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If its boring, don't watch. I actually love watching asian teams, just because how much better they are than the rest, the bar is set higher, so if you want to win the money prize, get better, take the game serious and just practice more. If they can do it, anybody else can. The only thing asians do different is that they take the game serious, because it is how they make a living. The other regions seems to not take it too serious, they can make a living of streaming so they don't put too much effort on actually winning tournaments. TL:DR - Love watching asians playing, other regions need to take the game serious or will keep getting stomped like amateurs.

If its boring, don't watch. I actually love watching asian teams, just because how much better they are than the rest, the bar is set higher, so if you want to win the money prize, get better, take the game serious and just practice more. If they can do it, anybody else can. The only thing asians do different is that they take the game serious, because it is how they make a living. The other regions seems to not take it too serious, they can make a living of streaming so they don't put too much effort on actually winning tournaments. TL:DR - Love watching asians playing, other regions need to take the game serious or will keep getting stomped like amateurs.

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c7zte3q

If its boring, don't watch. I actually love watching asian teams, just because how much better they are than the rest, the bar is set higher, so if you want to win the money prize, get better, take the game serious and just practice more. If they can do it, anybody else can. The only thing asians do different is that they take the game serious, because it is how they make a living. The other regions seems to not take it too serious, they can make a living of streaming so they don't put too much effort on actually winning tournaments.

Love watching asians playing, other regions need to take the game serious or will keep getting stomped like amateurs.

Scherezade_Jones

Try not to fall asleep, even if you fall asleep really easily. He will take it personally. I fell asleep once, during a very sweet and slow session. I was in an inbetween state wherein I was still moving some, but I was 70-90% dreaming. It was all very abstract and sensory and amazing. The quality of sex was never an issue, but I have never had such an amorphous sensual dreamy sleeptrippy experience before or since. He was less than impressed when after the fact I told him I had fallen asleep, "and it was really great!". No matter how many times you try to explain that it was nothing to do with his prowess, and try to relate the strange trippy experience, all he will hear is "I FELL ASLEEP". TL;DR Don't let him know that at one point you fell asleep, even if it was really cool.

Try not to fall asleep, even if you fall asleep really easily. He will take it personally. I fell asleep once, during a very sweet and slow session. I was in an inbetween state wherein I was still moving some, but I was 70-90% dreaming. It was all very abstract and sensory and amazing. The quality of sex was never an issue, but I have never had such an amorphous sensual dreamy sleeptrippy experience before or since. He was less than impressed when after the fact I told him I had fallen asleep, "and it was really great!". No matter how many times you try to explain that it was nothing to do with his prowess, and try to relate the strange trippy experience, all he will hear is "I FELL ASLEEP". TL;DR Don't let him know that at one point you fell asleep, even if it was really cool.

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Try not to fall asleep, even if you fall asleep really easily. He will take it personally. I fell asleep once, during a very sweet and slow session. I was in an inbetween state wherein I was still moving some, but I was 70-90% dreaming. It was all very abstract and sensory and amazing. The quality of sex was never an issue, but I have never had such an amorphous sensual dreamy sleeptrippy experience before or since. He was less than impressed when after the fact I told him I had fallen asleep, "and it was really great!". No matter how many times you try to explain that it was nothing to do with his prowess, and try to relate the strange trippy experience, all he will hear is "I FELL ASLEEP".

Don't let him know that at one point you fell asleep, even if it was really cool.

Imean_sursly

If you're a woman and you're not really enjoying that certain position or the sex in general.... Just say something. It won't ruin the moment. It will make it better. Sooo communicate is where I'm going with this. Tl;dr good sex=communication

If you're a woman and you're not really enjoying that certain position or the sex in general.... Just say something. It won't ruin the moment. It will make it better. Sooo communicate is where I'm going with this. Tl;dr good sex=communication

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If you're a woman and you're not really enjoying that certain position or the sex in general.... Just say something. It won't ruin the moment. It will make it better. Sooo communicate is where I'm going with this.

good sex=communication

mslawdropout

Female representative here. A little use of teeth in just the right spot will regularly elicit from me some sort of scream/gasp combo as I claw wildly for grip amongst the linen, or desk stationery, or whatever the environment has to offer. TL;DR teeth should not always be out of the question

Female representative here. A little use of teeth in just the right spot will regularly elicit from me some sort of scream/gasp combo as I claw wildly for grip amongst the linen, or desk stationery, or whatever the environment has to offer. TL;DR teeth should not always be out of the question

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Female representative here. A little use of teeth in just the right spot will regularly elicit from me some sort of scream/gasp combo as I claw wildly for grip amongst the linen, or desk stationery, or whatever the environment has to offer.

teeth should not always be out of the question

xarball

I'm afraid of being with the wrong person for this reason. It's also the reason why I'm so picky, even if I'm with someone where the chemistry is good. I need to know I can trust you when I'm not at my best. And I'm not at my best, when I'm **THAT** at ease. And when I'm that at ease after an insane climax, and I realize you're there with me, I want to look out for both of us. But I can't! **You** made sure of that. And now I'm beside a sex goddess from an orgasmic dream, who, after what just happened I don't feel like I understand. And I'm still coming to my senses because of feeling THAT good. So when you're that powerless and alone in your struggle, and someone did it to you? Yeah lol you'll want something! It's actually really unnerving, but it means the world to me if whoever I'm with can hang on a little tighter. I don't ever say anything, and I don't cry, and I definitely enjoyed it, but I expect that much. You're getting another date if you do. TL;DR - You have to be the girl of my dreams if you're going to wake me up from that.

I'm afraid of being with the wrong person for this reason. It's also the reason why I'm so picky, even if I'm with someone where the chemistry is good. I need to know I can trust you when I'm not at my best. And I'm not at my best, when I'm THAT at ease. And when I'm that at ease after an insane climax, and I realize you're there with me, I want to look out for both of us. But I can't! You made sure of that. And now I'm beside a sex goddess from an orgasmic dream, who, after what just happened I don't feel like I understand. And I'm still coming to my senses because of feeling THAT good. So when you're that powerless and alone in your struggle, and someone did it to you? Yeah lol you'll want something! It's actually really unnerving, but it means the world to me if whoever I'm with can hang on a little tighter. I don't ever say anything, and I don't cry, and I definitely enjoyed it, but I expect that much. You're getting another date if you do. TL;DR - You have to be the girl of my dreams if you're going to wake me up from that.

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I'm afraid of being with the wrong person for this reason. It's also the reason why I'm so picky, even if I'm with someone where the chemistry is good. I need to know I can trust you when I'm not at my best. And I'm not at my best, when I'm THAT at ease. And when I'm that at ease after an insane climax, and I realize you're there with me, I want to look out for both of us. But I can't! You made sure of that. And now I'm beside a sex goddess from an orgasmic dream, who, after what just happened I don't feel like I understand. And I'm still coming to my senses because of feeling THAT good. So when you're that powerless and alone in your struggle, and someone did it to you? Yeah lol you'll want something! It's actually really unnerving, but it means the world to me if whoever I'm with can hang on a little tighter. I don't ever say anything, and I don't cry, and I definitely enjoyed it, but I expect that much. You're getting another date if you do.

You have to be the girl of my dreams if you're going to wake me up from that.

JoshuaMacaulay

As a person who gets really quite self conscious about sex, I read every comment on this thread, and I found it very helpful. Whilst I didn't see anything that I didn't already know, a lot of this has put me at ease, particularly that pleasure is more important than orgasm. TL;DR This post is great if you're unsure of yourself sexually.

As a person who gets really quite self conscious about sex, I read every comment on this thread, and I found it very helpful. Whilst I didn't see anything that I didn't already know, a lot of this has put me at ease, particularly that pleasure is more important than orgasm. TL;DR This post is great if you're unsure of yourself sexually.

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c80a1lf

As a person who gets really quite self conscious about sex, I read every comment on this thread, and I found it very helpful. Whilst I didn't see anything that I didn't already know, a lot of this has put me at ease, particularly that pleasure is more important than orgasm.

This post is great if you're unsure of yourself sexually.

zhrusk

Hormones and a release of tension can cause some crazy emotions in people. During sex, your body basically goes crazy hormonally, as everything just kind of prepares itself for the most important part of its existence - contributing to the gene pool. These floods of hormones can produce some interesting side effects, and any emotions you are keeping hidden or repressing can come out. Its often said that lovers bare their souls to each other, and I do believe this is one of the reasons why. My fiancee has had two interesting swings over the course of our relationship. The first happened after a really stressful two weeks on her end. Troubles with job politics, fights with family, and a host of other problems that she was bottling up. In the middle of the act, she started bawling like none other. I of course stopped immediately, and held her as she just cried and cried. She never knew exactly what she was crying about, but the feelings had just risen out of her during the passion of sex. The second happened after a particularly good session. We had both been feeling good, and after one of her orgasms, she started laughing so hard she couldn't talk. We had to communicate over written notes for about a half hour until she could speak again. Never figured out why, but that session sticks in my mind as a interesting reverse of the usual emotional lows. A bad partner will treat these emotional highs and lows as distractions, or worse, plow right through them and try to continue. As with everything else on life and love, good communication and empathy is the key. **TL:DR, hormones be whack, yo**

Hormones and a release of tension can cause some crazy emotions in people. During sex, your body basically goes crazy hormonally, as everything just kind of prepares itself for the most important part of its existence - contributing to the gene pool. These floods of hormones can produce some interesting side effects, and any emotions you are keeping hidden or repressing can come out. Its often said that lovers bare their souls to each other, and I do believe this is one of the reasons why. My fiancee has had two interesting swings over the course of our relationship. The first happened after a really stressful two weeks on her end. Troubles with job politics, fights with family, and a host of other problems that she was bottling up. In the middle of the act, she started bawling like none other. I of course stopped immediately, and held her as she just cried and cried. She never knew exactly what she was crying about, but the feelings had just risen out of her during the passion of sex. The second happened after a particularly good session. We had both been feeling good, and after one of her orgasms, she started laughing so hard she couldn't talk. We had to communicate over written notes for about a half hour until she could speak again. Never figured out why, but that session sticks in my mind as a interesting reverse of the usual emotional lows. A bad partner will treat these emotional highs and lows as distractions, or worse, plow right through them and try to continue. As with everything else on life and love, good communication and empathy is the key. TL:DR, hormones be whack, yo

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Hormones and a release of tension can cause some crazy emotions in people. During sex, your body basically goes crazy hormonally, as everything just kind of prepares itself for the most important part of its existence - contributing to the gene pool. These floods of hormones can produce some interesting side effects, and any emotions you are keeping hidden or repressing can come out. Its often said that lovers bare their souls to each other, and I do believe this is one of the reasons why. My fiancee has had two interesting swings over the course of our relationship. The first happened after a really stressful two weeks on her end. Troubles with job politics, fights with family, and a host of other problems that she was bottling up. In the middle of the act, she started bawling like none other. I of course stopped immediately, and held her as she just cried and cried. She never knew exactly what she was crying about, but the feelings had just risen out of her during the passion of sex. The second happened after a particularly good session. We had both been feeling good, and after one of her orgasms, she started laughing so hard she couldn't talk. We had to communicate over written notes for about a half hour until she could speak again. Never figured out why, but that session sticks in my mind as a interesting reverse of the usual emotional lows. A bad partner will treat these emotional highs and lows as distractions, or worse, plow right through them and try to continue. As with everything else on life and love, good communication and empathy is the key.

hormones be whack, yo

squeak6666yw

I'm not coming out in favor of begging for sex just pointing out a strange thing. TL/DR i agree with you

I'm not coming out in favor of begging for sex just pointing out a strange thing. TL/DR i agree with you

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I'm not coming out in favor of begging for sex just pointing out a strange thing.

i agree with you

QualityOfMercy

Whatever you do, do NOT Google [ocular herpes]( (NSFL) TL;DR: Do NOT click on that link!

Whatever you do, do NOT Google ocular herpes TL;DR: Do NOT click on that link!

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Whatever you do, do NOT Google ocular herpes

Do NOT click on that link!

ericinmotion

I grew up in florida and would wear normal anti-perspirant as a young man. I also wore plain white tee-shirts and v-necks a lot. They all had yellow stains, I sweat a lot and it was almost instant when I put the stuff under my pits. Old Spice and Right Guard produced a reverse effect. I got so pissed off about constantly having wet underarms and disgusting stains, I just quit wearing it. A few weeks later and I'm sweating a lot less without it (but was still sweating a little because it's fucking florida). It seemed to me, the built up aluminum gradually exited my body and all was good after that. I ended up just wearing plain toms deodorant regularly. I never figured out a way to remove the yellow stain but, it wouldn't have mattered. It will always come back unless you remove the source of the problem. I ended up buying a lot of new white shirts and never had the problem again. tl;dr stopped wearing anti-perspirant, stopped sweating (mostly), bought new shirts. edit: grammar / punctuation / spelling.

I grew up in florida and would wear normal anti-perspirant as a young man. I also wore plain white tee-shirts and v-necks a lot. They all had yellow stains, I sweat a lot and it was almost instant when I put the stuff under my pits. Old Spice and Right Guard produced a reverse effect. I got so pissed off about constantly having wet underarms and disgusting stains, I just quit wearing it. A few weeks later and I'm sweating a lot less without it (but was still sweating a little because it's fucking florida). It seemed to me, the built up aluminum gradually exited my body and all was good after that. I ended up just wearing plain toms deodorant regularly. I never figured out a way to remove the yellow stain but, it wouldn't have mattered. It will always come back unless you remove the source of the problem. I ended up buying a lot of new white shirts and never had the problem again. tl;dr stopped wearing anti-perspirant, stopped sweating (mostly), bought new shirts. edit: grammar / punctuation / spelling.

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I grew up in florida and would wear normal anti-perspirant as a young man. I also wore plain white tee-shirts and v-necks a lot. They all had yellow stains, I sweat a lot and it was almost instant when I put the stuff under my pits. Old Spice and Right Guard produced a reverse effect. I got so pissed off about constantly having wet underarms and disgusting stains, I just quit wearing it. A few weeks later and I'm sweating a lot less without it (but was still sweating a little because it's fucking florida). It seemed to me, the built up aluminum gradually exited my body and all was good after that. I ended up just wearing plain toms deodorant regularly. I never figured out a way to remove the yellow stain but, it wouldn't have mattered. It will always come back unless you remove the source of the problem. I ended up buying a lot of new white shirts and never had the problem again.

stopped wearing anti-perspirant, stopped sweating (mostly), bought new shirts. edit: grammar / punctuation / spelling.

kestrel2

Okay, female here, but at least I'm from places with highs in the 100's F, and the prescription strength kind of deodorant isn't even enough on hot days. So. Here's my formula: * About 2 Tbs baking soda (for one shirt) * Enough peroxide to make a good, thick paste: mix it up. * A bit of dish detergent (less than half a teaspoon; you're going to throw it in the washing machine with laundry detergent anyway) Then use a cleaning brush (I use old toothbrushes for cleaning the mildew around bathroom faucets - use that one) to really rub the mixture into the armpit stain. (Note that baking soda and peroxide are pretty much the active ingredients in Oxy Clean, so this is maybe just a cheaper version.) Let it sit (overnight, preferably), then wash as usual. You should smell ammonia just after applying if you get too close - this is a good sign that you have a nice chemical reaction going on, and you're removing the yellow from your shirt. (And as others say, check colorfastness, blah blah - I just used this on white shirts. But peroxide is "color-safe bleach", so usually you should be okay.) Thanks to Pinterest for the idea, but I have tried it myself on my own shirts, and man, is it great. **tl;dr:** Baking soda + peroxide = awesomeness.

Okay, female here, but at least I'm from places with highs in the 100's F, and the prescription strength kind of deodorant isn't even enough on hot days. So. Here's my formula: About 2 Tbs baking soda (for one shirt) Enough peroxide to make a good, thick paste: mix it up. A bit of dish detergent (less than half a teaspoon; you're going to throw it in the washing machine with laundry detergent anyway) Then use a cleaning brush (I use old toothbrushes for cleaning the mildew around bathroom faucets - use that one) to really rub the mixture into the armpit stain. (Note that baking soda and peroxide are pretty much the active ingredients in Oxy Clean, so this is maybe just a cheaper version.) Let it sit (overnight, preferably), then wash as usual. You should smell ammonia just after applying if you get too close - this is a good sign that you have a nice chemical reaction going on, and you're removing the yellow from your shirt. (And as others say, check colorfastness, blah blah - I just used this on white shirts. But peroxide is "color-safe bleach", so usually you should be okay.) Thanks to Pinterest for the idea, but I have tried it myself on my own shirts, and man, is it great. tl;dr: Baking soda + peroxide = awesomeness.

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c80mw8i

Okay, female here, but at least I'm from places with highs in the 100's F, and the prescription strength kind of deodorant isn't even enough on hot days. So. Here's my formula: About 2 Tbs baking soda (for one shirt) Enough peroxide to make a good, thick paste: mix it up. A bit of dish detergent (less than half a teaspoon; you're going to throw it in the washing machine with laundry detergent anyway) Then use a cleaning brush (I use old toothbrushes for cleaning the mildew around bathroom faucets - use that one) to really rub the mixture into the armpit stain. (Note that baking soda and peroxide are pretty much the active ingredients in Oxy Clean, so this is maybe just a cheaper version.) Let it sit (overnight, preferably), then wash as usual. You should smell ammonia just after applying if you get too close - this is a good sign that you have a nice chemical reaction going on, and you're removing the yellow from your shirt. (And as others say, check colorfastness, blah blah - I just used this on white shirts. But peroxide is "color-safe bleach", so usually you should be okay.) Thanks to Pinterest for the idea, but I have tried it myself on my own shirts, and man, is it great.

Baking soda + peroxide = awesomeness.

fat_over_lean

This is going to be a rambling post of my 40k history and armies so bear with me. I got into 40k like this: One of my friends fathers was heavily invested into 40k/Fantasy- I'm talking 3000+ points of every army (painted and heavily converted to boot). Their entire basement was full of glass cases of armies. I believe he used to work in a GW store and as a Rogue Trader. Anyways, my friends and I were all fascinated by the models and so after some test games we each chose an army to play. I ended up choosing Tyranids (3rd ed) simply because I thought they looked cool. I racked up about 1500 points before realizing that I preferred shooty armies. I ended up repainting them several times, and lost a lot of the detail. My friend who originally started with Tau decided to switch to Eldar, and so I jumped on the opportunity to take up the Tau reigns. I decided to sell the the 'nids in 4th edition, with the intent to try out Ulthwe Eldar. I sold the 'nids for a good price to someone in Australia, but the post down under lost the package for 6 months. I had to refund the money, and was very close to receiving insurance money for more than I sold them for. However, the Australia post eventually located the package months later (which was now completely crushed, including all of my miniatures) and the person I sold it to returned it to me. USPS wouldn't pay anything for the damage, and I ended up reselling them at 30% of what I had originally sold them for. With the 'nid money, I did buy an Eldar Battleforce and a Seer Council, but ended up not having the funds to expand them or any interest in battling with them. At this point I had actually begun several armies, none of which were completely painted. I decided I should refocus my efforts back into finishing my main, the Tau. I sold them and put the money towards the 4th ed Tau boxed army. I am a Tau addict and ended up with probably 4000 points, maybe even 5000 or more (haven't done a total tally in years). I have so many Kroot that I also have a fully converted 1500pt Kroot Kindred army that I used to play for fun (back when Chapter Approved was around). Oddly enough the Kroot was the only army I finished since they were so easy to paint. My brother liked the Space Marines, and so to get him into the game I basically went halfsies with him building (and painting) a Salamanders army when the Armageddon Codex came out. I have roughly 3000 points of them, with another 1000 points of unpainted SM that I'm not sure if I want to use to flush out the Sallies or convert them into more... ...Pre-Heresy Thousand sons. I have a small army of them, probably 1000, maybe 1500 if I load up on Wargear. I also have another 1000 points of post-heresy 1k Sons. I stripped the paint off them with the intent to repaint now that I'm more experienced. However they are currently on the backburner as I am (still) trying to finish my Tau. I ended up being a pretty decent painter, and spent my free time in HS building/painting armies on commission. 40k: Crimson fists, CSM Khorne, IG, WHFB: Dwarves, Goblins. That means most of my personal armies were never finished. By the time I was heading to college (2006), my armies were still incomplete and I no longer had time to work on them. I brought them to school with me, but didn't even touch them. That was until this year, when I saw that 6th ed had just come out and bought the rulebook. Now I had time and disposable income and decided to get back into 40k with a college friend. I got a little too excited, and since July I went ahead and bought another 1000 points of Tau, a 2000 point (unpainted) Eldar army, along with Ltd Ed Dark Vengeance and the 5th ed starter. I also bought a few hundred dollars worth of paints, and all of the current codexes (on ebay). I don't know what I was thinking, considering my other armies weren't even done. On top of that, I got a case of the WAAAGH and wanted to paint the 5th ed starter Orks first (as bad moons). I made myself commit to finishing the Orks before moving on to anything else. They're actually almost done! Before my hiatus I also decided to experiment with Fantasy and have about 2000 points of Lizardmen, and maybe 500 points of Brettonians. I only ever played one game, and didn't really enjoy it as much as 40k. I also dabbled in the specialist games. I have a Van Saar gang, a small Cawdor gang, and a converted Lizardmen blood bowl team. TL;DR Minus a 6 year hiatus, I've been collecting since 3rd edition. 4000-5000 points of Tau (not including 1500 points of Kroot Kindred), 3000 of Salamanders, 1000 of Pre-Heresy, 1000 of post-heresy 1k Sons, 2000 Ulthwe Eldar, 500(?) Orks, 2000 Lizardmen, 500 Brettonians, Van Saar and Cawdor gangs, a Lizardmen blood bowl team.

This is going to be a rambling post of my 40k history and armies so bear with me. I got into 40k like this: One of my friends fathers was heavily invested into 40k/Fantasy- I'm talking 3000+ points of every army (painted and heavily converted to boot). Their entire basement was full of glass cases of armies. I believe he used to work in a GW store and as a Rogue Trader. Anyways, my friends and I were all fascinated by the models and so after some test games we each chose an army to play. I ended up choosing Tyranids (3rd ed) simply because I thought they looked cool. I racked up about 1500 points before realizing that I preferred shooty armies. I ended up repainting them several times, and lost a lot of the detail. My friend who originally started with Tau decided to switch to Eldar, and so I jumped on the opportunity to take up the Tau reigns. I decided to sell the the 'nids in 4th edition, with the intent to try out Ulthwe Eldar. I sold the 'nids for a good price to someone in Australia, but the post down under lost the package for 6 months. I had to refund the money, and was very close to receiving insurance money for more than I sold them for. However, the Australia post eventually located the package months later (which was now completely crushed, including all of my miniatures) and the person I sold it to returned it to me. USPS wouldn't pay anything for the damage, and I ended up reselling them at 30% of what I had originally sold them for. With the 'nid money, I did buy an Eldar Battleforce and a Seer Council, but ended up not having the funds to expand them or any interest in battling with them. At this point I had actually begun several armies, none of which were completely painted. I decided I should refocus my efforts back into finishing my main, the Tau. I sold them and put the money towards the 4th ed Tau boxed army. I am a Tau addict and ended up with probably 4000 points, maybe even 5000 or more (haven't done a total tally in years). I have so many Kroot that I also have a fully converted 1500pt Kroot Kindred army that I used to play for fun (back when Chapter Approved was around). Oddly enough the Kroot was the only army I finished since they were so easy to paint. My brother liked the Space Marines, and so to get him into the game I basically went halfsies with him building (and painting) a Salamanders army when the Armageddon Codex came out. I have roughly 3000 points of them, with another 1000 points of unpainted SM that I'm not sure if I want to use to flush out the Sallies or convert them into more... ...Pre-Heresy Thousand sons. I have a small army of them, probably 1000, maybe 1500 if I load up on Wargear. I also have another 1000 points of post-heresy 1k Sons. I stripped the paint off them with the intent to repaint now that I'm more experienced. However they are currently on the backburner as I am (still) trying to finish my Tau. I ended up being a pretty decent painter, and spent my free time in HS building/painting armies on commission. 40k: Crimson fists, CSM Khorne, IG, WHFB: Dwarves, Goblins. That means most of my personal armies were never finished. By the time I was heading to college (2006), my armies were still incomplete and I no longer had time to work on them. I brought them to school with me, but didn't even touch them. That was until this year, when I saw that 6th ed had just come out and bought the rulebook. Now I had time and disposable income and decided to get back into 40k with a college friend. I got a little too excited, and since July I went ahead and bought another 1000 points of Tau, a 2000 point (unpainted) Eldar army, along with Ltd Ed Dark Vengeance and the 5th ed starter. I also bought a few hundred dollars worth of paints, and all of the current codexes (on ebay). I don't know what I was thinking, considering my other armies weren't even done. On top of that, I got a case of the WAAAGH and wanted to paint the 5th ed starter Orks first (as bad moons). I made myself commit to finishing the Orks before moving on to anything else. They're actually almost done! Before my hiatus I also decided to experiment with Fantasy and have about 2000 points of Lizardmen, and maybe 500 points of Brettonians. I only ever played one game, and didn't really enjoy it as much as 40k. I also dabbled in the specialist games. I have a Van Saar gang, a small Cawdor gang, and a converted Lizardmen blood bowl team. TL;DR Minus a 6 year hiatus, I've been collecting since 3rd edition. 4000-5000 points of Tau (not including 1500 points of Kroot Kindred), 3000 of Salamanders, 1000 of Pre-Heresy, 1000 of post-heresy 1k Sons, 2000 Ulthwe Eldar, 500(?) Orks, 2000 Lizardmen, 500 Brettonians, Van Saar and Cawdor gangs, a Lizardmen blood bowl team.

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t5_2rr81

c80onar

This is going to be a rambling post of my 40k history and armies so bear with me. I got into 40k like this: One of my friends fathers was heavily invested into 40k/Fantasy- I'm talking 3000+ points of every army (painted and heavily converted to boot). Their entire basement was full of glass cases of armies. I believe he used to work in a GW store and as a Rogue Trader. Anyways, my friends and I were all fascinated by the models and so after some test games we each chose an army to play. I ended up choosing Tyranids (3rd ed) simply because I thought they looked cool. I racked up about 1500 points before realizing that I preferred shooty armies. I ended up repainting them several times, and lost a lot of the detail. My friend who originally started with Tau decided to switch to Eldar, and so I jumped on the opportunity to take up the Tau reigns. I decided to sell the the 'nids in 4th edition, with the intent to try out Ulthwe Eldar. I sold the 'nids for a good price to someone in Australia, but the post down under lost the package for 6 months. I had to refund the money, and was very close to receiving insurance money for more than I sold them for. However, the Australia post eventually located the package months later (which was now completely crushed, including all of my miniatures) and the person I sold it to returned it to me. USPS wouldn't pay anything for the damage, and I ended up reselling them at 30% of what I had originally sold them for. With the 'nid money, I did buy an Eldar Battleforce and a Seer Council, but ended up not having the funds to expand them or any interest in battling with them. At this point I had actually begun several armies, none of which were completely painted. I decided I should refocus my efforts back into finishing my main, the Tau. I sold them and put the money towards the 4th ed Tau boxed army. I am a Tau addict and ended up with probably 4000 points, maybe even 5000 or more (haven't done a total tally in years). I have so many Kroot that I also have a fully converted 1500pt Kroot Kindred army that I used to play for fun (back when Chapter Approved was around). Oddly enough the Kroot was the only army I finished since they were so easy to paint. My brother liked the Space Marines, and so to get him into the game I basically went halfsies with him building (and painting) a Salamanders army when the Armageddon Codex came out. I have roughly 3000 points of them, with another 1000 points of unpainted SM that I'm not sure if I want to use to flush out the Sallies or convert them into more... ...Pre-Heresy Thousand sons. I have a small army of them, probably 1000, maybe 1500 if I load up on Wargear. I also have another 1000 points of post-heresy 1k Sons. I stripped the paint off them with the intent to repaint now that I'm more experienced. However they are currently on the backburner as I am (still) trying to finish my Tau. I ended up being a pretty decent painter, and spent my free time in HS building/painting armies on commission. 40k: Crimson fists, CSM Khorne, IG, WHFB: Dwarves, Goblins. That means most of my personal armies were never finished. By the time I was heading to college (2006), my armies were still incomplete and I no longer had time to work on them. I brought them to school with me, but didn't even touch them. That was until this year, when I saw that 6th ed had just come out and bought the rulebook. Now I had time and disposable income and decided to get back into 40k with a college friend. I got a little too excited, and since July I went ahead and bought another 1000 points of Tau, a 2000 point (unpainted) Eldar army, along with Ltd Ed Dark Vengeance and the 5th ed starter. I also bought a few hundred dollars worth of paints, and all of the current codexes (on ebay). I don't know what I was thinking, considering my other armies weren't even done. On top of that, I got a case of the WAAAGH and wanted to paint the 5th ed starter Orks first (as bad moons). I made myself commit to finishing the Orks before moving on to anything else. They're actually almost done! Before my hiatus I also decided to experiment with Fantasy and have about 2000 points of Lizardmen, and maybe 500 points of Brettonians. I only ever played one game, and didn't really enjoy it as much as 40k. I also dabbled in the specialist games. I have a Van Saar gang, a small Cawdor gang, and a converted Lizardmen blood bowl team.

Minus a 6 year hiatus, I've been collecting since 3rd edition. 4000-5000 points of Tau (not including 1500 points of Kroot Kindred), 3000 of Salamanders, 1000 of Pre-Heresy, 1000 of post-heresy 1k Sons, 2000 Ulthwe Eldar, 500(?) Orks, 2000 Lizardmen, 500 Brettonians, Van Saar and Cawdor gangs, a Lizardmen blood bowl team.

badjuice

Are you being sarcastically funny, or did you seriously just say that? I would say that something is something if it matches the definition. If that is not the case, then everything isn't anything and something can be anything. Since we are talking of definitions, and this is a public forum, I assume we are using the 'common' definition for anything, a.k.a, the dictionary. Not what you define it, or what I define it. Personally, I don't like labels of sexual orientation. As mentioned, they are massive simplifications. Therefor, please turn to There, we find the 2nd definition as a noun being the one we are using (as we are pertaining to 'being' bisexual, that is, a noun, and we aren't talking about biology, which is the first definition). Anywho: `sexually responsive to both sexes; ambisexual. ` As he has had sexual encounters with men ( that is, he sexually responded to men ), and we're assuming he has sex with a woman ( OP ), *this makes him bisexual in the context of this conversation*. Yes, he determines his sexuality and the label he prefers. I support people being able to define themselves, but our grammar and word choice do not. I have many friends that are women that happen to have penises. When they go to the doctor, they are men, because at a biological and health level (AKA *the context*), they are men. I call them 'her', refer to them in the feminine, and accept their choice of labeling in the social and relative *contexts* because they are whatever they want to be *in that context*. So, if that was sarcastic humorish trolling, kudos. You totally win, and I hope you enjoyed the snack. If you were serious though, I think you need to get off your instant judgement high horse and think about the context and the definition of the situation in relevance to the OP's situation. Not every situation (*the context*) is the same, and we must be flexible in our understanding to be able to appropriately treat a situation with the best tools and language for the situation. By requiring or pushing everybody in all situations to use an absolute definition that fits best with the context of your life, you are actually hurting every situation that does not match the context of your life. In other words, the universe does not revolve around your preferences or belief systems, and don't tell me what word to use for anybody but you specifically. If OP had said what you just said, this response would not exist. But since a third party which cannot decide for OP or decide for OP's man or decide for me has decided to tell me what something is, **fuck you**. You are what's wrong with the sexual freedom movement. **TL:DR;** I started my post framing that we were going to call him bisexual or gay (*HENCE THE "BY DEFINITION*", meaning, if you want to know what I mean, consult a fucking dictionary, kind of like what I just fucking did in this post) so that I would have a selection of different words with different connotations in the context so we can properly discuss the situation, you hyper-PC neo-sexist nazi asshole. (Of course that closing clause was over exaggeration within context to add emphasis, bitch:

Are you being sarcastically funny, or did you seriously just say that? I would say that something is something if it matches the definition. If that is not the case, then everything isn't anything and something can be anything. Since we are talking of definitions, and this is a public forum, I assume we are using the 'common' definition for anything, a.k.a, the dictionary. Not what you define it, or what I define it. Personally, I don't like labels of sexual orientation. As mentioned, they are massive simplifications. Therefor, please turn to There, we find the 2nd definition as a noun being the one we are using (as we are pertaining to 'being' bisexual, that is, a noun, and we aren't talking about biology, which is the first definition). Anywho: sexually responsive to both sexes; ambisexual. As he has had sexual encounters with men ( that is, he sexually responded to men ), and we're assuming he has sex with a woman ( OP ), this makes him bisexual in the context of this conversation . Yes, he determines his sexuality and the label he prefers. I support people being able to define themselves, but our grammar and word choice do not. I have many friends that are women that happen to have penises. When they go to the doctor, they are men, because at a biological and health level (AKA the context ), they are men. I call them 'her', refer to them in the feminine, and accept their choice of labeling in the social and relative contexts because they are whatever they want to be in that context . So, if that was sarcastic humorish trolling, kudos. You totally win, and I hope you enjoyed the snack. If you were serious though, I think you need to get off your instant judgement high horse and think about the context and the definition of the situation in relevance to the OP's situation. Not every situation ( the context ) is the same, and we must be flexible in our understanding to be able to appropriately treat a situation with the best tools and language for the situation. By requiring or pushing everybody in all situations to use an absolute definition that fits best with the context of your life, you are actually hurting every situation that does not match the context of your life. In other words, the universe does not revolve around your preferences or belief systems, and don't tell me what word to use for anybody but you specifically. If OP had said what you just said, this response would not exist. But since a third party which cannot decide for OP or decide for OP's man or decide for me has decided to tell me what something is, fuck you . You are what's wrong with the sexual freedom movement. TL:DR; I started my post framing that we were going to call him bisexual or gay ( HENCE THE "BY DEFINITION ", meaning, if you want to know what I mean, consult a fucking dictionary, kind of like what I just fucking did in this post) so that I would have a selection of different words with different connotations in the context so we can properly discuss the situation, you hyper-PC neo-sexist nazi asshole. (Of course that closing clause was over exaggeration within context to add emphasis, bitch:

relationships

t5_2qjvn

c810028

Are you being sarcastically funny, or did you seriously just say that? I would say that something is something if it matches the definition. If that is not the case, then everything isn't anything and something can be anything. Since we are talking of definitions, and this is a public forum, I assume we are using the 'common' definition for anything, a.k.a, the dictionary. Not what you define it, or what I define it. Personally, I don't like labels of sexual orientation. As mentioned, they are massive simplifications. Therefor, please turn to There, we find the 2nd definition as a noun being the one we are using (as we are pertaining to 'being' bisexual, that is, a noun, and we aren't talking about biology, which is the first definition). Anywho: sexually responsive to both sexes; ambisexual. As he has had sexual encounters with men ( that is, he sexually responded to men ), and we're assuming he has sex with a woman ( OP ), this makes him bisexual in the context of this conversation . Yes, he determines his sexuality and the label he prefers. I support people being able to define themselves, but our grammar and word choice do not. I have many friends that are women that happen to have penises. When they go to the doctor, they are men, because at a biological and health level (AKA the context ), they are men. I call them 'her', refer to them in the feminine, and accept their choice of labeling in the social and relative contexts because they are whatever they want to be in that context . So, if that was sarcastic humorish trolling, kudos. You totally win, and I hope you enjoyed the snack. If you were serious though, I think you need to get off your instant judgement high horse and think about the context and the definition of the situation in relevance to the OP's situation. Not every situation ( the context ) is the same, and we must be flexible in our understanding to be able to appropriately treat a situation with the best tools and language for the situation. By requiring or pushing everybody in all situations to use an absolute definition that fits best with the context of your life, you are actually hurting every situation that does not match the context of your life. In other words, the universe does not revolve around your preferences or belief systems, and don't tell me what word to use for anybody but you specifically. If OP had said what you just said, this response would not exist. But since a third party which cannot decide for OP or decide for OP's man or decide for me has decided to tell me what something is, fuck you . You are what's wrong with the sexual freedom movement.

