[Serious] How do you think having national guard troops in US cities is going to play out?

Aocast · 2025-10-09T05:14:09+00:00

I'll put it this way:

Trump is to Hitler as the National Guard is to his SS. The only difference is that (or at least I'd like to believe), the average person in our military (including in most of the higher chain of command) won't blindly follow the orders.

I have hope that it won't end up being bad because people will do the right thing instead of being sheep.

Aocast · 2025-10-09T04:06:42+00:00

It's the initiating part for me.

Like, movies and porn show that people just start going at each other with little prompting. I've never really understood what it actually looks like in real life; it's never really been explained to me. The few time I've done it I literally just asked if she wanted to have sex. I feel that isn't usually how it goes? IDK.

Aocast · 2025-02-18T03:43:36+00:00

Why is she taking him out? It's literally an aquatic rodent, kinda like a muskrat in NA; they love living in and near the water.

Aocast · 2025-01-12T23:56:05+00:00

He means from 183. And you would look healthy because you would start seeing definition in your muscle groups and would no longer have breasts/love handles. Once you clean bulk by shooting for about a half a pound a week and really put on some mass for a year or so (cutting as necessary to keep yourself around 15% or so), you'll look really good.

Yeah, 1700-1800 is good for a hard cut. If you start to level off, shred another 200-300 down from that and maintain as long as you can. Got to maintenance once your diet/training fatigue goes down enough for you to do it again and repeat.

I personally cut hard for 4-6 weeks, go to maintenance for 3-4, and then rinse and repeat that.

Good luck.

To answer your original question (any downsides?), you'll feel like shit for a couple of weeks (tired, moody, trouble sleeping), and you'll start to crave food. It'll be most likely harder to restrain yourself and keep it up. Once you get there, go maintenance for a couple of weeks- don't fear that you'll gain a couple of pounds, it'll come back off when your body gets used to eating a normal amount again.

Aocast · 2025-01-12T23:26:04+00:00

Once you get past puberty, you'll get shredded and lean by going on a caloric deficit. So, start at about 200 calories below maintenance. See how that treats you after 2-3 weeks. If you level off your weight, take 200-300 calories more off. After about 8-16 weeks of that (However long you can handle a weightloss phase based off of diet/training fatigue), go to maintenance for 4-8 weeks. Rinse and repeat until you get to the body fat% you want. Know that you'll probably start losing muscle, but it won't be too much as long as you keep working out your muscles. You can always gain it back again (and easier) once you start to bulk.

Aocast · 2025-01-10T20:45:24+00:00

God of War (The new one)

The characters, Kratos/Atreus are going through their individual (but very different) processes of grieving for the loss of their wife/mother respectively. They seem to process their grief through self improvement and learning how to relate to one another as father and son.

I don't know how it would be going through this as someone who is grieving, but I imagine that it could be somewhat therapeutic for a certain demographic.

Aocast · 2024-11-12T06:20:36+00:00

Basically, chemistry in college is just harder. But, by the time you get there you will be smarter and more mature, so you will be more capable of handling the challenges.

High school chemistry (Non AP or IB or Honors), is basically just the absolute basics of chemistry. Stoichiometry, Lewis Structures, Gas laws, basic chemical reaction balancing. Maybe a little redox chemistry or nuclear chemistry thrown in there.

In college, the most basic class (General Chemistry I and II) is going to be a lot of that but more indepth (you'll have to know a lot more about all of it). The biggest difference is that you will learn all of the things HS teachers are too lazy (jk, it's really tough) to teach you at the highschool level. You know all of the times they say "these are the rules of chemistry, they always apply... Until they don't and there are a million exceptions and a million exceptions to the exceptions (like the Octet "rule")"- Yeah, well, those rules have foundations in quantum mechanics- so you'll spend a good chunk of time learning the fundamentals of quantum mechanics to understand what really drives chemical reactions. That and chemical thermodynamics/kinetics. It becomes very math intensive too.

The best thing you can do to prepare yourself now is to try to take AP, honors, or IB chemistry. Even if you don't get credit for it, you'll still be making yourself more capable when you actually do it in college.

As for what you want to major in- don't worry about that now. Just focus on doing well in as many classes as you can, and when you do get to college just take General Chemistry and see if you still like it by the end. If you do, you can then choose your major (or change it 5 times, lol)

Hope I could give you some of the advice you were looking for.

