. My sister, on the other hand, has been aggressively counter-culture for her entire life. She doesn't like identifying as a hipster because hipsters have become too mainstream (which is a fair assessment now, but she made that decision back when the concept was first emerging). And then there was me, who was like 5 years old and pointing out to her that avoiding things just because they're popular is still letting popular culture dictate what she does and doesn't like and that she's still not actually thinking independently. I've always been fun at parties.

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Revelation34 posted...

It doesn't matter if they are picked at random or not.

Said nobody who understands statistics or science ever.

Revelation34 posted...

Most polls would have some people with no opinion on the subject such as if it was about a genre of TV/movies.

Usually reflected with a "no opinion" option in a poll, though if you're polling something where most people have no opinion, you should generally try to be more selective in your sampling to cut down on those people (or just omit them from the results).

Revelation34 posted...

This is a political poll where literally every Trump supporter would have an opinion on the attack.

The vast majority of which are going to fall into one of several broad categories. These categories comprise the options on a poll. This is how polls work.

Polls never try to capture the input from literally everyone with an opinion on a subject. That's obviously and hilariously impossible. Instead, they try to capture enough information to be able to reasonably generalize those results to everyone with an opinion.

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Muscles posted...

I don't see how that's ironic, liking something just because it's not well known is just a bad as liking something just because it is well known

You're complaining about them disliking popular stuff while also acknowledging that being popular often doesn't mean something is any good. There are absolutely pretentious hipster types that hump the leg of their favourite craft brewery because that's the closest thing to a personal identity they have, but the fact of the matter is that the scale and processes involved in macrobrewing generally produce inferior products to what you can get from microbrewing. By and large, macrobrews are more popular not because they're better (or even good), but because they've got brand recognition driving sales. There are some decent ones out there, and there are certainly plenty of terrible microbrews, but anyone who wants to enjoy some good beer should generally be looking to their local craft scene, not trying to find a great macrobrew. That's not hipstering, that's just the reality of the matter.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

I guess everyone is gonna expect a console Zelda to be a big grand adventure, but the handheld ones were able to get away with mixing up the gameplay style a little

I feel like that distinction applies to all handheld games, which is why the DS ended up being such a great system with so many games that put the touch screen to good use. Handheld games are cheaper - both to develop and to buy - so developers are a lot more willing to take risks and try new things, and consumers have come to expect that and often embrace new ideas. That's one of the reasons I'm kind of disappointed that Nintendo has abandoned their dedicated handheld branch with the Switch, though the indie market in general has risen to fill the niche of lower-budget titles that experiment with unusual ideas, generally free from any pressures to make good use of a console's technical power.

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Muscles posted...

(unless they're those douchebag hipster types that only drink locally brewed beer no one ever heard of)

Muscles posted...

Popularity and quality are 2 different things

I can't be the only one that sees the irony here.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

I still think it's weird that the DS and 3DS got exclusive Zelda games but Wii-U did not

Makes enough sense. The DS and 3DS were each Nintendo's only system at their respective power levels, so any lower-spec handheld games for them would have been exclusive (particularly where PH and ST were designed around the DS' touch screen, for better or worse). Meanwhile, BotW was intended to be exclusive, but between delays pushing it fairly late into the WiiU's lifespan and the WiiU's commercial failure (which would have made it hard to turn a profit on such a higher-budget game), plus the desire to make sure the Switch launched with at least one real killer app, they made the decision to launch it with the Switch as well. If BotW had come together faster instead of being delayed, odds are it would have been a WiiU exclusive.

That does kind of beg the question, though, of whether or not BotW releasing as a WiiU exclusive would have done more to prop up the WiiU's sales and earned it another year of support. I know a non-trivial number of people were waiting for a new Zelda or Metroid before taking the plunge on it, and even the early speculation that BotW was going to be delayed to be a Switch launch title was enough to convince many of them to not bother with the system. Given that the game has sold ~50% more copies than WiiU consoles have sold (19 million vs 13 million), only 1.6 million of those were for the WiiU, and the Switch version actually had a >100% attach rate at one point shortly after launch (as in, more Switch copies had sold than Switch systems), it wouldn't surprise me at all if coming out earlier as an exclusive had spurred another couple million WiiU sales. But then presumably the game would not have been as well-received if they'd compromised its quality to rush it out sooner, so perhaps it wouldn't have made that much if a difference. Hard to say.

