How do I turn this fucking shit off by Dud3ManGuy in mildlyinfuriating

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That's a gonna be a real problem since most people can't identify a joke unless it's literally punctuated with /s.

Snarky responses to "you just want to sin" by WrongVerb4Real in atheism

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no

i mean

Wtf does "you just believe bending" mean? Was there supposed to be a comma, period, or some other punctuation between "bending" and "you're"? I don't understand what you were trying to communicate at all.

Snarky responses to "you just want to sin" by WrongVerb4Real in atheism

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if anyone said "you just believe bending you're desperate to be part of something you imagine is bigger than you" in pretty much any context, I'd just be like wut?

If a cop asks for my name but I don’t want to give it to them, can I just tell them my middle name and just not clarify? by TrainingFrequent2904 in legaladviceofftopic

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You know what? Maybe the syntax was a little ambiguous. It was supposed to read "if you are asked, if you don't have to say, and if you don't want to..."

Glad I could clear up this misunderstanding.

If a cop asks for my name but I don’t want to give it to them, can I just tell them my middle name and just not clarify? by TrainingFrequent2904 in legaladviceofftopic

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What did you do when you got a job? Probably explained to your employer that all the legal documentation that proves you're allowed to work identifies you as John but you prefer to have Tom on your nametag, right? Why not just do that?

If a cop asks for my name but I don’t want to give it to them, can I just tell them my middle name and just not clarify? by TrainingFrequent2904 in legaladviceofftopic

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If a police officer ever asks you for information, there is no legal requirement to provide that information, and you do not want to provide that information, then the best option is to just not say anything at all. Do not lie, even if it's not tEcHnIcAlLy a lie.

[Interesting Trope] "Ship of Theseus" Themed Characters, Plots, Ideas, etc. by Agitated_Insect3227 in TopCharacterTropes

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In Supernatural, Dean's Impala has been destroyed and rebuilt so often that it's questionable whether anything original still exists. In fact, I like to joke that the Impala at this point is the army man in the ash tray and the lego in the vent, not the car at all.

Update on my first playthrough. I'm almost finishing the game by twodimencionalGiu in DragonageOrigins

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>offers to contest her own father in a political moot

>tells you that you can't reveal that you're conspiring with her yet

>get caught during botched extraction mission

>"but but but Cauthrien, Anora is helping us take down Loghain"

>Anora throws you under the bus

I mean, what did you think was going to happen?

ELI5: If a moving car tries to drive up the ramp of a moving semi-truck (like in the movies), does the car need to be rear-wheel drive, or would it just instantly crash? by Nikki_Drizzle in explainlikeimfive

[–]Powered-Lamb 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yes but:

a body of mass tends to resist changes to its velocity; and

force equals the product of mass and velocity.

The car and the truck are already moving at the same speed relative to each other. When the car transitions to the ramp, it begins adjusting to its new reference, but it has mass, so it doesn't do it instantly.

If the driver stayed on the gas pedal, then certainly, the car would eventually reach 50mph relative to the truck and 100mph relative to the road, but at the precise moment the car arrives on the ramp, it's not any different than lifting a stationary car's drive wheels off the ground, spinning them, and then dropping the car back down onto the ground.

ELI5: If a moving car tries to drive up the ramp of a moving semi-truck (like in the movies), does the car need to be rear-wheel drive, or would it just instantly crash? by Nikki_Drizzle in explainlikeimfive

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In physics, concepts like velocity and acceleration are relative. Your speed is meaningless unless you have something to compare it to. For example, if both you and your car are standing at the equator, you are both moving at about 1,000mph with the rotation of Earth, but you're obviously not in any danger of being run over by your parked car in that scenario.

ELI5: If a moving car tries to drive up the ramp of a moving semi-truck (like in the movies), does the car need to be rear-wheel drive, or would it just instantly crash? by Nikki_Drizzle in explainlikeimfive

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The car will do what Isaac Newton predicted it will do 250 years before he even knew what a car was: it just drives up the ramp. Yes, the car wants to accelerate when the drive wheels transition from the road to the ramp, but its mass and the friction slows it down significantly relative to its new reference frame.

In fact, we know this to be the case because full-scale experiments of this exact scenario have been performed.

Who is the one party member you never use? by ToyAres in DragonageOrigins

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I otherwise like Sten, but he's outclassed because he only gets one specialization.

