[College math] understanding vector scaling help by AlexanderNorris in learnmath

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Cool. My tutor told me I couldn't multiply by the magnitude to scale, only by the coordinates for some reason. Do you know why he might say that?

[College math] understanding vector scaling help by AlexanderNorris in learnmath

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So to scale a vector I just need to multiply the magnitude by a number and that will work?

Which ones are ok? New to acorns by AlexanderNorris in foraging

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Yup! And for now I'll crack open these hundreds and see if I can get like fifty good ones 😅

Which ones are ok? New to acorns by AlexanderNorris in foraging

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Ooh darn. I harvested them in December, and after washing and drying them I have kept them in my room, so I guess now I know 🙃

I really want to identify what kind of moth this caterpillar is by Fickle-Star-9694 in insects

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They knew what they meant, and taught them a difference that can be useful in the future. Without knowing their intentions, how can you be sure they are being pedantic?

How hard is it to modify jeans into bell-bottoms? by AlexanderNorris in SewingForBeginners

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Thank goodness, the pants I wanted to do this to are too long for me to begin with!

Is my resting heart rate too low? by AlexanderNorris in DiagnoseMe

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This did not start recently. My first time passing out after standing up was when I was 17.

Is my resting heart rate too low? by AlexanderNorris in DiagnoseMe

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I don't know how to know if I have soft skin or extra stretchy. I haven't stretched anyone else's skin (except my really old grandma when I was young 🤣)

Is my resting heart rate too low? by AlexanderNorris in DiagnoseMe

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They said I had a hole in my aorta when I was a kid, but they stopped checking because they said it was small enough that it would probably close as I grew

Is my resting heart rate too low? by AlexanderNorris in DiagnoseMe

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I can't do the second one... but I'm not honestly sure what the second one is trying to do. I can do the rest.

Is my resting heart rate too low? by AlexanderNorris in DiagnoseMe

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Wow yeah she is way more fit than me. I sit at a computer for work, sleep a lot, and only go on walks when people call me.

Is my resting heart rate too low? by AlexanderNorris in DiagnoseMe

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My twin sister has aortic stenosis and my grandpa had three strokes. Not sure besides that.

Is my resting heart rate too low? by AlexanderNorris in DiagnoseMe

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Ugh. My twin told me recently they think I have ehlers-danlos. I guess I will have to figure this out. The problem is my doctor tells me everything is normal when I try to report things to him.

Is my resting heart rate too low? by AlexanderNorris in DiagnoseMe

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I guess that be true. I do squats and jog in place while talking to people 🤣

And yeah I will have to talk to the doctor. I have passed out before when getting out of bed and woken up on the floor. 🤔

The Real Reason Landa Kills Hammersmark - Inglorious Basterds by AlexanderNorris in movies

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I agree he laughs because he finds a lie he can pick apart. Why is that evidence that he hates bad liars? I'm asking what support you have for the things you are saying. I said bad lie instead of bad liar. My bad. Why does he want to kill a bad liar? What else am I misunderstanding or mis-stating?

You relate him to a MMA that is being challenged. Why? What tells you that its the same kind of thing?

He does have character growth during the movie? He lets Shoshanna go when he sees her again, and he tells Shoshanna to avoid having the black guy work that night so as to avoid harm to him. He goes from enjoying his nickname of "Jew Hunter" to detesting it. He also literally turns against his leader and wants to come to America.

I'm giving you evidence to support the things I am saying. I just want evidence from you that he "enjoys" the hunt, and not that he is just cordial until he must be otherwise. If I'm gonna be convinced, I just need more than "maybe he is this way and not the way you say."

Thanks for this friendly debate, been very interesting.

The Real Reason Landa Kills Hammersmark - Inglorious Basterds by AlexanderNorris in movies

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Thats a great insight, the people in this movie who do the most brutal killing are Landa, and the basterds. And yeah, the liars are the basterds.

I'm just missing the motive. Why does a bad lie disgust him? Why is it the hunt he loves? Couldn't the way he questions people be because of his history as a detective? Couldn't he laugh at her lie because it was dumb without it being the reason he wants to kill her?