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grimhilde00 posted...

Way too many toppings

Yep. I want a pizza, not some kind of weird salad on a plate made of bread. Balance is important.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

They estimate that Americans drank 6.3 billion gallons of beer in 2018.

So clearly, a popular beverage, worldwide.

While I don't think it's at all necessary to prove that beer is popular worldwide (that's very obvious common knowledge, after all), I should point out that that statistic does not prove such a point. Beer consumption in America does nothing to demonstrate its worldwide popularity, and citing the amount of beer Americans drank indicates nothing about its popularity within America unless you also cite the amount of other alcoholic beverages consumed for comparison. There's also room to argue that, if you really want to make that comparison properly, you should be adjusting those figures based on average ABV to better reflect Americans' favourite choice for the purposes of getting drunk (though that might not be entirely reasonable because that figure includes people drinking for taste as well).

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ReturnOfFa posted...

Plus when we were apes, we were getting wasted on fermented fruit!

Though that was more a matter of overripe fruit having more bioavailable sugars in it and therefore being a prized find for any forager/scavenger. Getting wasted was just a fun bonus effect.

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GrabASnickers posted...

Tens of thousands of years is a bit of a stretch

There's evidence that grain fermentation arose independently in multiple different civilizations throughout history, going back easily that far. It's actually theorized that grain agriculture arose not to produce grain for eating, but for fermentation, with edible cereals following shortly after and breads even later. The beer that was produced that way would have been substantially weaker than we're used to, and probably not particularly flavourful, but it was safer than drinking untreated water, and that made it essential for denser societies to start to form.

Zeus posted...

Plus isn't it cheaper than other alcohol options?

Depends entirely what you're comparing. In terms dollars per unit volume, generally, since it tends to be purchased in larger volumes than other drinks, but in terms of dollars per unit of alcohol, you can often do much better than beer by buying cheap spirits (especially compared to decent beers).

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Zangulus posted...

For a lawsuit to proceed you need to show some sort of damages. The biggest bug complaints are older generation consoles not working properly. Since at least PlayStation offered refunds on the game, the consumers dont have any actual damages. Whereas investors do, because the bad press surrounding the game caused share prices to drop.

Pretty much. It's frustrating, but ultimately, it's pretty hard to prove financial damages for consumers. The absolute best you might be able to manage would be false advertising, but even then there's a huge amount of grey area between "this is not the product you told me I was buying" and "this product isn't as good as I was expecting it to be," and the vast majority of disappointing games fall too close to the latter extreme to really justify a lawsuit.

As a consumer, the absolute best thing you can do to punish publishers for releasing unfinished/broken games is to stop buying games at launch and encourage everyone you know to do the same (and, in turn, not buy them until they reach a more acceptable level of completion). You can make exceptions for publishers that have earned your trust by not releasing broken stuff, particularly in the indie space where there's generally much less by way of executive shenanigans, but by and large, the game industry has spent the last couple decades actively trying to convince us that they don't deserve preorders or launch sales. I think it's only fair to reward those efforts by agreeing with them.

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Mead posted...

Guess thats why its been so popular for literally tens of thousands of years

I mean, its popularity throughout most of history has less to do with making high-quality products and more to do with how easy it was to cultivate grain and use it to produce sterile beverages (or at least beverages that were more safe to drink than water). Beer brewing in the "make interesting products that people will enjoy drinking" sense is a relatively recent concept. Heck, beer only really became popular in the US after prohibition ended. Prior to prohibition, cider was most Americans' drink of choice (Johnny Appleseed planted apple trees on the frontier not to provide people with apples to eat, but to give them apples to make cider with so they could have something safe to drink), but after prohibition forced most of the cider apple orchards to close (cider apples generally differing from eating apples), it was easier to ramp up grain production to brew beer than to resume cider production on the same scale, allowing beer to take over that niche.

That said, lolmuscles.

Mead posted...

And youve clearly been drinking some shit quality beer

To be fair, as much as "beer" refers to an incredibly wide range of flavours, there some common elements between all of them that some people just aren't going to like. If he really doesn't like the basic flavour of malt, you can't really get completely away from that (and if you can, you might as well just drink something that doesn't try so hard to pretend not to be beer instead), so disliking beer as a whole is reasonable enough. Of course, trying to generalize that into any sort of objective criticism is something most people learn not to do by the approximate age of 8, so...

