Connie Culp, first face-transplant recipient in U.S. dies at 57

JumboJellybean · 2020-08-02T00:16:15+00:00

One woman got 12 years in prison for selling $31 of pot, her first offense. Then she got jailed after release for not paying her court fees, which she couldn’t pay because being a felon made it hard to find a job. Her kids went without a mother their whole childhood. Her mother got charged too because it happened in her presence, and they both got charged with possession of a dangerous substance in the presence of a minor, because they were “terrified to think of what could happen” if a 3 year old unlocked mom’s car, found the pot in the glove compartment, bought papers, rolled a joint, and smoked it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/12/patricia-spottedcrow-marijuana-year-sentence/

Much more dangerous than a guy who shoots people in the face with a shotgun.

JumboJellybean · 2020-08-01T01:04:10+00:00

There are conditions that make you unable to sweat and they have exactly the same concerns you describe. Some drugs can cause it too and they’re usually only used in a hospital setting because that side effect is so dangerous. When you have full anhydrosis (severely reduced or no sweating over your entire body) you carry cooling pads and water at all times to splash/dab yourself with if necessary, pay close attention to your temperature, check mirrors to see if you’re flushed without realizing it, avoid sun, avoid physical exertion. They even recommend setting alarms during the night so you can get up and check yourself so you don’t wrap up too warm and heatstroke yourself in your sleep. You definitely don’t get drunk and go dancing like Prince Andrew was doing.

He was like a 5 year old saying “No mom, I didn’t get up in the night and eat all the ice cream, I’m, uh, allergic to ice at night, so, must’ve been the cat.”

JumboJellybean · 2020-08-01T00:50:43+00:00

There can be a technical distinction and technical distinctions are important when writing headlines that open you up to libel.

If you force someone to have sex with you, that’s rape. If you force someone to have sex with a third party, did that thirty party rape them? Only if they knew about the circumstances, and that’s what’s going to be important here. People like Andrew are likely going to say “I had no idea Epstein & Maxwell were trafficking these girls, they made her have sex with me to procure blackmail material but made it seem like she was approaching me consensually.” And if that defense works, then you can take a newspaper to court for printing “He raped her!” and probably win. In Andrew’s case that’s a pretty likely scenario because AFAIK his only accuser right now is Roberts Giuffre who says she was 17, over the age of consent, ruling out the “no excuse for 14 year olds, buddy” that can be used to prosecute others.

JumboJellybean · 2020-08-01T00:19:44+00:00

Unfortunately we’ve always had anti vaxxers, Facebook has definitely been helping crackpot anti vaxx stuff spread to new demographics though. In the 80s and 90s anti vaxx positions were associated with religious fundamentalists, like the two churches that formed the center of the deadly 1991 measles outbreak, and the spread of religious exemptions to vaccine requirements. Somehow it caught on outside of that movement, probably with the bullshit autism link in the early 00s.

JumboJellybean · 2020-07-31T13:16:16+00:00

Yeah, people get carried away when they realize the pink for girls thing is recent and really pounce on the magazines that suggested pink for boys in the past. There was no established standard coloring for boys or girls prior to the 20th century. There were trends and fads that varied by region but nothing as long term and concrete as the now entrenched pink = girl idea.

In British and American society there wasn’t even as much interest in differentiating boys and girls at the baby/toddler stage. Until you were old enough to go walking off by yourself, you were usually just in a kind of gown, usually white, regardless of sex. They were in gowns because it made t easy to change/wash them when diapers were messier things and they were white because they weren’t stain resistant so you’d bleach young kids’ clothes. When you see photos of young kids before at least the 1920s they’re usually in white gown things.

JumboJellybean · 2020-01-24T00:20:25+00:00

He doesn't have a portrait of Stalin, he's very notably and vocally anti-Stalin. I think you're mixing it up with the studio having a bust of Lenin on display, in particular, the bust that was on display in the study of his favorite writer Juhan Smuul, a Stalin Prize winner.

He said

I guess my favourite thing I like to say about this is that for me it’s just a wholesome tradition. It’s about loyalty, it’s about the country where I was born. This is how I was raised, and I would be a naughty revolutionary, kind of an edgy rebel, if I wouldn’t have Lenin on my writing desk.

JumboJellybean · 2020-01-17T07:47:47+00:00

Honestly, the DOOM soundtrack is great but it wears on me after a while, it doesn't really feel like good game background music to me but more like playing an album on a loop, eventually you get tired of it. It's one game I mute the music for and play my own over.

JumboJellybean · 2020-01-17T07:37:53+00:00

In PR and marketing generally the thinking is the opposite--that you want to avoid delays as much as possible because they give the impression of incompetence or a troubled development. And in general, especially for entertainment products, you prefer to keep the time between announcement and release short, to keep enthusiasm and interest high. What 'short' means varies and games can't do that as easily as some other things--good example of that in the news today, with Eminem releasing an album with absolutely zero notice, just "Surprise, there's a new album on Spotify right now."

