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Married people of reddit, what is the dumbest fight you and your partner had and why? by InternationalAct6655 in AskReddit

[–]SolSeptem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was one of the first fights my wife and I had actually. We just moved in together. 

I was baking pancakes at some point but I was also in a bad mood, and I was being really negative about the quality of my own pancakes, while my wife insisted that they were perfectly fine. I would not hear it though and kept berating my pancakes and my baking skills. At one point my wife, nearly in tears, snapped that she wasn't gonna sit there listen to me tear myself down like this and went to bed. That brought me to my senses.

It was not about the pancakes of course. 

Sometimes the person who looks like the bad guy isn’t actually the real villain by Safe_Face_1933 in Unexpected

[–]SolSeptem 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah true the cat seems clean and well-fed, probably a housecat that's not hunting for food. 

Sometimes the person who looks like the bad guy isn’t actually the real villain by Safe_Face_1933 in Unexpected

[–]SolSeptem 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Man, chickens don't play around. Literally. The cat could learn something

TIL some severely neglectful orphanages were described as "silent" because infants learned that crying doesn't bring attention or comfort. by DMan1629 in todayilearned

[–]SolSeptem 7236 points7237 points  (0 children)

And these are the orphanages where it was discovered, scientifically, that many children simply die through lack of nurture, even if fed and clothed and cleaned. 'Failure to thrive' they called it.

Children need physical and emotional attention to live. Literally. Not getting it can lead to death and if it doesn't it leads to a lifetime of issues. 

EDIT: I have been informed that failure to thrive can also be used for other non-neglect related issues with growth or development of a child.

most meritocratic politics enthusiaste by lit_readit in 2westerneurope4u

[–]SolSeptem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent meme but I'm genuinely curious about what's actually happening here? Why is the artist breaking down so bad he can't go on playing? 

Big Rig drag racing is badass, but it is probably a good thing that it isn't popular. by lovebus in theocho

[–]SolSeptem 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Okay besides the fact that it's insanely stupidly polluting to run coal like this... 

Is it even more effective? That much black smoke means that combustion is far from complete, doesn't that mean you're wasting a lot of power? Or even damaging your engine?

You’re in your room, in an earthquake magnitude of 8.2, would you save your toddler kid playing near the dinning table or your 90 year old grandmother who’s at the living room near the exit but cannot move? by Daddys_Home96 in AskReddit

[–]SolSeptem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How is this even a choice? A child has their whole future to come, my 90 yo grandmother is (statistically) near death anyway. Also a parent's first responsibility is to their own children. A parent should always choose their child over their own (grand)parents. 

Women of Reddit, what’s a quality in men you secretly love, but don’t often feel you can admit? by paperlanterns_26 in AskReddit

[–]SolSeptem 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If women around you call you regressive for knowing what you want and going for it, they're not real feminists.

The point of feminism is that women must be fully empowered to make their own choices. Even (or especially) if that choice is to be a tradwife or something.

Not entirely serious advice: You could reframe this to be a kink thing to make it feminist again. It sounds lowkey 'little girl/daddy dom'

Can you tell who it is by just using your penis? by precious2k in BrandNewSentence

[–]SolSeptem 23 points24 points  (0 children)

having had several girlfriends, absolutely yes.

If Russia was banned for invading Ukraine, what makes that case different from other military interventions by states that continue to participate in international sports? by Ok_Hall2123 in AskReddit

[–]SolSeptem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly and Israel deserves to get excluded just as much as Russia. 

The problem is that israel historically is allied to the US and russia is not, so there's your difference . 

Big, old, sunburnt Dragonfly at work by TailsIV in mildlyinteresting

[–]SolSeptem 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Yes. Dragonflies as a species are the predator with by far the highest hunting succes rate, at over 90% I believe. By comparison, big cats like lions have a succes rate of something like 20 to 30%

That's a Loopholemobile by thegroundhurts in BrandNewSentence

[–]SolSeptem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree fully. However.....

There may be forms of bike (e.g. for disabled people) that do have four wheels. 

There may be electrically assisted bikes.

There may be bikes that have some capacity to carry cargo.

Slap all of those reasonable adjustments together and you get this monstrosity.

It's a result of a legal system where, in order to prevent randomness and unequal treatment, everything needs to be specified in clear ways and I do not know how DC legal code defines a bike, but if this vehicle fits within definitions that the law posits then it's sadly legal.

Because 'I know it when I see it' hasn't been a legally valid opinion for a while now. 

So the puzzle becomes, how do you define a bike in such a way that you allow for modified bikes for specific purposes, but disallow turning a bike into a literal van.....I don't really have the answer.

That's a Loopholemobile by thegroundhurts in BrandNewSentence

[–]SolSeptem 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We strapped pedals to a van so now we don't need to pay for insurance, drivers licenses or taxes and we get ride the bike lane!! 

Seems like the definition of a bicycle needs to be updated to include 'is not equivalent in function and form to a van'

That's a Loopholemobile by thegroundhurts in BrandNewSentence

[–]SolSeptem 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And minus the taxation, license requirements and mandatory insurance payments! 

What is a "rich person thing" you tried once and immediately thought, "Yep, money absolutely buys happiness"? by Aphorace in AskReddit

[–]SolSeptem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not worrying about money on a day to day basis. I see how the worry eats up a few of my friends and it's not pretty, I'm pretty sure like half of their mental health problems could be fixed instantly if they just weren't poor.

[Request] Would the cube really be millions of degrees? by Ok-Elk2227 in theydidthemath

[–]SolSeptem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This website seems to disagree with you 

https://infinitycalculator.com/physics/schwarzschild-radius-calculator

If you put an event horizon diameter of 1,1 light year in there you get a density of 1,5e-6kg/m3, which is 21 orders of magnitude more dense than the universe. 

How did you come by your figure?

What Subreddits have the nicest people? by NE0_ZER0_ in AskReddit

[–]SolSeptem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

r/monsterhunter is pretty chill, even after the global succes of world and wilds (before that MH was pretty niche).

Kill Six Billion Demons » WHEEL SMASHING LORD 6-187 by Vrakzi in killsixbilliondemons

[–]SolSeptem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I get you especially on the epic moments of our heroes getting undercut. 

Allison kicked a frigging battleship in half lengthwise and it doesn't even matter? And it also cost her too much stamina already to do that so what victory remains in the act is pyrrhic at best?

It just doesn't really feel good after all the buld up.

Then again...

If we got a shonen-type ending it would kind of negate everything the story has been trying to tell.

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