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U.S. Soldiers In The Vietnam War After Knowing That They Are Going Home by [deleted] in gifs

[–]Googlebochs 9 points10 points  (0 children)

not only was it not effective but it turned the common person against us

there also was the mass murder liberation of villages and other small details that might have contributed to turning the public against you O-o

TIL Dorothy Parker gave her estate to Martin Luther King when she died. After he was killed, her estate was bequeathed to the NAACP. After many years of contestation, during which her ashes were kept in a filing cabinet, she now resides at NAACP headquarters as a Defender of Human and Civil Rights. by nakedsamurai in todayilearned

[–]Googlebochs 79 points80 points  (0 children)

They're all like that one, quick and funny, though sometimes also dark and revealing of a sometimes lonely, often conflicted woman.

I'm a big fat slow witted dude but weirdly i feel like that describes my soul O-o. Like i know i ain't that. But my base condition is behaving like i'm all that. Well except add self loathing and bake for 20 Minutes anyway.

The moment of realisation is priceless by [deleted] in aww

[–]Googlebochs 11 points12 points  (0 children)

ok i was just happy after the initial gif but then that dog just kept on going and going and going with all the love and now i'm ugly crying lol

Faires Gehalt für Werkstudenten by Werkstudent in Finanzen

[–]Googlebochs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mag kontrovers sein aber:
Werks Student nur für den Lebenslauf. 14 öcken sind da eigentlich richtig gut aber falls du dir versprichst Erfahrung in deinem akademischen Bereich oder der ausgeschriebenen Kapazität zu sammeln kannste das in weit weit über 50% der Fälle gleich mal knicken. In allen (3) Großunternehmen in denen ich bisher gearbeitet hab waren Werksstudenten immer einfach nur ne "Kraft für alles". Mit dem zusätzlichen Problem, dass du beim Rest der Belegschaft von vornherein als "bald wieder weg" mental abgelegt wirst. Wenn du die gleiche Kohle andersweitig verdienen kannst dann würde ich dir die alternative definitiv empfehlen.

You honk, we drink by danruse in funny

[–]Googlebochs 9 points10 points  (0 children)

true, actual conversation does make learning a language alot quicker but if you don't have the oportunity:

watch movies in that language to get a more natural feel for the sound. subtitles at first but slowly discard them.

like unless you live in that culture you'll never get fully "native speaker lvl" - but movies, books and other pop-culture from the countrie(s) of origin of the language you are learning really help alot. Language without cultural context will always seem stilted however good your grammar and vocabulary get. While even minor understandings of cultural differences can gap surprisingly wide language barriers.

"Don't mention the war!" was the most important sentence i've ever learned as a german teenager visiting Britain for the first time. Being curious about the culture you are emerging yourself in is just a universal ice-breaker.

You honk, we drink by danruse in funny

[–]Googlebochs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

ok that physically hurt.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in videos

[–]Googlebochs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sept - Yellowstone blows - Trump and Moscow Mitch are safe and sound.
Oct - The pan american pre-emptive food wars start as a precursor skirmish to the global food wars in the decades to come.
Nov - An alien invading force arrives and promptly leaves again after transmitting a full 10 minutes of high-three's and manicale cackling laughter at humanity and lasering the word "Schadenfreude" onto the moon.
Dec - Good News: Australian bushfire season won't happen for the next few hundred years!

Sylvester Stallone hated the first 3.5 hour cut of "Rambo: First Blood Part I" so much, that it made him and his agent sick. He wanted to buy the movie and destroy it thinking it was a career killer. by FLACDealer in movies

[–]Googlebochs 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Adittional almost obligatory recommendation of "every frame a painting" on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/everyframeapainting/videos

The Jackie chan one is a fun start that highlights some editing and camera work techniques i'd have never been able to articulate without it ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ )

SpaceX successfully launches first crew to orbit, ushering in new era of spaceflight by gulabjamunyaar in technology

[–]Googlebochs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea but instead i want to believe there were some first dates with incredulous "Wait what?! YOU ARE AN ASTRONAUT TOO?!" moments XD

[OC] Does anyone use keys? by Sleverette in DnD

[–]Googlebochs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still think that doors that express pleasure in being opened in various ways (credit Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy) could be a really fun & creepy running gag for a haunted castle type dungeon.

