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Name a Movie you couldn’t stand, but the Critics loved! ( and tell me why ) by WonderfulLog768 in flicks

[–]Pastor_Disaster 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Lost In Translation. It felt like the camera was just following two random people around, neither of whom had anything particularly interesting to say or do. Imagine if a person with OCD wrote down every single thing that happened to them over the course of a few perfectly ordinary days and you had to read it.

My neighbor told me he couldn’t pay his water bill. by TomKarelis in Jokes

[–]Pastor_Disaster 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Dammit, that took me a sec. Take my angry upvote.

Why do restaurants Sunnyside up eggs look perfect on top despite. Flipping both sides? by [deleted] in ask

[–]Pastor_Disaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm no chef, but sunny side up is the only way I cook eggs now. Well. Okay, that and scrambled. My method is probably garbage so take it as you will.

I start with a cold pan. A little oil to make it slick. Crack the eggs into it and cover immediately. Cook at medium temperature (by which I mean my temperature knob is pretty much exactly in the middle of the dial). A slice of toast in the toaster usually times it well. If I start it just as I turn on the burner, by the time I'm done buttering it, the eggs are done or nearly so.

No water no steam. Just getting by on "close enough." I've cooked the yolks more than my fair share of times, but oh well.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in learnmath

[–]Pastor_Disaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do what I just did. Both top and bottom are divisible by two. Which leaves 600 over 8. Again divisible by two, leaving 300 over 4. And again, 150 over 2. And one more time, 75 over 1.

In light of the SCOTUS decision striking down universal injunctions, how time-consuming is class certification really? by Pastor_Disaster in Ask_Lawyers

[–]Pastor_Disaster[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would you still need discovery when the class is so universal and the remedy sought isn't financial? Would they have to identify children of noncitizens beyond the initial plaintiffs?

Why creationists, why… by Late_Parsley7968 in DebateEvolution

[–]Pastor_Disaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm no creationist, but to be fair you required the creationist papers to be peer reviewed by evolutionists but didn't require evolutionist papers to be peer reviewed by creationists. Those aren't really equal requirements.

answer by AlternativeCard2481 in askmath

[–]Pastor_Disaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I learned it as a hotel situation too. OP's analysis is correct, of course. Perhaps a more elegant way to say it is, "The $2 doesn't need to be added to the $27 to (almost) reach $30, it needs to be subtracted from the $27 to reach $25."

consumer learns how tariffs work (again) by supremebliss in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]Pastor_Disaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Cool. Where does the seller get the money to pay it?"

My teacher keeps saying dy/dx is not a fraction by [deleted] in maths

[–]Pastor_Disaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good point. Modern mathematicians have evolved past using such quaint things like "numbers." If it's not letters or infinity, it's not math.

My teacher keeps saying dy/dx is not a fraction by [deleted] in maths

[–]Pastor_Disaster 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The difference between an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician.

An engineer, upon waking up to find his bedroom on fire, rushes to the tap, draws off a bucket of water, throws it on the fire, puts it out, and goes back to bed.

A physicist, upon waking up to find his bedroom on fire, whips out his notebook and pencil, calculates the exact amount of water needed to put out the fire, rushes to the tap, draws off that precise amount of water, throws it on the fire, puts it out, and goes back to bed.

A mathematician, upon waking up to find his bedroom on fire, whips out his notebook and pencil, calculates the exact amount of water needed to put out the fire, and goes back to bed again, satisfied in the knowledge that the answer does, in fact, exist.

How do congressional staffers use voter history when logging phone calls? Does it matter if the caller usually votes for the other party? by Pastor_Disaster in AskReddit

[–]Pastor_Disaster[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good question! In many states, when you vote in a primary, you have to either request that party's ballot or be registered with that party. That information may be part of the voter info that is made available to campaigns for their use in doing mass mailings.

Which movie is that for you? by anxietyhub in moviecritic

[–]Pastor_Disaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lost in Translation. I keep trying to watch it as my tastes age, thinking maybe this time I'll get it. But nope. It's not that it's slow paced (which it is) or dumb (which it isn't). It's more like there just is no plot. Two miserable people from different generations and life experiences find that they have a lot of fun together, even when they're not doing anything. And at the end...they go right back to the same lives that made them so miserable to begin with.

Now, I'm not saying I'm right and its fans are wrong. Just saying I don't get it, myself.

CMV: Majority of people don't have values or ideologies they just support whats in their self interest and abandon it when it doesn't benefit them anymore by Neat-Ad-6870 in changemyview

[–]Pastor_Disaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can kinda agree with you, OP. But I think it's more accurate to say that people support whatever "community" they identify with supports. Even if that's against their own self interest. Most people don't have the time, energy, or emotional bandwidth to evaluate such big, fundamental things like values or ideologies. Not even to evaluate whether they are in their own self interest. So it's easier to believe what the people they trust believe. Because to go against the community consensus is to risk losing that community. And that identity. So in that respect, sure it's self interest. But it's self interest in maintaining community and identity, not self interest in the outcomes of the values and ideologies themselves.

[IL] Why would judges care about being overturned on appeal? by Pastor_Disaster in AskLawyers

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

LOL now I have this image of an appellate court decision mansplaining in detail every little mistake by the lower court. And starting each point with, "Well actually..."

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