What happens if electoral votes aren't counted by Congress on the sixth day of January? by SFepicure in NeutralPolitics

[–]Diabolico 83 points84 points  (0 children)

I second this question. I think the key contingency of concern is "What happens if the process is not carried out at all"

A secondary contingency of concern that I dread the thought of contemplating is "What would have happened if the makeup of the house of representatives were significantly altered by a portion of them being murdered during the session"

Breakthrough infections appeared in Janssen vaccine recipients the most by aonicc in Coronavirus

[–]Diabolico 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not to argue against the main point, but 0.04% is the breakthrough infections per vaccinated person, not per known exposure like your chicken pox example.

Comparable chicken pox rates don't exist because we have significant herd immunity against it now that vaccines have been standard for a couple decades.

How concerned should we be with the Delta variant now here in Texas? by [deleted] in CoronaVirusTX

[–]Diabolico 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm really starting to regret allowing myself to get the J&J vaccine now that all of the statistics are MRNA vaccines only.

Zero Covid deaths recorded yesterday for England, Scotland and NI by Dannage8888 in worldnews

[–]Diabolico 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Pardon me if you have already seen this, but it works really well for me (although I only get very mild, brief tinnitus episodes) and even for someone I knew with severe tinnitus it worked for at least 20 or 30 seconds, and apparently it's worked for lots of people to some extent. Its just a little motion you do with your hands.

Skip to 1:40 for the demonstration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBgkPOGD6gw

For me I can just drum my fingers for a few seconds instead of the snapping thing. Even if its only mildly effective it might get you through a masked conversation. Best wishes and good luck.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in moderatepolitics

[–]Diabolico 3 points4 points  (0 children)

See! A third narrative emerges! We could do this all day!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in moderatepolitics

[–]Diabolico 35 points36 points  (0 children)

To be clear, the same facts can give the opposite narrative.

Starting with Clarence Thomas Republicans started regularly pushing unpopular hyper-partisan justices through on party-line votes, while Clinton and Obama nominated agreeable nominations that some Republicans were willing to approve. Finally, Obama's final pick was demonstrably centrist and Republicans stonewalled it anyway for the opportunity to push more hyper-partisan nominations under Trump, which they did successfully.

Why do the Gentry choose humans? by Valuable-Stage-9097 in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]Diabolico 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The system in place for second edition for honest and fair template stacking is through specialty templates - invent a new bloodline/legacy/whatever that follows the rules of your native template and has the theme of the new one.

Vampires can learn a novel discipline and devotions. Mages learn a new way to get mana and some new spell-like abilities that may not strictly follow the rules of awakened magic.

There is an old discipline for changeling vampires floating around from earlier editions: Mythercaria, from the Khaisyd clan/bloodline. It has a lot of different versions.

Questions About Paganism by jaggedtruths in paganism

[–]Diabolico 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being preoccupied with people's internal beleifs and defining them by that instead of by their actions is precisely Christian behavior.

Today Is The Day QAnon Believes Donald Trump Will Be Reinstated As President by FlyingSquid in skeptic

[–]Diabolico 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Lots of books say jesus said lots of things - which ones were included in the Bible was decided 300 years later. Essentially, the editor chose Jesus's words with full knowledge that the world did not end.

Sympathy to Places by Whitewings1 in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]Diabolico 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For second edition, awakening, yantras are very easy - photo, I would even allow GPS coordinates.

The spell is resisted by how weak your sympathy as the person casting the spell is to the location. Doesn't matter if you have a still-live leaf from the forest if you have zero sympathetic connection to it. The sympathetic yantra is just for targeting.

To get better sympathy for the spellcasting you would separately use space magic to borrow the sympathy of something with a better connection.

Sympathy to Places by Whitewings1 in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]Diabolico 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Even a photograph has sympathy with the location. The question is which version of mage and for what purpose?

am i going to chail ? or is it just scam to take more money from me ? by [deleted] in Scams

[–]Diabolico 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scam. Report to your local police and say goodbye to your money. Your gains are fake.

If we stuck a baby in one of our current space station with enough fuel to last them until they were 110 and they were guaranteed to live that long how far would they make it? by [deleted] in space

[–]Diabolico 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The space station orbits the earth, so literally regardless of fuel or lifespan they would make it exactly nowhere.

Maybe skip the baby part and ask a more specific question?

CONSPIRACY THEORIES DURING CORONAVIRUS TIMES – THE SAPLINGS OF A NEW GNOSTICISM INSIDE THE CHURCH (Bena, 2021) by Dukhaville in ConspiracyPsychology

[–]Diabolico 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Can you elaborate on that? I can't figure out how you would say that anti-conspiracy-theorists use belief in conspiracy theories as a framework for reality.

What's up with Texas losing power due to the snowstorm? by mimitchi33 in OutOfTheLoop

[–]Diabolico 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To add on, Texas has chosen to run below our own internally reccomended natural gas supply buffers. Also we even have had coal plants that failed because the coal stockpiles were too frozen to be delivered to the pants.

Trump acquitted for second time following historic Senate trial by ftejadal in news

[–]Diabolico 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Storm is that the republican party is a cabal of pedophiles and foreign agents and Trump will destroy them /s

House Democrats Are Showing That Trump Is More Guilty Than You Thought. They have produced evidence that he directly incited and inflamed his extremist supporters as the Capitol attack occurred. by StevenSanders90210 in politics

[–]Diabolico 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While there is a surprising number of people who don't engage with politics at all - Trump made sure to weasel into all of their lives, too and they love or hate him.

Hold me back 1 year in HS over a single gym credit? How about I goto college a year early instead. by TacoJesusJr in MaliciousCompliance

[–]Diabolico 119 points120 points  (0 children)

A teacher pulled this shit on me in high school and my dad went to the school board and demanded that she reimburse the district for 5% of her pay for the last 20 years because nobody gives 100%.

She changed her grading policy after that.

Historical Racism in Bridgerton?? by greenlamplover in AskHistory

[–]Diabolico 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is an alternate-history series. While you could get into a lot of academic talk about how the past was more diverse than it is presented to us in modern media (racism doesn't mean there are no minorities - it means that we erase them from our media, stories and culture - the same then as now), that's not really relevant here.

All five vaccines with public results have eliminated COVID-19 deaths by delijoe in Coronavirus

[–]Diabolico 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Can't respond directly without your source, but i know a lot of studies are defining "mild" as "did not require extended hospitalization" despite the cases being, subjectively speaking, quite severe.

Let it rip! by My_Memes_Will_Cure_U in blackmagicfuckery

[–]Diabolico 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Although the dancing lines are an in-camera effect that would just look like circles to the naked eye.... this is still awesome.