I started my post framing that we were going to call him bisexual or gay ( HENCE THE "BY DEFINITION ", meaning, if you want to know what I mean, consult a fucking dictionary, kind of like what I just fucking did in this post) so that I would have a selection of different words with different connotations in the context so we can properly discuss the situation, you hyper-PC neo-sexist nazi asshole. (Of course that closing clause was over exaggeration within context to add emphasis, bitch:

jspeights

Probably just one. Telling from his reaction it probably happened when he was a small boy. He was probably out shopping with his mother, standing in line at check out when it first happened. The man in front of him at check out bent down to get some change he dropped. Little mystery butt sniffer man, lets just call him Bruce, standing there holding his mothers hand was fixated on this heavy set man ASS coming for his head. At first he was scared, but Bruce watched dragon ball Z after school and thought to himself "Goku never gets scared" as that massive asian butt came towering down on him. Instead of running like most kids behind mommy, Bruce, he just stepped up waiting for that butt to hit his face. It was the smell that got him, the smell he'll never forget. The sweet moment that dookie butt was going to hit Bruces face, that moment of contact Bruce was anticipating was instantly ruined by a slap to the back of his head by his mother. That rage, as her eyes filled with tears when she looked at Bruce. "You're going to be just like your father!", she yelled. His heart sunk, he didn't understand, he just wanted to sniff that mans ass and didn't understand why his mother wouldn't let him. Ever since that day, Bruce trained every moment he got vowing never to get caught again, doing what he loved to do, doing what he was born to do, sniffing man ass. But even the best get defeated. Bruce just never thought it would be him. edit: grammar **tldr:** "Bruce trained hard after getting caught once sniffing man ass as a kid, vowing never to get caught again"

Probably just one. Telling from his reaction it probably happened when he was a small boy. He was probably out shopping with his mother, standing in line at check out when it first happened. The man in front of him at check out bent down to get some change he dropped. Little mystery butt sniffer man, lets just call him Bruce, standing there holding his mothers hand was fixated on this heavy set man ASS coming for his head. At first he was scared, but Bruce watched dragon ball Z after school and thought to himself "Goku never gets scared" as that massive asian butt came towering down on him. Instead of running like most kids behind mommy, Bruce, he just stepped up waiting for that butt to hit his face. It was the smell that got him, the smell he'll never forget. The sweet moment that dookie butt was going to hit Bruces face, that moment of contact Bruce was anticipating was instantly ruined by a slap to the back of his head by his mother. That rage, as her eyes filled with tears when she looked at Bruce. "You're going to be just like your father!", she yelled. His heart sunk, he didn't understand, he just wanted to sniff that mans ass and didn't understand why his mother wouldn't let him. Ever since that day, Bruce trained every moment he got vowing never to get caught again, doing what he loved to do, doing what he was born to do, sniffing man ass. But even the best get defeated. Bruce just never thought it would be him. edit: grammar tldr: "Bruce trained hard after getting caught once sniffing man ass as a kid, vowing never to get caught again"

WTF

t5_2qh61

c819c10

Probably just one. Telling from his reaction it probably happened when he was a small boy. He was probably out shopping with his mother, standing in line at check out when it first happened. The man in front of him at check out bent down to get some change he dropped. Little mystery butt sniffer man, lets just call him Bruce, standing there holding his mothers hand was fixated on this heavy set man ASS coming for his head. At first he was scared, but Bruce watched dragon ball Z after school and thought to himself "Goku never gets scared" as that massive asian butt came towering down on him. Instead of running like most kids behind mommy, Bruce, he just stepped up waiting for that butt to hit his face. It was the smell that got him, the smell he'll never forget. The sweet moment that dookie butt was going to hit Bruces face, that moment of contact Bruce was anticipating was instantly ruined by a slap to the back of his head by his mother. That rage, as her eyes filled with tears when she looked at Bruce. "You're going to be just like your father!", she yelled. His heart sunk, he didn't understand, he just wanted to sniff that mans ass and didn't understand why his mother wouldn't let him. Ever since that day, Bruce trained every moment he got vowing never to get caught again, doing what he loved to do, doing what he was born to do, sniffing man ass. But even the best get defeated. Bruce just never thought it would be him. edit: grammar

Bruce trained hard after getting caught once sniffing man ass as a kid, vowing never to get caught again"

IsThisTheRealLife

>Drop Safety Requirement >Requirements: The pistol is dropped from a height of 4 feet onto a 1-inch-thick rubber mat, backed by concrete. The pistol will not fire (cartridge with a live primer, but no bullet) during the drop test. Each pistol is dropped from 7 different positions, with a different part of the pistol hitting the ground on each drop, for a total of 14 drops. Firing on any one of the 14 drops constitutes a failure for this test. >Methodology: A magazine is fully loaded with "dummy" ammunition (live primers, no gunpowder or bullet), inserted into the pistol, and a round is chambered. The pistol is suspended in a normal firing position (barrel horizontal and parallel to the floor surface) from a "cradle" made of string, held by a compressed-air controlled vise mounted to a fixture whose height can be adjusted incrementally. The lowermost part of the pistol is raised to a height of 1.22 meters (4 feet) from the surface of the concrete-backed rubber mat. The pistol is dropped by releasing the jaws of the air vise. If the primer detonates when the pistol hits the mat, it is considered a failure. The test is repeated for each of the six remaining positions: >o Upside down, barrel horizontal. >o On grip, barrel vertical. >o On muzzle, barrel vertical. >o On left side, barrel horizontal. >o On right side, barrel horizontal. >o On the rearmost point of that device, if there is an exposed hammer or striker; otherwise, on the rearmost point of the pistol. Alternately, a weight equivalent to that of the pistol may be dropped onto the rearmost point. >Firing of the primer on any drop constitutes failure of the test. >Commentary: A rubber mat is used in consideration of the fact that due to the number of different drop positions that are required to fully determine if there are any "weak points" in the pistol design that may cause inadvertent firing, it may be unrealistic and unreasonable to expect a single pistol to pass seven consecutive drops onto bare concrete. tl;dr A gun that passes the drop test can be safely dropped on a rubber surface, but can still go off when dropped on a hard surface.

>Drop Safety Requirement >Requirements: The pistol is dropped from a height of 4 feet onto a 1-inch-thick rubber mat, backed by concrete. The pistol will not fire (cartridge with a live primer, but no bullet) during the drop test. Each pistol is dropped from 7 different positions, with a different part of the pistol hitting the ground on each drop, for a total of 14 drops. Firing on any one of the 14 drops constitutes a failure for this test. >Methodology: A magazine is fully loaded with "dummy" ammunition (live primers, no gunpowder or bullet), inserted into the pistol, and a round is chambered. The pistol is suspended in a normal firing position (barrel horizontal and parallel to the floor surface) from a "cradle" made of string, held by a compressed-air controlled vise mounted to a fixture whose height can be adjusted incrementally. The lowermost part of the pistol is raised to a height of 1.22 meters (4 feet) from the surface of the concrete-backed rubber mat. The pistol is dropped by releasing the jaws of the air vise. If the primer detonates when the pistol hits the mat, it is considered a failure. The test is repeated for each of the six remaining positions: >o Upside down, barrel horizontal. >o On grip, barrel vertical. >o On muzzle, barrel vertical. >o On left side, barrel horizontal. >o On right side, barrel horizontal. >o On the rearmost point of that device, if there is an exposed hammer or striker; otherwise, on the rearmost point of the pistol. Alternately, a weight equivalent to that of the pistol may be dropped onto the rearmost point. >Firing of the primer on any drop constitutes failure of the test. >Commentary: A rubber mat is used in consideration of the fact that due to the number of different drop positions that are required to fully determine if there are any "weak points" in the pistol design that may cause inadvertent firing, it may be unrealistic and unreasonable to expect a single pistol to pass seven consecutive drops onto bare concrete. tl;dr A gun that passes the drop test can be safely dropped on a rubber surface, but can still go off when dropped on a hard surface.

GunsAreCool

t5_2uvah

c81cblv

Drop Safety Requirement >Requirements: The pistol is dropped from a height of 4 feet onto a 1-inch-thick rubber mat, backed by concrete. The pistol will not fire (cartridge with a live primer, but no bullet) during the drop test. Each pistol is dropped from 7 different positions, with a different part of the pistol hitting the ground on each drop, for a total of 14 drops. Firing on any one of the 14 drops constitutes a failure for this test. >Methodology: A magazine is fully loaded with "dummy" ammunition (live primers, no gunpowder or bullet), inserted into the pistol, and a round is chambered. The pistol is suspended in a normal firing position (barrel horizontal and parallel to the floor surface) from a "cradle" made of string, held by a compressed-air controlled vise mounted to a fixture whose height can be adjusted incrementally. The lowermost part of the pistol is raised to a height of 1.22 meters (4 feet) from the surface of the concrete-backed rubber mat. The pistol is dropped by releasing the jaws of the air vise. If the primer detonates when the pistol hits the mat, it is considered a failure. The test is repeated for each of the six remaining positions: >o Upside down, barrel horizontal. >o On grip, barrel vertical. >o On muzzle, barrel vertical. >o On left side, barrel horizontal. >o On right side, barrel horizontal. >o On the rearmost point of that device, if there is an exposed hammer or striker; otherwise, on the rearmost point of the pistol. Alternately, a weight equivalent to that of the pistol may be dropped onto the rearmost point. >Firing of the primer on any drop constitutes failure of the test. >Commentary: A rubber mat is used in consideration of the fact that due to the number of different drop positions that are required to fully determine if there are any "weak points" in the pistol design that may cause inadvertent firing, it may be unrealistic and unreasonable to expect a single pistol to pass seven consecutive drops onto bare concrete.

A gun that passes the drop test can be safely dropped on a rubber surface, but can still go off when dropped on a hard surface.

brandond1594

The Otterbox Commuter Series is definitely a good formed, solid, case. However, as the owner and user of an Otterbox Defender Series for my iPhone, I can tell you it really doesn't make your phone the "giant brick" it seems to be, in fact, it's a lot smaller than I originally assumed and is a very good, very protective, and somehow still aesthetically pleasing case. Lifeproof cases also offer good protection and the bonus of being waterproof while not making your device much bigger. And you can also moderately customize your colors on all three of these cases. Also the Lunatik TakTik case is my dream case, it's badass and beautiful. TL:DR- Otterbox Commuter Series and Defender Series, Lifeproof Case, Lunatik TakTik.

The Otterbox Commuter Series is definitely a good formed, solid, case. However, as the owner and user of an Otterbox Defender Series for my iPhone, I can tell you it really doesn't make your phone the "giant brick" it seems to be, in fact, it's a lot smaller than I originally assumed and is a very good, very protective, and somehow still aesthetically pleasing case. Lifeproof cases also offer good protection and the bonus of being waterproof while not making your device much bigger. And you can also moderately customize your colors on all three of these cases. Also the Lunatik TakTik case is my dream case, it's badass and beautiful. TL:DR- Otterbox Commuter Series and Defender Series, Lifeproof Case, Lunatik TakTik.

apple

t5_2qh1f

c81cvry

The Otterbox Commuter Series is definitely a good formed, solid, case. However, as the owner and user of an Otterbox Defender Series for my iPhone, I can tell you it really doesn't make your phone the "giant brick" it seems to be, in fact, it's a lot smaller than I originally assumed and is a very good, very protective, and somehow still aesthetically pleasing case. Lifeproof cases also offer good protection and the bonus of being waterproof while not making your device much bigger. And you can also moderately customize your colors on all three of these cases. Also the Lunatik TakTik case is my dream case, it's badass and beautiful.

Otterbox Commuter Series and Defender Series, Lifeproof Case, Lunatik TakTik.

slickwombat

If we're doing philosophy, it *is* about proving propositions true or false; i.e., actually discovering some significant truth of the matter. Epistemic justification is one of the ways we evaluate attempts to determine that truth. *All such attempts must be justified.* Occam's Razor is a heuristic regarding explanations, not evidence that any proposition is true or false. The latter is the [argument from ignorance]( tl;dr: everyone must backup their assertions with arguments and evidence. Not just theists. Everyone. There is no cosmic debate coach who is giving a special handicap to atheism.

If we're doing philosophy, it is about proving propositions true or false; i.e., actually discovering some significant truth of the matter. Epistemic justification is one of the ways we evaluate attempts to determine that truth. All such attempts must be justified. Occam's Razor is a heuristic regarding explanations, not evidence that any proposition is true or false. The latter is the [argument from ignorance]( tl;dr: everyone must backup their assertions with arguments and evidence. Not just theists. Everyone. There is no cosmic debate coach who is giving a special handicap to atheism.

philosophy

t5_2qh5b

c81p86v

If we're doing philosophy, it is about proving propositions true or false; i.e., actually discovering some significant truth of the matter. Epistemic justification is one of the ways we evaluate attempts to determine that truth. All such attempts must be justified. Occam's Razor is a heuristic regarding explanations, not evidence that any proposition is true or false. The latter is the [argument from ignorance](

everyone must backup their assertions with arguments and evidence. Not just theists. Everyone. There is no cosmic debate coach who is giving a special handicap to atheism.

Aaberg123

It's simply because I see the terms agnostic and atheist referring to different properties about my belief. Neither sufficiently describe my beliefs, but together I think they do. For me it's a clarification of my position too. Had I only said I was an atheist, people might falsely believe that I a asserted that a god doesn't exist, and that's not the belief I hold. Tl;dr: The "Agnostic" qualifier is needed to accurately describe my belief.

It's simply because I see the terms agnostic and atheist referring to different properties about my belief. Neither sufficiently describe my beliefs, but together I think they do. For me it's a clarification of my position too. Had I only said I was an atheist, people might falsely believe that I a asserted that a god doesn't exist, and that's not the belief I hold. Tl;dr: The "Agnostic" qualifier is needed to accurately describe my belief.

philosophy

t5_2qh5b

c81jaun

It's simply because I see the terms agnostic and atheist referring to different properties about my belief. Neither sufficiently describe my beliefs, but together I think they do. For me it's a clarification of my position too. Had I only said I was an atheist, people might falsely believe that I a asserted that a god doesn't exist, and that's not the belief I hold.

The "Agnostic" qualifier is needed to accurately describe my belief.

richertai

The teachings of Islam do not entitle one to declare the teachings of Islam as law, or to establish their jurisdiction over neighborhoods. A gay man should expect to walk through a Muslim neighborhood, unmolested, because there is nothing that the Muslims in this video can rightfully do to stop him. Even them following and heckling him is technically harassment, and is criminal. Your religious beliefs do not give you the right to dictate how other people should behave. TL;DR: Yes, problem.

The teachings of Islam do not entitle one to declare the teachings of Islam as law, or to establish their jurisdiction over neighborhoods. A gay man should expect to walk through a Muslim neighborhood, unmolested, because there is nothing that the Muslims in this video can rightfully do to stop him. Even them following and heckling him is technically harassment, and is criminal. Your religious beliefs do not give you the right to dictate how other people should behave. TL;DR: Yes, problem.

atheism

t5_2qh2p

c81m04c

The teachings of Islam do not entitle one to declare the teachings of Islam as law, or to establish their jurisdiction over neighborhoods. A gay man should expect to walk through a Muslim neighborhood, unmolested, because there is nothing that the Muslims in this video can rightfully do to stop him. Even them following and heckling him is technically harassment, and is criminal. Your religious beliefs do not give you the right to dictate how other people should behave.

Yes, problem.

10000yearsfromtoday

Absolutely, just like in the stock market whoever is a large player can become the "market maker" - where they control the price of the market by the action of buying, having, or selling the majority of the supply. This has been going on for some time with rapidly gaining popularity since you can make millions in just a few hours durring peak times. I'm going to fully disclose the trick knowing full well that hundreds more will start doing it, but its exactly that which will make the exploit stop being worth doing. **Contrary to what others say it is not expensive at all and is as close to free gold as can be** You don't need to buy 10k tomes all at once to move the price around. What you do is you put up for sale 1 commodity (of anything, gem, tome, etc) at the lowest possible price (100g) , then you immediately buy 1 and... since you are the lowest price you buy it from yourself and regain your item. You lose 15 gold each time you do it for the commission which is absolutely nothing. You keep doing this as fast as possible and force the average price down. The net result is within a few minutes you can cut the average price in half. You then place small orders to gobble up the cheapies that people recently put up in the last few minutes at the new lower average price. As more people list at that lower average price it also helps lower the average trade price, and you fervently buy as much as you can. You time this to do it at peak times later in the night when you imagine people finishing their runs, selling and logging off. Often people just dump their mats at the average price the game recommends, which having been manipulated, is half or less of what everyone else is listing at. **the true fair price is the one that says last day of trades, where the one that says last 10 trades is heavily manipulated** After manipulating the average trade price down you gobble up all the cheap stuff for example gems at 2543 then relist them at 5999 which is the actual fair market. You can also incite a fake buying rally, everyone sees gems are so cheap suddenly and place huge orders only to see that they win them at 5999 not the 3200 avg price. You bought 100 gems for 3k each 5 minutes ago and instantly turned them around for double what you bought for. You just made 250k gold in about 5 minutes. Do this all day long til you have hundreds of millions, then sell the gold on the RMAH if you're a true free market capitolist or chinese. I imagine gold farmers are doing this now since its the fastest way to make gold and its rare I don't see any commodity being manipulated. **this is so not rare and happening the majority of the time** The more liquid and frequently bought the commodity is the easier it is to do. If you know that 1000 gems are going to be put up for sale in the next 30 minutes and you can lower the average price to make those people list it at a lower price, you are effectively naming your own price for the gems as the market maker and only you know their real value is much higher. You can do it on perfect star gems too and bring them down 3-6 million or more but there are only a dozen or so trades by the end of the day, since its not as liquid you have to very patient and you risk just actually bringing the price down if you are unable to buy out all the cheaper ones to flip. Its a lot of patience for the 15 million gold you'll make but still relatively easy. Blizzard is aware of this and drastically increased the "avg last day transactions" a lot so its a higher average and less prone to manipulation but its still very easy to change any of this around if you are patient and persistently list at 100g and then buy from yourself... i'm afraid this will never stop until blizzard stops displaying the last trade average or raises that to the last 10,000 trades instead of 10. If you hate the idea of this, note that the real world financial markets work in the exact same way and how hedge funds make most of their money (the average stock is held for less than a few days, no one invests long anymore), and if it still makes you upset, you can fight back! Just buy 1 commodity at regular intervals (every 3-5 seconds) - if you time it right you can actually catch those 100g commodity items every time before the actual seller is able to buy them back. This is how you can get brimstone or star gems for 100g if you are able to "catch" the manipulation and take advantage of it by buying the item before the seller has a chance to buy it back. Start doing this anytime you see the average price fluctuating wildly and going down, that means a manipulator is at work! Full disclosure, I saw the same thing going on and figured it out after I kept winning gems for 100g and wondered who would be so stupid to do that...then I realized whats happening. I never found any items worth more than 500k to sell on the AH so I tried it out - and turned 2 million gold into 20 million gold over a few days and then I got tired of it, its mindnumbingly borring but it can get you that upgrade you want which is just what I did. **TL;DR: Yes, this is happening nearly constantly but the risk to play is even less than what you thought. The way it works is you list 1 commodity for 100g and instantly buy it from yourself, do this as fast as possible til the avg price goes down as much as half or more, then you place small orders to gobble up the cheapies people just listed or anyone who panicked and lowered their price. The average last trades price is totally manipulated

Absolutely, just like in the stock market whoever is a large player can become the "market maker" - where they control the price of the market by the action of buying, having, or selling the majority of the supply. This has been going on for some time with rapidly gaining popularity since you can make millions in just a few hours durring peak times. I'm going to fully disclose the trick knowing full well that hundreds more will start doing it, but its exactly that which will make the exploit stop being worth doing. Contrary to what others say it is not expensive at all and is as close to free gold as can be You don't need to buy 10k tomes all at once to move the price around. What you do is you put up for sale 1 commodity (of anything, gem, tome, etc) at the lowest possible price (100g) , then you immediately buy 1 and... since you are the lowest price you buy it from yourself and regain your item. You lose 15 gold each time you do it for the commission which is absolutely nothing. You keep doing this as fast as possible and force the average price down. The net result is within a few minutes you can cut the average price in half. You then place small orders to gobble up the cheapies that people recently put up in the last few minutes at the new lower average price. As more people list at that lower average price it also helps lower the average trade price, and you fervently buy as much as you can. You time this to do it at peak times later in the night when you imagine people finishing their runs, selling and logging off. Often people just dump their mats at the average price the game recommends, which having been manipulated, is half or less of what everyone else is listing at. the true fair price is the one that says last day of trades, where the one that says last 10 trades is heavily manipulated After manipulating the average trade price down you gobble up all the cheap stuff for example gems at 2543 then relist them at 5999 which is the actual fair market. You can also incite a fake buying rally, everyone sees gems are so cheap suddenly and place huge orders only to see that they win them at 5999 not the 3200 avg price. You bought 100 gems for 3k each 5 minutes ago and instantly turned them around for double what you bought for. You just made 250k gold in about 5 minutes. Do this all day long til you have hundreds of millions, then sell the gold on the RMAH if you're a true free market capitolist or chinese. I imagine gold farmers are doing this now since its the fastest way to make gold and its rare I don't see any commodity being manipulated. this is so not rare and happening the majority of the time The more liquid and frequently bought the commodity is the easier it is to do. If you know that 1000 gems are going to be put up for sale in the next 30 minutes and you can lower the average price to make those people list it at a lower price, you are effectively naming your own price for the gems as the market maker and only you know their real value is much higher. You can do it on perfect star gems too and bring them down 3-6 million or more but there are only a dozen or so trades by the end of the day, since its not as liquid you have to very patient and you risk just actually bringing the price down if you are unable to buy out all the cheaper ones to flip. Its a lot of patience for the 15 million gold you'll make but still relatively easy. Blizzard is aware of this and drastically increased the "avg last day transactions" a lot so its a higher average and less prone to manipulation but its still very easy to change any of this around if you are patient and persistently list at 100g and then buy from yourself... i'm afraid this will never stop until blizzard stops displaying the last trade average or raises that to the last 10,000 trades instead of 10. If you hate the idea of this, note that the real world financial markets work in the exact same way and how hedge funds make most of their money (the average stock is held for less than a few days, no one invests long anymore), and if it still makes you upset, you can fight back! Just buy 1 commodity at regular intervals (every 3-5 seconds) - if you time it right you can actually catch those 100g commodity items every time before the actual seller is able to buy them back. This is how you can get brimstone or star gems for 100g if you are able to "catch" the manipulation and take advantage of it by buying the item before the seller has a chance to buy it back. Start doing this anytime you see the average price fluctuating wildly and going down, that means a manipulator is at work! Full disclosure, I saw the same thing going on and figured it out after I kept winning gems for 100g and wondered who would be so stupid to do that...then I realized whats happening. I never found any items worth more than 500k to sell on the AH so I tried it out - and turned 2 million gold into 20 million gold over a few days and then I got tired of it, its mindnumbingly borring but it can get you that upgrade you want which is just what I did. **TL;DR: Yes, this is happening nearly constantly but the risk to play is even less than what you thought. The way it works is you list 1 commodity for 100g and instantly buy it from yourself, do this as fast as possible til the avg price goes down as much as half or more, then you place small orders to gobble up the cheapies people just listed or anyone who panicked and lowered their price. The average last trades price is totally manipulated

Diablo

t5_2qore

c81x2ei

Absolutely, just like in the stock market whoever is a large player can become the "market maker" - where they control the price of the market by the action of buying, having, or selling the majority of the supply. This has been going on for some time with rapidly gaining popularity since you can make millions in just a few hours durring peak times. I'm going to fully disclose the trick knowing full well that hundreds more will start doing it, but its exactly that which will make the exploit stop being worth doing. Contrary to what others say it is not expensive at all and is as close to free gold as can be You don't need to buy 10k tomes all at once to move the price around. What you do is you put up for sale 1 commodity (of anything, gem, tome, etc) at the lowest possible price (100g) , then you immediately buy 1 and... since you are the lowest price you buy it from yourself and regain your item. You lose 15 gold each time you do it for the commission which is absolutely nothing. You keep doing this as fast as possible and force the average price down. The net result is within a few minutes you can cut the average price in half. You then place small orders to gobble up the cheapies that people recently put up in the last few minutes at the new lower average price. As more people list at that lower average price it also helps lower the average trade price, and you fervently buy as much as you can. You time this to do it at peak times later in the night when you imagine people finishing their runs, selling and logging off. Often people just dump their mats at the average price the game recommends, which having been manipulated, is half or less of what everyone else is listing at. the true fair price is the one that says last day of trades, where the one that says last 10 trades is heavily manipulated After manipulating the average trade price down you gobble up all the cheap stuff for example gems at 2543 then relist them at 5999 which is the actual fair market. You can also incite a fake buying rally, everyone sees gems are so cheap suddenly and place huge orders only to see that they win them at 5999 not the 3200 avg price. You bought 100 gems for 3k each 5 minutes ago and instantly turned them around for double what you bought for. You just made 250k gold in about 5 minutes. Do this all day long til you have hundreds of millions, then sell the gold on the RMAH if you're a true free market capitolist or chinese. I imagine gold farmers are doing this now since its the fastest way to make gold and its rare I don't see any commodity being manipulated. this is so not rare and happening the majority of the time The more liquid and frequently bought the commodity is the easier it is to do. If you know that 1000 gems are going to be put up for sale in the next 30 minutes and you can lower the average price to make those people list it at a lower price, you are effectively naming your own price for the gems as the market maker and only you know their real value is much higher. You can do it on perfect star gems too and bring them down 3-6 million or more but there are only a dozen or so trades by the end of the day, since its not as liquid you have to very patient and you risk just actually bringing the price down if you are unable to buy out all the cheaper ones to flip. Its a lot of patience for the 15 million gold you'll make but still relatively easy. Blizzard is aware of this and drastically increased the "avg last day transactions" a lot so its a higher average and less prone to manipulation but its still very easy to change any of this around if you are patient and persistently list at 100g and then buy from yourself... i'm afraid this will never stop until blizzard stops displaying the last trade average or raises that to the last 10,000 trades instead of 10. If you hate the idea of this, note that the real world financial markets work in the exact same way and how hedge funds make most of their money (the average stock is held for less than a few days, no one invests long anymore), and if it still makes you upset, you can fight back! Just buy 1 commodity at regular intervals (every 3-5 seconds) - if you time it right you can actually catch those 100g commodity items every time before the actual seller is able to buy them back. This is how you can get brimstone or star gems for 100g if you are able to "catch" the manipulation and take advantage of it by buying the item before the seller has a chance to buy it back. Start doing this anytime you see the average price fluctuating wildly and going down, that means a manipulator is at work! Full disclosure, I saw the same thing going on and figured it out after I kept winning gems for 100g and wondered who would be so stupid to do that...then I realized whats happening. I never found any items worth more than 500k to sell on the AH so I tried it out - and turned 2 million gold into 20 million gold over a few days and then I got tired of it, its mindnumbingly borring but it can get you that upgrade you want which is just what I did. **

Yes, this is happening nearly constantly but the risk to play is even less than what you thought. The way it works is you list 1 commodity for 100g and instantly buy it from yourself, do this as fast as possible til the avg price goes down as much as half or more, then you place small orders to gobble up the cheapies people just listed or anyone who panicked and lowered their price. The average last trades price is totally manipulated

skynerd

Oklahoman turned Chicagoan here. To echo other respondents, what is it YOU are into? Rather than taking a piss out of your new place of residence, how about taking a positive perspective and seeking out opportunities to enjoy yourself. I'm sure your new employer would appreciate the attitude adjustment. Not trying to be a dick, I'm honestly suggesting that keeping a positive attitude can/will improve your life experience. Sports and drinking are definitely viable options, not just for things to occupy your time, but opportunities to meet other folks. There's also incredible indoor rock climbing in Bricktown, outdoor activities like mountain biking, hiking, camping (although many of these require leaving and heading in almost any direction). There's a thriving art scene, tons of volunteer opportunities, lots of museums (Cowboy HoF fucking rules, Clown Museum, Nat'l Softball HoF, etc), several movie theaters and malls. Hell, even the zoo is great. Hot Air Ballooning? Archeology? Native American studies/culture? We got your ass covered. But, if you're into deep sea fishing, you're fucked. We don't have that here. But, I'm you can find a SCUBA shop or two. And the Hong Kong Station sushi is in-fucking-credible. Seriously! Sushi! In Oklahoma Fucking City! I shit you not, sir. For whatever reason, OKC gets a bad rap by everyone not from here. Sure, you drive through the state, some asshole cops gonna pull you over. You decide to HATE both OU and OSU, you're gonna find yourself feeling left out from time to time. You think Native Americans deserved what they got? You're gonna have a hard time making friends. But really, it's the same as everywhere else: You have a bad attitude? You're gonna have bad time. TLDR: Put a smile on your face, accept that this is where you live for right now, and treat it like anywhere else that's new to you: like a good sport.

Oklahoman turned Chicagoan here. To echo other respondents, what is it YOU are into? Rather than taking a piss out of your new place of residence, how about taking a positive perspective and seeking out opportunities to enjoy yourself. I'm sure your new employer would appreciate the attitude adjustment. Not trying to be a dick, I'm honestly suggesting that keeping a positive attitude can/will improve your life experience. Sports and drinking are definitely viable options, not just for things to occupy your time, but opportunities to meet other folks. There's also incredible indoor rock climbing in Bricktown, outdoor activities like mountain biking, hiking, camping (although many of these require leaving and heading in almost any direction). There's a thriving art scene, tons of volunteer opportunities, lots of museums (Cowboy HoF fucking rules, Clown Museum, Nat'l Softball HoF, etc), several movie theaters and malls. Hell, even the zoo is great. Hot Air Ballooning? Archeology? Native American studies/culture? We got your ass covered. But, if you're into deep sea fishing, you're fucked. We don't have that here. But, I'm you can find a SCUBA shop or two. And the Hong Kong Station sushi is in-fucking-credible. Seriously! Sushi! In Oklahoma Fucking City! I shit you not, sir. For whatever reason, OKC gets a bad rap by everyone not from here. Sure, you drive through the state, some asshole cops gonna pull you over. You decide to HATE both OU and OSU, you're gonna find yourself feeling left out from time to time. You think Native Americans deserved what they got? You're gonna have a hard time making friends. But really, it's the same as everywhere else: You have a bad attitude? You're gonna have bad time. TLDR: Put a smile on your face, accept that this is where you live for right now, and treat it like anywhere else that's new to you: like a good sport.

okc

t5_2r053

c82hs1d

Oklahoman turned Chicagoan here. To echo other respondents, what is it YOU are into? Rather than taking a piss out of your new place of residence, how about taking a positive perspective and seeking out opportunities to enjoy yourself. I'm sure your new employer would appreciate the attitude adjustment. Not trying to be a dick, I'm honestly suggesting that keeping a positive attitude can/will improve your life experience. Sports and drinking are definitely viable options, not just for things to occupy your time, but opportunities to meet other folks. There's also incredible indoor rock climbing in Bricktown, outdoor activities like mountain biking, hiking, camping (although many of these require leaving and heading in almost any direction). There's a thriving art scene, tons of volunteer opportunities, lots of museums (Cowboy HoF fucking rules, Clown Museum, Nat'l Softball HoF, etc), several movie theaters and malls. Hell, even the zoo is great. Hot Air Ballooning? Archeology? Native American studies/culture? We got your ass covered. But, if you're into deep sea fishing, you're fucked. We don't have that here. But, I'm you can find a SCUBA shop or two. And the Hong Kong Station sushi is in-fucking-credible. Seriously! Sushi! In Oklahoma Fucking City! I shit you not, sir. For whatever reason, OKC gets a bad rap by everyone not from here. Sure, you drive through the state, some asshole cops gonna pull you over. You decide to HATE both OU and OSU, you're gonna find yourself feeling left out from time to time. You think Native Americans deserved what they got? You're gonna have a hard time making friends. But really, it's the same as everywhere else: You have a bad attitude? You're gonna have bad time.

Put a smile on your face, accept that this is where you live for right now, and treat it like anywhere else that's new to you: like a good sport.

AstronautRock

Riding my bike to work and this guy rides past me and compliments my bike. A week later a friend informed me of the post and I wrote back. We exchanged e-mails for a few days and then just kind of stopped. Fast forward 2 or so weeks. I'm at my shitty job, slinging sandwiches at Jimmy Johns. We have a new bicycle delivery driver subbing at our store after an entire shift he casually walks up to me and he says "Oh my god! You're the one I was talking to from Craig's list!" We get a taco after work and begin to hang out, eventually pseudo date. Turns out he was sloppy, a huuuge douche-bag to my friendsboring, whiney, controlling and all around kind of a huge loser. **TL;DR** Responded to a missed connection. After a lull in conversation a few weeks later he is an employee subbing in at my job. Kind-of date. He's a boring loser.