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Zeus posted...

That's not really "intelligence," though. Knowledgeable, perhaps. Maybe even "sophistication" if you want to stretch the term. But intelligence? Not really.

Intelligence in the sense of being able to relate pieces of information to each other (which, again, is arguably the best definition for the term in a broad sense)? Sure it is. It's not simply knowing stuff, it's being able to identify and appreciate the relationships between that stuff.

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It does take a certain degree of intelligence to be a beer enthusiast. There are many factors that go into examining a beer (or any food/drink, really) in enthusiast-level detail, and remembering all of them and considering how they relate to each other is a fairly complex endeavour that requires the imbiber to be able to draw connections between what they are perceiving and their pre-existing knowledge (which, broadly, is arguably the best way to define intelligence).

Suggesting that beer enthusiasts are the only ones that enjoy beer, however, is pretentious nonsense and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to periodically talk to a human being outside of their elitist circle jerk for a reality check.

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I'd guess that's mostly because viewers generally aren't that interested in watching somebody sit there reading stuff. In turn, that means streaming VN's is kind of dumb because that's pretty much all the person will be doing, but I can kind of understand it, especially given the sort of hyperactivity youtubers like PewDiePie have led Youtube audiences to expect.

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keyblader1985 posted...

I mean, if nothing else... if you're going to take part in a violent revolution, at least be willing to accept the consequences. These people are all just embarrassing.

Eeyup.

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Revelation34 posted...

Every Trump supporter would have an opinion about it. Therefore the sample size is shit.

1019 is a pretty solid sample size, if selected at random. Of course it's not going to be as perfect and comprehensive a representation as they'd see if they polled every single American, but that's a big enough sample to reasonably infer that the real stats will be pretty close to what this poll finds, which is all that's meant by the phrase "representative sample." Samples never actually try to approach the size of the population of interest. They just aim to be large enough to avoid statistically significant random variation.

Now, was this sample properly selected at random, and polled using questions that led to accurate answers? We don't know that. But that doesn't mean there's any reason to categorically say "there are more than 1019 trump supporters this poll means nothing."

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Master_Magnus posted...

If I buy a Nintendo home console that Nintendo chose not to dump within the first year then I should get a console that is up to Nintendo standards no matter how poorly it sold. Wii U selling terribly isn't a valid reason for Nintendo to shaft those who bought it when Nintendo chose to support their console for four years. Nintendo should respect themselves instead of making easy money.

How have you been shafted? They supported the WiiU for almost as long as their usual generations (5 years instead of 6), producing plenty of quality games that you were able to enjoy to their full potential. That doesn't change because those games get ported a few years after their initial release. Having the original does make it hard to justify buying the game a second time for whatever token improvements they add to the port to make it more attractive to new customers, but that's true of every remake/port, and surely you're not going to suggest that rereleasing any game shafts the early adopters.

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OhhhJa posted...

You're giving these idiots at the capitol too much credit for forethought they never had. They were just a bunch of larping idiots trying to get pictures for their Instagram. They had no real plan for anything

Many of the people that stormed the capitol were indeed just idiots caught up in the mob mentality. Many more, however, went there very well-armed and with documented intent to assassinate or hold hostage high-ranking political figures for the sake of getting the political outcome they wanted. IED's were found in a number of locations. This was - by every reasonable metric and piece of evidence that has been revealed during the subsequent investigation - a credible threat against the lives of those in the US government, and a genuine terrorist attack. That some parts of the mob weren't so legitimately threatening doesn't change that.

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Zeus posted...

ongoing riots and civil unrest that have created a culture of lawlessness,

Imagining being this delusional.

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Master_Magnus posted...

I hate how Nintendo made the Wii U completely worthless just a few years after being discontinued. Even Gamecube was treated better.

At some level, I agree, but even the Gamecube sold twice as well as the WiiU did. The WiiU sold *very* poorly, which is really a shame because it had some fantastic titles. For the sake of allowing more people to experience those games without having to buy a system that they generally don't consider worthwhile (as well as some easy extra revenue for studios that had trouble recovering development costs due to the system's low install base), I'm fine with seeing most of those titles ported and the system rendered obsolete (particularly where I didn't really expect to get more games for it once the Switch launched anyway). It kind of sucks to be "stuck" with the inferior versions because I don't really want to buy enhanced ports so soon after buying the original games, but really, I'm okay with missing out on the bit of extra content.

