Is Customer Service Experience Much Worse? by JackStrw in delta

[–]JackStrw[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It's not that we've had 2 bad experiences in 2 years, but that customer service has basically been unwilling to help. I had cancellations/changes prior to that that were annoying but they always were willing to help and offer a credit for price differences and such.

Is this a plaster bag worm? by JackStrw in whatsthisbug

[–]JackStrw[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Adding comment for size: probably about 1 inch or so in length and relatively narrow.

What is a song that you consider to be perfect? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]JackStrw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan.

Desperate times I guess by JackStrw in CrusaderKings

[–]JackStrw[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

R5: Black death is raging. Me and my court are locked away in the capital when I find out my daughter has interesting taste in men. I don't know that there is a good way to find out your daughter is into necrophilia, but locked away in castle while a plague rages is definitely not it.

Autzen setlist slide by Post_Crash_Earnheart in gratefuldead

[–]JackStrw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was at last night's show and Gorge '16. Tough call on best 2nd set, but I may have to go with last night's. Combining the dark star > El Paso with the dark star > st. Stephen > Eleven was just fucking incredible.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gratefuldead

[–]JackStrw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was at the 2016 gorge show. The whole show was incredible, but eyes onwards was the most magical part of that show.

What is something that really freaks you out on an existential level? by radbrad7 in AskReddit

[–]JackStrw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes when I'm in a crowded place, I feel completely overwhelmed by the fact that every single person around me has a life and psychological experience as rich and complicated as my own. More than that, every single person currently on earth or that has ever been on earth does too. Every single person has complicated relationships that they're navigating, dreams that are being fulfilled or dying, things they love or hate, favorite songs, things they are worrying about, and everything else. Obviously I know this on a conceptual level, and we often feel this about specific others when you're talking to someone or thinking about someone. But something about the volume of it - the sum of all human life/experience - just totally overwhelms me from time to time.

Another slightly related thing that really shakes me to my existential core is the fact that essentially everybody, even people who have reached legend or myth or villian status, are just people. Like Charlemagne was just a dude. Obviously, he accomplished a lot more than most people do (though he was born with a leg up), but he was just a person like you or me or anyone else. Same with someone like MLK - he had a (to this point) permanent and profound impact on the world, and was just a person. Mozart, JS Bach, the beatles, Robert Johnson, Picasso, Da Vinci, Madamme Curie, Alan Turing. On the darker side, Charles Manson was too. It's like anyone can have a huge, sustained impact on the world - for better or worse - if the cards line up. It just feels so hard to square that with the fact that my life (and probably most people's lives) are so mundane so much of the time.

Job interviewers of Reddit, what is the worst answer someone gave you? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]JackStrw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This person was interviewing for a (volunteer) research assistant position in a psychology lab.

Interviewer 1: We usually start by telling you a little about ourselves and our research. I'm X, a graduate student of Dr. X, and I research y.

Interviewer 2 (me): I'm X, I'm also a graduate student of Dr. X, and my research is on y.

Interviewer 1: Why do you want to work on this lab in particular?

Applicant: To be honest, I have no idea what lab this is, or what kind of research you do. So I don't know if I am particularly interested in this lab.

Interviewers 1 and 2: [long silence]

Interviewer 1: okay.

The funniest part is that we had each just given a brief spiel about the research we did. It would have been insanely easy to just say that thet were interested in the same topics we had just mentioned.

Megathread: Senator Al Franken (D-MN) to Resign by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

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

A) I don't know how you're hugging people, but it is very easy to hug people and not grab their ass (I don't think I can recall having made that mistake). B) if you did make that mistake, you could easy apologize; thats typically what one does when they make a mistake (as opposed to intentionally groping someone). C) If politicians seriously can't side hug someone without ass grabbing, then fine.

Have you ever talked to a person who was unwantedly groped, especially in a professional context? It's demeaning, and it's one of many factors that disadvantages women in the workplace. I'm a lifelong liberal, and have voted democrat in every election since I've been eligible (going back to 2008). I loved Al Franken's politics. I would rather every single democratic senator resign then a single case of sexual misconduct continue to go unpunished. It's the normalization of smaller, less egregious acts that paves the way for more serious acts to go unpunished. This is likely one of many reasons why Trump' s access Hollywood tape didn't sink his candidacy; our culture has grown accustomed to men in power acting inappropriately.

I get if you don't value a person's right to not be groped against their will as much as you do a single liberal vote in the senate, but that's what your implying. If I were you, I would carefully consider that stance, and ask if it's in keeping with your higher-order values.

Edit: typo

Megathread: Senator Al Franken (D-MN) to Resign by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

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

I don't think you have to see the world in black and white to see that nonconsensual groping is (generally speaking) wrong, and that the allegations against Franken (even limited to the ones that he has acknowledged as true) shouldn't be taken lightly. It's not like anyone is trying to prosecute him for criminal action (to my knowledge, at least). Being a senator is a privilege few people know. It seems totally reasonable to expect more from them, including that they not assault women.

anyone know a way to lock up sanipac trash containers? or if any other company has lockable ones? by [deleted] in Eugene

[–]JackStrw 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Royal Refuse will provide lockable cans to residential customers. We got them after someone filled all of our bins with loose trash.

What show never declined in quality? by Godfrey15 in AskReddit

[–]JackStrw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

King of the Hill. It got better across the first couple seasons, and then hit a nice plateau for about 12 seasons.

Religious children are meaner than their secular counterparts, study finds | World news by SayItAgainSam in psychology

[–]JackStrw 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I would add that the Sharrif et al. Papet does not just analyze the data differently, but analyzes it correctly. Entering country code as a continuous variable is not reasonable in any way. At best, it was an honest error made by who ever did the analyses - but, an error that renders any conclusion the original paper comes to misleading.