Riding my bike to work and this guy rides past me and compliments my bike. A week later a friend informed me of the post and I wrote back. We exchanged e-mails for a few days and then just kind of stopped. Fast forward 2 or so weeks. I'm at my shitty job, slinging sandwiches at Jimmy Johns. We have a new bicycle delivery driver subbing at our store after an entire shift he casually walks up to me and he says "Oh my god! You're the one I was talking to from Craig's list!" We get a taco after work and begin to hang out, eventually pseudo date. Turns out he was sloppy, a huuuge douche-bag to my friendsboring, whiney, controlling and all around kind of a huge loser. TL;DR Responded to a missed connection. After a lull in conversation a few weeks later he is an employee subbing in at my job. Kind-of date. He's a boring loser.

AskReddit

t5_2qh1i

c82dnzl

Riding my bike to work and this guy rides past me and compliments my bike. A week later a friend informed me of the post and I wrote back. We exchanged e-mails for a few days and then just kind of stopped. Fast forward 2 or so weeks. I'm at my shitty job, slinging sandwiches at Jimmy Johns. We have a new bicycle delivery driver subbing at our store after an entire shift he casually walks up to me and he says "Oh my god! You're the one I was talking to from Craig's list!" We get a taco after work and begin to hang out, eventually pseudo date. Turns out he was sloppy, a huuuge douche-bag to my friendsboring, whiney, controlling and all around kind of a huge loser.

Responded to a missed connection. After a lull in conversation a few weeks later he is an employee subbing in at my job. Kind-of date. He's a boring loser.

ColonelUber

I recommend you start playing other roles. I main ADs for most of my games since I play with friends in normals more often than I play solo queue, and it works great cause we can give each other feedback and we trust each other to make things work right. But in solo queue, ADC is by far the hardest role to carry from. Even support is easier imo (more on this in a minute). As an ADC, positioning only gets you so far in a teamfight. Eventually you will get dived by someone nasty or get chain CCed, and there isn't shit you can do about without help from your team. But surprise! Your team is trying to kill the support alistar instead of helping you, so you're dead. ADC relies on the team more than any other role, and you can't count on solo-q players to peel for you. Mid is the best lane to carry from. Easy access to both top and bot as well as lane farm. I play mordekaiser or kassadin if I end up mid depending on the enemy team. Kass for the roaming or morde for the insane hyper-carry ability. Jungle and top are sort of equal in carrying ability - it really depends on the champions involved. Jungle's role is pretty obvious, but top should constantly be looking to roam into the enemy jungle or mid lane (don't forget wards) and set up with the team for dragons or other objectives. Now, support can't carry the game (though if you know how to ward and use items correctly you are a major asset), but you can carry the lane. A good solo-q support can make up for the shortcomings of the ADC and add to their strengths. The support almost always sets up engagements, and is generally also the only one that allows for a disengagement if the enemy decides to chase. Basically you can get kills for your adc, or prevent the enemy adc from getting kills. You can save your teammate from fuck ups. Your ADC cannot normally do the same for you. Finally, I've never been convinced by the idea of learning to play just a handful of champs really well. I did that for a while, and got good, but I branched out, and I feel that I do much better now because of it. I can actually consider what kind of champions I'm playing against a pick a suitable champion for myself because I'm comfortable with such a wide variety. I don't want to be stuck playing only graves when the enemy has caitlyn, or Kassadin when they have talon. TL;DR: Learn all the roles, stop playing ADC so much because it's a difficult position to carry from.

I recommend you start playing other roles. I main ADs for most of my games since I play with friends in normals more often than I play solo queue, and it works great cause we can give each other feedback and we trust each other to make things work right. But in solo queue, ADC is by far the hardest role to carry from. Even support is easier imo (more on this in a minute). As an ADC, positioning only gets you so far in a teamfight. Eventually you will get dived by someone nasty or get chain CCed, and there isn't shit you can do about without help from your team. But surprise! Your team is trying to kill the support alistar instead of helping you, so you're dead. ADC relies on the team more than any other role, and you can't count on solo-q players to peel for you. Mid is the best lane to carry from. Easy access to both top and bot as well as lane farm. I play mordekaiser or kassadin if I end up mid depending on the enemy team. Kass for the roaming or morde for the insane hyper-carry ability. Jungle and top are sort of equal in carrying ability - it really depends on the champions involved. Jungle's role is pretty obvious, but top should constantly be looking to roam into the enemy jungle or mid lane (don't forget wards) and set up with the team for dragons or other objectives. Now, support can't carry the game (though if you know how to ward and use items correctly you are a major asset), but you can carry the lane. A good solo-q support can make up for the shortcomings of the ADC and add to their strengths. The support almost always sets up engagements, and is generally also the only one that allows for a disengagement if the enemy decides to chase. Basically you can get kills for your adc, or prevent the enemy adc from getting kills. You can save your teammate from fuck ups. Your ADC cannot normally do the same for you. Finally, I've never been convinced by the idea of learning to play just a handful of champs really well. I did that for a while, and got good, but I branched out, and I feel that I do much better now because of it. I can actually consider what kind of champions I'm playing against a pick a suitable champion for myself because I'm comfortable with such a wide variety. I don't want to be stuck playing only graves when the enemy has caitlyn, or Kassadin when they have talon. TL;DR: Learn all the roles, stop playing ADC so much because it's a difficult position to carry from.

summonerschool

t5_2t9x3

c82oo7o

I recommend you start playing other roles. I main ADs for most of my games since I play with friends in normals more often than I play solo queue, and it works great cause we can give each other feedback and we trust each other to make things work right. But in solo queue, ADC is by far the hardest role to carry from. Even support is easier imo (more on this in a minute). As an ADC, positioning only gets you so far in a teamfight. Eventually you will get dived by someone nasty or get chain CCed, and there isn't shit you can do about without help from your team. But surprise! Your team is trying to kill the support alistar instead of helping you, so you're dead. ADC relies on the team more than any other role, and you can't count on solo-q players to peel for you. Mid is the best lane to carry from. Easy access to both top and bot as well as lane farm. I play mordekaiser or kassadin if I end up mid depending on the enemy team. Kass for the roaming or morde for the insane hyper-carry ability. Jungle and top are sort of equal in carrying ability - it really depends on the champions involved. Jungle's role is pretty obvious, but top should constantly be looking to roam into the enemy jungle or mid lane (don't forget wards) and set up with the team for dragons or other objectives. Now, support can't carry the game (though if you know how to ward and use items correctly you are a major asset), but you can carry the lane. A good solo-q support can make up for the shortcomings of the ADC and add to their strengths. The support almost always sets up engagements, and is generally also the only one that allows for a disengagement if the enemy decides to chase. Basically you can get kills for your adc, or prevent the enemy adc from getting kills. You can save your teammate from fuck ups. Your ADC cannot normally do the same for you. Finally, I've never been convinced by the idea of learning to play just a handful of champs really well. I did that for a while, and got good, but I branched out, and I feel that I do much better now because of it. I can actually consider what kind of champions I'm playing against a pick a suitable champion for myself because I'm comfortable with such a wide variety. I don't want to be stuck playing only graves when the enemy has caitlyn, or Kassadin when they have talon.

Learn all the roles, stop playing ADC so much because it's a difficult position to carry from.

Siethron

If it's funny it should be in r/funny, it is not r/funnyexceptthese things. Letting up and down votes decide has worked completely fine, the only reason it appears not to is that anyone content with the post will most likely upvote and move on, while those who dislike the post will comment and complain even though it has received a generous number of upvotes. TL;DR: Butthurt commentors aren't a reason to change the rules.

If it's funny it should be in r/funny, it is not r/funnyexceptthese things. Letting up and down votes decide has worked completely fine, the only reason it appears not to is that anyone content with the post will most likely upvote and move on, while those who dislike the post will comment and complain even though it has received a generous number of upvotes. TL;DR: Butthurt commentors aren't a reason to change the rules.

funny

t5_2qh33

c837khu

If it's funny it should be in r/funny, it is not r/funnyexceptthese things. Letting up and down votes decide has worked completely fine, the only reason it appears not to is that anyone content with the post will most likely upvote and move on, while those who dislike the post will comment and complain even though it has received a generous number of upvotes.

Butthurt commentors aren't a reason to change the rules.

CocoSavege

> How do you put a price on the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways or the German Autobahn? My point is that somebody should *try* to put a price on these things. If we dress up all civil projects as being priceless, we cannot effectively make decisions and things get wrapped up in emotional rhetoric instead of actual objectivity. Even within a transpo network there still have to be decisions. My poor example, poor as it is, is a nice bad case example. Not all roads are equally worthwhile. If there's some method of assessing what benefit a specific road provides, we can decide which roads to build/maintain. If we just paint the entire network with a broad brush of 'priceless' we're going to end up with a lot of roads to nowhere and we'll go broke paying for them. tl;dr: Build the stuff that has good benefits. And equally, don't spend revenue on stupid stuff. (And/or put a bunch of money in the pockets of assholes)

> How do you put a price on the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways or the German Autobahn? My point is that somebody should try to put a price on these things. If we dress up all civil projects as being priceless, we cannot effectively make decisions and things get wrapped up in emotional rhetoric instead of actual objectivity. Even within a transpo network there still have to be decisions. My poor example, poor as it is, is a nice bad case example. Not all roads are equally worthwhile. If there's some method of assessing what benefit a specific road provides, we can decide which roads to build/maintain. If we just paint the entire network with a broad brush of 'priceless' we're going to end up with a lot of roads to nowhere and we'll go broke paying for them. tl;dr: Build the stuff that has good benefits. And equally, don't spend revenue on stupid stuff. (And/or put a bunch of money in the pockets of assholes)

moderatepolitics

t5_2s6h3

c83irtx

How do you put a price on the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways or the German Autobahn? My point is that somebody should try to put a price on these things. If we dress up all civil projects as being priceless, we cannot effectively make decisions and things get wrapped up in emotional rhetoric instead of actual objectivity. Even within a transpo network there still have to be decisions. My poor example, poor as it is, is a nice bad case example. Not all roads are equally worthwhile. If there's some method of assessing what benefit a specific road provides, we can decide which roads to build/maintain. If we just paint the entire network with a broad brush of 'priceless' we're going to end up with a lot of roads to nowhere and we'll go broke paying for them.

Build the stuff that has good benefits. And equally, don't spend revenue on stupid stuff. (And/or put a bunch of money in the pockets of assholes)

drgk

Hey, bro. Guess what I just found out. Chinese kung fu predates jujitsu by 1,000 years and jujitsu itself has focused almost exclusively on *nonlethal* techniques since the 1700s! Not that the Japanese haven't been appropriating Chinese culture for centuries before that, claiming to have created it and that their version was superior. **All** Japanese fighting styles are descended from kung fu, then passed through the ritualised filter of the Tokugowa shogunate to emerge as their modern incarnations. To claim jujitsu is a pure killing art is just ignorance. Next you'll be telling me the katana is the most lethal hand-to-hand weapon ever devised. TL;DR: You're still talking out of your ass!

Hey, bro. Guess what I just found out. Chinese kung fu predates jujitsu by 1,000 years and jujitsu itself has focused almost exclusively on nonlethal techniques since the 1700s! Not that the Japanese haven't been appropriating Chinese culture for centuries before that, claiming to have created it and that their version was superior. All Japanese fighting styles are descended from kung fu, then passed through the ritualised filter of the Tokugowa shogunate to emerge as their modern incarnations. To claim jujitsu is a pure killing art is just ignorance. Next you'll be telling me the katana is the most lethal hand-to-hand weapon ever devised. TL;DR: You're still talking out of your ass!

woahdude

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Hey, bro. Guess what I just found out. Chinese kung fu predates jujitsu by 1,000 years and jujitsu itself has focused almost exclusively on nonlethal techniques since the 1700s! Not that the Japanese haven't been appropriating Chinese culture for centuries before that, claiming to have created it and that their version was superior. All Japanese fighting styles are descended from kung fu, then passed through the ritualised filter of the Tokugowa shogunate to emerge as their modern incarnations. To claim jujitsu is a pure killing art is just ignorance. Next you'll be telling me the katana is the most lethal hand-to-hand weapon ever devised.

You're still talking out of your ass!

archiesteel

Re: history of Martial Arts, tell me something I don't know. I am well aware of the origins of Asian martial arts, from the journey of Bodhidharma to Shaolin monastery, to the persecution of Buddhism under the Qing that led to the destruction of the monastery and the spread of Kung-Fu by the five fugitive monks. Stop thinking I don't know about Martial Arts. Clearly you're a Kung Fu practitioner who is moved by pride to defend his style/school. I assure you that attitude is counter-productive. All you'll end up doing is spreading the image of immature martial arts practitioners who don't realize such posturing betrays a lack of confidence more than anything else. >To claim jujitsu is a pure killing art is just ignorance. I have never claimed this. So far you've put words in my mouth at least three times. I don't care about what you martial skills are, but your debating skills sure do suck. Please stop. >Next you'll be telling me the katana is the most lethal hand-to-hand weapon ever devised. You're the one making adolescent claims, here, not I. >TL;DR: You're still talking out of your ass! A single fart out of my ass contains more wisdom than an hour of your ramblings.

Re: history of Martial Arts, tell me something I don't know. I am well aware of the origins of Asian martial arts, from the journey of Bodhidharma to Shaolin monastery, to the persecution of Buddhism under the Qing that led to the destruction of the monastery and the spread of Kung-Fu by the five fugitive monks. Stop thinking I don't know about Martial Arts. Clearly you're a Kung Fu practitioner who is moved by pride to defend his style/school. I assure you that attitude is counter-productive. All you'll end up doing is spreading the image of immature martial arts practitioners who don't realize such posturing betrays a lack of confidence more than anything else. >To claim jujitsu is a pure killing art is just ignorance. I have never claimed this. So far you've put words in my mouth at least three times. I don't care about what you martial skills are, but your debating skills sure do suck. Please stop. >Next you'll be telling me the katana is the most lethal hand-to-hand weapon ever devised. You're the one making adolescent claims, here, not I. >TL;DR: You're still talking out of your ass! A single fart out of my ass contains more wisdom than an hour of your ramblings.

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Re: history of Martial Arts, tell me something I don't know. I am well aware of the origins of Asian martial arts, from the journey of Bodhidharma to Shaolin monastery, to the persecution of Buddhism under the Qing that led to the destruction of the monastery and the spread of Kung-Fu by the five fugitive monks. Stop thinking I don't know about Martial Arts. Clearly you're a Kung Fu practitioner who is moved by pride to defend his style/school. I assure you that attitude is counter-productive. All you'll end up doing is spreading the image of immature martial arts practitioners who don't realize such posturing betrays a lack of confidence more than anything else. >To claim jujitsu is a pure killing art is just ignorance. I have never claimed this. So far you've put words in my mouth at least three times. I don't care about what you martial skills are, but your debating skills sure do suck. Please stop. >Next you'll be telling me the katana is the most lethal hand-to-hand weapon ever devised. You're the one making adolescent claims, here, not I. >

You're still talking out of your ass! A single fart out of my ass contains more wisdom than an hour of your ramblings.

f0nd004u

I made a comment below as to why he does this, because you're right; he's pushing off the ground to flip himself over like that. TL;DR: he's doing it so he doesn't hurt himself. Source: I am a former martial arts instructor.

I made a comment below as to why he does this, because you're right; he's pushing off the ground to flip himself over like that. TL;DR: he's doing it so he doesn't hurt himself. Source: I am a former martial arts instructor.

woahdude

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I made a comment below as to why he does this, because you're right; he's pushing off the ground to flip himself over like that.

he's doing it so he doesn't hurt himself. Source: I am a former martial arts instructor.

acog

BJJ definitely caused a revolution in America when Royce was fighting. But his amazing success was primarily because he was fighting people who had no idea what he was doing. He'd set them up for an arm bar and they wouldn't see it coming, and suddenly they were helpless. Contrast that to today. If you enter the ring and you're awesome *solely* at BJJ, a decent striker who knows how to counter takedowns and escape holds will win. TL;DR: Royce's dominance was due to his particular moment in history, not the inherent superiority of BJJ.

BJJ definitely caused a revolution in America when Royce was fighting. But his amazing success was primarily because he was fighting people who had no idea what he was doing. He'd set them up for an arm bar and they wouldn't see it coming, and suddenly they were helpless. Contrast that to today. If you enter the ring and you're awesome solely at BJJ, a decent striker who knows how to counter takedowns and escape holds will win. TL;DR: Royce's dominance was due to his particular moment in history, not the inherent superiority of BJJ.

woahdude

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BJJ definitely caused a revolution in America when Royce was fighting. But his amazing success was primarily because he was fighting people who had no idea what he was doing. He'd set them up for an arm bar and they wouldn't see it coming, and suddenly they were helpless. Contrast that to today. If you enter the ring and you're awesome solely at BJJ, a decent striker who knows how to counter takedowns and escape holds will win.

Royce's dominance was due to his particular moment in history, not the inherent superiority of BJJ.

cyclonusisback

Whenever I see that picture, I can't help but feel bad for that poor man. All he wanted to do was enjoy a nice simple ice cream cone. Probably jogged his memory and reminded him of his childhood when he and the neighborhood kids would play outside all day in the hot summer sun, biking and playing tag, and then run for the ice cream man when he rolled around with that always satisfying tune at the end of the day just as the orange sun started dipping below the horizon. Those were the days. Then the seagull comes and snatches up his ice cream cone. Just like time did with his childhood and the simpler times when he was always happy. He is reminded of all his responsibilities and obligations in the world and his momentary Garden of Eden is shattered. Tl;dr: FUCK THAT SEAGULL.

Whenever I see that picture, I can't help but feel bad for that poor man. All he wanted to do was enjoy a nice simple ice cream cone. Probably jogged his memory and reminded him of his childhood when he and the neighborhood kids would play outside all day in the hot summer sun, biking and playing tag, and then run for the ice cream man when he rolled around with that always satisfying tune at the end of the day just as the orange sun started dipping below the horizon. Those were the days. Then the seagull comes and snatches up his ice cream cone. Just like time did with his childhood and the simpler times when he was always happy. He is reminded of all his responsibilities and obligations in the world and his momentary Garden of Eden is shattered. Tl;dr: FUCK THAT SEAGULL.

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Whenever I see that picture, I can't help but feel bad for that poor man. All he wanted to do was enjoy a nice simple ice cream cone. Probably jogged his memory and reminded him of his childhood when he and the neighborhood kids would play outside all day in the hot summer sun, biking and playing tag, and then run for the ice cream man when he rolled around with that always satisfying tune at the end of the day just as the orange sun started dipping below the horizon. Those were the days. Then the seagull comes and snatches up his ice cream cone. Just like time did with his childhood and the simpler times when he was always happy. He is reminded of all his responsibilities and obligations in the world and his momentary Garden of Eden is shattered.

FUCK THAT SEAGULL.

Toenen

When I was a we lad, about say 11 or so, my family and I took a family vacation, but we wanted to be different. Now I'm not saying that it's the most unique thing a family can do for vacation, but the *Disney Cruise was the best damn' mother fucking vacation I ever did have.* Some of my fondest memories are from that vacation. Including a mother fucking sail boat ride. Now on this boat ride we went snorkeling with fish and turtles and on a beautiful Caribbean day. After all these wonderful adventures my family stops for lunch. At this point we realize there are a mother fucking shit ton of seagulls, and my father starts teasing the bastards to come and get his food. He starts waving a pretty small piece of bread out over his head and procedes to say "Take it if you can you ba-" and at that very moment, BAM, a mother fucking seagull snatches the small ass piece of bread from his hand. The fucking bird didn't even harm my dad's hand, and this is exactly how my dads face was too. Only thing thats better than that moment is remembering my first boner on a nude beach in the Caribbean. tl;dr : went on tropic vacation and watched a seagull steal my dads piece of bread straight from his hand after he was daring the bird to do it.

When I was a we lad, about say 11 or so, my family and I took a family vacation, but we wanted to be different. Now I'm not saying that it's the most unique thing a family can do for vacation, but the Disney Cruise was the best damn' mother fucking vacation I ever did have. Some of my fondest memories are from that vacation. Including a mother fucking sail boat ride. Now on this boat ride we went snorkeling with fish and turtles and on a beautiful Caribbean day. After all these wonderful adventures my family stops for lunch. At this point we realize there are a mother fucking shit ton of seagulls, and my father starts teasing the bastards to come and get his food. He starts waving a pretty small piece of bread out over his head and procedes to say "Take it if you can you ba-" and at that very moment, BAM, a mother fucking seagull snatches the small ass piece of bread from his hand. The fucking bird didn't even harm my dad's hand, and this is exactly how my dads face was too. Only thing thats better than that moment is remembering my first boner on a nude beach in the Caribbean. tl;dr : went on tropic vacation and watched a seagull steal my dads piece of bread straight from his hand after he was daring the bird to do it.

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When I was a we lad, about say 11 or so, my family and I took a family vacation, but we wanted to be different. Now I'm not saying that it's the most unique thing a family can do for vacation, but the Disney Cruise was the best damn' mother fucking vacation I ever did have. Some of my fondest memories are from that vacation. Including a mother fucking sail boat ride. Now on this boat ride we went snorkeling with fish and turtles and on a beautiful Caribbean day. After all these wonderful adventures my family stops for lunch. At this point we realize there are a mother fucking shit ton of seagulls, and my father starts teasing the bastards to come and get his food. He starts waving a pretty small piece of bread out over his head and procedes to say "Take it if you can you ba-" and at that very moment, BAM, a mother fucking seagull snatches the small ass piece of bread from his hand. The fucking bird didn't even harm my dad's hand, and this is exactly how my dads face was too. Only thing thats better than that moment is remembering my first boner on a nude beach in the Caribbean.

went on tropic vacation and watched a seagull steal my dads piece of bread straight from his hand after he was daring the bird to do it.

Trolker

>Ok, I haven't seen anybody else do this, but this is my "standard" >combo every single time I use thresh. >Basically it drags enemy towards you, drags them a SECOND time >towards you, AND THEN you dash to be behind them, and you can E >them towards your ADC even more! >You can press your Q and hit someone to drag them, then walk >backwards to drag them again, immediately after that you CAN press Q >after you've dragged them and you can dash on them, it will dash you >to the place were you originally grabbed them from, so you will >actually be behind them, you can then push them forward (because >your infront of them) with your E. >I hope this makes sense, please try it! >**TL;DR**: Hook somebody with Q to pull them a small ways, walk backwards right when it hits to drag them a >2nd time then immediately press Q again, and you will dash to them and you can E them. So the result is=You >pulled them twice, you dashed to them, and then E'd them even further. **FTFY**

>Ok, I haven't seen anybody else do this, but this is my "standard" >combo every single time I use thresh. >Basically it drags enemy towards you, drags them a SECOND time >towards you, AND THEN you dash to be behind them, and you can E >them towards your ADC even more! >You can press your Q and hit someone to drag them, then walk >backwards to drag them again, immediately after that you CAN press Q >after you've dragged them and you can dash on them, it will dash you >to the place were you originally grabbed them from, so you will >actually be behind them, you can then push them forward (because >your infront of them) with your E. >I hope this makes sense, please try it! > TL;DR : Hook somebody with Q to pull them a small ways, walk backwards right when it hits to drag them a >2nd time then immediately press Q again, and you will dash to them and you can E them. So the result is=You >pulled them twice, you dashed to them, and then E'd them even further. FTFY

leagueoflegends

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Ok, I haven't seen anybody else do this, but this is my "standard" >combo every single time I use thresh. >Basically it drags enemy towards you, drags them a SECOND time >towards you, AND THEN you dash to be behind them, and you can E >them towards your ADC even more! >You can press your Q and hit someone to drag them, then walk >backwards to drag them again, immediately after that you CAN press Q >after you've dragged them and you can dash on them, it will dash you >to the place were you originally grabbed them from, so you will >actually be behind them, you can then push them forward (because >your infront of them) with your E. >I hope this makes sense, please try it! >

Hook somebody with Q to pull them a small ways, walk backwards right when it hits to drag them a >2nd time then immediately press Q again, and you will dash to them and you can E them. So the result is=You >pulled them twice, you dashed to them, and then E'd them even further. FTFY

Oiranaru

This. I've been doing this since the first day Thresh came out, and it drastically increases the amount of time you have a person under your control. Why not utilise the two pulls of the chain before flying to them, then knock them back with Flay? Ofc, there are times and places where you just wanna fly to them ASAP to save someone or initiate, but it's all up to judgement. TL:DR - Yank them then come to them.

This. I've been doing this since the first day Thresh came out, and it drastically increases the amount of time you have a person under your control. Why not utilise the two pulls of the chain before flying to them, then knock them back with Flay? Ofc, there are times and places where you just wanna fly to them ASAP to save someone or initiate, but it's all up to judgement. TL:DR - Yank them then come to them.

leagueoflegends

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This. I've been doing this since the first day Thresh came out, and it drastically increases the amount of time you have a person under your control. Why not utilise the two pulls of the chain before flying to them, then knock them back with Flay? Ofc, there are times and places where you just wanna fly to them ASAP to save someone or initiate, but it's all up to judgement.

Yank them then come to them.

qwertyelff

I respectfully disagree about Reddit being primarily geared for delivering news, but maybe this is because our homepages are set differently. Point taken, it is rude to complain about reposts. I simply got angered because of the narrow time slot in which this was posted and typed it out. My apologies. I had no idea cross-posting someone else's posts is allowed. I thought that this, of all things, would be against Reddiquette because I know how shitty I've felt when someone reposts my unpopular content as their own, and reaps thousands of karma that I felt that I deserved. TLDR - I still stand by what I said, but I'm sorry that I voiced my complaint.

I respectfully disagree about Reddit being primarily geared for delivering news, but maybe this is because our homepages are set differently. Point taken, it is rude to complain about reposts. I simply got angered because of the narrow time slot in which this was posted and typed it out. My apologies. I had no idea cross-posting someone else's posts is allowed. I thought that this, of all things, would be against Reddiquette because I know how shitty I've felt when someone reposts my unpopular content as their own, and reaps thousands of karma that I felt that I deserved. TLDR - I still stand by what I said, but I'm sorry that I voiced my complaint.

aww

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I respectfully disagree about Reddit being primarily geared for delivering news, but maybe this is because our homepages are set differently. Point taken, it is rude to complain about reposts. I simply got angered because of the narrow time slot in which this was posted and typed it out. My apologies. I had no idea cross-posting someone else's posts is allowed. I thought that this, of all things, would be against Reddiquette because I know how shitty I've felt when someone reposts my unpopular content as their own, and reaps thousands of karma that I felt that I deserved.

I still stand by what I said, but I'm sorry that I voiced my complaint.

JonoKushi

not too relevant but for anyone that's a skeptic about this and thinks if you get a fox young enough and raise it as a dog it'll behave like a dog. You're probably wrong. I don't want to talk in absolutes since I'm basing this off one and a half experiments but in that russian fox experiment they had hundreds of subjects young and slightly older and not one of them was fit for a domesticated role until I believe it was EIGHT GENERATIONS of breeding the friendliest personality traits they could into these foxes. Also it is more of a vague memory but I remember a documentary in which a couple found or somehow got a hold of a wolf puppy and they decided to try and raise it with their dogs. It didn't work. Within a couple of months the wolf was exhibiting behavior which indicated it was unfit for a domesticated life. Although they treated it no different then their other dogs the wolf would not listen to them. It wouldn't even acknowledge that they were attempting to give it instructions at all. I don't believe it ever attacked them but if I remember correctly it began to become aggressive not just toward them but their other dogs which it had known since it was a puppy. Keep in mind wolves are, according to DNA markers, the ancient ancestor to all known dogs currently in existence. In short if these experiments are to be taken at face value it is straight up fact that although in humans nurture generally overcomes nature in foxes (and wolves) nature definitely plays a large role. TL;DR Please do not find a baby fox (or wolf) in the wild and think you can keep it as a pet. It will fuck your shit up.

not too relevant but for anyone that's a skeptic about this and thinks if you get a fox young enough and raise it as a dog it'll behave like a dog. You're probably wrong. I don't want to talk in absolutes since I'm basing this off one and a half experiments but in that russian fox experiment they had hundreds of subjects young and slightly older and not one of them was fit for a domesticated role until I believe it was EIGHT GENERATIONS of breeding the friendliest personality traits they could into these foxes. Also it is more of a vague memory but I remember a documentary in which a couple found or somehow got a hold of a wolf puppy and they decided to try and raise it with their dogs. It didn't work. Within a couple of months the wolf was exhibiting behavior which indicated it was unfit for a domesticated life. Although they treated it no different then their other dogs the wolf would not listen to them. It wouldn't even acknowledge that they were attempting to give it instructions at all. I don't believe it ever attacked them but if I remember correctly it began to become aggressive not just toward them but their other dogs which it had known since it was a puppy. Keep in mind wolves are, according to DNA markers, the ancient ancestor to all known dogs currently in existence. In short if these experiments are to be taken at face value it is straight up fact that although in humans nurture generally overcomes nature in foxes (and wolves) nature definitely plays a large role. TL;DR Please do not find a baby fox (or wolf) in the wild and think you can keep it as a pet. It will fuck your shit up.

aww

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c84eegu

not too relevant but for anyone that's a skeptic about this and thinks if you get a fox young enough and raise it as a dog it'll behave like a dog. You're probably wrong. I don't want to talk in absolutes since I'm basing this off one and a half experiments but in that russian fox experiment they had hundreds of subjects young and slightly older and not one of them was fit for a domesticated role until I believe it was EIGHT GENERATIONS of breeding the friendliest personality traits they could into these foxes. Also it is more of a vague memory but I remember a documentary in which a couple found or somehow got a hold of a wolf puppy and they decided to try and raise it with their dogs. It didn't work. Within a couple of months the wolf was exhibiting behavior which indicated it was unfit for a domesticated life. Although they treated it no different then their other dogs the wolf would not listen to them. It wouldn't even acknowledge that they were attempting to give it instructions at all. I don't believe it ever attacked them but if I remember correctly it began to become aggressive not just toward them but their other dogs which it had known since it was a puppy. Keep in mind wolves are, according to DNA markers, the ancient ancestor to all known dogs currently in existence. In short if these experiments are to be taken at face value it is straight up fact that although in humans nurture generally overcomes nature in foxes (and wolves) nature definitely plays a large role.

Please do not find a baby fox (or wolf) in the wild and think you can keep it as a pet. It will fuck your shit up.

who__whatwhat

If I hand wash, dry, polish and wax all in one go, I will end up with some really tired arms with about 1/3 of the car left to wax. At that point, I just keep switching hands until I'm done. My arms will be a little sore the next day along with my legs from all the squatting and contorting. If I use a stool, my legs are fine. If I have to break it up and polish one day and then wax the next, I don't get worn out. I prefer to do it all at once, but sometimes the weather won't let me because it's too cold out, or it starts raining, or the sun sets early, etc. This is where having a garage would come in handy for me! But I always wax after a polish. It's not as bad as it sounds. I really enjoy working by hand so I don't really see it as a chore. Seeing my car all nice and shiny is always worth it in the end! Hope this helps you a little. TL:DR - If I hand wash, polish and wax all back to back, I start to get noodle arms towards the end. If I polish one day and wax the next, I don't.

If I hand wash, dry, polish and wax all in one go, I will end up with some really tired arms with about 1/3 of the car left to wax. At that point, I just keep switching hands until I'm done. My arms will be a little sore the next day along with my legs from all the squatting and contorting. If I use a stool, my legs are fine. If I have to break it up and polish one day and then wax the next, I don't get worn out. I prefer to do it all at once, but sometimes the weather won't let me because it's too cold out, or it starts raining, or the sun sets early, etc. This is where having a garage would come in handy for me! But I always wax after a polish. It's not as bad as it sounds. I really enjoy working by hand so I don't really see it as a chore. Seeing my car all nice and shiny is always worth it in the end! Hope this helps you a little. TL:DR - If I hand wash, polish and wax all back to back, I start to get noodle arms towards the end. If I polish one day and wax the next, I don't.

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If I hand wash, dry, polish and wax all in one go, I will end up with some really tired arms with about 1/3 of the car left to wax. At that point, I just keep switching hands until I'm done. My arms will be a little sore the next day along with my legs from all the squatting and contorting. If I use a stool, my legs are fine. If I have to break it up and polish one day and then wax the next, I don't get worn out. I prefer to do it all at once, but sometimes the weather won't let me because it's too cold out, or it starts raining, or the sun sets early, etc. This is where having a garage would come in handy for me! But I always wax after a polish. It's not as bad as it sounds. I really enjoy working by hand so I don't really see it as a chore. Seeing my car all nice and shiny is always worth it in the end! Hope this helps you a little.

If I hand wash, polish and wax all back to back, I start to get noodle arms towards the end. If I polish one day and wax the next, I don't.

dimthegamer

Yes but all your doing is lowering your self to their level. You need to show you are better then that to get respect, why the hell do you think the protestant church is more lenient then it ever has been. Not because people constantly attack it and call it out but because both sides are being respectful to each other and that grants them the ability to talk and to ease up on some rules but before that can happen one said needs to show they are capable of stepping down and talking to the other. Thought I do understand their are two possible outcomes to stepping down one is they do to and the other is total destruction but in the world we now live in such a move would be far to hasty for the church to pull and would only destroy their creditability in the process so really we would still win in that situation apart from obsessively heavily segmented groups that put way to much faith in to such ideas. Yes their are always going to be idiots that stoup religious bullshit but and satire and jokes are good to help get past such things but first we need to show we aren't their enemy otherwise we only build on their hate we need to show that we can extend the olive branch by just maybe saying: "Hay I know some of your rules are outdated but without you none of awe modern rules and laws may never have gone in to place some admittedly bad but, most of which good and stuff the helped father humanity while still keeping control/peace (I know their have been allot of religious wars but allot of peace has also come of religion if you cant see that well then your blind and I'm sorry) in ways we just couldn't in the past so, I though that if maybe it would be nice if we stopped throwing shit at each other for no reason and had a talk about some of the rules that just don't work any more" sure you might just get a "FUCK OFF KID" and if you do record it put it on the internet get some karma for it and watch the media eat it up but you might also get something productive out of all this fighting which would be better then more segregation, where large towns become atheist and small ones become Christiana because then things just get worse and worse. I don't expect you to agree with me here, I know it's hard but if we just keep fighting then we will do nothing but make the situation worse. I will go back to me last example the 1950-80 when black people first got real rights not imagine if instead of having MLK telling them to be respectful have him telling them to fight their white oppressors that would have made white people fear and hate them. Now that the situations and we are all traded equal now we can joke, we can have people make jokes and satire but for the time being we have a choose to make; we continue the cycle of hate or, we rise above it and brake it. One last point never in the history of the world has a revolution been a good thing. Even your american revolution was in essence a bad thing at first anyway, it was a war to make the rich free and the poor slaves nothing more that's why you needed to be a white male landowner to vote back when the deluration was first signed and even then their could have easily been behests and fixings due to the was the system used to work and still does to today. The same goes for almost ever revelation that has ever happened so before you get that idea you can just throw that out. tl;dr fighting it will get us no where as it has shown in the past. Revolutions a joke an should be seen as one in almost ever situation. For so many reasons more then I can ever give to you we need to show we can be better before we can start to poke fun. p.s. I as so sorry this is so long I can imagine with my dyslectic grammar and spelling their are millions of problems with it I am very sorry.