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zebatov posted...

Suspected at 2-3, while the flu is 1-2. Hardly any reason for such a huge difference (lack thereof in the case of the flu) in numbers.

The very article you linked posted...

And while R0 = 1 and R0 = 2 might seem close, "the difference between a reproductive number of 1 and a reproductive number of 2 is huge, in terms of the number of people who will ultimately be infected,"

When R0 is 1 (that is, each infected person infects 1 other person), ten iterations of transmission results in a total of 11 cases (1+1^10). When R0 is 2, ten iterations results in a total of 1025 cases (1+2^10), and that gap only widens with further iterations (by 20 iterations, or about 6 months in the case of Covid, it's a difference between 21 and 1,048,577). When you're talking about exponential growth, small changes in the base can result in huge differences in the final product.

zebatov posted...

Flu spreads the exact same way Covid does (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/spread.htm). So are you saying that the vaccines are more responsible for literally zero cases in three provinces (almost 6.5M people)?

Of course not. It's common knowledge that influenza is less contagious than Covid, so it stands to reason that the precautions intended to slow the spread of Covid would be more effective for slowing the spread of influenza than they have been for Covid. Toss a vaccine on top of that, plus the fact that people generally isolate as soon as they show flu symptoms these days (asymptomatic flu transmission is a thing, but accounts for less of its transmission than for Covid because the incubation period is shorter), and such numbers aren't that hard to believe.

Of course, all of this ignores the most significant factor, which is that this is only looking at confirmed positive tests. Given how much we're doing to protect vulnerable populations (up to and including isolating the elderly), it stands to reason that flu hospitalizations (the primary source of influenza tests) would be mostly eliminated. The only other way you're getting positive influenza tests is from people who are sick enough with the flu to go visit a doctor, and many of those people are generally just getting tested for Covid when they show symptoms and isolating until they go away instead of risking a doctor's visit. Testing is up, but mostly as a precautionary measure for health care workers and other people working with vulnerable populations (who are at less risk than usual this year because fewer flu-infected people are coming in and they've got more robust personal protections), rather than testing people with cold/flu symptoms for it.

Basically, people that are catching the flu this year are just staying home and toughing it out, not getting tested to confirm that they've got it. I very much doubt that there are genuinely zero cases out there, just a vastly reduced number that isn't being picked up by health surveillance.

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streamofthesky posted...

Robbers who had one of their pals shot by a cop that had no intention of killing anybody have been tried under Felony Murder.
The rioters killed two people (the cop that had a fire extinguisher thrown at his head, and "Don't Tread On Me" lady), and were responsible for the death of the woman security forces shot dead as well (same reason as above), so yeah....I think A LOT OF PEOPLE need to be charged with murder (let alone "attempted")!

Yeah, once felony murder comes into play, there'll be a lot of very serious charges here. Even so, not everyone that broke in there was hoping to kill somebody. That was my main point.

hungrymike posted...

Sounds like confirmation bias. People just believe what they want to and dismiss everything else

No, that sounds like reading comprehension. There are empirical records of some people that broke into the capitol outlining plans to commit murder, and the article you linked does nothing to dispute or change that. It's just pointing out that the entire crowd can't necessarily be treated as would-be assassins because there's no reason to assume that's why they're all there.

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Frequent hand washing, wearing masks in public, limiting close contact with other people, and unusually high vaccination rates have mostly eliminated influenza transmission? I am very surprised by this outcome.

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Unbridled9 posted...

A truly difficult question to answer. Is it okay for the media to, during wartime, run a story detailing military secrets or championing the enemy? If the journalist runs a hate piece against a certain demographic is it okay? There's a bunch of difficult questions. However the big question should be the difference between 'HAS the right' and 'SHOULD EXERCISE the right'. Like, given this situation, I would say the journalist has the right to publish the story but needs to be held accountable for the outcome if the criminal doesn't get caught. However that can be worked around if the journalist simply holds off on the story until after the investigation is concluded. At that point they are not being censored as the story isn't being repressed in any way but they're not risking the lives of anyone by doing so either.

This sounds about right. They have a responsibility not to compromise the investigations and therefore must take responsibility if they choose to do so (up to and including being charged with interfering in the investigation or possibly even being treated as an accessory), but they should retain the right to make that choice.