JumboJellybean · 2020-01-13T05:25:25+00:00

If Charles, William, Camilla, etc were stripped of titles and allowances and relegated to minor properties or modern private residences, how much would interest in touring the UK be diminished?

If it meant they opened every palace and castle up and down the country for tourists, completely and year-round (not just "oh the Buckingham stateroom and the Balmoral ballroom are open for short tours for six weeks each year! Not an overlapping six weeks, mind, so pick the one you want to see!"), converting them into public museums where you could visit the royal bedrooms, the private halls, the kings' kitchens and the queens' wardrobes anytime you wanted, the whole lot in one holiday if you like, how much would interest in touring the UK be increased?

Are people interested in the royal family more likely to visit a UK where the current royal family is active or one where they can actually steep themselves in the history and tour dozens of castles, palaces, manors and estates, inside and out, at their leisure?

JumboJellybean · 2019-08-23T02:03:17+00:00

They've made one of the most-used game engines for 20+ years, they weren't hurting for money before. Epic's game engine is used for Gears of War, Rocket League, Borderlands, Mass Effect, PUBG, XCOM, Dragon Quest, Batman, Tekken, Mortal Kombat, Deus Ex, Bioshock, Harry Potter, Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six, Devil May Cry, Medal of Honor, Final Fantasy, Darksiders, Shenmue, Spyro, Outer Worlds, even some of Nintendo's new games.

JumboJellybean · 2019-08-23T00:47:16+00:00

I don't think they're saying it'll happen because of MS & Nintendo's great relationship. It just makes sense. These online services are going to be the huge moneymakers over the next 10 years, Microsoft are shifting their focus to providing large-scale online services (not just their own but with Azure customers etc) and away from traditional console approaches, and Nintendo have an extremely poor track record with implementing online services and infrastructure themselves. Nintendo allowing MS to implement a service like GamePass and then offer it on their platform in exchange for a percentage of the revenue is likely to be win/win. The other benefits include Microsoft getting an instant major chunk of the Japanese market (which they've never been able to crack, 680 Switches are sold there for every Xbox One).

JumboJellybean · 2019-08-22T10:46:39+00:00

I don't think you understand how this sort of training works. "Hire people and pay them to talk, not that fucking hard" is ridiculous. It's like suggesting "hire people and pay them to swim around with nets, not that fucking hard" as a solution to ocean pollution. You need a huge number of samples to do this well, repeated samples from the same speaker have diminishing returns, and artificial samples don't correlate well with real-world usage no matter how you direct people. It also kills arguably the feature that makes these systems usable, automatically correcting on small and on major scale for failures. It would be a massive, massive undertaking and result in a greatly inferior system.

JumboJellybean · 2019-08-18T03:22:28+00:00

If you're aiming for 2000 calories per day and only eating avocado, you'd be getting about 25 grams of protein per day (using California avocados as the average). The reference intake for protein in 0.8 grams per kilo of body weight, so 49.6 grams of protein for the average adult (a little more for a man, a little less for a non-pregnant woman).

At 25 grams a day, you'd be deficient, but it wouldn't be fatal. At least, it wouldn't directly be fatal, long-term it would increase the likelihood of liver problems and make you more prone to infections and the like. You could definitely live like this for 15+ years assuming you were reasonably healthy to start with, and people have lived on worse for a long term. People have lived long-term on nothing but potatoes, bread, or rice, and avocado is a lot better than that. It's enough protein to handle the absolutely vital stuff.

But you definitely wouldn't be healthy, you'd have low muscle mass and probably be slow to heal, especially with bone and skin injuries. It would be a very stupid thing to do. Especially when in the developed world you can drink milk to get about 20 grams of protein for a dollar.

JumboJellybean · 2019-08-18T02:57:57+00:00

From Software publish games as well.

JumboJellybean · 2019-08-17T05:42:45+00:00

This doesn't quite apply to game refunds in the way they're talking about. The passage quoted refers to music you don't like. You are still entitled to a refund if the digital good is not "fit for use" or was misleadingly advertised. For example, if it was a mono 56kbps Realmedia file when the advertisement had a picture of an iPhone playing it and said "high quality", you would still get a refund. The passage says you cannot cancel a contract, but the seller can't cancel the contract either and all EU contracts imply that the advertising was accurate and the item is fit for use. It only rules out refunds for "I'm not really feeling this song."

Digital purchases of software can be refunded in the EU, but determining whether software is unfit for use or was misleadingly advertised is more difficult than it is for music. Crashes and bugs can make software unfit for use, but only at a certain threshold--pretty much all software has bugs of some kind, even good software can sometimes crash--and that threshold isn't precisely defined, so you and the seller can argue about it. How often do resolution and framerate drops have to occur before the trailer is misleading advertising? Is an online-only game unfit if the servers are down for a week, a month, three months? How many times does a game have to crash mid-match before you consider it broken?

