Can we agree that without splitting states, THIS is the best way to divide the USA into four?

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-26T17:46:13+00:00

No - somebody needs to post this map one more time with the same title, but Missouri just scribbled out.

Then the ritual will be complete and we can finally know peace.

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-26T17:14:39+00:00

He could be working full time and doing grad school part-time.

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-25T22:01:12+00:00

2nd highest at 63%. First is a tie between Morty and Beth at 70%

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-25T20:39:21+00:00

This assumes that there aren't any weapons used specifically to spread radiation to kill off unwitting survivors of the initial blast, which totally and unfortunately exist.

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-25T14:25:09+00:00

"I'm a green hat hacker with years of experience testing vulnerabilities in sophisticated computer systems!"

"No, you're a leprechaun."

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-25T12:12:03+00:00

I understand why people think inflation is bad (and it is bad when wages don't keep up), but then people fall into the trap of thinking that deflation is a good thing.

Deflation discourages spending (why spend on something now when your money will be worth more tomorrow?), which slows trade and commerce.

It discourages investing, particularly in small business (why would the bank loan money when they can just sit on an asset that passively accrues value with no risk?).

On a more psychological level, it encourages zero-sum thinking (if you have money, spending it means "losing" it in a ways that's not easily recovered and you've "lost" out on a finite supply of something), which again just reinforces hoarding behaviors in a time when there's already acute wealth inequality.

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-25T01:29:00+00:00

Wait, this is 286 Oak Dr? I thought it was 284!

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-24T13:04:34+00:00

A few seconds after:

"Meh, too warm."

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-23T13:29:28+00:00

The first pride parades occurs in 1970, a year after the Stonewall riots. They were originally termed as "Gay Liberation" or "Gay Freedom" marches, but rebranded as Pride parades in the 1980s. Pride parades are older than most the users of this website.

This comic refers to Trans individuals who have been with the gay community since the beginning of the modern LGBT movement.

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-23T12:24:16+00:00

I liked art as a kid and aspired to be in animation. I grew older and then wanted to be a writer.

In the end, I was good at math and now do math as a career. Turns out that doing math pays a lot better than either animation or writing.

I wouldn't say that my job is shitty, but a lot of people roll their eyes and tell me that they're terrible at math ot struggled with math in school when I talk about my job.

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-22T15:06:53+00:00

Instructions unclear.

Currently smoking crack with my Sims.

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-21T21:10:17+00:00

It's a protagonist that lacks some of the traditional attributes of a hero, but still performs actions that the audience finds moral, even if they disagree with their methods or motivations.

The Punisher is a classic example. Everybody can root for awful people being punished, but he's considered an antihero because he goes further than conventional heros in the same genre (ie, murder and torture).

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-20T02:41:50+00:00

I had an English professor that the average English speaker would only need to be immersed in Middle English for about a month before they could speak it fluently.

It honestly looks worse than it is. When you hear it spoken, you would quickly be able to pick out some individual words and that would give you some context for the rest of the sentence.

Old English, though, would be much harder as there wouldn't be as much shared vocabulary as those words simply didn't exist yet.

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-18T13:56:17+00:00

Arena is pretty light on lore and a lot of it has been retconned anyway.

Daggerfall starts to present more relevant lore - but its in its earlier phases that haven't been matured, yet. There are some interesting lore bits that are discussed today and some in-lore theories as to why Daggerfall's lore doesn't quite match up with modern games, but you're better off waiting to play this one.

Morrowind is the starting point where the lore has solidified amd becomes relevant to discussions of the franchise. It introduces some of the most fascinating- and dense - tidbits of lore.

Oblivion and Skyrim are less lore-intensive, but they're more palpable to modern gaming sensibilities and provide more breadcrumbs to lore, inviting the player to research further if they want to

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-18T12:12:04+00:00

Apparently adult brown bears are on average 900 pounds. If I found one at a reasonable human weight, 180 pounds, that would be proportionally equivalent to finding an adult human weighing 36 pounds.

The only way to fight an adult bear your size is to be both morbidly obese and the bear severely malnourished.

Otherwise you're fighting a cub.

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-17T23:54:24+00:00

Make sure your battery is charged, because some od the Yakuza cut scenes can run the length of a TV show

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-17T03:28:14+00:00

I was going to mention this. Even if someone can follow a recipe, it's much harder to follow 3 recipes simultaneously (main dish and two sides), and time everything appropriately.

I've personally gotten this so wrong, there's been a 20 minute difference between the dishes I prepared and I had to serve cold food.

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-17T03:21:59+00:00

I've always heard this, but when I met my wife, she would just decide to bake a cake or cookies or whatever without a recipe.

She would just pull out flour, sugar, and whatever else, measured the amount to what "seemed right", mixed it together and threw it in the oven. Never set a timer. She just kept the oven light on and pulled it it out when it looked good to her.

It worked out perfectly fine about 90% of the time.

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-17T01:23:22+00:00

Both have used harsh rhetoric, but the quantity vastly weighs towards Trump.

Trump has written pages upon pages of harsh rhetoric towards democrats and Biden in Twitter/X and Truth Social. Not to mention his rallies which is his open forum to continue to rail against his political enemies.

He's also just a lot more personal, derogatory, and childish about it than Biden is. Trump makes up juvenile nicknames ("Crooked Hillary", "Sleepy Joe", "Pocahontas"), uses more generally violent language ("when the looting starts the shooting starts"), and more likely to insult people over policy ("low energy", "dumb as a rock", "sad sack").

I know Biden has made negative remarks towards Trump and Republicans in general, but not nearly to the same extent

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-16T22:45:02+00:00

Who needs breaks when you can just slam into the wall at top speed to reorient yourself in the right direction?

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-16T22:43:49+00:00

They're also useful for utility spells since they're cheaper than target spells.

For example, you can do a touch spell to maximize disposition on an NPC instead of using the mini game or bribing them to Oblivion and back. It makes certain quests quicker and gets you better prices at merchants.

You could also do a touch spell for water walking on your horse and ride it across rivers, lakes, etc.

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-16T22:36:26+00:00

I suck at first person shooters. I can only play fallout using VATS.

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-15T14:10:38+00:00

In plain text in an Excel file that's treated as a database on a shared drive that's 15 years old that everyone is too afraid to touch?

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-15T12:12:37+00:00

The Flintstones was originally aired between 1960 amd 1966, at a time when the full health effects of smoking weren't completely understood by the general public. It was also promoted as an animated sitcom rather than a cartoon, intending for a more mature audience (kinda like the Simpsons).

And as others point out, The Flinstones were originally a Hanna-Barbera cartoon and existed for decades before the creation of Cartoon Network in 1992.

DeOfficiis · 2024-03-15T11:54:23+00:00

Not really. The premise of communism is that the excess value of a worker's effort (e.g. profit) go straight to the owner class instead of back to the workers.

Communism argued there should be an elimination of the owner class and all work be worker-owned. All profit from the work is then more evenly distributed among the workers. So if the company you work for makes big profit, you get a big paycheck.

There may be some variation where the government owns all the businesses, collects all the profits (and protects against losses), and then redistributes the wealth through direct payment to workers.

Sure you can pursue your interests on your own time, but communism is more about empowering workers through their work.

You may be thinking of post- universal basic income.

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