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Decoy77 posted...

Did you see his twitter post about him saying the EXACT OPPOSITE of encouraging it?

And then subsequent ones where he became increasingly sympathetic to the violence and continued to double down on the lies that were motivating it? Yeah, yeah I did. "This is what happens when an election is stolen" is not exactly open condemnation, especially when the violence has been purely motivated by the election allegedly being stolen. Did Trump explicitly say "go assassinate Pence and Pelosi"? No. But anyone that doesn't think he has been the primary contributor to this outcome understands very little about subtext and human behaviour.

Now, for what it's worth, I don't actually believe that Trump wanted this outcome. He probably actually didn't want it, since it makes him look really bad (and preserving and promoting his image is pretty much the only thing motivating him because he's an insane narcissist) and very clearly wasn't actually going to work. But repeating "the election was stolen and brave patriots need to correct this injustice" was inevitably going to result in some people that consider themselves "brave patriots" taking radical action to right the perceived wrong, and he continues to refuse to back down on those lies even after seeing what they have led to. He is as guilty of this act of insurrection as Charles Manson is guilty of being a serial killer: he didn't do it personally, but nobody with even the remotest understanding of the situation thinks he doesn't bear any responsibility.

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Mead posted...

a lot of my time is spent playing games Ive already played, or its games that dont really have a traditional end point

Same. I've easily put enough hours in over the last year to clear 30-40 games, but most of those hours have been spent replaying older stuff and/or playing sandboxy type things. I'm not sure I actually completed more than 10 last year, despite all the pandemic free time (most of which went into Animal Crossing and PSO2).

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I'm sure there's some demand for watching you handle pipes or screw things.

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CaptainObvius posted...

Although now i can't do my shopping at 2AM since most stores close at 8PM around here.

I do kind of have to question how many essential stores have reduced their hours in response to the pandemic. Reducing hours doesn't reduce the number of people that show up, it just means the same number of people show up within a shorter time period, resulting in higher density and greater transmission risk. I get that many of them need to be closed for an extra hour or two to carry out the additional cleaning, but many have gone from being 24-hour stores to being open 12 hours or less, which goes way beyond that.

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hungrymike posted...

Looks like this turned out to be untrue

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1254420

That sounds more like they're just saying there's no evidence that that was the intent of everyone present, which most people accept as true. There were absolutely people in the capitol that just got caught up in the flow of things and went along for the ride, rather than entering with the intent of killing people. That just means some people don't need to be charged with attempted murder, though, not that the attack on the capitol wasn't an assassination attempt in a broader sense.

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Generally, but case numbers in my province are low enough that I don't worry too much if I end up in a situation where I can't.

Raddest_Chad posted...

Unless you're all pressed up like a bunch of fucking nutcases, it really doesn't do much if everyone has a mask on.

Being 6 feet apart instead of 2 feet (which is pretty common if you aren't actively trying to space yourself out further) reduces the aerosol density (and therefore pathogen load) to which you're exposed by a factor of 27, or about 96%. Masks (especially non-medical ones) still leave enough of a transmission risk that reducing that risk by another 96% is pretty significant.

Broadly, masks are considered a second line of defense, behind distancing. You wear a mask to mitigate the risk of being unable to distance (hence they're required indoors, where distancing is often difficult), not to eliminate the need for distancing.

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Yes, unless lying will be funnier (all other things being equal, of course).

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Zeus posted...

Well, there was very limited property destruction and all but one of the casualties were rioters themselves, so... all things considered, the riot was dispersed very well because it could have been much, much worse as we've seen in other cities. Clearly his approach to asking people to go home was effective since many of the perpetrators were peacefully taken into custody, as opposed to playing the situation extremely hard like the far-left zealots wanted which would have done tremendous damage to the historic capitol building, resulted in mass casualties on both sides, and was being pushed not because it was a good resolution but because it drove their bullshit agenda.

adjl posted...

One does have to love how blatantly they ignore that this was an open-faced assassination attempt

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Kill all but one American. There'll still be some disagreement left, but it'll be relatively minor.

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LinkPizza posted...

Idk everything she does. From the things I've seen, she'll usually bake the cake (or more than one for certain designs. Then puts them to together, cuts off certain areas, and uses sticks to hold certain parts together until it's done. And then takes the sticks out. But I haven't seen her make all of them. Just pics here and there.