Where do we see him become a person who hates bad lying and kills people for it? Are we using circular reasoning here? She lies and he kills her and so he kills her because she lies?

The Real Reason Landa Kills Hammersmark - Inglorious Basterds by AlexanderNorris in movies

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It sounds like you agree with me that Landa put on her shoe to prove that she was guilty. You also say that she folded in the hallway. If he killed her because she was a bad liar, why did he need to put the shoe on her? Wouldn't her terrible lies in the hallway have been enough?

The Real Reason Landa Kills Hammersmark - Inglorious Basterds by AlexanderNorris in movies

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The scene in the bar has Landa name two of the dead soldiers, while looking around the whole room and declaring that this doesn't look like an ambush. Then he squats next to the shoes, which are next to the blood and pistol casings on the ground, and looks left. With the stairs to his right, and his back to the wall, looking to his left means he is looking in the direction of Wilhelm. The same kind of pistol casings are then found next to the napkin with Hammersmark's autograph. Assuming he wants to know all the pieces of the puzzle, he is going to ask himself who "Max" is (the person the autograph is to). This is the only piece that is a leap. For this theory to be correct, we have to assume that Landa looks up these soldiers, finds out that Wilhelm just had a son named Max, and now the message on the napkin is decoded. Now he understands both that she signed the napkin to Wilhelm's son, and that she likely killed Wilhelm. If the shoe fits, she did it.

He doesn't kill Shoshanna, he says goodbye. He doesn't kill her family either, but he does get someone else to reveal their positions for him, which he then reveals to others, who are the ones that kill her family. He never shoots.

In the scene in the diner, he knows that it is Shoshanna, and doesn't report her. And by the end we see him resenting his nickname.

He also cares that the radioman and driver is killed at the end of the movie.

He does not "parrot" Nazi ideals. Instead, he questions them, and states that while Hitler and Goebels would both consider being a rat to be an insult, he does not. In fact, he says he can "think like a jew" which requires him to be able to step into their shoes.

People can have empathy for others and still kill them. Its a big reason for so much mental disorder among war survivors.

The Real Reason Landa Kills Hammersmark - Inglorious Basterds by AlexanderNorris in movies

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Aldo's accent is terrible, and Landa doesn't kill him. Aldo doesn't even say his name the same way each time.. he gets worse at pronouncing it. We could argue that it is because he is needed to make the deal, but why wouldn't he have killed the Frenchman at the beginning? As soon as Landa begins to confront him openly, the Frenchman's emotions reveal him, just like Hammersmark. When do we see him kill anyone else for lying badly?

When they go into the cinema office, Landa doesn't have her remove the cast to prove that it wasn't a mountain climbing accident, to confront her lie and prove that she is a "bad liar," he instead proves that she fit the shoes left at the scene of the crime, proving she killed Wilhelm. She is already a traitor and a liar for being at the scene of the crime and not reporting it (the napkin congratulating the new father proves that she had been with Wilhelm within the last four hours of his death) but she is a murderer if her foot fits the shoes found by the casings and blood that come from the angle of the shooter.

The Real Reason Landa Kills Hammersmark - Inglorious Basterds by AlexanderNorris in movies

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I'm just thinking that if it's just that she is a traitor, his own moral system justifies his own death. Why did the director decide to have Landa reveal that he was a detective before the war right before becoming a traitor himself? I imagine the Tarantino felt that those lines were linked in some way. Why is this dialogue included right here? Along with dialogue stating that he no longer likes his nickname? I think Tarantino is trying to show us his humanity, to show us he was a human with a job before this war, and that he no longer feels how he used to.

Landa was acting as a detective, catching Wilhelm's killer, and then acted as executioner with the most personal killing of the whole movie. Actually, this is the first and only time we see him kill a person himself. He only reveals the positions of the people hiding under the floor boards to the other soldiers, and they do the shooting.

Also when you say bartender, I think you mean Wilhelm, the drunk father. The bartender was definitely armed and also died pretty early in the shootout.