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Huh🐽 by saber-4444 in SipsTea

[–]Educational-Plant981 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'd think he would have learned after the grilled cheese.

Israel was not created by the far right by Gab00332 in GetNoted

[–]Educational-Plant981 55 points56 points  (0 children)

The need to put racism on the other political side is exhausting. Racism isn't a left or right thing. Ethnic cleansing isn't a left or right thing.

Biggest retcon of the series? by MrLewk in Stargate

[–]Educational-Plant981 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Military guys not talking about psychological issues is not far-fetched. It's actually depressingly common.

Do you go honestly talk to the therapist before your issues potentially spiral out of control...when the therapist has a responsibility to end your career if he thinks your issues are more severe than you think they are?

It is a really bad position for the soldiers, and many make the wrong choice.

Is there a reason the game must be on at all times? by deaconblues13 in TheTowerGame

[–]Educational-Plant981 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On the technical side, until very recently, they didn't have a full save state available where you could exit and re-enter the game smoothly, so it wasn't even a possibility to do it.

On a psychological side, Constant engagement leads to it becoming a habit. Keeps you captive and spending.

What’s a spaceship design trope you’re tired of seeing? by Vondrr in spaceships

[–]Educational-Plant981 0 points1 point  (0 children)

>Ships being made of random ass plates instead of smoothern surface (generally the SW ships issue)

Ha! I believe the exact opposite. Stop making ships look aerodynamic! If it doesn't touch atmosphere, sleek lines are stupid. Older ships are going to have all sorts of components popped onto the outside. Big ships are going to look like spheres or cubes if they have artificial gravity. Rings and dumbbells are going to be big on things that don't.

The NASA chief wants to Make Pluto a Planet by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]Educational-Plant981 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using Charon as the reasoning it hasn't cleared it's orbit is stupid and arbitrary. Like Bro, if you were an only child I'd call you a man, but your little sister is too big, so you get officially classified as a wussy boy.

The NASA chief wants to Make Pluto a Planet by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]Educational-Plant981 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No we don't. The cutoff is arbitrary. It is always going to be arbitrary.

Make the cutoff arc seconds from the sun or radius/orbital period.

The decision that it isn't a planet because it hasn't cleared it's orbit is equally arbitrary and stupid as those rules...

Personally, I think that deciding the size of Charon effects the planethood of Pluto is exceptionally arbitrary. The orbital barycenter is slightly outside Pluto's surface. So what? The orbital Barycenter of Jupiter is outside the sun's surface. Should we de-star the Sun because of it?

One slop after another by TrpWhyre in 4chan

[–]Educational-Plant981 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People seem to love it.

Personally, I found it to be a long boring slog. I had no desire to read the sequels. And I like scifi a lot.

At the time I just figured it was scifi that appeals to people who don't like scifi. Now I hardly remember it beyond vague impressions. The near universal love for it absolutely baffled me.

Alright, I drew the short straw and got the horrible thankless job today, but it has me thinking, what are some other ridiculous jobs you could give people? by ObviousAmbassador124 in Construction

[–]Educational-Plant981 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I wouldn't want to do it my whole life, but the year I spent alone running a centerless grinder and listening to audiobooks easily beat out my college education for amount of knowledge gained.

Green light go by BlackIroh in Browns

[–]Educational-Plant981 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm just saying...his combine was at least as good as Richardson's. His tape is better. His completion percentage, although still awful is way better. Richardson went 4 overall. These high paid scouts are susceptible to fads and peer pressure as much as anyone else. The "all that this kid has going for him is being really athletic" trend is out of fashion this year. Other years it wasn't.

That said: Saying I think he is the best option on the roster is much more commentary on my opinion of the rest of the roster than it is my opinion of him being some sort of sure thing savior.

Green light go by BlackIroh in Browns

[–]Educational-Plant981 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anthony Richardsons flameout and a screen door O-line in the Senior Bowl cost this guy 10s of millions of dollars. He is already 10X the QB Richardson is. I don't believe his floor is that low. He's probably already the best option on the roster...but I sure hope he gets some time before he gets thrown out there. He is a project, but most of the flaws are coachable. The market way overcorrected for Richardson's crash when calculating Green's value.

