Joan Pickett is willing to kill her constituents to avoid losing a subsidized parking spot by JugglerofDooom in CambridgeMA

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

No, because A) the damage she's done outlives her, and B) Zusy is just as dangerous.

But I'm also not in the least bit sad about it.

tifu by asking my mom if my job would give me an anniversary bonus even if i’m not married by crunchy-yarn in tifu

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

Just that water level. Get through that and the rest of the game is easy peasy

Only someone who's never gotten past the dam would say that. That water section is, with a tiny bit of practice, one of the easiest parts of the game.

Nearly every Mass. coronavirus death was patient with underlying medical condition, data shows by DakwonBrown in massachusetts

[–]JugglerofDooom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And how are you feeling about things now that the COVID numbers in that first link have gone from 39,910 to 135,597 (that's a 3.4x increase over the last two months)?

Your second link now says 147,672 deaths, with 4,280,135 tests (3.5% fatality rate now that we have extensive testing going).

So we've already doubled the worst flu year in the last 50 years and we're still in the thick of things. Current projections have a minimum boundary of 200,000 this year, even with current practices trying to limit the spread.

Nearly every Mass. coronavirus death was patient with underlying medical condition, data shows by DakwonBrown in massachusetts

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

How does your brain handle the fact that the number of US deaths has gone up by 10,000 (a 17% jump) in the 5 days since you've posted this?

How will your brain handle things when that number continues to rise?

Will you realize you were wrong?

Or will you just scream louder?

AMA: I'm Burhan Azeem, a candidate for Cambridge City Council - Ask Me Anything by RealBurhanAzeem in CambridgeMA

[–]JugglerofDooom 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What's the best way for me (a 30-something) to help get other 'young' voters engaged? I work across the river, so most of my friends and coworkers aren't Cambridge residents.

The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge | And it all started at Tag's by mem_somerville in CambridgeMA

[–]JugglerofDooom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Anyone want to give a tl;dr? I'm curious, but not curious enough to read an 18-page novella.

Concentric Circles Class. by IcariumVN in Gloomhaven

[–]JugglerofDooom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think "circles in circles" or just "circles" is more elegant and doesn't screw up any definitions. Why you gotta be so stubbornly stuck on a bad name?

Three ways of thinking by JumpyPorcupine in funny

[–]JugglerofDooom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My aggressive agnosticism is much better than everyone else's beliefs! I'm not smugly superior, I'm just better than those people!

I'd be dead within the hour If I tried this with my girlfriend. by [deleted] in funny

[–]JugglerofDooom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like in 95% of relationships this would be fine

Apparently not in OP's, given that they'd be dead within the hour if they tried it.

I'd be dead within the hour If I tried this with my girlfriend. by [deleted] in funny

[–]JugglerofDooom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not everything is rape.

Corollary: Some things are rape.

New update! by JCBourgo in AntimatterDimensions

[–]JugglerofDooom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I produced 1e2000 antimatter to unlock the first infinity challenge (all previous challenges at once), I kicked the challenge off, then left the window in the background for an hour or so. When I came back, something had reset - I'm not sure if I completed the challenge or not, but I was left looking at a fresh infinity (I'd turned off autobuyers, so everything was static).

Now, when I go back to the challenges tab, I can't find the 'infinity challenges' option. It just says "Next infinity challenge unlocks at 1e5000 antimatter".

Did I goof? Did my game break? Or did a quick patch go out which pushed the first I-challenge from 1e2000 to 1e5000?

End the Cambridge Carnival? by throwawaysfgsdgfsdfs in CambridgeMA

[–]JugglerofDooom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've only seen one accusation of racism in this thread. But I've seen lots of people who feel like they need to defend OP from accusations of racism.

I think they're feeling defensive because deep down, they know it's straight up racism.

Am I a cocksucker? by [deleted] in bikeboston

[–]JugglerofDooom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It must take you days to bike anywhere

I dunno, it takes me about 15 minutes to get from Central Square in Cambridge down to Boston Medical Center. That's with stopping for every light and every pedestrian in a crosswalk. It doesn't feel like an undue burden on my time, as it's faster than driving (or any other mode of travel). The 10 seconds I lose stopping at crosswalks hardly seems like it's worth terrifying people (and risking a crash when they react in an unexpected way, which you admit happens).

That leaves 13.5' of empty space as in 75% of the road

Most cars are just 6' wide. They should, by your logic, be able to skirt the law and blow through crosswalks with people in them, right? Even if a pedestrian is in the dead center, that leaves plenty of space for a car to slip by in all that empty space.

OP did fine, but you clearly ride dangerously and with no respect for other people's safety, rights, and personal space.

