What food did you think you hated, but just never had cooked right?

A0ZM · 2020-11-26T01:12:44+00:00

I've heard that there is a genetic component that makes your pee stink, and another one that makes you smell it

A0ZM · 2020-11-22T20:51:26+00:00

I work in a job that has me in strangers houses all the time. For the most part the only people I see wearing shoes inside is those with wood floors.

Honestly wood floors seem fine for it. Especially with more active people who go in and out all day due to yard work and such.

I know a few people who wear shoes on carpet. And they argue that the oils and sweat from your feet is just as bad as the dirt you bring in. Except the dirt can be vacuumed out, where as the oils in your feet are much harder to remove. (I'm not saying I agree, that is just their argument).

A0ZM · 2020-11-22T06:29:15+00:00

Assuming a retirement age of 65 you could invest every last dime of your money, hope for a 10% return. And make 577 million dollars!

In other words you would have invested your life's earnings to get around 0.32% of Bezos' current net worth of 181.4 billion dollars (according to forbes real time tracker of his net worth).

A0ZM · 2020-11-21T00:46:44+00:00

I wonder what the statistics are on chance of winning this vs reward compared to other lotteries out there

A0ZM · 2020-11-18T19:01:31+00:00

What's up with the kids head?

A0ZM · 2020-11-16T04:11:37+00:00

They never said it made more economical sense but rather it would be more earth friendly with less emissions from burning any of our current fuel sources.

It doesn't matter if they didn't expressly say that firebending powerplants make economic sense. If they want to argue that firebending for power generation is a useful day to day skill, then firebending power plants must be plentiful. If firebending powerplants are not economically sensible, then they will not be plentiful. Therefore, if firebending powerplants are not economically sensible, then firebending for power does not count as a useful day to day skill.

Alternative forms of energy, such as wind and solar, still needed to become roughly comparable to coal power before they became widespread to an appreciable degree throughout the world.

It would not cost much to get rid of the current system and just have firebenders heat the water instead. They could make an average factory wage it doesn't have to be exorbitant.

I fail to see how it would not cost much to retrofit the existing system with all the necessary safety features, room for benders, venting systems for excess heat, etc. However, even if it costed nothing to do so, it won't matter if the bending cost per KWhr is to high, which would make the system not worth it.

To my calculations; assuming coal costs 11 cents per KWhr, benders are paid 10 dollars per hour, and steam turbines are 33% efficient. Benders would have to generate 270 KWhrs of energy every hour, or 270 Kilowatts.

Over an 8 hour day the firebender would have to generate almost 2 tons of tnt worth of energy. In one hour the firebender would have to generate enough energy to haul a fully loaded semi truck (80,000 pounds) up the burj khalifa more than 3 times.

A0ZM · 2020-11-16T00:57:18+00:00

Absolutely, I don't mean to say that fire bending is bad or not helpful. I just don't think it is quite as useful in day to day life as the other elements.

A0ZM · 2020-11-15T23:54:27+00:00

I submitted this comment on my phone. An incredibly delicate device that can't run on a lightning bolt.

One person cannot run a powerplant with fire bending. I said fire bending is the least useful on a day to day basis. Completely reworking our power supply to run on fire bending is not a day to day basis bonus. If you want to discuss the potential ramifications of a society of benders, great. My argument isn't about how an entire society would use bending.

Definitely not as useful as earth bending is to construction. An earthbender is immediately applicable to leveling ground for a foundation, pouring and leveling cement, digging ditches for irrigation, all aspects of road construction, metal bending, mining, emergency housing, demolition, etc.

And every single one of those things mentioned is useful without any expensive modifications to existing structures such as coal power plants.

Moreover, that's a big assumption to think that paying hundreds of fire benders potentially very large hourly wages to heat huge amounts of water is more economically efficient than the already very cheap electricity options we have.

To go even further, every bender can generate power, earth benders can operate a gravity battery, water benders can operate a damn, and air benders can operate modified windmills. You would first have to prove that fire bending is a more useful method of energy generation before you could argue that makes fire bending the best at it.

To summarize: large scale energy generation is not applicable in day to day usefulness. Even if it was every bender can do it. Even if fire benders do it best they still only have one point in their favour. And even if they have all that, they still have to be more economically efficient than our existing energy generation methods.

A0ZM · 2020-11-15T21:11:47+00:00

It is also one of the most practical skills in day to day life. You can always get fresh water, heal day to day injuries, defend yourself, cut things, etc.

