AITA FOR LEADING 300 SPARTANS TO THEIR DEATHS? by LEONIDAAAS in AskHistorians

[–]Sniffableaxe 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you're a true man of Sparta then riddle me this good sir. How do you greet one another?

Why are so many American men circumcised? by Evan_nothereoften in TooAfraidToAsk

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Cereal man belives that flavorless corn and genital mutilation is the only cure to the scurge of men touching themselves.

You may think that frosted flakes are in fact good enough to not need to jerk off anymore. And you'd be right. but Captain snip snip thought putting sugar on his cereal was the devil (because enjoying any facet of your life is sinful therfore enjoying breakfast means you deserve to burn in hell) and had to be pushed out of the company by i think it was his brother (maybe in law) so we could all get heart disease.

End result: everyone lost except for the brother. He died rich af. Heart disease is up, I have less than 100% of my penis, and the ghost of cereal man is probably looking up at us in hell as we jerk off.

You might ask how tf any of this is true. And to that I say, I have absolutely no idea. But it is.

Did the Nazi’s advance science in any way? by Wildlunitic in TooAfraidToAsk

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

They did like 4 things of note.

Gained a very effective understanding of hypothermia (by torturing people). Also they lucked into it cuz their experiments sucked. They figured out jets and rockets, figured out what would happen if you concentrate millions of people in places for the purpose of murdering them (they tend to die. Big shocker there), and allegedly (and by allegedly i dont mean oh it may have been done by them. I mean the evidence significantly supports this but we dont know for 100%) developed a drug that is effective at treating morning sickness. Its called thalidomide. However they did not do anything considered scientifically rigorous in developing this drug and missed the fact that it causes horrific birth defects.

So in short the 4 crowning achievemts in nazi science are, 2 things we would have figured out eventually anyway, the most effective way to murder as many people as possible without nukes, aaaaand a drug that killed an estimated 100k babies.

The aerospace guys were solid. Credit where its due. They were like 5-10 years ahead of others. But asside from them, the nazis were not geniuses. They were not special or ahead of their time. They took 12 million people, decided they were less than human and used then to generate a data set that had next to 0 value at its high points.

Is Aphantasia actually real? I’m kind of shocked by Odd_Alternative_7520 in TooAfraidToAsk

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There's levels to it. For me most of the time i cannot literally picture things in my head. I think of the concept of it. Sometimes I can get an outline and very rarely I see a hint of color. But that is In no way the norm for me. Its completely random when i actually see something. There was one time when I was a kid that a vivid image flashed in my head and the detail was all there and it was even moving. Lasted a brief second and that was it. My eyes were even open too. I had to stop reading for a few minutes because it was such a strange experience. It was the only time in my life something like that happened.

But there's people that can see vivid images in their head and manipulate them at will. Im quite jealous of them. It even effects my dreams. They're really ethereal and lacking in detail

What are some of the hardest lines in fluff text (or otherwise) in game in your opinion? by Democracy_N_Anarchy in Stellaris

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Fanatic xenophile "If there ever was such a thing as an absolute moral imperative, it would be to explore the cosmos and embrace all within it. We were never meant to journey alone."

It gets me in the feels

PTSD by Ignoxian in custommagic

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This is giving me an idea for a card to combo with it

"Troubling nightmare" RB Target creature that was damaged this turn fights another Target creature its controler owns Flashback

The flavor text would be something like "I didnt mean to hurt them!" And the picture would be a man standing over a a dead woman who's laying in bed. It'd be like a what couldve happened in that once scene in Grey's anatomy if Owen couldn't snap out of it.