Yes but all your doing is lowering your self to their level. You need to show you are better then that to get respect, why the hell do you think the protestant church is more lenient then it ever has been. Not because people constantly attack it and call it out but because both sides are being respectful to each other and that grants them the ability to talk and to ease up on some rules but before that can happen one said needs to show they are capable of stepping down and talking to the other. Thought I do understand their are two possible outcomes to stepping down one is they do to and the other is total destruction but in the world we now live in such a move would be far to hasty for the church to pull and would only destroy their creditability in the process so really we would still win in that situation apart from obsessively heavily segmented groups that put way to much faith in to such ideas. Yes their are always going to be idiots that stoup religious bullshit but and satire and jokes are good to help get past such things but first we need to show we aren't their enemy otherwise we only build on their hate we need to show that we can extend the olive branch by just maybe saying: "Hay I know some of your rules are outdated but without you none of awe modern rules and laws may never have gone in to place some admittedly bad but, most of which good and stuff the helped father humanity while still keeping control/peace (I know their have been allot of religious wars but allot of peace has also come of religion if you cant see that well then your blind and I'm sorry) in ways we just couldn't in the past so, I though that if maybe it would be nice if we stopped throwing shit at each other for no reason and had a talk about some of the rules that just don't work any more" sure you might just get a "FUCK OFF KID" and if you do record it put it on the internet get some karma for it and watch the media eat it up but you might also get something productive out of all this fighting which would be better then more segregation, where large towns become atheist and small ones become Christiana because then things just get worse and worse. I don't expect you to agree with me here, I know it's hard but if we just keep fighting then we will do nothing but make the situation worse. I will go back to me last example the 1950-80 when black people first got real rights not imagine if instead of having MLK telling them to be respectful have him telling them to fight their white oppressors that would have made white people fear and hate them. Now that the situations and we are all traded equal now we can joke, we can have people make jokes and satire but for the time being we have a choose to make; we continue the cycle of hate or, we rise above it and brake it. One last point never in the history of the world has a revolution been a good thing. Even your american revolution was in essence a bad thing at first anyway, it was a war to make the rich free and the poor slaves nothing more that's why you needed to be a white male landowner to vote back when the deluration was first signed and even then their could have easily been behests and fixings due to the was the system used to work and still does to today. The same goes for almost ever revelation that has ever happened so before you get that idea you can just throw that out. tl;dr fighting it will get us no where as it has shown in the past. Revolutions a joke an should be seen as one in almost ever situation. For so many reasons more then I can ever give to you we need to show we can be better before we can start to poke fun. p.s. I as so sorry this is so long I can imagine with my dyslectic grammar and spelling their are millions of problems with it I am very sorry.

atheism

t5_2qh2p

c850k7j

Yes but all your doing is lowering your self to their level. You need to show you are better then that to get respect, why the hell do you think the protestant church is more lenient then it ever has been. Not because people constantly attack it and call it out but because both sides are being respectful to each other and that grants them the ability to talk and to ease up on some rules but before that can happen one said needs to show they are capable of stepping down and talking to the other. Thought I do understand their are two possible outcomes to stepping down one is they do to and the other is total destruction but in the world we now live in such a move would be far to hasty for the church to pull and would only destroy their creditability in the process so really we would still win in that situation apart from obsessively heavily segmented groups that put way to much faith in to such ideas. Yes their are always going to be idiots that stoup religious bullshit but and satire and jokes are good to help get past such things but first we need to show we aren't their enemy otherwise we only build on their hate we need to show that we can extend the olive branch by just maybe saying: "Hay I know some of your rules are outdated but without you none of awe modern rules and laws may never have gone in to place some admittedly bad but, most of which good and stuff the helped father humanity while still keeping control/peace (I know their have been allot of religious wars but allot of peace has also come of religion if you cant see that well then your blind and I'm sorry) in ways we just couldn't in the past so, I though that if maybe it would be nice if we stopped throwing shit at each other for no reason and had a talk about some of the rules that just don't work any more" sure you might just get a "FUCK OFF KID" and if you do record it put it on the internet get some karma for it and watch the media eat it up but you might also get something productive out of all this fighting which would be better then more segregation, where large towns become atheist and small ones become Christiana because then things just get worse and worse. I don't expect you to agree with me here, I know it's hard but if we just keep fighting then we will do nothing but make the situation worse. I will go back to me last example the 1950-80 when black people first got real rights not imagine if instead of having MLK telling them to be respectful have him telling them to fight their white oppressors that would have made white people fear and hate them. Now that the situations and we are all traded equal now we can joke, we can have people make jokes and satire but for the time being we have a choose to make; we continue the cycle of hate or, we rise above it and brake it. One last point never in the history of the world has a revolution been a good thing. Even your american revolution was in essence a bad thing at first anyway, it was a war to make the rich free and the poor slaves nothing more that's why you needed to be a white male landowner to vote back when the deluration was first signed and even then their could have easily been behests and fixings due to the was the system used to work and still does to today. The same goes for almost ever revelation that has ever happened so before you get that idea you can just throw that out.

fighting it will get us no where as it has shown in the past. Revolutions a joke an should be seen as one in almost ever situation. For so many reasons more then I can ever give to you we need to show we can be better before we can start to poke fun. p.s. I as so sorry this is so long I can imagine with my dyslectic grammar and spelling their are millions of problems with it I am very sorry.

Jespy

How old is she man? lol This wasn't somewhere in Illinois was it? This brings back so many memories of a German Shepard I used to have when I was a kid. Her name was Shadow as well and was my favorite dog to this day. We only had her for about 2-3 years though and my dad ended up giving her to one of our friends who owned a farm. We had a neighbor down the street who also had a dog. My dog, Shadow, and her dog, Melissa, became "Best Friends" and we would take Shadow to go play with Melissa often. Now our neighbor loved her dog as if it was a kid, she never had or was able to have any kids, so Melissa was her "kid". Anyway, it got to the point where our neighbor, who I will refer to as "Nan" would come and get Shadow from our house to go play with Melissa. At first we didn't mind, but then it got the point where Nan felt entitled to getting Shadow. Also, Shadow picked up tendencies of being afraid Thunderstorms which she never was from the beginning but Melissa was terrified of Thunderstorms/Fireworks so much that they had to tranquilize her during those events. I'm not sure if habits/fears can be picked up from other dogs. Now, as nice as "Nan" was at times she also had some problems, she was a bit of an alcoholic. Whenever there was a Thunderstorm Shadow would somehow manage to jump over our fence and ran to Nancy's house and there would be times were Shadow would "run away" this caused Nan to think we weren't treated Shadow right. It got to the point where Nancy called the Cops and would tell them that our dog ran away and gone to her house numerous times and that it was beginning to be a problem. My parents were very upset and mad at her because we thought Nan was our friend. Anyway, we later found out that all these times we thought Shadow was running away it was actually Nan who would come get Shadow and bring her to her house.... My dad didn't want anymore problems...So he gave Shadow to one of his friends who had some farmland and told my Brother and I that she was going to be happier there because she had all this room. Anyways, I was crying like a fucking baby for a 14 year old boy. Saying goodbye to my dog Shadow was one of the saddest things I ever had to do....I told my dad I wanted to see Shadow every week and then one day when we went back to the farm she wasn't there. :( She ran away. Worst fucking feeling ever man. I tried to look for her for hours but there was no hope. I was mad at my parents for a long time. Our dog played Soccer, Football, Basketball with us and even know how to open the backdoor for us when we were bringing in groceries. When we had our cousins over she was very protective of our swingset and wouldn't let them get near it, we had to keep her inside. And when we had a garage sale we had her out for a while until she started barking at any kid who tried to grab our toys that were for sale. Who knew that a little fluffy fur of ball could turn into an amazing dog and friend. I haven't had another dog since then, but if I ever get a dog again it will be a German Shepard. Best dogs ever. Sorry for the long storyl TL;DR: I miss my dog Shadow :P

How old is she man? lol This wasn't somewhere in Illinois was it? This brings back so many memories of a German Shepard I used to have when I was a kid. Her name was Shadow as well and was my favorite dog to this day. We only had her for about 2-3 years though and my dad ended up giving her to one of our friends who owned a farm. We had a neighbor down the street who also had a dog. My dog, Shadow, and her dog, Melissa, became "Best Friends" and we would take Shadow to go play with Melissa often. Now our neighbor loved her dog as if it was a kid, she never had or was able to have any kids, so Melissa was her "kid". Anyway, it got to the point where our neighbor, who I will refer to as "Nan" would come and get Shadow from our house to go play with Melissa. At first we didn't mind, but then it got the point where Nan felt entitled to getting Shadow. Also, Shadow picked up tendencies of being afraid Thunderstorms which she never was from the beginning but Melissa was terrified of Thunderstorms/Fireworks so much that they had to tranquilize her during those events. I'm not sure if habits/fears can be picked up from other dogs. Now, as nice as "Nan" was at times she also had some problems, she was a bit of an alcoholic. Whenever there was a Thunderstorm Shadow would somehow manage to jump over our fence and ran to Nancy's house and there would be times were Shadow would "run away" this caused Nan to think we weren't treated Shadow right. It got to the point where Nancy called the Cops and would tell them that our dog ran away and gone to her house numerous times and that it was beginning to be a problem. My parents were very upset and mad at her because we thought Nan was our friend. Anyway, we later found out that all these times we thought Shadow was running away it was actually Nan who would come get Shadow and bring her to her house.... My dad didn't want anymore problems...So he gave Shadow to one of his friends who had some farmland and told my Brother and I that she was going to be happier there because she had all this room. Anyways, I was crying like a fucking baby for a 14 year old boy. Saying goodbye to my dog Shadow was one of the saddest things I ever had to do....I told my dad I wanted to see Shadow every week and then one day when we went back to the farm she wasn't there. :( She ran away. Worst fucking feeling ever man. I tried to look for her for hours but there was no hope. I was mad at my parents for a long time. Our dog played Soccer, Football, Basketball with us and even know how to open the backdoor for us when we were bringing in groceries. When we had our cousins over she was very protective of our swingset and wouldn't let them get near it, we had to keep her inside. And when we had a garage sale we had her out for a while until she started barking at any kid who tried to grab our toys that were for sale. Who knew that a little fluffy fur of ball could turn into an amazing dog and friend. I haven't had another dog since then, but if I ever get a dog again it will be a German Shepard. Best dogs ever. Sorry for the long storyl TL;DR: I miss my dog Shadow :P

aww

t5_2qh1o

c84ij4a

How old is she man? lol This wasn't somewhere in Illinois was it? This brings back so many memories of a German Shepard I used to have when I was a kid. Her name was Shadow as well and was my favorite dog to this day. We only had her for about 2-3 years though and my dad ended up giving her to one of our friends who owned a farm. We had a neighbor down the street who also had a dog. My dog, Shadow, and her dog, Melissa, became "Best Friends" and we would take Shadow to go play with Melissa often. Now our neighbor loved her dog as if it was a kid, she never had or was able to have any kids, so Melissa was her "kid". Anyway, it got to the point where our neighbor, who I will refer to as "Nan" would come and get Shadow from our house to go play with Melissa. At first we didn't mind, but then it got the point where Nan felt entitled to getting Shadow. Also, Shadow picked up tendencies of being afraid Thunderstorms which she never was from the beginning but Melissa was terrified of Thunderstorms/Fireworks so much that they had to tranquilize her during those events. I'm not sure if habits/fears can be picked up from other dogs. Now, as nice as "Nan" was at times she also had some problems, she was a bit of an alcoholic. Whenever there was a Thunderstorm Shadow would somehow manage to jump over our fence and ran to Nancy's house and there would be times were Shadow would "run away" this caused Nan to think we weren't treated Shadow right. It got to the point where Nancy called the Cops and would tell them that our dog ran away and gone to her house numerous times and that it was beginning to be a problem. My parents were very upset and mad at her because we thought Nan was our friend. Anyway, we later found out that all these times we thought Shadow was running away it was actually Nan who would come get Shadow and bring her to her house.... My dad didn't want anymore problems...So he gave Shadow to one of his friends who had some farmland and told my Brother and I that she was going to be happier there because she had all this room. Anyways, I was crying like a fucking baby for a 14 year old boy. Saying goodbye to my dog Shadow was one of the saddest things I ever had to do....I told my dad I wanted to see Shadow every week and then one day when we went back to the farm she wasn't there. :( She ran away. Worst fucking feeling ever man. I tried to look for her for hours but there was no hope. I was mad at my parents for a long time. Our dog played Soccer, Football, Basketball with us and even know how to open the backdoor for us when we were bringing in groceries. When we had our cousins over she was very protective of our swingset and wouldn't let them get near it, we had to keep her inside. And when we had a garage sale we had her out for a while until she started barking at any kid who tried to grab our toys that were for sale. Who knew that a little fluffy fur of ball could turn into an amazing dog and friend. I haven't had another dog since then, but if I ever get a dog again it will be a German Shepard. Best dogs ever. Sorry for the long storyl

I miss my dog Shadow :P

puppeteer23

Came here to say that. Love the TILs where kids "discover" things that everyone has known for over twenty years. TL;DR: git off my lawn.

Came here to say that. Love the TILs where kids "discover" things that everyone has known for over twenty years. TL;DR: git off my lawn.

movies

t5_2qh3s

c84i73n

Came here to say that. Love the TILs where kids "discover" things that everyone has known for over twenty years.

git off my lawn.

smokoloco

Anyone over 30 has known this for about 20 years. What's next? TIL Justin Timberlake was on Mickey Mouse Club? tl;dr stop bringing up old shit, fucking children ;)

Anyone over 30 has known this for about 20 years. What's next? TIL Justin Timberlake was on Mickey Mouse Club? tl;dr stop bringing up old shit, fucking children ;)

movies

t5_2qh3s

c84ieti

Anyone over 30 has known this for about 20 years. What's next? TIL Justin Timberlake was on Mickey Mouse Club?

stop bringing up old shit, fucking children ;)

Codeegirl

Absolutely. A lot of guys see it as unattractive because "it's gross when guys in porn do it." Understandable why a straight male would not be turned on by a male's voice. As a female, nothing gets me going like hearing any vocalizations.... Because I am sexually attracted to men. TL;DR: YES.

Absolutely. A lot of guys see it as unattractive because "it's gross when guys in porn do it." Understandable why a straight male would not be turned on by a male's voice. As a female, nothing gets me going like hearing any vocalizations.... Because I am sexually attracted to men. TL;DR: YES.

sex

t5_2qh3p

c84tjrd

Absolutely. A lot of guys see it as unattractive because "it's gross when guys in porn do it." Understandable why a straight male would not be turned on by a male's voice. As a female, nothing gets me going like hearing any vocalizations.... Because I am sexually attracted to men.

YES.

Shawn_Spenstar

Ok i read the whole thing and my god I see no reason to ever run Kotl, Nyx and PL in a trilane like they said and here are the reasons why. At level 1 you have mana burn which costs 130 mana, kotl which has chakra that returns only 75 mana, and lance on PL. At level 1 you can do absolutely nothing, and if the enemy goes on you can do absolutely nothing. They say you should mana burn early because of chakra but it takes 2 chakras to cast 1 mana burn, thats 50 of kotls mana, 38 seconds of cd for 1 mana burn... Lets do a little theory craft here your trilane against a Lina, SD, Sven trilane. Anyone on your team gets disrupted they are dead you have no way to break the initation, you have 0 stun, 1 mana burn nuke which will not burn enough mana to stop the initiation and 1 slow nuke that do nothing whatsoever, if nyx got impale at 1 you would at least have a stun so your lane might not die repeatedly but since they want mana burn your trilane will get raped before kotl has illuminate. What is the point of putting nyx and pl in the same lane with kotl. Kotl can at best keep one of their mana up early game, not both and certainly not both while trying to keep his up enough to chakra both of them. This lane has very little kill potential, you cant even spam spells until kotl is at least level 3 which in a trilane that is not getting kills is like 7 mins in the game. To me its just a horrible horrible lane. Can someone please explain what im not understanding that makes this a good lane? I mean it could be decent against a solo laner but nyx kotl or nyx pl would do just as well without gimping themselves on levels. I just dont understand how or why this is considered a good trilane especially one they claim is good against other trilanes. It works on paper cuz on paper kotl is a "mana battery" and the other 2 are mana intensive so they have synergy but like i said early game kotl cannot sustain 2 heroes and certainly not 2 heroes plus himself so your stuck waiting till level 3. And if you wait till 3 at the earliest to start doing things with your trilane youve already lost. I just dont see this ever working in a real game against competent players. TL:DR Kotl cannot keep his allies mana up until level 3 earliest and they have no stun, will get trashed by 95% of trilanes and is stupid to waste 3 against a solo when 2 of them would fair just as well.

Ok i read the whole thing and my god I see no reason to ever run Kotl, Nyx and PL in a trilane like they said and here are the reasons why. At level 1 you have mana burn which costs 130 mana, kotl which has chakra that returns only 75 mana, and lance on PL. At level 1 you can do absolutely nothing, and if the enemy goes on you can do absolutely nothing. They say you should mana burn early because of chakra but it takes 2 chakras to cast 1 mana burn, thats 50 of kotls mana, 38 seconds of cd for 1 mana burn... Lets do a little theory craft here your trilane against a Lina, SD, Sven trilane. Anyone on your team gets disrupted they are dead you have no way to break the initation, you have 0 stun, 1 mana burn nuke which will not burn enough mana to stop the initiation and 1 slow nuke that do nothing whatsoever, if nyx got impale at 1 you would at least have a stun so your lane might not die repeatedly but since they want mana burn your trilane will get raped before kotl has illuminate. What is the point of putting nyx and pl in the same lane with kotl. Kotl can at best keep one of their mana up early game, not both and certainly not both while trying to keep his up enough to chakra both of them. This lane has very little kill potential, you cant even spam spells until kotl is at least level 3 which in a trilane that is not getting kills is like 7 mins in the game. To me its just a horrible horrible lane. Can someone please explain what im not understanding that makes this a good lane? I mean it could be decent against a solo laner but nyx kotl or nyx pl would do just as well without gimping themselves on levels. I just dont understand how or why this is considered a good trilane especially one they claim is good against other trilanes. It works on paper cuz on paper kotl is a "mana battery" and the other 2 are mana intensive so they have synergy but like i said early game kotl cannot sustain 2 heroes and certainly not 2 heroes plus himself so your stuck waiting till level 3. And if you wait till 3 at the earliest to start doing things with your trilane youve already lost. I just dont see this ever working in a real game against competent players. TL:DR Kotl cannot keep his allies mana up until level 3 earliest and they have no stun, will get trashed by 95% of trilanes and is stupid to waste 3 against a solo when 2 of them would fair just as well.

DotA2

t5_2s580

c855bon

Ok i read the whole thing and my god I see no reason to ever run Kotl, Nyx and PL in a trilane like they said and here are the reasons why. At level 1 you have mana burn which costs 130 mana, kotl which has chakra that returns only 75 mana, and lance on PL. At level 1 you can do absolutely nothing, and if the enemy goes on you can do absolutely nothing. They say you should mana burn early because of chakra but it takes 2 chakras to cast 1 mana burn, thats 50 of kotls mana, 38 seconds of cd for 1 mana burn... Lets do a little theory craft here your trilane against a Lina, SD, Sven trilane. Anyone on your team gets disrupted they are dead you have no way to break the initation, you have 0 stun, 1 mana burn nuke which will not burn enough mana to stop the initiation and 1 slow nuke that do nothing whatsoever, if nyx got impale at 1 you would at least have a stun so your lane might not die repeatedly but since they want mana burn your trilane will get raped before kotl has illuminate. What is the point of putting nyx and pl in the same lane with kotl. Kotl can at best keep one of their mana up early game, not both and certainly not both while trying to keep his up enough to chakra both of them. This lane has very little kill potential, you cant even spam spells until kotl is at least level 3 which in a trilane that is not getting kills is like 7 mins in the game. To me its just a horrible horrible lane. Can someone please explain what im not understanding that makes this a good lane? I mean it could be decent against a solo laner but nyx kotl or nyx pl would do just as well without gimping themselves on levels. I just dont understand how or why this is considered a good trilane especially one they claim is good against other trilanes. It works on paper cuz on paper kotl is a "mana battery" and the other 2 are mana intensive so they have synergy but like i said early game kotl cannot sustain 2 heroes and certainly not 2 heroes plus himself so your stuck waiting till level 3. And if you wait till 3 at the earliest to start doing things with your trilane youve already lost. I just dont see this ever working in a real game against competent players.

Kotl cannot keep his allies mana up until level 3 earliest and they have no stun, will get trashed by 95% of trilanes and is stupid to waste 3 against a solo when 2 of them would fair just as well.

Twigglett

I don't think it's considered necessary nowadays. It's personal preference. Do whichever you're comfortable with. Calling means you put her on the spot; but texting means you have the agonizing wait for a reply! I mean, whichever you choose, she might be like "Urgh, I hate when guys text to ask me out" OR "...call to ask me out". She has different ideas of what's correct, and you're not expected to read her mind! Tell you what though, if, when you've been dating a bit, you ask her "By the way, would you have preferred if I'd called you/texted you when I asked you out first?" I bet she'd be dead impressed. Shows you care and have manners and all that! Best of luck! TL;DR - Texting is fine. It's up to you.

I don't think it's considered necessary nowadays. It's personal preference. Do whichever you're comfortable with. Calling means you put her on the spot; but texting means you have the agonizing wait for a reply! I mean, whichever you choose, she might be like "Urgh, I hate when guys text to ask me out" OR "...call to ask me out". She has different ideas of what's correct, and you're not expected to read her mind! Tell you what though, if, when you've been dating a bit, you ask her "By the way, would you have preferred if I'd called you/texted you when I asked you out first?" I bet she'd be dead impressed. Shows you care and have manners and all that! Best of luck! TL;DR - Texting is fine. It's up to you.

relationship_advice

t5_2r0cn

c855bwb

I don't think it's considered necessary nowadays. It's personal preference. Do whichever you're comfortable with. Calling means you put her on the spot; but texting means you have the agonizing wait for a reply! I mean, whichever you choose, she might be like "Urgh, I hate when guys text to ask me out" OR "...call to ask me out". She has different ideas of what's correct, and you're not expected to read her mind! Tell you what though, if, when you've been dating a bit, you ask her "By the way, would you have preferred if I'd called you/texted you when I asked you out first?" I bet she'd be dead impressed. Shows you care and have manners and all that! Best of luck!

Texting is fine. It's up to you.

dipittydoop

Basically cut corners when ever possible. Say a Scout Leader is doing some kind of mutual activity for the deacons/teachers. He's got 5 guys there doing the mutual activity. There is probably only 1 or 2 guys into it. They all do varying levels of said prerequisites for the actual merit badge. Maybe one go getter has actually done everything there is but most have half ass-ed the whole thing and are going to forget everything the next day just like school. The hour and a half are done and everyone gets signed off regardless of their level of participation. Then you have the BSA savvy ladies who can basically just call people drive over papers and you get your award to be handed out at the next court of honor. There were so many court of honors for eagle scouts at my ward that we were doubling and even tripling up for the awards. Pretty sure mine was with 2 other guys. Its frustrating for guys like me who go on 50 mile hikes and do more proactive things beyond simple church activities to get the special award. It doesn't feel very special or important when you and 3 other guys got it and you know at least one of them half assed it. I'm just a little bit bitter. If I want that on my resume, how do I know the boss looking it over is a sensible person aware of this fiasco or just another mormon who would appreciate it or anywhere in between. TLDR: Basically use your imagination of any way the church can cut corners weighing for the incentives at hand.

Basically cut corners when ever possible. Say a Scout Leader is doing some kind of mutual activity for the deacons/teachers. He's got 5 guys there doing the mutual activity. There is probably only 1 or 2 guys into it. They all do varying levels of said prerequisites for the actual merit badge. Maybe one go getter has actually done everything there is but most have half ass-ed the whole thing and are going to forget everything the next day just like school. The hour and a half are done and everyone gets signed off regardless of their level of participation. Then you have the BSA savvy ladies who can basically just call people drive over papers and you get your award to be handed out at the next court of honor. There were so many court of honors for eagle scouts at my ward that we were doubling and even tripling up for the awards. Pretty sure mine was with 2 other guys. Its frustrating for guys like me who go on 50 mile hikes and do more proactive things beyond simple church activities to get the special award. It doesn't feel very special or important when you and 3 other guys got it and you know at least one of them half assed it. I'm just a little bit bitter. If I want that on my resume, how do I know the boss looking it over is a sensible person aware of this fiasco or just another mormon who would appreciate it or anywhere in between. TLDR: Basically use your imagination of any way the church can cut corners weighing for the incentives at hand.

exmormon

t5_2r0gj

c85h1oo

Basically cut corners when ever possible. Say a Scout Leader is doing some kind of mutual activity for the deacons/teachers. He's got 5 guys there doing the mutual activity. There is probably only 1 or 2 guys into it. They all do varying levels of said prerequisites for the actual merit badge. Maybe one go getter has actually done everything there is but most have half ass-ed the whole thing and are going to forget everything the next day just like school. The hour and a half are done and everyone gets signed off regardless of their level of participation. Then you have the BSA savvy ladies who can basically just call people drive over papers and you get your award to be handed out at the next court of honor. There were so many court of honors for eagle scouts at my ward that we were doubling and even tripling up for the awards. Pretty sure mine was with 2 other guys. Its frustrating for guys like me who go on 50 mile hikes and do more proactive things beyond simple church activities to get the special award. It doesn't feel very special or important when you and 3 other guys got it and you know at least one of them half assed it. I'm just a little bit bitter. If I want that on my resume, how do I know the boss looking it over is a sensible person aware of this fiasco or just another mormon who would appreciate it or anywhere in between.

Basically use your imagination of any way the church can cut corners weighing for the incentives at hand.

JWL2012

I dont know about a bible trivia game, but I would play the shit out of a bible fighter game... Mortal Kombat style, with satan at the top tier. Jesus would be one of the starting fighters to choose from, along with Gabriel, Cain and Abel, Adam (Eve would be in the back cheering) and a few others. God would be DLC. You unlock Goliath after the first playthrough. Id totally play that... TLDR: BIBLICAL KOMBAT!

I dont know about a bible trivia game, but I would play the shit out of a bible fighter game... Mortal Kombat style, with satan at the top tier. Jesus would be one of the starting fighters to choose from, along with Gabriel, Cain and Abel, Adam (Eve would be in the back cheering) and a few others. God would be DLC. You unlock Goliath after the first playthrough. Id totally play that... TLDR: BIBLICAL KOMBAT!

gaming

t5_2qh03

c85gpbu

I dont know about a bible trivia game, but I would play the shit out of a bible fighter game... Mortal Kombat style, with satan at the top tier. Jesus would be one of the starting fighters to choose from, along with Gabriel, Cain and Abel, Adam (Eve would be in the back cheering) and a few others. God would be DLC. You unlock Goliath after the first playthrough. Id totally play that...

BIBLICAL KOMBAT!

AnticScarab3

[Staunch]( just means that he's very firm in his beliefs. That just means that he's not really considering other faiths, as he already knows what he believes. I would describe myself as a staunch atheist, but that doesn't mean I talk about it 24/7. In fact, I don't think any of my friends even know that I'm an atheist, since I've never felt the need to mention it. **tl;dr** That's not what "staunch" means.

[Staunch]( just means that he's very firm in his beliefs. That just means that he's not really considering other faiths, as he already knows what he believes. I would describe myself as a staunch atheist, but that doesn't mean I talk about it 24/7. In fact, I don't think any of my friends even know that I'm an atheist, since I've never felt the need to mention it. tl;dr That's not what "staunch" means.

gaming

t5_2qh03

c85gvzf

Staunch]( just means that he's very firm in his beliefs. That just means that he's not really considering other faiths, as he already knows what he believes. I would describe myself as a staunch atheist, but that doesn't mean I talk about it 24/7. In fact, I don't think any of my friends even know that I'm an atheist, since I've never felt the need to mention it.

That's not what "staunch" means.

Eggpewpew

As other people are saying, you should play them and pick the ones you like because beauty is in the eye (or ear in this case) of the beholder. However, my opinion on the packs, even though i am inclined towards zildjian, that pack is not really well-suited for metal, whereas, the sabian pack is nearly made for metal. The Zildjian pack would be phenomenal for R&B, or Hip-Hop. But, the Sabian pack would be better for metal, in my opinion. **TL;DR: Sabian Pack is better for Metal, but play both and see what you like.**

As other people are saying, you should play them and pick the ones you like because beauty is in the eye (or ear in this case) of the beholder. However, my opinion on the packs, even though i am inclined towards zildjian, that pack is not really well-suited for metal, whereas, the sabian pack is nearly made for metal. The Zildjian pack would be phenomenal for R&B, or Hip-Hop. But, the Sabian pack would be better for metal, in my opinion. TL;DR: Sabian Pack is better for Metal, but play both and see what you like.

drums

t5_2qie5

c85bhdf

As other people are saying, you should play them and pick the ones you like because beauty is in the eye (or ear in this case) of the beholder. However, my opinion on the packs, even though i am inclined towards zildjian, that pack is not really well-suited for metal, whereas, the sabian pack is nearly made for metal. The Zildjian pack would be phenomenal for R&B, or Hip-Hop. But, the Sabian pack would be better for metal, in my opinion.

Sabian Pack is better for Metal, but play both and see what you like.

icantthinkofit

>They cant pay taxes if they cant get legal documents. This is completely false. The IRS will issue a taxpayer ID to anyone without a social security number. A US Citizen or illegal alien have the same legal obligations to pay income and payroll taxes. Employers who pay cash and don't report wages lose the tax benefits of paying employees and run the risk of getting in their own trouble. TLDR: "Dey dernt pay taxes" is a myth.

>They cant pay taxes if they cant get legal documents. This is completely false. The IRS will issue a taxpayer ID to anyone without a social security number. A US Citizen or illegal alien have the same legal obligations to pay income and payroll taxes. Employers who pay cash and don't report wages lose the tax benefits of paying employees and run the risk of getting in their own trouble. TLDR: "Dey dernt pay taxes" is a myth.

politics

t5_2cneq

c85ney8

They cant pay taxes if they cant get legal documents. This is completely false. The IRS will issue a taxpayer ID to anyone without a social security number. A US Citizen or illegal alien have the same legal obligations to pay income and payroll taxes. Employers who pay cash and don't report wages lose the tax benefits of paying employees and run the risk of getting in their own trouble.

Dey dernt pay taxes" is a myth.

alwaysredeyed

So here was my only problem with this game, and new Mario games for that matter....they have gotten way too easy... Don't get me wrong, this was the first game I bought for my 3DS and I loved it (hardly put my 3DS down for awhile) but I just feel Mario games have gotten so easy lately. 10 levels into it and it's almost impossible not have 50 lives. And then from there smooth sailing. No I haven't 100%'d the game but I played all the way through and never ran into a level/bowser that I was like "I can't beat this". I know they appeal to a younger crowd as well now but where was that thought process with some of the original Mario games? When I was 5 playing Super Mario World it was the hardest shit ever! TL;DR - I loved the game, and most of the newer Mario games that have released, but why are they so easy to beat!?!

So here was my only problem with this game, and new Mario games for that matter....they have gotten way too easy... Don't get me wrong, this was the first game I bought for my 3DS and I loved it (hardly put my 3DS down for awhile) but I just feel Mario games have gotten so easy lately. 10 levels into it and it's almost impossible not have 50 lives. And then from there smooth sailing. No I haven't 100%'d the game but I played all the way through and never ran into a level/bowser that I was like "I can't beat this". I know they appeal to a younger crowd as well now but where was that thought process with some of the original Mario games? When I was 5 playing Super Mario World it was the hardest shit ever! TL;DR - I loved the game, and most of the newer Mario games that have released, but why are they so easy to beat!?!

3DS

t5_2ruhy

c85miwd

So here was my only problem with this game, and new Mario games for that matter....they have gotten way too easy... Don't get me wrong, this was the first game I bought for my 3DS and I loved it (hardly put my 3DS down for awhile) but I just feel Mario games have gotten so easy lately. 10 levels into it and it's almost impossible not have 50 lives. And then from there smooth sailing. No I haven't 100%'d the game but I played all the way through and never ran into a level/bowser that I was like "I can't beat this". I know they appeal to a younger crowd as well now but where was that thought process with some of the original Mario games? When I was 5 playing Super Mario World it was the hardest shit ever!

I loved the game, and most of the newer Mario games that have released, but why are they so easy to beat!?!

WildSlime

This has a bit longer set up. So I went on a vacation and was gone from my house for almost two weeks. When I get home I notice my room smells...funny. I think, weird, maybe I had some dirty laundry that shouldn't have been left for two weeks and so I took my clothes out and washed them. I figure the smell won't go away immediately after I do my laundry, maybe a few hours or a day or two, sure. I was wrong. The smell got worse. It started becoming unbearable. So I start sniffing everything in my room and throwing away anything I could part with that even hinted that it was the source of the smell. I tossed old hats, stuffed animals, etc., all while pumping a steady stream of febreeze into my room to combat the musky nasty mystery smell. I was not able to locate the source of the odor and just thought, "fuck it, I have no clue what else to do, I guess I'll just leave my window open (which I often do anyways) and buy a lifetime supply of febreeze. A day or two later I go up to my room and I notice a trail of ants coming in and marching across my wall behind my giant dresser. I hate ants and was ready to start an ant holocaust. I follow the trail behind my dresser and the source of the mystery smell is solved. A DEAD FUCKING BIRD was behind my dresser. It was a small sparrow or something, but I put two and two together and realized my window was open during my vacation (cause I lived in a safe neighborhood on a culdasac and my room was on the second story), the bird must have flown in my room, smacked my wall, limped or fallen behind my dresser and died. Now I can't stand the smell of febreeze because I just have memories of it mixed with the smell of decaying bird. TL;DR: Ants finally did something good.