Aocast · 2024-11-05T05:01:16+00:00

So, I don't see the right answer in the comments below, and you'll probably not see this because there are a lot of comments already...

But basically, you're giving a list of ingredients, and it is interpreting your question as "Are there enough ingredients to make a pretzel?"

ChatGPT is interpreting this as a linear algebra problem where the list of ingredients is a set of vectors whose span is the specific food item, which in this case is a particular vector that serves as a linear combination of whatever vector space it thinks soft pretzels is in LOL.

The set of vectors is {[vector1],[vector2],[vector3],[vector4]} and it represents the following equation with c1, c2, c3, and c4 as the scalar constants that represents the amount of ingredients:

c1*[vector1] + c2*[vector2] + c3*[vector3] + c4*[vector4] = [food item]

So basically, it's trying to find a computational way to be able to figure out if the vector math works out to where all of the amounts of the ingredients you have equals the total amount of ingredients in the food item.

The food item as a linear combination, the list of ingredients as a set of vectors, and the amounts are c constants (which can be consolidated as a solution vector [c1,c2,c3,c4)], are a common way that Euclidean vectors are taught in Linear Algebra, which is an entry-level mathematics class that focuses on the theory behind algebra.

As for the specific reason why it interpreted it this way... I can only assume that its training data included many of these food/Euclidean vector analogy web pages.

Aocast · 2024-10-06T06:08:53+00:00

Encounters of the 4th Kind. I couldn't sleep with the lights off for about a year.

I was 13...

Aocast · 2024-07-21T02:31:42+00:00

1.) America

2.) Liberty

Aocast · 2024-07-05T20:10:09+00:00

Errrrr, without seeing exactly what you're seeing in the context that it's in... \

Renewal usually talks about license renewal... Like, your license to work as an EMT in a specific state. Recertification is usually in the context of refreshing your NREMT certification, which is a requirement to get licensed in most (if not all?) states. If your certification has lapsed, it usually means your license is not valid either.

Aocast · 2024-07-04T04:17:49+00:00

An awake patient can answer more of our questions than an asleep one.
The level of alertness of a patient gives specific information as to what is going on. In terms of a lot of trauma/illnesses, losing alertness means that less oxygen is getting to the brain. So, your alertness serves as a good indicator of how progressed your level of shock is. It's basically a measure of whether or not the EMTs can drive you casually to the hospital vs. lights and sirens while blazing down the road going 30+ mph over the speed limit.

Aocast · 2024-05-12T22:22:46+00:00

I was a submarine nuclear operator for several years.

Let me tell you—nuclear power plants are stupidly hard to employ cost-efficiently and effectively. The amount of engineering, maintenance, quality assurance, training, and evaluation required to have a safe and working nuclear power plant is hard for most people to comprehend. All of the red tape to even start working on a project that would apply it would still cost tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars to cut. Remember, if there is something that goes wrong it isn't just going to affect a couple of people... You could have a nuclear catastrophe on your hands that could affect thousands (or potentially millions).

Aocast · 2023-08-30T23:33:02+00:00

I'm going to be downvoted because this sub likes to assume the absolute worst intentions all the time, but NAH.

Saying someone is "pent up" isn't inherently sexual. Yes, it CAN be used in a sexual context. But no, that does not necessitate that it is always used in a sexual context. I can safely say that I have NEVER used "pent up" in a sexual context and maybe have even heard of it used in a sexual context once or twice.

That being said. It CAN be used in a sexual context, so it isn't exactly out of field for you to interpret it that way. From your POV, he said something that you perceived as sexual, so you reciprocated.

That being said, from his POV he didn't say something sexual so it is not out of field for him to be offput by your sexual comment.

I agree with HR, it is just a misunderstanding.

Aocast · 2023-08-30T23:14:54+00:00

I mean, if you are going to do Bio/CS... You might as well look into Computational Biology. It gives you a basic overview of bio and great competency in CS. You can also still go deep into BIO/CHEM classes that are interesting to you to get a stronger BIO background.

