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| Topic | Im making some shortbread biscuits. |
| adjl 04/08/24 5:09:44 PM #8 | Those are indeed shortbreads. Well done.
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| Topic | The eclipse is eclipsing! |
| adjl 04/08/24 5:05:40 PM #23 | Nade_Duck posted...
it didn't get fully dark here, but it was very dim for a bit. it was pretty and eerie in a weird way. honestly wouldn't mind if things just looked like that normally. i kind of weirdly miss it now. That was about how it went here. The lighting just felt... quiet, if that makes sense. It wasn't dark, but everything was just dimmed in a really subdued way. Shadows got really wonky, too, looking like they were being cast by multiple light sources instead of a single point. The rainbows coming in from the crystals hanging in my windows were also visibly curved for a bit. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do we even need electricity? |
| adjl 04/08/24 2:49:30 PM #2 | Mostly people who make more money if their employees can't just say "it's too dark to keep working now."
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| Topic | The eclipse is eclipsing! |
| adjl 04/08/24 2:48:20 PM #9 | We're getting about 95% eclipsed here, but without eclipse glasses I won't actually be able to look at it, so it'll just be a matter of getting pretty dark at ~4:30 (currently 3:45).
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| Topic | What time do you think NightMareBunny wakes up? |
| adjl 04/08/24 10:57:35 AM #14 | Maybe he's just blocking everyone that's ever disagreed with him in an attempt to be able to make his posts without ever having to face any sort of adversity. I'm not sure how successful that will be when there are so few posts and posters in the first place, but it's his life.
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| Topic | What time do you think NightMareBunny wakes up? |
| adjl 04/08/24 9:16:48 AM #10 | Sarcasthma posted...
I can understand someone blocking me or helly, but adjl? A couple people have blocked me, but it's generally cases where I won't let them be wrong about important things (the only one coming immediately to mind is zebatov not liking me proving his anti-vax ramblings wrong). I often butted heads with NMB because he butts heads with everyone, but I can't think of any specific instance where that happened and he seemed to have a problem with it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Shouldn't we have the Solar Eclipse be a national holiday? |
| adjl 04/08/24 8:46:27 AM #14 | Accrovideogames posted...
This is why I'm only going to look at it for one or two seconds with my naked eyes. Or you could just get eclipse glasses and not risk it. Accrovideogames posted... I'm also going to record it with my digital camera in 2160p You're unlikely to get good pictures/videos unless you've specifically set your camera up for eclipse photography, and the sun can actually damage the camera if you aren't protecting it properly. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What time do you think NightMareBunny wakes up? |
| adjl 04/08/24 8:41:40 AM #7 | ConfusedTorchic posted...
i don't think about him at all Same. Seeing this topic, I realized I hadn't seen him post for a while, but I guess that's because I can't see his posts anymore. Weird. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | paper plates should be massive |
| adjl 04/07/24 9:28:37 PM #11 | They presumably know better than him why they design their plates the way they do. That's possible even if they don't know better than him how to design a plate (though they probably also know that, they just don't design them to be structurally optimal because it's not cost-effective).
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| Topic | Shouldn't we have the Solar Eclipse be a national holiday? |
| adjl 04/07/24 6:47:08 PM #6 | ConfusedTorchic posted...
then don't look at it Usually, when people avoid looking at the sun, it's because it's uncomfortably bright and they feel compelled to look away/shield their eyes somehow. When the sun's partially eclipsed, though, it's not bright enough to trigger that reflex (but still bright enough to cause damage), so looking away/shielding eyes has to be a conscious decision. Of course, it's not particularly hard to make that conscious decision, even if you're in the middle of something else. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Meme 35: can finally run for president |
| adjl 04/07/24 2:20:49 PM #25 | https://imgur.com/5FEg65w
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| Topic | Meme 35: can finally run for president |
| adjl 04/07/24 2:03:12 PM #23 | "This doctor worked tirelessly for 36 hours straight to save the lives of me and everyone I care about, including removing and transplanting his own kidney to save my firstborn child, but the magazines in the waiting room were like a year old and I had to ask for the wifi password. 3 stars."
