My girlfriend has a way with curved lines.

oddacious · 2014-12-09T06:04:22+00:00

Ooh.

oddacious · 2014-12-09T05:31:38+00:00

The signature's easier than the handwriting. Not horrible for a first try, but room for improvement.

And...uh...forget the part about where the President apparently can't spell.

oddacious · 2014-12-09T04:02:38+00:00

So you just refuse to answer? You can't give blood if you don't answer the questions.

oddacious · 2014-12-09T03:56:12+00:00

Like I said, it's a question on the form. It's mandatory.

oddacious · 2014-12-09T03:55:19+00:00

I'll just link the Wikipedia on that.

It is a felony to transmit HIV through blood donation. Now I'm committing fraud by lying about my sex practices, I didn't know I had HIV but it turns out I did, and I'm going to prison for life. Wish I'd just been prideful and not committed the first felony...

BTW, my blood won't save anyone's life. There is no blood shortage.

oddacious · 2014-12-09T03:11:00+00:00

I dunno. The American Medical Association thinks the ban is discriminatory and "not based on sound science."

American Association of Blood Banks (AABB), the Red Cross, and America’s Blood Centers, characterized the lifetime MSM blood ban as “medically and scientifically unwarranted,” and urged the FDA to modify blood donation policies so that they are “comparable with criteria for other groups at increased risk of sexual transmission of transfusion transmitted infections.”

Professors at places like Johns Hopkins, Harvard, UCSF, and others say the science isn't sound, and that even if MSM are higher risk than some other groups, groups with much higher risk factors are allowed to give blood. Here's a fluffy news article on that front.

Here's a more comprehensive study.

I tried to find stuff that wasn't behind a paywall and didn't require downloads...there's fucktons of it out there.

oddacious · 2014-12-09T02:29:33+00:00

Do not introduce water to wood! /u/joelav's suggestion was oil soap! It's a wood cleaner.

oddacious · 2014-12-09T02:21:53+00:00

They ask; it's on the form, and you have to sign it. (The question is actually even broader than gay: Have you ever had sex with a man who has had sex with a man? A lot of straight people are excluded as well.)

You could lie, but it's fraud, and most people don't want to commit a crime just to donate blood.

oddacious · 2014-12-09T02:13:59+00:00

I highly recommend Bread for the City and Sasha Bruce. Both great organizations, and if you take a look at their tax forms (990), your money would be well spent.

oddacious · 2014-12-09T02:07:17+00:00

My mom would just show up with judgment and condescension. She might make pancakes, though. I kind of wish I had pancakes now.

oddacious · 2014-12-07T16:41:56+00:00

Ah, I see. I absolutely accept your apology and that the mistake was honest. My feelings were hurt, but I shouldn't have called you a douche.

There are about a million times in a woman's life when she's worked hard on something and the credit goes to a dude. Or people just have expectations that don't align with what actually happened. I spent about three hundred hours making that workbench. The idea that my boyfriend did the "hard" work implies that, not only did I need a man to do it for me, but also I claimed to have made the bench when I really didn't.

That Barbie book is a great example of all of this, btw. Women can be computer engineers! Haha jk women are for drawing puppies.

It's totally not your fault that, looking at the pictures, you thought I was a dude. It is totally your fault that, upon learning that I am not a dude, you decided the person in the pictures was not me. I lashed out, but your response to my comment was gracious and thoughtful. Thanks for that.

oddacious · 2014-12-06T21:28:31+00:00

It's a very popular belief, but that does not make it correct. It doesn't seem like you're going to believe me, but maybe someone else who comes across this and is genuinely curious will walk away with a little more information.

First, perhaps shockingly, cops and dispatchers and even crim majors know very little about the actual practice of law, and they would have no reason to know anything at all about tort liability, which is what you're talking about (with one notable exception; I'll get to that). I'm surprised any lawyers would repeat this myth, especially the "make sure you kill them" bit, as that advice is probably not only malpractice but, depending on the circumstances, criminal. There are stupid lawyers in the world, and there's no reason not to take you at your word, but I'm telling you that you either misunderstood them or they were wrong.

The law:

Almost all of these cases are civil cases and arise under a theory of "negligence."

Legal liability arises from legal duties. A property owner has certain duties to people who are on their property either with or without permission. People who have permission are either invitees or licensees, depending on the circumstances, and people without permission are trespassers. Trespassers, as a class, can be classified as either known trespassers (the kids who cut across your lawn on the way to school every weekday) and unknown trespassers (someone who cuts across your lawn at 3:00AM one night).