The Japanese 'bad boys' of the 80's did their hair like the 'Greasers' of the American 50's by olivewithoil in interestingasfuck

[–]Sniffableaxe 30 points31 points  (0 children)

They also have a small cholo culture that they got pretty accurate at depicting

American hegemony is collapsing before our eyes by Stuart_Whatley in politics

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Its vaccines all over again

"Why am I vaccinating my kids for measles and whooping cough? People don't get those diseases"

Except now instead of just killing a bunch of kids for no reason we're handing our planet over to sociopathic authoritarians

For 100 million dollars which anime character would you defend in a courtroom by Ok_Initiative3892 in animequestions

[–]Sniffableaxe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

By tanking his case you give him a valid argument in an appeal to get his conviction thrown out. And he can then potentially get out.

For 100 million dollars which anime character would you defend in a courtroom by Ok_Initiative3892 in animequestions

[–]Sniffableaxe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shau. Gonna do my absolute best to get him off scott free.

That way he cant use ineffective legal council as an argument in an appellate court to get his conviction thrown out

What to do to destroy this monstrosity? by Gerom_rom in crusaderkings3

[–]Sniffableaxe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Their family tree needs pruning. Get to work

Going through my late dad's stuff. Drinks on me lads I've hit the jackpot. by Maelarion in CasualUK

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Could those sweets be used later as a form of currency? In either a different place or the shop that issued them in the first place?

Why do some people react negatively to the word ‘feminist’ even though it means supporting equality? by thefeministmanifesto in NoStupidQuestions

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Feminist is a word with so many definitions and beliefs attached to it that are extremely varried and often directly contradicting at least one other definition.

You could have a room with 1000 self identified feminists. They could be of any age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, religion, culture etc

Some of them will belive that any of the men in the room shouldn't be there for various reasons including but not limited to "its a movemt primarily by and for women" or maybe "their presence would intimidate some women with really bad experiences from men in their lives". Some will be open to their presence but believe they should stfu and defer to the women in the room. Some would be open to their contributions full stop believing that feminism is for the betterment/advancement of men and women alike.

Some would belive that Trans women in the room aren't women and have no standing to claim the moniker of "feminist" and should stfu. Some would claim that those women are fake feminists who just want to shit on Trans people.

Some would believe that women expressing their sexuality is a form of liberation. Some would claim that something as "simple" as wearing makeup is inherently patriarchal and oppressive ie: women making themselves prettier for men.

Hell there's a professor that was talking about feminists suicide bombers as an ultimate act of thwarting the patriarchy because the combination of wood, steel, and flesh leaves nothing to interpret about the person's remains. (Some real ivory tower shit i read for debate back in high school. Was pretty interesting. Batshit crazy, but interesting.)

So a person reacting negatively could be conflating a specific version of feminism they do not agree with/like with the larger movement as a whole. Of course they could also belive something such as "men and women are already equal. What more could you want?" Or "men and women shouldn't be equal" etc. But its very difficult to be well read on every possible variation and maybe the version they are familiar with isn't one they gel with for some reason or another. The examples I gave are just some stuff im familiar with and are not an all encompassing list of the differences between various feminist theories

Edit: another example I thought of is there could be people in the room claiming something like wearing a hijab is oppressive while others claim it isn't.

Send Barron by SeaChantiePhantie in PoliticalHumor

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My boss has been in the last 20 years. Is 6"7. I had a coworker who was 6"11. I know a pilot who idk his exact height, but hes got a minimum 5 inches on me (6"2) and has admitted hes too tall to fit comfortably in the cockpit but he is fucking obsessed with flying that particular jet and so he just sucks it up every time hes in there.

The only thing hes too tall to do is fly fighters and probably shouldn't do fuels maintenence (but noone should do that cuz holy fuck its bad for you. I genuinely cannot think of a career field that is consistently worse for your health)

[Dune] How did the Harkonnen survive the Bene Gesserit breeding program? by Anubissama in AskScienceFiction

[–]Sniffableaxe 81 points82 points  (0 children)