This has a bit longer set up. So I went on a vacation and was gone from my house for almost two weeks. When I get home I notice my room smells...funny. I think, weird, maybe I had some dirty laundry that shouldn't have been left for two weeks and so I took my clothes out and washed them. I figure the smell won't go away immediately after I do my laundry, maybe a few hours or a day or two, sure. I was wrong. The smell got worse. It started becoming unbearable. So I start sniffing everything in my room and throwing away anything I could part with that even hinted that it was the source of the smell. I tossed old hats, stuffed animals, etc., all while pumping a steady stream of febreeze into my room to combat the musky nasty mystery smell. I was not able to locate the source of the odor and just thought, "fuck it, I have no clue what else to do, I guess I'll just leave my window open (which I often do anyways) and buy a lifetime supply of febreeze. A day or two later I go up to my room and I notice a trail of ants coming in and marching across my wall behind my giant dresser. I hate ants and was ready to start an ant holocaust. I follow the trail behind my dresser and the source of the mystery smell is solved. A DEAD FUCKING BIRD was behind my dresser. It was a small sparrow or something, but I put two and two together and realized my window was open during my vacation (cause I lived in a safe neighborhood on a culdasac and my room was on the second story), the bird must have flown in my room, smacked my wall, limped or fallen behind my dresser and died. Now I can't stand the smell of febreeze because I just have memories of it mixed with the smell of decaying bird. TL;DR: Ants finally did something good.

AskReddit

t5_2qh1i

c85vzyq

This has a bit longer set up. So I went on a vacation and was gone from my house for almost two weeks. When I get home I notice my room smells...funny. I think, weird, maybe I had some dirty laundry that shouldn't have been left for two weeks and so I took my clothes out and washed them. I figure the smell won't go away immediately after I do my laundry, maybe a few hours or a day or two, sure. I was wrong. The smell got worse. It started becoming unbearable. So I start sniffing everything in my room and throwing away anything I could part with that even hinted that it was the source of the smell. I tossed old hats, stuffed animals, etc., all while pumping a steady stream of febreeze into my room to combat the musky nasty mystery smell. I was not able to locate the source of the odor and just thought, "fuck it, I have no clue what else to do, I guess I'll just leave my window open (which I often do anyways) and buy a lifetime supply of febreeze. A day or two later I go up to my room and I notice a trail of ants coming in and marching across my wall behind my giant dresser. I hate ants and was ready to start an ant holocaust. I follow the trail behind my dresser and the source of the mystery smell is solved. A DEAD FUCKING BIRD was behind my dresser. It was a small sparrow or something, but I put two and two together and realized my window was open during my vacation (cause I lived in a safe neighborhood on a culdasac and my room was on the second story), the bird must have flown in my room, smacked my wall, limped or fallen behind my dresser and died. Now I can't stand the smell of febreeze because I just have memories of it mixed with the smell of decaying bird.

Ants finally did something good.

GaryGronk

I used manage a bottle shop in a large suburban Brisbane shopping centre. One Thursday night a lady came into the store. She was South African and when we said "How are you, ma'am" to her, she replied "I've had such a busy day but, oh, how do you Aussie say it: No worries, mate?" My co-worker smiled and said "Do I sense some sarcasm there, ma'am?" She stared at him and said "What did you just say?" He replied "I just asked if you were being sarcastic, ma'am?" "WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?" she screamed. I quickly intervened but nothing could placate this lady. She started screaming at us in Klingon and saying she's never been so insulted in her life. Then she started picking up bottles of cheap sparkling wine and throwing them at me. I dodged the bottles of Spumante easily but they exploded like landmines in our store. She then ran out the store screaming. She came back about a week later with her husband and apologised for her actions. She blamed it on menopause and gave me an Instant Scatchie for my troubles: **tl;dr - Mad South African lady has a hot flush and goes on a rampage. Give me instant scratchie.**

I used manage a bottle shop in a large suburban Brisbane shopping centre. One Thursday night a lady came into the store. She was South African and when we said "How are you, ma'am" to her, she replied "I've had such a busy day but, oh, how do you Aussie say it: No worries, mate?" My co-worker smiled and said "Do I sense some sarcasm there, ma'am?" She stared at him and said "What did you just say?" He replied "I just asked if you were being sarcastic, ma'am?" "WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?" she screamed. I quickly intervened but nothing could placate this lady. She started screaming at us in Klingon and saying she's never been so insulted in her life. Then she started picking up bottles of cheap sparkling wine and throwing them at me. I dodged the bottles of Spumante easily but they exploded like landmines in our store. She then ran out the store screaming. She came back about a week later with her husband and apologised for her actions. She blamed it on menopause and gave me an Instant Scatchie for my troubles: tl;dr - Mad South African lady has a hot flush and goes on a rampage. Give me instant scratchie.

australia

t5_2qh8e

c85ydzk

I used manage a bottle shop in a large suburban Brisbane shopping centre. One Thursday night a lady came into the store. She was South African and when we said "How are you, ma'am" to her, she replied "I've had such a busy day but, oh, how do you Aussie say it: No worries, mate?" My co-worker smiled and said "Do I sense some sarcasm there, ma'am?" She stared at him and said "What did you just say?" He replied "I just asked if you were being sarcastic, ma'am?" "WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?" she screamed. I quickly intervened but nothing could placate this lady. She started screaming at us in Klingon and saying she's never been so insulted in her life. Then she started picking up bottles of cheap sparkling wine and throwing them at me. I dodged the bottles of Spumante easily but they exploded like landmines in our store. She then ran out the store screaming. She came back about a week later with her husband and apologised for her actions. She blamed it on menopause and gave me an Instant Scatchie for my troubles:

Mad South African lady has a hot flush and goes on a rampage. Give me instant scratchie.

borednprocrastinatin

I'll admit up front that this didn't happen in Australia but it was a really strange experience and I thought it might fit. I was doing some archaeological work in Cyprus and we were staying in a museum there. One afternoon after coming back from site we were sitting in a courtyard washing the dirt off of excavated pot sherds when a couple of busloads of German tourists showed up. It was kind of like being on display in a zoo, but there was no barrier to stop these people. For about 20 minutes it was just constant camera flashes (at 3 in the afternoon in summer mind you...) and pensioners literally fighting to be at the front. We were swarmed with old sweaty germans in fishing hats and bum-bags. I had people putting their cameras in front of my face and blocking my view of what I was working on just to get a better shot of honestly pretty drab, fragmentary ceramics. They wouldn't speak to us, we were just another exhibit to be marveled at. tl;dr: Doing work in Cyprus. Was treated as an exhibit in a museum.

I'll admit up front that this didn't happen in Australia but it was a really strange experience and I thought it might fit. I was doing some archaeological work in Cyprus and we were staying in a museum there. One afternoon after coming back from site we were sitting in a courtyard washing the dirt off of excavated pot sherds when a couple of busloads of German tourists showed up. It was kind of like being on display in a zoo, but there was no barrier to stop these people. For about 20 minutes it was just constant camera flashes (at 3 in the afternoon in summer mind you...) and pensioners literally fighting to be at the front. We were swarmed with old sweaty germans in fishing hats and bum-bags. I had people putting their cameras in front of my face and blocking my view of what I was working on just to get a better shot of honestly pretty drab, fragmentary ceramics. They wouldn't speak to us, we were just another exhibit to be marveled at. tl;dr: Doing work in Cyprus. Was treated as an exhibit in a museum.

australia

t5_2qh8e

c85vs8v

I'll admit up front that this didn't happen in Australia but it was a really strange experience and I thought it might fit. I was doing some archaeological work in Cyprus and we were staying in a museum there. One afternoon after coming back from site we were sitting in a courtyard washing the dirt off of excavated pot sherds when a couple of busloads of German tourists showed up. It was kind of like being on display in a zoo, but there was no barrier to stop these people. For about 20 minutes it was just constant camera flashes (at 3 in the afternoon in summer mind you...) and pensioners literally fighting to be at the front. We were swarmed with old sweaty germans in fishing hats and bum-bags. I had people putting their cameras in front of my face and blocking my view of what I was working on just to get a better shot of honestly pretty drab, fragmentary ceramics. They wouldn't speak to us, we were just another exhibit to be marveled at.

Doing work in Cyprus. Was treated as an exhibit in a museum.

Evendim

When I worked as a waitress, the cafe had maybe 90% South African patronage. So they weren't tourists, but a lot of them were clearly very new to the country. They treated all the waitstaff like absolute shit, especially when we were getting absolutely slammed on the weekend lunch shift. Some of the stupidest things they got angry about were: having been given sugar packets with their coffees insisting that I must take it away *now*, the fact we didn't have Ecco (some weird coffee like powder drink I had never seen before, or since - we got some eventually to stop the idiocy), and that they couldn't eat their take away in the sit down garden. The worst two confrontations I ever had were as follows: #1 Mother's Day was always one of our busiest and most booked out days. It was clearly explained to every customer at the time of their booking that they must be on time and could not stay any longer than the time they booked. One group of South African soccer mums had made a breakfast booking from 9:30 to 11:00. They had booked the largest possible table which sat 20 that was usually used for 4 separate tables, and arrived at 10:15am. They sat around for 30 minutes before ordering their coffees, and thankfully ordered their food at the same time as we had to get them out for the next booking. They got their food and drinks within 10 minutes (a hugely mad scramble for such a big table). Once we had cleared their table, we suggested they go to the adjacent park, that is when it got ugly. 3 of the mothers stood up screaming all at once that "how dare we ask them to leave so soon", by this time it was 11:20 and the next booking had arrived. They continued to scream when we explained to them *again* that they had only booked a time of 1hr30mins and they must vacate the table within that time. We had been kind enough to let them stay over, but they continued to scream, and began to target myself and another waitress as individuals. One tried to slap me, but I had my tray with me so she palm slapped wood. My boss then intervened, asked them again to leave before he called the police. All of this was in front of a number of other families, and their own children. #2 Sunday morning and raining, so the garden was closed which made the inside of the cafe very tight and impossible to accommodate more than 20 people. A South African family comes in, I take the order for their breakfast and all is well. When I served them their food, the mother looks at her breakfast of bacon and eggs, then looks at me with the most horrific scowl ever. "What the hell is this!" pointing to her eggs. "I ordered bacon and eggs, these eggs are runny! How could you serve me something like this". I tried to politely explain that she didn't specify in her order that she didn't want runny eggs, and this is how they're cooked without special instruction. (now I understand the problem with runny eggs, i find them repulsive myself, but I always specify my preference when I eat out). She got so enraged that she stood up and threw her plate at me. I copped a plate to the head, and had egg all over my front. She stormed out of the place while I was standing there in shock, and the rest of the family followed her. I worked there for 4 years.... TL;DR: South African patrons at the cafe I worked at were pretty horrible at times. Nearly got slapped by a soccer mum, and had a plate thrown at me by another woman.

When I worked as a waitress, the cafe had maybe 90% South African patronage. So they weren't tourists, but a lot of them were clearly very new to the country. They treated all the waitstaff like absolute shit, especially when we were getting absolutely slammed on the weekend lunch shift. Some of the stupidest things they got angry about were: having been given sugar packets with their coffees insisting that I must take it away now , the fact we didn't have Ecco (some weird coffee like powder drink I had never seen before, or since - we got some eventually to stop the idiocy), and that they couldn't eat their take away in the sit down garden. The worst two confrontations I ever had were as follows: 1 Mother's Day was always one of our busiest and most booked out days. It was clearly explained to every customer at the time of their booking that they must be on time and could not stay any longer than the time they booked. One group of South African soccer mums had made a breakfast booking from 9:30 to 11:00. They had booked the largest possible table which sat 20 that was usually used for 4 separate tables, and arrived at 10:15am. They sat around for 30 minutes before ordering their coffees, and thankfully ordered their food at the same time as we had to get them out for the next booking. They got their food and drinks within 10 minutes (a hugely mad scramble for such a big table). Once we had cleared their table, we suggested they go to the adjacent park, that is when it got ugly. 3 of the mothers stood up screaming all at once that "how dare we ask them to leave so soon", by this time it was 11:20 and the next booking had arrived. They continued to scream when we explained to them again that they had only booked a time of 1hr30mins and they must vacate the table within that time. We had been kind enough to let them stay over, but they continued to scream, and began to target myself and another waitress as individuals. One tried to slap me, but I had my tray with me so she palm slapped wood. My boss then intervened, asked them again to leave before he called the police. All of this was in front of a number of other families, and their own children. 2 Sunday morning and raining, so the garden was closed which made the inside of the cafe very tight and impossible to accommodate more than 20 people. A South African family comes in, I take the order for their breakfast and all is well. When I served them their food, the mother looks at her breakfast of bacon and eggs, then looks at me with the most horrific scowl ever. "What the hell is this!" pointing to her eggs. "I ordered bacon and eggs, these eggs are runny! How could you serve me something like this". I tried to politely explain that she didn't specify in her order that she didn't want runny eggs, and this is how they're cooked without special instruction. (now I understand the problem with runny eggs, i find them repulsive myself, but I always specify my preference when I eat out). She got so enraged that she stood up and threw her plate at me. I copped a plate to the head, and had egg all over my front. She stormed out of the place while I was standing there in shock, and the rest of the family followed her. I worked there for 4 years.... TL;DR: South African patrons at the cafe I worked at were pretty horrible at times. Nearly got slapped by a soccer mum, and had a plate thrown at me by another woman.

australia

t5_2qh8e

c864mvh

When I worked as a waitress, the cafe had maybe 90% South African patronage. So they weren't tourists, but a lot of them were clearly very new to the country. They treated all the waitstaff like absolute shit, especially when we were getting absolutely slammed on the weekend lunch shift. Some of the stupidest things they got angry about were: having been given sugar packets with their coffees insisting that I must take it away now , the fact we didn't have Ecco (some weird coffee like powder drink I had never seen before, or since - we got some eventually to stop the idiocy), and that they couldn't eat their take away in the sit down garden. The worst two confrontations I ever had were as follows: 1 Mother's Day was always one of our busiest and most booked out days. It was clearly explained to every customer at the time of their booking that they must be on time and could not stay any longer than the time they booked. One group of South African soccer mums had made a breakfast booking from 9:30 to 11:00. They had booked the largest possible table which sat 20 that was usually used for 4 separate tables, and arrived at 10:15am. They sat around for 30 minutes before ordering their coffees, and thankfully ordered their food at the same time as we had to get them out for the next booking. They got their food and drinks within 10 minutes (a hugely mad scramble for such a big table). Once we had cleared their table, we suggested they go to the adjacent park, that is when it got ugly. 3 of the mothers stood up screaming all at once that "how dare we ask them to leave so soon", by this time it was 11:20 and the next booking had arrived. They continued to scream when we explained to them again that they had only booked a time of 1hr30mins and they must vacate the table within that time. We had been kind enough to let them stay over, but they continued to scream, and began to target myself and another waitress as individuals. One tried to slap me, but I had my tray with me so she palm slapped wood. My boss then intervened, asked them again to leave before he called the police. All of this was in front of a number of other families, and their own children. 2 Sunday morning and raining, so the garden was closed which made the inside of the cafe very tight and impossible to accommodate more than 20 people. A South African family comes in, I take the order for their breakfast and all is well. When I served them their food, the mother looks at her breakfast of bacon and eggs, then looks at me with the most horrific scowl ever. "What the hell is this!" pointing to her eggs. "I ordered bacon and eggs, these eggs are runny! How could you serve me something like this". I tried to politely explain that she didn't specify in her order that she didn't want runny eggs, and this is how they're cooked without special instruction. (now I understand the problem with runny eggs, i find them repulsive myself, but I always specify my preference when I eat out). She got so enraged that she stood up and threw her plate at me. I copped a plate to the head, and had egg all over my front. She stormed out of the place while I was standing there in shock, and the rest of the family followed her. I worked there for 4 years....

South African patrons at the cafe I worked at were pretty horrible at times. Nearly got slapped by a soccer mum, and had a plate thrown at me by another woman.

thenameisbam

if i happen to run into other players, i may greet them. really depends on my mood. that being said i was in a town on a trip, as i was destroying an enemy controlled portal, the current owner drove up. we greeted each other, i told him i was just passing thru, and that i was just trying to lvl up. he was super polite about it, which was great. after i had taken all his res down, i put up a full set of low level res right next to the portal. no point in being a dick or losing any high lvl equipment. said good bye, and was on my way. i found out later that i had killed 4 or 5 of his portals that night and that he had been following me taking them back. TLDR; just because the other team is wrong doesnt mean you should be a dick. its just a game.

if i happen to run into other players, i may greet them. really depends on my mood. that being said i was in a town on a trip, as i was destroying an enemy controlled portal, the current owner drove up. we greeted each other, i told him i was just passing thru, and that i was just trying to lvl up. he was super polite about it, which was great. after i had taken all his res down, i put up a full set of low level res right next to the portal. no point in being a dick or losing any high lvl equipment. said good bye, and was on my way. i found out later that i had killed 4 or 5 of his portals that night and that he had been following me taking them back. TLDR; just because the other team is wrong doesnt mean you should be a dick. its just a game.

Ingress

t5_2vij9

c860p7s

if i happen to run into other players, i may greet them. really depends on my mood. that being said i was in a town on a trip, as i was destroying an enemy controlled portal, the current owner drove up. we greeted each other, i told him i was just passing thru, and that i was just trying to lvl up. he was super polite about it, which was great. after i had taken all his res down, i put up a full set of low level res right next to the portal. no point in being a dick or losing any high lvl equipment. said good bye, and was on my way. i found out later that i had killed 4 or 5 of his portals that night and that he had been following me taking them back.

just because the other team is wrong doesnt mean you should be a dick. its just a game.

Flammy

No, I don't want to be parnered for several reasons. I talk about a few of them in my State of the Flammy #2 - December 2012 episode if you're curious. TL;DR version is partnership often doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

No, I don't want to be parnered for several reasons. I talk about a few of them in my State of the Flammy #2 - December 2012 episode if you're curious. TL;DR version is partnership often doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

ClashOfClans

t5_2usfk

c86687b

No, I don't want to be parnered for several reasons. I talk about a few of them in my State of the Flammy #2 - December 2012 episode if you're curious.

version is partnership often doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

koochbrah

w/o a full time Jungler lanes that can push push oh and push will be the meta with other lanes being locked into a stalemate because if you leave your lane to help a failing lane you lose most of the time a tower maybe two. also not to mention that every MOBA game that I can recall has a roamer/jungling position **tldr; no roaming pressure makes lane phase boring oh so boring..**

w/o a full time Jungler lanes that can push push oh and push will be the meta with other lanes being locked into a stalemate because if you leave your lane to help a failing lane you lose most of the time a tower maybe two. also not to mention that every MOBA game that I can recall has a roamer/jungling position tldr; no roaming pressure makes lane phase boring oh so boring..

Smite

t5_2stl8

c86dwh8

w/o a full time Jungler lanes that can push push oh and push will be the meta with other lanes being locked into a stalemate because if you leave your lane to help a failing lane you lose most of the time a tower maybe two. also not to mention that every MOBA game that I can recall has a roamer/jungling position

no roaming pressure makes lane phase boring oh so boring..

Kuroonehalf

I found Guerrilla to be pretty much Just Cause 2 done right. Both games are very much about creating as much chaos as possible, but whereas Just Cause 2 fell very flat on its face in providing raw fun, Guerrilla manages to do it right. Not only are the game's environment destruction mechanics innately enjoyable by themselves, the game takes it a step further and constantly gives new bigger and better toys to play with, ensuring that you never get bored from doing the same activity repeatedly. Whether you're toppling 5 story buildings with your trusty sledgehammer or slapping structures around with a construction robot, Guerrilla manages to provide a sense of satisfaction that is not present in many games. tldr: Get this game.

I found Guerrilla to be pretty much Just Cause 2 done right. Both games are very much about creating as much chaos as possible, but whereas Just Cause 2 fell very flat on its face in providing raw fun, Guerrilla manages to do it right. Not only are the game's environment destruction mechanics innately enjoyable by themselves, the game takes it a step further and constantly gives new bigger and better toys to play with, ensuring that you never get bored from doing the same activity repeatedly. Whether you're toppling 5 story buildings with your trusty sledgehammer or slapping structures around with a construction robot, Guerrilla manages to provide a sense of satisfaction that is not present in many games. tldr: Get this game.

GameDeals

t5_2qwx3

c86juqh

I found Guerrilla to be pretty much Just Cause 2 done right. Both games are very much about creating as much chaos as possible, but whereas Just Cause 2 fell very flat on its face in providing raw fun, Guerrilla manages to do it right. Not only are the game's environment destruction mechanics innately enjoyable by themselves, the game takes it a step further and constantly gives new bigger and better toys to play with, ensuring that you never get bored from doing the same activity repeatedly. Whether you're toppling 5 story buildings with your trusty sledgehammer or slapping structures around with a construction robot, Guerrilla manages to provide a sense of satisfaction that is not present in many games.

Get this game.

palli

I disagree with installing nagios from sources. The ubuntu one is very well packaged using "standard" locations. The version is 3.2.3 which is the latest stable release, never versions don't have a lot of new features but so far all of them seem to have a mission-critical bug or two. TL;DR -- Nagios 3.2.3. is the most stable version out there.

I disagree with installing nagios from sources. The ubuntu one is very well packaged using "standard" locations. The version is 3.2.3 which is the latest stable release, never versions don't have a lot of new features but so far all of them seem to have a mission-critical bug or two. TL;DR -- Nagios 3.2.3. is the most stable version out there.

sysadmin

t5_2qnp7

c8l81lh

I disagree with installing nagios from sources. The ubuntu one is very well packaged using "standard" locations. The version is 3.2.3 which is the latest stable release, never versions don't have a lot of new features but so far all of them seem to have a mission-critical bug or two.

Nagios 3.2.3. is the most stable version out there.

DugongOfJustice

I think /r/bodyacceptance is best for you, but I will say this: Stop weighing yourself. Make your goals about strength, or distance you can run, or something along those lines. Work towards tangible, medium-term fitness goals based around what you can achieve, rather than how you look or how much you weigh. You've done amazing things in getting your weight down but fitness should have you feeling wonderful, not feeling down in the dumps. Ban yourself from the scales or from the measuring tape and enjoy your fitness because *it makes you fit*. **TLDR: Focus on what your body can do, not what it looks like.**

I think /r/bodyacceptance is best for you, but I will say this: Stop weighing yourself. Make your goals about strength, or distance you can run, or something along those lines. Work towards tangible, medium-term fitness goals based around what you can achieve, rather than how you look or how much you weigh. You've done amazing things in getting your weight down but fitness should have you feeling wonderful, not feeling down in the dumps. Ban yourself from the scales or from the measuring tape and enjoy your fitness because it makes you fit . TLDR: Focus on what your body can do, not what it looks like.

xxfitness

t5_2ryzy

c86pp24

I think /r/bodyacceptance is best for you, but I will say this: Stop weighing yourself. Make your goals about strength, or distance you can run, or something along those lines. Work towards tangible, medium-term fitness goals based around what you can achieve, rather than how you look or how much you weigh. You've done amazing things in getting your weight down but fitness should have you feeling wonderful, not feeling down in the dumps. Ban yourself from the scales or from the measuring tape and enjoy your fitness because it makes you fit .

Focus on what your body can do, not what it looks like.

BigKev47

I totally just spent an hour composing a thorough, understandable, and disarmingly witty history of the mortgage meltdown, and exactly why it had nothing to do with monetary policy. Then while switching from a tab I was using for research, I backbuttoned it into oblivion. Ah, well. The tl;dw (too long, didn't write) of it was this: the failure Bernanke is owning up to there is quite real, but it was a failure of the Fed's regulation mandate, not their responsibility for monetary policy. The boom was caused by bad paper being passed around the banking sector as assets, driving up demand for home-equity debt, and ultimately the price of homes. It was a bubble of inflation, caused not by the velocity of money (which is how interest rates are used control inflation), but by the misrepresentation of paper assets by a smallish number of cutthroat greedy bastards, and a much larger number of lazy and/or complacent folks under pressure to maintain a certain level of assets. That having been said, inflation was on the high side in 2007; but the irrational exuberance in the mortgage sector was only a small part of that. Most of the price increases came from sharp supply side shocks in energy, and (consequently) agriculture. Overall demand was actually falling, and the big risk was stagflation, akin to the Carter era. Increasing interest rates and slowing the economy doesn't help curb stagflation at all; it exacerbates it. Raising rates would've probably been about value-neutral in the mortgage sector specifically (fewer people taking out mortgages; but more demand for the puffed up Mortgage-backed securities and Credit-Default Swaps that were the real problem); but it would've done unequivocal harm to pretty much every other sector of the economy. Also, while I'm confident I'm righter than you are on this, I may be wrong on some of this. I'm not an Economist, but I do read it on the can. TL;DR - Not monetary, regulatory. There's a difference.

I totally just spent an hour composing a thorough, understandable, and disarmingly witty history of the mortgage meltdown, and exactly why it had nothing to do with monetary policy. Then while switching from a tab I was using for research, I backbuttoned it into oblivion. Ah, well. The tl;dw (too long, didn't write) of it was this: the failure Bernanke is owning up to there is quite real, but it was a failure of the Fed's regulation mandate, not their responsibility for monetary policy. The boom was caused by bad paper being passed around the banking sector as assets, driving up demand for home-equity debt, and ultimately the price of homes. It was a bubble of inflation, caused not by the velocity of money (which is how interest rates are used control inflation), but by the misrepresentation of paper assets by a smallish number of cutthroat greedy bastards, and a much larger number of lazy and/or complacent folks under pressure to maintain a certain level of assets. That having been said, inflation was on the high side in 2007; but the irrational exuberance in the mortgage sector was only a small part of that. Most of the price increases came from sharp supply side shocks in energy, and (consequently) agriculture. Overall demand was actually falling, and the big risk was stagflation, akin to the Carter era. Increasing interest rates and slowing the economy doesn't help curb stagflation at all; it exacerbates it. Raising rates would've probably been about value-neutral in the mortgage sector specifically (fewer people taking out mortgages; but more demand for the puffed up Mortgage-backed securities and Credit-Default Swaps that were the real problem); but it would've done unequivocal harm to pretty much every other sector of the economy. Also, while I'm confident I'm righter than you are on this, I may be wrong on some of this. I'm not an Economist, but I do read it on the can. TL;DR - Not monetary, regulatory. There's a difference.

DepthHub

t5_2rmpy

c878fsi

I totally just spent an hour composing a thorough, understandable, and disarmingly witty history of the mortgage meltdown, and exactly why it had nothing to do with monetary policy. Then while switching from a tab I was using for research, I backbuttoned it into oblivion. Ah, well. The tl;dw (too long, didn't write) of it was this: the failure Bernanke is owning up to there is quite real, but it was a failure of the Fed's regulation mandate, not their responsibility for monetary policy. The boom was caused by bad paper being passed around the banking sector as assets, driving up demand for home-equity debt, and ultimately the price of homes. It was a bubble of inflation, caused not by the velocity of money (which is how interest rates are used control inflation), but by the misrepresentation of paper assets by a smallish number of cutthroat greedy bastards, and a much larger number of lazy and/or complacent folks under pressure to maintain a certain level of assets. That having been said, inflation was on the high side in 2007; but the irrational exuberance in the mortgage sector was only a small part of that. Most of the price increases came from sharp supply side shocks in energy, and (consequently) agriculture. Overall demand was actually falling, and the big risk was stagflation, akin to the Carter era. Increasing interest rates and slowing the economy doesn't help curb stagflation at all; it exacerbates it. Raising rates would've probably been about value-neutral in the mortgage sector specifically (fewer people taking out mortgages; but more demand for the puffed up Mortgage-backed securities and Credit-Default Swaps that were the real problem); but it would've done unequivocal harm to pretty much every other sector of the economy. Also, while I'm confident I'm righter than you are on this, I may be wrong on some of this. I'm not an Economist, but I do read it on the can.

Not monetary, regulatory. There's a difference.

pikamen

The one time I was legitimately high on amphetamine-like things was when my friend left 54mg of Concerta in my room and I stupidly thought it would help me write a paper and I'd be fine. It helped me bang out a 16 page paper in half the time but then I was up for 12 hours grinding my teeth and generally freaking out. I was so fucked up, I decided it would be a good idea to try to calm myself down with some alcohol so I ended up straight chugging about 8 shots worth of cheap vodka. It didn't work but clearly I got drunk. I was so high I didn't even feel it at all though. It's time release, though, so I shudder to think about what would have happened had I figured out how to free it from its time release mechanism. TL;DR don't take someone else's prescription cocaine.

The one time I was legitimately high on amphetamine-like things was when my friend left 54mg of Concerta in my room and I stupidly thought it would help me write a paper and I'd be fine. It helped me bang out a 16 page paper in half the time but then I was up for 12 hours grinding my teeth and generally freaking out. I was so fucked up, I decided it would be a good idea to try to calm myself down with some alcohol so I ended up straight chugging about 8 shots worth of cheap vodka. It didn't work but clearly I got drunk. I was so high I didn't even feel it at all though. It's time release, though, so I shudder to think about what would have happened had I figured out how to free it from its time release mechanism. TL;DR don't take someone else's prescription cocaine.

TumblrInAction

t5_2vizz

c879h15

The one time I was legitimately high on amphetamine-like things was when my friend left 54mg of Concerta in my room and I stupidly thought it would help me write a paper and I'd be fine. It helped me bang out a 16 page paper in half the time but then I was up for 12 hours grinding my teeth and generally freaking out. I was so fucked up, I decided it would be a good idea to try to calm myself down with some alcohol so I ended up straight chugging about 8 shots worth of cheap vodka. It didn't work but clearly I got drunk. I was so high I didn't even feel it at all though. It's time release, though, so I shudder to think about what would have happened had I figured out how to free it from its time release mechanism.

don't take someone else's prescription cocaine.

Steve_the_Scout

Ah, as a formerly depressed person all I can give you is my personal experience. Well, first off, when I was 3 my sister was born and got all the attention from then onward. Then my mom declared I was autistic with no authoritative test saying so, then put me in unnecessary therapy. Of course a teacher referred to me as "special", so I lost all prospective friends. Then my grades started slipping because I felt like crap and didn't want to do work, and in turn my parents punished me for it, making me feel crappier, leading to a downward spiral. Then they got divorced. I just sort of snapped at that point and lost all hope and emotion. It's not hate, or despair, or anything like that, it's just emptiness. Nothing to live for, so why "live" (metaphorically in my case, but in some cases it's not so). Tl;dr Shit happens, there is no way to stop it or effectively deal with it, your world caves in, and you temporarily lose your humanity.

Ah, as a formerly depressed person all I can give you is my personal experience. Well, first off, when I was 3 my sister was born and got all the attention from then onward. Then my mom declared I was autistic with no authoritative test saying so, then put me in unnecessary therapy. Of course a teacher referred to me as "special", so I lost all prospective friends. Then my grades started slipping because I felt like crap and didn't want to do work, and in turn my parents punished me for it, making me feel crappier, leading to a downward spiral. Then they got divorced. I just sort of snapped at that point and lost all hope and emotion. It's not hate, or despair, or anything like that, it's just emptiness. Nothing to live for, so why "live" (metaphorically in my case, but in some cases it's not so). Tl;dr Shit happens, there is no way to stop it or effectively deal with it, your world caves in, and you temporarily lose your humanity.

MLPLounge

t5_2t403

c87djle

Ah, as a formerly depressed person all I can give you is my personal experience. Well, first off, when I was 3 my sister was born and got all the attention from then onward. Then my mom declared I was autistic with no authoritative test saying so, then put me in unnecessary therapy. Of course a teacher referred to me as "special", so I lost all prospective friends. Then my grades started slipping because I felt like crap and didn't want to do work, and in turn my parents punished me for it, making me feel crappier, leading to a downward spiral. Then they got divorced. I just sort of snapped at that point and lost all hope and emotion. It's not hate, or despair, or anything like that, it's just emptiness. Nothing to live for, so why "live" (metaphorically in my case, but in some cases it's not so).

Shit happens, there is no way to stop it or effectively deal with it, your world caves in, and you temporarily lose your humanity.

TheJockey

Ummmm she left the approval code, which can be traced back to the terminal, which can be traced back to OP. Good try. You are probably going to get fired if they see it. TL;DR If you don't edit all the numbers except for the amount and sweet note, you are going to have a fired time.

Ummmm she left the approval code, which can be traced back to the terminal, which can be traced back to OP. Good try. You are probably going to get fired if they see it. TL;DR If you don't edit all the numbers except for the amount and sweet note, you are going to have a fired time.

atheism

t5_2qh2p

c87f1yl

Ummmm she left the approval code, which can be traced back to the terminal, which can be traced back to OP. Good try. You are probably going to get fired if they see it.