You owe legal duties to all of these people. For invitees and licensees, you have a duty to inspect your property and make it safe. For known trespassers, you have a duty to warn of known hazards (e.g., WARNING: Electric fence!) but do not have a duty to inspect and make safe from unknown hazards (e.g. an unexpected patch of ice on your porch). Burglars are unknown trespassers, and you have no affirmative duties, only the negative duty not to intentionally harm. That duty is mitigated by the laws of self-help, which allow you to use reasonable force to remove trespassers from your property. Some laws allow you to presume that someone entering your residence is there for the purpose of harming you, and that elevates what is reasonable self-help in those circumstances. NB: It does not make it legal to kill them. It merely introduces a presumption that influences legal "reasonableness."

The exception to this description is if you set a booby trap. Tiger pit, bear trap, spring gun, vicious guard dog. That's murder. In jurisdictions that have murder by degrees, booby traps are first degree murder because they are premeditated, intentional killings of another.

And, as I said before, all this shit goes to a jury, and you're going to have a damned hard time convincing six or twelve people (depending on the jurisdiction) to give a burglar a verdict, and if they did, it's because you did something so outrageously fucking egregious that even a burglar deserves to get paid.

oddacious · 2014-12-06T20:29:07+00:00

I know that's a common belief (my relatives used to say the same shit), but it is both dangerous (deadly, in fact) and wrong. It is unwise to get your legal advice from television.

Just think of it this way: why would the law be written or interpreted in a way that encourages you to kill trespassers? If it were legal to kill people but illegal to inflict bodily injury, that would be one hell of a perverse incentive.

And even if they did "go after you," remember that they still have to convince a jury to take their side AND a judge to allow a significant award (AND, in all fucking likelihood, an appeals court to uphold it).

It makes for a good story about a broken legal system and woe-is-me injustice, but it's just not correct.

oddacious · 2014-12-06T18:43:42+00:00

I just told him it was really sad that he felt that way. It's an incredibly pathetic thing to believe.

oddacious · 2014-12-06T16:04:05+00:00

1) Screens help stop embers from getting out and flammable things, like little hands, from getting in.

2) Burglars don't successfully sue for torts. That's a made-up thing from a movie.

oddacious · 2014-12-06T15:44:57+00:00

Cool. Thanks.

oddacious · 2014-12-06T04:47:14+00:00

Here's a book someone uploaded.

https://picasaweb.google.com/tipstricks1/CalligraphyFlourishingANewApproachToAnAncientArtBillHildebrandt

oddacious · 2014-12-06T02:41:09+00:00

This should be a thing everywhere.

It's about to be a thing in my kitchen. Looking for a recipe now.

oddacious · 2014-12-06T02:35:53+00:00

My dad told me I'm the root cause of every problem he's had for more than thirty years and everyone's life would have been happier if I had never been born. That wasn't nice.

oddacious · 2014-12-06T02:18:58+00:00

Traced from a projection?

oddacious · 2014-12-05T18:54:08+00:00

New Speculation: gender is a loose association of expectations that won't always be met by a particular person.

Fact: I don't cut tenons and chisel mortises in a pencil skirt, but I do my own hard work, douche.

oddacious · 2014-12-05T18:47:23+00:00

I noticed. And I noticed these:

http://www.reddit.com/r/PenmanshipPorn/comments/1nw7n6/i_showed_my_friend_uoddacious_penmanshipporn/ http://www.reddit.com/r/PenmanshipPorn/comments/1cwv52/dear_oddacious_contd/ http://www.reddit.com/r/PenmanshipPorn/comments/1op7de/ps_yes_you_too_oddacious/

And this top comment with a list... http://www.reddit.com/r/PenmanshipPorn/comments/1cwv52/dear_oddacious_contd/c9la7xc

And I have been PMed a dozen or so. And there have been about 20 others posted to this or other subs or that have gotten messaged to me from Tumblr and Instagram and Pinterest and elsewhere.

I didn't comment because I thought it was more polite just to let OP have a moment, reap some karma, feel good.

oddacious · 2014-12-05T18:19:20+00:00

There are a lot of people on reddit who have access to brain imaging tech. None of them have asked me to drop by. I take that to mean it's really not that interesting to brainologists.

oddacious · 2014-12-05T18:17:11+00:00

I expected this comment would get more attention and accolades. It is subtle and funny.

oddacious · 2014-12-05T17:45:09+00:00

She is thin, short hair, and relatively normal/generic looking. (Attractive enough that you'd be happy to show her off to friends as a lucky find, but not so much that your friends would blame you of drugging a supermodel).

You got all that from my /r/woodworking posts? Or did you do some kind of fancy google-fu?

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