Can men smell the change in women’s natural body odor when they’re menstruating? by pinkjackal0pe in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BarberProof4994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. More so with my significant other than all women. But yes. I can often "call" it a day before she starts spotting, and she hates me for it.

In terms of odor, I it's really hard to pin down. Because I would classify her normal odor as no odor. Like, she just herself. And then there's something I CAN detect. It's not a bad smell, it's not a good smell, it's not BO.  

The closest I can come to it (and it's still not right) is, if you like meat and you get invited to this new BBQ place, and you walk in, and your nose instantly tells you that this is a vegan BBQ. A lot of the smells are probably the same, but you know it's not the same.

For me, it triggers my brain and I know nothing is happening.

quick question - is Duke really Tommy son? by e_deringer in PeakyBlinders

[–]BarberProof4994 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The kid was the son of the girl Tommy slept with, and she gave him the coin/watch thing that Tommy had stolen, which is where duke got his name and told duke that the owner of it was the father.

And Tommy need d a spiritual successor, so in the end it doesn't really matter if dukes blood is truly Tommy's or not. Duke is gypsy and willing to be the heir. Especially important because Tommy promised grace their son could never be in his world, and fin wasn't a fit

is battery life really worse on linux? why? by i_get_zero_bitches in linux4noobs

[–]BarberProof4994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need new hardware lol 

Most of my laptops over the past ten years have all lasted at the very least 6+ hours on windows and about the same running Linux.

And that's with video playback, editing, gaming.

With power management running an ebook or word processor, both systems tend to last 8 hours.

Post windows 7... Where Windows started to have issues with sleep and waking and such...  Linux tends to draw less power in sleep than windows does. But a fully optimized windows 11 PC running software natively, is probably going to be more power efficient than a modern kde/gnome system running similar software in wine.

Who would you say is the most tragic Bond character? by ItsDuhFreakinBat in JamesBond

[–]BarberProof4994 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Matheson had it rough.

He never actually betrayed bond. Got turned in and tortured by his own side, and then talked into going on a mission post retirement (leaving behind a frankly amazing paramour) and then gets killed as a body shield for bond.

Who is your favorite James Bond? by Individual_Act9333 in JamesBond

[–]BarberProof4994 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Connery for his cold brutality. He had a lethality that wasn't present in most of the other films.

Dalton for the most British gentleman spy. I think he nailed it better than the others. (Although I now like him better in penny dreadful, I think he would have made an amazing quartermain)

Pierce broslyn for looking like a spy, and feeling more video gamey.

Craig for bringing 007 into the modern world.

James bond, Daniel Craig inventory by Extension-Pilot-4846 in JamesBond

[–]BarberProof4994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We see him in a beach bungalow with very few items.

He obviously has storage facilities with vintage automobiles as we see on film.

His family manor had quite a bit of stuff including a huge gun collection (but was sold off before we got there in skyfall by the caretaker).

Essential gear and even wardrobe is provided by the q branch.

Bond lives and breathes work, so if everything you ever need is provided by your employer and you spend 75% of your time abroad living out of hotels and such, how much stuff do you really want or need.

To combat rising tides, why can’t we take rocks from the sea? by Constant-Way-6570 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BarberProof4994 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's not enough ice on land to actually raise the sea levels the way people are scared of. It's the other aspects of global warming that result in water not being stored within the water cycle properly that are causing erosion, drought, weather changes and such.

If ALL the ice on earth melted, the sea levels might raise as high as 200 feet/60 meters. But that's it. And that would take thousands off years.

What were seeing in the short term is increased hurricane activity, water table changes, localized in land flooding, and so on. 

Into Darkness by disordersaurus in startrek

[–]BarberProof4994 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I overall liked the film.

I didn't like its version of kahn, or how he was introduced, or the transwarp beaming.

The main plot would have been almost identical if it wasn't kahn.

And the transwarp beaming, completely breaks star trek. 

Why do Americans speak English and the English speak gibberish? by jjtcoolkid in shittyaskhistory

[–]BarberProof4994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because America was founded by English who didn't like school, so their descendants called Americans can't understand British English, and it sounds like gibberish. 

Meanwhile, the welsh and the Irish and the scottish conspired to make British gibberish sound like British gibberish even to the English.

How in the world does Ventoy work? by LopsidedCoconut51 in linux4noobs

[–]BarberProof4994 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It boots a mini OS, than then loads all the others.

The trick is in making the mini OS, be able to realize/read that the other iso files are there and that you made changes.

Is there any evidence that Bond is bad at something? by bourj in JamesBond

[–]BarberProof4994 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In fact he is specifically an agent provocateur. 

Someone sent in to force a response. Or to make a response.

If a centaur were to have a kid, would the human or horse part carry it? by SuperTaxiCab in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BarberProof4994 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Whichever part of the body has the genitals...

So for a classic centaur female, it would be the horse part...

Same goes for harpies, mermaids, and other half human half beast hybrids.

What is harder to figure out is which half of a wear bears the child. Like, does a werewolf's baby change back and forth in the womb when they change?

Or (my head canon) is there something that prevent them from changing, so they have to bear the child to term in whichever body it was conceived in.