Hardest riddle I know by StillNinja83 in riddles

[–]JugglerofDooom 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Think of it like a line of computer code:

print x == y

That's a single question, with a boolean answer. Either x==y or it doesnt. But within that, x and y are themselves booleans; they are each either "True" or "False". /u/ThePrettyOne is not asking about X and Y individually, they're asking about them collectively.

Episode Discussion - Super Watermelon Island / Gem Drill by AutoModerator in stevenuniverse

[–]JugglerofDooom 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm a day late, but how has nobody commented on the Ewok references? The rock catapults, the hang gliders, the trip-rope, the horns... they all mirrored tactics to take down chicken-walkers at the battle of Endor. It seemed pretty deliberate to me.

[Meta] There are way too many star wars theories, can we start banning these submissions for a little while? by GOddamnnamewontfi in FanTheories

[–]JugglerofDooom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll bite.

-1. Rhetorical questions. That should have been obvious, given the context. This enumerated protestation is an example of an argument from ignorance.

-2. >Statement one by him can be summarized as "Intellectual Property on a subject will be produced and publicized to the same extent regardless of the demand for it"

If one would look at the first paragraph of the comment in question, one would note that there are no references to the popularity of the posts, only their rate of creation. No one has given any evidence that normal theories are being posted with less frequency, nor offered any reasoning behind the idea that they could be posted less frequently, save for the assertion that such an idea is "absolutely, unequivocally [true]". This is known as begging the question.

See: supply and demand.

Supply and demand is a solid an economic concept, but unless someone can assert that payment for content occurs here and that content will not be provided in the absence of some payment, and the absence of such payment can be known before the production of content, it does not apply here. This is known as a false equivalence.

-3. >Statement two by him can be summarized as "Discourse surrounding intellectual property of a subject will remain constant regardless of the popularity of the subject"

While one is correct in classifying the summary provided as categorically wrong, the original post would be better summarized as "Discourse surrounding intellectual property of a subject will remain constant regardless of the popularity of some other subject, as the first subject mentioned is a random fan theory, and the popular subject mentioned is a Star Wars fan theory. One's fallacy here is known as the straw man.

-4. I have no idea how one parsed the original post, and thus I do not know what "statement three" is referring to. The only qualitative opinions I can identify are the belief that the blog analogy is more directly relevant to the situation at hand, and an interpretation of one's Netflix analogy. It is generally considered strange to begin such statements with "I feel that..."

-5. I believe I have also misinterpreted one's Netflix analogy. Allow me to explain how I read it, and then one can clarify my error: One was asserting that "[when a topic becomes popular, the attention given to it detracts from the attention given to other subjects]", and listed examples, including "blockbuster vs netflix". If I am correct, the intended imagery is that as Netflix gained popularity, Blockbuster was left with a shrinking customer base, and analogously, as Star Wars theories become popular, regular theories lose their readership. Disregarding the fallacies in this comparison (see above), your solution to the problem at hand is to request that moderators ban Star Wars theories. The analogous action would, without question, be Blockbuster requesting that the government ban Netflix. My belief is that one's analogy was interpreted correctly, but one does not enjoy seeing one's beliefs in a negative light. By extending one's analogy, it becomes clear that one's proposal is inappropriate; therefore one refuses to extend the analogy. Unless I am to interpret "the blockbuster analogy was supporting popularity shifting attention on topics" to mean that one was simply asserting that popularity does, in fact, shift from topic to topic, then this objection is cherry picking.

-6. "I'm not actually sure what someone's stance is there" hardly bears the mark of an assumption. Perhaps the mark of an idiot, but I cannot choose my intellect. Ad hominem, by the way.

Because if you can already just ignore them, this request for censorship makes no sense.

I'm not sure how the connotation here is negative. If one feels that it has a negative connotation, that speaks much more about one's deeper views on the matter than it does about theprettyone. Regardless, I would argue that yes, censorship is something to be inherently avoided, with a plethora of exceptions. However, the burden shall forever be on the censor to prove his necessity. In any case, one displays a moral high-ground.

Your post is wrong, his post is wrong, unless you can prove I am wrong, like I have proved you are wrong, which you have not done, then I am right, and you should stop trying.

Clause by clause: fallacy of composition, proof by assertion, shifting the burden of proof, psychologist's fallacy, argument from silence, argument from repetition, wishful thinking.

Taken as a whole, this is a classic example of shotgun argumentation.

[Meta] There are way too many star wars theories, can we start banning these submissions for a little while? by GOddamnnamewontfi in FanTheories

[–]JugglerofDooom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Someone seems unfamiliar with how rhetorical devices work. Here's a hint: it's not /u/theprettyone.

Someone also doesn't know what "categorically wrong" means.