If you don't edit all the numbers except for the amount and sweet note, you are going to have a fired time.

houssc

You seem to be marginalizing everyone that actually works hard for a good life. Of course all people that do well for themselves have had some degree of luck. For example; the luck of having the capacity to develop talent, the luck of not being on the street during the formative years, the luck of having good parents, etc... However, most of us have to work hard to get where we are. I was teaching myself computer programming at the age of 8, started with BAISC, was doing Turbo C by the time I was 9 or so. I was lucky to have access to the computer lab at the university where my mother was studying for her masters and later PHD. We weren't rich, she was a single mom in a country we moved to together (US.) We lived in student housing, first in a studio, then in a one bedroom. When she got her PHD and got her first postdoc work we moved to a town home. Shortly after she bought me my own computer, because my she saw how much I loved everything about it. I would say by the age of 12 I already knew exactly which business I wanted to be in. Through high school I worked on a lot of projects which got other people's attention. Eventually that early work and learning brought me together with a lot of amazing people and I built connections. By the time I got to university those connections made it possible to join a start-up, move across the country and eventually do my own business ventures. This brings me to the point of 'connections'. There is nothing wrong with connections as long as there is no nepotism. Knowing the right person because they respect what you do and your skills, is a great thing. Through the years I've befriended people that know many of the exact same people I know, but they can't get anywhere regardless. I remember years ago I had one tell me "I wish I had your connections", but wtf... he knew all the same people, just had nothing to bring to the table. Sure some people get by on luck, politics, backstabbing and nepotism. Most of us hate those guys and we hate that people employ them. Just recently I was in a meeting with a company I do business with. There was one guy with them that is exactly like that, total coat tail riding bro. It was so hilarious at dinner after, when we were discussing all the cool shit we did in our childhood, after university/college, etc.. and he was like "oh yea I remember IRC, were you ever on dalnet?" Mind you we were discussing things ranging from BBS, to who ran which IRC networks, hacked what, and which major start-ups people wound up at afterwards... Yea, virtually no one likes that guy. TLDR: While luck is an element, most of us have to work hard to make it work for us. -

You seem to be marginalizing everyone that actually works hard for a good life. Of course all people that do well for themselves have had some degree of luck. For example; the luck of having the capacity to develop talent, the luck of not being on the street during the formative years, the luck of having good parents, etc... However, most of us have to work hard to get where we are. I was teaching myself computer programming at the age of 8, started with BAISC, was doing Turbo C by the time I was 9 or so. I was lucky to have access to the computer lab at the university where my mother was studying for her masters and later PHD. We weren't rich, she was a single mom in a country we moved to together (US.) We lived in student housing, first in a studio, then in a one bedroom. When she got her PHD and got her first postdoc work we moved to a town home. Shortly after she bought me my own computer, because my she saw how much I loved everything about it. I would say by the age of 12 I already knew exactly which business I wanted to be in. Through high school I worked on a lot of projects which got other people's attention. Eventually that early work and learning brought me together with a lot of amazing people and I built connections. By the time I got to university those connections made it possible to join a start-up, move across the country and eventually do my own business ventures. This brings me to the point of 'connections'. There is nothing wrong with connections as long as there is no nepotism. Knowing the right person because they respect what you do and your skills, is a great thing. Through the years I've befriended people that know many of the exact same people I know, but they can't get anywhere regardless. I remember years ago I had one tell me "I wish I had your connections", but wtf... he knew all the same people, just had nothing to bring to the table. Sure some people get by on luck, politics, backstabbing and nepotism. Most of us hate those guys and we hate that people employ them. Just recently I was in a meeting with a company I do business with. There was one guy with them that is exactly like that, total coat tail riding bro. It was so hilarious at dinner after, when we were discussing all the cool shit we did in our childhood, after university/college, etc.. and he was like "oh yea I remember IRC, were you ever on dalnet?" Mind you we were discussing things ranging from BBS, to who ran which IRC networks, hacked what, and which major start-ups people wound up at afterwards... Yea, virtually no one likes that guy. TLDR: While luck is an element, most of us have to work hard to make it work for us.

atheism

t5_2qh2p

c87f6fc

You seem to be marginalizing everyone that actually works hard for a good life. Of course all people that do well for themselves have had some degree of luck. For example; the luck of having the capacity to develop talent, the luck of not being on the street during the formative years, the luck of having good parents, etc... However, most of us have to work hard to get where we are. I was teaching myself computer programming at the age of 8, started with BAISC, was doing Turbo C by the time I was 9 or so. I was lucky to have access to the computer lab at the university where my mother was studying for her masters and later PHD. We weren't rich, she was a single mom in a country we moved to together (US.) We lived in student housing, first in a studio, then in a one bedroom. When she got her PHD and got her first postdoc work we moved to a town home. Shortly after she bought me my own computer, because my she saw how much I loved everything about it. I would say by the age of 12 I already knew exactly which business I wanted to be in. Through high school I worked on a lot of projects which got other people's attention. Eventually that early work and learning brought me together with a lot of amazing people and I built connections. By the time I got to university those connections made it possible to join a start-up, move across the country and eventually do my own business ventures. This brings me to the point of 'connections'. There is nothing wrong with connections as long as there is no nepotism. Knowing the right person because they respect what you do and your skills, is a great thing. Through the years I've befriended people that know many of the exact same people I know, but they can't get anywhere regardless. I remember years ago I had one tell me "I wish I had your connections", but wtf... he knew all the same people, just had nothing to bring to the table. Sure some people get by on luck, politics, backstabbing and nepotism. Most of us hate those guys and we hate that people employ them. Just recently I was in a meeting with a company I do business with. There was one guy with them that is exactly like that, total coat tail riding bro. It was so hilarious at dinner after, when we were discussing all the cool shit we did in our childhood, after university/college, etc.. and he was like "oh yea I remember IRC, were you ever on dalnet?" Mind you we were discussing things ranging from BBS, to who ran which IRC networks, hacked what, and which major start-ups people wound up at afterwards... Yea, virtually no one likes that guy.

While luck is an element, most of us have to work hard to make it work for us.

papa_mog

No it's 10-15% if you're a normal person. Hell, you don't even really have to tip, especially if the service is bad. Tips are supposed to be a bonus for doing your job in a pleasing manner. If I'm doing well I'll tip super huge regardless of meal price, sometimes not at all with bad service or if I'm broke. If you have a huge party and order a bunch of shit and don't even leave a few bucks to a good server I mean your gonna look like an assbag to pretty much anyone omnipotent or not imo. Also, not paying them min. Wage is utter Norsedick. Source: I've waited tables. A lot. Tldr: Tipping is a generous thing, not an obligation

No it's 10-15% if you're a normal person. Hell, you don't even really have to tip, especially if the service is bad. Tips are supposed to be a bonus for doing your job in a pleasing manner. If I'm doing well I'll tip super huge regardless of meal price, sometimes not at all with bad service or if I'm broke. If you have a huge party and order a bunch of shit and don't even leave a few bucks to a good server I mean your gonna look like an assbag to pretty much anyone omnipotent or not imo. Also, not paying them min. Wage is utter Norsedick. Source: I've waited tables. A lot. Tldr: Tipping is a generous thing, not an obligation

atheism

t5_2qh2p

c87gpi5

No it's 10-15% if you're a normal person. Hell, you don't even really have to tip, especially if the service is bad. Tips are supposed to be a bonus for doing your job in a pleasing manner. If I'm doing well I'll tip super huge regardless of meal price, sometimes not at all with bad service or if I'm broke. If you have a huge party and order a bunch of shit and don't even leave a few bucks to a good server I mean your gonna look like an assbag to pretty much anyone omnipotent or not imo. Also, not paying them min. Wage is utter Norsedick. Source: I've waited tables. A lot.

Tipping is a generous thing, not an obligation

hardenedtreesap

Little known fact is that in most states, your employer only has to chip in to bring your wages up to minimum wage IF over the course of the pay period you make less. That's how I was literally paid less than my great great grandmother some days. Oh and the no benefits part also means no sick pay or short term disability. Sick cooks, bartenders and servers handle your food every day. I don't care how many times you wash your hands, one food service worker with the flu will infect others. Many of my employees (once I was promoted) used to hide illness symptoms to avoid being sent home when money was tight. Tldr: Some of the legal ways that we allow businesses to treat their employees like serfs have actual negative consequences for the rest of us.

Little known fact is that in most states, your employer only has to chip in to bring your wages up to minimum wage IF over the course of the pay period you make less. That's how I was literally paid less than my great great grandmother some days. Oh and the no benefits part also means no sick pay or short term disability. Sick cooks, bartenders and servers handle your food every day. I don't care how many times you wash your hands, one food service worker with the flu will infect others. Many of my employees (once I was promoted) used to hide illness symptoms to avoid being sent home when money was tight. Tldr: Some of the legal ways that we allow businesses to treat their employees like serfs have actual negative consequences for the rest of us.

atheism

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c87hdi1

Little known fact is that in most states, your employer only has to chip in to bring your wages up to minimum wage IF over the course of the pay period you make less. That's how I was literally paid less than my great great grandmother some days. Oh and the no benefits part also means no sick pay or short term disability. Sick cooks, bartenders and servers handle your food every day. I don't care how many times you wash your hands, one food service worker with the flu will infect others. Many of my employees (once I was promoted) used to hide illness symptoms to avoid being sent home when money was tight.

Some of the legal ways that we allow businesses to treat their employees like serfs have actual negative consequences for the rest of us.

cdahlkvist

You can remove the word God and it still makes both people look bad. You don't tip because you give all your money to charity? You're an asshole. You do tip because you don't care about helping the homeless? You're an asshole. Giving doesn't have to be about religion. It's about being a decent human being. I don't understand why you guys can't take some of the good from the Bible (or any religious text) rather than disregard everything. So now, giving what you can to a worthy cause is "religious bullshit". Just because someone tithes doesn't make them a good person but people that don't give to charity but can...well, they're assholes. Furthermore, in the original post, replace the word "God" with your charity of choice. What gives a server the right (yes, that is how servers treat tips these days, as an entitled right) to 15% - 25% when you only give a charity 10%? TL;DR Here come the downvotes.

You can remove the word God and it still makes both people look bad. You don't tip because you give all your money to charity? You're an asshole. You do tip because you don't care about helping the homeless? You're an asshole. Giving doesn't have to be about religion. It's about being a decent human being. I don't understand why you guys can't take some of the good from the Bible (or any religious text) rather than disregard everything. So now, giving what you can to a worthy cause is "religious bullshit". Just because someone tithes doesn't make them a good person but people that don't give to charity but can...well, they're assholes. Furthermore, in the original post, replace the word "God" with your charity of choice. What gives a server the right (yes, that is how servers treat tips these days, as an entitled right) to 15% - 25% when you only give a charity 10%? TL;DR Here come the downvotes.

atheism

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c87hjl3

You can remove the word God and it still makes both people look bad. You don't tip because you give all your money to charity? You're an asshole. You do tip because you don't care about helping the homeless? You're an asshole. Giving doesn't have to be about religion. It's about being a decent human being. I don't understand why you guys can't take some of the good from the Bible (or any religious text) rather than disregard everything. So now, giving what you can to a worthy cause is "religious bullshit". Just because someone tithes doesn't make them a good person but people that don't give to charity but can...well, they're assholes. Furthermore, in the original post, replace the word "God" with your charity of choice. What gives a server the right (yes, that is how servers treat tips these days, as an entitled right) to 15% - 25% when you only give a charity 10%?

Here come the downvotes.

americaFya

This can be wrong on a multitude of levels. To Go orders, in many cases, can require more work than waiting a table. People who operate the To Go desks are asked to do much more than "stick it in the bag." People only form the opinion you have for one of two reasons: 1) They don't realize the work that many To Go people often do or 2) They're arrogant assholes who don't tip for the work that is done by the underpaid employee, they're tipping because the person made them feel like they were served. "I SEE the waiter serving me and it makes me FEEL good, so I'm willing to tip." Paying for the feeling of being waited on/served is not the same thing as paying for the service. If it were, people would tip To Go people more. TL; DR: To Go people usually do as much "service" work as waiters. You just don't see it. Tip your To Go people. Source: Former restaurant GM Edit: To your second of point of "why do I have to pay?": It doesn't matter. People like you would cry if the servers were paid a decent wage and the food cost was higher. The dollars spent would be the same either way, you just get a choice in being an asshole this way.

This can be wrong on a multitude of levels. To Go orders, in many cases, can require more work than waiting a table. People who operate the To Go desks are asked to do much more than "stick it in the bag." People only form the opinion you have for one of two reasons: 1) They don't realize the work that many To Go people often do or 2) They're arrogant assholes who don't tip for the work that is done by the underpaid employee, they're tipping because the person made them feel like they were served. "I SEE the waiter serving me and it makes me FEEL good, so I'm willing to tip." Paying for the feeling of being waited on/served is not the same thing as paying for the service. If it were, people would tip To Go people more. TL; DR: To Go people usually do as much "service" work as waiters. You just don't see it. Tip your To Go people. Source: Former restaurant GM Edit: To your second of point of "why do I have to pay?": It doesn't matter. People like you would cry if the servers were paid a decent wage and the food cost was higher. The dollars spent would be the same either way, you just get a choice in being an asshole this way.

atheism

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c87kz63

This can be wrong on a multitude of levels. To Go orders, in many cases, can require more work than waiting a table. People who operate the To Go desks are asked to do much more than "stick it in the bag." People only form the opinion you have for one of two reasons: 1) They don't realize the work that many To Go people often do or 2) They're arrogant assholes who don't tip for the work that is done by the underpaid employee, they're tipping because the person made them feel like they were served. "I SEE the waiter serving me and it makes me FEEL good, so I'm willing to tip." Paying for the feeling of being waited on/served is not the same thing as paying for the service. If it were, people would tip To Go people more.

To Go people usually do as much "service" work as waiters. You just don't see it. Tip your To Go people. Source: Former restaurant GM Edit: To your second of point of "why do I have to pay?": It doesn't matter. People like you would cry if the servers were paid a decent wage and the food cost was higher. The dollars spent would be the same either way, you just get a choice in being an asshole this way.

apotheon

Can you summarize the UPB test in a form whose simplicity is roughly equivalent to that of the "tl;dr" summary of [my answer to this question](

Can you summarize the UPB test in a form whose simplicity is roughly equivalent to that of the "tl;dr" summary of [my answer to this question](

voluntarism

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c8gdohk

Can you summarize the UPB test in a form whose simplicity is roughly equivalent to that of the "

summary of [my answer to this question](

awkward___silence

First why do you say that was a failure? Sounds like a success to me. The biggest thing is what you take away from it. Everyone has there own pace but I would say for this long run and with your hills try to go a 7 or 8 min kilometer 8 feel free to allow yourself to go slower up the hills. Also make sure you do your warmup and then spend some serious time stretching out those legs especially your calves, you will want to do 2/3 different calf stretches(assuming that's where the burn is). Tl:dr. 15 mins is great!

First why do you say that was a failure? Sounds like a success to me. The biggest thing is what you take away from it. Everyone has there own pace but I would say for this long run and with your hills try to go a 7 or 8 min kilometer 8 feel free to allow yourself to go slower up the hills. Also make sure you do your warmup and then spend some serious time stretching out those legs especially your calves, you will want to do 2/3 different calf stretches(assuming that's where the burn is). Tl:dr. 15 mins is great!

C25K

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c87hkjc

First why do you say that was a failure? Sounds like a success to me. The biggest thing is what you take away from it. Everyone has there own pace but I would say for this long run and with your hills try to go a 7 or 8 min kilometer 8 feel free to allow yourself to go slower up the hills. Also make sure you do your warmup and then spend some serious time stretching out those legs especially your calves, you will want to do 2/3 different calf stretches(assuming that's where the burn is).

15 mins is great!

fuck_happy_the_cow

I'll chime in, even though many have already. It is date 1 (or even date 0, if you consider you have not really fully encountered them before.) Something low-key, like coffee, a wine bar, a cafe, or a park are ideal things to do. These don't take that much time, and if the person cannot make the time to fit any of those in during the week, it is not necessarily a red flag, but it is something to consider. tl;dr - I try to keep most of the weekend to friends/family/errands.

I'll chime in, even though many have already. It is date 1 (or even date 0, if you consider you have not really fully encountered them before.) Something low-key, like coffee, a wine bar, a cafe, or a park are ideal things to do. These don't take that much time, and if the person cannot make the time to fit any of those in during the week, it is not necessarily a red flag, but it is something to consider. tl;dr - I try to keep most of the weekend to friends/family/errands.

OkCupid

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c87jqxj

I'll chime in, even though many have already. It is date 1 (or even date 0, if you consider you have not really fully encountered them before.) Something low-key, like coffee, a wine bar, a cafe, or a park are ideal things to do. These don't take that much time, and if the person cannot make the time to fit any of those in during the week, it is not necessarily a red flag, but it is something to consider.

I try to keep most of the weekend to friends/family/errands.

ok_hideandseek

Yesterday was all around weird for me. I woke up without power, so my entire day was basically off-kilter. I mean, has anyone else tried prepping for a date via candle lights and a flashlight? It makes it way more difficult that I really would like. Either way, it should have been a sign. Get to my first date with this guy where we grab a round of drinks. Conversation is flowing, but still fairly light-hearted. We're bouncing around from topic to topic and I'm really enjoying it. Plus, there was accidental knee grazing throughout the hour and a half. This part is awesome. Then I get to the last five minutes when we finished our beers. He awkwardly ends it as, "Well, I should get going." I mean, it's 9:15ish and he has work tomorrow. Fair enough. We walk out and part ways, where he faces me and says, "This was fun." Umm, what? So now I'm just confused and have no idea how to proceed. **TL;DR** Went on a first date with a guy. First hour and fifteen is awesome and the last five minutes is awkward, so now I'm just confused. **Edit:** So, I messaged the guy, but he also called without even knowing about the message! We're going out next week! Okay, so I may be a little excited...

Yesterday was all around weird for me. I woke up without power, so my entire day was basically off-kilter. I mean, has anyone else tried prepping for a date via candle lights and a flashlight? It makes it way more difficult that I really would like. Either way, it should have been a sign. Get to my first date with this guy where we grab a round of drinks. Conversation is flowing, but still fairly light-hearted. We're bouncing around from topic to topic and I'm really enjoying it. Plus, there was accidental knee grazing throughout the hour and a half. This part is awesome. Then I get to the last five minutes when we finished our beers. He awkwardly ends it as, "Well, I should get going." I mean, it's 9:15ish and he has work tomorrow. Fair enough. We walk out and part ways, where he faces me and says, "This was fun." Umm, what? So now I'm just confused and have no idea how to proceed. TL;DR Went on a first date with a guy. First hour and fifteen is awesome and the last five minutes is awkward, so now I'm just confused. Edit: So, I messaged the guy, but he also called without even knowing about the message! We're going out next week! Okay, so I may be a little excited...

OkCupid

t5_2rct2

c87m0go

Yesterday was all around weird for me. I woke up without power, so my entire day was basically off-kilter. I mean, has anyone else tried prepping for a date via candle lights and a flashlight? It makes it way more difficult that I really would like. Either way, it should have been a sign. Get to my first date with this guy where we grab a round of drinks. Conversation is flowing, but still fairly light-hearted. We're bouncing around from topic to topic and I'm really enjoying it. Plus, there was accidental knee grazing throughout the hour and a half. This part is awesome. Then I get to the last five minutes when we finished our beers. He awkwardly ends it as, "Well, I should get going." I mean, it's 9:15ish and he has work tomorrow. Fair enough. We walk out and part ways, where he faces me and says, "This was fun." Umm, what? So now I'm just confused and have no idea how to proceed.

Went on a first date with a guy. First hour and fifteen is awesome and the last five minutes is awkward, so now I'm just confused. Edit: So, I messaged the guy, but he also called without even knowing about the message! We're going out next week! Okay, so I may be a little excited...

KernalM

Don't put so much faith in course listings. Like deadundead said, it's not a general Islamic History class, it's specifically about women. When you bring up the "meat' of the course you seem to be under the impression that that "meat" is Islamic History, it's not. It's Islamic History as applies to women. When I took a Sex and Gender in Japanese Buddhism class I didn't go int expecting Buddhism 101, because that is a different course. EDIT: tl:dr Women/Gender in X classes are always more focused on the role of women/gender than the field itself.

Don't put so much faith in course listings. Like deadundead said, it's not a general Islamic History class, it's specifically about women. When you bring up the "meat' of the course you seem to be under the impression that that "meat" is Islamic History, it's not. It's Islamic History as applies to women. When I took a Sex and Gender in Japanese Buddhism class I didn't go int expecting Buddhism 101, because that is a different course. EDIT: tl:dr Women/Gender in X classes are always more focused on the role of women/gender than the field itself.

AskWomen

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c87lr8u

Don't put so much faith in course listings. Like deadundead said, it's not a general Islamic History class, it's specifically about women. When you bring up the "meat' of the course you seem to be under the impression that that "meat" is Islamic History, it's not. It's Islamic History as applies to women. When I took a Sex and Gender in Japanese Buddhism class I didn't go int expecting Buddhism 101, because that is a different course. EDIT:

Women/Gender in X classes are always more focused on the role of women/gender than the field itself.

victorious_secret69

LOL Your time in the Army? You must be like a fresh out of boot because everyone rocks an Aimpont of EOtech/ACOG. A red dot it always going to be faster/more accurate than irons. Just get magpul MBUIS and lay them down. In the event of your tactical operations as an operator and your strike fire dies, just take it off and flip up the irons. TL;DR Dont co witness. Its fucking gay.

LOL Your time in the Army? You must be like a fresh out of boot because everyone rocks an Aimpont of EOtech/ACOG. A red dot it always going to be faster/more accurate than irons. Just get magpul MBUIS and lay them down. In the event of your tactical operations as an operator and your strike fire dies, just take it off and flip up the irons. TL;DR Dont co witness. Its fucking gay.

ar15

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c88pq08

LOL Your time in the Army? You must be like a fresh out of boot because everyone rocks an Aimpont of EOtech/ACOG. A red dot it always going to be faster/more accurate than irons. Just get magpul MBUIS and lay them down. In the event of your tactical operations as an operator and your strike fire dies, just take it off and flip up the irons.

Dont co witness. Its fucking gay.

haskell3

**Morsi's aid is wrong!** *US refused to accept German Jews prior to WW2 - and they got murdered by NAZIs.* **1937**: Hitler asks European countries and US to accept German Jews (he was a bit shy of final solution back then). **1938**: US organizes [Évian Conference about Jewish question]( and out of 32 countries - 31 refused to accept Jews (including US). The only country that agreed to accept jews was Dominican republic (which was later forced by US to revoke it's invitation). **1939**: [MS St. Louis]( - german captain brings jewish refugees to US - but US denies them visas sends them back to Germany, only 180 out of 930 survived through WW2 (visa denial signed by FDR himself). **1940** - US Senate torpedoes [Wagner Rogers Bill]( which would allow accepting at least some Jewish children refugees. Senators explained it as "*it's against christian morals to separate children and parents.*" (others however were quoting general antisemitic feelings of american public those days.) **1942**: [Wannsee Conference]( - final solution conference by Hitler - too late to run away for jews. **so quit spreading lies mr. Morsi. get a grip!** TL;DR Jews went to america - but they were not welcome there and were sent back to die in NAZI concentration camps.

**Morsi's aid is wrong!** US refused to accept German Jews prior to WW2 - and they got murdered by NAZIs. 1937 : Hitler asks European countries and US to accept German Jews (he was a bit shy of final solution back then). 1938 : US organizes Évian Conference about Jewish question . The only country that agreed to accept jews was Dominican republic (which was later forced by US to revoke it's invitation). 1939 : MS St. Louis . 1940 - US Senate torpedoes Wagner Rogers Bill 1942 : [Wannsee Conference]( - final solution conference by Hitler - too late to run away for jews. so quit spreading lies mr. Morsi. get a grip! TL;DR Jews went to america - but they were not welcome there and were sent back to die in NAZI concentration camps.

worldnews

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c87szia

Morsi's aid is wrong!** US refused to accept German Jews prior to WW2 - and they got murdered by NAZIs. 1937 : Hitler asks European countries and US to accept German Jews (he was a bit shy of final solution back then). 1938 : US organizes Évian Conference about Jewish question . The only country that agreed to accept jews was Dominican republic (which was later forced by US to revoke it's invitation). 1939 : MS St. Louis . 1940 - US Senate torpedoes Wagner Rogers Bill 1942 : [Wannsee Conference]( - final solution conference by Hitler - too late to run away for jews. so quit spreading lies mr. Morsi. get a grip!

Jews went to america - but they were not welcome there and were sent back to die in NAZI concentration camps.

haskell3

Morsi's aid is sooo wrong! US vehemently refused to accept German Jewish refugees - it was sending them back to Germany in fact. **1937**: Hitler asks European countries and US to accept German Jews (he was a bit shy of final solution back then). **1938**: US organizes [Évian Conference about Jewish question]( and out of 32 countries - 31 refused to accept Jews (including US). The only country that agreed to accept jews was Dominican republic (which was later forced by US to revoke it's invitation). **1939**: [MS St. Louis]( - german captain brings jewish refugees to US - but US denies them visas sends them back to Germany, only 180 out of 930 survived through WW2 (visa denial signed by FDR himself). When St. Louis was near Florida - it was followed by The U.S. Coast Guard ships - to prevent jews from swimming ashore. **1940** - US Senate torpedoes [Wagner Rogers Bill]( which would allow accepting some 20000 Jewish children under 14yo. Senators explained it as "*it's against christian morals to separate children and parents.*" (others however were quoting general antisemitic feelings of US public.Polls showed that 2/3 of Americans are against accepting Jewish children.) **1942**: [Wannsee Conference]( - final solution conference by Hitler - too late to run away for jews. **so quit spreading lies mr. Morsi. get a grip!** TL;DR Jews went to america - but they were not welcome there and were sent back to die in NAZI concentration camps.

Morsi's aid is sooo wrong! US vehemently refused to accept German Jewish refugees - it was sending them back to Germany in fact. 1937 : Hitler asks European countries and US to accept German Jews (he was a bit shy of final solution back then). 1938 : US organizes Évian Conference about Jewish question . The only country that agreed to accept jews was Dominican republic (which was later forced by US to revoke it's invitation). 1939 : MS St. Louis . When St. Louis was near Florida - it was followed by The U.S. Coast Guard ships - to prevent jews from swimming ashore. 1940 - US Senate torpedoes Wagner Rogers Bill 1942 : [Wannsee Conference]( - final solution conference by Hitler - too late to run away for jews. so quit spreading lies mr. Morsi. get a grip! TL;DR Jews went to america - but they were not welcome there and were sent back to die in NAZI concentration camps.

worldnews

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c87tlk1

Morsi's aid is sooo wrong! US vehemently refused to accept German Jewish refugees - it was sending them back to Germany in fact. 1937 : Hitler asks European countries and US to accept German Jews (he was a bit shy of final solution back then). 1938 : US organizes Évian Conference about Jewish question . The only country that agreed to accept jews was Dominican republic (which was later forced by US to revoke it's invitation). 1939 : MS St. Louis . When St. Louis was near Florida - it was followed by The U.S. Coast Guard ships - to prevent jews from swimming ashore. 1940 - US Senate torpedoes Wagner Rogers Bill 1942 : [Wannsee Conference]( - final solution conference by Hitler - too late to run away for jews. so quit spreading lies mr. Morsi. get a grip!

Jews went to america - but they were not welcome there and were sent back to die in NAZI concentration camps.

Tmmrn

>simply ignorance or perhaps a shade of pride as well. People build on previous ideas without ever questioning why we accepted the previous ideas as fact. Now I have no university education in something relevant to biology but from my other university experience I would have a hard time believing that. Do you have experience with education in biology in universities, maybe even in different countries? >It has always, ALWAYS been the person willing to confront the consensus that has revolutionized any field. Well, how long does that usually take? How old is creationism? 80-120 years? And how much funding did it get in this time? Alone the creation museum cost 27 Million Dollars according to wikipedia. Wouldn't it have produced something convincing yet? Are there really revolutions to expect in fields like biology in that one of the leading theories turns out to be completely false? Maybe some centuries and possibly several decades back when there was actually very little known at all about how the world works, but today with all the large scale modern science that has gone into it? Now the understanding of biology is actually decent enough to genetically engineer plants or grow new hearts from stem cells (well, nearly) and there are so many other fields that borrowed the ideas that have been found out in evolutionary biology. For example evolutionary programming / genetic algorithms. And the best thing: It works as well as expected. Tl;dr: I would highly doubt that something as well supported as evolution would be completely overturned. Parts are surely inaccurate or incomplete but completely wrong? Not really. > In fact I remember reading a scientific article recently about the dangers of consensus in science. Interesting stuff! Yes, but I would think that this only makes it take longer for bad science to be detected.

>simply ignorance or perhaps a shade of pride as well. People build on previous ideas without ever questioning why we accepted the previous ideas as fact. Now I have no university education in something relevant to biology but from my other university experience I would have a hard time believing that. Do you have experience with education in biology in universities, maybe even in different countries? >It has always, ALWAYS been the person willing to confront the consensus that has revolutionized any field. Well, how long does that usually take? How old is creationism? 80-120 years? And how much funding did it get in this time? Alone the creation museum cost 27 Million Dollars according to wikipedia. Wouldn't it have produced something convincing yet? Are there really revolutions to expect in fields like biology in that one of the leading theories turns out to be completely false? Maybe some centuries and possibly several decades back when there was actually very little known at all about how the world works, but today with all the large scale modern science that has gone into it? Now the understanding of biology is actually decent enough to genetically engineer plants or grow new hearts from stem cells (well, nearly) and there are so many other fields that borrowed the ideas that have been found out in evolutionary biology. For example evolutionary programming / genetic algorithms. And the best thing: It works as well as expected. Tl;dr: I would highly doubt that something as well supported as evolution would be completely overturned. Parts are surely inaccurate or incomplete but completely wrong? Not really. > In fact I remember reading a scientific article recently about the dangers of consensus in science. Interesting stuff! Yes, but I would think that this only makes it take longer for bad science to be detected.

DebateReligion

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c87qojo

simply ignorance or perhaps a shade of pride as well. People build on previous ideas without ever questioning why we accepted the previous ideas as fact. Now I have no university education in something relevant to biology but from my other university experience I would have a hard time believing that. Do you have experience with education in biology in universities, maybe even in different countries? >It has always, ALWAYS been the person willing to confront the consensus that has revolutionized any field. Well, how long does that usually take? How old is creationism? 80-120 years? And how much funding did it get in this time? Alone the creation museum cost 27 Million Dollars according to wikipedia. Wouldn't it have produced something convincing yet? Are there really revolutions to expect in fields like biology in that one of the leading theories turns out to be completely false? Maybe some centuries and possibly several decades back when there was actually very little known at all about how the world works, but today with all the large scale modern science that has gone into it? Now the understanding of biology is actually decent enough to genetically engineer plants or grow new hearts from stem cells (well, nearly) and there are so many other fields that borrowed the ideas that have been found out in evolutionary biology. For example evolutionary programming / genetic algorithms. And the best thing: It works as well as expected.

I would highly doubt that something as well supported as evolution would be completely overturned. Parts are surely inaccurate or incomplete but completely wrong? Not really. > In fact I remember reading a scientific article recently about the dangers of consensus in science. Interesting stuff! Yes, but I would think that this only makes it take longer for bad science to be detected.

Agent007spy

This is easy. Of course, we would be hospitable to them and coexist peacefully with them as our guests. We would send a delegation bearing gifts to their home planet, exchange technologies with them, and prosper together. What we would definitely NOT Do is to imprison them, impound their spaceship and reverse engineer their technology. We would not run lab tests on them for genetics, sexual traits, disease-resistance, exposure to extremes, psychoanalysis, brain structure, and language - all while disavowing any knowledge of their existence to anyone without the proper security clearance. We would definitely not engage in espionage with their home civilization by use of torture and intimidation. TL;DR: Aliens don't exist. If you have proof suggesting otherwise, please stare directly into my flash-emitting memory erasing stick. Above all else, I have no knowledge of peculiar activities that occurred in Roswell New Mexico and I definitely have never heard of the term area 51.

This is easy. Of course, we would be hospitable to them and coexist peacefully with them as our guests. We would send a delegation bearing gifts to their home planet, exchange technologies with them, and prosper together. What we would definitely NOT Do is to imprison them, impound their spaceship and reverse engineer their technology. We would not run lab tests on them for genetics, sexual traits, disease-resistance, exposure to extremes, psychoanalysis, brain structure, and language - all while disavowing any knowledge of their existence to anyone without the proper security clearance. We would definitely not engage in espionage with their home civilization by use of torture and intimidation. TL;DR: Aliens don't exist. If you have proof suggesting otherwise, please stare directly into my flash-emitting memory erasing stick. Above all else, I have no knowledge of peculiar activities that occurred in Roswell New Mexico and I definitely have never heard of the term area 51.

AskReddit

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c87sgg7

This is easy. Of course, we would be hospitable to them and coexist peacefully with them as our guests. We would send a delegation bearing gifts to their home planet, exchange technologies with them, and prosper together. What we would definitely NOT Do is to imprison them, impound their spaceship and reverse engineer their technology. We would not run lab tests on them for genetics, sexual traits, disease-resistance, exposure to extremes, psychoanalysis, brain structure, and language - all while disavowing any knowledge of their existence to anyone without the proper security clearance. We would definitely not engage in espionage with their home civilization by use of torture and intimidation.

Aliens don't exist. If you have proof suggesting otherwise, please stare directly into my flash-emitting memory erasing stick. Above all else, I have no knowledge of peculiar activities that occurred in Roswell New Mexico and I definitely have never heard of the term area 51.

homiewitha40

Whatever happened to good old fashioned TL;DRs?

Whatever happened to good old fashioned TL;DRs?