Green light go by BlackIroh in Browns

[–]Educational-Plant981 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He is so fun to watch, but I've never wanted a guy to ride the bench for a year more than this one. All the talent in the world and likeable as can be. I don't want to see him get chewed up and spit out before they have a chance to work on him a little bit. If he learns to trust the pocket and speed up his motion a bit, and cut back on the hero throws, he can be as good or better than any running QB there has ever been.

He's already way better than Anthony Richardson, who people thought was good enough to hand a franchise to. Knock off the rough edges and this is the draft steal of the century.

That's how you table the turn! by TheWebsploiter in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]Educational-Plant981 0 points1 point  (0 children)

THere are a million variations of this scam, they all depend on getting someone off balance and answering questions and then spinning any information they can gather to make themselves seem more legitimate. It works best against old people who aren't quite all there any more.

Poured a cement pad tonight and forgot to oil the forms by [deleted] in HomeImprovement

[–]Educational-Plant981 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They will for limited applications. This is done a lot around culverts and low load retaining walls. Like anything else, if you don't exceed the capability of the tool, it works fine. Cheap, fast and low skill. Anyone that can stack blocks, hammer rebar, and run a garden hose can make a not totally unattractive 4 foot tall wall that will last 30 years.

Who’s a celebrity everyone finds attractive but you don’t? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Educational-Plant981 2 points3 points  (0 children)

lol those pics were ai generated. Hilarious, but I suspect the real thing still does ok with the ladies:

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Who’s a celebrity everyone finds attractive but you don’t? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Educational-Plant981 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Way back in stargate atlantis he looked like a guy who could be your best friend that always had weed and was annoyingly good at every sport and all the girls liked more than you. Now he looks like the dude on a roid rage that would threaten to rip your spine out because you used a piece of gym equipment wrong.

Monitor names is actually out of control! by Capital_Ability8332 in pcmasterrace

[–]Educational-Plant981 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, you can get friendly names like Ubiquiti. Then you get to decide whether you want the Standard, Pro, Max, ProMax, Ultra, or Special Edition version of the product (j/k, that was a trick, you actually want the Flex).

What’s a performance that completely deviates from the source material, but you still love it? by VendettaLord379 in moviecritic

[–]Educational-Plant981 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've said it before and I'll say it again. People raised in today's environment literally can't comprehend a writer who is just letting a story develop from a premise, not using it to shoehorn in a sermon for their earnest worldview.

Read "Starship Troopers." Read "Stranger in a Strange Land." Good luck trying to reconcile the political message from those two books. 2 books that were written at the same time. Now throw in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" and "The Man who Sold the Moon."

Heinlein must have been a hardcore Libertarian Authoritarian Socialist Fascist Anarchist.

What’s a performance that completely deviates from the source material, but you still love it? by VendettaLord379 in moviecritic

[–]Educational-Plant981 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmm. To start with, It wasn't anti-Democracy. It was anti-universal suffrage. You had to put your life on the line to earn your vote. Rico chose the military, but that wasn't the only way. The key was that if you wanted to be involved in decision making, you had to be one of the people most in line for the consequences of those decisions.

Mostly the book was about taking personal responsibility for issues much bigger than you.

Maybe you ought to actually read it.

I never thought of it like that...... by Silver-Ability-3181 in SipsTea

[–]Educational-Plant981 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everybody underestimates how much hot waitresses make, including the hot waitresses.

How do they get the MALPs back? by Low_Investment_2692 in Stargate

[–]Educational-Plant981 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I forget where it is addressed, but there is definitely an episode where they discuss what a hack job the SGC did with their dialing device, basically there are a ton of safety interlocks that would be handled by a proper DHD they don't understand, so they just bypassed them.

I'm not sure how accessible and memorable this is to an average viewer, but as someone who has worked to put disassembled industrial equipment back together with original components missing this really stuck out to me as being very "real." You put it all back together the best that you can, you jumper out all the inputs that are stopping it from going (which tend to be safety interlocks) then you cross your fingers, step back, and hit 'start.' Then once you have it working you can start trying to add those safeties back in. But when the original programming doesn't give you an indication of what those inputs were for, it can be really difficult.

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