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| Topic | Im making some shortbread biscuits. |
| adjl 04/07/24 11:47:20 AM #3 | First you wait for the hard butter to get soft, then you wait for the soft butter to get hard. It's a funny ol' thing, this life we live.
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| Topic | Dawn of the First Day: 72 Hours Remain |
| adjl 04/07/24 11:07:42 AM #22 | ZayKayWill posted...
Did you really have to correct me on that one? But of course. pikakaeru posted... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbR5WcyWl18&pp=ygUaZmluYWwgaG91cnMgbWFqb3JhJ3MgbWFzayA%3D That really is one of the most effective tracks ever for creating a sense of acute unease. Standing outside of the inn with that song playing while waiting for Kafei to show up is peak emotional investment in an NPC's life. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | As the most popular member of gamefaqs I demand respect |
| adjl 04/07/24 10:37:21 AM #12 | The problem is that there are two distinct ways of interpreting the term "respect":
In the former case, respect absolutely does need to be earned. The latter, not so much, as that should be the default unless somebody specifically earns disrespect. Certain people tend not to think about the distinction too much, though, so whenever they feel a compulsion to disrespect somebody, rather than stopping to consider that maybe they're just a disrespectful asshole and they should work on that, they fall back on all the times they've heard "respect must be earned" in regard to respect for actual accomplishments and just regurgitate that as though it justifies their disrespect. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Due to Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire... Israel bombs Iranian consulate in Syria |
| adjl 04/07/24 1:03:51 AM #49 | Devil_May_Cry posted...
Do you weep for German citizens that got killed in the Dresden bombings fighting the Nazis? Yes, and those killed fewer civilians and more combatants than Israel has since October. Collateral damage happens, certainly, but everyone has a responsibility to minimize it. Israel hasn't, and is instead acting in a manner that leaves zero doubt that they not only couldn't care less about avoiding Palestinian civilian casualties, but are actively trying to effect them. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | How is RFK Jr supposed to be siphoning votes for Biden? |
| adjl 04/06/24 1:57:09 PM #11 | Yeah, I'm not sure why people think Trump would be any less likely to take Israel's side. He was the one who blatantly took Israel's side by moving the US embassy into Jerusalem. I'm not particularly happy with Biden's blind support of Israel, but I'm also not so out of touch as to think anyone else with a chance of winning the election is going to do any better. The overall attitude of the US government is just that they default to caring more about jews than arabs.
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| Topic | Look at my hole |
| adjl 04/06/24 9:44:09 AM #81 | Jen0125 posted...
It looks totally average That's probably only because you haven't let any bushes grow around it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | As the most popular member of gamefaqs I demand respect |
| adjl 04/06/24 9:19:42 AM #6 | Respect is reserved for my butt.
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| Topic | Dawn of the First Day: 72 Hours Remain |
| adjl 04/05/24 5:02:49 PM #15 | FrozenBananas posted...
To be fair, most of the Zeldas are just remakes of the past games with updated graphics It's not really a remake if said forests, volcanoes, and Zora's Domains are all different. Retreads of the same formula, certainly, but not remakes. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Dawn of the First Day: 72 Hours Remain |
| adjl 04/05/24 4:14:46 PM #12 | MM3D was only in 2015, not quite a decade. They've also both been released on every VC service Nintendo's had, though just as a port and not really a remake.
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| Topic | Complaining about being unloved... |
| adjl 04/05/24 2:08:38 PM #3 | If there's actually no one, that probably means your family failed to fill that role, since your parents in particular have a responsibility to care for you without there being any onus on you to "earn" that. There can certainly be cases where you burned the bridge with your parents and therefore deserved to be disowned, but otherwise being unloved by your parents is a failure on their part and not yours.