AskReddit

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c880zfq

Whatever happened to good old fashioned

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AayKay

Well, I'll tell you about my desk job. It's more of a standing job and painfully backbreaking but the pay is good, I guess. So, here we were, me and one of my colleagues, we used to have a cooking job. He brought me the ingredients, and I had this amazing recipe that most of our customers loved. The workspace was a bit cramped, but it was a side business, just us two. We worked on weekends and on weekdays. Over time, we became quite famous, but don't think that cooking was not a desk job, it had its fair share of boredom and panicks. Like once he caused a small fire and some other klutz mistakes that spoilt our produce. Anyway, fast forward, and my colleague had an accident. He was bedridden for quite some time. A corporate head then offered me a high earning job. I gladly took it up. The hours were flexible, the pay was pretty big. I could come in anytime and make the viand. It was well preserved and usually not served hot, so I did not necessarily remain in the office to make it all day long. But the requirements were massive, and the boss hated my previous colleague. My secretary was a pretty great guy and a kind of know it all. I had taken up this job full time by now. A few days went good enough, but then one problem arose. My colleague wanted to work with me, and I had no job to give him(I worked for someone else now, remember?). So, I asked my head and he said sure, bring in your guy, just make him a better chef than yourself. But that was before I came to know that my recommendation had left my secretary unemployed, he was fired straightaway(Awkward eh). My age and some impulsive decisions made the boss consider firing me, but my work was astounding, so he took a cunning route and asked my previous secretary to take up my job. This was it, I had it. I asked my colleague to do something. Sometime later that night, I heard that the guy(secretary) had some accident, and I would be continuing. I was Godamn happy. After a while, my college became good at his job, and I was getting old. Standing all day long, even with flexible hours were taking their toll on me. The head then asked my colleague to step up and replace me. I was furious to say the least, but you know how it is. He and my boss went on a foreign trip, where I thought the colleague will be joining a foreign affairs office, but I was mistaken since he came back. I asked my colleague whom I thought of as a casual friend by now to recommend the boss letting me continue, but he was just too detached after his sudden promotion. I knew that I had to do something on my own to continue working at this workspace. I then went ask for help from someone my boss visited frequently and in the end, [bombing the godamn MOTHERFUCKER!]( **TL;DR: Seriosly, read this fucking thing, working from a desk is never easy, and this one will remind you of that**

Well, I'll tell you about my desk job. It's more of a standing job and painfully backbreaking but the pay is good, I guess. So, here we were, me and one of my colleagues, we used to have a cooking job. He brought me the ingredients, and I had this amazing recipe that most of our customers loved. The workspace was a bit cramped, but it was a side business, just us two. We worked on weekends and on weekdays. Over time, we became quite famous, but don't think that cooking was not a desk job, it had its fair share of boredom and panicks. Like once he caused a small fire and some other klutz mistakes that spoilt our produce. Anyway, fast forward, and my colleague had an accident. He was bedridden for quite some time. A corporate head then offered me a high earning job. I gladly took it up. The hours were flexible, the pay was pretty big. I could come in anytime and make the viand. It was well preserved and usually not served hot, so I did not necessarily remain in the office to make it all day long. But the requirements were massive, and the boss hated my previous colleague. My secretary was a pretty great guy and a kind of know it all. I had taken up this job full time by now. A few days went good enough, but then one problem arose. My colleague wanted to work with me, and I had no job to give him(I worked for someone else now, remember?). So, I asked my head and he said sure, bring in your guy, just make him a better chef than yourself. But that was before I came to know that my recommendation had left my secretary unemployed, he was fired straightaway(Awkward eh). My age and some impulsive decisions made the boss consider firing me, but my work was astounding, so he took a cunning route and asked my previous secretary to take up my job. This was it, I had it. I asked my colleague to do something. Sometime later that night, I heard that the guy(secretary) had some accident, and I would be continuing. I was Godamn happy. After a while, my college became good at his job, and I was getting old. Standing all day long, even with flexible hours were taking their toll on me. The head then asked my colleague to step up and replace me. I was furious to say the least, but you know how it is. He and my boss went on a foreign trip, where I thought the colleague will be joining a foreign affairs office, but I was mistaken since he came back. I asked my colleague whom I thought of as a casual friend by now to recommend the boss letting me continue, but he was just too detached after his sudden promotion. I knew that I had to do something on my own to continue working at this workspace. I then went ask for help from someone my boss visited frequently and in the end, [bombing the godamn MOTHERFUCKER!]( TL;DR: Seriosly, read this fucking thing, working from a desk is never easy, and this one will remind you of that

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Well, I'll tell you about my desk job. It's more of a standing job and painfully backbreaking but the pay is good, I guess. So, here we were, me and one of my colleagues, we used to have a cooking job. He brought me the ingredients, and I had this amazing recipe that most of our customers loved. The workspace was a bit cramped, but it was a side business, just us two. We worked on weekends and on weekdays. Over time, we became quite famous, but don't think that cooking was not a desk job, it had its fair share of boredom and panicks. Like once he caused a small fire and some other klutz mistakes that spoilt our produce. Anyway, fast forward, and my colleague had an accident. He was bedridden for quite some time. A corporate head then offered me a high earning job. I gladly took it up. The hours were flexible, the pay was pretty big. I could come in anytime and make the viand. It was well preserved and usually not served hot, so I did not necessarily remain in the office to make it all day long. But the requirements were massive, and the boss hated my previous colleague. My secretary was a pretty great guy and a kind of know it all. I had taken up this job full time by now. A few days went good enough, but then one problem arose. My colleague wanted to work with me, and I had no job to give him(I worked for someone else now, remember?). So, I asked my head and he said sure, bring in your guy, just make him a better chef than yourself. But that was before I came to know that my recommendation had left my secretary unemployed, he was fired straightaway(Awkward eh). My age and some impulsive decisions made the boss consider firing me, but my work was astounding, so he took a cunning route and asked my previous secretary to take up my job. This was it, I had it. I asked my colleague to do something. Sometime later that night, I heard that the guy(secretary) had some accident, and I would be continuing. I was Godamn happy. After a while, my college became good at his job, and I was getting old. Standing all day long, even with flexible hours were taking their toll on me. The head then asked my colleague to step up and replace me. I was furious to say the least, but you know how it is. He and my boss went on a foreign trip, where I thought the colleague will be joining a foreign affairs office, but I was mistaken since he came back. I asked my colleague whom I thought of as a casual friend by now to recommend the boss letting me continue, but he was just too detached after his sudden promotion. I knew that I had to do something on my own to continue working at this workspace. I then went ask for help from someone my boss visited frequently and in the end, [bombing the godamn MOTHERFUCKER!](

Seriosly, read this fucking thing, working from a desk is never easy, and this one will remind you of that

vaclavhavelsmustache

I'm a lawyer, and although I'm in court every day, most of my time is spent at the office. It's a mixture of reading, reading, more reading, writing, correspondence (physical letters and emails), more reading, phone calls, meetings, and clerical work. tl;dr being a lawyer is fucking boring 95% of the time

I'm a lawyer, and although I'm in court every day, most of my time is spent at the office. It's a mixture of reading, reading, more reading, writing, correspondence (physical letters and emails), more reading, phone calls, meetings, and clerical work. tl;dr being a lawyer is fucking boring 95% of the time

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I'm a lawyer, and although I'm in court every day, most of my time is spent at the office. It's a mixture of reading, reading, more reading, writing, correspondence (physical letters and emails), more reading, phone calls, meetings, and clerical work.

being a lawyer is fucking boring 95% of the time

goldgecko4

I do sales at an office job for a major US bank. We're not tele-marketers we're told, because the people we call are already our customers, and we're just making sure they have our best products. I actually really liked the work, it was a treat to get the one person a day who was lonely and wanted to talk, or better yet genuinely interested in what I had to say. The pay is shit, but everyone knows that going in to the job that the real money comes from your commission, which could easily double your salary. Until this fall. Due to high turn-over, we were taken from our usual work and placed in to customer service roles during peak times. It became more about how many calls we took than how much we sold, though with our unique position we had much better calls (compared to standard CSRs) and were still expected to sell, which we did well. Apparently too well, as in 2013, we are being relegated to doing both jobs regularly, and having our commission cut to almost nothing. Our hourly pay is that of CSRs, but we are expected to do two jobs at the with next to no bonuses. TL;DR - Don't do sales for a major corporation. They WILL find a way to screw you over.

I do sales at an office job for a major US bank. We're not tele-marketers we're told, because the people we call are already our customers, and we're just making sure they have our best products. I actually really liked the work, it was a treat to get the one person a day who was lonely and wanted to talk, or better yet genuinely interested in what I had to say. The pay is shit, but everyone knows that going in to the job that the real money comes from your commission, which could easily double your salary. Until this fall. Due to high turn-over, we were taken from our usual work and placed in to customer service roles during peak times. It became more about how many calls we took than how much we sold, though with our unique position we had much better calls (compared to standard CSRs) and were still expected to sell, which we did well. Apparently too well, as in 2013, we are being relegated to doing both jobs regularly, and having our commission cut to almost nothing. Our hourly pay is that of CSRs, but we are expected to do two jobs at the with next to no bonuses. TL;DR - Don't do sales for a major corporation. They WILL find a way to screw you over.

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I do sales at an office job for a major US bank. We're not tele-marketers we're told, because the people we call are already our customers, and we're just making sure they have our best products. I actually really liked the work, it was a treat to get the one person a day who was lonely and wanted to talk, or better yet genuinely interested in what I had to say. The pay is shit, but everyone knows that going in to the job that the real money comes from your commission, which could easily double your salary. Until this fall. Due to high turn-over, we were taken from our usual work and placed in to customer service roles during peak times. It became more about how many calls we took than how much we sold, though with our unique position we had much better calls (compared to standard CSRs) and were still expected to sell, which we did well. Apparently too well, as in 2013, we are being relegated to doing both jobs regularly, and having our commission cut to almost nothing. Our hourly pay is that of CSRs, but we are expected to do two jobs at the with next to no bonuses.

Don't do sales for a major corporation. They WILL find a way to screw you over.

bellamortifera

I'm a supervisor for a solar install company. Here's just a basic list of my day-to-day tasks. * schedule and dispatch our technicians as well as deliveries and installs * Invoicing and billing, not just paying our guys but also paying other companies * sales - Have to be knowledgeable on all products and services offered * referrals * Go-to person to fix any issues with the computers or printers * file and track permits with all of the local cities (and send out their checks monthly) * File for customers to receive rebate incentive checks from their utility company (and do all required paperwork and follow-up) * Call people weekly - if necessary - to remind them to schedule necessary inspections * answer hundreds of questions about solar per week. Especially "How do I turn the water heater temperature up/down?" All of this while helping to keep our offices clean, handling any complaints we receive, and trying to make sure everyone is taken care of as quickly as possible. Typing it out, this all seems like a lot (and I know there's a lot more I'm forgetting - Don't think, just do), but it really is just a regular day. I couldn't do it without my boss, she's awesome. **TL;DR: I'm a receptionist**

I'm a supervisor for a solar install company. Here's just a basic list of my day-to-day tasks. schedule and dispatch our technicians as well as deliveries and installs Invoicing and billing, not just paying our guys but also paying other companies sales - Have to be knowledgeable on all products and services offered referrals Go-to person to fix any issues with the computers or printers file and track permits with all of the local cities (and send out their checks monthly) File for customers to receive rebate incentive checks from their utility company (and do all required paperwork and follow-up) Call people weekly - if necessary - to remind them to schedule necessary inspections answer hundreds of questions about solar per week. Especially "How do I turn the water heater temperature up/down?" All of this while helping to keep our offices clean, handling any complaints we receive, and trying to make sure everyone is taken care of as quickly as possible. Typing it out, this all seems like a lot (and I know there's a lot more I'm forgetting - Don't think, just do), but it really is just a regular day. I couldn't do it without my boss, she's awesome. TL;DR: I'm a receptionist

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I'm a supervisor for a solar install company. Here's just a basic list of my day-to-day tasks. schedule and dispatch our technicians as well as deliveries and installs Invoicing and billing, not just paying our guys but also paying other companies sales - Have to be knowledgeable on all products and services offered referrals Go-to person to fix any issues with the computers or printers file and track permits with all of the local cities (and send out their checks monthly) File for customers to receive rebate incentive checks from their utility company (and do all required paperwork and follow-up) Call people weekly - if necessary - to remind them to schedule necessary inspections answer hundreds of questions about solar per week. Especially "How do I turn the water heater temperature up/down?" All of this while helping to keep our offices clean, handling any complaints we receive, and trying to make sure everyone is taken care of as quickly as possible. Typing it out, this all seems like a lot (and I know there's a lot more I'm forgetting - Don't think, just do), but it really is just a regular day. I couldn't do it without my boss, she's awesome.

I'm a receptionist

blackhorseRFC

Customer Service here. 10:00 pm: Leave for work. 10:15 pm: Arrive in the parking lot, smoke cigarette in my car, think about turning around and leaving. 10:30: Clock in, begin logging into all necessary systems and applications including Reddit. 10:45: Begin answering customer emails. It is a grade day so the client is here. Sharon in HR will not shut the fuck up. The people who got promoted instead of me at the resource desk will also not shut the fuck up. 11:30 pm: Mindless banter on either side of me continues. Someone from the shift prior gets publically fired. This will be the highlight of my day, it is hilarious. Continue answering customer emails. 12:00 am: The bro of all bros arrives, my boss. He is the bain of my exsistence so as he makes smart ass remarks and basically insults his employees, we smile and we knod. Retain focus, answer more emails. Transition shift people leave, the large gray room falls silent accept for the clacking of key boards, I am now surrounded my my other 9 co workers. There is no escape. 1:00 am: I get the first of my three QA grades from the client. My grade is shit. I will now not make any commission for this month. The client makes grammar nazis on reddit look like care bears. My paycheck has just been reduced by about $200-$400 by someone in a different state who I will never meet face to face and has never done the job I am doing. 1:30 am: I NEED TO GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE. Take first of two 15 minute breaks. Sit in my car and day dream about how I would rob a bank or other various hypothetical scenarios. Smoke another cigarette. 1:46 am: Bro boss asks why I am late coming back from break. Apologize, regain focus, more emails. Pray to the gods that you get hired at one of the other jobs you have applied for, there is no god. 2:30 am: Boss is now asleep in a corner of the office (100s of cubicles). Me and coworkers talk about how retarded our customers are, this will go on for quite some time. 3:30 am: Lunch. Go to 24/7 gas station, chug energy drink in car. Return to parking lot of the office, have another cigarette. 4:00 am: Emails, more emails. By now all I can think about is leaving. Continue to banter with coworkers, most of them are ok but would never hang out with you outside of work. 6:00 am: Productivity has ceased. Browse internet, go on last break, smile and knod at boss who has risen from the dead. 7:00 am: Clock out, get in car, go home. 7:15 am: Arrive home, pour scotch, sit on couch, fall asleep. 4:30 pm: Prepare to repeat this process while applying for a new job. TL;DR - Pretty much nothing.

Customer Service here. 10:00 pm: Leave for work. 10:15 pm: Arrive in the parking lot, smoke cigarette in my car, think about turning around and leaving. 10:30: Clock in, begin logging into all necessary systems and applications including Reddit. 10:45: Begin answering customer emails. It is a grade day so the client is here. Sharon in HR will not shut the fuck up. The people who got promoted instead of me at the resource desk will also not shut the fuck up. 11:30 pm: Mindless banter on either side of me continues. Someone from the shift prior gets publically fired. This will be the highlight of my day, it is hilarious. Continue answering customer emails. 12:00 am: The bro of all bros arrives, my boss. He is the bain of my exsistence so as he makes smart ass remarks and basically insults his employees, we smile and we knod. Retain focus, answer more emails. Transition shift people leave, the large gray room falls silent accept for the clacking of key boards, I am now surrounded my my other 9 co workers. There is no escape. 1:00 am: I get the first of my three QA grades from the client. My grade is shit. I will now not make any commission for this month. The client makes grammar nazis on reddit look like care bears. My paycheck has just been reduced by about $200-$400 by someone in a different state who I will never meet face to face and has never done the job I am doing. 1:30 am: I NEED TO GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE. Take first of two 15 minute breaks. Sit in my car and day dream about how I would rob a bank or other various hypothetical scenarios. Smoke another cigarette. 1:46 am: Bro boss asks why I am late coming back from break. Apologize, regain focus, more emails. Pray to the gods that you get hired at one of the other jobs you have applied for, there is no god. 2:30 am: Boss is now asleep in a corner of the office (100s of cubicles). Me and coworkers talk about how retarded our customers are, this will go on for quite some time. 3:30 am: Lunch. Go to 24/7 gas station, chug energy drink in car. Return to parking lot of the office, have another cigarette. 4:00 am: Emails, more emails. By now all I can think about is leaving. Continue to banter with coworkers, most of them are ok but would never hang out with you outside of work. 6:00 am: Productivity has ceased. Browse internet, go on last break, smile and knod at boss who has risen from the dead. 7:00 am: Clock out, get in car, go home. 7:15 am: Arrive home, pour scotch, sit on couch, fall asleep. 4:30 pm: Prepare to repeat this process while applying for a new job. TL;DR - Pretty much nothing.

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Customer Service here. 10:00 pm: Leave for work. 10:15 pm: Arrive in the parking lot, smoke cigarette in my car, think about turning around and leaving. 10:30: Clock in, begin logging into all necessary systems and applications including Reddit. 10:45: Begin answering customer emails. It is a grade day so the client is here. Sharon in HR will not shut the fuck up. The people who got promoted instead of me at the resource desk will also not shut the fuck up. 11:30 pm: Mindless banter on either side of me continues. Someone from the shift prior gets publically fired. This will be the highlight of my day, it is hilarious. Continue answering customer emails. 12:00 am: The bro of all bros arrives, my boss. He is the bain of my exsistence so as he makes smart ass remarks and basically insults his employees, we smile and we knod. Retain focus, answer more emails. Transition shift people leave, the large gray room falls silent accept for the clacking of key boards, I am now surrounded my my other 9 co workers. There is no escape. 1:00 am: I get the first of my three QA grades from the client. My grade is shit. I will now not make any commission for this month. The client makes grammar nazis on reddit look like care bears. My paycheck has just been reduced by about $200-$400 by someone in a different state who I will never meet face to face and has never done the job I am doing. 1:30 am: I NEED TO GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE. Take first of two 15 minute breaks. Sit in my car and day dream about how I would rob a bank or other various hypothetical scenarios. Smoke another cigarette. 1:46 am: Bro boss asks why I am late coming back from break. Apologize, regain focus, more emails. Pray to the gods that you get hired at one of the other jobs you have applied for, there is no god. 2:30 am: Boss is now asleep in a corner of the office (100s of cubicles). Me and coworkers talk about how retarded our customers are, this will go on for quite some time. 3:30 am: Lunch. Go to 24/7 gas station, chug energy drink in car. Return to parking lot of the office, have another cigarette. 4:00 am: Emails, more emails. By now all I can think about is leaving. Continue to banter with coworkers, most of them are ok but would never hang out with you outside of work. 6:00 am: Productivity has ceased. Browse internet, go on last break, smile and knod at boss who has risen from the dead. 7:00 am: Clock out, get in car, go home. 7:15 am: Arrive home, pour scotch, sit on couch, fall asleep. 4:30 pm: Prepare to repeat this process while applying for a new job.

Pretty much nothing.

Turicus

I'll tell my story, just to give a counterpoint. I work in an office in a developing country. I manage a project that works on improving working conditions in garments factories. My team goes out to factories and trains people. Occasionally we do workshops. So I organize those workshops, work on the content, go along on factory visits occasionally, write reports, do the accounting and oversight, monitor the garments sector and political developments in the country (affecting export industries). Additionally, beyond the project, I look for funding from other donors. I also just set up a recycling project where we aim to increase the amount of waste recycled, to protect the environment and so that poor waste collectors can make more money. I spend most of my time in an office, but I love it! I get to work on many different things, which keeps it interesting! TL, DR: Office work doesn't have to be drudgery.

I'll tell my story, just to give a counterpoint. I work in an office in a developing country. I manage a project that works on improving working conditions in garments factories. My team goes out to factories and trains people. Occasionally we do workshops. So I organize those workshops, work on the content, go along on factory visits occasionally, write reports, do the accounting and oversight, monitor the garments sector and political developments in the country (affecting export industries). Additionally, beyond the project, I look for funding from other donors. I also just set up a recycling project where we aim to increase the amount of waste recycled, to protect the environment and so that poor waste collectors can make more money. I spend most of my time in an office, but I love it! I get to work on many different things, which keeps it interesting! TL, DR: Office work doesn't have to be drudgery.

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I'll tell my story, just to give a counterpoint. I work in an office in a developing country. I manage a project that works on improving working conditions in garments factories. My team goes out to factories and trains people. Occasionally we do workshops. So I organize those workshops, work on the content, go along on factory visits occasionally, write reports, do the accounting and oversight, monitor the garments sector and political developments in the country (affecting export industries). Additionally, beyond the project, I look for funding from other donors. I also just set up a recycling project where we aim to increase the amount of waste recycled, to protect the environment and so that poor waste collectors can make more money. I spend most of my time in an office, but I love it! I get to work on many different things, which keeps it interesting!

Office work doesn't have to be drudgery.

stinkyasscheese

Here's my job: I get in at around 9:00-9:30. The girl three chairs behind me is my boss, but she's new and we mainly talk about random shit. In fact, this week I find out I'm reporting to someone else starting next week. Whatever. Go online and open Google Docs where I write down all the stuff I want to do that day. I actually could decide to do nothing, but that's more boring than work. I add a few items. I think yesterdays items looked something like this: "Figure out where to sit," "Talk to our new CEO," "build relationship with Steve ahead of project," "figure out what causes our company's metric to be bad," "put together presentation on last analysis I did." That's basically a day's work. I then open Pandora and listen to music the rest of the day. I do about half my work at my desk, and half my work on a couch. My office has free everything - coffee, soda, chips, candy bars - and I drink / eat these often. Thinking about where to sit is important because I have a new boss and I want to make sure I integrate myself in the team. There's real thinking there, which is tiring, so I do that on the couch. Next up, analysis. I fire up excel and start pounding out a model. I'm good at excel from my years of working in finance. I'm genuinely curious to see the result. 1 hour later I have it - pretty mediocre correlation - nothing worth presenting. Bummer. It's now 11:30 and I can smell the lunch in our company's kitchen. I wonder what we're eating today. I figure it's a good time to catch-up on some email and check gmail. Nothing important so I go back to my to-do list. I'm going to spend the next 15 minutes thinking about where I'll sit. The front is where all the engineers sit but I'm not one of them. Hrm, let's move closer to them. I put in my request to HR - I should hear back in a week. It's now 12 and I go to the kitchen. We ordered for a local restaurant - our favorite actually. We all sit down and eat together. It's now 12:30 and I forgot I have a meeting at 1pm to talk about our company's new initiative that my friend is leading on a new product we are launching. I'm not leading it, so I'll help out but not much else. It's now 1:30 and I go back to my desk and check my to-do list. Oh yea, "Build relationship with Steve." I email Steve from engineering and say we should grab coffee soon. He emails back "Sounds Good!" and I schedule a time tomorrow for us to meet up. At this point, I have my weekly meeting with one of my two direct reports. I start off by asking him how things are going with the sales new vendor search and how's he's feeling. He then updates me for the next few minutes. Then I bring up a new project for him to focus on this week and what we want to learn. He agrees and we part ways. It's now 3pm. Time to pound out some real thinking. I position myself on the couch and work for 1.5 hours on tomorrow's presentation to the senior management about how we could save the company money by better leveraging our infrastructure. It's a 15 page slide deck but I think it's convincing. Satisfied - I fire up Google and check a few of the stocks I own. No major change. Ok - let's read reddit for 15 minutes. Ok it's now 4:45 and things are winding down. I look at my to-do list, "Figure out why company metric is bad" remains. It's too late to crank this out. It'll require too much thinking. I check my email again and respond to things that have come in over the past week that I have starred in gmail. It's now 5:15. "Bye everyone" I say. A bunch of people say bye and I go home. I make mid-six-figures for this job. Depressing or awesome - I don't know. TL; DR - you probably hate me

Here's my job: I get in at around 9:00-9:30. The girl three chairs behind me is my boss, but she's new and we mainly talk about random shit. In fact, this week I find out I'm reporting to someone else starting next week. Whatever. Go online and open Google Docs where I write down all the stuff I want to do that day. I actually could decide to do nothing, but that's more boring than work. I add a few items. I think yesterdays items looked something like this: "Figure out where to sit," "Talk to our new CEO," "build relationship with Steve ahead of project," "figure out what causes our company's metric to be bad," "put together presentation on last analysis I did." That's basically a day's work. I then open Pandora and listen to music the rest of the day. I do about half my work at my desk, and half my work on a couch. My office has free everything - coffee, soda, chips, candy bars - and I drink / eat these often. Thinking about where to sit is important because I have a new boss and I want to make sure I integrate myself in the team. There's real thinking there, which is tiring, so I do that on the couch. Next up, analysis. I fire up excel and start pounding out a model. I'm good at excel from my years of working in finance. I'm genuinely curious to see the result. 1 hour later I have it - pretty mediocre correlation - nothing worth presenting. Bummer. It's now 11:30 and I can smell the lunch in our company's kitchen. I wonder what we're eating today. I figure it's a good time to catch-up on some email and check gmail. Nothing important so I go back to my to-do list. I'm going to spend the next 15 minutes thinking about where I'll sit. The front is where all the engineers sit but I'm not one of them. Hrm, let's move closer to them. I put in my request to HR - I should hear back in a week. It's now 12 and I go to the kitchen. We ordered for a local restaurant - our favorite actually. We all sit down and eat together. It's now 12:30 and I forgot I have a meeting at 1pm to talk about our company's new initiative that my friend is leading on a new product we are launching. I'm not leading it, so I'll help out but not much else. It's now 1:30 and I go back to my desk and check my to-do list. Oh yea, "Build relationship with Steve." I email Steve from engineering and say we should grab coffee soon. He emails back "Sounds Good!" and I schedule a time tomorrow for us to meet up. At this point, I have my weekly meeting with one of my two direct reports. I start off by asking him how things are going with the sales new vendor search and how's he's feeling. He then updates me for the next few minutes. Then I bring up a new project for him to focus on this week and what we want to learn. He agrees and we part ways. It's now 3pm. Time to pound out some real thinking. I position myself on the couch and work for 1.5 hours on tomorrow's presentation to the senior management about how we could save the company money by better leveraging our infrastructure. It's a 15 page slide deck but I think it's convincing. Satisfied - I fire up Google and check a few of the stocks I own. No major change. Ok - let's read reddit for 15 minutes. Ok it's now 4:45 and things are winding down. I look at my to-do list, "Figure out why company metric is bad" remains. It's too late to crank this out. It'll require too much thinking. I check my email again and respond to things that have come in over the past week that I have starred in gmail. It's now 5:15. "Bye everyone" I say. A bunch of people say bye and I go home. I make mid-six-figures for this job. Depressing or awesome - I don't know. TL; DR - you probably hate me

AskReddit

t5_2qh1i

c88373l

Here's my job: I get in at around 9:00-9:30. The girl three chairs behind me is my boss, but she's new and we mainly talk about random shit. In fact, this week I find out I'm reporting to someone else starting next week. Whatever. Go online and open Google Docs where I write down all the stuff I want to do that day. I actually could decide to do nothing, but that's more boring than work. I add a few items. I think yesterdays items looked something like this: "Figure out where to sit," "Talk to our new CEO," "build relationship with Steve ahead of project," "figure out what causes our company's metric to be bad," "put together presentation on last analysis I did." That's basically a day's work. I then open Pandora and listen to music the rest of the day. I do about half my work at my desk, and half my work on a couch. My office has free everything - coffee, soda, chips, candy bars - and I drink / eat these often. Thinking about where to sit is important because I have a new boss and I want to make sure I integrate myself in the team. There's real thinking there, which is tiring, so I do that on the couch. Next up, analysis. I fire up excel and start pounding out a model. I'm good at excel from my years of working in finance. I'm genuinely curious to see the result. 1 hour later I have it - pretty mediocre correlation - nothing worth presenting. Bummer. It's now 11:30 and I can smell the lunch in our company's kitchen. I wonder what we're eating today. I figure it's a good time to catch-up on some email and check gmail. Nothing important so I go back to my to-do list. I'm going to spend the next 15 minutes thinking about where I'll sit. The front is where all the engineers sit but I'm not one of them. Hrm, let's move closer to them. I put in my request to HR - I should hear back in a week. It's now 12 and I go to the kitchen. We ordered for a local restaurant - our favorite actually. We all sit down and eat together. It's now 12:30 and I forgot I have a meeting at 1pm to talk about our company's new initiative that my friend is leading on a new product we are launching. I'm not leading it, so I'll help out but not much else. It's now 1:30 and I go back to my desk and check my to-do list. Oh yea, "Build relationship with Steve." I email Steve from engineering and say we should grab coffee soon. He emails back "Sounds Good!" and I schedule a time tomorrow for us to meet up. At this point, I have my weekly meeting with one of my two direct reports. I start off by asking him how things are going with the sales new vendor search and how's he's feeling. He then updates me for the next few minutes. Then I bring up a new project for him to focus on this week and what we want to learn. He agrees and we part ways. It's now 3pm. Time to pound out some real thinking. I position myself on the couch and work for 1.5 hours on tomorrow's presentation to the senior management about how we could save the company money by better leveraging our infrastructure. It's a 15 page slide deck but I think it's convincing. Satisfied - I fire up Google and check a few of the stocks I own. No major change. Ok - let's read reddit for 15 minutes. Ok it's now 4:45 and things are winding down. I look at my to-do list, "Figure out why company metric is bad" remains. It's too late to crank this out. It'll require too much thinking. I check my email again and respond to things that have come in over the past week that I have starred in gmail. It's now 5:15. "Bye everyone" I say. A bunch of people say bye and I go home. I make mid-six-figures for this job. Depressing or awesome - I don't know.

you probably hate me

sales_psychologist

^this. Learning salesmanship is a life skill that will not only help your career, but your personal relationships and even personal growth (despite that most sales reps suck as people, but those aren't true sales cats anyways, they're the sociopaths who give us bad reputations because they can't seem to see past their commission check). That being said, if the revenue makers didn't have the rest of you good folk to make sure our clients are happy... We would have nothing -of value- to sell! If I can accomplish anything in my life, it's to help both parties more inherently recognize the symbiotic nature of their relationship. Along with that recognition, better pay for those who excel at making clients happy, instead of it all just going to the guy who could care less if he promised the world to a client, without any responsibility for the fulfillment. /end rant. tl;dr salesmanship is of the greatest skills one can learn in life and at the same time support staff deserve more credit.

^this. Learning salesmanship is a life skill that will not only help your career, but your personal relationships and even personal growth (despite that most sales reps suck as people, but those aren't true sales cats anyways, they're the sociopaths who give us bad reputations because they can't seem to see past their commission check). That being said, if the revenue makers didn't have the rest of you good folk to make sure our clients are happy... We would have nothing -of value- to sell! If I can accomplish anything in my life, it's to help both parties more inherently recognize the symbiotic nature of their relationship. Along with that recognition, better pay for those who excel at making clients happy, instead of it all just going to the guy who could care less if he promised the world to a client, without any responsibility for the fulfillment. /end rant. tl;dr salesmanship is of the greatest skills one can learn in life and at the same time support staff deserve more credit.

AskReddit

t5_2qh1i

c884ac4

this. Learning salesmanship is a life skill that will not only help your career, but your personal relationships and even personal growth (despite that most sales reps suck as people, but those aren't true sales cats anyways, they're the sociopaths who give us bad reputations because they can't seem to see past their commission check). That being said, if the revenue makers didn't have the rest of you good folk to make sure our clients are happy... We would have nothing -of value- to sell! If I can accomplish anything in my life, it's to help both parties more inherently recognize the symbiotic nature of their relationship. Along with that recognition, better pay for those who excel at making clients happy, instead of it all just going to the guy who could care less if he promised the world to a client, without any responsibility for the fulfillment. /end rant.

salesmanship is of the greatest skills one can learn in life and at the same time support staff deserve more credit.

Vox_Imperatoris

First of all, you have a misunderstanding of deflation. Deflation in the original, rational sense of that word as a harmful economic phenomenon and a symptom of depressions, means a *decrease in the supply of money*. This can only happen in a fractional reserve banking system, since when such a bank goes under, checks written upon its reserves loose all value and money is effectively destroyed. The increase in the value of money, in contrast, when it is caused by an *increase in the supply of goods*, and not a decrease in the supply of money, is not harmful. In fact, it is a great benefit to everyone in the economy. As long as improves one's own productive ability in proportion with the rise in the productivity of the economy as a whole, one's position is better off because, while one now earns $5 an hour instead of $10 an hour, this $5 now buys *more* goods than the $10 did, because of the increase in wealth. Neither is such increase in the value of money (caused by increase in the supply of goods) beneficial to creditors and harmful to debtors. So long as those debtors continue to improve their productivity in proportion with the whole economy (i.e. if 5% more goods are produced, they themselves produce 5% more), the increase in the value of money will be matched by the increase in their wealth. It is only if they lag behind in productive ability that they lag behind in relative wealth, but this is as it should be because it transfers wealth to those who are improving their productive ability at a greater than proportional rate. (Incidentally, this is why farmers in the late 19th century U.S. agitated for inflation—they were debtors who were not keeping up with the economy's increases in productivity. Their being put of business is what allowed the country to move from an agrarian to an industrial economy.) Debtors are only ruined by actual *deflation*—destruction of money—which, as I said, is caused by the failure of banks in a fractional reserve system. In such a situation, without there being any more goods, a $500 debt suddenly takes on a $1000 value, causing more banks to fail and potentially collapsing the whole fractional reserve system driving all debtors to bankruptcy. (If you want to use the words "deflation" and "inflation" as many people do nowadays, to mean increases and decreases in the value of money, rather than the supply of money, you must then think about "good deflation"—increases in value brought about by increases in the supply of goods—vs. "bad deflation"—increases in value brought about by decreases in the supply of money. This is a conceptual disaster.) Second, while there was a significant increase in the supply of gold resulting from such gold rushes, averaged over time it was much less than the inflation rate of the most responsible government today. Since gold is a commodity, it tends to be produced in greater quantities only insofar as everything else is produced in greater quantities, because of improvements in technology, resulting in a stable price. Nevertheless, I admit that this is an advantage Bitcoins have over gold. Third, while a small number of Bitcoins may be accidentally lost, this rate would be very small if they were used enough to be extremely valuable and would not be a significant source of deflation. As I have already explained, the increase in their value caused by more goods being traded in a Bitcoin economy does not represent deflation. To the extent that it does affect people's spending patterns, it encourages saving—the investment of money in enterprises that will return more money than is put in—over consumption—the purchase of goods that do not pay for themselves. The effect of this is to increase the amount of wealth in the economy, which comes from production, not consumption. Fourth, the actual total quantity of Bitcoins or of gold is *irrelevant*. 1 Bitcoin could power an economy of 3 people or 3 quadrillion people. This is because Bitcoins (and gold, through the use of paper/digital currency) can be subdivided indefinitely. (In the case of gold, I suppose, this would technically apply only down to the atomic level.) There is absolutely no need for the money to "grow with its userbase". All that must be done is that people move from trading in denominations of 1 Bitcoin, or 1/10 of one Bitcoin, to denominations of 1/1000 or 1/1,000,000 of one Bitcoin. Of course, any currency's value will *not* be stable during a process of mass adoption or abandonment. If, for example, the U.S. government were to switch to a 100% reserve gold standard, backing all money with gold, its value would increase enormously. The same would happen to Bitcoin if even 1% of the global economy were to use it. But once such a currency finds its market value, prices will stabilize, and with Bitcoin will have a benign tendency to rise with increases in the supply of goods. TL;DR: Deflation, in its harmful sense, means the destruction of money, and this is not what happens with gold and Bitcoin.