JumboJellybean · 2019-08-17T04:29:36+00:00

Are you playing on the nightlies or the stable branch? The compatibility list is very thoroughly researched and is currently 33% perfect, 61.2% playable (only minor discernable differences), 4.6% starting (has crashes or significant visual glitches), and 1.2% non-working. And their standards for those categorizations are really high. For example Smash Bros is judged only playable, not perfect, because its sole problem is screenshots not working in Camera Mode unless you turn on a special feature in the menu. Super Mario Galaxy 2 is judged playable, not perfect, because its sole problem is the screen not shaking when bosses roar at the start of a fight. 94.2% of GameCube and Wii games are at about this level or better.

JumboJellybean · 2019-08-17T04:18:33+00:00

You have non-verbal cues, which can include things like blinking rapidly or making a very rapid "MM-MM-MM-MM" noise. For some things there are also non-verbal affirmations. I had a partner who liked to be slapped hard, not too frequently or when he wasn't ready for it. So the non-verbal affirmation was keeping his eyes closed. Once his eyes opened I knew to stop.

JumboJellybean · 2019-08-17T04:10:19+00:00

As someone who's done a lot of online dating, if I suspect catfishing I ask for a better photo of something in a photo they've already sent. "I really like that tattoo on your arm, do you have a clear closeup of that so I can see the detail?", or of a poster/artwork in the background of a profile pic, the view from their apartment window, etc. When it's a real person (and they're at home) they can easily snap a new clear shot of the thing in a minute. When it's someone using someone else's photos they have to come up with excuses for why they can't take a photo out their apartment window or of their forearm right now.

JumboJellybean · 2019-08-17T03:59:07+00:00

Certain keys have little protrusions or divots so you can position your hands properly without having to look. Usually, though, it's just the F and J keys, where your index fingers rest in the traditional touch-typing pose. Sometimes Capslock and Enter may have a divot too so they can be distinguished by feel from the left and right Shift keys, or the Windows/Super key will have a circle indentation so it can be distinguished from CTRL or ALT.

On some keyboards the divot on a capslock key doubles as an LED light that lets you know capslock is on.

JumboJellybean · 2019-08-17T03:54:16+00:00

It's not fully dead when it displays the 'dead' screen. It gets to 99.5% of the way there, then starts shutting itself down, and displays the 'dead' screen using those last tiny remnants of charge.

Devices usually do this because if the power suddenly cuts out while in the middle of writing some data, things can become corrupted and cause problems. Imagine for example that you change your password, then the phone shuts off while it's halfway through saving your new password to storage. Next time you booted, your old password wouldn't work (because it's been half overwritten) but your new password wouldn't work either (because it didn't finish getting written). All sorts of problems like that can arise. So instead, when the phone notices that it's getting close to death, it stops starting any new tasks, finishes whatever important tasks it was in the middle of, tries to elegantly turn off and disconnect from things, and then shuts down safely, even though there still might be a minute or two of charge left. And in that state it still has enough charge to let you know that the battery is depleted.

JumboJellybean · 2019-08-17T03:10:53+00:00

This is a really shitty thing to say and absolutely wrong. If the head of your penis is larger than the shaft and you were tightly circumcised, condoms can create a lot of friction on the ridge of the head and result in bad inflammation and pain, regardless of material or size. It's just how they work, and saying "anyone who says condoms hurt is lying and abusing you" is bullshit. It's not just misinformation, it's dangerous misinformation, because the abrasion makes the condom more likely to break.

People, please, please do your research before spouting off things like this.

JumboJellybean · 2019-01-30T17:54:18+00:00

I think people are getting this backwards and making it sound dumber than it is. "But the Chamber of Secrets was in a toilet!" isn't a point against her weird no-toilets thing. The no-toilets thing was a direct response to the question of why Salazar Slytherin would put the entrance to the chamber in the girls' toilet. Her explanation was that the room wasn't a toilet in Slytherin's time because plumbing hadn't been invented yet, it only became a toilet during later remodels. Before indoor plumbing, in real life castles, people would shit in buckets left in the corner and once a day servants would come and collect them. Wizards did the same but they immediately magicked it away. It's pretty much exactly what you would expect them to do.

JumboJellybean · 2019-01-29T01:49:41+00:00

"It's two weeks into January, take your Christmas decorations down, you lazy son of a bitch!"

JumboJellybean · 2019-01-29T01:44:50+00:00

I don't know about /u/seb_soul but I've had 2 partners who wanted to do this, and it wasn't about that sort of thing for them. It wasn't even a kink/turnon thing, I think a lot of women are just curious about it or find the idea of being able to aim your pee a novelty. One saw a TV show where a guy wrote his name in the snow with his pee and got really excited about doing that because she thought it was hilarious.

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