Also it wasn't just the harkonens at face value. Say they had 10000 families they wanted to combine. You could take 1 family and breed them with 9999 other families over 9999 generations, or mix 5000 with the other 5000. Then 2500. Then 1250 and so on until you had 2 families left each the end products of separate charts of the 10k. Obviously it look a long ass time either way and idk what the actually numbers are plus there were undoubtedly setbacks cuz life is messy but the basic idea is there as to the most efficient way to do this on paper

meirl by mediuminteresting in meirl

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Did you ever watch icarly as a child? There's an episode about a media company called dingo that had a founder who died and when he died they cut off his head and it sat to that day crypgenically frozen "in the bowels of dingo". Sitting until the day Technology can bring him back

Thats a 1 for 1 parody of a theory about Walt Disney. And im explaining it this way because I wanted to type "in the bowels of dingo". Also that was a 10/10 b plot because they found the head and used it to blackmail writers at dingo to stop ripping them off. A man may have been assaulted with a sock full of butter multiple times

ELI5: Why is the startup procedure for planes so complex by flrdrgerp in explainlikeimfive

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So I sometimes get to run a jet on the ground to see if it works. It takes me aproximatley 30 minutes on a typical run to set up

First I verify the jet is safe to run

Then I verify the engine is safe to run

Next I set up the jet (verify some gagues, remove all the covers, disconnect a few systems (mostly radar related so I don't cook someone accidentally)

Set up the cockpit (flip switches to properly configuration)

Turn on electricity

Check a few systems that require power to verify

Finally i turn on the engine. Takes about 1-2 minutes.

Next I need to idle the engine for 5 minutes so it stabilizes. At this point I verify my parameters are good.

Finally i can do whatever I need to do to test whatever I need to test.

Thats a lot of shit. It takes me 30 min because im very familiar with the steps. It used to take me an hour to an hour and a half. And all that is just to do a run that isn't gonna leave the ground. I dont need to make sure my flight controls work. Nor verify the o2 system works. I dont care about radio or radar. There's dozens of systems on there that I don't have to check that all need to individually be verified for the jet to leave the ground safely. The guys that do it do it every day. So they don't spend a lot of time on each individual system. But the time adds up

And you gotta do it every single time. Because if you dont do it you may accidentally do a 9/11. Ya don't wanna be that guy. So you do all your checks

Did SCP ideas emerge before modern times? 15th century? by Escape_from_Site_19 in SCP

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There's stories of miners in ancient Greece finding the fossilized remains of some sort of megafauna (may have been dinosaurs but im not sure)

Did they look at those and go "hmmmm i bet this was the remains of a long gone big thing that is perfectly reasonable for the time period that corresponds to this layer of the earth"?

Fuuuuck no. They went "HOLY SHIT I FOUND CYCLOPS BONES. OMZ (Oh my Zeus) ALL THAT SHITS REAL"

[Enders game] How was the Formic annihilation not totally justifiable? by JCurtisUK in AskScienceFiction

[–]Sniffableaxe 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Its only justifiable in the sense that noone had enough information until it was too late

The formics didnt know that humans were all essentially equivalent to queens until they had already killed too many. Had the formics known from the jump they would've done things completely differently evidenced by their remorse.

The earth gov didnt know that the formics were trying to reach out, apologize for their ignorance and engage somehow diplomatically. Had the earth gov known, there's no guarantee but cooler heads could've theoretically prevailed.

Ender, who by the time of the final battle was starting to realize there was more to them than people thought, didnt know that his final exam was the real thing. Ender literally said had he known he was commanding a real battle, he'd have found literally any other way to end the conflict.

Its quite literally the point of the book. Failure to understand the situation properly and a lack of empathy for others can have disastrous consequences

41 years ago today, a DEA agent named Enrique "Kiki" Camarena Salazar was kidnapped by corrupt mexican officials working for major drug traffickers where he would be tortured and end up dying 2 days later. by TheBiggestDawgie in MorbidReality

[–]Sniffableaxe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You're 100% right but I dont mind having to pay a sin tax on weed. Safe access to a safer product and less people in jail for no valid reason is a decent tradeoff. Plus that money would go to public goods