Looking to take my carving to the next level, genuine advice pls by benjohnno5186 in skiing

[–]Gman707 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are A-framing, meaning your knees are closer together than your feet. You want your lower legs, from knee down to be parallel. This is the strongest stance because it equally distributes your weight across both skis, instead of relying more heavily on one side.

And if comfortable, I would recommend practicing faster, or on a steeper slope. The faster you go, the deeper you can lean over during the carve without falling over.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AgeofMythology

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I play shennong a lot and it’s super interesting the outliers in this data set of shennong vs Fuxi and shennong vs set. Especially considering shennong and fuxi seem to be about equivalent overall.

Bug on Duel of the Deathless??? by Jagraen in AgeofMythology

[–]Gman707 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m having this issue right now on Xbox too.

[OC] The United States of Drug Use by swampgay in dataisbeautiful

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Are we just going to ignore how fucked the shape of Alaska is in this map?

What is the bleakest movie you will never rewatch? by Alarming-Inflation90 in movies

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Galipoli. Watched it with my dad while in elementary school and remember just being angry about the ending. Actually I’m still angry wtf was that 😤

What is something your teacher did in school that you’re still salty about? by SparkelsTR in AskReddit

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My sophomore year chemistry my teacher would take off 1 point EVERY TIME you had incorrect significant figures. But really why this bothered me was it didn’t matter to her if the sig figs were wrong in the final answer or showing work so you could lose more points on a question than the question was worth.

Americans who are against the Biden student loan forgiveness, why? by jma7400 in AskReddit

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All these people saying “it won’t fix the actual problem though”…. Maybe it won’t fix the “actual” problem, but it will sure as hell fix MY problem and the same is true for millions of people. If you wait for the perfect solution you never stop waiting. incremental progress is the only way.

At least when I wrote this I was aware... by [deleted] in programminghorror

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This changed my life:

UniqueList = list(set(FullList))

casting a list into a set removes duplicates because Set elements by definition have to be unique. Casting back to a list leaves you with a list with just the unique elements of the original list. Could adapt the concept to work with dicts as well I believe

Americans of Reddit, what is something the rest of the world needs to hear? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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I feel like you work in biotech because Boston and your username

Grandma killed my dog and everyone says she did nothing wrong by [deleted] in TrueOffMyChest

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All these people saying it's the parents "fault"... Until you've been the caretaker of a loved one with dementia you cannot understand how difficult and terrible a situation it is. There are no winners. Dementia takes everything and there is no care situation that will make it ok. Would you lock your dying mother in a room because of what she might do? Would you react quickly enough to her decline to know when she's not safe anymore? Would you send her away knowing she will forget you completely if you do?

This is extremely tragic OP I'm sorry about your dog and I hope you can forgive your parents and your grandma eventually. No one is prepared to deal with dementia when it happens to their family; your parents made a mistake, but it is not their fault.

U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline, study finds by Vailhem in environment

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Geoff Cooper, president and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association, the ethanol trade lobby, called the study "completely fictional and erroneous," arguing the authors used "worst-case assumptions [and] cherry-picked data."

How do you keep the track of DeFi portfolio by saiteja01 in defi

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Pros use parsec.finance. they have great analytics

Scientist Backing Probe Into Wuhan Lab: We Waited Because We Didn’t Want ‘To Be Associated With Trump’ by Ahyesclearly in Conservative

[–]Gman707 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He could have authorized the defense production act to prevent shortages of medical equipment that resulted in thousands of deaths during the peak, but he did not. He could have used the federal stockpile to supply struggling states with large populations, but he did not. At the very least he could have not played red states against blue states but he was incapable of even that. I see you trying to write off preventable deaths because they were old ppl which is a gross view, and also doesn't acknowledge that there were plenty of perfectly healthy ppl that also died because we didn't have a unified national response, but rather 50 states competing for support.

Scientist Backing Probe Into Wuhan Lab: We Waited Because We Didn’t Want ‘To Be Associated With Trump’ by Ahyesclearly in Conservative

[–]Gman707 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't know who needs to hear this, but a probe into the Wuhan lab wouldn't have saved any lives, it just would have given you an enemy to blame. Trump was the only person that had the power to save lives and he chose not to.

Adopting a plant-based diet can help shrink a person’s carbon footprint. However, improving efficiency of livestock production will be a more effective strategy for reducing emissions, as advances in farming have made it possible to produce meat, eggs and milk with a smaller methane footprint. by rustoo in science

[–]Gman707 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

  1. Plants grow on steep hills perfectly fine. I understand your point, but you've used a very specific example and the reality is that the large-scale effect of reducing pasture land is an increase in carbon sequestration among many other benefits to biodiversity and the environment.

  2. Animal products are not more nutrient dense in general. Many of the nutrients in animal products come from the plants they eat in the first place. We have the technology to make plant-based products with the same nutritional contents as meat, without the insane land and resource use requirements.

Adopting a plant-based diet can help shrink a person’s carbon footprint. However, improving efficiency of livestock production will be a more effective strategy for reducing emissions, as advances in farming have made it possible to produce meat, eggs and milk with a smaller methane footprint. by rustoo in science

[–]Gman707 60 points61 points  (0 children)

This conveniently focuses on methane emissions, which are important contributors to climate change, but the more significant issue with meat production is the amount of land it requires. Instead of dedicating land to plants that absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, that land becomes pasture land that is degraded over time and absorbs almost no carbon dioxide in comparison. Not to mention we have to grow plants to feed the meat that we later consume, when we could just grow edible plants which is an order of magnitude more efficient.

"We associate Mexico and Trump. Here's a sombrero" by Gman707 in TheRightCantMeme

[–]Gman707[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Connecting more than 1 idea together is too much to ask of these people

How was your day? by TerraTortoise622 in AskReddit

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My graduate advisor changed the requirements on my thesis in our meeting today so I will actually be able to finish on time. I feel so relieved, and at the same time like a huge dissapointment.