Yeah, that's pretty normal. Really, regardless of how much actual cake is present in the final product, these things do take plenty of skill and artistry to put together. I just laugh at calling them "cakes" in cases where such a tiny percentage is actually edible cake.

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LinkPizza posted...

Even if he did a taste test, wouldn't it still be anecdotal since the taste test would be his personal experience?

The results are describing his personal experience, so some degree of anecdotal-ness is inevitable. I don't see that as a major problem.

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Revelation34 posted...

It's an oxymoron.

So's "jumbo shrimp." Life's full of oxymorons. Just roll with it.

Raddest_Chad posted...

So many people have hyped up the s***, but I can always tell.

Have you ever done a blind taste test? I agree that they're pretty clearly different, but a claim as strong as "I can always tell" should probably be backed up by something more credible than anecdotal evidence with no consistent experimental design.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

The terrorists went there with a plan to kill our elected officials, that was the end goal.

One does have to love how blatantly they ignore that this was an open-faced assassination attempt by citing death statistics out of context. Like, that "one person shot dead"? She was shot dead while trying to murder Pence. Even if the attack had succeeded in killing Pelosi and Pence, they'd probably still just say "that's only three people shot dead, BLM was way worse."

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zebatov posted...

Where is this notion coming from that the right is the only one condemning BLM-associated violence? Or that those encouraging the protests are encouraging violence? That's obviously nonsense to anyone with any modicum of awareness of the world around them, and yet it's been parroted almost non-stop since May.

To say nothing of the utter absurdity of equivocating protests against police brutality and systemic racism with an unambiguous terrorist attack seeking to undermine the democratic process. The notion that anything is remotely comparable between the two beyond "there's a protest and also there's violence" shouldn't be something anyone with one or more frontal lobes entertains.

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How sirly of Arv.

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Realistically, the food industry is constantly evolving such that the cost and availability of certain products fluctuates wildly. Maybe a year and a half ago, celery got stupidly expensive for a while because the current instagram health craze was to drink celery juice and production couldn't keep up with that increased demand. Vanilla's price basically goes up every time Madagascar gets hit by a bad storm. China needing to build more cars is going to end up driving up the price of chocolate in the next decade or two (as their cocoa plantations are replaced by more profitable rubber ones). A pound of sugar used to cost more than a pound of lobster.

If demand for meat drops and it becomes so expensive that it becomes a relatively infrequent purchase, that's nothing new. It'll be unfortunate for those that like meat, but really, Americans could really stand to eat less meat anyway, and at the end of the day, that's just the nature of supply and demand.

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LinkPizza posted...

Yeah. Ive seen in other topics where youve mentioned different substitutes and stuff for certain foods, and other things. I think thats creative.

Eh, yes and no. If it's a substitute that closely mimics the flavour of the original, that's not creativity so much as it is having knowledge of alternatives that will achieve the same goal, sort of like taking a side street because your usual route is backed up. If it's a substitute that introduces new flavours that work well with the rest of what's in there, though, that's more creative because you're creating something new. That's more like taking a different route for scenic purposes.

LinkPizza posted...

And while the look of the food doesnt always matter, it can be fun. Like Ive showed them before, but here are a few cakes my mom made. Only a few, but shes made a bunch of them...

Oh yeah, there's a ton of really cool stuff that can be done with cakes. Bonus points when it's actually done with cake instead of the 50% fondant/40% rice krispie square/8% plywood/2% cake "cakes" you see so often on crazy decorating shows. Sugar work in particular is really cool and fun as hell to do, and I really wish I could justify buying equipment to do it, but I just don't have any actual reason. Personally, though, making cakes that fancy isn't something I have a particular talent for, nor do I have enough interest to cultivate those skills. A little piping and maybe the occasional fun design, but anything past that just feels like unnecessary delays before I get to eat the cake.

Cake decorating is certainly a legitimate art form in and of itself, I just take issue with the excessive presentation focus in so much of "haute cuisine." Plated desserts in particular have a tendency to get downright stupid with how much unnecessary stuff goes into them, and the whole "you eat with your eyes" thing frequently turns into a pretentious circle-jerk instead of just acknowledging that people's food should look good. In a world where bread pudding (which is ugly as sin by any reasonable metric) exists and people get excited just seeing it, it should be obvious that you don't actually have to do much to convince people they're about to eat something tasty.

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