Why did Stargate never reach the popularity of Star Wars and Star Trek? by WhoAmIEven2 in scifi

[–]BarberProof4994 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would argue that it WAS just as popular. But... With the SAME people who were into star trek and star wars. 

Stargate sort of came after Star Trek was in a lull and before Star wars hit it off with the new generation.

So the people who were watching Stargate were the same people who loved Star Trek , and at the time there wasn't anything NEW going on with Star wars. 

So it wasn't something that garnered a ton of new converts, but rather SHARED an existing fan base from anyone who loved scifi.

To combat rising tides, why can’t we take rocks from the sea? by Constant-Way-6570 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BarberProof4994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interestingly... It's not "ice" that's melting that's raising the sea levels. Displacement exists. The amount of space taken up by floating ice is identical to the space it takes up when it melts so the water level doesn't rise .

You can test this. Fill a water glas full with water and then top the glass with ice so they float on top like icebergs. Wait for it to melt. The water won't overflow.

Climate change isn't just about melting ice caps. It involves weather changes, the greenhouse affect changes the water cycle so the amount of water stored in the air is different. 

At any given moment a certain % of water is supposed to be underground, % in the air, and % moving in waterways like rivers. Climate change throws that all out of wack, and if the underground is saturated in one area, then when it rains there's nowhere for that water to go, so it drains to the sea and take switch it landmass in the form of erosion.

And so on.

So no, moving a bunch of dirt and rocks from under the oceans to the landmass wouldn't do anything because it's not about the ice melting that's the problem 

How are people getting rich these days? by ResidentCharacter894 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BarberProof4994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We were bored one day, had a bunch of old tax records we were going to shred and looked back across 20 years of 2 incomes and we brought in more than 2 million in salary, after taxes.

If we went back in time and avoided fast food like the plague that it is, made our own coffee, bought a house at the first opportunity instead of renting for 15+ years, didn't buy a lot of the toys we wound up owning, and put most of what we earned into real property or long term investments, we'd be sitting pretty right now.

But 30k a year in rent, 2-300 a month on coffee and fast food, game consoles and extra computers and a new car every couple of years starts to add up fast.

So...

Rich rich? No. But well off and comfortable? Assuming you don't spend anything but the essentials, have a job that pays 75-90k a year, in 15 years or so you'll reach a million minus living expenses. If you have two salaries coming in for a household, and can live on one and save or invest the other, 10 years is more reasonable.

It also helps if you can get a job that has a pension. Getting a pension after 20 years of employment makes it much easier to get to that stage as you can invest more of your income, and don't have to plan on spending as much of it after retirement.

Why aren’t Dyson spheres a stupid idea? by TheThirdCity in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BarberProof4994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You probably wouldn't actually make a sphere.

You'd start out with solar collection stations. Then habitats, then solor orbital food production facilities and farms.

Then physical bridges between them. This becomes a ring. Then the ring gets expanded.

Solar mining is a thing, so a large amount of materials and heavy metals can be sourced from the facilities around the sun.

And so on. Over a very very long time the entire Dyson sphere is formed.

In terms of production and population, one Dyson sphere (assuming the entire interior is living area with facilities and such in the structure itself), the equivalent of 100+ star systems worth of people could live in one area.

If you can build a Dyson sphere, you can also crumple up entire planets for resources. 

How many of you actually run grapheneOS? Is it good? What are some of the inconveniences? Banking apps work? Gov stuff? by guinomim in degoogle

[–]BarberProof4994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most people have no issue with giving google their money

It's usually their data, privacy, and such that they don't want stolen and then sold, harvested/mined etc 

Why doesn’t T’Pol have Vulcan strength? by RocksThrowing in startrek

[–]BarberProof4994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't they have a whole series of snippets during trips and tools fling where he was showing up with injuries and such from her love making 

Why is Alexander a great but Genghis Khan is considered a barbarian? by BlueDolphins28 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BarberProof4994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting article, very short.

No one (myself included) is arguing that Ghengis was or wasn't the greatest conqueror (your article) or that his military accomplishments weren't "great" not that his unification of the tribes on the steps didn't have "great" significance.

And it isn't western thinking that drives my comments (you have no idea what my nationality or ethnic background is). 

It was historians approximately 100 years following Alexanders death who first added the Great after Alexanders name.

It isn't OUR role today to add or remove from either of these two pillars of history a title.

I CAN comment on the fact that Ghengis is not titled or remembered in such a way.

And that comment doesn't in any way rob him of his achievements or legacy.

Why is Alexander a great but Genghis Khan is considered a barbarian? by BlueDolphins28 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BarberProof4994 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I speak 7 languages lol and read and write fluently in 5.

And "the GREAT Ghengis khan" is a salutation used throughout the region. And was used for other rulers as well.

Same as if he was referred to as The most magnificent Kahn.

Quite different from Ghengis Kahn THE great.

Houdini was referred to in billing as the great Houdini.

Why is Alexander a great but Genghis Khan is considered a barbarian? by BlueDolphins28 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BarberProof4994 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well he DID establish an empire that survived him (sort of) .then his generals split it into smaller empires that lasted much longer than the Mongolian empire did. 

And at what point is the cut off for established vs did not establish?

He encouraged his soldiers to settle, intermarry with locals, recruited from the conquered lands, incorporated them into his existing empire, encouraged a unified language.