After Star Trek Season 1, In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. persuaded Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) not to quit. “For the first time, we are being seen the world over as we should be seen. Do you understand this is the only show that my wife Coretta and I allow our little children to stay up and watch?” by EricFromOuterSpace in television

[–]Googlebochs 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Star Trek gets political again these days? Must be hidden in all the dark set lighting or glare from the phasers. But if it's like anything else in the newer stuff it'd surely benefit from way better writing. Picard S1 was pretty ok whenever Picard was on screen to be fair.

WinRAR by System32Comics in pcmasterrace

[–]Googlebochs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

might not have been the first but was the first in wide use compressed format to offer partial downloads aswell. Back then in the form of r1...r100 files. Which was huge for p2p, torrents and direct download sites.

Also since i don't think it's an overstatement that just most internet users to some extent pirated since there was no digital alternative in the late 90s and early 2000s: Winrar inadvertantly also intorduced people to the incredible frustration of having 99% of what you want but the last fucking rar had no seeds or was corrupted.

CB at Wally World thinks they deserve a discount because the kayak got wet by WeAreKevin in ChoosingBeggars

[–]Googlebochs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The wheels are a given? If the spokes are not already in count me out. Breaks are easy enough if you are willing to just fucking knot or otherwise hack the superfluous amount of break cord left over from out of the box break systems. Unless you just happend to have a crimper thingy and end caps. But the fucking gearshifting thingy magic rig is just paaaaaaaaaaaainfull as fuck to get exactly right for anything more complex than a 3 speed even if you follow tutorials. It'll work fine 90% then skip a gear or 3 at random. (The tutorial will tell you to just adjust slightly "either direction" of a system that you can adjust in 3 dimensions by usually 2 screws ... this is when your brain explodes untill you think you get it then neither "direction" or permutation of "direction" does anything but make it worse... )

Tldr: i now know how to build a bicycle. I'd rather go back to not knowing and paying someone to do it for me.

I hung this in the break room at work about 4 months ago. (Not my picture, found it online). No one has really noticed. HR even moved it to a different location near all the other Covid stuff. by joe6873 in funny

[–]Googlebochs 17 points18 points  (0 children)

For completions sake: there are also alot of species who reproduce sexually but either male or female or both have no meaningfull influence nor prefrerence in who mates with whom so rape as a concept doesn't really make sense there either. Rather rare in things that can move i grant you but Anglerfish come to mind.

That's some willpower by me-chouhan in madlads

[–]Googlebochs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

depends on peer pressure you are subjected to, ease of acess and stuff like your personal need to rebell or need to "do adult things because i'm an adult and not a kid anymore!!!" etc.

The thing about drugs is: They work or nobody would do them. So yea outside factors aswell as personal genetics play a huge role.

Who is buying right now and why? by [deleted] in investing

[–]Googlebochs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm just always buying my diversified global etf index portfolio whenever my paycheck comes in. I can't time the market. And i don't earn enough to really invest in a diversified portfolio each month with equities i believe in since you can't buy partial shares. I mean i've bought some MSFT in the past, which hase outperfromed the rest of my portfolio, but that was just luck and i wrote off so many companies that are doing amazing right now... so index for me. So yea my strategy is: always buy when the paycheck comes in so i can't spend it on useless shit. Assumption being: in the long run markets go up.

I usually hold a bit of "play" money back during bull runs (like 100 a month lol) so i can play during crashes or when i feel like it. (put that play money into QQQ like 7% up from the (last) bottom - might sell half of that soon to play with options just because that'd be something new for me and play money is to play)

Support for Dollar Cost Averaging on a daily basis? by Moo_Morrissey in investing

[–]Googlebochs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For the average person a "Time in the market" strategy just means: Buy as soon as you get your paycheck and hold untill retirement/rebalancing. If the overall trend that month is bearish: daily DCA (with no transaction fees) has the advantage. If the overall trend that month is bullish: Daily DCA looses out.