First of all, you have a misunderstanding of deflation. Deflation in the original, rational sense of that word as a harmful economic phenomenon and a symptom of depressions, means a decrease in the supply of money . This can only happen in a fractional reserve banking system, since when such a bank goes under, checks written upon its reserves loose all value and money is effectively destroyed. The increase in the value of money, in contrast, when it is caused by an increase in the supply of goods , and not a decrease in the supply of money, is not harmful. In fact, it is a great benefit to everyone in the economy. As long as improves one's own productive ability in proportion with the rise in the productivity of the economy as a whole, one's position is better off because, while one now earns $5 an hour instead of $10 an hour, this $5 now buys more goods than the $10 did, because of the increase in wealth. Neither is such increase in the value of money (caused by increase in the supply of goods) beneficial to creditors and harmful to debtors. So long as those debtors continue to improve their productivity in proportion with the whole economy (i.e. if 5% more goods are produced, they themselves produce 5% more), the increase in the value of money will be matched by the increase in their wealth. It is only if they lag behind in productive ability that they lag behind in relative wealth, but this is as it should be because it transfers wealth to those who are improving their productive ability at a greater than proportional rate. (Incidentally, this is why farmers in the late 19th century U.S. agitated for inflation—they were debtors who were not keeping up with the economy's increases in productivity. Their being put of business is what allowed the country to move from an agrarian to an industrial economy.) Debtors are only ruined by actual deflation —destruction of money—which, as I said, is caused by the failure of banks in a fractional reserve system. In such a situation, without there being any more goods, a $500 debt suddenly takes on a $1000 value, causing more banks to fail and potentially collapsing the whole fractional reserve system driving all debtors to bankruptcy. (If you want to use the words "deflation" and "inflation" as many people do nowadays, to mean increases and decreases in the value of money, rather than the supply of money, you must then think about "good deflation"—increases in value brought about by increases in the supply of goods—vs. "bad deflation"—increases in value brought about by decreases in the supply of money. This is a conceptual disaster.) Second, while there was a significant increase in the supply of gold resulting from such gold rushes, averaged over time it was much less than the inflation rate of the most responsible government today. Since gold is a commodity, it tends to be produced in greater quantities only insofar as everything else is produced in greater quantities, because of improvements in technology, resulting in a stable price. Nevertheless, I admit that this is an advantage Bitcoins have over gold. Third, while a small number of Bitcoins may be accidentally lost, this rate would be very small if they were used enough to be extremely valuable and would not be a significant source of deflation. As I have already explained, the increase in their value caused by more goods being traded in a Bitcoin economy does not represent deflation. To the extent that it does affect people's spending patterns, it encourages saving—the investment of money in enterprises that will return more money than is put in—over consumption—the purchase of goods that do not pay for themselves. The effect of this is to increase the amount of wealth in the economy, which comes from production, not consumption. Fourth, the actual total quantity of Bitcoins or of gold is irrelevant . 1 Bitcoin could power an economy of 3 people or 3 quadrillion people. This is because Bitcoins (and gold, through the use of paper/digital currency) can be subdivided indefinitely. (In the case of gold, I suppose, this would technically apply only down to the atomic level.) There is absolutely no need for the money to "grow with its userbase". All that must be done is that people move from trading in denominations of 1 Bitcoin, or 1/10 of one Bitcoin, to denominations of 1/1000 or 1/1,000,000 of one Bitcoin. Of course, any currency's value will not be stable during a process of mass adoption or abandonment. If, for example, the U.S. government were to switch to a 100% reserve gold standard, backing all money with gold, its value would increase enormously. The same would happen to Bitcoin if even 1% of the global economy were to use it. But once such a currency finds its market value, prices will stabilize, and with Bitcoin will have a benign tendency to rise with increases in the supply of goods. TL;DR: Deflation, in its harmful sense, means the destruction of money, and this is not what happens with gold and Bitcoin.

explainlikeimfive

t5_2sokd

c87xty4

First of all, you have a misunderstanding of deflation. Deflation in the original, rational sense of that word as a harmful economic phenomenon and a symptom of depressions, means a decrease in the supply of money . This can only happen in a fractional reserve banking system, since when such a bank goes under, checks written upon its reserves loose all value and money is effectively destroyed. The increase in the value of money, in contrast, when it is caused by an increase in the supply of goods , and not a decrease in the supply of money, is not harmful. In fact, it is a great benefit to everyone in the economy. As long as improves one's own productive ability in proportion with the rise in the productivity of the economy as a whole, one's position is better off because, while one now earns $5 an hour instead of $10 an hour, this $5 now buys more goods than the $10 did, because of the increase in wealth. Neither is such increase in the value of money (caused by increase in the supply of goods) beneficial to creditors and harmful to debtors. So long as those debtors continue to improve their productivity in proportion with the whole economy (i.e. if 5% more goods are produced, they themselves produce 5% more), the increase in the value of money will be matched by the increase in their wealth. It is only if they lag behind in productive ability that they lag behind in relative wealth, but this is as it should be because it transfers wealth to those who are improving their productive ability at a greater than proportional rate. (Incidentally, this is why farmers in the late 19th century U.S. agitated for inflation—they were debtors who were not keeping up with the economy's increases in productivity. Their being put of business is what allowed the country to move from an agrarian to an industrial economy.) Debtors are only ruined by actual deflation —destruction of money—which, as I said, is caused by the failure of banks in a fractional reserve system. In such a situation, without there being any more goods, a $500 debt suddenly takes on a $1000 value, causing more banks to fail and potentially collapsing the whole fractional reserve system driving all debtors to bankruptcy. (If you want to use the words "deflation" and "inflation" as many people do nowadays, to mean increases and decreases in the value of money, rather than the supply of money, you must then think about "good deflation"—increases in value brought about by increases in the supply of goods—vs. "bad deflation"—increases in value brought about by decreases in the supply of money. This is a conceptual disaster.) Second, while there was a significant increase in the supply of gold resulting from such gold rushes, averaged over time it was much less than the inflation rate of the most responsible government today. Since gold is a commodity, it tends to be produced in greater quantities only insofar as everything else is produced in greater quantities, because of improvements in technology, resulting in a stable price. Nevertheless, I admit that this is an advantage Bitcoins have over gold. Third, while a small number of Bitcoins may be accidentally lost, this rate would be very small if they were used enough to be extremely valuable and would not be a significant source of deflation. As I have already explained, the increase in their value caused by more goods being traded in a Bitcoin economy does not represent deflation. To the extent that it does affect people's spending patterns, it encourages saving—the investment of money in enterprises that will return more money than is put in—over consumption—the purchase of goods that do not pay for themselves. The effect of this is to increase the amount of wealth in the economy, which comes from production, not consumption. Fourth, the actual total quantity of Bitcoins or of gold is irrelevant . 1 Bitcoin could power an economy of 3 people or 3 quadrillion people. This is because Bitcoins (and gold, through the use of paper/digital currency) can be subdivided indefinitely. (In the case of gold, I suppose, this would technically apply only down to the atomic level.) There is absolutely no need for the money to "grow with its userbase". All that must be done is that people move from trading in denominations of 1 Bitcoin, or 1/10 of one Bitcoin, to denominations of 1/1000 or 1/1,000,000 of one Bitcoin. Of course, any currency's value will not be stable during a process of mass adoption or abandonment. If, for example, the U.S. government were to switch to a 100% reserve gold standard, backing all money with gold, its value would increase enormously. The same would happen to Bitcoin if even 1% of the global economy were to use it. But once such a currency finds its market value, prices will stabilize, and with Bitcoin will have a benign tendency to rise with increases in the supply of goods.

Deflation, in its harmful sense, means the destruction of money, and this is not what happens with gold and Bitcoin.

Bronan_the_Brobarian

Speaking of Piece of Mind, To Tame a Land has such a great intro. I despise the verses though. Then when it transitions to the second section about 3 minutes in, it's better again, the guitar solos are pretty sweet. But that first section it like the Invaders Chorus to me. TL;DR Revelations is the most beautiful song ever written, Still Life comes close

Speaking of Piece of Mind, To Tame a Land has such a great intro. I despise the verses though. Then when it transitions to the second section about 3 minutes in, it's better again, the guitar solos are pretty sweet. But that first section it like the Invaders Chorus to me. TL;DR Revelations is the most beautiful song ever written, Still Life comes close

Metal

t5_2qhud

c886mnb

Speaking of Piece of Mind, To Tame a Land has such a great intro. I despise the verses though. Then when it transitions to the second section about 3 minutes in, it's better again, the guitar solos are pretty sweet. But that first section it like the Invaders Chorus to me.

Revelations is the most beautiful song ever written, Still Life comes close

munch112000

How bout no... and go fuck yourself? You're on the internet pussy. If you cant handle it, then go cry to someone who cares. You must not be very headstrong in your decisions if you regret something you did to yourself. Obviously I have thought about this. Hence the reason I am asking for a specific tattoo. The artist didnt wanna fuck it up and draw something I didnt want, so I was reaching out to the zelda tat community to see if they had any cool drawings of an 8 bit triforce. tl;dr Just get lost pussy.

How bout no... and go fuck yourself? You're on the internet pussy. If you cant handle it, then go cry to someone who cares. You must not be very headstrong in your decisions if you regret something you did to yourself. Obviously I have thought about this. Hence the reason I am asking for a specific tattoo. The artist didnt wanna fuck it up and draw something I didnt want, so I was reaching out to the zelda tat community to see if they had any cool drawings of an 8 bit triforce. tl;dr Just get lost pussy.

zelda

t5_2r61g

c889gyx

How bout no... and go fuck yourself? You're on the internet pussy. If you cant handle it, then go cry to someone who cares. You must not be very headstrong in your decisions if you regret something you did to yourself. Obviously I have thought about this. Hence the reason I am asking for a specific tattoo. The artist didnt wanna fuck it up and draw something I didnt want, so I was reaching out to the zelda tat community to see if they had any cool drawings of an 8 bit triforce.

Just get lost pussy.

aliensaredissapoint

Imo you should stick with some easy supports for now like lich,lion and try to learn from your teammates or enemies (or just from the overall match),try and remember what skills the heroes have and what they can do with those.Dota (and all things for that matter) is basically a trial and error thing,you learn from your mistakes,but to not get flamed and all,try and learn from 1-2 mistakes. Go from 2-3 heroes and add from that,i dont think all random is a good idea,you will get overwhelmed with information and nothing will stick in the long term. TL;DR-go lich support for now,dont hit your creeps at all,let the carry hero do that (unless they are hitting your tower) ,just sacrifice them for mana non stop (3rd skill) and harass the enemy heroes with your 1st skill,so you act like a babysitter for your laning partner;go green boots (tranquil boots) and heal yourself if needed,you will have infinite mana,and buy a mechasm for the aoe heal,that's it.

Imo you should stick with some easy supports for now like lich,lion and try to learn from your teammates or enemies (or just from the overall match),try and remember what skills the heroes have and what they can do with those.Dota (and all things for that matter) is basically a trial and error thing,you learn from your mistakes,but to not get flamed and all,try and learn from 1-2 mistakes. Go from 2-3 heroes and add from that,i dont think all random is a good idea,you will get overwhelmed with information and nothing will stick in the long term. TL;DR-go lich support for now,dont hit your creeps at all,let the carry hero do that (unless they are hitting your tower) ,just sacrifice them for mana non stop (3rd skill) and harass the enemy heroes with your 1st skill,so you act like a babysitter for your laning partner;go green boots (tranquil boots) and heal yourself if needed,you will have infinite mana,and buy a mechasm for the aoe heal,that's it.

DotA2

t5_2s580

c884y8y

Imo you should stick with some easy supports for now like lich,lion and try to learn from your teammates or enemies (or just from the overall match),try and remember what skills the heroes have and what they can do with those.Dota (and all things for that matter) is basically a trial and error thing,you learn from your mistakes,but to not get flamed and all,try and learn from 1-2 mistakes. Go from 2-3 heroes and add from that,i dont think all random is a good idea,you will get overwhelmed with information and nothing will stick in the long term.

go lich support for now,dont hit your creeps at all,let the carry hero do that (unless they are hitting your tower) ,just sacrifice them for mana non stop (3rd skill) and harass the enemy heroes with your 1st skill,so you act like a babysitter for your laning partner;go green boots (tranquil boots) and heal yourself if needed,you will have infinite mana,and buy a mechasm for the aoe heal,that's it.

Criks

Don't worry about letting down your team. If you lose, your team will be more than happy to find a scapegoat. If that happens to be you, regardless if you deserve it or not, just be aware thar you're not "wasting their time", because you aren't. If they feel like they're wasting their time by losing, it's their own fault for keep playing the game without a 100% winrate. If they'll blame you for the loss, there are to was you can think of it. One would be that you're doing them a favor by keeping their delusion of being perfect alive, or that they're simply morons for blaming you for the loss. Regardless of what you enjoy about this game, losing is part of it. If youo cannot accept that, you have problems, not the guy you accused of being the sole reason for the loss. **TLDR:** Flamers have absolutely no reason to flame/blame and you have all the reasons in the world to ignore them. Unless they are your friends and they're trying to help you improve, in which case you should happily oblige.

Don't worry about letting down your team. If you lose, your team will be more than happy to find a scapegoat. If that happens to be you, regardless if you deserve it or not, just be aware thar you're not "wasting their time", because you aren't. If they feel like they're wasting their time by losing, it's their own fault for keep playing the game without a 100% winrate. If they'll blame you for the loss, there are to was you can think of it. One would be that you're doing them a favor by keeping their delusion of being perfect alive, or that they're simply morons for blaming you for the loss. Regardless of what you enjoy about this game, losing is part of it. If youo cannot accept that, you have problems, not the guy you accused of being the sole reason for the loss. TLDR: Flamers have absolutely no reason to flame/blame and you have all the reasons in the world to ignore them. Unless they are your friends and they're trying to help you improve, in which case you should happily oblige.

DotA2

t5_2s580

c886c6b

Don't worry about letting down your team. If you lose, your team will be more than happy to find a scapegoat. If that happens to be you, regardless if you deserve it or not, just be aware thar you're not "wasting their time", because you aren't. If they feel like they're wasting their time by losing, it's their own fault for keep playing the game without a 100% winrate. If they'll blame you for the loss, there are to was you can think of it. One would be that you're doing them a favor by keeping their delusion of being perfect alive, or that they're simply morons for blaming you for the loss. Regardless of what you enjoy about this game, losing is part of it. If youo cannot accept that, you have problems, not the guy you accused of being the sole reason for the loss.

Flamers have absolutely no reason to flame/blame and you have all the reasons in the world to ignore them. Unless they are your friends and they're trying to help you improve, in which case you should happily oblige.

TomaMask

Actually, the buggy thing is that her 3rd Q cast slams the ground instantly, and the animation of Riven doing a front flip comes later, what isn't supposed to happen. And also when you want to do 3rd Q and fast W, it feels delayed as fuck. **tl;dr** - Riven's 3rd Q cast isn't synced with her model animation.

Actually, the buggy thing is that her 3rd Q cast slams the ground instantly, and the animation of Riven doing a front flip comes later, what isn't supposed to happen. And also when you want to do 3rd Q and fast W, it feels delayed as fuck. tl;dr - Riven's 3rd Q cast isn't synced with her model animation.

leagueoflegends

t5_2rfxx

c88ay6h

Actually, the buggy thing is that her 3rd Q cast slams the ground instantly, and the animation of Riven doing a front flip comes later, what isn't supposed to happen. And also when you want to do 3rd Q and fast W, it feels delayed as fuck.

Riven's 3rd Q cast isn't synced with her model animation.

UmbaDosa

I love my job! It's hard; I work long hours; and some days are really draining. But most days are fun. Many days have amazing moments. I work with incredibly talented teachers who inspire me, and I love my principal. I look forward to faculty meetings and professional development days because I know I am going to learn something new from my colleagues. My students challenge me, inspire me, and some days make me want to run out the door screaming like a lunatic. I care about every student, from the straight A kid who always participates to the kid in the back with the hoodie and the attitude. I have been teaching for 20 years. Not every job I've had has been so rewarding, but I have been fortunate to change districts three times, and each move put me in a better situation. There have been times, especially early in my career, when I was extremely dissatisfied with a boss, or school policies, or my own performance. I think most teachers' careers hit highs and lows, and we have to aspire to a level of professionalism: keeping the focus on the students, keeping the other b.s. outside the classroom, and knowing when we just need to find a new place to work. Please don't get discouraged by what you read here. I think many redditors see this as a safe place post their opinions (and sometimes frustrations) to a group that can empathize. My engineering and accounting friends just never understand the emotional investment I have in my work. They don't quite get how a bad lesson can make me moody over dinner and how a cool new project can keep me babbling on all weekend about how excited I am. They most definitely do not want to hear about my awesome new rubric or how I totally modified tomorrow's assignment for the ELs. ;) Of course, I make them listen anyway. But, it is nice to be able to share some stuff on /r/teachers that I might not tell anyone else. Your post reminds me that there are many new teachers here, and I hope that nothing I post ever discourages a new, enthusiastic teacher. We need you! When you look for a job, try to get a feel for the vibe at the school. In as much as you have a choice where you will be hired, look for a match for your optimism, a place that values and nurtures enthusiasm and is willing to invest in the success of new teachers. TL;DR Love my job; sometimes you have to find a new job; teachers vent here; find a job to match your enthusiasm.

I love my job! It's hard; I work long hours; and some days are really draining. But most days are fun. Many days have amazing moments. I work with incredibly talented teachers who inspire me, and I love my principal. I look forward to faculty meetings and professional development days because I know I am going to learn something new from my colleagues. My students challenge me, inspire me, and some days make me want to run out the door screaming like a lunatic. I care about every student, from the straight A kid who always participates to the kid in the back with the hoodie and the attitude. I have been teaching for 20 years. Not every job I've had has been so rewarding, but I have been fortunate to change districts three times, and each move put me in a better situation. There have been times, especially early in my career, when I was extremely dissatisfied with a boss, or school policies, or my own performance. I think most teachers' careers hit highs and lows, and we have to aspire to a level of professionalism: keeping the focus on the students, keeping the other b.s. outside the classroom, and knowing when we just need to find a new place to work. Please don't get discouraged by what you read here. I think many redditors see this as a safe place post their opinions (and sometimes frustrations) to a group that can empathize. My engineering and accounting friends just never understand the emotional investment I have in my work. They don't quite get how a bad lesson can make me moody over dinner and how a cool new project can keep me babbling on all weekend about how excited I am. They most definitely do not want to hear about my awesome new rubric or how I totally modified tomorrow's assignment for the ELs. ;) Of course, I make them listen anyway. But, it is nice to be able to share some stuff on /r/teachers that I might not tell anyone else. Your post reminds me that there are many new teachers here, and I hope that nothing I post ever discourages a new, enthusiastic teacher. We need you! When you look for a job, try to get a feel for the vibe at the school. In as much as you have a choice where you will be hired, look for a match for your optimism, a place that values and nurtures enthusiasm and is willing to invest in the success of new teachers. TL;DR Love my job; sometimes you have to find a new job; teachers vent here; find a job to match your enthusiasm.

Teachers

t5_2qqcs

c88hb4h

I love my job! It's hard; I work long hours; and some days are really draining. But most days are fun. Many days have amazing moments. I work with incredibly talented teachers who inspire me, and I love my principal. I look forward to faculty meetings and professional development days because I know I am going to learn something new from my colleagues. My students challenge me, inspire me, and some days make me want to run out the door screaming like a lunatic. I care about every student, from the straight A kid who always participates to the kid in the back with the hoodie and the attitude. I have been teaching for 20 years. Not every job I've had has been so rewarding, but I have been fortunate to change districts three times, and each move put me in a better situation. There have been times, especially early in my career, when I was extremely dissatisfied with a boss, or school policies, or my own performance. I think most teachers' careers hit highs and lows, and we have to aspire to a level of professionalism: keeping the focus on the students, keeping the other b.s. outside the classroom, and knowing when we just need to find a new place to work. Please don't get discouraged by what you read here. I think many redditors see this as a safe place post their opinions (and sometimes frustrations) to a group that can empathize. My engineering and accounting friends just never understand the emotional investment I have in my work. They don't quite get how a bad lesson can make me moody over dinner and how a cool new project can keep me babbling on all weekend about how excited I am. They most definitely do not want to hear about my awesome new rubric or how I totally modified tomorrow's assignment for the ELs. ;) Of course, I make them listen anyway. But, it is nice to be able to share some stuff on /r/teachers that I might not tell anyone else. Your post reminds me that there are many new teachers here, and I hope that nothing I post ever discourages a new, enthusiastic teacher. We need you! When you look for a job, try to get a feel for the vibe at the school. In as much as you have a choice where you will be hired, look for a match for your optimism, a place that values and nurtures enthusiasm and is willing to invest in the success of new teachers.

Love my job; sometimes you have to find a new job; teachers vent here; find a job to match your enthusiasm.

OliverSykeshon

Trees and cliffs block vision. This is a vital information you need to know before you place a ward. However, the circle will make most newbies think that they will have vision inside it, while in almost every case this is completely false. The rev wards, in the other hand, DO give vision over the invisible heroes/units even if the trees block the vision, which means that the circle around it is not causing any confusion. tl;dr it's just as fine as it is

Trees and cliffs block vision. This is a vital information you need to know before you place a ward. However, the circle will make most newbies think that they will have vision inside it, while in almost every case this is completely false. The rev wards, in the other hand, DO give vision over the invisible heroes/units even if the trees block the vision, which means that the circle around it is not causing any confusion. tl;dr it's just as fine as it is

HeroesofNewerth

t5_2r497

c88kmvw

Trees and cliffs block vision. This is a vital information you need to know before you place a ward. However, the circle will make most newbies think that they will have vision inside it, while in almost every case this is completely false. The rev wards, in the other hand, DO give vision over the invisible heroes/units even if the trees block the vision, which means that the circle around it is not causing any confusion.

it's just as fine as it is

Kolazeni

So, first, some back story. This girl and I had a fling our sophomore year in high school. I continued to have a crush on her after we broke up within a few weeks (ahh, high school). Shortly after we broke up, she dated a senior for nearly a year. We remained really close friends (I was kind of friend zoned, but I was not overly protective/clingy and we stayed in the same group of friends.) After they broke up, she came crying to me. She fell asleep in my arms that night, and I thought for sure I was in. A few days later, we were sitting in her car, just talking. She ended up telling me that there were quite a few times in her relationship with this guy that she had almost just given up and left him for me. I responded with "Well we could start now." and she replied with "No, we can't. I don't feel that way about you now." Fuck it, met my current girlfriend a year later. **TL;DR: Girl and I had a thing, broke up, after a year she said she almost got back with me during that year, denied me while telling me that.**

So, first, some back story. This girl and I had a fling our sophomore year in high school. I continued to have a crush on her after we broke up within a few weeks (ahh, high school). Shortly after we broke up, she dated a senior for nearly a year. We remained really close friends (I was kind of friend zoned, but I was not overly protective/clingy and we stayed in the same group of friends.) After they broke up, she came crying to me. She fell asleep in my arms that night, and I thought for sure I was in. A few days later, we were sitting in her car, just talking. She ended up telling me that there were quite a few times in her relationship with this guy that she had almost just given up and left him for me. I responded with "Well we could start now." and she replied with "No, we can't. I don't feel that way about you now." Fuck it, met my current girlfriend a year later. TL;DR: Girl and I had a thing, broke up, after a year she said she almost got back with me during that year, denied me while telling me that.

AskReddit

t5_2qh1i

c88ibpd

So, first, some back story. This girl and I had a fling our sophomore year in high school. I continued to have a crush on her after we broke up within a few weeks (ahh, high school). Shortly after we broke up, she dated a senior for nearly a year. We remained really close friends (I was kind of friend zoned, but I was not overly protective/clingy and we stayed in the same group of friends.) After they broke up, she came crying to me. She fell asleep in my arms that night, and I thought for sure I was in. A few days later, we were sitting in her car, just talking. She ended up telling me that there were quite a few times in her relationship with this guy that she had almost just given up and left him for me. I responded with "Well we could start now." and she replied with "No, we can't. I don't feel that way about you now." Fuck it, met my current girlfriend a year later.

Girl and I had a thing, broke up, after a year she said she almost got back with me during that year, denied me while telling me that.

suziecrabgrass

I had a huge crush on a shy guy in high school. We were barely friends, never moved past that. Almost four years later, I see him in the parking garage of my university. Turns out he just transferred. I was dating someone else at the time, but we started talking again randomly on Facebook. My boyfriend broke up with me, and I start talking to Shy Guy more often. He gave me his number and texted me every night for two weeks. We finally hung out, he introduced me to all of his friends, and even put his arm around me when we were with them. One night, after watching movies at his house, we kissed. After that, we started sending flirtier texts, kissing more often, and I was really excited. Like I said, I've liked this guy since high school. Anyway, my ex-boyfriend started a lot of drama and I had to deal with that for a while, but I didn't mention it to Shy Guy. Ex-boyfriend drama ended, and I started thinking about how I was not ready for another serious relationship, but I would still really want to be friends with Shy Guy. All of a sudden Shy Guy stopped talking to me, and wouldn't return my texts. I finally texted him and asked if he hated me and what I did wrong. He explained that he's still in love with some girl he's liked "for forever." He said he thought we'd start dating, and that he didn't want to go down that road, so he started ignoring me. He apologized, I forgave him, and tried to explain that I really enjoy hanging out with him and still want to be friends. He said he needed time. Haven't talked to him since. **TL;DR: Guy I've liked since high school suddenly starts talking to me again after four years. He makes all the first moves, seems to be really serious, then stops talking to me and says he's in love with someone else.**

I had a huge crush on a shy guy in high school. We were barely friends, never moved past that. Almost four years later, I see him in the parking garage of my university. Turns out he just transferred. I was dating someone else at the time, but we started talking again randomly on Facebook. My boyfriend broke up with me, and I start talking to Shy Guy more often. He gave me his number and texted me every night for two weeks. We finally hung out, he introduced me to all of his friends, and even put his arm around me when we were with them. One night, after watching movies at his house, we kissed. After that, we started sending flirtier texts, kissing more often, and I was really excited. Like I said, I've liked this guy since high school. Anyway, my ex-boyfriend started a lot of drama and I had to deal with that for a while, but I didn't mention it to Shy Guy. Ex-boyfriend drama ended, and I started thinking about how I was not ready for another serious relationship, but I would still really want to be friends with Shy Guy. All of a sudden Shy Guy stopped talking to me, and wouldn't return my texts. I finally texted him and asked if he hated me and what I did wrong. He explained that he's still in love with some girl he's liked "for forever." He said he thought we'd start dating, and that he didn't want to go down that road, so he started ignoring me. He apologized, I forgave him, and tried to explain that I really enjoy hanging out with him and still want to be friends. He said he needed time. Haven't talked to him since. TL;DR: Guy I've liked since high school suddenly starts talking to me again after four years. He makes all the first moves, seems to be really serious, then stops talking to me and says he's in love with someone else.

AskReddit

t5_2qh1i

c88iczn

I had a huge crush on a shy guy in high school. We were barely friends, never moved past that. Almost four years later, I see him in the parking garage of my university. Turns out he just transferred. I was dating someone else at the time, but we started talking again randomly on Facebook. My boyfriend broke up with me, and I start talking to Shy Guy more often. He gave me his number and texted me every night for two weeks. We finally hung out, he introduced me to all of his friends, and even put his arm around me when we were with them. One night, after watching movies at his house, we kissed. After that, we started sending flirtier texts, kissing more often, and I was really excited. Like I said, I've liked this guy since high school. Anyway, my ex-boyfriend started a lot of drama and I had to deal with that for a while, but I didn't mention it to Shy Guy. Ex-boyfriend drama ended, and I started thinking about how I was not ready for another serious relationship, but I would still really want to be friends with Shy Guy. All of a sudden Shy Guy stopped talking to me, and wouldn't return my texts. I finally texted him and asked if he hated me and what I did wrong. He explained that he's still in love with some girl he's liked "for forever." He said he thought we'd start dating, and that he didn't want to go down that road, so he started ignoring me. He apologized, I forgave him, and tried to explain that I really enjoy hanging out with him and still want to be friends. He said he needed time. Haven't talked to him since.

Guy I've liked since high school suddenly starts talking to me again after four years. He makes all the first moves, seems to be really serious, then stops talking to me and says he's in love with someone else.

macneib

I'll just add a bit here, Yongsan Electronics market is one of the best places to go if you want to roll your own PC. There are some really good deals if you are mindful of the product codes and prices. Joyzen, joyzen.co.kr is my 'go to' for base price checks and I usually work out from there. Don't buy anything online, you can probably get it cheaper on site at yongsan. I grabbed a pair of Chenbro 2U chassis both with redundant power supplies for 99,000 each. Price check that in the west... probably $200 without PSU. For a moment, I felt like I was buying hot items but it turns out they were just off lease units and they were clearing inventory. tl;dr: Go to Yongsan...

I'll just add a bit here, Yongsan Electronics market is one of the best places to go if you want to roll your own PC. There are some really good deals if you are mindful of the product codes and prices. Joyzen, joyzen.co.kr is my 'go to' for base price checks and I usually work out from there. Don't buy anything online, you can probably get it cheaper on site at yongsan. I grabbed a pair of Chenbro 2U chassis both with redundant power supplies for 99,000 each. Price check that in the west... probably $200 without PSU. For a moment, I felt like I was buying hot items but it turns out they were just off lease units and they were clearing inventory. tl;dr: Go to Yongsan...

korea

t5_2qiog

c8ap3qh

I'll just add a bit here, Yongsan Electronics market is one of the best places to go if you want to roll your own PC. There are some really good deals if you are mindful of the product codes and prices. Joyzen, joyzen.co.kr is my 'go to' for base price checks and I usually work out from there. Don't buy anything online, you can probably get it cheaper on site at yongsan. I grabbed a pair of Chenbro 2U chassis both with redundant power supplies for 99,000 each. Price check that in the west... probably $200 without PSU. For a moment, I felt like I was buying hot items but it turns out they were just off lease units and they were clearing inventory.

Go to Yongsan...

TsuKiyoMe

It's not a matter of dethroning them. It's just that for some of us like Ryko and myself, that amount of money is a lot to throw down to take a gamble on. So think about it this way: Winter Brawl is going to run you like... $30 by train to get from New York to Philly, both ways in the best case. The Venue fee is $40. The entrance fee is $10. Then you have to consider housing/hotels and what not. That's going to run you about $20~30 to buy into someone's room if you're lucky. So in the BEST case you're out $110 just to play in the PSABR tournament at Winter Brawl. And the payout will not in any sort of way cover your cost of travel unless you take first with at least like 24 teams playing in it...and the profit line then is very minimal. It's not like Marvel where winning is a few hundred/thousand dollars and you get all the swag prizing on top of it like a stick/headphones. This is basically a side tournament for a game that isn't going to have a lot of entrants. You basically are by default a pot monster unless you know for sure a large amount of people are going and you are fairly sure you can beat every last one of them. That's fine. Whatever... just for two working adults, the time and effort isn't compensated enough. **tl;dr: I'm not paying $100+ to prove I'm good at a game when I can prove the same thing online and keep that extra $100 for groceries, clothes, etc.**

It's not a matter of dethroning them. It's just that for some of us like Ryko and myself, that amount of money is a lot to throw down to take a gamble on. So think about it this way: Winter Brawl is going to run you like... $30 by train to get from New York to Philly, both ways in the best case. The Venue fee is $40. The entrance fee is $10. Then you have to consider housing/hotels and what not. That's going to run you about $20~30 to buy into someone's room if you're lucky. So in the BEST case you're out $110 just to play in the PSABR tournament at Winter Brawl. And the payout will not in any sort of way cover your cost of travel unless you take first with at least like 24 teams playing in it...and the profit line then is very minimal. It's not like Marvel where winning is a few hundred/thousand dollars and you get all the swag prizing on top of it like a stick/headphones. This is basically a side tournament for a game that isn't going to have a lot of entrants. You basically are by default a pot monster unless you know for sure a large amount of people are going and you are fairly sure you can beat every last one of them. That's fine. Whatever... just for two working adults, the time and effort isn't compensated enough. tl;dr: I'm not paying $100+ to prove I'm good at a game when I can prove the same thing online and keep that extra $100 for groceries, clothes, etc.

psbattleroyale

t5_2u04g

c897td6

It's not a matter of dethroning them. It's just that for some of us like Ryko and myself, that amount of money is a lot to throw down to take a gamble on. So think about it this way: Winter Brawl is going to run you like... $30 by train to get from New York to Philly, both ways in the best case. The Venue fee is $40. The entrance fee is $10. Then you have to consider housing/hotels and what not. That's going to run you about $20~30 to buy into someone's room if you're lucky. So in the BEST case you're out $110 just to play in the PSABR tournament at Winter Brawl. And the payout will not in any sort of way cover your cost of travel unless you take first with at least like 24 teams playing in it...and the profit line then is very minimal. It's not like Marvel where winning is a few hundred/thousand dollars and you get all the swag prizing on top of it like a stick/headphones. This is basically a side tournament for a game that isn't going to have a lot of entrants. You basically are by default a pot monster unless you know for sure a large amount of people are going and you are fairly sure you can beat every last one of them. That's fine. Whatever... just for two working adults, the time and effort isn't compensated enough.

I'm not paying $100+ to prove I'm good at a game when I can prove the same thing online and keep that extra $100 for groceries, clothes, etc.

accolay

RECAP: 14 or 15 year old OP gave about $3000 of savings (allowance money from parents) to "day trader" dad to invest and they didn't have any understanding of what they were investing in. They lost most of it and obviously the 14yo OP feels entitled to the allowance money that was lost. Dad offers to repay OP, and OP is happy happy to get allowance money back. tl;dr spoiled 14 year olds are the worst people in the world.

RECAP: 14 or 15 year old OP gave about $3000 of savings (allowance money from parents) to "day trader" dad to invest and they didn't have any understanding of what they were investing in. They lost most of it and obviously the 14yo OP feels entitled to the allowance money that was lost. Dad offers to repay OP, and OP is happy happy to get allowance money back. tl;dr spoiled 14 year olds are the worst people in the world.

personalfinance

t5_2qstm

c8990yt

RECAP: 14 or 15 year old OP gave about $3000 of savings (allowance money from parents) to "day trader" dad to invest and they didn't have any understanding of what they were investing in. They lost most of it and obviously the 14yo OP feels entitled to the allowance money that was lost. Dad offers to repay OP, and OP is happy happy to get allowance money back.

spoiled 14 year olds are the worst people in the world.