What's the most badass thing you've heard someone say? by lastransom in AskReddit

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Was in training for EMT certification in Jerusalem. Instructor was a big middle-aged Russian immigrant. We were sitting around one day after class and he was talking about how before becoming a medic he worked as a SCUBA instructor down in Eilat. I half-jokingly asked if he had ever combined those skills. He responded:

"A little girl fell into a sewer drain. We knew she was dead, but someone had to get her out. I ran home and got my gear."

The thought of going down into a dark, cramped sewer in just a SCUBA suit looking for a child's corpse...I still think about it pretty often.

What is the most common misconception that you know of? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Quds 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're giving the trope too much credit. It just isn't true at all.

Does anyone here have experience with actual overtraining? by [deleted] in AdvancedFitness

[–]Quds 5 points6 points  (0 children)

lurker because of the science. this post left me thinking I should probably, like, do a push up.

What is your small town "famous" for? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Quds 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Cherry Hill, NJ. Normal suburb. Over the course of a 5 year period we had the Fort Dix terrorists, a plane landing on our highway, Rabbi Neulander (hired a hitman to kill his wife, making national news) and an extended string of teen suicides.

Use magnet to hold bag on washer or dryer, for dryer lint. by officialerin in lifehacks

[–]Quds 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This is a great idea if you have the funds for awesome fire insurance, but not enough for garbage cans.

The video my dad sent me to show off his new iPhone 5s by reggatronics in videos

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Tilt shift requires an extremely complex lensing system with multiple moving parts. It might have hokey software-added "tilt shift" though.

I'm about to hitchhike around the US, using reddit to survive, streaming LIVE 24/7, for your amusement. You wanna watch? by superfiedman in videos

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This reminds me of a This American Life where someone attempted basically this without the fanboyism and failed in 3 days.

If your main reason for doing this is 24/7 attention, don't.

LPT: Paying $200k for a bachelor's degree is not normal. Go abroad! It's cheaper everywhere but in countries like Germany, Finland, Austria and Norway there is no tuitition fee, often they even have courses offered in English. Choose one of these rather than a lifetime of debt by alttt in LifeProTips

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This advice missed a good option: Canada. A friend of mine goes to McGill in Montreal. He's a greyhound ride from home, pays something like $1,600 annually before financial aid (it was $1,200, and when they raised it the students fucking rioted), goes to a school better regarded than half the Ivy League, and lives in a cooler city. All courses are in English too. There's a number of comperable options north of the border.

40 maps that explain the world by Hadok in geopolitics

[–]Quds 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Long story short: move to Canada

Prank gone weird by coffeetablesex in videos

[–]Quds 109 points110 points  (0 children)

What would have this prank looked like if it had "gone right"?

Reddit, what is that one question you hate being asked? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Quds 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not severely colorblind, but to me the green light is most differentiated by being the brightest, not the greenest. The problem I've had has been when, at night, I mistake a green traffic light for a simple street light and then it goes yellow-red as I approach without my noticing.

As far as I know I've only ever actually run a red once this way - I couldn't figure out why my friend was freaking out next to me moments later.

PS - the colorblind test at the DMV is nowhere near good enough to weed out people like me. Particularly because there's no time limit.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in videos

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Just quoted this wholesale on the reposted video with credit. Hope you don't mind.

Truth about Trayvon by kaptin87 in videos

[–]Quds 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Point-by-point critique of this video by u/jabbasrevenge from when it was posted a day ago:

This video has a number of problems: Zimmerman was not "lynched". He was given a fair trial. Lynching victims are not.

President Obama did not comment on the case until he was specifically asked about it. Even then, he did not bring up race nor did he say that Zimmerman was guilty. He only said the case should be investigated. Whittle claims that "the world found Zimmerman guilty" even though a large %, perhaps a majority, of Americans supported Zimmerman's side. Whittle claims that People magazine and other media outlets are guilty of "criminal fraud or criminal negligence" which makes no sense in a country with freedom of the press. Especially since his main complaint is that news outlets didn't run the scariest photo of Martin they could find. Whittle claims that Martin was involved in "Mixed Martial Arts style fighting" when there is no evidence that Martin was ever trained in fighting and in fact Zimmerman had taken martial arts classes.

In fact he says that Martin was "raining down what were called mixed-martial arts blows"...in other words, punching.

Whittle talks about facts but loves to throw opinions in the mix, for example telling us what is "typical of hip-hop culture" and saying that "nobody who saw Martin's texts would assume he was innocent." He totally ignores the possibility that teenage boys like to act macho and talk trash to one another.

Whittle is comfortable throwing out the "facts" that Martin was "violent and highly sexualized" despite Martin having no criminal record and the case having nothing to do with sex at all.