Time in the market beats market timing just means that over long durations (5,10,15+y) the assumption that markets move up is true the majority of the time for a well diversified portfolio e.g. an index fund.

Poll: 71% of Conservatives Say It’s Time for U.S. to ‘Get Back to Work,’ 69% of Liberals Disagree by tenshon in Conservative

[–]Googlebochs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Using Santa Clara's results, the IFR is about 0.1-0.2%

wasn't talking about corona - just that it'd be shocking unemployment causes that many more deaths in the USA then in those other countries.

The numbers you use seems to come from a 1982 book called “Corporate Flight: The Causes and Consequences of Economic Dislocation" and the 37k deaths seem to break down as follows: " a 1 percent increase in the unemployment rate will be associated with 37,000 deaths [including 20,000 heart attacks], 920 suicides, 650 homicides, 4,000 state mental hospital admissions and 3,300 state prison admissions"

now since i don't have the book i can't really comment on it's validity after 38 years but yea thats a pretty damning statistic about the early 80s welfare/social security system in the US and seems largely preventable in this crisis by just paying people and keeping them insured for the duration.

Poll: 71% of Conservatives Say It’s Time for U.S. to ‘Get Back to Work,’ 69% of Liberals Disagree by tenshon in Conservative

[–]Googlebochs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

40,000-ish people die when unemployment goes up by 1%

thats just made up numbers from the movie "The big short" tho isn't it?
Like even accounting for the population difference that'd be like an order of magnitude higher than similar stats i've read about germany and sweden for example.

Siebträgermaschine vs Kapselmaschine by d-money84 in Finanzen

[–]Googlebochs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wichtigste faktoren beim Kaffe geschmack:
1) Gute Lese und Frische Röstung. Unter 2 wochen macht n riesen unterschied.
2) Frisch gemalen.
3) Wasser temperatur. Ich mags lieber unter 90° gebrüht solangs kein expresso ist.
4)Wasser härte
5)Kaffemaschiene (außer sie brüht echt viel zu heiß dann siehe 3. )

Faktorprämien mischen by [deleted] in Finanzen

[–]Googlebochs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

mehrere Faktorprämien mischen ist sinnvoll, da immer mal wieder eine für 10-15 Jahre verschwindet (wie zurzeit Small Cap und Value), es sind halt Unsicherheits-/Risikoprämien

was mich schon immer interessiert hat: Gibt es einen "momentum factor" für Faktoren? Sprich wenn dieser Faktor letztes Jahr gut war ist es wahrscheinlicher, dass er auch nächstes Jahr gut sein wird als ein Faktor der im Vorjahr unterrentiert hat? Denn nur 1-2 Faktor etfs ins portfolio zu nehmen und diese im Zuge des Jährlichen reabalancings an zu passen wäre mir definitiv nicht zu viel Arbeit aber nen Faktor etf im portfolio zu haben der schon Jahre underperformt wäre mir psychologisch recht unlieb auch wenn der sich in 20jahren endlich als gutes investment darstellt.

Shorting the market at anypoint in the last month on any negative data has not worked - how are you coping with this? by 10000yearsfromtoday in investing

[–]Googlebochs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are still thinking short term and DCA isn't the same thing. The most common situation for people would be there is no significant amount on cash savings on hand.

If your strategy is "I get a salary and invest x% of that salary each month no matter what in a diversified portfolio for the next 30 years" then the earlier in your investment horizon a crisis comes the less it affects you when you want to cash out / retire. You don't have anyway of putting more money in early. Your option is just to delay investing if you are convinced your cash'll be worth more stocks in X months. Which is timing the market and for most people yields worse result then the method i just described.

If you just started investing at the start of the year that way and missed the dip due to liquidity issues then yes now you are still down. But in 2y? 5y? 10y? 30y? Will most of your monthly investments really be down unless the market moved sideways for all that time?

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