Otherwise, though, having nobody outside of your parents who cares about you is generally a consequence of some combination of not putting yourself in scenarios where you can make friends, and pushing people away when you are in such scenarios. Put yourself out there more and try to be friendly, and you'll make connections with people. If you struggle to do that, therapy can help. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you like kids? |
| adjl 04/05/24 2:01:32 PM #28 | It's usually a bit easier when there's zero chance the woman can safely have another child. It's not a guarantee (see also: abortions getting refused despite being medically necessary), but there's much less pushback when it's already guaranteed that she can't have more kids anyway.
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| Topic | How much should you spend on an engagement ring? |
| adjl 04/05/24 1:54:36 PM #41 | Glob posted...
I still just dont get the three month thing. I expect it's mostly targeted at a middle class of people who can realistically save up and splurge that much, but for whom money is still tight enough that such a splurge might not feel like a good idea. Poorer people aren't going to be spending enough money either way for the jewellery industry to care about influencing their spending habits, and rich people who don't have to care about the price won't care about that advice. ParanoidObsessive posted... But the diamond industry pushed really had to have laws passed that said they couldn't be used for jewelry Which is just a really weird thing to have laws about. Include transparency about the materials' origins to prevent fraud and whatnot, sure (though even then, I expect the jewellery industry would very much prefer not to have transparency about their materials' origins be legally required), but laws saying "you're not allowed to make this completely optional luxury item with no health or safety considerations using anything other than natural gems" very obviously has no benefit for anyone other than those selling natural gems. It's not exactly without precedent for laws to favour corporations and wealthy individuals over the general citizenry, but it's usually not so brazen. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you like kids? |
| adjl 04/05/24 11:29:43 AM #25 | ZayKayWill posted...
Can't you just get your tubes tied if you wanted to? It's generally very difficult to find a doctor willing to do a tubal for any woman who doesn't already have kids and/or is under 40. Part of that is a fear of litigation if they change their mind later, part of it's a deep-seeded sexist belief that every woman wants kids and that anyone seeking sterilization just hasn't clued into that yet, part of it's an even more sexist belief that it's wrong for women not to have kids, it's common to expect that they involve a husband in the process to give them permission (I do think couples should discuss sterilization with each other before making any decisions, but the idea of requiring "permission" is obviously ridiculous)... It's a very different experience from a guy saying "I want a vasectomy." That's not just an American thing, either. It's also true here in Canada, and I expect much of the rest of the world (even the parts that ostensibly recognize women's rights as being important). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Due to Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire... Israel bombs Iranian consulate in Syria |
| adjl 04/05/24 8:33:30 AM #43 | Devil_May_Cry posted...
There could be weapons in the crates. Next time I'm in the grocery store, maybe I should camp out in the cereal aisle and shoot anyone that reaches for a box. There might be weapons in those boxes, after all. You can't be too careful. Humanitarian aid drops don't fall out of the sky without warning. There's extensive notice that they're coming, allowing the victims to receive them and - specifically relevant to this situation - to prevent the aggressor from shooting them down or shooting at victims trying to claim them. There's no room to frame this as though a bunch of mystery boxes appeared out of nowhere without documentation. Heck, I have more reason to be concerned that a random cereal box on a shelf contains weaponry than Israel has to be concerned about those aid drops, because I have less access to supply chain data than they do. Devil_May_Cry posted... I pray every day the proof is uncovered to redeem Israel on the global stage. "Everything about this situation makes them look like the worse guys, but they're my favourite so I keep hoping that something happens to make them look better." That's not how evaluating situations works. Look at the evidence, form your opinion based on that. Deciding on an opinion, then looking for evidence to support it and ignoring evidence that suggests you're wrong is just confirmation bias taken to the extreme. Devil_May_Cry posted... He is supporting the more moral side in a f***ing war "More moral" by what metrics? Devil_May_Cry posted... until then I am asking consideration for the feelings of Israeli visitors to this site who may be experiencing heart break seeing their favorite posters attack their country Their country is an apartheid state engaging in genocide. I'm more concerned about the feelings of the oppressed people that state is openly murdering than about the feelings of people that are having to deal with any nationalistic pride they had being horribly misplaced. Once again, this does not mean attacking Israeli citizens for the actions of their government, but attacking Israel on a political scale is absolutely fair game. We've justified this extensively, you've hand-waved every justification and vaguely whined about "feelings" as though anyone in their right mind is ever going to say "well, I guess we should let Israel commit genocide because some Israeli people might be sad if we're too critical of that." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | $1500 tax return |
| adjl 04/04/24 4:11:40 PM #6 | SinisterSlay posted...