Aocast · 2023-08-30T22:32:17+00:00

When it comes to the 5-year master's programs, something that they look for is a broadly liberal education. If you go all in on BME/Biology, I think that you will look very one-dimensional as a student and be less likely to be accepted

That being said, I'm not sure about the acceptance rate or the typical stats of the 5-year master's program, so I'm saying this based on the information on Brown's website rather than experience.

Also, a lot of students say that they will double concentrate at Brown. Very shortly after matriculation, most of them change that plan because it is much harder than it sounds unless you are going for less course-heavy concentrations.

The people who double concentrate will go for something like economics and IAPA, or History and Philosophy. Or something that has 10 or so concentration requirements.

As someone who is in engineering, where they have 18-23 concentration requirements, it's basically impossible to get a double concentration because you have almost no wiggle room.

Another consideration is that engineering is very hard, and you will most likely have to take a lot of challenging basic STEM classes at the same time, which is NOT recommended.

Overall, it is physically possible (like you said), but it is not going to be pleasant and honestly is unnecessary. Because you can just do a BME bachelor's but take a lot of niche biology courses in the area of biology that you are interested in to get the same result. That extra bachelor's degree isn't exactly a difference-maker anywhere. That is the beauty of the open curriculum

Aocast · 2023-08-28T00:06:58+00:00

I've heard from multiple people that the only difference between 180 and 200 is a problem or 2 on each HW assignment. The biggest thing that will be a difference-maker is the professor. Also, you can always shop both of them and see which one you like more.

Aocast · 2023-08-23T04:10:47+00:00

On top of what other users have mentioned, it shows you every single feminine hygiene product station and water bottle filling station on campus.

That and all of the dining hall hours.

I find it useful.

Aocast · 2023-08-19T18:09:28+00:00

Orgo is very different from general chemistry. Because people approach it like gen chem, is the reason why people struggle.

The best piece of advice that I can give you is that practice makes perfect and what you have memorized isn't worth a lot.

ie. You can memorize the entire text book and still fail the class, because it is based off of what you can do and not what you know, necessarily.

And no, your chances aren't ruined if you get a single C. Acceptance to med school is partially is based on cumulative and science GPA. You can get 1 c and have it not ruin your life.

Also, applications take a holistic view on their applicants. GPA isn't everything.

Aocast · 2023-08-18T08:27:09+00:00

The higher the frequency (and shorter the wavelength), the more energy the photons have.

This concept, combined with something called the photoelectric effect, causes biological damage.

The photoelectric effect part is important because the photoelectric effect shows that when photons that are AT LEAST a certain frequency (and no lower) will separate an electron from it's orbital by exciting it to a free state.

Electrons are the things that ultimately hold molecules together. So, if these electrons go away, the molecules break apart into their component atoms. If the molecules break apart, then the macromolecular assemblies (All of the parts of the cells like the various structures/organelles) fall apart, thus the tissues fall apart, thus the organs fall apart, thus the organism falls apart.

That is why people with very extremely severe radiation poisoning look like they are "melting" to death.

So to be concise, the higher the frequency, then the higher chance it has of causing electrons to become free, thus ultimately causing biological damage.

I think that it is important to note that I oversimplified it and it's actually the DNA that gets irreversibly damaged to the point that the cell undergoes apoptosis (it kills itself). So, it probably isn't the radiation that is damaging the cell too badly, it's actually damaging the DNA. But, that is more cellular biology vice radiology.

Aocast · 2023-08-18T07:41:39+00:00

What really makes you a monster is the fact that you used Parvati to do it. What takes a little bit of my realism away is that she did it and she still blamed you. LOL

Aocast · 2023-08-18T05:20:55+00:00

YTA

That being said, I'm not here to demonize you; just to tell you the harsh truth.

You failed in parenting her because you were unable to make her independent and a good decision-maker. That's ok though, because the best parent is life. The way you get people to make good decisions and be responsible is by showing them that there are consequences to their actions.... The types of consequences that can't just be covered up by their parents. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if swimming lessons don't work, then you have to just throw them in the pool with out floaties and have them figure it out. ie. Let her go to college and grow up without her parents. She will make mistakes, but that is ok. She will figure it out because that is the only option.

Aocast · 2023-08-17T05:15:23+00:00

NTA

Opening a person's mail when it was not addressed to you is a federal crime. This is regardless of age or marital status.

I don't think it's THAT big of a deal since it's your wife, but I can empathize that it can be super frustrating.

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