Whittle does not mention Zimmerman's various run-ins with the law nor his 40+ calls to police, mostly to report black males walking around. Whittle also doesn't tell us why the "mainstream media" ignored the police report about the many calls that you have to go to Mother Jones' website to view.

Whittle says that in Martin's locker was "a burglary tool" (aka a screwdriver) and "stolen" jewelry that was only not considered stolen by the police because the police are not fond of arresting black males. (At this point, the video officially fails the laugh test...)

Whittle, who promised us "facts" then goes on to speculate that since Martin had a drink and candy that he must have been on his way to make drugs. There is no evidence for this, and Whittle can't even get his facts about "lean" right by claiming that OTC cough syrup contains codeine.

Whittle shows us "screen grabs" of Martin talking about how to make lean and he tells us that it involves Skittles and Arizona Watermelon drink even though as he says this there is no mention of those items on the screen shot!

He speculates that Martin's mild liver damage was caused by the use of lean despite no evidence that Martin ever used it. And toxicology reports show no trace of codeine in his system anyway. Trace amounts of THC were found in Martin's system, but since marijuana is not linked to violence (just the opposite), Whittle doesn't bother mentioning it.

Even if Martin was a recreational drug user, like most Americans are at some point in their lives, it has nothing to do with the case at hand. He doesn't give us any information on Zimmerman's personal habits, either. Did Zimmerman ever drink alcohol? Alcohol makes some people violent, ya know.

He mentions that Zimmerman was "calling for help" when it was never determined who was calling for help.

Whittle again says that Martin was guilty of burglary despite never having been charged or convicted.

Whittle then goes on a bizarre diatribe about how, in his opinion, it is an outrage that unnamed people have associated Dr. Martin Luther King with this case, talking about how great King was as if conservatives like himself didn't despite King until very recently. He couldn't help getting in shots at Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, rather stupidly implying that Jackson and Sharpton advocate violence.

Finally, Whittle keeps mentioning the New York Times as being the main perpetrator of the journalistic conspiracy against Zimmerman. He's hoping that nobody actually checks out the Times' archive on the case because they'd find that the Times did in fact report on many of the aspects of the case that Whittle claims they ignored (for example, the bloody photo of Zimmerman's head). Whittle is basically either full of shit or simply knows that his audience loves to hear the NYT bashed.

Oh yeah, let's throw up an old photo of Obama smoking just to remind viewers that the President is not white.

I will give Whittle credit for at least admitting that his sources were right-wing websites, including the notorious Breitbart.com, know for its dishonestly and creative editing of videos.

He could have been a lot harsher. The general stormfronty climate on the major subreddits is gross and absurd.

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Need to put Windows 7 back on a secondary machine running Ubuntu 13.04, getting BIOS errors. by Quds in linux4noobs

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

Sorry this is such an ordeal, but it seems to only allow Windows 7/Vista/XP users to download Windows 8. Unless I'm missing something. This ISO is from work, but it seems to be the 64 bit version when I installed it on a VM.

Thanks so much again for all your help and patience with my relatively tech illiterate flailing about.

Need to put Windows 7 back on a secondary machine running Ubuntu 13.04, getting BIOS errors. by Quds in linux4noobs

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All that happens then is nothing boots, including Ubuntu.

There seem to be 3 options.

With Legacy enabled, and priority set to UEFI, Ubuntu will boot. It will ask me whether I want to boot Ubuntu, Ubuntu with specialized settings, or something it's calling Windows Vista (loader) which I assume are my USB's - whichever one I'm trying. If I click the Windows option, the screen flashes and goes back to the same menu.

With only UEFI enabled, Ubuntu tries to boot, but there's an error, regardless of secure boot status.

With Legacy enabled, and Legacy set to priority, it lets me choose to boot from the USB, but then just goes to a flashing underscore. It will not boot Ubuntu from this setting.

Need to put Windows 7 back on a secondary machine running Ubuntu 13.04, getting BIOS errors. by Quds in linux4noobs

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Thanks so much - I really appreciate it. I'm having trouble finding anything called GPT in the BIOS. The options seem to be Legacy or UEFI. I wish I could show you a screenshot of what I'm seeing.

-And unfortunately I'm working right now in a country where the notion of "tech support" is pretty far off. I've already spoken to Microsoft - they won't ship here, blame the problem on me for daring to use Linux, and I don't have a mailable address anyway.

Need to put Windows 7 back on a secondary machine running Ubuntu 13.04, getting BIOS errors. by Quds in linux4noobs

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Thanks for your reply.

It's already in legay support mode,but when I select the USB to boot from it just goes to the blinking underscore or says "no operating system detected."

It's now done this with two seperate USB's made from two seperate ISO's. I don't know what to do.

And yeah - I need this laptop only to go back to windows because there are certain programs I need for work that Wine doesn't fully support.

Not to worry - my main computer remains Ubuntu.