Technically owing is better. The government doesn't pay interest for the money they held hostage all year. Technically, but it's not like I did anything particularly productive having that extra $200 for a year. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | $1500 tax return |
| adjl 04/04/24 3:10:27 PM #3 | I need to do mine. I ended up owing ~$200 last year, which was lame.
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| Topic | Meme Topic 34: Memes aren't real |
| adjl 04/04/24 2:47:47 PM #493 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQAYuB10ims
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| Topic | How much should you spend on an engagement ring? |
| adjl 04/04/24 1:58:55 PM #35 | Dikitain posted...
Kind of, it was more about the combining/transferring of wealth from one generation to the next. Problem was the best bargaining chip that a lot of people had was "Here, impregnate my daughter and force her into indentured servitude!" Combine that with the fact that being gay 5000 years ago was a foreign concept and you have marriage as we know it today. Really, it's only been since about the 50's-60's that treating wives as servants/baby machines stopped being the norm, and that's after centuries of marriage transitioning from being a political arrangement to carry on aristocratic bloodlines to being something that common folk did out of love. The institution evolved with that transition to be more about romance and to have more relevant financial considerations for non-nobility, so by the time it stopped being primarily about dudes having a housekeeper they could sleep with, there was enough value beyond that for it still to be desirable for people. There is still practical value in having a defined set of rules for how resources are shared within a couple (which a prenup supersedes, but having a default is still helpful both for people that aren't savvy enough to figure out a reasonable prenup and to establish social norms for what spouses should do for each other if a marriage falls apart) and offering tax breaks to disincentivize bachelor life (which strains infrastructure significantly more than living in pairs does), plus there's the emotional value of making a formal commitment to each other and celebrating that with loved ones. It's also necessary to do at least something to legally identify your partner as family in the event of an accident or critical illness, and while there are options other than marriage to do that, lumping it in with marriage is one less thing to think about when you decide to commit to a partner long-term. The history isn't particularly pretty and the concept of common-law partnerships makes a lot of the practical benefits kind of redundant, but marriage has evolved over time to still have value to people, and people enjoy that value (and don't want to be excluded from it, in the case of LGBTQ marriage). That appeal does generally seem to be waning, especially with the growing number of couples that have no interest in having kids, but even just as a formality it's still something plenty of people like and will continue to like. Mostly, people can decide for themselves what marriage means to them. Those who like the idea will like getting married and will therefore do so, those who don't, won't (unless somehow forced into it, but that's another problem). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Should I go back to school for a stem degree |
| adjl 04/04/24 1:30:08 PM #3 | There are three reasons to go back to school:
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| Topic | Due to Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire... Israel bombs Iranian consulate in Syria |
| adjl 04/04/24 12:26:49 PM #32 | Devil_May_Cry posted...
There you go again Godwin's law. That's not Godwin's law. The Holocaust is not the only historical genocide. Devil_May_Cry posted... What is happening in Palestine is not a genocide or an attempted genocide. How else would you describe the wholesale massacre of civilians, destruction of critical infrastructure, and clear, deliberate efforts to engineer a humanitarian crisis that is leading to the starvation of hundreds of thousands of people? Devil_May_Cry posted... They are trying to eradicate terrorists. With zero regard for the number of innocent civilians killed as a result, shortly following rhetoric such as "there are no innocent Palestinians" that means you'd have to be quite hopelessly naive to believe that those civilians deaths are accidental. Devil_May_Cry posted... I guarantee Israelis reading gamefaqs are crying about how hateful you all can be.adjl posted... People that aren't antisemitic wastes of carbon aren't bashing Israel as a whole, they're bashing the genocidal actions of Israel's government. That should be clear from both contextual clues and the many times Mr. Cry has been explicitly told this. Oh look I already said that. Again. And again. And again. And again... What is the difficulty you have understanding this? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | How much do you weigh? |
| adjl 04/04/24 10:54:52 AM #13 | I pretty consistently hover around 185ish. I dropped down to 165 back in 2020 for the first time in ten years, but that was pretty much entirely due to being a little stingy with food thanks to supporting two of us on one CERB and having to limit how many groceries we were buying to be able to fit two weeks' worth in the fridge to cut down on the number of grocery trips we made. Being gainfully employed again and not being as locked down corrected that pretty quickly.