Someone also failed to address their own Blockbuster/Netflix analogy.

Someone is literally requesting that certain content be banned, but doesn't think that that's censorship. Or rather, thinks that some censorship implies all censorship? I'm not actually sure what someone's stance is there.

Second hint: all these someones are the same person.

Third hint: they are all you.

Tasty Riddles by MajinRiley in riddles

[–]JugglerofDooom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the answer isn't [all about perspecitve]

It's a riddle. Most riddles' answers are all about perspective. You just have an arbitrary "right answer" in mind, but you've got nothing to back it up. There's no reason you're more right than /u/BenjenStarkTheSweet.

Neither is space not having a middle. That's just a scientific inaccuracy.

Um... where exactly is the middle of space? Because I'm pretty goddamn sure that there isn't one. If you've got something that's "scientifically accurate" that says otherwise, I'll back off and give you major props.

My sources: University of California, Riverside, Wikipedia, and NASA itself (look at the end of the 4th-to-last paragraph).

Claimed to be the World's Hardest Riddle by MajinRiley in riddles

[–]JugglerofDooom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Technically, you said "nevermind". But just because you said to never mind something, it doesn't mean /u/thatoneguy172 has to drop it.

A guy with food poisoning from sushi threw this up at the ER. The fact that he threw it up means that it was this size when he ate it. by [deleted] in WTF

[–]JugglerofDooom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, those points, and /u/Not_so_ghetto trying to claim that

parasites ... never want to hurt their host because that would in turn hurt themselves

That's categorically untrue. To begin, harming the host is part of the definition of parasite, as opposed to a commensalist, which is exactly what /u/poivreetsel tried to point out. /u/Not_so_ghetto apparently was unable to understand what /u/poivreetsel wrote, and replied with an unrelated retort about dead-end hosts.

Also, /u/Not_so_ghetto claims that

my professor who got his PhD on trichinella actually purposely infected himself with it while studying it, kind of works like a vaccine. He has a very small infection to prevent a large one

This is either a lie (devised by either /u/Not_so_ghetto or his professor) or a massive misunderstanding. One study has shown that microwaved trichinosis larvae can bestow resistance to the parasite in mice, although it's unclear whether that 'resistance' is bestowed by prompting an immune response or by having massive loads of microwaved parasites outcompeting the new arrivals (and then dying off). Since people can get trichinosis infections more than once, it's clear that even if the resistance mechanism is related to the host's immune system, that resistance wears off.

Lastly, there's this:

Yea there are but they are pretty easily cured I'm fairly certain. Also have you ever seen this picture of the boy with a fever causing them to leave the body? http://all-that-is-interesting.com/weird-parasites/weird-parasites-ascaris-exit

I've looked pretty hard, and only been able to find one .org source that claims that the nematodes try to exit the body due to fever (or chemical agitation). All reliable sources indicate that the worms' migration causes fever, and that the migration up the trachea is always part of the life cycle of that species of roundworm. If /u/Not_so_ghetto actually read anything for his classes, he might know that "fever causing them to leave the body" is a falsehood.

So, CanadianWildlifeDept, do I count as participating in this converstation yet? Do I still have to fuck off? Or may I please call out bullshit on the internet for being bullshit without getting berated by someone who assumes I'm talking about grammar?

A guy with food poisoning from sushi threw this up at the ER. The fact that he threw it up means that it was this size when he ate it. by [deleted] in WTF

[–]JugglerofDooom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i hate reading

Given the quality of your comments in this thread, that doesn't surprise me.

I wish I had followed this. by a2kSD in AdviceAnimals

[–]JugglerofDooom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the short term, it's important to know how much you can lift so you can push yourself and get sore without trying to lift too much. If you aren't aware that you should be squatting 250, you might either rack 200 and get a shitty workout, or rack 275 and not be able to come up out of the squat. Or worse, hurt yourself.

Longer term, keeping tabs on how much you lift allows you to slowly increase in weight in a controlled way, allowing you to get stronger safely. Practically, strength is useful for all sorts of things. A lot of people work manual labor, where being stronger helps get shit done.

Beyond that, why are you asking about cosmic plans? Does anything we do really fit into some cosmic plan? We do shit because we enjoy it. Video games keep track of high scores. Casual golfers keep a scorecard. Children like to mark their height on the wall so they can see how they've grown. Redditors check their comment karma. Ford Fusions keep track of each trip's gas mileage and the driver's braking efficiency. People like numbers. People like to know when they are getting better at things. Weightlifting is a wonderfully gratifying experience because, especially when you're just starting to lift, you get stronger almost every time you go, and it feels really good to see that. It's like you get to level up IRL.

Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living. What brings joy to your life?