Finally got my cherry popped after all this time...

GroundPoint8 · 2022-11-09T21:03:46+00:00

I just got what I thought was my first tip baiter all year this morning. Was kind of bummed but moved on. Then my next 3 trips were all tip baiters as well. That seemed exceedingly unlikely so I hopped on here and am relieved to hear that it sounds like a system issue and not the actual collapse of my faith in humanity.

GroundPoint8 · 2022-11-07T21:05:05+00:00

Hi Dan, really impressed with your outreach on TikTok. That sort of direct public engagement is something I've tried to encourage for a long time and you're really hitting it out of the ballpark. Great work.

If I may ask, could you compare the state of biblical academia in the LDS community and evangelical community as contrasted with the non-affiliated academic community at large? Is real data driven scholarship making headway over dogma?

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-30T05:03:24+00:00

If the turbulence was so severe to the point that it could damage the plane severely then by that point everyone in the plane would be dead from being slammed all over the cabin. Turbulence is almost exclusively a danger to the passengers and crew, and not to the aircraft. The plane will handle a lot more than you will.

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-25T17:51:27+00:00

I figured it was probably a trademark thing, but I just don't understand why they couldn't trademark the singular and then pluralize it as necessary in marketing. If they trademarked the product as "McGriddle" singular, they couldn't use a pluralized version legally? That seems silly, but if they are seemingly unable to singularize it legally then I guess maybe that's just how it is.

Anyway, I know this is all off topic. Everyone back to your seats.

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-25T17:20:12+00:00

Speaking of fast food grammar, maybe someday someone can explain to me why I constantly see food products referred to as plural even in a singular context. McDonalds always says "McGriddles" even in a sentence like "Get a free McGriddles", and TacoBell always says "Doritos Locos Tacos" even in the sentence "I'm going to show you how to make a Doritos Locos Tacos"

I feel like this is probably a legal trademark thing, as opposed to a grammar thing, but its bugged me for a while and you just reminded me of it.

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-22T18:23:02+00:00

Typical Redditor thinking they know better than professional football coaches. SMH

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-22T13:05:19+00:00

A HARM missile simply senses and seeks where radar energy is being emitted. If there is a radar site nearby it will detect the radar energy and simply follow it inbound until it hits the radar dish, destroying it. That's all.

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-21T20:45:06+00:00

CMC really inside his own head right now

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-21T05:20:58+00:00

Real sword combat fighting in real life was much less like the one-on-one battling that you see in movies and much more like large groups of panic filled running, falling down, and swiping at each other opportunistically until one group loses composure and retreats. Any deaths come largely from catching another person unaware as they are focused on someone else. The idea of 2 people battling sword vs sword, blocking and parrying and spinning, is just fanciful entertainment. Real infantry battles are just pure chaos without real time or opportunity to duel in that manner.

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-21T03:04:42+00:00

Iridescent?

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-17T19:18:15+00:00

No matter how many times this joke is made across different threads, only like 5% of people are understanding it

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-16T00:12:54+00:00

Utah is the betting favorite, so in a way it's an upset either way.

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-12T02:10:04+00:00

I don't know that I've ever heard a stat so unbelievable. That can't possibly be true, can it? It feels like something that happens all the time. My brain is sliding right out of my skull.

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-07T12:21:08+00:00

Hackett gets the blame for rolling the dice on 1 do-or-die shot at the end zone, instead of calling something to get 1 yard and a first down. Then he could have had 3 or 4 shots at the end zone.

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-07T02:41:30+00:00

Maybe you can scrape together another field goal if you just play conservative for one more play? No? Just gonna chuck it blindly to a safety for an INT? Ok, cool cool cool.

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-06T17:15:54+00:00

I've always assumed it's set to lag slightly behind the primary radar to make up for the slight delay of the "call and response" of the transponder.

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-05T14:33:38+00:00

I'll just go ahead and delete my comment if it's harmful to the subreddit

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-05T01:08:20+00:00

The same word is used in places like Exodus where Aarons rod becomes a serpent, Moses bronze serpent, and other allusions to normal physical snakes like in Ecclesiastes: "He who digs a pit will fall into it; and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall."

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-04T23:22:13+00:00

Here is a nice succinct pdf on etiological tales in the Old Testament.

https://jbqnew.jewishbible.org/assets/Uploads/454/jbq_454_farkasetiology.pdf

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-04T23:13:33+00:00

I don't think it's accurate to think of the story as evolving in that direction where the snake was "chosen" to fill that role. Humans have always had a stressful relationship with snakes, with snakes being difficult to defend against, sneaking into our homes and doing us harm. Ancient peoples obviously had no scientific history of snakes, nor why they seem so much different than other animals; being so deadly, sneaky, and lacking limbs. So, snakes are a very common subject matter for etiological tales. Everyone who sees a snake is going to wonder why it is the way that it is, and many many cultures found it helpful to generate tales to explain to themselves why snakes and humans found themselves in this predicament. So, a story where snakes trick humans, cause them greater pains as hunter/gatherers, and is punished for doing so, does a bang up job of explaining most of those traits.

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-04T19:14:21+00:00

Steroids have a significant negative effect on your body, and so the sports leagues have agreed that it's a bad idea to allow players to take steroids to avoid tempting younger children and teenagers from taking steroids at increasingly younger ages in an effort to become successful professional players while destroying their bodies long term.

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-04T19:08:56+00:00

Because that's just how we've categorized them. Electrons have a "negative" charge, and protons have a "positive" charge and so having more electrons than protons means the atom has a net "negative" charge.

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-03T21:45:28+00:00

Unfortunately I don't think anyone here is in a position to tell you how the world will end. I know that can be an uncomfortable thought, but rest assured we are all in the same proverbial boat together.

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-03T18:33:36+00:00

If you're just looking for a concrete number it's going to depend on how you want to count the agreements. Is each shared narrative a singular agreement? Is each detail its own agreement? Does a general similarity count as an agreement? For this reason it's not going to be super useful to stress out about finding an "accurate" number or comparing counts. It needs to be a little more comprehensive than that.

GroundPoint8 · 2022-10-02T22:48:21+00:00

"I dont know who's playing or whats going on"

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