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| Topic | Due to Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire... Israel bombs Iranian consulate in Syria |
| adjl 04/04/24 10:51:55 AM #28 | Lokarin posted...
Look, Israel is great - Palestine is great Precisely. People that aren't antisemitic wastes of carbon aren't bashing Israel as a whole, they're bashing the genocidal actions of Israel's government. That should be clear from both contextual clues and the many times Mr. Cry has been explicitly told this. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Due to Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire... Israel bombs Iranian consulate in Syria |
| adjl 04/04/24 8:52:37 AM #26 | Devil_May_Cry posted...
Every topic devolves into bashing Israel. With good reason. Netenyahu is a genocidal maniac. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Im surprised people still believe stuff from Facebook |
| adjl 04/03/24 4:40:50 PM #4 | I believe that people on Facebook have cats whose pictures they share. Does that count?
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| Topic | Favorite video game magazine |
| adjl 04/03/24 10:47:09 AM #12 | acesxhigh posted...
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| Topic | Due to Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire... Israel bombs Iranian consulate in Syria |
| adjl 04/02/24 10:34:51 PM #19 | agesboy posted...
in the same way I condemn the US's currently unconditional support for Israel to be at fault for Israel's actions, I consider specifically Netenyahu's government to be significantly at fault for Hamas's existence tbh. I might argue even more so. The US enables Israel despite having the power to single-handedly dictate how aggressive they can be, certainly, and in that regard Netenyahu's support of Hamas to ensure he has a consistent enemy to exploit is comparable, but beyond that Israel's apartheid policies, aggressively antagonistic colonialism, and large-scale killing of Palestinian civilians are all very obviously things that breed discontent and radicalize people to terrorism. I'm not about to go so far as to call Hamas "freedom fighters" like some do, since that's glorifying them in a way they don't particularly deserve, but the fact remains that there is freedom for which Palestinians feel the need to fight, and that feeling is solely because Israel has denied it to them. Those who have freedom don't need to fight for it. Would the Hamas problem go away if Israel started supporting Palestinian infrastructure restoration and development, stopped arbitrarily stealing land and inviting settlers to come from abroad to live on it, and stopped forcing Palestinians to spend hours waiting in line to cross checkpoints on the way to work every morning? Probably not. Hatred is a bitch to get rid of once it sinks its teeth in, and change and forgiveness don't happen overnight. But there'd be a whole lot less new anti-Israel sentiment among Palestinians moving forward, which means a whole lot fewer young people being radicalized and recruited by Hamas, which in turn means less violence. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | How much should you spend on an engagement ring? |
| adjl 04/02/24 9:37:26 PM #28 | josh posted...
OK, I'll chalk it down to cultural differences. You don't get that here in Australia, at least in my circles. That's a relatively recent development, probably actually mostly catalyzed by social media. For many, many years, the diamond industry has worked to disparage synthetic diamonds to artificially inflate demand for natural ones, despite the fact that synthetics have been on par with natural ones for much, much longer than many people realize. That's one of the things that's been openly challenged by millennials on social media, though, a movement that's been able to spread faster than corporate propaganda can keep up with and basically result in a generation with significantly less interest in natural diamonds than any previous one (jadedness that has been passed on to subsequent generations). Granted, a huge part of that is also just millennials being largely screwed by the state of the economy they've inherited and having to be a lot choosier about their luxuries as a result, such that "shiny rock that's expensive for no reason" was obviously going to be one of the first on the chopping block. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Due to Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire... Israel bombs Iranian consulate in Syria |
| adjl 04/02/24 9:26:41 PM #16 | streamofthesky posted...