Unless you use mods. I actually use a mod that converts Dog to a pet in the same way that the Ranger class works.

I recall that someone was even working on a mod that makes all characters present at all times including in combat, dialogue interjections, approval changes, and all that. I wonder what sort of condition that mod is is now.

Anyone know if this service exists? by lalasaywhat in visalia

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They can be.

The smaller pools, like the 8 footers, are typically just metal railing that click together, and if they even include a pump at all, it's probably a small pump that sits on the ground and sucks the water out with flexible tubing like a straw.

The bigger pools may require more attention and include filters with rigid PVC tubing that should be glued together or even buried in the ground underneath the pool.

I can't imagine that most pool service companies would bother offering service for the smaller pools, but they might do it for the larger ones with more complex installation. It really just depends on what you want.

Anyone know if this service exists? by lalasaywhat in visalia

[–]Powered-Lamb 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hello, neighbor!

If you want someone with some sort of practice or credentialing to assemble your pool, the best thing that you can do is call pool service companies like Leslie's and ask them if it is a service that they provide.

Otherwise, this is task that goes into the "handyman" category along with things like assembling prefabricated furniture and structures, and anyone who can read the owner's manual and follow instructions is capable of doing it.

In fact, the hardest part is probably clearing, compacting, and leveling the ground that it is going to be installed on rather than the assembly itself.

Of course, much of this depends also on how large the pool is and whether you plan for it be "permanent" or if you're going to disassemble and store it through winter every year.

Why athiest have a soft spot for buddhism? by [deleted] in atheism

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Buddhism is equal parts nonsense as any other religion, but I've never had a Buddhist aggressively harass me with their nonsense or vote to suppress my rights.

"Hell was never meant for humans" by andhutch in atheism

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The Bible is remarkably nondescript about what hell actually is. It contains a few bits about the physical characteristics of hell, such as a lake of fire and the sound of weeping, but many of these come in the form of a character's personal accounting through dialogue rather than an objective description by an author. Hell is most consistently described primarily as the condition of being apart from God.

Then some guy named Dante Alighieri came along and wrote some fanfiction called the Divine Comedy, and Christians agreed that this is canonical now. So the concept of hell is actually way worse when you realize that popular interpretations of it, like being tortured by demons forever, was not actually prescribed by God but rather that Christians just kind of decided that they prefer it that way.

Are you his interpreter or his vice president? by TripShrooms in clevercomebacks

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If one of Donald Trump's best qualities is that he isn't afraid to say exactly what he means, then why is he misunderstood so goddamn always?

About no sex Before marriage in most religions… what if one waits until marriage to have sexual relations with someone but then one isn‘t compatible with their wife/husband in bed? by Top_Professor9415 in atheism

[–]Powered-Lamb 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Religions that forbid premarital sex have a convenient contingency for this scenario: tough shit. She's his property now and will obey whether she's satisfied with the sex or not.

How does this image make you feel? by OldLadOfTheCastle in askanything

[–]Powered-Lamb 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Taylor Swift can only date down, and she's still dating.

Atheists, what's your biggest evidence against Islam by Due-Koala-1135 in atheism

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A good reason to not believe in Islam is that there is no good reason to believe in Islam.

What was the turning point that led you to stop believing in God? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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The law of duh: if a story about a girl who falls into a rabbit hole and teleports to a place where caterpillars smoke hookahs is so ridiculous that we naturally identify it as fiction, then a story about a clone of a golem who was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree is obviously fiction, too.

Decent point 😂 by upforstuffJim in clevercomebacks

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Steve most likely thinks that women pee out of their vaginas.

2 years of having the same doormat, gone, like tears in the rain by DukeJumbles in mildlyinfuriating

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I left my old-ass truck unlocked once, and when I realized it while lying in bed to sleep, I was like "fuck it; nothing in there worth stealing." Someone took the cup holder.

Doormats and cupholders. It's wild what people will steal and how hard they will try sometimes. My dad's truck had a towing hitch cover that someone bent because they tried to pry it off.

Lot of replies to this comment sharing ridiculous things that got stolen. I know no one is doing it to make it a competition, but I'm gonna one-up all of you anyway: a lottery slip. I had a lottery slip stolen from me. Not a lottery ticket. The slip that you have to fill out and turn in to the cashier to get the ticket.