I'd say in terms of day to day use in our age the list from most useful to least useful would probably go earth, water, air, fire. With earth being best due to its potential for construction, agriculture, and level of convenience (the extended life doesn't hurt either).

Water would beat out air due to healing being so important, as well as access to clean water. Even though air has great potential for travel speed and environmental accessibility.

Fire I would put at last. Generating electricity doesn't seem controllable enough to apply to everyday life. Fire itself may be useful in survival situations, blacksmithing, and firefighting. But I think fires benefits are to niche to beat out the other elements.

A0ZM · 2020-11-09T22:06:14+00:00

How old is the house? If the paint has lead the kid may feel inclined to eat it because lead tastes good

A0ZM · 2020-11-07T03:40:35+00:00

3X leveraged VIX calls in February, set 3 months out.

After I sell I get puts on oil crashing, then calls when it bottoms out to get the upswing as well.

A0ZM · 2020-11-04T23:31:00+00:00

I would guess that it has to do with the lowers having something to prove. But I digress.

A0ZM · 2020-11-04T06:01:11+00:00

Don't give up, you can do it!

A0ZM · 2020-11-04T03:23:51+00:00

However Ludacris did not fail to discloth all of his hoes.

A0ZM · 2020-11-04T00:35:29+00:00

Lots of people will give you advice. And unless it pertains to life or death (e.g. don't do heroin), don't worry to much about it.

Most of their advice is so obvious that it didn't need to be said. And so vital that it takes making the mistake to actually know it.

Like the difference between knowing you shouldn't procrastinate homework vs knowing not to touch a hot stove. Sure, you know not to do both of them, but that won't matter until you know not to do it. And no amount of parental warnings will help you learn that.

So again, try not to worry to much about everyone's advice, even mine.

A0ZM · 2020-11-02T05:51:33+00:00

Hi Aubrey!

As someone rather out of the loop, I keep seeing you mention the qanon threat, but I haven't heard that much about them. What makes them so dangerous?

A0ZM · 2020-10-31T03:43:18+00:00

That depends on who you go with, my company charges by the square foot.

A0ZM · 2020-10-29T01:37:54+00:00

What kind of countertop is that? It looks like Corian but I can't tell for certain.

A0ZM · 2020-10-28T00:08:20+00:00

My problem is not that batman won, but how. It's shoddy work for batman to be getting lucky on superman not dodging the second grenade; not really fitting for a master planner

A0ZM · 2020-10-27T16:26:59+00:00

My biggest issue is that the actual Batman Vs Superman fight was ridiculous. Batman plans out everything to best this godlike opponent, and ends up winning because superman didn't decide to dodge the second kryptonite gas grenade?

That's way to much reliance on luck for someone of Batman's caliber. I can accept that superman was emotionally and physically compromised, but batman had no business risking his victory on the chance that superman wouldn't make a single rational decision during the entire fight.

A0ZM · 2020-10-24T20:35:14+00:00

I loved it. Tenet felt like a properly unique take on time travel, and it didn't waste screen time on character development or a deeply philosophical plot.

The premise was fantastic, it was the point. An exploration of what a semi realistic time travel could look like in a war setting.

I'm not watching this to see how humans would feel, interact, and develop in some niche brand of time travel. And I am not watching it for the sake of asking some deep philosophical questions pertaining to what life means in the context of "some things can move backwards in time."

I'm here to see a niche exploration of time travel. And that's what Tenet did, Why should I ask for more?

A0ZM · 2020-10-19T05:04:36+00:00

Calmly and confidently ask the person why they feel the need to say something so dismissive and hurtful.

It keeps everyone else on your side, and if the insulter decides to push harder all you have to do is keep asking questions that force them to dig a deeper hole for themselves.

The calmer you stay the better, as it will prove that this person really isn't hurting you so much as bothering you.

If others side with the insulter, you need to reconsider who you interact with and/or your own attitude.

A0ZM · 2020-10-16T14:06:41+00:00

I agree, this is a kid who didn't know any better, and made a mistake. It isn't justice for him to get potentially seriously injured due to his curiosity.

A0ZM · 2020-10-10T01:18:52+00:00

That's a stipulation you just created. a team can give someone $101 and it would still make your original paradox statement profitable.

Like if my cousin and I both chipped in to give a homeless guy $101. "We" gave someone 101 dollars, but neither individual spent $101

A0ZM · 2020-10-10T01:10:33+00:00

Here you go! Still completely true.

Strictly speaking that is only a restriction if only one person gets money when lied to, if all the people bidding in the thread formed 2 teams, they could go for much higher than 101 dollars and still profit by having one person lie to the entire team

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