Israel has lost ~ 600 IDF soldiers thus far in <6 months of fighting. Oh, if we only look at Afghanistan, Israel's already killed more civilians than the US did there. No contest. I can't be bothered to dredge the stats up again, but I'm pretty sure the total civilian deaths in Afghanistan were in the realm of 20-25k (to ~40k combatants). When I say "20 years post-9/11," I'm talking about Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and every other middle-eastern country caught up in the fallout of the War on Terror, combined. streamofthesky posted... And implying Israel "hasn't even broken triple digits yet" for enemy combatants is either staggeringly ignorant or a deliberate pro-Hamas statement. Take your pick. If they have, I'll welcome the correction. Last I heard, they'd managed 13 Hamas kills for 8000 civilian deaths, but that was obviously a while ago because they're pushing 40,000 civilians now. If they follow the same ratio (which is to be expected given that they've continued to bomb indiscriminately and deliberately engineer humanitarian crises, none of which suggests that they've been taking enough accountability for that piss-poor ratio to pretend it's not just deliberate genocide), that'd put them at about 55-60ish, which is sub-triple digits. One small correction for you, though: It's a deliberate anti-Israel statement (specifically anti-current Israeli government, since I recognize that most Israeli citizens are not complicit in this genocide), not a pro-Hamas one. Hamas is also bad. Israel is just measurably the worse of two evils at this moment, plus the one that people seem to need to be convinced is doing bad things and therefore shouldn't be given weaponry that they're shooting at humanitarian aid caravans. I don't really need to convince anyone that blowing up 1200 civilians was a bad thing, so I'm not putting any effort into that. streamofthesky posted... It's almost like urban combat in one of the most densely populated regions on Earth w/ enemies that hide amongst the civilian population is really f***ing difficult. And the solution to that challenge is not to just blow everything up with no regard for the number of innocent civilians killed in doing so. Collateral damage happens, yes, and this is a scenario where it's particularly difficult to avoid, but that does not even remotely justify completely giving up on avoiding it the way Israel has. Of course, with a government that has spent years spouting rhetoric along the lines of "there are no innocent Palestinians," "these people are animals, why shouldn't we kill them?", and "nuking Gaza is not off the table," why would anyone believe that they even tried to avoid it in the first place? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Due to Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire... Israel bombs Iranian consulate in Syria |
| adjl 04/02/24 7:55:06 PM #13 | ParanoidObsessive posted...
After all, it's not like the US would ever do anything like that. In less than 6 months, Israel has racked up about 30-40% of the civilian death toll that the US managed in 20 years post-9/11, and in that time the US managed to kill more enemy combatants than civilians, while I'm not sure Israel's even broken triple digits yet. To equivocate what were largely accidents (albeit careless accidents for which the US deserves ample criticism) to what Israel is doing now is either staggeringly ignorant or a deliberate pro-genocide statement. Take your pick. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Now Powerball is Back Over A Billion... |
| adjl 04/02/24 2:37:50 PM #6 | Kyuubi4269 posted...
Have they considered, perhaps, that the amount of potential numbers is too high for the amount of participants? I'm sure they will if it becomes a problem, but I don't believe it has. The lottery still generates the revenue it needs to generate to be worth running, and people still buy tickets, so what would they need to change? From their perspective, it doesn't matter if they give out 100 jackpots of $10 million or one jackpot of $1 billion, so long as they sell roughly the same number of tickets before paying out. It'll only become a problem if people start getting too disheartened by the low odds for the large jackpots to be enough to motivate ticket sales (which may happen in the not-too-distant future, as billion-dollar jackpots become more common and people need even larger, less-attainable numbers to pique their interests). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | How much should you spend on an engagement ring? |
| adjl 04/02/24 8:46:45 AM #15 | faramir77 posted...
I don't think it really ever made sense to drop three months of salary on a ring unless you were still living with parents or something. Bear in mind that that tradition dates from a time when an entire house only cost 1-2 years' household income, so it was considerably more attainable. Still, though, I think the principle applies: If you have to choose between buying a new furnace that you need or buying an engagement ring, you might not be financially stable enough to commit to spending the rest of your life with someone and you should consider holding off accordingly. I still wouldn't actually spend that much, because I just don't like spending money like that on luxuries (nor would my girlfriend want me to), but the important metric is that you're able to do so without undermining your financial stability. blu posted... I guess its easier to just bring her so she could select what she wants. So is the way it works for most people is to bring your girlfriend shopping, pick something out, then propose and she isnt necessarily surprised? Depends what she'd like best. You can propose with a placeholder and then take her shopping for the real one later, you can pay enough attention to her tastes to be able to buy something she'll like without getting her direct input, or you can just involve her in the whole process and have the proposal itself be more of a formality. You'll have to figure out for yourself what the best option is, since it varies from person to person and relationship to relationship. Honestly, if you aren't sure what she'll like best, you probably actually shouldn't be marrying her. You'll want to pay more attention than that if you're serious about making a lifelong commitment. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | current day bluetooth is what bluetooth 20 years ago wanted us to think it was |
| adjl 04/01/24 9:07:41 PM #5 | Oh, I'm not saying the Wii's Bluetooth was inadequate or anything (at least, I never had any issues with it). "Bluetooth 20 years ago" just prompted me to think about what sort of Bluetooth devices were around 20 years ago, and I realized the Wii comes very close to fitting that bill (and I guess was actually using a version that is now 20 years old). And then I felt old.
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| Topic | How much should you spend on an engagement ring? |
| adjl 04/01/24 9:04:25 PM #10 | rjsilverthorn posted...
I'm not really sure how well that holds up today. In the past it probably made sense since you would be taking on supporting your wife and would generally end up having kids shortly after, but now most couples are both working and already living together before they get married so it doesn't really make any major change in finances. Marriage itself may not comprise a major change in finances, but it still marks a commitment to supporting each other (whatever form that takes) on a long-term basis, and a certain degree of financial stability is good to have before making that commitment. At least, that's my philosophy. Your mileage may vary, depending on what you prioritize/are concerned about in your own relationships, and I'm not about to pretend that I'm any sort of authority on the matter. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | My car's shadow looks like Shrek |
| adjl 04/01/24 8:51:33 PM #4 | Mine does the same, but I lack a picture.
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| Topic | How much should you spend on an engagement ring? |
| adjl 04/01/24 5:20:43 PM #6 | The traditional "three months' salary" thing has some merit in that your ability to spend that much money on something frivolous is a barometer for your financial stability, and you should aim to be financially stable before committing to spending your life with somebody (whether you'll be the primary breadwinner or not). At the same time, though, actually spending three months' salary on a piece of jewellery is pretty dumb and mostly comes across as trying to demonstrate your financial stability to convince somebody to be your mate. Buy something she'll like, and only consider cost insofar as you need to for your own financial comfort. If you've been living together and sharing finances for years, you've got nothing to prove, financially speaking, so there's no point spending more money than is needed to make her happy.
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| Topic | I find vehicle vanity plates to be cringe |
| adjl 04/01/24 12:31:36 PM #8 | KJ_StErOiDs posted...
Some are clever, some not; I'm indifferent toward them, mostly. Pretty much this. I'm either going to be entertained or indifferent. It's pretty rare that I'm actually bothered by one. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | You have to choose one of these things to do for $1,000,000,000... |
| adjl 03/31/24 4:11:04 PM #38 | JixHedgehog posted...
*raises hand and puts glasses on* Would you actually be working with people if you were a billionaire? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | How come you can't poop and pee at the same time? |
| adjl 03/31/24 1:19:47 PM #18 | Playsaver posted...
Try vomit and diarrhea at the same time. It's a case of you don't want both coming out at the same time. My cat did that once. While I was walking home with him in a backpack. That was not a fun cleanup. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
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